HOWARD GREENBERG: The Collection and Interview

Nahui Olin, 1923 by Edward Weston

Howard Greenberg Collection

Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona, 1940 

by Dorothea Lange / Howard Greenberg Collection

© Library of Congress

Madrid, Spain, 1933 by Henri Cartier-Bresson

(3.14 x 4.72") Howard Greenberg Collection

"I have the first print of one of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s greatest pictures ever, and it’s a wonderful little print on beautiful paper, and went through the hands of Edward Steichen. How much more could you want?" – Howard Greenberg, read more: L'Oeil de la Photographie

Boy, 1950 by Saul Leiter. Howard Greenberg Collection

"There are millions of pictures of people looking out windows. Leon Levinstein did so many great ones and other people did great ones. There’s something about that picture and the print. For me, it’s got this haunting quality and it’s very Saul in its sensitivity"

– Howard Greenberg, read more: L'Oeil de la Photographie 

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"Masterpieces from the Howard Greenberg Collection," photographs from the private collection of Howard Greenberg, owner of New York’s Howard Greenberg Gallery, one of the most prestigious photography galleries in the world, are on exhibition at the Joods Historisch Museum / Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. Greenberg has been a leader in the modern photography market, establishing himself early on as one of the pillars of the New York photography scene for over three decades.

This extraordinary exhibition originated at the Musée de l’Elysée Photography Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland to critical acclaim. It was followed with great success at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris (jointly produced by both) and then traveled to the Hungarian House of Photography in the Mai Manó House in Budapest, bringing us up to the current show at the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam until January 11, 2015.

Masterpieces from the Howard Greenberg Collection
Joods Historisch Museum / Jewish Historical Museum
Through January 11, 2015 / Amsterdam

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Read the entire Interview with Howard Greenberg

here: L'Oeil de la Photographie

Howard Greenberg, September 2014

Photograph © Elizabeth Paul Avedon

LUCIA GANIEVA: Museum Hermitage, Amsterdam

Ermitazhniki, Attendants of the Hermitage, portraits taken at The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia of the Museum Docent's with their favorite work of Art, on view at the Museum Hermitage, Amsterdam now thru March, 18th, 2011. Photograph © Lucia Ganieva/ All rights reserved

from the series "Iron Mules"
Photograph © Lucia Ganieva/ All rights reserved

from the series "The Sunset of Fame"
Photograph © Lucia Ganieva/ All rights reserved

Lucia Ganieva

Ermitazhniki/Attendants of the Hermitage
Museum Hermitage, Amsterdam
September 22 - March, 18th, 2011

INEZ VAN LAMSWEERDE & VINOODH MATADIN: FOAM Fotografiemuseum

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Me Kissing Vinoodh (Passionately), 1999
Photograph©Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin/All rights reserved

Bjork (Poisson-Nageur)
Photograph©Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin/All rights reserved

Clint Eastwood – The New York Times Magazine, 2005
Photograph©Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin/All rights reserved

INEZ van LAMSWEERDE & VINOODH MATADIN

PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING: PHOTOGRAPHS 1985-2010
FOAM FOTOGRAFIEMUSEUM AMSTERDAM
June 25-Sept 15, 2010

"Dubiousness is at the base of practically every image they make. Their work is ambiguous in every sense of the word and balances deliberately on the thin rope between fashion and art, perverting both worlds, mirroring the strangeness of everyday life through an extreme enlargement of a singular part."

Amsterdam's Foam FotografieMuseum exhibition, Pretty Much Everything, spans 25 years of work of the world famous photographic duo, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Inez and Vinoodh began their work together in 1986 in Amsterdam. Now, 25 years later, with their campaigns for fashion houses such as YSL, Chanel, Balmain, Gucci, Louis Vuitton and Chloe, and with regular publications in W Magazine, Vogue and The New York Times, they are among the few artists that have successfully crossed the line drawn between fashion and art and have managed to simultaneously maintain careers in both fields. Art, fashion and portrait works all exist next to each other in the exhibition. By disregarding any chronological order the combination of images are based on personal, formal, social, political and intuitive associations that show the way the artists have lived with the images for 25 years. Anthology Pretty Much Everything (Steidl)

RIJKSMUSEUM: Radiant Madonnas April 21

A restorer works on the painting Ariadne on Naxos (16th century), by the Italian painter Girolamo dai Libri, in the studio of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Photograph©EPA/MARCEL ANTONISSE.

The photograph above isn't part of any photo contest or fine art exhibition, but I love the whole scene. It arrived via the artdaily blog where you can read the entire piece.

"The Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, has launched an ambitious restoration program. Masterpieces specially selected from their collection will undergo an intensive restoration process to ensure that they shine like never before by the time the museum’s main building re-opens in 2013...The initial results of this work go on display April 21, 2010 in the Philips Wing where the Rijksmuseum will be exhibiting the Radiant Madonnas – three round Italian Renaissance paintings that have been restored with the help of the latest research methods and will be presented as ‘reborn acquisitions from the museum’s own collection’."

The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Contemporary Dutch Artists: The Dutch As Seen in NYC and
Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin and Eugene van Lamsweerde