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Steven Poster
Collecting for love

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Steven Poster is a cinematographer, best known for his work on Donnie Darko, Someone to Watch Over Me, and over fifty other features and TV shows. Less well known is his devotion to street photography. Poster is a lifelong still photographer with many mu...

22.04.2013[ read full story ]

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The Peter Basch Archive by Eric Kroll

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The first time I met Peter Basch was in his cavernous upper Westside New York City apartment, facing the Hudson river. I had discovered that, among his many nude torso studies, he had shot Bettie Page. This was circa 1985 and Bettie hadn’t resurfaced yet. In the ...

23.04.2013[ read full story ]

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The Temple: 49 Geary Street, San Francisco

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When the contemporary art world burst into maturity in New York’s 1970s Soho, ground zero was a loft building known as 420 West Broadway. Home to Leo Castelli, Ileana Sonnabend, André Emmerich, Charles Cowles, Mary Boone and Hirschl & Adler Modern, “420” became a must stop o...

23.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Weston Naef by Peter C. Jones

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On June 8, 1984 in a brilliant stroke the J. Paul Getty Museum announced that it was forming a new curatorial department devoted to photography and had appointed Weston Naef, then an associate curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to take charge of it. The new Getty direction was ma...

22.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Michael Whalen
by Peter C. Jones

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Despite his deep immersion in the legal world of trusts and estates, Michael Whalen has consistently shunned the conventional. One would expect his A List clients, but he has also represented Ansel Adams and Bettie Page. He serves on the Herb Ritts Foundation Board and is a fixture ...

23.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Michael and Jane Wilson by Peter C. Jones

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Michael G. Wilson and his wife Jane began assembling their magnificent, A to Z collection of photographs – now about double the size of the renowned Sam Wagstaff collection owned by the J. Paul Getty Museum – in 1978 around the time he began devoting his atte...

22.04.2013[ read full story ]

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Eggleston:
A Troublesome Ruling

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On March 12, 2012, Christie’s auction house in New York sold a famous print of photographer William Eggleston’ “Memphis (Tricycle)” for $578,500. It was an 112x152cm (44x60in.) inkjet print, in an edition of two. Last April, the collector Jonathan Sobel filed a complaint ag...

10.04.2013[ read full story ]

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The Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue

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In 1979, Jacques Henri Lartigue donated his photographs to the the French state, entrusting their care, development and distribution to the Association des Amis de Jacques Henri Lartigue, known as the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue. “The situation had become inextricable. I had tw...

29.03.2013[ read full story ]

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Brooklyn Arts Council
By Miss Rosen

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Founded in 1966 in the basement of Flatbush resident Charlene Victor, Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) has grown in stature and scope so as to become a hub for the local scene, providing a wide array of services for emerging artists and arts organizations based in Brooklyn. BAC gives ...

28.02.2013[ read full story ]

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Elliot Ross:
Animals

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When asked about what I do when I make a photograph, my first thought is that I don’t work conceptually. In other words, I don’t have an idea or concept which I am trying to illustrate, investigate, or portray. Having been a conceptual artist earlier in my life, I discovered this approach to be...

20.02.2013[ read full story ]

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