‘Lillian developed a darkroom technique before she felt compelled to take up a camera. Her fine art experience led her to view a print as the end product of a studio process’. Lillian Bassman herself, on the other hand, described her interest in the darkroom as ‘creating a new kind of vision aside from what the camera saw.’
Photo Spotlight
As the Martha Graham Dance Company marks its centennial, a new book by photographers Deborah Ory and Ken Browar offers a striking visual record of the company’s evolution. Martha Graham Company: 100 Years brings together contemporary portraits, newly staged images from iconic ballets, as well as selected archival photographs that brought to life the story of the oldest modern dance company in the United States.
Brassaï is best known for his iconic photographs of Paris in the 1930s, capturing the city’s nightlife, streets, and inhabitants in a way that has left a lasting impact on the history of photography. His work has greatly contributed to the idea of vernacular photography, blurring the lines between street photography and fine art.
In the evolving canon of 20th-century photography, few stories feel as electrifying as the rediscovery of Kali—the artistic persona of California photographer Joan Archibald. Active during the late 1960s and early 1970s in Southern California, Kali produced a vivid and deeply idiosyncratic body of work that remained largely unseen for decades.
David Yarrow’s latest series brings his signature wit and cinematic lens to Palm Beach, capturing its sun-soaked splendor, high society rituals, and tongue-in-cheek glamour. From polo fields to Worth Avenue, vintage convertibles to beachside tableaux, The Adventure Continues… in Palm Beach is a visual love letter to a place where beauty, leisure, and spectacle rule the day.
British photographer Adam Fuss’ works are not conventional photographs, yet they are photographic.
For over five decades, American photographer Slim Aarons captured the lifestyles of the rich and famous, presenting a golden age of wealth, beauty, and privilege through sunny portraits of post-war affluence. Born George Allen Aarons in 1916 in New York, he later became known as ‘Slim’ due to his lean, 6ft 4in frame. While Aarons would later surround himself with the glitterati, his beginnings in photography were far from luxurious.
Norman Parkinson greatly influenced the world of fashion photography with his inventiveness, charm and eccentricity. Renowned for taking his subjects out of the studio and into the world, Parkinson’s easy and casually elegant style was a breath of fresh air at the time, and it has left a mark on fashion-based photography.
The still-life photographs of Paulette Tavormina are anything but still; on the contrary, they are full of life. Recalling sumptuous details of seventeenth-century Old Master painters such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Adriaen Coorte, Juan Sánchez Cotán, and Giovanna Garzoni, Tavormina’s painterly compositions serve as intensely personal interpretations of timeless, universal stories and themes of of life and love, of joy and sorrow.