ewmiller | January 15, 2010

The Logan House was one of several really great things that used to be there, there being my hometown of Altoona, PA. The Logan house was a hotel that hosted the Loyal War Governors’ Conference, an often overlooked event in the history of the American Civil War.
A firm supporter of President Lincoln, Pennsylvania Governor Andrew [...]
Category: Antiques, Collecting, Photography |
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Tags: Andrew Curtin, Lincoln, Logan House, Menu, War Governors
Geo | January 7, 2010

An exhibit that closed January 3 at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Beginning will move to the Dallas Museum of Art for a February 21 opening. The landmark exhibition exploring the influential and profound relationship between photographers and painters who lived and worked along the Normandy coast in France during the mid-19th century. [...]
Category: Art, Museum, Photography |
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Tags: Dallas Museum of Art, France, Impressionism, Normandy, Photography, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Geo | November 12, 2009

Five hundred exhibitors and with any luck thousands of antique-lovers will converge on Pier 94 in New York this weekend for Stella’s 2009 Pier Antiques Show. Merchandise will be found grouped by type, classic and formal; Americana, decorative arts and collectibles; 20th century Modern and Fashion Alley. There are shuttle buses from the Port Authority, Grand [...]
Category: Antiques, Photography, Show & Gallery |
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Tags: david sokosh, MDH Fine Arts, New York Times, Pier 94, Pier Show, Tin Types
Hui | October 22, 2009

Swann Galleries is having an auction sale on photographs today. In the preview I have noticed that photographs were arranged not by the lot numbers, but grouped by scenes. Some pictures are beautiful, such as those of Ansel Adams or Harry Callahan, but I have never grown into followers of those artsy photographers. Interesting photos [...]
Category: Auction, Collecting, Photography |
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Tags: Edward Curtis, Richard Avedon, Rudolf Nureyev, Swann Auction Galleries, William Eggleston
ewmiller | September 27, 2009

Walking through the galleries of photographs of America by Swiss-born Robert Frank, Lin looked at me and said “he doesn’t like America.” As an American, looking at the photos, I didn’t get the idea that Frank didn’t like America. I saw America, probably not the way he saw it, or the way anyone sees it, [...]
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Tags: Jack Kerouac, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Robert Frank
ewmiller | September 16, 2009

The first time I ever consciously thought about Harvey Milk was at a party in San Francisco. I was talking with someone old enough to remember Milk and mentioned that I was from Altoona. It turns out my hometown was mentioned by Milk in a speech to be played in the event of his death. [...]
Category: Photography, Show & Gallery |
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Tags: Harvey Milk, Leslie Lohman Gallery, Rink Foto, San Francisco
Hui | January 23, 2009

Thus a simple series of clicks from a Nikon D70 camera and picking the best one to print out from online stores like shutterfly, at its best, leads to just beautiful pictures. Pictures are mass produced, thus can only be consumed; while artworks are toiled, thus set forth to be preserved. [...]
Category: Artist, Photography, Show & Gallery |
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Tags: ambrotype photograph, david sokosh, DUMBO, Edward Steichen, Metropolitan Museum of Art, tintype photograph, Underbridge Pictures, wet plate collodion
Geo | January 4, 2009

In 1815, most Americans were the subject of “a tyranny of distance,” as writer Daniel Walker Howe put it at an event this weekend sponsored by Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetary. Howe is author of “What Hath God Wrought,” a book that chronicles the changes between 1815 and 1845. Many of the men who brought those changes into being are buried in Green-Wood.
Category: Artist, Other Topics, Photography |
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Tags: Daguerreotype, Green-Wood Cemetary, President Monroe, Samuel Morse