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A Life Fashioning Art
Lillian Bassman in The New York Times 15 February 2012 In her lifetime, Lillian Bassman's photographs went from fashion to fine art. Yet Ms. Bassman - who died on Monday... Read more -
The Body Beautiful: Arno Rafael Minkkinen's Self-Portraits
TIME Magazine 5 December 2011 For Arno Rafael Minkkinen, nudity is akin to spirituality. “I don’t want to be seen as a nudist,” he says.... Read more -
Picture This: “Herb Ritts” at the Edwynn Houk Gallery in New York
Exhibition review in Vogue 29 April 2011 In 2002, Vogue lost of one of its most significant contributors when the photographer Herb Ritts passed away, but his legacy has lived on in photography and film, both of which will be showcased in the Edwynn Houk Gallery’s first Herb Ritts show, which opens today, after being feted last night, opens today. Read more -
Vik Muniz: Waste Land
19 April 2011 Filmed over nearly three years, Waste Land follows renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Read more
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Where Art Meets Trash and Transforms Life
Vik Muniz in the New York Times 21 October 2010 As the star of “Waste Land,“ a touching documentary that won numerous film festival awards, Vik Muniz seems on the verge of exceeding his celebrity in his home country of Brazil and reaching a broad audience in the United States, too. Read more -
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography
MoMA Exhibition Celebrates Female Photographers 7 May 2010 For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures... Read more -
Reviving the Exotic to Critique Exoticism
Lalla Essaydi in the New York Times 5 March 2010 “Lalla Essaydi: Les Femmes du Maroc,” an exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, draws attention to one of the most interesting if puzzling developments in contemporary art: a revival of exotic, often historical imagery of people from faraway places in the name of a critique of exoticism. Read more -
Femininity, Salvaged
Lillian Bassman in The New York Times 16 July 2009 In the early 1970s Lillian Bassman, among the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century, made the decision to... Read more
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Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus at MoMA
Reviewed in the New York TImes 25 December 2008 The photographer Vik Muniz is a pedagogical whiz whose greatest talent lies more around his art than strictly within it. Read more -
Travels Abroad Lead to Journeys Within
Lynn Davis in The New York Times 8 April 2007 Ms. Davis, 62, is a veteran traveler. For the last 20 years she has circled the globe with her camera, documenting mammoth structures like the Great Pyramids and natural wonders like Wave Rock in western Australia in an austere yet ravishing style. Read more -
The Met: Robert Polidori
19 September 2006 Marking the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the devastating floods that followed, this exhibition features approximately twenty large-scale color photographs that Robert Polidori created during four extended visits to New Orleans between September 2005 and April 2006. Read more -
Model Family
Sally Mann in Smithsonian Magazine 1 May 2005 Sally Mann’s unflinching photographs of her children have provoked controversy, but one of her now-grown daughters wonders what all the fuss was about Read more
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Re-Inventing the Spaces Within
Lalla Essaydi in Aperture 1 March 2005 Lalla Essaydi published in Aperture Magazine. Read more -
Art in Review: Sally Mann, "Last Measure"
Review in The New York Times 24 November 2003 Edwynn Houk Gallery 745 Fifth Avenue, at 57th Street Through Nov. 15 The earth and its relationship to mortality are... Read more -
The Disturbing Photography of Sally Mann
Sally Mann in the New York Times 17 September 1992 At the opening last spring of "Immediate Family," Sally Mann's show at the Houk Friedman Gallery in New York, the winsome young subjects of the photographs aroused as much curiosity as the artist herself. Read more
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