Sentences with phrase «century photo portraits»

Mining sites like eBay for 19th - and 20th - century photo portraits of everyday African Americans, Jefferson gives their forgotten sitters a shot at immortality by painting their formal portraits, emphasizing the importance of Sunday finery to people who toiled in the service industry six days a week during and after the days of slavery.

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Most Creative: «15th - Century Flemish - Style Portraits Recreated in Airplane Lavatory» and «Dad Takes Crazy Photos of Daughters»
These photos are reminiscent of 17th - century European portraits, complete with a black drop cloth, dramatic chiaroscuro, and oval - shaped frames.
-- 06.10.2013 4th floor, B - wing This exhibition, compiled by the Moderna Museet in Malmö, which is comprised of almost 100 photos, provides a survey of the still lifes, portraits and fashion photos of Irving Penn (1917 — 2009), a late 20th - century American photographer.
Featured images: Peggy Guggenheim in the mid-1930s, photo via magnetafoundaton.org, Peggy Guggenheim and her first husband Lawrence Vail with their children Pegeen Vail Helion Rumney and Michael C. Vail aka Sindbad, photo via ff2media.com, Peggy Guggenheim and Max Ernst, photo via vice.com, Peggy Guggenheim at Home, 1958, photo by Nino Migliori, Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century, photo via huffingtonpost.com, Portrait Peggy Guggenheim, 1955, photo by Oswald Kofler.
Published on the occasion of Richter's major touring exhibition in Europe, this landmark publication encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half - century of activity, including photo - paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes, portraits, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
Where previous monographs have focused on a single genre within the artist's vast output, this stunningly illustrated survey encompasses his entire oeuvre, now stretching across more than a half - century of activity, including photo - paintings, abstracts, landscapes and seascapes, portraits, glass and mirror works, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
The latter features over 4,500 postage stamp - sized passport portraits, while a video projection presents group photos of military soldiers taken in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Egypt in the first half of the 20th century.
Varejão is so prepared to back up her work that she has photocopies in her hands of some of the most important books and images that stood out to her while researching a culture and an ethnicity that at first seemed foreign: photos of Hopi women wearing a hairstyle of whorls, drawings of Mimbres's burial rituals, images of her own previous series where cracked paintings looked to make ties with 11th century Chinese Song dynasty ceramics, and American Indian portraits by George Caitlin were only a few of the many pages that she held and showed me during our time together.
Photos: From top, «Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World,» installation view; Antonio Rodriguez (attributed), «Portrait of Moctezuma II,» 1680 - 91, oil on canvas; «Eagle Warrior,» Mexico, Aztec, 1440 - 69, terracotta; «Our Lady of Cocharcas Under the Baldachin,» Peru, 18th century, oil on canvas.
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