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Blur by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Blur
London,
1995
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists a...
Category
1990s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The KLF by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
The KLF
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie st...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Prodigy by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
The Prodigy
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists an...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Script by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
The Script
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Liam Gallagher by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Liam Gallagher
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Robin Wright by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Robin Wright
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists a...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Thom Yorke by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Thom Yorke
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vincent Cassel by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Vincent Cassel
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Paul Weller by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Paul Weller
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists an...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Robert Plant by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Robert Plant
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists a...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Robert Smith by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Robert Smith
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists a...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pulp by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Pulp
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jeff Buckley by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Jeff Buckley
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists a...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jeff Buckley by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Jeff Buckley
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists a...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bono by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Bono
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, artists and movie ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Billy Bob Thornton by Kevin Westenberg Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Billy Bob Thornton
2022
by Kevin Westenberg
Signed Limited Edition
Kevin Westenberg is famed for his creation of provocative and electrifying images of world-class musicians, arti...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Tom Kelley : Gal in Baggie Surfer Suit
By Tom Kelley
Located in New York, NY
Tom Kelley
Ann St. Marie c. 1950's
C print
16 x 20 inches
Edition of 45
Photographs are printed on Archival Hahnemühle paper (luster)
estate signed and numbered in the border
Captio...
Category
1960s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Opera House by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Opera House
A view of the Sydney Opera House Australia
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
New York Glitter 2014 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
New York Glitter
2014
A building in Manhattan New York City, New York. 2014
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black Tree 2014 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Black Tree
2014
A majestic Ficus macrophyla tree, photographed in Sydney Australia. 2014
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all o...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Manhattan Island 2014 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Manhattan Island
2014
Portrait photograph of the island of Manhattan and the New York Skyline. 2014, New York City, New York.
by Stuart Möller
Bor...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dark Wave I by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Dark Wave I
A single wave at night
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer wh...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chrysler View by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Chrysler View
A view of the Chrysler Building from Grand Central Station in New York City, New York.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Harbour Bridge by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Harbour Bridge
A view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Sydney New South Wales Australia
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over th...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
NYC Lights by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
NYC Lights
A view of a traffic light in front of some New York City buildings, New York
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Tourists by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
The Tourists
Tourists take in a view of the Sydney Opera House, Australia.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
St...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
View From The Bridge by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
View From The Bridge
A view of New York City from the Brooklyn Bridge, New York.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the worl...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Unforgiven by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Unforgiven
Rocks and cacti near a coastline.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Grey Wave by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Grey Wave
A single wave at dusk.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a f...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black Leaf V 2022 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Black Leaf V
2022
Black Leaf V
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer whose...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Leaf by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
White Leaf
Banana Leaf
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art ph...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Black Leaf by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Black Leaf
Banana Leaf.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Journey by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Journey
Bubbles are visible on the surface of dark deep water.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over t...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Foliage I 2022 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Foliage I
2022
Foliage I
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer whose image...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Organica 2022 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Organica
2022
Organica
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art p...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Palm Bark 2022 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Palm Bark
2022
Palm Bark
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer whose image...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Incidental Sculpture by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Incidental Sculpture
Wire nd tags are bent and shaped by the sea and embedded in the sand on a beach.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grow...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sea Stones 2022 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Sea Stones
2022
Sea Stones
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fine art photographer whose i...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Summer Evening Shadowplay 2022 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Summer Evening Shadowplay
2022
shadows on a wall made by plants and foliage are framed by actual foliage around it.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Silver Ferns 2012 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Silver Ferns
2012
Close up view of an area of ferns. 2012
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is ...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Guggenheim 2014 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Guggenheim
2014
General view of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Art Museum , New York City, New York. 2014
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having gr...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Bridge 2013 by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Brooklyn Bridge
2013
View of one of the main arches of Brooklyn Bridge in New York looking up from beneath. 2013
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Opera House by Stuart Möller
Located in London, GB
Opera House
A view of the Sydney Opera House Australia.
by Stuart Möller
Born in Kabul, part German and Anglo-Indian and having grown up all over the world,
Stuart Möller is a fi...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Located in New York, NY
Steve Mass, the owner of the Mudd Club
Archival pigment print
24 x 24 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 15
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, ...
