As Valentines hits us in full swing, Hollywood and Lincoln Center are revving up their own Superbowls. This weekend’s Superbowl demonstrated how one extremely dedicated, provocative and sensational person, Madonna, can almost steal the show. From the urban beats of Tebows’ Cherry Creek North to the 50 yard line at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, [...]
Brooklyn Bridge at Night has changed since Feininger shot his renown photograph of the same name in 1948 Dumbo, from where he set up his perch, is a bustling hipster hangout – albeit a bit hung over from the real estate and financial bubbles. From across the East River, the view of the Clock Tower [...]
Collecting great photographs requires an understanding of multiple factors. Condition quality obviously plays an instrumental role in the current and future value of each acquired print. Honor your preference of learning from the past to create the future with a poignant modern photograph printed from the original source or a vintage print developed at the [...]
The formal, smartphone generation may be light speed ahead of some of us. When a recharge is needed though, and each stops and looks back, will the path that we have come be clear or a mish-mash of blurred images and vague memories? PIXEL – the fine art photography exhibition by Denver’s GALLERY M will [...]
When two legends collide the effect can be a rough and tumble dialogue – except when created masterfully. James Dean vs. Elvis is one of a group of pixelated photographs created by 41 year old Alex Goufeng Cao. Alex has been on a collectors who’s who list of late because his pop art perspective does [...]
For some, the indelible mark that destruction brought us 9 years ago can never be forgotten. Through many parts of this country, if not globally, our concern for safety became a hyper need. Yet the media, per some on social media sites, has reduced the tragedy’s event to something else. Heroic acts have been blemished [...]
Our way of looking at art and the icons of American culture changes fast. Yet the classics of photography are still the reference points for the future. As evidenced by “Margaret Bourke-White: Fortunes of Industry” now available for viewing and collecting at GALLERY M (gallerym.com) in Denver, Colorado. Margaret Bourke-White early on developed a fascination [...]
The Polaroid Collection was auctioned off at Sotheby’s, New York, the beginning of this week. Within ‘The Library Collection’ that Ansel Adams put together of important photographers in the late 1950′s were two photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, the first photographer of Fortune Magazine and one of the first four photographers of LIFE Magazine. The two, [...]
Today, the respected French international photography competition announced it’s category and overall winners for professional and non-professional categories. The 2010 winner is New York City based, international photographer Howard Schatz. His winning portfolio, judged by an esteemed body of photography experts, was his portraits of Boxers. The formal portfolio is referred to as “At The [...]
Not every city hall is worthy of a great atmosphere. Stories, rhetoric and of course the daily business required by cities to flourish goes on. One would hardly believe that a film festival could inject urban renewal to a higher level. The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival, now in it’s ninth year, revitalized an area destroyed [...]
