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Polaroid Sell-off: Photographers lament loss of historic instant image trove
/ September 8th, 2009
BOSTON - All of the precious Polaroids, a 16,000-piece collection of one-of-a-kind prints by hundreds of photographers ranging from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol, were supposed to stay together forever. Polaroid’s corporate art collection survived a 2001 bankruptcy intact, to the delight of ...
Naked Man Wins; Art Of Photography Show judged by Charlotte Cotton
NPR 1 / August 31st, 2009
Charlotte Cotton (shown here), head curator of the photography department at the Los Angeles County Museum, was the sole judge of the Art of Photography Show held in San Diego last weekend. She chose an image of a 53-year-old naked man, hunched on a child's chair, for first place. The work beat ...
Life Can't Imitate Art; Model arrested for nudity at the Met
Guardian / August 30th, 2009
New York - Apparently, nudes can be viewed in oils or bronze, but not in the flesh, dancing in the arms & armor department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Model Kathleen "KC" Neill, 26, was nabbed by police last week and charged with public lewdness after posing naked in the museum for ...
SFMOMA Focues East: A New Look at Asian Photography
NPR 1 / August 26th, 2009
San Francisco - Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon and Henri Cartier-Bresson are a few 20th-century photographers most widely noted as masters. An entire hemisphere of photographic history is often overlooked. Two upcoming fall exhibitions at SFMOMA will examine stunning photography from Japan, China, ...
Annie Leibovitz’s Epic N.Y. Renovations Spurred Lawsuit, Debt
Bloomberg / August 10th, 2009
The former owners of two 19th century homes in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village said they regret selling them in 2002 to photographer Annie Leibovitz, who is now in danger of losing the properties in a $24 million lawsuit.
Cartier-Bresson finally gets the focus
Bloomberg / August 6th, 2009
Better late than never. Two shows in Paris celebrate the centenary of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was born in 1908.
Photographer Annie Leibovitz sued over $24 million loan
Bloomberg / July 30th, 2009
The photographer Annie Leibovitz was sued by Art Capital Group Inc. and accused of failing to live up to the terms of agreements for loans of $24 million. Leibovitz approached the firm last year over her “dire financial condition” arising from tax liens and debts...