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"Dartmoor Pony, in Haytor Rock, Dartmoor", Devon, UK, 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Storm", 2011
By Ron Hamad
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. Price and size range (Custom mural sizes available). All the photographs are in a limited edition.
Edition 1 of 15.
Price ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Kennedy, Jackie and Caroline Touch Noses, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
JBK and Caroline Touch Noses nb_018_019 -- Jackie and Caroline photographed in Georgetown in 1959. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are mad...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Kennedys, Hyannis Beach, Jackie Swinging Caroline with Cousin in Water, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
The Kennedys at Hyannis Beach, nb_089a. Image size is 13.75" x 20" (for 17" x 22" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhle photo rag pape...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Fuzzy Dice
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Ted Adams’ first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams’ work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame.
"I see photography as a way of cropping the world—selectively taking things out of context—which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create ‘narrative’ and context rather than discard them."
While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, in the past five years he turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission.
The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4" x 6" to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design—yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer’s gaze directly to the subject matter.
This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn Applies Makeup in Mirror, Backstage at Ondine, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Backstage at Ondine, 54_0330b_a, 1954 – Backstage at Ondine, Audrey Hepburn was photographed for Mademoiselle in 1954. After years of perfect blondes, Audrey's look wa...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
John Barrowman, St. Regis Hotel
By Lynda Churilla
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Black Panthers Portfolio
By Stephen Shames
Located in New York, NY
Stephen Shames limited-edition portfolio of three photographs:
The Black Panthers
Bobby Seale speaks at a Free Huey rally in DeFremery Park, Oakland, California, 1968
Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches
Image Size: 12 x 8 inches
At home, Huey P. Newton listens to Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, Berkeley, 1970
Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches
Image Size: 12 x 8 inches
Glen Wheeler and Claudia Grayson, known as Sister Sheeba, stand outside George Jackson's funeral at St. Augustine's Church, Oakland, California, August 1971
Paper Size: 11 x 14 inches
Image Size: 8 x 12 inches
"For me the most important part of the Black Panthers' legacy is a belief that one can effect change even when things seem hopeless." —Stephen Shames
In the midst of the largely nonviolent Civil Rights movement sweeping through America, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the legendary Black Panther Party...
Category
1970s New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
La Madre
By Steve Schlackman
Located in New York, NY
Steve Schlackman is a lawyer by profession and a photographer by choice. Fascinated by the magical world of photography since his youth, he honed this...
Category
2010s Photorealist New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Photogram, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Integrity
By Ejaz Khan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Most certainly, this is one of the most intense wild mustang pictures I have ever taken. The one horse bit the ear and neck of the leading horse as they raced forward. This immediate...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Plexiglass
$3,600
No, No, No, or, Photographer's Favorite
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 7.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Lower Manhattan, New York City
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, New York, Night, Landscape, NYC, City Lights, Motion, bridge, cityscape, cars, b&w, black & white, vignette, urban photography, high contrast, motion blur, highway, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Untitled (During training. . .)
By Lori Grinker
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (During training. . .)
During training for the Michael Spinks fight, Trump Plaza, Atlantic City,
June 1988
Signed and numbered, verso
Gelatin si...
Category
1980s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Slim Aarons 'Jamaica Sea Sailing'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Jamaica Sea Sailing, 1953
Fiber print
Estate edition of 150
Signature stamped and hand numbered with Certificate of authenticity
1953: Two men sailing their yacht 'Eel II' in Jamaic...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Striped Pegasus"- Black and White Wildlife Photography, Zebra in Africa
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Right after visiting a Masai tribe in Amboseli National Park, we came across this beautiful zebra. He was feeding with a female and a foal. Once they say us, the female and the foal ...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Photographic Paper, Black and White
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Natural History Museum, Londra, 2005
By Massimo Listri
Located in New York, NY
Massimo Listri
Natural History Museum, Londra, 2005
Chromogenic Print
Signed, dated, and numbered on verso label
39.5 x 47.5 inches edition o...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
C Print
Fernando Natalici Al Goldstein New York 1979
By Fernando Natalici
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Al Goldstein by heralded New York underground photographer Fernando Natalici
Silver Gelatin Print, c.1979.
11x14 inches.
Hand signed & dated on the verso from an edition of 2.
Some minor residue or fading to edges and minor signs of handling; otherwise in very good condition for its age.
