Just out in March issue of Architectural Digest on Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian; Realizing Their Dream Homes in California.
The niche in Khloé’s bedroom is marked by a mix of exotic touches, among them a star-shaped lantern, a photograph by Chester Higgins Jr., and a side table inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
http://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kourtney-khloe-kardashian-house-tour
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After a successful career in business, Bern Schwartz (1914–78), returned to his hobby of photography at the age of sixty. Within just four years, he established himself as a renowned portrait photographer attracting famous sitters from across the globe. These included prominent members of the British establishment of the time—actors, dancers, artists, writers, politicians and royalty—as well as international luminaries. His portraits were first exhibited to great acclaim at the Colnaghi Gallery in London in 1977. Further exhibitions followed including more recently at the National Portrait Gallery, London in 2008-09, and at the Mishkenot Sh’ananim and the Naggar School, Jerusalem in 2012. His work is represented in public and private collections worldwide.
Thirty years later, these portraits still engage the viewer. Their immediacy and often informal style are due, in part, to Schwartz’s approach. He usually captured his sitters at home or at work. And, with his wife and collaborator Ronny, he conducted extensive research before each sitting. This allowed him, instead of standing behind the camera, to engage in animated conversations with his subjects who barely noticed his click of the shutter release kept in his pocket.
“He caught us when we weren’t posing,” recalled the journalist and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke, one of Schwartz’s subjects, “which is how he captures so much life and animation. It was as if we weren’t even having our picture taken, just talking with a friend.” Schwartz recorded each sitting in his journal, excerpts from which are included in some of the labels that accompany the photographs on this website.
For the past 70 years, 95-year-old Walter Chandoha has made a career out of photographing cats for both editorial and commercial purposes. This year, Aperturepublished a collection of Chandoha’s colorful cat photographs in the appropriately titled Walter Chandoha: The Cat Photographer.
A self-described lover of photographing “everything and anything,” Chandoha first stumbled into cat photography after he found a stray kitten he named Loco in the snow. He took a few pictures of Loco, submitted them to various contests, and won a few prizes. But things didn’t get serious until the early 1950s when Chandoha began photographing in color. With help from his wife Maria, who was his art director, secretary, animal herder, and also the mother of their six children, he began to play around with a few different ideas, including photographing a kitten wearing a red Christmas ribbon. They submitted that image to some magazines and were thrilled when Woman’s Home Companion called to say they were going to run the image on their cover and offered an incredible payment of $500.
To read the full article:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/behold/2015/12/18/walter_chandoha_is_the_cat_photographer_photos.html
By Judith Thompson
I recently discovered the poster above while going through one of the many boxes of ephemera in the studio. I knew about the show at the historic Limelight Gallery, the first of it’s kind photography gallery launched by Helen Gee. However, I hadn’t known that Harold had dedicated his show to Smith. It is just one more indication of the important friendship between the two of them. I wish I had Harold here now so that he could tell me more about his dedication. These photographs show Smith preparing for his own show at the Limelight in 1957. He asked Harold to help him edit and hang the show. For more on that, read Harold’s earlier blog: W. Eugene Smith and me at Helen Gee’s Limelight Gallery, 1957.
READ THE COMPLETE BLOG POST HERE: on http://www.haroldfeinstein.com/harold-w-eugene-smith-the-jazz-loft-and-helen-gees-limelight-gallery/
On Friday November 13th, Muna Tseng gave a talk at Paris Photo Platform on the Panel Epic Journey: Photographic Legacies. She discussed the management, preservation and upkeep of the Tseng Kwong Chi estate and archive. Photos of the talkare available on facebook, and you can watch the talk here.
Our hearts go out to those lost and hurt in Paris. They are in our thoughts.
Please RSVP and let me know if you will attend the morning or evening session to loni@ilon.com or 917-270-4696.
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The presentation will start promptly at 2:30 pm at Ilon Art Gallery on November 22, 2015
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery Acquisition of Jack Mitchell Photographs
