Nicoletta Munroe

Raspail Red, Paris Metro Series

1998

Genre: Photographic Subject: Cityscape Medium: Silkscreen of Photograph Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions: 20.5" x 28" Street Art, Urban Jon Naar is a British-American author and photographer celebrated for his pioneering images of New York City graffiti in the 1970s. Still active in his nineties, Naar has had a multifaceted career as an intelligence officer in World War II; a globe-trotting executive during the postwar years; and an environmentalist, with nine published books to date. Born in London in 1920, Naar graduated at 15 from the private Mill Hill School. Too young to attend an English university, he crossed the Channel to study French and German at the Sorbonne. At this point, Naar had yet to develop a special interest in photography, but his artistic and design sensibilities were being shaped by his Parisian influences, particularly the street photographs of Brassaï. Four years later, his matriculation at the University of London cut short by the outbreak of World War II, Naar was conscripted. Thanks to prior experience in the Officers' Training Corps at Mill Hill, he would spend the next six years on intelligence work, including service with the British Special Operations Executive, on clandestine assignments that took him through the Middle East and Italy. At war's end, by-then Major Naar emigrated to New York City and secured American citizenship. Through the 1950s, armed with a Super Ikonta rangefinder camera and later a Praktica single-lens reflex, Naar was developing his eye as a "weekend" photographer, roving his Greenwich Village neighborhood and seeking out subject matter while on foreign corporate assignments. It was not until Naar's early forties, after influential photographers Nickolas Muray and André Kertész—both impressed by his hobbyist portfolio—offered encouragement, that he resolved to seek wider exposure as a photographer. A series of street scenes Naar shot in Mexico City in 1962 was featured in a 1963 solo exhibition in Coyoacan titled "El Ojo de un Estranjero." His 23-page photo essay on Germany, 20 years after the death of Adolph Hitler, appeared in the Italian design magazine Domus. New York Times critic Joseph Deschin, reviewing Naar's 1965 one-man show at New York University's Loeb Student Center, extolled his "flair for design and an eye for the unexpected, his pictures generate the kind of excitement that one associates with discovery of newness in the familiar." The striking image "Shadows of Children on Swings" was selected by Ivan Dmitri for the Metropolitan Museum's "Photography in the Fine Arts" exhibition, and for its permanent collection. Within the span of a few years, Naar had not only transformed himself into a professional photographer, but was in demand as a contributor to major publications like The New York Times, The Saturday Evening Post, Vogue, Fortune, Elle, and Schöner Wohnen. If Naar had a specialty at that time, it was photographing artists and architects amidst their creative (and created) surroundings. One of his earliest and most enduring images featured a young Andy Warhol sprawled on a red plush...

body of work: “Sentiment and Vagrancy” series: “Dresden Pre Occupation” medium: Ink Jet print on Arches size: 28″ h x 30″ w Kevin Hanley was born 1969 in Sumter, South Carolina and received a Master of Fine Art from Art Center College of Design and a Bachelor of Fine Art from Otis Parsons College. Hanley is a multimedia artist and an associate professor at Art Center College of Design who also works professionally in TV broadcast and graphic design. He currently works and lives in Los Angeles. His International group exhibitions include: "The 50th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia," Venice, Italy, "Site Santa Fe Second Biennale," Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Index," MOCA, Los Angeles and "Delta," Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France. His solo exhibitions include: ACME, Los Angeles, I-20, New York, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo and Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne. Articles and reviews on Hanley's work have appeared in Artforum, Contemporary, Flash Art, Frieze, Kultureflash, The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times. Selected Exhibitions: Seams Like Sometimes, ACME., Los Angeles, CA 15 year...

Ellen Kaplowitz "Eiffel Tower, Paris", photograph print, Hand signed and titled verso, 15.75"h x 23.75"w (sight), 17"h x 25"w (frame) Ellen Kaplowitz has been globetrotting and ...

American artist and photographer, Sandra Haber, born 1956 Exhibited at MoMA, 1984

The work is available as Silver gelatin print, by the artist, made in the darkroom, from the original 35 mm black and white negative and in a total edition of 25. Available in 4 siz...

Luc Dratwa is a Belgian photographer, born in 1958 and currently living in Brussels. Uncompromisingly self-taught, his rigorousness and perfectionism ally themselves with a graphic o...

Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper Edition size: 11 Image size: 15 x 18.5 inches Paper size: 17 x 22 inches Please inquire for additional sizes. Susan Auri...

Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper Edition size: 11 Image size: 15 x 18.5 inches Paper size: 17 x 22 inches Please inquire for additional sizes. Susan Auri...