Al Goldstein:
If Hugh Hefner strove to put a sleek, air-brushed image on sexual freedom in the 1960s, rival publisher Al Goldstein was the polar opposite. Unabashedly abrasive and foul-mouthed, the cigar-chomping, a larger than life Goldstein called his explicit magazine Screw.
When he co-founded Screw in 1968, the American legal system was embroiled in a battle over what constitutes obscenity. Goldstein never envisioned himself as a champion of free speech, but fought for what he said were his own prurient interests.
The porn magazine's scathing, scatological editorials railed against religious leaders and the government for justifying war while imprisoning erotic magazine...
Category
1970s Pop Art New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Disco, Bill Bernstein Set of Four Photographs
By Bill Bernstein
Located in New York, NY
Bill Bernstein
Disco
c. 1970
Set of four Photographs
These iconic images not only document the people and places of the golden age of disco, but also capture the spirit and intensit...
Category
1970s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Style 'Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Gretchen Van de Kamp Ward In Gustave Tassell
1960 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certif...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Pensacola", 1992
By Michael McLaughlin
Located in Hudson, NY
American, architecture, trees, urban, black and white, Florida, text, romance, sign, Americana, blur, rural, palm trees, surrealist, blur, blurry, landscape, american, photography, black & white, b&w, film photography, architecture, landmark, vignette, nostalgia
A surrealist, blurred landscape...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cary Grant Seated Looks Left, 1955
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Cary Grant Seated Looks Left -- Photographed by Mark Shaw for a 1955 issue of Mademoiselle. Cary Grant was called one of the "Charm Boys." Image size is 40"...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
"Speed Lever", 2010
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life. There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
"Tree Runner", Plas Newydd, Wales, 2009
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
A boy runs through a thickly wooded forest that looks fresh out of a fairy tale book. The sky is covered with foliage and the lines of trees seem to go...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn on Striped Sofa, Arm Back, Glances Right, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, r23_9 -- Audrey Hepburn looked incredible no matter what she was doing. This image is an out take from the photo shoot for the cover of the April 19, 1954 internation...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons Style 'Last-minute Adjustments'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Last-minute Adjustments
1955 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
A young woman has last-minute...
Category
1940s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sandbox
By Mindaugas Gabrenas
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Beach, Sky, Landscape, Figurative, reflection, b&w, black & white, beach, figure, landscape, portrait, high contrast, water, sky, clouds, weather, water, beach, mirr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Dennis: A Natural Actor
Located in New York, NY
Dennis: A Natural Actor
2001/2015
Signed, titled, and dated twice in black ink, recto;
Also signed, dated, and inscribed in black ink, verso
Gelatin silver print
9.75 x 8 inches (...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Sennon Cove Surfers on the Cornish Seaside", UK, 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Big Bad Wolf"- Black and White Wildlife Photography, Lone Wolf
Located in Brooklyn, NY
We've all heard or read that the dogs come from wolves. They are very similar except for one thing: when you see a wolf you immediately know, they don’t wiggle their tail or rub them...
Category
2010s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Photographic Paper
$4,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Ben
By Mark & Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
For the last two years Mark and Kristen have collaborated using one of the earliest photographic methods, collodion wet plate to create ambrotypes on glass and tintypes on aluminum. They use a 1860 style view camera to create one-of-a-kind images, which become windows into an intimate, romantic, and beautiful world of faces, still lives, nudes, and landscapes. In this demanding process, the collodion coated tin or glass plates are immersed in a silver nitrate solution, and then they must be exposed in the camera and developed while still wet. Serendipitous flaws and beautiful imperfections are an inevitable part of this imprecise hands-on process.
This show includes a combination of 24 tintypes and ambrotypes, which are 8x10 and smaller in size. Their intimate sizes ask the viewers to look closer and spend more time with these photographs to fully appreciate their power. — A welcome antidote to today's nonstop, ¬instantaneous imagery. Paradoxically, this intersection of past and present gives these pieces an unmistakably contemporary feel. The two collaborators deliberately play up the ambiguity of time.
The nudes (some recalling E.J. Bellocq's alluring portraits of New Orleans prostitutes in 1912) are suffused with freshness and sensuality, even eroticism at times, with nearly all of them coming off as refined rather than crass.
