Annie Leibovitz Agrees Loan Deal with Colony Capital: Report

LONDON.- Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz has arranged a deal with a private equity firm to sort out her debts, the Financial Times reported in its Tuesday edition.
The paper said Leibovitz, who has photographed everyone from Michelle Obama to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, has lined up real estate investment firm Colony Capital as a sole creditor to help manage her finances and market her work.
“We will be partners in managing her assets and her business so that Annie can spend her time [...]

Rankin’s Cheeky: An Exhibition of Erotica by Rankin at Annroy Gallery

LONDON.- Rankin’s Cheeky brings together selected erotica by Rankin. Taken from his recently published book of the same title, which includes forewords by Heidi Klum and Hugh Hefner, the photographs will be exhibited at Annroy Gallery from 11th March – 11th April. Rankin’s erotic studies combine outstanding female beauty with an exploration of human sexuality, whilst maintaining the skilful composition and unconventional aesthetic for which he is known.
From beautiful nudes and mischievous lingerie shots including those of Kate Moss, Lily [...]

Chen Man, China’s Celebrated Avant-Garde Photographer, in Her First Hong Kong Show

HONG KONG.- Ooi Botos Gallery will present the 8irst solo show ever in Hong Kong of one of China’s most celebrated, avant‐garde photographers, Chen Man. The artist’s solo exhibition “Unbearable Beauty” opens March 13, 2010 and runs through May 22, 2010 and will be the internationally recognized artist’s 8irst exhibition in Hong Kong. It will also mark the premiere of three new works, represented exclusively by Ooi Botos Gallery.
Chen Man’s unique, revolutionary vision was 8irst showcased in groundbreaking covers produced [...]

Sugary Photographs with Tricks, Poses and Effects: A Festival on Photography

ANTWERP.- I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest and tell the truth about our age and its people. (August Sander, 1876-1964)
In the above quotation, Sander was venting his irritation at what he saw as the dominant style of photography in the early part of the 20th century. Sander critiqued that photographers seemed too concerned with pursuing the same artistic strategies as painters (such as heavy reliance on landscape imagery [...]

Photographs by Michael Corridore at Aperture Foundation

NEW YORK, NY.- Aperture Foundation is a non-profit arts institution dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms, and as part of our ongoing mission to support the work of emerging photographers, Aperture is presenting an exhibition featuring the work of Australian photographer Michael Corridore, winner of the 2008 Aperture Portfolio Prize, at Aperture Foundation. Part of a new intiative, these prints are avaialble for sale, with the proceeds benefiting both the artist and the Aperture Foundation Emerging Artist Fund.
In [...]

New Exhibition Shows how British Public Adapted to a World of Food Shortages

LONDON.- Seventy years ago the wartime government announced the introduction of food rationing – a control that was to remain in force for the next fourteen years. To mark this event Imperial War Museum London opened The Ministry of Food, a major new exhibition to show how the British public adapted to a world of food shortages by ‘Lending a Hand on the Land’, ‘Digging for Victory’, taking up the ‘War on Waste’, and being both frugal and inventive on [...]

Portraits and Still Lifes by Vera Mercer at Kommunale Galerie in Berlin

BERLIN.- The photographic work of Vera Mercer has remained relatively unknown until now. Born in 1936 in Berlin as Vera Mertz, she received Swiss citizenship following her marriage in 1958 to Daniel Spoerri, then director’s assistant at the Darmstadt Landestheater. In the same year, the couple moved to Paris, where they became part of an artistic avant-garde that would become known as the “Nouveaux Réalistes”. In the following years, Vera Mercer, who was trained in modern dance and a self-taught [...]

Aboriginal Image Wins Top Australia Photo Portrait Prize

CANBERRA (REUTERS).- An Australian art teacher’s photograph of a young Aborigine who was once his student won the country’s top photo portrait prize, with judges praising the black-and-white image’s intimacy and power.
Scott Bycroft’s “Zareth” won the A$25,000 ($22,520) 2010 National Photographic Portrait Prize from the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra, beating 43 finalists selected from 1,000 entries submitted by amateur and professional photographers.
The image shows Clontarf Aboriginal College teenager Zareth Long leaning on a post, bare-chested and his wavy hair [...]

