Coat Photography

Artist: Richard Ham, American (1920 - ) Title: Picasso in Paris Studio - Picasso Standing with Painting Year: 1945, Printed in 2009 Medium: Gelatin Silver Print, signed and numbered ...

HARRY BOWERS T E N P H O T O G R A P H S I DON'T LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS I INVENT THEM I recall my first meeting with Harry Bowers in California a few years ago. As he produced his large-scale prints, I was at first flabbergasted, not only by their size, but by their seamless perfection. Technique appeared to be everything but then technique as technique simply vanished. After the first moment, tech­nique was no longer an issue, but rather a passageway to the imagery. Suffice it to say about Harry Bowers' working style that he is an obsessive man. Trained as an engineer, he has turned that discipline to art. His lenses, equipment and darkroom, much of it exactingly manu­factured by himself to answer certain needs, serve the desire of the artist to take photographic tech­nique to its ultimate perfection in invisibility and transparency. I respect obsession in art, and particularly in photography, because obsession in photography passes beyond the easy, middle ground of image making to a more demanding, more difficult, yet more rewarding end. Bowers' obsession is to eliminate "photography as technique." No grain, no decisive moments, no journalism, or, seemingly, direct auto­biographical endeavors appear in his work. Bowers is an artist of synthesis who controls his environment if only in the studio exactly to his liking. The images he creates are formal structures, saucy stories on occasion, which may offer hints of a darker, more frightening sexuality, but what you see is the end product of an experiment in which nothing save the original insight perhaps is left to chance. We seem fascinated with the idea of replication of reality in art. Popular painting frequently reproduces a scene "with the accuracy of a photograph," and photographs may "make you feel as though you were right there." The very invisibility of the photographic medium is important to Bowers, in that it allows him to maneuver his subject matter without concern for rendering it in an obvious art medium which would interfere with the nature of the materials he uses. The formal subtleties of Bowers' recent work are as delicious and ambiguous in their interrelationships as the best Cubist collages, yet while those col­lages always suggest their parts through edge and texture, these photographs present a structure through a surface purity. "I follow fashion. I have closets literally full of clothes. I am a full-blown Comme des Garçons and Prada freak. I love clothes themselves as objects, and I also love the glossies – my love of fashion is how I discovered Wallpaper magazine" Bowers' earlier works, for example, the Skirts I Have Known series, were formed of bits of clothing belong­ing to Bowers and his wife or found at local thrift shops. These works fused an elegance of pattern and texture, reminiscent of Miriam Shapiro...

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With a line-up comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they are regarded as the mo...

April 1968: Mr and Mrs Donald Leas with their Rolls Royce and two pet dogs outside The Flagler Museum in Palm Beach, Florida. Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide...

Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This mid-1960s winter portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a blonde skier on the slopes at ...

George Tice was born in 1938 in Newark, NJ, the state in which his ancestors had lived for generations earlier. He joined a camera club when he was fourteen, and is largely a self ta...

Tony Renis - Vintage Autographed Photograph is a vintage photo, realized in the 1970s. Signature and dedication by the singer Tony Renis: "Al giornale Lancio caramente Tony Renis" ...

Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...

Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...

from the exhibition: SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC, Nohra Haime Gallery 2020 satirical self-portrait

As the Sixties swung and Britain subverted the old order, photographer Philip Townsend was there to record all the prime people of the time, beautiful and ugly alike: the debs and th...

The photographer Wolfgang Kühn photographed Alberto Giacometti in November 1963 in his studio in Paris in the 14th arrondissement at the address rue Hippolyte-Maindron. The appointment was arranged by the gallery owner Aimé Maeght. 17 photographs were made. In 1990 copies of them were deposited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 2010, the Center of International Sculpture of the Wilhelm...

Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...

Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...

Exhibition- Life in Italy in 1960s  is a vintage black and white photograph realized in the 1960s, it is from a series of vintage photographs of the cultural and artistic events in I...