Fredrick Scott Archer developed the collodion process in 1851. Artists such as Julia Margaret Cameron, Lewis Carroll, William Henry Jackson and Civil War photographer Mathew Brady used the process, due to its cost and versatility advantages. In addition Sink and Hatgi’s work can also be seen revived in contemporary artists work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Audrey Hepburn Getting Shampooed and Reading, Wide, 1953
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn Getting Shampooed and Reading, Wide, c7_14 – Photographed for Life in 1953, part of Audrey Hepburn's nightly ritual was a shampoo given at the studio. Image size is 13...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Renucula
By Mark & Kristen Sink
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Style 'September Affair'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
September Affair
1949
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
A young woman mode...
Category
1940s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Audrey Hepburn on Striped Sofa, Hands on Closed Book, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Audrey Hepburn, r22_1 -- Informal portrait of Audrey Hepburn. Out take from the cover shoot for the April 19, 1954 international issue of Life. THE 24” x 36” SIZE OF THIS IMAGE IS ON...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons, Backgammon by the Pool (Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Backgammon by the Pool, 1957
Silver gelatin print
Estate edition of 150
Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary Beth-Turner play backgammon by a swimming pool in Palm ...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Lambda
Sailboats in Dartmouth, facing the English Channel, Devon, UK
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white, Landscape, Water, Sea, Surfing, Sports, Beach, Summer, Seascape, B&W, film photography, film, Robin Rice, Boat, ocean, water, Beach, Boats, Outdoors, Nature, Silver ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Crysthansemums, 1995
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1 of 25
CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through May 8th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show wil...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Balenciaga, 1991
By Todd Burris
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1 of 25
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Horse in the Celtic Sea, Penzance
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and white, Landscape, Seascape, Sea, Water, Surfing, Sports, Swimming, Beach, Summer, beaches, horse, horse photography, film photography, film, silver gelatin print
black and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Grace Kelly Hair Up, 1954
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Grace Kelly Hair Up -- Grace Kelly, later Princess Grace of Monaco, was photographed by Mark Shaw in 1954. Image size is 32" X 32" (for 36" X 36" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints ar...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Hop Scotch
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is pro...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bird Walker
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Birds, Trees, Landscape, Abstract, bird, rural, america, american, b&w, black & white, landscape, nature, pathway, high contrast, vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Hitchcock
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Ted Adams’ first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams’ work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame.
"I see photography as a way of cropping the world—selectively taking things out of context—which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create ‘narrative’ and context rather than discard them."
While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, in the past five years he turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission.
The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4" x 6" to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design—yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer’s gaze directly to the subject matter.
This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,000
"Inglewood", Los Angeles, 2004
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Alleman's interesting use of perspective makes this photograph almost collage-like. The angle of his camera completely throws off the scale of the airplane and stop sign, merging the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dollface
By Ted Adams
Located in Hudson, NY
Black and White, Women, Fashion, Figurative, Photography, Portrait, doll, woman, photograph, b&w, black & white, high contrast, american, vignette, suburban, diner, storefront, moody, blur, america, portrait photograph, suburban
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
Ted Adams juxtaposes surrealism with the documentary art form. What differentiates Mr. Adams' work from traditional photojournalism is his keen eye for capturing the irony in the events that unfold before our eyes. It is the found objects in everyday life to which Adams is most attuned. He creates a subtle mood and visual mystery that conveys meaning not only from the image itself but also through imagining what exists just beyond the frame.
“I see photography as a way of cropping the world – selectively taking things out of context – which often results in stripping the meaning out of the original subject matter, or at least making the image open to interpretation. It’s the opposite of traditional photojournalism whose intention is to create 'narrative' and context rather than discard them.”
While he has exhibited artistic photography in a variety of genres, he has turned his artistic eye inward to reflect a more autobiographical tone. While some people compare his work to that of Robert Frank, Adams finds himself more and more influenced by Larry Clark whose career was built on pictures drawn from his own life and drug-addled friends rather than a specific documentary mission.
The unique presentation of this collection of twenty-three silver gelatin prints enhances the voyeuristic sensibility of Mr. Adams’ work. Each photograph is jewel box in size, measuring 4” x 6” to invite the viewer in to make an intimate appraisal. The craftsmanship of the wide, dark wood frames hearkens back to late 19th-century Shaker design – yet the aesthetic is boldly contemporary, providing a strong backdrop to draw the viewer's gaze directly to the subject matter.