Category
1970s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Klaus Nomi
Located in New York, NY
Klaus Nomi, 1979
Archival pigment print
image size: 24 x 24 inches
Signed and numbered
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally for his f...
Category
1970s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Backhand. San Francisco
Located in Hudson, NY
Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bird Girl, San Francisco
Located in Hudson, NY
Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Form, San Francisco
Located in Hudson, NY
Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco.
The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation device, a skeletal extension meant to alter the visual perception of the human form. To realize the full associative power of the hoop, Amodaj created a counter-shape to the hoop, a white sphere (the Ball) made from plaster strips, to match the cloth texture and placed it in a dynamic relationship with his model.
Notto improvised the poses from Nenad’s drawings in constant slow motion. The whole project was done in two 3-hour sessions with no rehearsals and no replays. The minimalistic setting, uniform lighting, and central vantage point shift perception from a trivial reality to a metaphysical one. The intent was to induce the spectator to spontaneously alternate between the three aspects: the human form, the symbolic function of the skirt, and the geometry of the cone and sphere. The spontaneity of dynamic poses and the imperfections of a handheld camera balance this sparse imagery.
The exhibition presents a selection of 15 photographs from a project collection of over a hundred. Most of the series are gelatin-silver prints from a 35 mm film, with a few exceptions for large-scale digital color prints.
Amodaj was influenced by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies of industrial buildings and František Drtikol’s nudes. In the spirit of Becher’s “typologies,” Amodaj’s Hoop and Ball series of photographs explores endless mutations of the hoop skirt architecture, a clothing item with a curios geometric form that can be classified as a “flexible cone.” It is a form that appears both in nature and in artifice: flowers, bells, horns, nuclear power plants...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Cone 8, San Francisco
Located in Hudson, NY
This item is available unframed or framed, They are in edition of 20 in he 16" x 20" paper size.
Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco.
The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation device, a skeletal extension meant to alter the visual perception of the human form. To realize the full associative power of the hoop, Amodaj created a counter-shape to the hoop, a white sphere (the Ball) made from plaster strips, to match the cloth texture and placed it in a dynamic relationship with his model.
Notto improvised the poses from Nenad’s drawings in constant slow motion. The whole project was done in two 3-hour sessions with no rehearsals and no replays. The minimalistic setting, uniform lighting, and central vantage point shift perception from a trivial reality to a metaphysical one. The intent was to induce the spectator to spontaneously alternate between the three aspects: the human form, the symbolic function of the skirt, and the geometry of the cone and sphere. The spontaneity of dynamic poses and the imperfections of a handheld camera balance this sparse imagery.
The exhibition presents a selection of 15 photographs from a project collection of over a hundred. Most of the series are gelatin-silver prints from a 35 mm film, with a few exceptions for large-scale digital color prints.
Amodaj was influenced by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher's typologies of industrial buildings and František Drtikol’s nudes. In the spirit of Becher’s “typologies,” Amodaj’s Hoop and Ball series of photographs explores endless mutations of the hoop skirt architecture, a clothing item with a curios geometric form that can be classified as a “flexible cone.” It is a form that appears both in nature and in artifice: flowers, bells, horns, nuclear power plants...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Barns
Located in East Hampton, NY
Title: Barns
Black & White Photography
Edition of 10
Also available in 20"x30" Edition of 10 $725
*Photography: U Wash Truck, Death Valley and Mulford Lane, Amagansett 2012 have been featured in the June 2019 issue of Black & White Magazine and the photograph Boat House, Springs East Hampton...
Category
2010s American Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Chrysler View - Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Chrysler View
Signed Limited Edition
Stuart Möller
paper size - 24 x 20" / 60 x 51 cm
Signed and numbered by artist on the front
Limited to only 20 this size
Unframed
Born in...
Category
2010s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Madonna - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
By Mick Rock
Located in London, GB
Madonna - Limited Edition Mick Rock Estate Print
Early photograph of Madonna, 1980 (photo Mick Rock).
