6.30.2012

PHOTOGRAPHER'S i MAGAZINE: iPad Only

PHOTOGRAPHERS i MAGAZINE Issue #3
Cover by Steve McCurry

“Mallon’s work harkens back to the heroic industrial landscapes of Margaret Bourke-White and Charles Sheeler, who glorified American steel and found art in its industrial muscle and smoke during the Great Depression.”–David Schonauer


Issue #3 for iPad
includes Steve McCurry Retrospective, Stephen Mallon Reclamation Projects, Joyce Tenneson, Stephen Wilkes, Dave Beckerman, Thom Hogan, Roger Pring, Lara Jade, Simon Bond, Carl Heilman II, Adam Juniper, Brooke Shaden, Michael Freeman, John Beardsworth, Nancy Brown, Richard Hood, Grahm Davis. Download iPad app: bit.ly/Lvueox

6.21.2012

LAWRENCE SCHILLER | Photographs at Steven Kasher Gallery through June 30

Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand on the set of "Let's Make Love, 1960"
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Marilyn Monroe, 1962
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Marilyn Monroe and Wally Cox.
Monroe's 36th Birthday Party. June 1st, 1962
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.

Self-Portrait, Lawrence Schiller, 2012
Wiener/Schiller Archives

Lawrence Schiller began his career as a successful photojournalist with Look, Life, Paris Match, making a name for himself with exclusive photographs of Marilyn Monroe, many taken on the set of her unfinished last film, George Cukor’s Something’s Got To Give, 1962.

"I had three Gods in my life in Photography. One was Yousuf Karsh, one was W. Eugene Smith and one was Dick Avedon. There was another one who was a kind of semi-God, which was Hiro, who was Dick’s assistant for a lot of years...he did extraordinary work."

Lawrence Schiller's exquisite exhibition
Marilyn & Me

Steven Kasher Gallery


"...a contact sheet she killed all except the one frame"
Contact Sheet, Marilyn Monroe "Let’s Make Love,"1960
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York.

Let’s Make Love, Marilyn Monroe, 1960.
Photo by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc.
Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

"With the precision of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching memoir. Revealing and readable, it’s a book I couldn’t put down." —Tina Brown

"In the new book (Marilyn & Me: A Memoir in Words & Photographs, Taschen Books 2012), there are at least thirty images that came from the shooting for Look Magazine. I’m not exaggerating, until last year I had never looked at that shooting since the day the film was sent into Look Magazine and Marilyn approved the contact sheets. They went into the Look Library, I owned the copyright. Look ran one picture of mine, some with Bob Vose, some with Guy Villet and John Bryson, who was a God to me. I just never looked at it. Now I look at it and I come up with this image, the first picture I ever shot of her. This picture [above] was never published; it’s on the cover of the Talese book (Marilyn & Me, Nan A. Talese/Random House). It comes from a contact sheet she killed all except the one frame. She said to me as I’m shooting, “Oh you’ll never get a good picture from that angle. Go over there where the light will be better and I’ll show you what a good picture is.” Then she turns and that’s that. Over fifty-two years I never looked at this contact sheet..." as told to me in Le Journal de la Photographie. Read the Interview with Lawrence Schiller here.

6.16.2012

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota

My Dakota (Radius, 2012)
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Rearview Mirror
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Blackbirds
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

Storm Light
Photograph©Rebecca Norris Webb

REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: My Dakota
Photography and text by Rebecca Norris Webb
Edited with Alex Webb


"In 2005, Rebecca Norris Webb set out to photograph her home state of South Dakota, a sparsely populated frontier state on the Great Plains with more buffalo, pronghorn, mule deer and prairie dogs than people. It’s a land of powwows and rodeos, a corn palace and buffalo roundups. Dominated by space and silence, South Dakota’s harsh and beautiful landscape is sometimes prey to brutal wind and extreme weather. The next year, however, everything changed for Norris Webb, when one of her brothers died unexpectedly of heart failure. “For months,” she writes in the afterword to this volume, “one of the few things that eased my unsettled heart was the landscape of South Dakota…I began to wonder — does loss have its own geography?” My Dakota — which interweaves her spare text and lyrical photographs — is a small intimate book about the West and its weathers, and an elegy for a lost brother." –Radius Books

Weather
Ricco Maresca Gallery, NY
June 21 - August 17, 2012

6.12.2012

CENTRAL PARK: A Group Portrait, Leica Gallery

Group of Bears, Central Park, 1993
Photograph (c)Laurent Girard

CENTRAL PARK: A Group Portrait
June 8 - August 4
Leica Gallery • 670 B'way • New York


Bruce Davidson • Elliot Erwitt • Ralph Gibson • Saul Leiter • Mary Ellen Mark • Nicholas Vreeland • Mio Nakamura • Arlene Gottfried • and more

6.08.2012

MARILYN MONROE: Photographed by Lawrence Schiller at Steven Kasher

Marilyn By Lawrence Schiller on La Lettre (click here). Photographs by Lawrence Schiller, © Polaris Communications, Inc., All Rights Reserved, Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

"Lawrence Schiller's Exhibition of over fifty iconic images of Marilyn Monroe—many of which have been newly discovered in his archives, opened at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York last week, his first solo show in the U.S. Schiller met Monroe when he was just a 23 year old photojournalist. He describes meeting Marilyn for the first time, "I was scared shitless. I‘d never photographed somebody who had been photographed by every photographer in the world. I learned very quickly that Marilyn knew more about photography than I did...She could look anyway she wanted." These exclusive photographs of Monroe show her as "self-aware, in control of her image, yet fragile and vulnerable, and uniquely touching." La Lettre de la Photographie

6.07.2012

LISA LEONE: Then @HVW8 A+D Gallery

Wyclef and Lauren Hill - 1993 East Harlem NYC
Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Fabel and Wiggles - 1990 NYC
Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Photograph (c) Lisa Leone

Before Hip-Hop was an Industry, it was a Community...
Lisa Leone Photographs | Then

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6.05.2012

MITRA TABRIZIAN: Mise-En-Scenes

City, London 2008, 48 x 98.5 in / 122 x 250 cm, Edition of 5, 2 Aps
Mitra Tabrizian in collaboration with Zadoc Nava

Untitled 2009, 42 x 121 in / Edition of 5, 2 Aps
Mitra Tabrizian in collaboration with Zadoc Nava

Leila Heller Gallery
Mitra Tabrizian Photographs June 7 - July 7
Seven Monumental Photographs taken in Iran and England