Looking at the pictorial documentation of such extraordinary events we often get the impression that we are feeling the pulse of history more intensively than at other times. Several of the photographs in the exhibition are consistently referred to as among the most influential photographs in history they shaped the way we think, changed the way we live, and some were turning points in our human experience. Many of the photographs featured in this exhibition not only moved the public at the time of their publication, and continue to have an impact today, but set social and political changes in motion. These unforgettable images are imbedded in our collective consciousness they form a sort of shared visual heritage for the human race, a treasury of significant memories. “History In Pictures” is a gripping selection of images that brings home the power of visual storytelling. I began to explore this fascination with time in a new series of photographs called: “Day to Night”. I imagined changing time in a single photograph. Over the last several years, photographic technology has evolved to a point where anything is possible. "Anything one can imagine one can create. Wilkes sees the camera not only as a device used to capture images, but also as an instrument to collect information. Using time as a guide, all of these moments are seamlessly blended into a single photograph in post-production, visualizing places that are part of our collective memory and unveils a new way of seeing some of the world’s most iconic locations. After 24 hours of photographing and over 1500 images taken, he selects the best moments of the day and night. Working from a fixed camera angle, Wilkes captures the fleeting moments of humanity and light as time passes. The exhibition continues through November 24.ĭay to Night is an ongoing global photographic project that began in 2009. Stephen will be signing copies of his new Day To Night monograph, a beautiful oversize hardcover art book with two fold-outs and 260 pages. The exhibit opens with a public reception for Stephen Wilkes on Friday, October 4, from 5 - 7 pm. Santa Fe-Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar, is pleased to announce an exhibition of Stephen Wilkes’ epic global photographic project Day To Night. “La Dolce Vita” is a major new exhibition of more than 40 photographs by Tony Vaccaro that includes several new discoveries from his archive being exhibited for the very first time. Kennedy and Sophia Loren to Pablo Picasso and Georgia O’Keeffe. Tony went on to become one the most sought after photographers of his day, photographing everyone from President John F. Returning to the US in 1950, Tony started his career as a commercial photographer, eventually working for virtually every major publication: Look, Life, Harper’s Bazaar, Town and Country, Newsweek, and many more. For the next 272 days, Tony fought on the front lines of the war.Īfter the war, Tony remained in Germany to photograph the rebuilding of the country for Stars And Stripes magazine. Denied access to the Signal Corps, Tony was determined to photograph the war, and had his portable 35mm Argus C-3 with him from the start. At the age of 21, Tony was drafted into the war, and June of 1944, now a combat infantryman in the 83rd Infantry Division, he was on a boat heading toward Omaha Beach, six days after the first landings at Normandy. Tony Vaccaro photographed on the set of “La Dolce Vita”, and nearing age 97, he indeed is living “the good life”. At lunch hour, she photographed nearby laborers and office workers with her Graflex Speed Graphic camera. Opportunities then were few for women photographers, but in 1943 Wyman joined Acme Newspictures as a mail room ‘boy’ pulling prints and captioning them for clients. By the time Wyman was 16, she know that she wanted to work as a photographer. Her parents bought her a box camera when she was 14, and she joined the camera club at Walton High School, honing her skills at taking and printing pictures. The family soon moved to New York, where her parents ran a small grocery store in the Bronx. The daughter of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, Ida Wyman was born Main Malden, Massachusetts. Wyman’s photographic vignettes of life in urban centers and small towns in the United States, taken during the mid-twentieth century, illuminate the historical moment while providing a deeply humanist perspective on her subjects. Ida Wyman was one of the defining artists of early street photography that helped shape how we look at our world.
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