Martin Wieland was born in 1970, studied at the Graphic Arts in Vienna. At the age of 14 he decided to follow in his fathers footsteps to become a professional photographer as well. Since 1997 specialized in nude and erotic photography. His strength lies in the communication with the model,...
Abbas: Between Myth and Ideology
The Iranian-French photographer Abbas (*1944) took religion as his main concern. He shot the Iranian Revolution, documented Islam as a gobal phenomenon, including militant Islamism. To be able to document the everyday life of Muslims, he travelled from Xinjiang to Morocco, from London to Timbuktu, New York and Mecca. He...
Gail Albert Halaban: Vis à Vis
Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs by Gail Albert Halaban (American, b. 1970). Albert-Halaban's new series, Vis à Vis, is set in Paris, where she peers through and photographs what's behind the windows in the French city's apartments and courtyards. Instead of being the...
PhotoBiography: Corey Arnold
Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman by trade. Working as a deckhand in Alaska since 1995, he spent seven years aboard the Bering Sea crabbing vessel f/v Rollo. He now captains a wild sockeye salmon fishing operation based out of an abandoned cannery complex called Graveyard Point. His...
Martin Parr: Souvenir
When Martin Parr was a boy, his budding interest in the medium of photography was encouraged by his grandfather, himself a keen amateur photographer. Parr studied photography at Manchester Polytechnic from 1970–1973 and then began his career by exploring the medium of black-and-white photography. However, inspired by American photographers such...
Larry Towell: The Russian Front, East Ukraine
After the February 2014 Euromaidan uprising, which brought an end to the Viktor Yanukovych government, Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed the Crimea with the support of locals who felt isolated from the new government in Kiev. The Ukraine army and related militias entered Eastern Ukraine where separatist movements, supported by...
Josef Koudelka – Invasion 68 Prague
In 1968, Josef Koudelka was a 30-year-old acclaimed theatre photographer who had never made pictures of a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as...
Herb Ritts: WORK
Herb Ritts (1952–2002) was a leading American fashion photographer of the 1980s and 1990s, known for his beautifully printed, formally bold, and sensual black-and-white images of supermodels such as Cindy Crawford and Naomi Campbell. This new exhibition of the photographer’s work revisits the artist, whose groundbreaking 1996 retrospective, “Herb Ritts:...
PhotoBiography: David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle is known internationally for his exceptional talent in combining a unique hyper-realistic aesthetic with profound social messages. LaChapelle’s photography career began in the 1980’s when he began showing his artwork in New York City galleries. His work caught the eye of Andy Warhol, who offered him his first...