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Thaddaeus Ropac 27 January—13 March 2024 This exhibition is dedicated to a rarely-seen series of photographs by Irving Penn. Taken in 1967, the carefully composed images are the result of Penn’s collaboration with the Dancers’ Workshop of San Francisco, capturing the groundbreaking work of the American choreographer Anna Halprin. In addition to the photographic series, one of Irving Penn’s rare paintings is also part of the exhibition. Penn captured the dancers in his studio as they re-staged Halprin’s improvisational choreography, The Bath (1966). The group of 14 photographs... read more

*Weegee Autopsy of the Spectacle* Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson January 30 — May 19, 2024 Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid September 24, 2024 to January 5, 2025 Self-Portrait, Weegee with Speed Graphic Camera, 1950 © International Center of Photography. Collection Friedsam.6 Weegee – Alessandra Sanguinetti There’s a mystery to Weegee. The American photographer’s career seems to be split in two. One side includes his sensational photography printed in North American tabloids: corpses of gangsters lying in pools of their own blood, bodies trapped in battered vehicles, kingpins looki... read more

When the daguerreotype first arrived in sub-Saharan Africa in the early nineteenth century, local kingdoms still held power in Senegal and the French presence was limited to trading outposts along the coast. The pioneers of photography in Senegal worked within, across, and beyond the borders of colonial empire, expanding the medium’s possibilities and contributing to a global visual language. *Portrait and Place* explores these unique encounters, providing an in-depth and nuanced look at the images made at the intersection of Black Atlantic, Islamic, and African cultures. Gi... read more

Edward Weston, *Dunes, Oceano (White Dunes)*, silver print, 1936. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000. Swann: a special auction of 100 lots from the Collection of Dr. James and Debra Pearl. Rich in American masterworks, the collection features the premier photographers of the 19th-century American landscape such as Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, and William Henry Jackson, as well as the 20th-century masters, including Ansel Adams, Irving Penn, and Edward Weston, featuring Richard Avedon’s exceptional portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as 6 of Irving Penn’s portraits from his S... read more

*[image: Howard Greenberg Gallery]* *DECEMBER 2 - FEBRUARY 10* *“Leiter is a rare artist, one whose vision is so encompassing, so refined, so in touch with a certain lyrical undertone that his best photographs occasionally seem literally to transcend the medium.”* - Jane Livingston, The New York School Photographs: 1936-63Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh, the son of an internationally renowned Talmudic scholar. Leiter's interest in art began in his late teens, and though he was encouraged to become a Rabbi like his father, he left theology school and moved to New York to pur... read more

Walker Evans: Bridgeport, CT Photographs 1941 The famed photographer Walker Evans came to Bridgeport in 1941 on assignment from Fortune Magazine and took a series standing on a street corner: read more

Sloan 2024 WALKER EVANS (1903-1975) AN UNEMPLOYED WORKER'S HOME, MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA. 119 5d 21h 1m 23s left WALKER EVANS (1903-1975) RIVER MEN AND FERRY, VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI. Est. WALKER EVANS (1903-1975) Mayor's Office, Moundville, Alabama. 42 5d 20h 3m 36s left WALKER EVANS (1903-1975) MAYOR'S OFFICE, MOUNDVILLE, ALABAMA. Est. $2,000 - $3,000 Current bid: $1,000 PLACE BID WALKER EVANS (1903-1975) The Cotton Room at Frank Tengle's Farm, Hale County, Alabama. 43 5d 20h 4m 36s left WALKER EVANS (1903-1975) THE COTTON ROOM AT FRANK TENGLE'S FARM, HALE COUNTY, ALA... read more

BERENICE ABBOTT (1898-1991) VIEW OF LOGGER USING A MCGIFFERT LOG LOADER, CA, (PAIR) Starting Bid: $2,000 DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965) DITCHED, STALLED, AND STRANDED, SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. Starting Bid: $1,000 134 5d 21h 15m 3s left DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965)/MARION POST WOLCOTT (1910-1990) TWO PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE REX THEATRE Starting Bid: $1,000 DOROTHEA LANGE (1895-1965) MIGRANT MOTHER, NIPOMO, CALIFORNIA (VARIANT). Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000 GORDON COSTER (1906-1988) Food line, Chicago. 7 5d 19h 30m 57s left (1906-1988) FOOD LINE, CHICAGO. Starting Bid: $500 ... read more

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston October 8, 2023, through January 7, 2024 ------------------------------ 100 photographs chart the cross-country journeys of two photographers, who each captured singular views of America at mid-century In April 1955, two photographers were awarded grants by the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, both for U.S. survey projects. One was Robert Frank, whose cross-country trip by car would result in the celebrated book *The Americans*. The other was Todd Webb, who at the age of 49 was awarded the grant to walk, boat and bike across the United States in or... read more