MAGDALENA SOLÉ: NY Leica Soho Store

 Boy with Fighting Cock, Cuba 

Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

Gust of Wind, Viñales, 2013

Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

MAGDALENA SOLÉ
November 14 — January 14
Curated by Elizabeth Avedon

  
Presenting work from Japan, Mississippi Delta, Cuba, and Brazil 

Opening Reception November 14th,  6-8pm.

 Leica Store Soho
460 W Broadway New York NY 10012

MAGDALENA SOLE: The Leica Gallery, New York

June Rhodes at the Hot Spot, Jonestown

Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

 Gage Copeland (Baby), Stoney Pruitt, and Darrell Copeland with Brownie

Lambert, MS, 2011 Photograph (c) Magdalena Solé

MAGDALENA SOLE

The Mississippi Delta

Curated by Elizabeth Avedon

The Leica Gallery, New York

January 11 – February 23  

 Top: Rene Perez and Magdalena Solé

 Hanging the Show Before, During and After

Leica Gallery, 670 B'way, NY

More about Magdalena Sole's project in Mississippi here

www.solepictures.com

Women Photographers with their Cameras

O'Keeffe with her Leica, Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1966
© Todd Webb Courtesy of Evans Gallery and
Estate of Todd & Lucille Webb, Portland, Maine
www.toddwebbphotographs.com

Dorothea Lange and the Zeiss Jewell Camera, 1937
Courtesy of the Scott Nichols Gallery
Copyright © Rondal Partridge
www.rondalpartridge.com

Dorothy Bohm at 18 years old, Manchester, 1942
Copyright ©Dorothy Bohm Archive
www.dorothybohm.com

“I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind about it - how good or bad or indifferent it is. After that the critics can write what they please. I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
– Georgia O'Keefe

Women Photographers With Their Cameras
was entirely inspired by Alan Griffiths
Luminous Lint

NYPH11: Elisabeth Biondi + Enrico Bossan Curate "Photography Now"

Irina Werning, Mi Pelo Largo Querido
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

A Yin, Mongolia Transformed
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Balazs Gardi, Basetrack: One-Eight
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Balazs Gardi, Basetrack: One-Eight
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Jessica Hines, My Brother's War
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Jessica Hines, My Brother's War
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Martine Fougeron, Tête-à-Tête
Subjective/Objective curated by Elisabeth Biondi

Curators Elisabeth Biondi + Enrico Bossan

New York Photo Festival 2011
81 Front Street - Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

PHOTOGRAPHY NOW: engaged, personal, and vital
Curated by Elisabeth Biondi and Enrico Bossan
"The state of documentary photography today"

Subjective/Objective, May 11 - 15
An Exhibition Curated by Elisabeth Biondi

"Subjective/Objective argues that documentary photography today is remarkably vibrant and creatively thriving, despite the bleak financial picture and vanishing support from a publishing industry challenged by digital media. Biondi has selected photographers who refract reality through their own distinct visions, often venturing into a more personal visual language. Subjective/Objective includes Alejandro Chaskielberg, Stefano De Luigi, Carolyn Drake, Martine Fougeron, Balazs Gardi, Jessica Hines, Ethan Levitas, Irina Werning and A Yin."

Hope: between dream and reality
Curated by Enrico Bossan
(not shown above)

"Hope: between dream and reality, features the work of young photographers who, in his words, “neither provide a faithful representation of reality nor create an illusion, but who have impressed me with their ability to capture the essential aspects of life.” Artists include Olivia Arthur, Clemence de Limburg, Matt Eich, Simona Ghizzoni, Andrea Gjestvang, Sean Lee, Margo Ovcharenko, Andy Spyra, Mikhael Subotzky, Ali Taptik and Peter van Agtmael."

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Multimedia works by artists CIA DE FOTO and Ben Lowy, and six viewing booths featuring work by various industry luminaries. 30 Washington St.

