Cross-posted from the New York Times. [By Katharine Q. Seelye] “Dr. Rosenblum was the author of seminal works that helped bring scholarship and recognition to photography as a creative art form after practitioners, notably Alfred Stieglitz, had revolutionized the...
Cross-posted from The Art Newspaper. [By Norman Rosenthal] “Arguably Wolf’s greatest achievement was to pull together, in secret, from some dozen or more existing collections, a unique museum holding of photography, old and new, for the J. Paul Getty Museum and its...
Cross-posted from The New Yorker Photo Booth, Time Magazine, and The New York Times. [By Hua Hsu and Neil Genzlinger] Corky Lee often described his life’s work as “photographing Asian Pacific Americans.” It was a simple passion that could take him anywhere. For nearly...
Cross-posted from The Guardian via Pro Photo Daily. [By Sean O’Hagan] “Grace, born in Manchester in 1930, later recalled being dismayed as a teenager by the paucity of career choices available to her. ‘There were only three jobs considered by society as...
Cross-posted from The New York Times. [By Clay Risen] “Her unerring eye for visuals made her a fixture in New York’s magazine world, where she promoted scores of famous and unsung photographers.” “Witty and urbane with a love for whiskey and a wisp of a Southern...
Cross-posted from The New York Times. [By Katharine Q. Seelye] “Adál, who moved from Puerto Rico to New York as a teenager, created art that was often bitingly satirical and politically subversive. Adál Maldonado, an influential Puerto Rican photographer and artistic...
