Saddle Up! 30 Works of Art Featuring the Horse at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich

GREENWICH, CT.- While the title of the Bruce Museum’s new exhibition “Saddle Up! Horsing Around at the Bruce Museum” may seem a bit irreverent, the approximately 30 works of art featuring the horse are more than sheer whimsy. On view in Greenwich, from July 1 through Sept. 25, the equine artworks cover several centuries and encompass a wide range of media — from a Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) tomb sculpture of a male equestrian figure to a 20th-century photograph by Garry [...]

Garry Winogrand: Women are Beautiful at Foundation Foto Colectania in Barcelona

BARCELONA.- Foundation Foto Colectania presents for the first time in Barcelona the famous series Women Are Beautiful by Garry Winogrand. A visitor looks at pictures by US photographer Garry Winogrand during the opening of an exhibition, entitled Garry Winogrand. Women Are Beautiful, at the Foundation Foto Colectania in Barcelona. The exhibition presenting 85 photographs from a series on women and their social transformation between the 1960s and 1970s runs until 04 June. EPA/ALBERTO ESTEVEZ. Garry Winogrand is considered one of [...]

A Photographic Lovesong to the Modern Woman by Garry Winogrand at Camera Work

BERLIN.- Camera Work presents in the context of the fourth European Month of Photography the legendary series ‘Women are beautiful‘ from Garry Winogrand, Often regarded as the founder of ‘street photography’, the American Garry Winogrand took countless photographs of women in New York between 1960 and 1975. A final collection of 85 photos was put together by John Szarkowski, the legendary curator of the Museum of Modern Art, for a work published in 1975 under the title ‘Women are beautiful‘. [...]

Color in American Photography, 1950-1970 at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents, Beyond COLOR: Color in American Photography, 1950-1970, a re-examination of a pivotal period in photography’s short history, when the artistic relevance of color in fine art photography had yet to be determined. The exhibition unites works for the first time by many of the “first generation” practitioners of color photography including artists Marie Cosindas, Arthur Seigel, Harry Callahan, Eliot Porter, Saul Leiter, Marvin E. Newman, Pete Turner, Ruth Orkin and Ernst Haas. Other [...]

Christie’s Presents Selections from the Baio Collection of Photographs this Spring

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the forthcoming sale of Selections from the Baio Collection of Photographs on April 15 at Rockefeller Center. The Baio Collection embraces many of the photographic techniques and methods used over the last 170 years, with a central theme running through its diverse imagery – children. One can follow the trajectory of this theme through the framework of the urban environment, starting with an early 1930s view of the shadowed walkways of Spain in Seville by [...]