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TREASURES OF VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY

TREASURES OF VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY

In a world awash with ephemeral digital images, the gravitas of vintage prints becomes all the more remarkable. A sense of time emanates from the paper while the power of the image entwines with the history of the object to create a truly profound artistic experience. By bringing together a collection of vintage prints from...
LARTIGUE, TIME REDISCOVERED

LARTIGUE, TIME REDISCOVERED

A quintessential aspect of Jacques Henri Lartigue’s brilliance was his ability to weave entirely new visions of time with his photography. His pioneering grasp of movement resulted in images that both stopped and accelerated time, while his work documenting the Belle Époque took finite moments and expanded them into expressions of an entire generation. Now,...
Dancing Bedoins

Dancing Bedoins

In 1956, the photographer Inge Morath and her friend and editor Robert Delpire left for the Middle East. Reflecting back on this voyage to Iran, Iraq, and Jordan, she said, “At that time it was very complicated for women to travel alone in the Middle East. I was always very considerate of how people live....
RUDI WEISSENSTEIN BOOK

RUDI WEISSENSTEIN BOOK

CLAIR Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of Rudi, A Dreamer—Rediscovering an Archive.  Rudi, A Dreamer—Rediscovering an Archive donors the legacy of Rudi Weissenstein’s photography. It is published by Kehrer Verlag and CLAIR Gallery curator Anna-Patricia Kahn is the book’s principal editor. You can learn more about the book by visiting the Kehrer website. Rudi, A Dreamer—Rediscovering an Archive has received critical...
CLAIR Gallery Welcomes Édouard Boubat

CLAIR Gallery Welcomes Édouard Boubat

  CLAIR Gallery is pleased to announce its partnership with the estate of legendary French photographer Édouard Boubat. Boubat (1923-1999) was one of the great humanist photographers of the 20th century and he captured such iconic images as Lella (seen above) and Rémi écoutant la mer. For decades, he travelled the world shooting photo reportages and his work...
INGE MORATH: ON STYLE

INGE MORATH: ON STYLE

The plaudits and praise continue to flow for the exquisite new book that explores the fashion photography of Inge Morath. Inge Morath: On Style was published in the fall of 2016 by Abrams Books. It includes 250 black-and-white and colour photographs and was edited by John P. Jacob, the American curator and director of the Inge Morath Foundation. The...