Vintage Photo. The Italian Actress Milena Vukotic in a scene from "La Miliardaria", a TV edition of the play by Bernard Shaw. 

Malcolm Lubliner was in the right place at the right time. The artist had been working and teaching in Southern California for a number of years before he became a full-time photographer in 1968. Entrenched in Los Angeles’s burgeoning art scene, Lubliner was hired as a contract photographer for the publishing workshop Gemini G.E.L. to document its behind-the-scenes activities. He would later become the official photographer for the Art and Technology Program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), which paired artists with technology companies in the region. Lubliner’s collection of negatives, contact sheets, and prints—newly catalogued as part of the special collections at the Getty Research Institute—showcases some of the 20th century’s most notable artists and demonstrates his insight into their artistic processes. Lubliner photographed the technical and collaborative efforts that went into producing iconic works such as Jasper Johns’s Numerals, Claes Oldenburg’s Giant Ice Bag, and Frank Stella’s Protractor series, while also creating intimate portraits of the individual artists as the driving forces behind them. He captured artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Irwin, Richard Serra, John Altoon, and Sam Francis at work both at Gemini and in their own studios. Also present in many of the photographs are staff members of Gemini, including Kenneth Tyler and Stanley Grinstein. An equally important part of the collection are Lubliner’s photographs of social events that were held by Los Angeles’s prominent art collectors and dealers. Accomplished and rising artists alike mingled and celebrated with the art world’s movers and shakers, such as Leo Castelli, Betty Asher, and Maurice Tuchman, establishing partnerships that would help define their careers. EDUCATION 1962 MFA Degree, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, Ca Received a California State Teaching Credential EXHIBITION HISTORY, SOLO 2013 The Automotive Landscape, St. Mary’s College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA 2011 Anxious Landscape, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. 2011 Pacific Party Time, Craig Krull Gallery and Getty Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 2010 Garden of Arbitrary Volition, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Tableaus, City Hall Rotunda, Walnut Creek, CA 2007 Portraits of American Artists, The 8 Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 Significant Places, Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA 2003 Significant Places, Bedford Gallery, City Council Chambers, Walnut Creek, CA 2001 Significant Places, Point of View, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA 2001 Osceola Gallery Emeryville, CA 1999 Sixteen Tableaus, Berlex Corporation. The Richmond Art Museum 1995 Sixteen Tableaus, The Collectors Gallery, Oakland Museum of California Oakland, CA 1995 Sixteen Tableaus, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa 1988 Introductions 1988, Vision Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1988 Mitzie Landau Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA 1975 Automotive Research, The Comsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA EXHIBITION HISTORY, GROUP 2014 Pilot Project at the Richmond Art Center Annual Members Show, June 14 to August 22 2013 Me Two, Self portrait, Syracuse University permanent collection, Syracuse, NY 2009 Seduction of Duchamp, Slaughterhouse Space, Healdsburg, CA 2009 Glimpses in Time, National Competition, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland CA 2009 Anxious Landscape, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Banned and Recovered, African American Museum, Oakland, CA 2006 The 8 Gallery, Inaugural exhibition, San Francisco, CA 2006 Rush Creek Editions Gallery, Inaugural exhibition, Santa Fe, NM 2006 Transmissions Gallery, Berkeley CA 2005 The Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center, Walnut Creek, CA 2003 Grabado sin Fronteras, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA , Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA and Estamperia of Quito Ecuador. 2002 Crocker Art Museum, Crocker-Kingsley 73rd Biennial Exhibition Sacramento,CA 1997 Oakland Museum of California, “In Front of the Lens” Photographers Portraits and Self Portraits, Oakland, CA 1996 Photographing The L.A. Art Scene 1955-1975, Group exhibition at The Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles 1994 Living in Balance, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1993 36th Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, N.Y. 1993 Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center, East Hills, N.Y. 1993 4th Annual Art Equinox, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana. 1993 Portraits in Black and White, ZYZZYVA benefit, Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 Long Beach Arts 89th Open Exhibition, Long Beach, CA 1993 Fort Worth Arts Festival, Fort Worth, TX 1989 A Special Photographers Co., Group Exhibition, London, GB 1988 The Print Club, 64th Annual International Competition, Philadelphia, PA 1985 SNAP Photographic Competition, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery San Francisco, CA 1981 L.A. As Seen By L.A. Artists, Invitational Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1981 Architecture de Tour, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France 1967 California Dreamin’, Los Angeles County Museum, Barnsdall Park. Los Angeles, CA 1980 Otis Art Institute Alumni Invitational, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA 1971 Art and Technology, Photographic documentation of the U.S. Arts entry at the Osaka Worlds Fair, sponsored by The Los Angeles County Museum of Art AWARDS AND GRANTS 2006 Vallejo Artist’s Guild, Vallejo, CA – First and second cash prizes 1997 Miranda Leonard Purchase Grant, Gift of four photographs to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1994 California Exposition & State Fair, AWARD, Sacramento, CA 1975 Ohio Silver Gallery National Open Exhibition, PURCHASE AWARD, Ohio Silver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 All City Competition, AWARD, LA County Museum of Art, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS The Lafayette Library and Learning Center, Lafayette, CA. The National Portrait Gallery, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA The Bancroft Library, Berkeley, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco Arts Commission Oakland Museum of California The Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Fresno Museum of Art The California Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA. David Packard...