This artisanship extends to the printing where Adams exhibits his skills in traditional darkroom processes. He shoots mostly with Leica and Nikon 35mm film cameras, preferring the archival qualities of black and white film and primitive analog functionality.
In the invitational image, “Beyond” we see an abandoned building. The eye immediately is drawn to the structure’s one indication of life, a sign reading “Beyond” which glows like platinum in contrast to the forlorn setting. One has to wonder what goes on beyond the shut door. Yet the humor lies in the idea that anything in these surroundings could be in the superlative -- beyond the gritty or merely mundane.
Adams' sarcasm veils an artistic integrity. What seems happenstance and simple, a road sign, a graffiti ridden wall, or a bank of phones, belies the artists uncanny ability to see the interesting in the ordinary. In a second picture, “Solitary”, we see the words “solitarily confined” sprawled across a wall. Just to the side of the wall stands a little girl. One might think of the solitary confinement in terms of a jail term or the graffiti an indictment on society. But the surprise lies with the child at play, seemingly free of any constraints at all.
Born in Louisville Kentucky, Adams spent most of his adult life in Philadelphia after having moved there to work as a professional darkroom printer. In addition to artistic and documentary photography, Adams works as a multi-media artist. He curates the online Abandoned Photo Museum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$1,000
Preparing for the Wrestling Class
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Laurence Salzmann’s first solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery depicts the gritty world of wrestling in the city of Santiago de Cuba. The word “La Lucha” means both wrestling and struggle in Cuban Spanish. Here the dual meaning refers equally to the young wrestlers’ physical struggle and the Cuban people’s fight to survive in an economically and politically oppressed culture. Both rely on pride, ingenuity and an indomitable spirit as they strive to gain respect on the global stage.
Salzmann’s photographs reflect over a decade long passion that began on a trip to Santiago de Cuba to improve relations between our two countries. While there, Salzmann stumbled upon a gym where young boys aged 8-18 learn Greco-Roman style wrestling. Once home he could not get the silhouetted forms of young athletes in training out of his head.
This classical series of eighteen photographs, ranging in size from 11″ x 14″ to 20″ x 24″ are silver gelatin prints. Using his Hasselblad, Salzmann’s shots are un-posed and almost voyeuristic, revealing an intimate and universal portrait of human resilience. While Salzmann’s work is rooted in the social-documentary tradition, the exquisitely printed images tell a narrative of personal discovery that appeals to all ages and cultures. Taking early inspiration from American photographic greats such as Walker Evans and Paul Strand, Salzmann’s method is to create a relationship whereby the subjects feel comfortable with his presence.
In the invitational image, “Ascending”, we see four boys train using their only resources, their sinewy bodies and the primitive gym’s concrete stairs. Each boy grips the ankles of another, wheelbarrow style, as they climb the steps on their hands. The slanted staircase, the triangulated shapes of the boy’s limbs intertwined, and the brown bodies against the stark white wall create an arresting image that goes beyond its documentary origin to artistry. Viewed from afar it recalls the ancient Greek brush in red-figure technique used to decorate fine pottery.
In the image, “Jump of the Tiger”, a young man vaults across the back of another. The intense physicality of the wrestler...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Future Champions
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 7.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is prod...
Category
1990s Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Free Exercise
By Laurence Salzmann
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition of 10.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Cab Midtown Manhattan, December 2004", New York, 2004
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
Thomas Alleman’s urban landscapes convey the pulsating energy and sensual excitement of city life. With an eye for the visual rhythms and geometry of buildings, highways and parks, h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Cows, Little Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Devon, UK", 2010
By Robin Rice
Located in Hudson, NY
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Edition 1 of 20.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Kennedys, Hyannis Beach, John, Jackie and Caroline, 1959
By Mark Shaw
Located in New York, NY
Kennedy Unpublished Beach -- The Kennedys at Hyannis Beach Image size is 10" x 15" (for 11" x 17" paper size). All Mark Shaw prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuhl...
Category
1950s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Giclée
Slim Aarons 'Cricketers on the Pitch'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Slim Aarons
Cricketers on the pitch, Belfast
1962 (printed later)
Silver gelatin print
estate signature stamped edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity
Cricketers on the pi...
