In 1939 Clemens Kalischer was an 18-year-old Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who was subsisting in Paris, when he somehow scraped together enough francs to purchase a small but potent book — “Paris Vu Par” — containing vital images of the city by the ingenious Hungarian Jewish photographer André Kertész. Kalischer had the volume with...
Opening: UNIFY @ The Marketplace Gallery, Albany. New York photographer/filmmaker/artist Sam Bassett is noted for his portrait photography, his documentaries about Chelsea Hotel residents and his masking tape sculptures that have won him comparisons to Christo and gotten him arrested. Also in the show is Albany photographer/DJ Truemast Trimingham. Part of Albany First Friday. Opening […]
Contemporary Tibet conjures a mysterious mental image. So imagine how much more mysterious it was 100 years ago when travel was difficult and few foreigners were granted entry. A rare photo album provides a glimpse of that cloistered culture.
An Inuk girl with her husky puppy in the hood of her amatiuq, circa 1920. Adam Diston - Cutting a sunbeam, England, 1886 Emil Heilborn. At the dog races, 1930 Lotte Jacobi, Ruth Jacobi, Berlin, 1928 1946 Club Row Pet Market, Spitalfields, London Sam Hood, Child performers, c. 1920s-30s André…