All prints are numbered by the Estate.
Edition si...
Category
1980s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Elton John
By David Bailey
Located in London, GB
David Bailey
Elton John, 1971
Archival Inkjet on paper, framed
Signed by the artist, on verso
Image: 50.8 x 50.8 cm
Sheet: 58.4 x 58.4 cm
Edition of 12 + 3AP
Category
1970s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Blondie Backstage by Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
Blondie Backstage
By Martyn Goddard Signed Limited Edition
Debbie Harry of Blondie backstage at Alice Cooper gig (Blondie support band) Phila...
Category
1970s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Benton walking dog (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #6)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
Benton walking dog (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #6)
Year: 1956, 2021
Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph
Image Size: 19x13.5 in
Paper Size: 22x17 in
Edition: Unique
Monogrammed by hand
Label signed and numbered by Estate Representative
COA provided by Authorizing Body
Additional COA provided by representing Gallery
Ref.: 924802-908
Image included in the exhibition An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Public Library (November 20, 2021-May 15, 2022)
One night in late 2020, as Nick Vedros was leaving the home of his Aunt Myrt and Uncle Michael Mardikes, his aunt suddenly asked him, “What are we going to do with all the negatives?” The noted Kansas City photographer was not sure what his 89-year-old aunt was talking about, until she handed him a notebook filled with more than 1000 negatives chronicling Thomas Hart Benton at home and in his studio. They had been filed away for almost seven decades.
This startling discovery was the inspiration for the exhibition, “An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton” on view at the Kansas City Public Library Central Library. The exhibition is a must-see, not just for fans of Thomas Hart Benton but for devotees of exemplary photojournalism.
Of the 1,080 photographs Mardikes took, only four had been published in an article he wrote for “This Month in Kansas City” magazine in 1966. The others were never printed, nor was their existence common knowledge. Although Vedros had been aware of his uncle’s assignment with Benton, he was stunned to discover that so much additional material existed.
Vedros, who decided at age 12 to become a photographer himself after seeing his uncle’s work, was determined to organize an exhibition, and was especially interested in doing it as quickly as possible given his uncle’s advanced age and increasing frailty. Collaborating with Dan White, a photographer, master printer and friend since their time together at the University of Missouri journalism school, they selected 34 images to be printed and framed, researching the details with Steve Sitton, the director of the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio Historic Site.
Michael Mardikes had had a brief career as a commercial photographer before going on to work in management at the Ford Motor Company and later at UMKC. He made the acquaintance of Benton through Eugene Pyle, a former student of Benton’s and Mardikes’ photography instructor at the Art Institute. In 1955, Benton asked Mardikes to photograph him; Mardikes visited Benton 35 to 40 times, over a period of a few months in late 1955 and early 1956. Sitton told Vedros that not only was Mardikes’ amount of access incredible, but that the resulting body of work was unmatched.
As the project progressed, Benton became focused on a mural commission for the River Club in 1956. Henry Adams, preeminent Benton scholar and former curator at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, provided some context for this particular work: “The commission to paint ‘Traders at Westport Landing’ came at a low point in Benton’s career, 1956, and initiated the late phase of Benton’s mural paintings. It was the first of a series of murals depicting the exploration and settlement of the west, which culminated in the Truman Library mural, which was completed in 1962. All these murals feature trading and friendly contact with the Indians, rather than conflict, and are arresting in their bright color and meticulous rendering of carefully researched detail. The River Club, which commissioned ‘Traders at Westport Landing,’ overlooks the Missouri River and has a panoramic view very similar to the one in Benton’s painting.”
This group of black and white photos not only documents the artist’s working process but also reveals other aspects of his daily life: one memorable image reveals Rita Benton massaging her husband’s stiff shoulders after a long day in his studio. Other images show members of the River Club board visiting Benton’s studio to check on the progress of the mural. One charming image captures a candid moment of Rita Benton and Myrt Mardikes as they collaborated in the Benton kitchen making chicken kapama for their husbands.
Nan Chisholm
Nan Chisholm is an art consultant and appraiser of 19th- and 20th-century paintings. After a long association with Sotheby’s, she founded her own business in 2003. She has appeared as a fine art appraiser...
