by Bob Martin | Jan 1, 2009 | Photograhy
This year I’ve really fallen in love with blogging, and have made my blogs top priority for 2009. Throughout 2008, I learned of many sites that participate in photo 365 – taking one photo every day for a year.
Well, it sounded like an exciting experiment to me, so as of today, we’re off and running with our own photo 365.
I won’t be posting each of these posts directly to this blog. Instead, I’ve created a separate photo blog just for our images.
Virtual Photography Studio’s Photo 365 – Seeing The Year of 2009 Through Photographs
If you decided to start one yourself, let us know! I love looking through photographs – and I may just feature you here on my blog.
Happy New Year.
Source: photo 365
by Sandy | Oct 6, 2008 | Blogroll, Books, Culture, Museums, Photograhy
From 10/26/08 – March 1, 2009, LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, will present portraits from the archives of Vanity Fair Magazine – 150 of the world’s most famous faces past and present.
Pictures of the most influential from sports, music, art, dance, and politics, have been culled from hundreds of images from 1913 to now. These photos give us an historic view of who was considered in/out over the years.
Vanity Fair’s favorite photographers represented here include “James Abbe, Malcolm Arbuthnot, Cecil Beaton, Harry Benson, Julian Broad, Imogen Cunningham, George Hoyningen-Huene, Annie Leibovitz, Man Ray, Mary Ellen Mark, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Lord Snowdon, Edward Steichen, Mario Testino, and Bruce Weber.“
LACMA/ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
323-857-6000
(Image: Actress Gloria Swanson, “A Much Screened Lady”, by Edward Steichen, 1924)
by Sandy | Sep 2, 2008 | Art, Blogroll, Photograhy, Writers
“I Paint My House” by Margaret Courtney-Clarke is a collection of photographs of African women decorating
their homes. In addition to pottery and textiles, there is a South and West African tradition of painting the outside of the house with bold shapes and bright colors. The women express themselves and can document family history through their art and design.
“I Paint My House” is actually a book of postcards. But, the murals and decorations are so vibrant and alive, I haven’t mailed any. (I don’t want to tear any of the cards out.)
BTW– Margaret Courtney-Clarke has also produced coffee table sized books filled with her photographs of the bright geometric designs of Berber and Ghanaian women.
by Sandy | Aug 9, 2008 | Blogroll, Culture, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
The 100th birthday of photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908 – 2002) is celebrated at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts 9/23/08 – 1/19/09.
Known mostly for his portraits of the famous and the infamous, Karsh, born in Armenia but then moved to Canada and the United States, began his successful career in the 30’s with his images of kings & queens, heads of state, movie stars, accomplished writers of the day. He continued throughout his life giving a still face to the famous in books and magazine covers with much acclaim.
The photos on view are just a small example of Karsh’s work. Included will be Winston Churchill (1941), Albert Einstein (1948), Pablo Picasso (1954), Georgia O’Keeffe (1956), Ernest Hemingway (1957), Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy (1960), Sophia Loren (1981), and Jessye Norman (1990).
Image: Fidel Castro – 1971, Havana, Cuba
Btw: the most recent images of Castro are of an old man in slippers and a red track suit. I think Karsh captured the intensity and coiled energy of the revolutionary we came to know as “Fidel”.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Karsh * 9/23/08 – 1/19/09
http://www.mfa.org
by Sandy | Aug 4, 2008 | Art, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris”
A 100th birthday is a great reason to celebrate the work of photo journalist Henri Cartier-Bresson, (1908-2004), at The Art institute of Chicago. He will share the exhibit with his Paris contemporaries, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian.
Cartier-Bresson’s photographs are described in the museum catalog as always capturing “the decisive moment”.
Henri Cartier-Bresson * 9/20 – 1/4/09
The Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois
(Image: “Gold Distribution”, Shanghai, China 1949, Henri Cartier-Bresson)
by Sandy | Jul 26, 2008 | Blogroll, Events, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Mr. Mandela, born 7/18/18, turned 90 this year. Celebrated around the world in places like South Africa and Britain, the birthday best wishes now move to NYC at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture thru August 31, 3008.
On display will be photos spanning 50 years in the life of this supreme activist, Nelson Mandela.
“A 90th Birthday Tribute Exhibition with photographs by Peter Mugubane”
Image: Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela in Soweto, South Africa shortly after Mandela’s release from prison.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY
(212) 491-2200 – Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m-6 p.m.
http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar/exhib/sch/celistsch.cfm
