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Ho Hai Tran: Pizza Hunt

Ho Hai Tran and his partner Chloe Cahill have traveled over 14,000 kilometers between Australia, New Zealand, and the USA on a very special road trip of sorts, dedicated not to the landscape of these majestic lands nor in an ode to Robert Frank (refreshing!) but to finding and documenting...

Pierre Leblanc: The bench

"It couldn’t go on like this. Things were turning for the worse. A long process of destruction had begun. It became uncontrollable, and spread like lightning… and what should have happened happened, a flash and then nothing. Overtaken by the events, men became afraid, entrenched themselves, isolated themselves. A resistance...

Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision

Galerie Edwynn Houk is pleased to present a selection of rare vintage prints by the photographer Ilse Bing (U.S., born Germany, 1899-1998). The exhibition "Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision", which opens in the Zurich gallery on September the 9th, 2015, features some of her most iconic works from a renowned...

Ying Ang: Gold Coast

"A sunny place for shady people" became a term that began circulating through the Australian media when referring to the ongoing melodramas of criminals that ended up settling on the Gold Coast. The city became known as a perfect strip of golden beach where one of ill-repute could reinvent themselves,...

Bangkok: Airplanes = Home

In a private field in a neighborhood just east of Bangkok, three impoverished Thai families have been living in disused jet airplanes for nearly two years. The families, who collect and recycle garbage, earning a few dollars a day, cannot afford to rent homes, and prefer to stay in the...

Lori Vrba: The Moth Wing Diaries

The Moth Wing Diaries is a photographic narrative addressing themes of memory, providence, revival and dreams, by native Texan photographer Lori Vrba (born 1964). Vrba's surreal landscapes and portraiture explore the artist's sense of conflict and ultimate peace with the Southern terrain. Lori Vrba The Moth Wing Diaries Hardcover: 88...

19th century color photos from Japan

From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, Japanese photographers were doing amazing things with color. Before the turn of the 20th century, photographers in Japan were masterfully experimenting with the use of color. The images of the era, filled with blushing cherry blossoms and azure kimonos, predated...

Robert Capa: Capa in Color

This beautiful book looks at Robert Capa’s color photography, a little-known but important aspect of the great photographer’s work, and includes many never-before-published images. Famed photojournalist and founder of Magnum Photos, Robert Capa was primarily known for his black-and-white images. But after World War II he turned increasingly to color,...

PhotoBiography: Olivo Barbieri

Olivo Barbieri (born 1954 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna) is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments. He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth of field via the use of tilt-shift lens photography. Barbieri's technique simulates the shallow depth of...

Bill Wadman: Dancers In Motion

Bill Wadman is an American portrait photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. His images have been seen on the covers and pages of major publications throughout the world. Bill's long-exposure 'Motion' project has been featured in Popular Photography, Eloquence, and PhotoYou magazines as well as on The Huffington Post. In...