Landscapes: With and Without Figures

PETER BRANDES
D.C.A. Gallery, NYC
2001

LARRY BURROWS
Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC
1998

Stiff card stock, 9 x 3.75 inches, blank back

LYNNE COHEN
P.P.O.W., NYC
2000

Stiff card stock, 6.25 x 5.25 inches

LUCIEN HERVÉ
Michael Hoppen Photography, UK
nd

Stiff card stock, 4 x 5.75 inches

TODD HIDO
Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
2000

Stiff card stock, 5 x 7 inches

PAUL HIMMEL
Keith de Lellis Gallery, NYC
2003

Stiff card stock, 10 x 7 inches, folded once vertically

JOHN HINDE
Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, NYC
2005

Stiff card stock, 6 x 4.25 inches

RUTH THORNE-THOMSEN
Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC
2001

Stiff card stock, 9 x 3.75 inches, blank back

GEORGE TICE
Sandra Berler, Chevy Chase, MD
2000

Thin card stock, 6 x 4.25 inches

LARRY TOWELL
Leica Gallery, NYC
2001

Thin card stock, 16.5 x 5.5 inches, folded once vertically

WYNN BULLOCK
Laurence Miller Gallery, NYC
2002

Stiff card stock, 9 x 3.75 inches, blank back

Imogen Cunningham

The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County
1984

Stiff, card stock; 8 x 8 inches

Back

Stiff, card stock; 16 inches wide by 8 inches folded once vertically
to produce an 8 x 8 inch exhibition checklist

Open

Back

The Halstad Gallery
Birmingham, MI
2002

Stiff card stock; 8 x 5 inches

Swann Galleries, NYC

Stiff card stock; 6 x 9 inches folded once horizontally to produce a 6 x 4.5 inch notecard
(The inside is blank)

Self-portraits

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1974

Henri Cartier-Bresson shoots color for Holiday Magazine

These were shot in the early 1950s on assignment for Holiday Magazine but as with the Robert Capa post, I'm not sure the date of the issues. The first three images are from a chapter entitled "The Low Countries."







The rest of the images are from "The Iberian Peninsula."






The lower left image is by Cartier-Bresson. Top left and lower right: Duncan Edwards; Top center: Arnold Newman; Top right: Slim Aarons; Bottom center: Alexander Wainman.

Robert Capa shoots color for Holiday Magazine

Early 1950s though I'm not sure of the exact issue. This is from a book that features reprints of articles. I'm almost convinced that the woman in the yellow raincoat is that same woman in the last shot.

R. G. Hoegler's Griechenland

I was looking through a book of photographs recently called Griechenland by R. G. Hoegler. Except for the fact that his first name was/is Rudolf, I couldn't find out much about the him. He was a German painter who fell in love with rural Greece and spent many years there before the start of World War II. After the war had interrupted his idyll, he returned to Greece to find that painting no longer spoke "the language of his heart." He took up photography and produced more than one book about Greece.

The book itself is elegant. The copy I have is pretty beat up but it is large, bound in nice cloth with gilt embossed lettering, with all tipped-in images. Quite handsome.

The work is mostly images of the Greek landscape, archeological ruins, sculpture, artwork, towns. All professionally produced and beautiful examples of their genre but for the most part, the book reads like art history (visually reads; the text is all in German which I can't read.)

What sets this book off is that there are more than a handful of images which are unusual and striking. And a couple that are in fact puzzling in the context of the overall theme of the book. Here are some samples:






I really don't know what to make of this image, the last in the book. It's a very odd way of ending this sort of coffee table travel book.