CHRISTIE'S PHOTOGRAPHY AUCTION : Previews March 31 – April 2, 2019

Patti Smith, 1978

Photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe

from a Portfolio of Twelve Photogravures

by Roy DeCarava, 1956

 Lungile Cleo Dladla, 2011

Photograph by Zanele Muholi

 

 Siqourney Weaver, 1983

Photograph by Helmut Newton

Reflecting, 2006

Photograph by Mona Kuhn

Time Out and Before the Storm from Domestic Vacations, 2005

Photographs by Julie Blackmon

DPRK 001, Li Min Gyong, 

Pyongyang Schoolchildren's Palace, North Korea, 2006

Photograph by Hiroshi Watanabe

Identity #1, 2014

Photograph by Ruud Van Empel

My School of Visual Arts Photography students in front of 

Photographs from a Private Collection

Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs at Christie’s 

working with clients at the Auction Preview, March 29, 2019

Photographer Rania Matar with Darius Himes, 

Christie’s International Head of Photographs

Shells 6S, 1927

Photograph by Edward Weston

Kiki Silhouette, Positive, 1922-1938

Rayograph by Man Ray

If you love photography, do not miss Christie’s Photography Auction Preview! It is absolutely magical … over 300 photographs span the history of photography from salt prints to the most contemporary images and glorious prints from 3 Collections!

Daydreaming: 

Photographs from the Goldstein Collection

The Face of the Century: 

Photographs from a Private Collection

Photographs

Christie’s International Photography

20 Rockefeller Center (49th St), NY, NY

On View:

30 Mar, 10am - 5pm

31 Mar, 1pm - 5pm

1 Apr, 10am - 5pm

Auction: Tuesday, April 2, 2019

ARNOLD NEWMAN : ONE HUNDRED

Pablo Picasso, Vallauris, France, 1954

© Arnold Newman

Eikoh Hosoe, 1971 © Arnold Newman

Georgia O'Keefe, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, 1968

© Arnold Newman

 Yasuo Kuniyoshi, New York City, 1941

© Arnold Newman

Helen Levitt, 1944 © Arnold Newman

Georgia O'Keefe, NYC, 1944 © Arnold Newman

Arnold Newman: One Hundred

"Arnold Newman (1918-2006) was born in New York City. He began his career in photography in 1938 working at chain portrait studios in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and West Palm Beach, and immediately began working in abstract and documentary photography on his own. In June of 1941, Beaumont Newhall of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Alfred Stieglitz “discovered” him, and he was given an exhibition with at the A.D. Gallery in September. In 1945 his Philadelphia Museum of Art one-man show, Artists Look Like This, attracted nationwide attention. Newman’s new approach to portraiture began its influence through key publications in America and abroad. Exhibitions and purchases of his work by major museums quickly followed." 

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"Published to coincide with the centennial of Arnold Newman’s birth, Arnold Newman: One Hundred offers a celebratory look at 100 of the photographer’s most provocative and memorable images. Arnold Newman (1918–2006) is generally acknowledged as the pioneer of the environmental portrait. He spent time exploring the essence of his subjects, finding the best environment to express who they were, and integrating them with their work into compositions that referenced the work. He structured his own visual language, setting up photographs with jaunty geometric grace and inventing visual elements where none existed thus adding complexity and depth to his portraits. His sense of tension, rhythm, and balance, guides the eye through his command of composition."

"The book interweaves the portraits with a selection of Newman’s earlier abstractions and still lifes and thus illuminates the photographer’s development and creative process. The carefully composed formal elements of his early images are echoed in his portraiture and demonstrate his understanding and assimilation of the modernist and cubist ideas that were manifest in the work of many of the artists he photographed and befriended.” 

– Howard Greenberg Gallery

"Arnold Newman: One Hundred" 

Cover: William de Kooning, New York, 1959

ARNOLD NEWMAN: ONE HUNDRED

Photography by Arnold Newman

Introduction by Gregory Heisler

Hardcover / 10 x 12 inches
100 images / 224 pages
Radius Books, 2018

Co-published with Howard Greenberg Gallery
Printed in Italy

Original prints available through

 Howard Greenberg Gallery

#BestPhotoBooks2018

All text courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery

DOUG KEYES: Portrait at KLOMPCHING

Martin Schoeller (2014)

by Doug Keyes courtesy KLOMPCHING Gallery

Chuck Close B&W (2014)
by Doug Keyes courtesy KLOMPCHING Gallery

Portrait

"There are many reasons artists have used the portrait as a means of expression throughout history but Keyes is most interested in the cognitive impression left after seeing the work. What is the image in our mind before we consider the idea behind the work? Is it a copy of what our eyes perceive in the world? What does the brain actually “see”? Keyes work proposes that the brain creates collections of layered images over time, not individual snapshots of moments like a camera. When we think of a person it’s not a static, flat impression. We live in time and space, always moving, always inputting new data. And this data is never objective, it’s not a collection of precisely copied information; it’s as imperfect as our memory."