Category
1950s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Overall with Paintings (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #24)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
Overall with Paintings (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #24)
Year: 1956, 2021
Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph
Size: 19x13.5 in
Paper Size: 22x17 in
Edition: 2
Sign...
Category
1950s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Boy with Mirror (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #26)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
Boy with Mirror (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #26)
Year: 1956, 2021
Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph
Image Size: 19x13.5 in
Paper Size: 22x17 in
Edition: Unique
Monogrammed by hand
Label signed and numbered by Estate Representative
COA provided by Authorizing Body
Additional COA provided by representing Gallery
Ref.: 924802-909
Image included in the exhibition An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Public Library (November 20, 2021-May 15, 2022)
One night in late 2020, as Nick Vedros was leaving the home of his Aunt Myrt and Uncle Michael Mardikes, his aunt suddenly asked him, “What are we going to do with all the negatives?” The noted Kansas City photographer was not sure what his 89-year-old aunt was talking about, until she handed him a notebook filled with more than 1000 negatives chronicling Thomas Hart Benton at home and in his studio. They had been filed away for almost seven decades.
This startling discovery was the inspiration for the exhibition, “An Artist at Home in America: Michael Mardikes’ Photographs of Thomas Hart Benton” on view at the Kansas City Public Library Central Library. The exhibition is a must-see, not just for fans of Thomas Hart Benton but for devotees of exemplary photojournalism.
Of the 1,080 photographs Mardikes took, only four had been published in an article he wrote for “This Month in Kansas City” magazine in 1966. The others were never printed, nor was their existence common knowledge. Although Vedros had been aware of his uncle’s assignment with Benton, he was stunned to discover that so much additional material existed.
Vedros, who decided at age 12 to become a photographer himself after seeing his uncle’s work, was determined to organize an exhibition, and was especially interested in doing it as quickly as possible given his uncle’s advanced age and increasing frailty. Collaborating with Dan White, a photographer, master printer and friend since their time together at the University of Missouri journalism school, they selected 34 images to be printed and framed, researching the details with Steve Sitton, the director of the Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio Historic Site.
Michael Mardikes had had a brief career as a commercial photographer before going on to work in management at the Ford Motor Company and later at UMKC. He made the acquaintance of Benton through Eugene Pyle, a former student of Benton’s and Mardikes’ photography instructor at the Art Institute. In 1955, Benton asked Mardikes to photograph him; Mardikes visited Benton 35 to 40 times, over a period of a few months in late 1955 and early 1956. Sitton told Vedros that not only was Mardikes’ amount of access incredible, but that the resulting body of work was unmatched.
As the project progressed, Benton became focused on a mural commission for the River Club in 1956. Henry Adams, preeminent Benton scholar and former curator at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, provided some context for this particular work: “The commission to paint ‘Traders at Westport Landing’ came at a low point in Benton’s career, 1956, and initiated the late phase of Benton’s mural paintings. It was the first of a series of murals depicting the exploration and settlement of the west, which culminated in the Truman Library mural, which was completed in 1962. All these murals feature trading and friendly contact with the Indians, rather than conflict, and are arresting in their bright color and meticulous rendering of carefully researched detail. The River Club, which commissioned ‘Traders at Westport Landing,’ overlooks the Missouri River and has a panoramic view very similar to the one in Benton’s painting.”
This group of black and white photos not only documents the artist’s working process but also reveals other aspects of his daily life: one memorable image reveals Rita Benton massaging her husband’s stiff shoulders after a long day in his studio. Other images show members of the River Club board visiting Benton’s studio to check on the progress of the mural. One charming image captures a candid moment of Rita Benton and Myrt Mardikes as they collaborated in the Benton kitchen making chicken kapama for their husbands.
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1950s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
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River Club Unveiling Event (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #31)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Michael Mardikes
River Club Unveiling Event (Thomas Hart Benton Plate #31)
Year: 1956, 2021
Pigment Ink on Archival Paper Photograph
Image Size: 13.5x19 in
Paper Size: 17x22 in
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1950s Modern Archival Pigment Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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