by Sandy | Mar 1, 2011 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” at MoMA
“For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. “
“Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography” – now until 2011
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY
(Images: Tina Modotti- “Workers Parade”, 1926 and Ilse Bing- “Self-Portrait in Mirrors”’ 1931)
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by Sandy | Feb 17, 2011 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Detroit Institute of Arts/ DIA presents the work of American photographer André Kertész, 1895-1985 in the exhibit called: “An Intuitive Eye: André Kertész Photographs 1914-1969”
“The exhibition surveys Kertész’s career with nearly 100 photographs taken in Hungary, Paris and New York, many of which are drawn from the DIA’s permanent collection… An Intuitive Eye will highlight his Parisian photographs to demonstrate his unique style that combined the techniques and compositions of photojournalism with the aesthetic sensibilities of abstraction employed by Modernist artists. “
“An Intuitive Eye: André Kertész Photographs 1914-1969” – Until April 2011
Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan
by Sandy | Jan 13, 2011 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
The traveling exhibit highlighting the work of photographer Cartier-Bresson will end its visit to the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco on January 31, 2011- “Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century”. 
“An innovative artist, trailblazing photojournalist, and quintessential world traveler, Henri Cartier-Bresson ranks among the most accomplished and original figures in the history of photography. His inventive images of the early 1930s helped define the creative potential of the medium, and his uncanny ability to capture life on the run made his work synonymous with “the decisive moment.” This major retrospective offers a fresh look at Cartier-Bresson’s entire career, revealing him as one of the great portraitists of the 20th century and one of its keenest observers of the global theater of human affairs.”
Cartier-Bresson describing the “decisive moment” in photography:
“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms [as they are perceived visually] which give that event its proper expression.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Modern Century – Until January 30, 2011
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA – SF MOMA
(Images: Hyeres, 1932 and Srinagar, Kashmir, 1948)
by Sandy | Dec 9, 2010 | Art, Blogroll, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
“Signs of Life: Photographs by Peter Sekaer“
Exhibit highlights 87 images taken between 1935 -1945. Referred to as a “photo-documentary” artist, American born Sekaer, 1901-1950, focused on people as they endured the Great Depression in several American cities.
“As I see it, the world is made up entirely of photographic subject matter…With pictures you can say what you can’t with words” Peter Sekaer
High Museum of Art, Atlanta – now until January 2011
1280 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta,GA
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by Sandy | Nov 22, 2010 | Art, Artist, Blogroll, Creativity, Exhibits, Museums, Photograhy
Conceptual artist John Baldassari will have his work on view at The Met until January 2011. 
“If I saw the art around me that I liked, then I wouldn’t do art.”, Baldessari
“The exhibition brings together a full range of the artist’s innovative work over five decades, from his early paintings and phototext works, his combined photographs, and the irregularly shaped and over-painted works of the 1990s, to his most recent production. A selection of his videos and artist’s books will also be included in the exhibition.”
“John Baldessari: Pure Beauty” until January 9, 2011
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Ave and 86 Street, NYC
(Images: “God Nose”, 1965)
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by Sandy | Oct 26, 2010 | Art, Blogroll, Museums, Photograhy
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents an exhibit featuring the fashion photography of Richard Avedon.
Avedon was born in NYC 1923, he began work in 1944 at a department store, but quickly became the go-to photographer for magazines like Vogue, Look, Harpers Bazaar, etc.
“Richard Avedon was one of the greatest image-makers of the twentieth century. He revolutionized fashion photography with his imaginative, spirited portrayals of the “good life” showing beautiful women wearing extraordinary clothes in irresistible settings, as well as memorable portrayals that are both elegant and reserved.”
“Avedon’s career as a fashion photographer is displayed decade by decade in this exceptional traveling exhibition from the International Center of Photography in New York, the first comprehensive survey of Avedon’s fashion photography since 1978.”
Avedon Fashion 1944–2000 * Until January 17, 2011
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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“For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of outstanding photographs by women artists, charting the medium’s history from the dawn of the modern period to the present. Including over two hundred works, this exhibition features celebrated masterworks and new acquisitions from the collection by such figures as Diane Arbus, Berenice Abbott, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Rineke Dijkstra, Florence Henri, Roni Horn, Nan Goldin, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Lucia Moholy, Tina Modotti, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems, among many others. “