Jean-Louis Tixier  is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical album including photo reportages of historical events and political issues ...

This is a very rare signed photograph by the Late Barry Feinstein. Roughly 50 of this photograph exist in the world that are signed. Signed on verso by the artist. Comes with cert...

Striped, Prague Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper. 16 x 20 inches Edition size: 11 Exact dimensions of paper size may vary. Please inquire for additional s...

HARRY BOWERS T E N P H O T O G R A P H S I DON'T LOOK FOR PHOTOGRAPHS I INVENT THEM I recall my first meeting with Harry Bowers in California a few years ago. As he produced his large-scale prints, I was at first flabbergasted, not only by their size, but by their seamless perfection. Technique appeared to be everything but then technique as technique simply vanished. After the first moment, tech­nique was no longer an issue, but rather a passageway to the imagery. Suffice it to say about Harry Bowers' working style that he is an obsessive man. Trained as an engineer, he has turned that discipline to art. His lenses, equipment and darkroom, much of it exactingly manu­factured by himself to answer certain needs, serve the desire of the artist to take photographic tech­nique to its ultimate perfection in invisibility and transparency. I respect obsession in art, and particularly in photography, because obsession in photography passes beyond the easy, middle ground of image making to a more demanding, more difficult, yet more rewarding end. Bowers' obsession is to eliminate "photography as technique." No grain, no decisive moments, no journalism, or, seemingly, direct auto­biographical endeavors appear in his work. Bowers is an artist of synthesis who controls his environment if only in the studio exactly to his liking. The images he creates are formal structures, saucy stories on occasion, which may offer hints of a darker, more frightening sexuality, but what you see is the end product of an experiment in which nothing save the original insight perhaps is left to chance. We seem fascinated with the idea of replication of reality in art. Popular painting frequently reproduces a scene "with the accuracy of a photograph," and photographs may "make you feel as though you were right there." The very invisibility of the photographic medium is important to Bowers, in that it allows him to maneuver his subject matter without concern for rendering it in an obvious art medium which would interfere with the nature of the materials he uses. The formal subtleties of Bowers' recent work are as delicious and ambiguous in their interrelationships as the best Cubist collages, yet while those col­lages always suggest their parts through edge and texture, these photographs present a structure through a surface purity. Bowers' earlier works, for example, the Skirts I Have Known series, were formed of bits of clothing belong­ing to Bowers and his wife or found at local thrift shops. These works fused an elegance of pattern and texture, reminiscent of Miriam Shapiro...

