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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Richard Avedon: Portraits
All of the photographs in the exhibition are courtesy of Richard Avedon.
Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art commented: "Richard Avedon's work now takes its proper place in the larger history of art, representi...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Richard Avedon in the American West
He
introduced a new emphasis into portrait photography by unveiling
unexpected facets of well-known and unknown individuals against a
plain white background. A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an
emotion or fact is transformed into a ph...
Museum of Fine Art Houston: The Public Portrait:
Photographs by Edward Steichen, Richard
Avedon, and Irving Penn
American photographers Edward Steichen
(1879 -- 1973), Richard Avedon (born 1923),
and Irving Penn (born 1917) are among the
...
High Museum: Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection
The High Museum of Art is the
only venue for these exhibitions. Chorus of Light:
Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection features
approximately 320 masterpieces by renowned photographers,
including Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, D...
Photographers' Gallery: Milton H. Greene: Portraits of an Era
Along with Irving Penn, Richard Avedon and Cecil Beaton, Greene helped to turn
fashion photography into an art form. However, it was his photographs of Hollywood's
greatest icons of the 1950s, from Marilyn Monroe to Elizabeth Taylor and Frank ...
Art Institute of Chicago: The Human Form Divine: The Body as Seen by the Camera
This exhibition includes approximately 60 photographs spanning a century and a half, most of them gelatin silver, with some albumen prints and Pictorialist work, as well a number of chromogenic color prints. Exploring the range of attitudes and f...
Phoenix Art Museum: Keeping Shadows: Photography from the Worcester Art Museum
From daguerreotypes to digital prints, it includes masterworks by such innovators and icons of the medium as Alfred Stieglitz, Matthew Brady, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eadweard Muybridge, Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Cecil Beaton, Walker...
Moderna Museet: Sten Didrik Bellander. Photographs 1939-1999
Sten Didrik Bellander's (b.1921) photographs have a liberal,
humanistic consciousness as well as a pronounced sense of
form and thorough mastery of technique. His stil...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Seeing Things: Photographing Objects 1850-2001
It features many of the greatest practitioners of photography,
including Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William
Eggleston, Helen Chadwick as well as prominent younger photographers. Natural Things
...
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford: Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000
Open City: Street Photographs 1950-2000 begins at the point at which photographers began to make work that was in part a reaction to this established vocabulary, and at the same time a continuation and extension of its tradition. The exhibition w...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection
This survey of over 150 works tracks the history of the medium during the most vital age of American photography, from the invention of the hand-held camera through the age of digitally manipulated photos. It includes rare images, vintage prints a...
Delaware Art Museum: An American Century of Photography: From Dry-plate to Digital, The Hallmark Photographic Collection
San Jose Museum of Art: Girlfriend! The Barbie Sessions by David Levinthal
For the Barbie Series, Levinthal returns
Barbie to her fashion model roots.
Executed with a professional stylist and
dresser on the set, Levinthal's
...
Center for Creative Photography: The Ansel Adams Centennial: Classic Images and A Portrait of Ansel Adams
The Ansel Adams Centennial is drawn from the Ansel Adams Archive at CCP, the
largest repository of his work in the world. The archive includes voluminous
correspondence, book layouts and manuscripts, ledgers, periodicals and
monographs, camera...
High Museum: Ansel Adams and His Legacy
In addition to the "Classic Images" collection, this exhibition will focus on the important legacy of Ansel Adams' influence on the photographers that followed him. A selection of works in the section entitled "Ansel Adams and His Legacy" will f...
Center for Creative Photography: Our Quarter Century:
The University of Arizona's Center For Creative Photography Turns Twenty-Five
The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona, a world-renowned museum and
research institution dedicated to photography as an art form and cultural record, is commemorating its 25th Anniversary with
special exhibitions,...
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