Roberta Fineberg

Concert Hall, Moscow, Russia, Black and White Photography during Glasnost

1989

Beach, Italy, 1984 by Leonard Freed is an 8" x 10" black and white photograph, a gelatin silver RC press print from the Freed archive, signed verso (on back of photograph) by the photographer. Provenance: Freed Estate Leonard Freed discovered Little Italy in New York...

Beach II, Italy, 1984 by Leonard Freed is an 11" x 14" black and white photograph, a gelatin silver RC press print from the Freed archive, signed verso (on back of photograph) by the...

Office Party, New York City, 1966 by Leonard Freed is a gelatin silver later print, 16 x 20, signed verso (on back) by the photographer. Freed enjoyed sto...

City Prison, 1965 by American photographer Leonard Freed is a vintage gelatin silver, signed verso (back of photo) by the photographer. It is an iconic image from the photographer's ...

A camera is a window through which a photographer interacts with the world, and it's up to the operator to decide whether his camera will be a barrier or a mirror between he and his subjects. In the 1970s, Michael Abramson chose the latter path when he brought his camera to Pepper's Hideout on Chicago's South Side. Following in the footsteps of his acknowledged influence Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer better known as Brassaï who became the pre-eminent chronicler of the Paris nightlife he loved so much, Abramson initiated himself into the nightlife of Chicago's predominantly black neighbourhoods. He was very much a part of the scene he documented on film, drinking, laughing, and dancing with his subjects into small hours and becoming as much a part of the atmosphere as the locals who frequented the same nightspots he did. - Joe Tangari (Numero Group, 2009) This series won Abramson a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and launched his career as a photojournalist. Eventually the project resulted in a hardbound book, Light: On the South Side, including the Grammy and Mojo nominated album, featuring Chicago blues...

Attr. Chauncey Hare (1934-2019) "Wintersville, Ohio" 1971 Gelatin silver print 19.75"x16" unframed Unsigned *Custom framing available for additional char...

Jack captured his own reflection against a lingerie display in New York in the mid 1960s. The window advertises the "luau sarong set for cruises," the "Happy Days are Here Again" lace set...

Originally a graphic artist, he picked up the camera in New Orleans, honed his craft there photographing his life, friends, and street scenes, and eventually decided to pursue a care...