by Nicolas Genty | Sep 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Berenice Abbott acquired a substantial fraction of Atget’s negatives in June, 1928, and quickly started work on its promotion. Abbott’s work on Atget’s behalf continued until her sale of the archive to the Museum of Modern Art in 1968. She published...
by Nicolas Genty | Sep 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Berenice Abbott’s large retrospective at Huis Marseille covers her work from Paris to New York. She spent two years studying sculpture in Paris and Berlin and started her involvement with photography in 1923, when Man ray hired her as a darkroom assistant at his...
by Nicolas Genty | Sep 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Brassaï views of Paris and its people are all breath taking. A Paris that does not exist anymore. Phantoms and shadows of things passed. A nostalgic trip back to the Paris of the 30s to the 50s. Couple in a Café, near the place d’Italie, c. 1932 © Estate Brassaï...
by Nicolas Genty | Sep 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Two photography giants are currently exhibited in Amsterdam. Brassaï at FOAM and Berenice Abbott at Huis Marseille with an extra thought to Eugène Atget, also shown in his relationship to Abbott. More impressions of these two exhibits in my news. Just follow the...
by Nicolas Genty | Sep 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The exhibition continues inside Queen Anne’s Summer Palace with photos dedicated to the velvet revolution of 1989. Seeing Havel and Dubček in the arms of each other is touching and allows strong souvenirs to resurface. Prague, Národni třída, November 17th 1989...
