In a significant artistic landmark, the National Gallery of Ireland has opened its first-ever photography exhibition, and CLAIRbyKahn is proud to have facilitated the acquisition of many of the works on display. The View of Ireland: Collecting Photography exhibition runs from October 25, 2019 to February 2, 2020 and features images by Irish and international...

In an image by Jacques Henri Lartigue, the nanny Dudu raises her eyes to the sky to follow the flight of a ball before it falls back to earth; weightlessness made visible by the photographic act. Meanwhile, in the work of the painter John M. Armleder, the representation of circular forms on canvas resulted in...

Ever since 1897, when the journalist and activist Theodor Herzl declared, “At Basel, I founded the Jewish State”, the social, territorial, and cultural transformation in Israel has fascinated the world. As a result, the region’s soaring ambitions and extreme conflicts have been under a quasi-permanent media spotlight; yet intimate perspectives rarely emerge above the broader...

There is a subtle, mysterious poetry that emanates from Erich Hartmann’s photography, a play of shadow and light that is captivating yet respectful. Hartmann embraced places, objects, and people with his camera, never unsettling the moment, always capturing it in a way that allowed it to be rediscovered. The Poetry of Daily Life exhibition featured...

May 2, 2019 was the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death. His influence on art, invention, and ideas was unparalleled and his work has reverberated through the centuries. Philippe Halsman was one of the legions of artists that were inspired by his work and in the 1950s he paid two renowned tributes the Italian...

A photographer’s regard is informed by a myriad of concerns, from light to line, from color to contrast. Yet how often is profound caring the defining technical element of an image? David “CHIM” Seymour has long been heralded for his sublime sense of humanity, but what is becoming increasingly celebrated is the artistic mastery that...

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,...

The light and the obscure, the sky and the earth, the ethereal and the corporeal. Such juxtapositions have long formed the essence of the photographer’s art and a mastery of these elements can evoke entire universes of nuance and emotion. Oliver Mark (b. Germany, 1963) is one of the modern geniuses in the use of...

Photographers who capture an iconic image are often confronted with a paradox: the celebration of a single photograph overshadows the entirety an artistic oeuvre. Yet what happens in those rare situations when a single photographer is responsible for scores of iconic images? This is the question that was explored by the Halsman: Facets and Faces exhibition. Philippe...