by Sandy | Jun 5, 2008 | Blogroll, Exhibits, Movies, Museums, Photograhy
“Double Exposure: African
Americans Before & Behind the Camera”
Photographic works from the 19th and 20th century will be shown at MOAD in San Francisco starting June 18. “The exhibition will present two predominant subject threads—popular culture and historical images of African Americans and the reality of black life as depicted by African Americans themselves.”
MOAD – Museum of the African Diaspora
June 18, 2008 – September 28, 2008
685 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA,
415.358.7200
(Image: “Smokin Joe” Frazier, Hank Willis Thomas)
http://www.moadsf.org/exhibits/?mode=upcoming
by Sandy | May 31, 2008 | Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940”
The work of 13 men and women are presented here as examples of photography’s first 100 years – some are names that you know: Henri Cartier-Bresson, Man Ray and some you may not know:
Eugène Atget, Julia Margaret Cameron – how they contributed, shaped, impacted.
Image: “Devils Canyon, Geysers, Looking Down” 1868-1870, (Albumen silver print from glass negative) – Carleton Watkins (1829-1916)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 3 – September 1, 2008
Drawings, Prints, and Photographs Galleries
The Howard Gilman Gallery, 2nd fl
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
www.metmuseum.org
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by Sandy | May 14, 2008 | Art, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“Arbus/Avedon/Model: Selections From The LaSalle Collection”
This exhibit, 5/16/08 thru 9/7/08, brings together 3 of the important photographers of the 1960s – portraitists, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and Lisette Model.
Arbus : (1923 – 1971) took pictures of people outside the “norm” – dwarves, giants, street people.
Avedon : (1923 – 2004) primarily known for his beautiful fashion photographs and celebrity portraits. (His photos were used on the Beatles “White Album”)
Model : (1901 – 1983) taught photography at the New School in NYC (one of her students was Diane Arbus). She was noted for her close up, revealing photos of the rich.
(Image: Marian Anderson, contralto – 6/30/55 , NYC, Richard Avedon)
ICP – 5/16 to 9/7/08
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd St., NYC
212.857.0000
www.icp.org
by Sandy | Mar 30, 2008 | Art, Exhibits, Photograhy
“Ed Ruscha and Photography” * Thru June 1, 2008
Called a “pop artist”, the 70 year old and still very popular Ruscha (pronounced “rew-shay”), will have his prints, some not seen before, and photo books displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago, thru June 1,2008.
BTW: “In 1962 Ruscha’s work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Jim Dine, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking “New Painting of Common Objects,” curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. This exhibition is historically considered one of the first “Pop Art” exhibitions in America. These painters started a movement, in a time of social unrest, which shocked America and the Art world and changed Art forever, “Pop Art“.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Ruscha
http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/exhibition/ruscha
(Image: “Sin, (without)”, 2002 – lithograph, Ed Ruscha)
by Sandy | Mar 4, 2008 | Events, Exhibits, Galleries, Photograhy
“Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990 – 2005”
Award winning photographer Annie Leibovitz will have 200 examples of her work on view at the San Francisco Legion of Honor, March 1 – May 25, 2008. Included in the exhibit will be some of her famous/infamous celebrity portraits from Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone – Nelson Mandela, actress Demi Moore, George W. Bush, John & Yoko, etc. Her photo studies of the American West and personal family prints are also included in the show.
www.famsf.org/legion
by Sandy | Feb 13, 2008 | Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Retrospective, from 1950’s, includes over 400 photographs of everyday American life that are examples of Lee Friedlander’s successful career. His favorite subjects were ordinary things – billboards, cars, people in the street, etc.
(Image – New York City, 1966 – Gelatin silver print)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Sat., Feb. 23, 2008 – Sun., May 18, 2008
151 Third Street, SF, CA
(415) 357 4000
www.sfmoma.com