Mercedes Matter née Carles (1913 – December 2001) was an American painter and draughtswoman. Her father was the American modernist painter Arthur Beecher Carles who had studied with Henri Matisse. Her mother, Mercedes de Cordoba, was a model for Edward Steichen. Matter grew up in Philadelphia, New York and Europe. She first painted under her father's supervision at age 6 and would later recall being given a paintbox to use while working alongside him in the French countryside. At the age of 12, she returned to Europe and lived in Italy for over 2 years. She would later recount that her time in Italy—including Venice, Assisi, Rome, and Florence—was formative and her primary education in art history. Subsequent studies included at Bennett College in Millbrook, NY with sculptor Lu Duble, and in New York City with Maurice Sterne, Alexander Archipenko and Hans Hofmann. In the late 1930s, Matter was an original member of the American Abstract Artists. She also worked for the Works Progress Administration. She worked with Fernand Léger, who would become a close friend, on his mural for the French Line passenger ship company and again privately on another mural. Léger introduced her to Herbert Matter, the Swiss graphic designer and photographer whom she married in 1939. He also resided with the couple for a year sharing their studio and apartment. The Matters were active in the emerging mid-century New York art scene, and contact with other artists was important to them. Close friends included Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Alexander Calder and Willem de Kooning. In 1943, the Matters moved to California. Matter was raising an infant son but the environment away from New York was affecting her work. She returned to New York in 1946. Beginning in 1953, Matter taught at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) for 10 years, and then at the Pratt Institute for 10 years. She later taught at New York University for several years. She was a visiting critic at Antioch, Brandeis, Cincinnati School of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Maryland Institute College of Art, Yale University, Skowhegan and American University in Washington, DC.. In 1964, she founded the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture. A year earlier, she wrote an article for ARTnews titled What's Wrong with U.S. Art Schools? in which she criticised the phasing out of extended studio classes which served "that painfully slow education of the senses," which she considered essential. The article prompted a group of Pratt students, as well as some from Philadelphia, to ask Matter to form a school based on her ideas. The school was originally housed in a loft on Broadway and gained almost immediate support from the Kaplan Fund, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III and the Ford Foundation. It granted no degrees, had only studio classes and emphasized drawing from life. Early teachers, chosen by the students, included the artists Philip Guston, Bradley Walker Tomlin, Charles Cajori, Louis Finkelstein...

Tiny Clouds, Vienna Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper. 16 x 20 inches Edition size: 11 Exact dimensions of paper size may vary. Please inquire for addition...

April 1982: Member of the 'Jolly Club', Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with his red Lola racing car. He is Chief Test Driver for Firestone International. ...

Girls of Foxcroft School, near Middleburg, Virginia wait at the stables for their horses. Foxcroft is considered to be the elite of America's private schools. Circa 1960 Slim Aarons...

Carol Phillips is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid 20th Century.   The photo depicts Mrs Carol Phillips, businesswoman for Estée Lauder.  Good conditions and aged. ...

The cocktail with the press is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1969. The photo depicts the businessman Arndt von Bohlen und Halbach with his father-in-law, the prince A...

Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...

Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...

Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...

Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...

Twins, Rome Archival inkjet print on Hahnemühle fine art matte paper. 16 x 20 inches Edition size: 11 Exact dimensions of paper size may vary. Please inquire for additional sizes...

Norma Jeane Mortenson or better known as Marilyn Monroe – iconic, beautiful and maybe the most known Hollywood Stars of the 20th century. Born and raised in Los Angeles, USA, she spe...

Karsh is a master 20th Century photographer. Karsh is known for his portraits of authors, scientists, artists, statesmen, musicians, and other dis...

The power of Lapland is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid-20th Century Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album including historical ...

April 1970—Interior designer David Nightingale Hicks (1929 - 1998) on Windermere Island in the Bahamas. David Nightingale Hicks Slim Aarons Es...

