In our Historic guest rooms and suites, you'll find nationally and internationally recognized contemporary artists working primarily
in black and white photography.
Booth N28 is reserved for Spanish gallery from Madrid, Maisterravalbuena, which brought a good selection of
black and white photography by Hiraki Sawa.
Jochen Lempert (f. 1958, Germany) has a background in Biology but is since the early 90's active as an artist working
with black and white photography as his primarily medium.
James Harris Gallery is pleased to present «Body Language,» a group exhibition of
black and white photography including work by Diane Arbus, Bill Brandt, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Bill Burke, Harry M. Callahan, Robert Capa, Ralph Gibson, Emmet Gowin, Helen Levitt, Andrea Modica, Rodrigo Moya, and Henry Wessel.
In his latest
black and white photography series, Al Azmeh portrays an intimate setting where a diverse network of Syrians, including journalists, poets, artists and actors, voice their opinions on the current situation in Syria, and what they hope to be the «Syria»...
American photographer William Eggleston was a pioneer, daring in the 1960s to cross the artistic threshold
from black and white photography to colour, experimenting with the costly and complex «dye transfer» technique.
I don't know what it is that
makes black and white photography so appropriate for capturing the wide open spaces of the States, but for me it is up there with «Hud» or «The Last Picture Show», both also elegies for vital qualities that have been undermined or lost.
The way life is somehow breathed into this crumbly den, the way the evocative sound design pounds at the audience's ears and the way the
stunning black and white photography always allows viewers to investigate the frame and find tiny nuances they hadn't seen earlier.
Deakins uses the overtly stylish surroundings to sheer perfection using every possible smoke - filmed frame to recall the good old days
when black and white photography in Hollywood films was an art in itself.
Decorated in creamy whites and subtle earth tones accented by natural wood finishes, fresh beachside adornments and vintage New
England black and white photography, Cape Pogue is the ultimate escape for families, girlfriends or couples traveling together.
This film may look like one of those annoyingly mannered independent films, with its wacky young cast and arty -
farty black and white photography, but it's actually a fresh, smart and very funny comedy.
And though «The Better Angels» is pretty to look at, giving us a sense of what a Terrence Malick film in stark and
austere black and white photography might look like, Edwards» picture has very little of its own distinctive voice or narrative thrust.
John Frankenheimer (who replaced the film's original helmer, Arthur Penn, at Lancaster's request) directs with a muscular style that puts the themes into action and the
crisp black and white photography captures the busy industrial detail of the train yard and the gritty war - torn atmosphere of France in the final days of the German occupation.
He was committed to discovering the potential of
black and white photography during the shooting and the printing, and has shown consummate skill in each stage of the photographic process.
The exhibition represents the first solo show of the artist's
early black and white photography from the 1940s and 50s, and will focus on more than 40 images including many unique prints that have never before been exhibited.