Snaptu: FROM THE CITY // PAVEL STECHA AND ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ

(Photo Credit: Prague, November 20, 1989 by Pavel Stecha) (Photo Credit: Meudon, 1928 by André Kertész) From the City, an exhibition on display in the...

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Magnum

This week Magnum Photos announced a landmark partnership under which it's New York Print Archive Collection containing nearly 200,000 original press prints will be preserved, cataloged and made accessible by the Ransom Center at The University of Texas.

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Penn at Christies

NEW YORK—Christie’s has announced plans to auction 67 Irving Penn photographs from the collection of his former assistant, Patricia McCabe. McCabe received the photographs over the course of her more than 30 years with Penn, and many of the prints feature special inscriptions to her.

Penn died last year at the age of 92, after a career in which he established himself as one of America’s premiere photographers, crafting iconic fashion photos for magazines like Vogue, where he began his career in the 1940s, and shooting memorable portraits of ordinary people, artists, and celebrities, such as husband-and-wife painters Jacob Lawrence and Gwen Knight, composer Igor Stravinsky, and supermodel Kate Moss.

While buyers will have to wait until April 14 to bid on works from McCabe’s collection, they can begin to whet their appetite at the end of this month, when the photographs go on display at Christie’s headquarters in New York.

Snaptu: The magic of a Magnum photograph

The world's greatest photo archive, which has just been bought by founder of Dell computers, contains some of the most famous images of the 20th...

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Traje de Gimnasia| Gymnastics Suit 1980
from 'Thirty' by Zelda Cheatle Press, May2000

LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum announced today a gift of 52 photographs by acclaimed Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002) from his compelling work in Mexico from the 1920s to the 1970s. The photographs are a gift from Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser of Los Angeles, who have continued their tradition of generous giving to the Getty since 2000, bolstering the Museum’s already stellar holdings of photographs by the artist to 247.

Over the past ten years, the Getty Museum’s Alvarez Bravo holdings have grown steadily through regular donations by Mr. Greenberg and Ms. Steinhauser. During this time, they have contributed one hundred works by the artist, as well as sixty-one pictures by Alvarez Bravo's one-time student, Graciela Iturbide.

Mr. Greenberg and Ms. Steinhauser have also assisted the museum in building its collection of significant post-war American photography with major gifts of work by Eliot Porter, William Eggleston, and Carrie Mae Weems. In addition to their thoughtful donations to the Museum’s photographs department, they are active members of the Getty Museum's Photographs Council, which Ms. Steinhauser chaired from 2007 to 2009.

"Dan and Susan have been extremely generous donors to the Getty Museum, both in works of art and in the commitment of time to support our Department of Photographs,” says Michael Brand, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum. “This most recent donation of fifty-two photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo not only strengthens our collection of his work, but greatly enhances our holdings of photographs from Mexico. We cannot thank Dan and Susan enough for helping us build our extraordinary collection and being such good friends of the Museum.”

Adds Judith Keller, acting senior curator of photographs, “With this noteworthy donation, the Getty Museum now has the largest collection of photographs by Alvarez Bravo in the U.S.”

AIPAD : The Photography Show

Contemporary, modern and 19th century photographs, and new media.

The AIPAD Photography Show New York, March 18 through 21, 2010, is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography. Add the 2010 Show to your date book because you can't afford to miss the most prestigious international photography show of the new decade.

Gala Benefit Preview
Get an exclusive sneak peak of the 2010 Show at The AIPAD Photography Show New York Gala Benefit Preview, March 17, 2010. The Gala Preview benefits the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. To purchase a ticket to the Gala Benefit, please visit www.moma.org/aipad2010.

Admission to the 2010 Show
Admission is a small price to pay for the most significant photography show in its class. $40 will get you a run-of-Show pass, which includes the AIPAD 2010 Membership Directory and Illustrated Catalogue. Or, take advantage of a one-day pass, $25, and see firsthand the finest in photography art. Visit http://www.aipad.com/photoshow/new-york/ for more details, including the Show hours.

The Ideal Venue
The AIPAD Photography Show New York, taking place at the Park Avenue Armory on 67th Street in New York City, will feature more than 70 of the world's leading fine art photography galleries and includes international galleries from Paris, London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, the Czech Republic and Japan.

Special Events
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of The AIPAD Photography Show New York, the 2010 Show will provide vital information from the experts themselves: curators, dealers, artists and critics. Collectors, photo connoisseurs and up-and-coming artists will receive vital information about the art of collecting photographs at these special educational events taking place on Saturday, March 20, 2010. Please remember that seating is limited and available on a first-come, first served basis to attendees with run-of-Show passes or Saturday one-day passes. Download the education program for more details.

Only The AIPAD Photography Show New York can hold the title of the best photography art show in the world, and we look forward to seeing you there in March!

Going retro to be creative : Darren Holliday

Photo : Dog, Medium format negative by Anthony Jones

New technologies do not make better art: a new generation of artists has turned to equipment older than themselves.

The news that a company called...

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