Posts Tagged ‘photography exhibitions’
Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War I and Condé Nast Years at The Art Institute of Chicago
Focusing on rarely seen Steichen photographs drawn from the Art Institute’s collection, this exhibition includes a unique album of over 80 World War I aerial photographs assembled and annotated by Steichen himself as well as a group of iconic glamour portraits and fashion photographs done for Condé Nast, featuring such early Hollywood royalty as Mary…
Read MoreBlake Leigh “Waiting for You” Katherine Nash Gallery
Blake Leigh is our first BFA framing award winner. Providing professional framing advice to art students has been a long term goal of ours. In order to better understand how to accomplish this Metroframe has established a BFA framing award at the University of Minnesota. Our goal is to help students understand the basics of…
Read MoreMicah Cash “Unclaimed Space” at the William Benton Museum of Art
“I wanted to send you a few installation images from the MFA Thesis exhibition. The photos look great in the frames, and I’ve received plenty of compliments on the frames themselves. Thank you for continuing the make such a wonderful product.” Micah is more knowledgeable about framing than most MFA students. We first met Micah…
Read More6:30 A.M. Robert Weingarten at Peabody Essex Museum
In January 2003, at 6:30 a.m., Robert Weingarten launched his photographic odyssey. Over the course of the year, he made daily exposures at precisely 6:30 a.m., maintaining an identical combination of camera, 350-millimeter lens, slow-speed film and viewpoint overlooking Santa Monica Bay. Five of his large-scale, luminous photographs of Malibu capture what the artist calls…
Read MoreNew Pictures 9: Rinko Kawauchi, ‘Illuminance’ at Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Rinko Kawauchi, one of Japan’s most important and celebrated contemporary photographers, opens her first museum exhibition in the United States at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts . It features a unique installation of 42 photographs selected from her series, Illuminance. Kawauchi’s photographs capture ordinary, fleeting moments of light and daily life and transform them into…
Read MoreChristopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness at the Art Institute of Chicago
With a career spanning 35 years, Christopher Williams (born 1956) now stands as one of the leading contemporary artists engaged in photography. Deeply invested in the techniques and history of photography, Williams is just as profoundly committed to contemporary art as a forum for intellectual inquiry and thoughtful opposition—resisting, for example, a capitalist society in…
Read MoreObserving Vermont Architecture Middlebury College Museum of Art
Observing Vermont Architecture features some one hundred photographs by Curtis B. Johnson selected to accompany the newly published Buildings of Vermont co-authored by Johnson and Glenn M. Andres. Curated by the authors, the exhibition celebrates an architectural heritage that has made Vermont the only state in the Union to be designated in its entirety as…
Read MoreThe Sochi Project: An Atlas of War and Tourism in the Caucasus at DePaul Museum of Art
Photographer Rob Hornstra and journalist Arnold van Bruggen are documenting the rapidly-changing region around Sochi, a former Soviet resort on the Black Sea, which is preparing to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. The exhibition at the DePaul Art Museum shows extraordinary photos, together with interviews and films, recording a complicated mix of parallel realities as…
Read MoreKenneth Josephson at Stephen Daiter Gallery in Chicago
Kenneth Josephson has been a tireless pioneer of conceptual art photography since the late 1950s. He is the product of a rigorous education that began with the inspiration of the visionary Minor White at the Rochester Institute of Technology and culminating with his graduate studies under the renown teaching team of Harry Callahan and Aaron…
Read MoreEdward Curtis photos & Metropolitan frames travel around the world
Cardozo Fine Art has created the most extensive exhibition program of Curtis photography in history. These exhibitions and Metropolitan frames have been seen in over forty countries and on every continent but Antarctica. It is estimated that through his books, exhibitions, lectures, and former gallery, Cardozo has brought Curtis to well over 10 million people world-wide. Metropolitan first…
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