Also at NYPH11:
The FotoVisura Latin American Pavilion
111 Front Street

SlideLuck Pot Show XVI
Curated by Whitney Johnson
May 14, 5:30-10PM, 38 Water Str, Dumbo

Win-Initivative / Live-On Set Photo Shoots
Andrew Eccles, Sebastian Smith, Sarah Small, Brett Beyer, Gemma Fleming...
NYPH11 Festival Headquarters / 12-7 PM
1 Main Street - Dumbo - Brooklyn NY

Leica Booth: Borrow a Leica M9

Photo enthusiasts may borrow a Leica M9 digital rangefinder camera free up to four hours. Each day there's a set theme, challenging participants to capture the best photo that embodies that topic. Winners will receive a special Leica prize. Read more on LeicaRumors.com 1 Main Street - Dumbo

NYPH11 Lecture Series Schedule Website

Martine Fougeron
May 14, 11AM, 38 Water St
Andy Adams
May 14, 1PM, 38 Water St

Jessica Hines Lecture
May 15, 11AM, 38 Water St

May 15, 4PM

An Intimate Screening and Discussion
Love and War Exhibition
Moderated by Adriana Teresa, Curator
The FotoVisura Pavilion 111 Front Street, Suite 212

TOD PAPAGEORGE: Opera Città in Rome

TOD PAPAGEORGE - OPERA CITTA' | PUNCTUM PRESS

Photographs Copyright (c) Tod Papageorge /All Rights Reserved

TOD PAPAGEORGE | OPERA CITTA'
MACRO The City of Rome Museum of Modern Art
September 23 to October 24, 2010

This past summer, Tod Papageorge, the Walker Evans Professor of Photography and Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale School of Art, was invited to Rome to work for a month on the Rome Commission. (Josef Koudelka and Martin Parr, among others, were commissioned during its nine-year history). The end result is a solo exhibition of about 30 prints, made with a digital Leica M9, to open on 23rd of September in the City of Rome Museum of Modern Art. A small, beautifully produced accordion-style book, OPERA CITTA, was published by Marco Delogu of Punctum Press in Rome to accompany the exhibition.

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"Tod Papageorge (born 1940) is an American art photographer whose career began in the New York City street photography movement of the 1960s. Papageorge started taking photographs in 1962 as an English literature major at the University of New Hampshire. He is the recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and two NEA Visual Artists Fellowships. His work is in public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 1979, Papageorge has directed the graduate photography department at the Yale University School of Art, where his students have included Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Lois Conner, Abelardo Morell, Andrew Bush, Susan Lipper, Gregory Crewdson, An-My Le, Anna Gaskell, and Katy Grannan. In the summer of 2007, Steidl published Passing Through Eden, a collection of images he took over 25 years in Central Park. In the fall of 2007, Aperture published American Sports, 1970: Or How We Spent the War in Vietnam, a volume of photographs Papageorge took during his 1970 Guggenheim Fellowship." Papageorge also spent six weeks in Rome last summer as the American Academy in Rome Photographer in Residence.

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The Rome International Festival of Photography (FotoGrafia Festival Internazionale di Roma - IX Edizione.) The theme of the ninth FotoGrafia Festival is Futurspectives, “Can Photography Interpret The Future?” (Read more about the Festival here and here.) Visit the Testaccio branch of MACRO (the City of Rome Museum of Modern Art).

ANNE FRANK: The Leica Photographs of Otto Frank. Leica Gallery, New York

Anne and Margot Frank, The Netherlands. July 1938
Photograph (c)AFS/AFF, Amsterdam/Basel

Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

Anne Frank (2nd from left) with her friends on her 10th birthday.

The Leica Photographs of Otto Frank

"As an amateur photographer, Otto Frank focuses on a single theme: the life and times of his family, wife Edith and daughters Anne and Margot. Nothing we see in the snapshots of daily life captured by Otto Frank – one of the first users of the 35mm Leica camera - reveals the horrors the Frank Family will later endure."

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"Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family, along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an annex of rooms above her father’s office in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others living with them were deported to Nazi concentration camps. In March of 1945, Anne Frank died at Bergen-Belsen. She was fifteen years old.

Her diary, saved during the war, was first published in 1947. Today, The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world."

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"Through a unique partnership with the Leica Gallery, The Anne Frank Center USA presents Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album on view from September 22, 2010 through October 30, 2010.

