National Museum Wales’ Historic Photography Goes Digital Thanks to Gift

CARDIFF.- A new project to curate and digitise historic photography from Wales ’ national collections has been made possible with the support of the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, which is marking its 50th Birthday this year. Natural Images – Amgueddfa Cymru’s new initiative, which begins in Autumn 2011, will involve transferring the finest examples from the Museum’s extraordinary collection of around 500,000 photographs and historic items, into an accessible digital format. Items from the Museum’s photography collection are currently spread across several disciplines from [...]

Exhibition of Works by Pioneering Photographers Featured at Paul Kasmin Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Paul Kasmin Gallery, in cooperation with Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs, presents Drawing with Light: Paper Negatives, 1842-1864. Including works by pioneering photographers William Henry Fox Talbot, Chares Nègre, Dr. John Murray, Frédéric Flachéron and Louis-Rémy Robert, the exhibition will provide a rare glimpse into the early history of photography. It will be on view from March 3rd to April 2nd at Paul Kasmin’s 511 W. 27th Street space. William Henry Fox Talbot, Charles Porter and [...]

Drawing Installation, “Nature of the Pencil”, by Marco Breuer at Von Lintel Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Von Lintel Gallery presents Nature of the Pencil, a drawing installation by Marco Breuer, his fifth solo exhibition at Von Lintel Gallery. Throughout his nearly twenty-year career, Breuer has approached his work as a systematic investigation of the conditions of the photographic medium and its relationship to related media. For Nature of the Pencil—a play on William Henry Fox Talbot’s seminal book The Pencil of Nature—Breuer examines and explores the intersection of photography and drawing. Marco Breuer, Untitled [...]

Hans P. Kraus Jr. to Show Landmark Works from the Early History of Photography at Art Basel

BASEL.- Exhibiting for the 21st year at Art Basel, Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will present landmark works from the early history of photography. Signature images will be on view from such important innovators as William Henry Fox Talbot, Hippolyte Bayard, Anna Atkins and Gustave Le Gray as well as works by early 20th century masters such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and Heinrich Kühn. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) conceived of the very idea of photography during the 1830s, [...]

Clark Art Institute Offers Exhibition of Highly Mysterious Works of Art

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA.- Since its invention in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has been used for documentary purposes, faithfully recording the details of archaeological artifacts, works of art, and natural specimens. Appearing to be no more than bearers of information or certificates of authenticity, many such photographs are not as simple as they might seem at first glance. The exhibition Material Witnesses: Photographs of Things considers how documentary images, while retaining a certain “visual truth,” are also highly [...]