The treasure trove of 4 million iconic photos from Ebony and Jet magazines has found a new owner.
Tag: Photography
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How do you see the world without a mirror? | Film meets photography
New York Upper East Side’s Yoshii Gallery has devoted its pristine gallery to an independent filmmaker. His name is Benny Safdie.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto’s camera simulates landscapes of lost time
Inspired by Dada and Surrealism, Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, b. 1948) aims to convey and preserve a point in time through his highly technical photographs, an intention to which he consistently refers.
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Tokyo’s sex shops are a blurry, er, mesh in Daido Moriyama’s pics
In 1969, Daido Moriyama was an active contributor in Provoke, a magazine founded in 1968 that — if only briefly — became a melting pot for the most radical of Japanese.
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PHOTOGRAPHY | José Picayo snaps striking portraits for Sept. 16 exhibit
Cuban-born Jose delves into paired portraits, one photograph of the back of a model’s head and another of the front.
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ON PHOTOGRAPHY (NSFW) | Andy Warhol’s gay male archives on auction at Christie’s online
The Andy Warhol @ Christie’s sale has grouped some of Warhol’s sexy artworks with doodles with male porn and then slapped the entire incriminating evidence with the tony title “Eyes of the Guise.”
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Bacall, Dietrich, Bardot & vintage Hollywood portraits scintillate
Glamour portrait photographer Cornel Lucas also made publicity photos for David Niven, Stewart Granger, Joan Collins, Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Cyd Charisse, and Katharine Hepburn.
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Rivka Katvan’s candid portraiture captures Broadway luminaries backstage (on view Sept. 6 to 29 in Soho gallery)
Katvan’s photography fulfills a documentary function while veering and edging toward a form of poetic realism. Her portraits are most eloquent when they capture a fleeting look or a spontaneous gesture — when amid the continuous forward motion of the theatrical life, grit of the evanescent is seized