Sebastião Salgado

Sahara, Algeria

2009

Gelatin Silver print mounted to archival board. Stamped on verso with signature, title, number and date in pencil. Signed, numbered and dated in pencil on recto. Edition of 45.

Gelatin Silver print mounted to archival board. Stamped on verso with signature, title, number and date in pencil. Signed, numbered and dated in pencil on recto. Edition of 45.

Signed in pencil on verso

Signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso; Photographer's blindstamp on recto.

This photograph, taken in Naples in 1954, depicts a group of street musicians performing in what appears to be an urban setting. The scene is lively and intimate, featuring a woman i...

Sunburned GSP#871 (Great Salt Lake, Utah), 2015 Gelatin Silver Paper Negative Unique 12" x 20" (30.5 x 51 cm) Framed: 15 5/16" x 23 15/16" (39 x 59 cm) Chris McCaw builds his own large-format cameras and outfits them with powerful lenses typically used for military surveillance and aerial reconnaissance. Instead of film, McCaw inserts expired fiber-based gelatin silver photo paper directly into the camera. Pointing the lens at the sun, McCaw makes recordings ranging from thirty seconds to as long as 36 hours. The sun, intensified by the lens, scorches its path across the paper while creating a solarized image of the landscape or seascape below – a “direct positive” image made in-camera, without an intervening negative. These burned lines and holes are tangible traces of the act of making each photograph: marking time, recording location, mapping weather conditions and channeling light.

Chris McCaw builds his own large-format cameras and outfits them with powerful lenses for his "Sunburned" series. Instead of film, McCaw inserts expired vintage, fiber-based gelatin ...

Ezra Stoller (American, 1915-2004) is known as one of the most influential photographers of modern architecture. He created iconic photographs of mid-century buildings that help defi...