Tony Argento

"Holy Man" Ubud, Bali Indonesia Black and White Figurative Photograph

2000

Angkor Thom was the last and most enduring capital city of the Khmer Empire. It was established in the late 12th century by King Jayavarman VIII. The photo...

On a hot sweltering day, a man reigns supreme over his kingdom in the back streets of Ha Noi, Vietnam. The photograph is professionally dry-mounted to archival backing with archival ...

Birds Nest, used to make a soup of the same name and an expensive delicacy in South East Asia, is harvested at this small island located in Phrang Nga Bay, Thailand. There are a resi...

Buddhism in Burma is practiced by 90% of the country's population and is predominantly of the Theravada Tradition. Monks, collectively known as the sangha, are venerated members of B...

A young girl takes a moment from her work in the rice fields to look up with a warm and welcoming smile in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The photograph is professionally dry-mounted to archiv...

Early black and white photograph of a large cat lounging in a zoo enclosure. The photograph is matted to a board to prevent bending. The photograph is not framed, but options are ava...

'Shoulder’ 32x43 cm limited edition of 20. 2022 Printed on heavyweight Photo rag Baryta Hahnehnmule fine art paper. Signed front and back, comes with a certificate of authenticity.

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...

"Abramson comes much closer to recording the sound of these clubs than we would have any right to expect from a photographer." - Nick Hornby (London, 2009), Light On the South Side, ...

“It was shot on a grey misty day on Dungeness Beach in Sussex. Charlie Wood lit the sky rocket and stood to attention, and I fired the flashgun that was stuffed into his trousers to ...

A limited Edition Print by National Geographic Photographer Keith Ladzinski from his series “The Cost of Consumption” - To hold industrial value through the eyes of humans is more of...

Signed, numbered out of 10 JOANNA CHUDY Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow in 2002, National Film School in Łódź in 2009 and Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw where she achi...