Mr Mei Lanfang, the master of Peking Opera (1894—1961), he was born in Beijing into a family associated with the Peking opera , his grandfather Mei Qiaoling was a famous…
May 29, 2014
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My work for the past 7 years has been wandering the streets to take pictures of peoples passing by. I see their bodies and the tired expression of their faces,…
Born in 1945 at Newport Beach (California), Lewis Baltz belongs to the same generation of artists as Jan Dibbets, Douglas Huebler and Bruce Nauman – artists who used photography in the 1960s…
“In the work of seven Russian photographers—Oleg Dou, Galina Chirikova, Sergey Maximishin, Igor Mukhin, Margo Ovcharenko, Antanas Sutkus and Maria Yastrebova—joy is ironic, tender, funny, melancholic and ecstatic. And as…
The nine recipients of the Inge Morath Award* will travel along the Danube River this July and August in a large truck which has been converted into a mobile photography…
Roger Ballen’s newest monograph, Asylum of the Birds (Thames & Hudson) is a revelation, a vision of the inside of the mind in black and white—and all shades in between. There is…
Takehito Miyatake’s work explores the interplay between what he describes as the “light of Japan” and the natural landscape, and the connection between land, water and sky. His noted series…
“A Gallery for Fine Photography,” reads a wooden sign at 214 Chartres Street in New Orleans’ French Quarter, a short walk from The Marigny. The gallery is usually closed on…
2014 marks the 45th anniversary of Woodstock. Baron Wolman was Rolling Stone magazine’s first photographer. In 1969 he attended what would become the most famous music festival of all time.…