pixnoir : : girlwiz

March 10 - April 15, 2006

Leica Gallery
670 Broadway
NYC 10012
212 777 3051

Leica Gallery is pleased to present a broad selection of images from The New York Times Photo Archives, images spanning more than a century and including such widely diverse themes as world events, sports, transportation, science and industry. Americana, human interest. These extraordinary images whether they be well-known, little known, or seen for the first time, taken by photographers both known and unknown, will affirm the immense impact of photography on our daily lives. While photographers' equipment has changed drastically in recent years - news photography has been revolutionized by the advent of the digital camera - and color images have replaced the traditional black and white on the first page of The Times, the photographers and the photo editors continue to provide photographs that visually articulate the reality of world events for the millions of readers who have made The New York Times American's pre-eminent newspaper.

Posted by at 7:14 AM | Permalink

At the Matthew Marks Gallery, 522 West 22nd Street, Chelsea, (212) 243-0200, through Saturday.

Turning Back is a major new body of work, the scope of which is far greater than that of any survey the artist has previously undertaken. The photographs in this exhibition were inspired by the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark’s journey across the Northwest Territory to the Pacific Ocean. To make these pictures, Adams has taken an abbreviated version of the trip, but in reverse, beginning on the West Coast, traveling across the Cascade Mountain Range, and moving into the plains of eastern Oregon.

The black and white photographs of Robert Adams records what is scarred, flawed and humdrum. Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times has a great article about the exhibit entitled: Picturing the West: Scarred, Flawed, Beautiful

Posted by at 4:36 PM | Permalink

Last month the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., acquired the complete Hallmark Photographic Collection, considered the broadest and most important private holding of American photography. It consists of 6,500 images by 900 artists, and has an estimated market value of $65 million. Hallmark Cards made a significant portion of the collection a gift to the museum, which then purchased the balance with a donation from the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.

Posted by at 6:45 AM | Permalink

According to the Sotheby's catalog, Stieglitz's gallery sold the Edward Steichen print, "The Pond-Moonlight" for $75 in 1906, the equivalent of about $1,500 today. This week, Sotheby's announced that "the Pond-Moonlight" a platinum print by Edward Steichen owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, had sold for almost $3 million to an anonymous buyer.

Photography experts pointed out that several complex factors went into generating this sale. The rarity of the Steichen print: only two others are known to exist,one at the Museum of Modern Ar and the other at the Met. Last year, when the Met acquired the Gilman Paper Company collection, considered the most important private photography collection in the world, it contained another print of the photograph. That is the print that sold this week.

Posted by at 6:47 AM | Permalink

The Hirshhorn Museum presents “Hiroshi Sugimoto,” the first career survey of one of Japan's most important contemporary artists. Sugimoto (b. 1948, Tokyo) is known for his starkly minimal images of seascapes, movie theaters and architecture as well as his richly detailed photographs of natural history dioramas, wax portraits and Buddhist sculptures. These celebrated series explore such essential concepts as time, space, culture and perception-even the nature of reality itself.

Beginning April 1, the Smithsonian's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery will feature Hiroshi Sugimoto: History of History (through July 30), an exhibition that includes ancient and medieval Japanese artworks from Sugimoto's personal collection. For more information, visit http://www.asia.si.edu/

Posted by at 6:31 AM | Permalink

Leica Gallery
670 Broadway
NYC 10012
212 777 3051

Jackie Brunner - "Friday Night Grind"
February 3 - March 4, 2006

Jackie Brunner's photographs reveal to us how the gritty world of the Bourbon Street strip clubs is permeated with the same dichotomy as New Orleans itself – fact versus fantasy, appearance versus reality, the secret yet public personae of the clubs versus the quotidian reality of daily life.

Posted by at 5:41 PM | Permalink

John Szarkowski: Photographs is the first retrospective of the esteemed photographer’s work. The exhibition features Szarkowski’s early photographs—beginning with pictures of his native Midwest dating from 1943 and continuing through his acceptance of a curatorial post at The Museum of Modern Art in 1962—as well as his later works, many of which were made around his farm in upstate New York. Though they vary in subject and date, viewed together the prints present a remarkable and consistent vision. Informed by a humanist sensibility, they depict the lived landscape, both urban and rural, and impart a sense of history, place, and the way Americans once regarded the land. Szarkowski is one of the most influential photography curators and critics of the twentieth century. Now the hidden half of his lifetime of artistic work is finally given the attention it deserves.

The Museum of Modern Art
(212) 708-9400
11 West 53 Street
New York, NY 10019-5497

Posted by at 7:52 AM | Permalink