Featuring 70 black-and-white photographs, many of which have only recently been discovered, this exhibition provides viewers with an intimate glimpse into Anne Frank’s life as a young girl."

Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album
The Leica Photographs of Otto Frank

Leica Gallery 670 Broadway New York

Opening Reception: Sept 21, 2010
Exhibition Dates: Sept 22, 2010 – Oct 30, 2010

OSKAR BARNACK: Revolutionized Photography

Oskar Barnack's Ur-Leica
"The small format 35mm camera created a revolution in photography"

Hohenzollernbrücke, Cologne
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

Eselstreppchen, 1914
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

Flood, Langgasse, 1920
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

Eisenmarkt
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

Self Portrait, 1914
Photograph (c) Oskar Barnack

"Oskar Barnack's genius idea of creating the small format 35mm camera created a revolution in photography"

Oskar Barnack wanted to move away from the traditional, heavy plate cameras then used for most photography. As early as 1905, he had the idea of reducing the negative format and enlarging the photographs at a later stage. Ten years later Barnack developed the Ur-Leica, the first successful small-format camera. The photographs created in 1914 were of outstanding quality for the time. Delayed due to World War I the first LEICA did not enter series production until 1924 and introduced to the public in 1925.(more about the history of the Leica here).

Many thanks to New York Leica Gallery Director's, Rose A. Deutsch and Jay R. Deutsch, for introducing me to the Leica creator. Oskar Barnack Room, Leica Gallery, NY

LEICA GALLERY: Oskar Barnack Room

Oskar Barnack invented the Leica in 1925
The Oskar Barnack Room, Leica Gallery, New York

Click images to enlarge

The Oskar Barnack Room. (top left) Breslau, 1942, Photograph by Zdenek Tmej; (bottom left) Sold: Lovers In Smoke, Photograph by Frank Stewart. Three Photographs by Harry Weber (center) Opera Ball, Vienna, 2001 (top right) A Lippizzaner, Spanish Riding School, Vienna, 1958 and (bottom right) Lighting the Sabbath Candles, Vienna, 1995.

Molly, 1993 (top) and Pee Pee Rose Angelina, 1987
Photographs by Robin Schwartz

Leica Gallery, New York

New York's Leica Gallery Director's, Rose A. Deutsch and Jay R. Deutsch, are celebrating the Leica Gallery going into it's 17th year. The gallery, run in partnership with Leica Camera and closely linked to the company, exhibits both traditional and modern photojournalism. Since its foundation, it's housed more than 115 exhibitions, including work by renowned photographers such as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ralph Gibson, Leonard Freed, Susan Meiselas, Inge Morath, Alex Webb, Erich Hartmann, Karl Lagerfeld and most recently, Antonin Kratochvil.

Their current exhibition, The Marcus Family: Three Generations of New York's Elite Society and Wedding Photographers, is a joyful show about happy occasions. The Marcus Studio being the Bentley of wedding and party photography, this exhibition of photographs from their archives spans three generations of New York's most notable social events. June 11- August 7

Oskar Barnack Room:
"Oskar Barnack's genius idea of creating the small format 35mm camera created a revolution in photography in 1925, paving the way for the birth of the Leica Legend. His diminutive, lightweight LEICA A offered a new, undreamed-of freedom in reportage and artistic photography. From that point to the present day, Leica has had a profound influence on our view of the world we live in."

Always interesting to visit is the revolving gallery of images for sale in the Leica Galleries Oskar Barnack Room. Most photographs are 11 x 14"or 12 x 16" gelatin silver and signed by the photographer. Images for sale include photographers Oskar Barnack, Leonard Freed, Bohdan Holomicek, Inge Morath, Susan Meiselas, Jan Reich, and Evelyn Richter.

The Leica Gallery is located in an historic building in Greenwich Village that is listed in the records of the American Institute of Architects. 670 Broadway, Suite 500, New York, NY

GARRY WINOGRAND: 1974 Podcast

Central Park Zoo, New York City 1964
Photograph © Estate of Garry Winogrand

World's Fair, New York 1964
Photograph © Estate of Garry Winogrand

Listen: 1974 PODCAST
"This is the Garry Winogrand I remember.
Worth listening to all the way through." –Tod Papageorge