Zur Stockeregg Gallery Features Two Outstanding Swiss Photographers

ZURICH.- In the exhibition entitled “Spaces”, Zur Stockeregg Gallery features two outstanding Swiss photographers: Christian Vogt and Daniel Schwartz. The works of both artists are explored from an angle of spatiality – the term “space” being used in a broader sense, thus comprising both nature and interiors as well as adhering to spatial and temporal extension.
Christian Vogt and Daniel Schwartz – how different are both their pictorial languages and their choices of motives! Yet, in one aspect, the oeuvres of [...]

Sally Mann Exhibits in a Swiss Museum for the First Time

LAUSANNE.- For the first time in Switzerland, a museum exhibition is devoted to the exceptional oeuvre of Sally Mann. Over the past fifteen years this body of work has earned Mann a deservedly international reputation. Since the 1970’s this American photographer (b. Lexington, Virginia in 1951) has been dealing with the troubling themes of intimacy and the inexorable passage of time. Sally Mann’s work is centered on portraits of her children, as she observed them closely and with great honesty [...]

45 Brilliant Examples of Photo Manipulation Art

Photo manipulation is probably one of the most popular application areas in which Adobe Photoshop is used extensively. One of the main reasons for that is its ability to blend real photos with vibrant colors and digital painting to emphasize some beautiful details which makes this software ideal for this kind of work. Here are 45 incredible examples of Photo manipulated images from extremely talented Photoshop artists.
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by Jenny Leigh
by Fruit Manipulation

The Eye

Ups…Falling Letters

Baby dragon

Monkeyman

Monkeyman

Iron man

Chronoscape- thundersnow

Smog

Extravaganza

Zebrafrog

One [...]

Exhibition of Photographs that have Been Subject to Intense Controversy

VIENNA.- With the exhibition “Controversies” Kunst Haus Wien presents around 100 photographs that have been subject to intense controversy or legal proceedings. The exhibition shows works from photographers like Man Ray, Robert Capa or Lewis Carroll as well as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Oliviero Toscani, Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe or Todd Maisel. The images shown cover the history of photography from its early days until today.

David LaChapelle, Angelina Jolie, Horseplay, 2004. © David LaChapelle Studio / Courtesy Fred Torres Collaborations

Since its invention [...]

Pure Sixties, Pure Bailey, a Selling Exhibition at Bonhams

LONDON.- A selling exhibition of David Bailey’s iconic images of the 1960s – the 50th anniversary of a decade that changed our cultural history – will be hosted by Bonhams in New Bond Street.
The ‘Pure Sixties. Pure Bailey.’ exhibition will be on view at Bonhams, 101 New Bond Street, from 7th March – 7th April, 2010.
David Bailey’s name is an integral part of the 1960s, that dynamic period which created a melting pot of talent drawn from music, fashion, literature, [...]

Major Collection of Middle Eastern Photography being Built for National Museums

LONDON.- The Art Fund today announced that it has embarked upon an exciting new venture – the creation of a national collection of recent Middle Eastern photography, to be owned jointly by the V&A and the British Museum.
The collection will be known as The Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern photography at the V&A and the British Museum.
In total, the charity is allocating £100,000 to enable the two museums to build the Collection, which is to encompass photography from the [...]

Getting Naked for Art with Spencer Tunick at the Sydney Opera House

SYDNEY.- Some 5,200 Australians posed naked in front of the Sydney Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by New York-based artist Spencer Tunick for another signature installation of nudes against urban backdrops.
On a chilly, overcast, first day of autumn, the mass nude photo shoot was titled “Mardi Gras: The Base” and meant to celebrate Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras last weekend.
As the sun rose, Tunick instructed participants to do a number of poses, from standing up, lying [...]