Category
1940s Modern New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Hollywood, October 2005", Los Angeles, 2005
By Thomas Michael Alleman
Located in Hudson, NY
An unconventional rendering of the classic Hollywood sign.
Thomas Alleman’s urban landscapes convey the pulsating energy and sensual excitement of city life. With an eye for the vis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
La Belle Femme
By Silvia Lareo-Vazquez
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10. Prints are signed and editioned.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
"Tuscan Landscape", Bacio, Tuscany, 2006
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
The rolling hills and lush vegetation in this gorgeous Tuscan landscape encourage viewers to travel to the countryside in their own imagination.
Pet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Pressure Gauge", 2007
By Ian Gittler
Located in Hudson, NY
Ian Gittler’s Motor Art series-photographs of century-old engine parts, gears, sparkplugs, and brand tags-offers respite from the digital fetishism, overexposure and one-hundred-forty-character bursts of communication that seem to define our era. Gittler is no luddite, he loves his iPhone. But these images, often obscuring the objects beyond identification, take unsentimental pleasure in elements of weight, ground, volume and permanence that are more closely associated with a bygone heyday of industrialization.
These photographs are about a tangible physical experience, about moving parts. Gittler’s expert printing-his ability to see the potential in a frame and employ the techniques necessary to articulate that vision on paper-brings the work to life.
There’s wit in the brand iconography and a documentary component, but Gittler resists prescribing interpretations, saying subtext isn’t the point. His use of extremely shallow depth of field, intense contrast and exploded grain is muscular and poetic. But subtext is relevant.
Although Robin Rice first approached Ian Gittler about his vector-based art on photo paper, the gallerist challenged him to create a series of photographs with that kind of machismo. As a native New Yorker who was marched through the halls of MOMA as a toddler, Gittler’s inspiration-his idea of macho-has less to do with cowboys and racecar drivers than with Franz Kline brushstrokes and modernist design. For Gittler, macho means the maximum amount of black ink that can lie across a sheet of photo paper. That kind of force. He narrowed his field of view for this series-often to a centimeter or two-in order to achieve a purely visual, visceral response.
Gittler titled the work Motor Art in tribute to the 1934 Museum of Modern Art exhibit, Machine Art. Upon its sixtieth anniversary, Phillip Johnson wrote of the show (and of his own essay for its original opening), “The thrust was clear: anti-handicraft, industrial methods alone satisfied our age; Platonic dreams of perfection were the ideal.”
Ian Gittler photographs, draws, writes, and makes music. He has created album covers for Willie Nelson, Roy Hargrove...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Mr. Darcy, Dartmoor UK
By Patricia Heal
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Racehorse Blur Double, " 2004, Sedgefield, UK
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition 1 of 25.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
Pete Kelly finds his inspiration in nature and the landscape. Specifically focusing on, "The reclamation by nature of urban settings", Kelly finds a particularly strong aesthetic and power in the beauty of the urban landscape. "I try to see beauty around me, drawing beauty from ugliness by capturing close up textures of fading paint or graffiti, or by reducing the shape of the subject to silhouette."
Kelly's fascination with photography, the quality, and flexibility of the medium
began at a very early age.
Born in England in 1966, and as the son of a military man, Kelly spent most of his childhood growing up in West Germany.
After leaving school Kelly enrolled in a photography course with the R. A. F Photographic Unit, based in Wildenrath in Germany. Although this initial training lasted only six months, it established a life long passion and dedication to photography. Already an avid traveller, Kelly initially decided to return to the UK,
to study Graphic Design at Stockport College, before moving to America in 1987. After completing an Internship at an innovative commercial photography studio in America,
Kelly began working as a Photographers Assistant.
Working closely with a range of photographers allowed him to intrinsically develop his own
refined sense of aesthetic as well as develop and master photographic theory and technique.
Now working as a Fine Art Photographer in his own right,
Pete Kelly utilises the most cutting edge equipment and techniques,
painting with photography by compositing and layering photographs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Majestic", Dartmoor, UK, 2007
By Patricia Heal
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for FRAMED print.
Edition of 1.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
"Padstow Cornwall", Cornwall, UK, 2007
By Pete Kelly
Located in Hudson, NY
Pete Kelly finds his inspiration in nature and the landscape. Specifically focusing on, "The reclamation by nature of urban settings", Kelly finds a particularly strong aesthetic and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary New York City - Black and White Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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