Photography

A series of fascinating and important 19th century portraits of Native Americans by the pioneering German/American photographer, John Karl Hillers are for sale in Bonhams India and Beyond sale at Knightsbridge on 5 October 2010. Hillers emigrated with his family to the [Read More]

For twelve million people, Ellis Island was the doorway to a new life, with the hopes and dreams of several generations of immigrants beginning and sometimes ending there. Understandably, this American landmark in New York Harbor has deeply inspired many artists. Most [Read More]

Just after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005, photographer Richard Misrach used a 4-megapixel pocket camera to capture messages left behind by evacuees. Some are warnings; some are cries for help or encouragement; some are tallies of loss. [Read More]

Located in the Museum’s Lower Gallery, this exhibition of John Jonas Gruen’s portraits of notable artists, all of whom are represented in the Whitney’s collection, has been extended to September 5, 2010. The exhibition is curated by Elisabeth Sussman. Writing in the [Read More]

The Yellowstone Art Museum presents Polar: Photographs from the Ice Antarctica to Greenland- Patrick Smith open October 7, 2010, through January 9, 2011. Billings-based artist Pat Smith began his lifelong relationship with the versatile medium of photography as a young street artist [Read More]

WINCHESTER, MA – The Griffin Museum of Photography (http://www.griffinmuseum.org/) announced the recipients and presenters for its fifth annual Focus Awards. The Museum created the annual awards in 2006 to recognize individuals who have made critical contributions to the promotion of photography. They [Read More]

The Farnsworth Art Museum presents the first annual Arnold Newman Prize Winner exhibition. The 2010 show will feature the work of Brooklyn-based photographer Emily Schiffer who has been selected as the winner of the 2010 Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in [Read More]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape, featuring recent work by the internationally renowned and LA-based photographer Catherine Opie. The show’s primary focus is high-school football, a subject that allowed Opie to explore issues of [Read More]

This special exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum demonstrates how documentary photography transformed modern art in America through an examination of the work of photographers Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. Open October 2, 2010–January 2, 2011. In the 1930s, American [Read More]

Wisconsinmade.com carefully selects only the finest-quality products made in Wisconsin and offers them for sale on the Internet. Wunsch has now reproduced his stunning nature photographs on note-cards and makes them available to Wisconsinmade.com customers across the country. “Richard’s artistic focus on [Read More]

A collection of Ansel Adams glass photographic negative plates, thought lost, have been discovered by an antique shopper Rick Norsigian, a Fresno painter, who bought the images at a Southern California garage sale in 2000, for $45. They were sold to him [Read More]

Multi award-winning Nevada County artist Lisa Redfern of Redfern Photography is really starting to come into her own as she continues her expansion into the commercial arena. Employing the distinctive techniques she’s christened as “Transformative Art,” her imaginative visual renderings on behalf [Read More]

On View through September 19, 2010, in the Contemporary Art Square on Level S2 of the Jean‐Noël Desmarais Pavilion, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will present Drive End, a remarkable photographic project by Martin Beauregard. This is the artist’s first solo [Read More]

Manhattan based Fine Art photographer, Ira Fox, has opened a new exhibit of his ‘Still Life’s’ and ‘Reflections’ series in New York City The exhibit will feature more than 20 of Ira’s original images. Ira’s exhibit, which is open to the public [Read More]