Walter Civardi

Tamazunchale

1950

Boxing PA, c. 1990s Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso (Total edition of 5) Vintage gelatin silver print 16 x 20 inches, sheet $6,100 Modern gelatin silver print 16 x 20 ...

La Salle Military Academy NY, 1991 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso (Total edition of 5) Vintage gelatin silver print 16 x 20 inches, sheet $6,10...

Gleason’s Gym Brooklyn, NY, 1990 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso (Total edition of 5) Vintage gelatin silver print 16 x 20 inches, sheet $6,100 Modern gelatin silver p...

Naval Academy, Great Lakes 1997 Signed, titled, and dated in pencil, verso (Total edition of 5) Vintage gelatin silver print 16 x 20 inches, sheet $6,...

A black-and-white cityscape photograph In the photographer's Cities series features a view of the East River in Lower Manhattan in summertime. Shot at dusk from a small boat on the E...

A black-and-white image shot on film of architecture and a storefront window of a shoe shop in an old Paris district attracted Roberta Fineberg who was drawn to the forgotten and ver...

An image of a young woman on an amusement park ride shot on film by Roberta Fineberg, the portrait was made in New York in the late 1980s a time of innocence and edginess, tenderness...

A black and white photograph, Masked Ball, France, 1989 by Roberta Fineberg, is a 14 x 11 signed gelatin silver print in an edition of 5. A couple poses in costume at a masquerade party in France of the 1980s . The image was shot at a masked ball, in a private garden and estate of a local aristocrat -- whose small chateau (castle) once hosted the infamous 18th Century French writer Marquis de Sade. Provenance: RF Studio *** Artist's Bio: As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, and the development of ideas for her photography, video, installations, works on paper, and painting. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary photography), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter. RF, living in New York City, began her career as an editorial photographer while studying in Paris. In France she contributed both photography and writing to publications, landing a column (photos and text) with The Saturday Review while exhibiting photographs in public spaces. Roberta Fineberg’s freelance photography appeared in Le Monde, Jeune Afrique, Paris Match, L’Officiel Femme, Ms, Weltwoche, Vanguardia, among others with images licensed through stock agencies. Photographs were selected for cover art at W.W. Norton, St. Martin’s Press, Harcourt, Bookspan, Simon & Schuster, etc. Print Regional Design Annual New York (2003) awarded her for book jacket photography for If Wishes Were Horses. In 1997 Macmillan published City Riders: A Story of Riding and Friendship her first book of black-and-white photographs and a story about three teenage girls in the 1990s who rode horses at the now-defunct Claremont Riding Academy and oldest stable in New York City. In 2023, RF created an interactive installation, works on paper on the female body, in a public space. In July 2022, Fineberg’s Double Helix was included in a Sotheby’s auction in New York City and exhibited in the preview show Contemporary Discoveries. Selected exhibitions include Time Gallery New York (2022), Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022), CADAF online art...