Photography: The Old Master of Majesty Ansel Adams: 1902-1984 Oct 29, 2009
In 1930 he met Paul Strand, whose style was crisp, straight, unfussed. Recalled Adams: "I came home thinking, 'Now photography exists!' " Adams' new direction was fixed and his success launched by the dean of American photography, Alfred Stieglitz, who in 1936 gave him his first show in New York City. (Time.com)
The Abstracted Landscape : Work by 4 International Artists Sep 30, 2009
In the 20th century there are many examples, from George Seeley to Paul Strand, through Moholy Nagy and the Bauhaus to Edward Weston's glorious sand dunes. Related Links. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Ghana: An African Portrait Revisited Jul 6, 2009
In the spring of 2006, inspired by the work of master American photographer/film maker Paul Strand, Randall invited five fellow photographers to journey with him to Ghana -- to document the country on the eve of its fiftieth anniversary of independence. The result is a stunning portrait that documents that nation Obama's administration refers to as "one of our most trusted partners in sub-Saharan Africa.". (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
'Viva Mexico!' shows how Edward Weston was transformed Jun 5, 2009
In its ability to achieve powerful ideological effects with the simplest of means, her "Manos de trabajador, Mexico" (Worker's Hands, Mexico") shows her affinity with the contemporary Mexican muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros.There are four nudes Weston took of Modotti on the roof of their Mexico City house. Aesthetically, he had the heart of a clinician: He revered form. He wanted to show, to present, to render the thing in itself. Libidinally, though,... (Boston Globe)
Exhibits show off Mexico's picturesque side May 17, 2009
(Work by the son, Brett Weston, as well as America's Paul Strand and Mexico's great photographer Manuel lvarez Bravo - currently the subject of a survey show at the Robert Lehman Art Center - will also be featured. . (Boston Globe)
TV by design Mar 9, 2009
Artists like Richard Avedon, Paul Strand, Feliks Topolski and Andy Warhol were also engaged on freelance projects. The result was a reinvention of vaudeville traditions into light entertainment shows presented in a style that Spigel dubs "vaudeo-modernity." The jazz musicians Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie were particularly innovative in rejecting the rituals of traditional minstrel spectaculars in favor of a black modernist aesthetic of Constructivist-inspired graphics and exaggerated... (International Herald Tribune)