"The genesis of this project was the Chuck Close catalog Keyes photographed in 1998 for his Collective Memory series. What emerged in that multiple exposure image were two portraits representing Close’ body of work. In creating the Portrait work, Keyes chose artists because of their potential to influence his thinking about art and portraiture. He sourced the images from books and the Internet, often after experiencing these artists work in person. Using these same original source materials, Keyes chose images he thought would create an overall portrait reflecting each artist’s portrait work. The resulting digitally layered images condense those many individual works in an effort to portray what the mind actually sees over time." –  DougKeyes.net

DOUG KEYES : PORTRAIT

March 5–April 11, 2015

Artist Reception March 5, 6pm–9pm

KLOMPCHING GALLERY 

111 Front Street, Suite 206 | Brooklyn, NY 11201

 

AMY ARBUS: After Images ( two ) Exhibitions

 Nina / After Jeanne, 2012

Photograph © Amy Arbus

Libby / After Therese, 2012
Photograph © Amy Arbus

"I chose portraits that I found emotionally intense 

and heartbreakingly beautiful," says Arbus

 Nina / After Melancholy, 2012
Photograph © Amy Arbus

"Amy Arbus is fearless…Her astonishing and pitch-perfect pictures say as much about the sweetly treasured past of painting as they do about the unpredictably hybrid future of photography." –Brian Wallis, Chief Curator, International Center of Photography

AFTER IMAGES

PHOTOGRAPHS: AMY ARBUS

Amy Arbus is no stranger to portraiture but this latest series takes her work to a new level. These photographs are a discussion of what occurs in the lens between the real, the represented, and how memory influences perception. It is an homage to classic paintings by masters such as Picasso, Modigliani, Cezanne, and Courbet wherein Arbus extends photography's range. Her chiaroscuro lighting and lush colors produce emotionally dark trompe l'oeil portraits in which the live models appear to be trying to escape the confines of the picture.

"Re-enacting a painting requires a very deliberate kind of scrutiny,” says Amy, "It's like dissecting and re-assembling. The challenge for me has been to use extremely soft lighting and to figure out how to represent the sloped shoulders, elongated necks and fingers that don't exist in real life. I was always too intimidated to create portraits in the style of another photographer, yet ironically with this series, in taking liberties from the original, I feel I was able to make my most unique body of work yet. When people first see them, they are convinced they are paintings."

Amy Arbus has published four  books, including the award winning On the Street and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called her most recent book, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in more than 100 hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, People, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, and The Fine Arts Work Center and NORDphotography. Arbus is represented by The Schoolhouse Gallery and The Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts. She has had 24 solo exhibitions worldwide and her photographs are a part of the collection of The National Theater in Norway, The New York Public Library, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. (NYDC/1stdibs)

Books and prints available: Blair Douglas blair@nydc.com + 1stdibs.com

 1STDIBS @ NY DESIGN CENTER

200 Lexington Avenue • 10TH FLOOR • NY NY  

April 2 to 29th

 GRIFFIN MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY

67 Shore Road, Winchester, MA 

Artist Talk: April 12, 7PM

April 9 to June 2

ICP Book Signing: Amy Arbus "After Images"
ICP Store, 1133 Avenue of the Americas
Friday, April 26, 6:00pm–7:30pm  

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And one of my favorite AMY ARBUS books...

 The Fourth Wall * Amy Arbus * Welcome Books

Available here Photo-Eye Book Store

LAURIE LAMBRECHT: Paint at Pulse

Photographer Laurie Lambrecht in front of her latest photographs Paint (#4), 2010 and Paint (#5), 2010 (left) and Roy Lichtenstein series (right), at Rick Wester Fine Art

Roy Lichtenstein in His Studio By Laurie Lambrecht
View on Photo-eye.com

Photographers Laurie Lambrecht and Magdalena Solé

I'm just catching up after a short break from these pages. In early May, Magdalena Solé and I visited Pulse New York, an annual contemporary Art Fair. Photographer Laurie Lambrecht showed us her latest work Paint, portraits of artist Eric Fischl's oil palettes at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Also showing, Joni Sternbach (l); Garry Winogrand (c); Richard Avedon, William S. Burroughs (r), at Rick Wester Fine Art.

Joni Sternbach

SurfLand, Revisited 2006-2011
Rick Wester Fine Art
May 17 - June 23, 2012

Magdalena Solé's New Delta Rising on Photo-eye.com.
Buy a vintage copy of An Interview with Eric Fischl
Photos (c) Elizabeth Avedon. All rights reserved