Youth outside "Giulio Cesare" High School in Rome is a black and white vintage photo, realized in 1960s. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album in...

One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...

One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirties, Karl Heinrich Lämmel produced several photographic reports of cities, including Munich and Cologne. Photographs that have yet to be seen and appreciated. Lämmel's pictures show a different view of Germany. His documentation is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impressive images of cities and their architecture before the destruction of WWII . The print is new, a Premium-FineArt-Print ( Hahnemühle 308g ), it comes in a secure role without passpartout and frame to reduce shipping cost. This sizes are limited to 25 copies per size. Description: Die Mönckebergstraße in Hamburg mit Passanten, Deutschland 1930er Jahre. The Moenckebergstrasse at Hamburg with passers by, Germany 1930s. Keywords: Deutschland; 3.; III.; Drittes Reich; Stadt; Großstadt; Innenstadt; Gebäude; building; city; malerisch; scenic; inner city; 1930er Jahre; Germany; 3rd; 1930s; Einkaufsstraße; Geschäftsstraße; Ladenstraße; Kaufhaus; Architektur; architecture; Menschen; Passanten; people; Petrikirche; church; Kirche; Kirchturm; belfry; Reisebüro; travel office...

One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...

One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...

One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...

Created when the artist was stationed in Fort Dix. First photograph he ever took!! Dry mounted on board. Signed in pen and stamped on verso. Printed 1999

Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso. Signed in ink on print margin

Frank relaxes between takes in Hollywood, CA with his daughter Nancy in 1964, while Nancy was filming "Get Yourself a College Girl". She often tried to visit her father who was recor...

Portrait of Benito Mussolini is a black and white vintage photo realized by Agence Trampus in the 1920s. Good condition.

Ivan Karp Sherman Drexler Ivan C. Karp (June 4, 1926 – June 28, 2012) was an American art dealer, gallerist and author instrumental in the emergence of pop art in the 1960s. Karp ...

A seemingly candid c-print photograph of a man in a suit wearing a white fedora walking down the street by Houston, TX artist Amy Blakemore. The composition is expertly balanced betw...

Portrait of Carlo Ferrari is a vintage photo, realized in the Early-20th century. Good conditions. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including historical moments, plac...

Theodor Heuss (1884-1963) Back Information: BRD Photographer: Rolf Gillhausen (May 31, 1922 in Cologne, died February 22, 2004 in Hamburg) was a German reportage photographer and jo...

Elder woman walking down the street with her handcart, 1940s till 1950s. Keywords: street; cobblestone; postwar period; woman; hardship; plight; city; poverty; late 1940s; early 195...

"Shot" Black & White Photography 24" x 24" in Edition 1/15 by Olha Stepanian Printed on Epson Professional Paper Signed and numbered by the artist Not framed. Ships in a tube. A...

Bob Gruen John Lennon NYC 1974 (printed later) 40 x 30 inches Signed and numbered edition of 75 Also available as a color C-print Bob Gruen (born 1945) is an American photographer ...

Klaus Nomi, 1979 Silver print image size: 14 x 14 inches Signed William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally f...

Frida and Diego with Hat is a limited edition black and white portrait of Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. Diego sits on a chair, holding a hat while Frida stands behin...

Signed limited edition print of The Human League taken by Simon Fowler in 1982. This shot was used for the cover of the single "Mirror Man" Available in the following sizes: 12 x ...

 Mr. Carl Edward Sagan is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th Century.  Good conditions and aged. The photo depicts the American Astronomer, Carl Edward Sagan...

Early spring in Cologne City forest, Germany 1954. Keywords: Germany; people; coat; couple; springtime; early 1950s; park; urban woods; forest; strolling; Cologne; West Germany; pos...

Signed limited edition print of English band Blur, posing in front of the graffiti slogan 'Modern Life is Rubbish', the title of their 1993 album. Blur were the kings of Britpop and are from L-R: Damon...

Old days Photo - In the Nature is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the early 20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album incl...