Sunday Salon - Jeff Wall

Posted on November 13 2006 by Bryan Partington

Today's Sunday Salon brings us the work of Jeff Wall, who photographs staged scenes in large format - making for giant illuminated "lightbox" prints. Wall, a Canadian born in 1946, is less interested in photography than he is in art....

Sunday Salon - David Levinthal

Posted on October 30 2006 by Bryan Partington

In 1971 the ugly finale of the Vietnam war was being played out on television. Levinthal was a student of photography at Yale’s Department of Design. He and another student (Garry Trudeau…later to become the creator of Doonesbury) began to...

Sunday Salon - Larry Burrows

Posted on October 23 2006 by Bryan Partington

Today's Sunday Salon brings us the work of Larry Burrows, and a sophisticated discussion on the dangerous nature of War Photography, past and present. Larry Burrows arrived in Vietnam in 1962 at the age of thirty-six. He’d been a professional...

Sunday Salon - Eric Fredine

Posted on October 15 2006 by Bryan Partington

Fredine's images have a quality that is prehistoric, or possibly post-apocalyptic. They exist outside of any human context. They could have been taken at the dawning of the world, or at the twilight of existence. There is nothing to...

Sunday Salon - Bill Sullivan

Posted on October 08 2006 by Bryan Partington

He calls it “situational photography” and describes it as “as a combination of street photography and portrait photography.” In essence, it involves the photographer visibly loitering in a specific, clearly identifiable location, taking candid surreptitious photographs of ordinary people...

Sunday Salon - Lewis Hine

Posted on October 01 2006 by Bryan Partington

Born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in 1874, Hine was briefly employed as a factory work before attending college (first at the University of Chicago and later at the Ethical Culture School in New York City) to study sociology. In 1903...

Sunday Salon - Bruce Davidson

Posted on September 17 2006 by Bryan Partington

This week's sunday salon bring us the portrait photography of Bruce Davidson, focusing on his intense depictions of the urban street life. One reviewer described Davidson's Harlem series as having "a varied formal vitality that expresses the human condition in...

Sunday Salon - Joan Fontcuberta

Posted on September 10 2006 by Bryan Partington

This week's Sunday Salon brings us the conceptually charged work of Joan Fontcuberta, whose often computer manipulated and generated works question the ideas of photographic authenticity and documentary reality. Fontcuberta has devoted himself to creating images intended to call the...

Sunday Salon - Yousuf Karsh

Posted on September 03 2006 by Bryan Partington

Greg Fallis takes a new school look at an old school portrait photographer, Yousuf Karsh. Join the discussion in the Sunday Salon.

Sunday Salon - Julie Blackmon

Posted on August 28 2006 by Bryan Partington

Today's Salon brings us the work of Julie Blackmon, whose work focuses on the modern domestic life. Domestic Vacations…the very title of photographer Julie Blackmon's most recent series offers us a whimsical contradiction...

Sunday Salon - Hiroshi Watanabe

Posted on August 20 2006 by Bryan Partington

Greg Fallis takes us on a haunting journey through the photographs of Hiroshi Watanabe, with special attention paid to the images of the San Lázaro Psychiatric Hospital.

Sunday Salon - William Christenberry

Posted on August 13 2006 by Bryan Partington

In today's Sunday Salon, Greg Fallis highlights the photographic work of William Christenberry.