New York lost one of his great city-dweller : Irving Penn died yesterday morning in his apartement. He was 92 years old.
Today Christie’s had an auction which had some of his photos that went from $17,500 to $72 000. RB ©Irving Penn

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Last night, the opening of Joel Meyerowitz’s Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks was held at the great upper East Side Museum of the City of New York.NYC is incredibly green. The city has 29 000 acres of parks and green spaces.
Meyerowitz was there, hanging out with people dressed up and [...]

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Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video opens tomorrow. The press preview happened this morning. This year, fashion is showed through image-makers aka contemporary artists … I have to say, the exhibition is confusing because it couldn’t avoid the void of contemporary art. That said I thought Tschape – photo above- has [...]

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NYC holds for the first time The Americans in a museum, the amazing work Robert Frank did in 1955 on the American society. It showed its racism, its scary consumption and its hability to ignore the “ normal” people. Robert Frank’s photos are powerful, they put you right on the face of his subjects and [...]

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Mayor Bloomberg gave Joel Meyerowitz the assignement to take photos of the parks in NYC. Three years and almost 300 photos later,  Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York City Parks is published. An exhibition will be held at the Museum of the City, october 9, 2009 to March 7, 2010. Meyerowitz’s shots are [...]

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It’s Long Island, not Manhattan which can be a problem, yet Julian Goldstein and Kat Kohl ’s work is worth checking out.
Goldstein’s scrutinizes the surroundings of his New York. Kat Kohl explores the shaping of light and shadow through the use of architectonic forms. RB©Julian Goldstein
The exhibition opens today and go through september 5th.

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David Goldblatt’s exhibition, Intersections intersected, opened tonight at the New Museum. This South African photographer has been documenting the political changings of his country for more than fifhty years and won in 2006 the Oscar of photography : the Hasselblad Foundation International Award. He received an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from the University of the [...]

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Sexy and the City
New York Photographs
July 9, 2009–August 28, 2009
is the title of the exhibition that opened tonight at Yossi Milo  Gallery. New York Photographs is the subtitle and the photographers are Merry Alpern, Will Anderson, Diane Arbus, Alvin Baltrop, Bruce Davidson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Mitch Epstein, Louis Faurer, Leonard Freed, Nan Goldin, Gail Albert Halaban, Charles Harbutt, [...]

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© Laurence Muller

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Last fall, I met Stephen Shore while his photos were part of the exhibtions held by the Chanel Mobile in Central Park. He told me about his first images in the mid-1960s when he was hanging out at the Factory. He was then 17 and was getting in the photo world. Gallery 303 in Chelsea presents his [...]

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