Tag: Photography
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'Canal Zone' Collages Test The Meaning Of 'Fair Use'
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
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Christie's to Hold First Photojournalism Auction in Honor of Anton Hammerl
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
The sale, which takes place at Christie's on Tuesday, will include signed prints donated by Sebastião Salgado and Susan Meiselas, among others. See a slideshow here.
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Peek into the City's Past at the Archives' Visitor Center
Monday, May 07, 2012
The visitor center, which opens this week, will allow access to a huge trove of New York City's archival photos along with other pieces of the city's history -- including legal documents, the city's TV and radio recordings, and gifts given to mayors over the years, like a Waterford crystal baseball bat given to Mayor Giuliani by the Yankees.
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Louis And Lump: Tiny Tots Saved At Sea
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
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Photographer Finds 70-Year-Old World’s Fair Negatives
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Amateur photographer and collector Lynne Rostochile made one her most interesting finds to date at an Oklahoma flea market: a box of 70-year-old 35mm negatives shot during the 1939-'40 New York World’s Fair.
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Transportation Department Unveils Urban Art Under the Queensboro Bridge
Friday, February 03, 2012
On Friday, the New York City Department of Transportation unveiled a new temporary outdoor exhibit on a 50-foot corrugated fence under the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge at the junction of Vernon Boulevard and South Queens Plaza in Queens. Check out photos of the show here.
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Chasing Crime With a Spot News Photographer
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
In honor of the latest Weegee photo exhibit at the International Center of Photography, titled Murder Is My Business, WNYC tagged along with a modern crime photographer from the New York Daily News to see how shooting for the tabloids has changed from the days when Weegee was shooting lurid images of fresh murders and breaking news.
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If You Teach A Man To Photograph: Haiti, As Seen By Haitians
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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Revisiting 'Country Doctor,' A 1948 Photo Essay
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Thursday, December 15, 2011
The forgotten photos of a Chicago nanny, a street artist that turns paint buckets into self-playing drums and the multimedia work of one of Croatia's early feminists. Plus: a talk at the New Museum explores the ways in which video games are bleeding into other areas of culture. It's a good week to be in the big bad city. Here's what we're looking at.
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This Week: Must-See Arts in the City
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Photos chronicling the grinding poverty of the Depression. The hyperreal sculptures of an Italian conceptualist-prankster. International street art and monochromatic paintings that explore various aspects of color. Plus, performance art and Inspectah Deck of the Wu-Tang Clan. It's all happening in the city this week. Here are our picks.
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'Three Lives' Intersect at the Matthew Marks Gallery
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
A show depicting photos and self-portraits of three gay male New York artists is on view now at the Matthew Marks Gallery. “Three Lives: Peter Hujar, Paul Thek, & David Wojnarowicz” is 30 photos and self-portraits taken by Peter Hujar from 1958 through 1985.
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New Photo Exhibit by Ahae Opens in Grand Central Station
Friday, October 14, 2011
Visitors and passerby to Grand Central Station can now take a look through a window in South Korea. For "Through My Window," the photographer Ahae took more than a million pictures through the window of his house, which overlooks an organic nature preserve in South Korea.
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Park 51 Opens Renovated Space with Photo Exhibit of NYC Immigrant Children
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The developers of the Islamic community center near Ground Zero will open the controversial space to the public for the first time Wednesday night. The community center will showcase a 169-image photo exhibition by Danny Goldfield entitled “NYChildren” in the newly renovated space.
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Photographer Richard Drew Remembers 'The Falling Man'
Thursday, September 08, 2011
Richard Drew worked as a photographer for the Associated Press for 32 years before he took his most powerful image on Sept. 11, 2001. Drew has called "The Falling Man" “the most famous photograph no one has seen,” since many outlets refused to publish the photo in the wake of 9/11.
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Hidemi Takagi Turns Imported Food into Art at Times Square
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Takagi's photos of food found in the city's various immigrant enclaves -- from a box of Mexican mole to canned herring from Poland -- are part of the show "Blender," the latest public art project to come to Times Square.
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Museums Reach Out to Artists With Special Needs
Sunday, May 15, 2011
On select Sundays, the Queens Museum of Art opens up its studios to adults with varying physical, emotional and cognitive abilities as part of its ArtAccess program. On Wednesdays in May, El Museo del Barrio hosts its Painting with Light workshop, which pairs professional artists with blind or sight-impaired artists.
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Talk To Me: Art, Pornography and Censorship
Monday, April 18, 2011
WNYC was there to hear the conversation photographer Nan Goldin, critic Lynn Tillman and French thinkers Ruwen Ogien and Carole Talon-Hugon had on the intersection of these subjects.
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Merchant's House to Display Photos of New York Civil War Regiment Soldiers
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The American Civil War began 150 years ago. In honor of the soldiers who put their lives on the line, the Merchant's House in Manhattan is presenting a series of photographs of wounded Civil War soldiers who served in New York regiments.
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Snow Day Snapshots
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The snow may have stopped coming down on Thursday morning, but New York City and the surrounding areas, including Connecticut and New Jersey, have been blanketed with powdery show. WNYC's Culture team has hit the streets to bring you the following Snow Day snapshots.