Category: Photographs

Pablo Picasso, Olga Picasso, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, 1930

The Steerage, 1907 by Alfred Stieglitz (America, 1864–1946). On May 14, 1907, Stieglitz and his family sailed to Europe aboard the fashionable Kaiser Wilhelm II. This picture was most likely taken several days later when the ship was moored in Plymouth, England. (Greenough, Key Set) As proprietor of the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession and ...

The Burning Monk, 1963, Malcolm W. Browne (America, 1931-2012) In June 1963, most Americans couldn’t find Vietnam on a map. But there was no forgetting that war-torn Southeast Asian nation after Associated Press photographer Malcolm Browne captured the image of Thich Quang Duc (Vietnam, 1897-1963) immolating himself on a Saigon street. Browne had been given ...

Lewis Wickes Hine (America, 1874-1940), Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina, 1908. Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee, Lewis Hine believed that images of child labor would force citizens to demand change. The muckraker conned his way into mills and factories from Massachusetts to South Carolina by ...

Jean-Baptiste Huynh (France, B. 1966) Vietnam - Main 1, 1996 silver print, mounted on aluminum a certificate of authenticity from the artist accompanies the work. image/sheet/mount: 234.5 x 120 cm. (92 3/8 x 47 ¼ in.) This print is an artist's proof. Literature Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Intime infini, Actes Sud, Paris, 1996, couverture. Further Details Gelatin ...

Jean-Baptiste Huynh (France, B. 1966) Mali - Portrait XXIV cibachrome print mounted on aluminium image 120 x 120cm. (47 1/4 x 47 1/4 in.) overall 150 x 150cm. (59 x 59 in.) Executed in 2003, this work is the artist's proof aside from an edition of 7. Provenance Acquired directly from the artist by the ...

On the road from Nam Dinh to Thai Binh, Vietnam. This is one of the last photographs that Photographer Robert Capa took before he was killed by stepping on a landmine. THE INDOCHINA WAR: ROBERT CAPA'S FINAL CONFLICT Robert Capa’s photographs from the conflict in Southeast Asia that would be his final assignment. After World ...

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Huynh

Portrait of Japanese Painter Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita (Japan-France, 1886-1968) photographed by Pierre Vauthey. Portrait de Jeune Fille à Hanoi (Portrait of a Young Girl in Hanoi) is one of Foujita's masterpieces illustrating the beauty of a Vietnamese lady. After having studied Western-style painting in Japan, Foujita travelled to Paris, where he encountered the international modern ...

V-J Day in Times Square, a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, was published in Life magazine in 1945 with the caption, "In New York's Times Square, a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers" Portrait of Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (German, 1898-1995) This photograph, taken by Alfred ...