| Mar 26, 2013 | Harold Chapman | | | |
Raise a glass of Bordeaux to celebrate the birth of photographer Harold Chapman
(Born: 1927, 26 March)
English photographer who recorded Paris and London in the 1950s and 60s. He has carried out picture research and been a freelance photographer through most of his long life.
Harold Chapman
Meat Express, Les Halles, Paris
1960s
Gelatin silver print
OMC Gallery for Contemporary Art
© Harold Chapman, Courtesy of OMC Gallery
LL/16474
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Exhibition: Harold Chapman: A Retrospective 1947-2007
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| | Mar 25, 2013 | Edward Steichen | | | |
Time to remember the passing of photographer Edward Steichen
1879, 27 March - 1973, 25 March
One of the great photographers who was a master of Pictorialism, Modernism, Fashion, Military photography in both the First and Second World Wars and so much more including the 1945 Academy Award for Best Documentary for "The Fighting Lady". He also curated "The Family of Man" - a true professional.
Edward Steichen
Mask of Goethe and Spiral
1932 (taken) 1960s (print)
Gelatin silver print
35 x 28 cm
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction (17 June 2009, Sale 93, Lot 4573)
LL/32540
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| | Mar 24, 2013 | Edward Weston | | | |
And a Happy "sand-in-the-shoe" Birthday to Edward Weston
1886, 24 March - 1958, 1 January
As Pam Roberts wrote:
"American landscape, still-life and nude photographer with a fascinating private life. Like Steichen before him, he experimented with photographing everyday objects, vegetables, nudes, dunes, using lighting and camera angle to show the item in a completely new light. He worked for the government on the Farm Security Administration project and set up the f/64 Group. "
The "fascinating private life"... was certainly true.
Edward Weston
Dunes et Nuages (Dunes and Clouds)
1938
Gelatin silver print
Private collection of Jan Weijers (Servatius)
LL/29088
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| | Mar 23, 2013 | Ilse Bing | | | |
Raise your glass today to the memory of German photographer Ilse Bing.
1899, 23 March - 1998
Ilse Bing
Me in the mirror with Leica
1931 (taken) 1992 (print)
Gelatin silver print
8 7/8 x 13 3/8 in (22.5 x 34 cm)
Phillips de Pury - New York
Courtesy of Phillips De Pury - NY (31 Jan 2008, Lot 120)
LL/27370
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| | Mar 22, 2013 | Jaromír Funke | | | |
To the memory of Jaromír Funke
1896, 1 August - 1945, 22 March
One of the great Czech abstract photographers.
Jaromír Funke
Cube and Sphere
1923
Gelatin silver print
23.7 x 29.5 cm (9.5 x 11.5 )
Courtesy of Galerie Johannes Faber
LL/1796
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| | Mar 21, 2013 | Nadar | | | |
A day to drink a glass of red wine to celebrate the life of the photographer Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) who died 103 years ago today.
1820, April - 1910, 21 March
Nadar
[Nadar with His Wife, Ernestine, in a Balloon]
1865 (ca, taken) 1890s (print)
Gelatin silver print, from glass negative
9 x 7.8 cm (3 9/16 x 3 1/16 ins) (image) 23 x 19.9 cm (9 1/16 x 7 13/16 ins) (mount)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.313
LL/40386
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| | Mar 20, 2013 | Mary Ellen Mark | | | |
Happy birthday to Mary Ellen Mark
Born - 1940, 20 March
After studying painting and art history and gaining an MA in photojournalism from the University of Pennsylvania, Mary Ellen Mark started her career as a freelance photojournalist in the mid 1960s.
In 1965 she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to photograph in Turkey. There Mark established her signature style of combining a documentary approach with a fascination with the bizarre. She also established one of the key themes in her work: an interest in children acting like adults.
Returning to America in 1967, Mark moved to New York and worked as a photojournalist, publishing photo-stories in magazines such as the New York Times, Evergreen and Life. Mark also worked on film sets, taking production stills on films including Catch 22 and One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Mark’s first solo exhibition, Ward 81, was a result of her work on the latter, when she returned to the high-security women’s mental hospital where it had been filmed.
An interest in people, especially women, on the edge of society is apparent throughout her work. Her projects include a series on prostitutes in Bombay’s Falkland Road (1978), street kids in Seattle (1983) and a study of Indian travelling circuses (1989). Mark continues to publish and exhibit her work to great acclaim and in 2001 was awarded the Cornell Capa Infinity Award from the International Center for Photography, New York.
This biography is courtesy and copyright of the Victoria & Albert Museum and is included here with permission.
Mary Ellen Mark
Lillie, Seattle
[Streetwise]
1983
Gelatin silver print
9 13 7/16 ins
George Eastman House
Courtesy of George Eastman House. © Mary Ellen Mark
LL/33293
Mark says: "I'm interested in the guy that doesn't have all the breaks in life and people who live on the edge. . . . I photograph them because they have a certain passion and humanity that really interests me. I would like my pictures to be a voice for them. Photography is about seeing the world in your own peculiar and personal way."
Mark Edward Harris, "The C & D Interview: Mary Ellen Mark," Camera and Darkroom (October 1993), 22-31.
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| | Mar 19, 2013 | Garry Winogrand | | | |
To the memory of Garry Winogrand
1928, 14 January - 1984, 19 March
American photographer who documented New York street life with a snapshot fervor that was almost like an addiction. He produced five books during his lifetime but a prodigious body of work that requires deeper understanding. His life is frequently summed up by the dismissive statistics that he died leaving 2500 rolls of undeveloped film and a further 6500 rolls that were developed but had no contact sheets but that does not explain his significance in American photography. The 2013 retrospective organized by Leo Rubinfien for SFMOMA will address his wider significance.
His archives are held by the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
Garry Winogrand
Los Angeles
1964
Gelatin silver print
9 x 13 7/16
J. Paul Getty Museum
© 1984 The Estate of Garry Winogrand [Getty: 99.XM.35.1]
LL/6009
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| | Mar 18, 2013 | Van Leo | | | |
Today is the anniversary of the passing of photographer Van Leo
1921, 20 November - 2002, 18 March
Ethnic Armenian photographer (Leon Boyadjian) who opened a photographic studio in Cairo in 1941. Since 1998 his 10,000 prints and negatives have been preserved at the American University of Cairo.
Van Leo
Self-portrait of Van Leo
1942, 19 October
Gelatin silver print
Galleria Magenta52
© The American University in Cairo
LL/28765
This photograph was included in the exhibition "Van Leo, un fotografo armeno al Cairo" at the Castello di San Giusto, Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte, Piazza della Cattedrale, 3, Trieste, Italy (15 March - 25 May 2008)
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Exhibition: Van Leo: An Armenian Photographer in Cairo
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| | Mar 17, 2013 | Josef Sudek | | | |
Happy birthday to Josef Sudek
1896, 17 March - 1976, 15 September
Czech photographer who took photographs during the First World War (1914-1918). His career after that produced a remarkable body of brooding black and white images that have a dark and almost spiritual side to them. He is widely referred to as the ‘Poet of Prague‘.
Josef Sudek
Monumental plaque on the main street in Prague outside the courtyard where Josef Sudek had his studio
2006
Color print
Private collection
Courtesy of Stuart Alexander
LL/16200
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