"In Romare Bearden (1914-88) Harlem found its own history painter, an artist who won dominion over form by studying the Old Masters, and then reinvigorated it with the jazzy rhythms pioneered in painting by Stuart Davis, the master of...
Sculpture; Signs (Notices); Advertisements; Advertising; Electric signs; Electron tubes; Communication; Communication devices; Language; Slogans; Cities & towns; Night; Night photographs; Architecture; Buildings; Walls; Streets; Roads;...
Excerpt from the Survival series. "Jenny Holzer extended the use of language in art to another dimension by presenting words alone; for the viewer, looking and reading became one and the same act. […] In graduate school at the Rhode Island...
Louisville artists Norman Kohlhepp and his wife, Dorothy Kohlhepp, dressed in evening wear. The photograph is marked with a few blemishes. Attached to front of image: Please Credit…Rotoetos…Prominent personalities attend the opening of the...
Brooklyn Bridge as viewed from one end showing a train on railroad tracks, pedestrians on a path, and a road for carriages and wagons. Title: 4274 The Different Ways of Crossing Brooklyn Bridge. Text on left: C.H. Graves, Publisher. Philadelphia,...
Train approaching on railroad tracks with bridge in the background. Title: New York & Brooklyn Bridge, N.Y. Text on left: Popular Series. Text on right: Popular Series.
Times Square, New York City, with the Paramount Building. The shot is taken from above, and people and vehicles are visible in the street and on the sidewalks below. Other buildings in the vicinity are also visible. Published by Alfred Mainzer,...
Photogravures; Prints; Photographs; Cityscape photographs; Cities & towns; Cityscapes; City & town life; Roads; Streets; Winter; Snow; Carriages & coaches; Vehicles; Horses; Animals; Architecture; Buildings; Gates; Trees
"In his own art […] Stieglitz had moved quite sharply away from the pictorialism of his early work toward ever-more 'straight' photography - that is, toward photographs that look like photographs, free of lens or darkroom manipulations...
