Classic Photographs Los Angeles

Los Angeles this weekend: Classic Photographs Los Angeles show. Pieces by master photographers such as Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Frantisek Drtikol, Elliott Erwitt, André Kertész, Wayne Miller, Joseph Sterling, Edmund Teske and Garry Winogrand. We'll have work contemporary photographers such as Raymond Meeks, Mark Steinmetz and Jason Langer as well as by a number of Japanese photographers including Emi Anrakuji, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Daido Moriyama, Harry Shigeta and Issei Suda. On view January 14 & 15, 2012, Helms Daylight Studio, 3221 Hutchison Ave. #E, Los Angeles.

Forbidden Fruit: Recently Acquired Photographs

Portland, OR—Charles A. Hartman Fine Art is pleased to present a group exhibition of several excellent recently acquired works. Selections Two includes new paintings and photographs by gallery artists as well as a number of modern and vintage pieces recently added to the gallery’s extensive inventory of photographic masterworks. Works by gallery artists Hayley Barker, Jason Langer, Daniel Robinson, Camille Solyagua, Eva Speer and Mark Steinmetz are presented alongside classic photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Frantisek Drtikol, André Kertész, Willy Ronis, Aaron Siskind, Josef Sudek, Brett Weston, Garry Winogrand and others. www.hartmanfineart.net

Hungarian Rhapsody

Martin Munkacsi, Carole Lombard, Hollywood, 1937

Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they brought about in photojournalism, as well as abstract, fashion and art photography. Others, such as Károly Escher, Rudolf Balogh and Jószef Pécsi remained in Hungary producing high-quality and innovatory photography. A display of approximately two hundred photographs ranging in date from c.1914–c.1989 will explore stylistic developments in photography and chart key historical events. These striking images will reveal the achievements of Hungarian photographers who left such an enduring legacy to international photography. Exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts on the occasion of the Hungarian Presidency of the EU 2011. On view from June 30 to October 2 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. www.royalacademy.org.uk

ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ Retrospective

Underwater Swimmer Esztergom,1917, André Kertész

"After I was wounded [in WWI] I was in the hospital for almost nine months. We went swimming in the pool every day, and I realized the distortions in the water. When I photographed them my comrades said, ‘You are crazy. Why did you photograph this?’ I answered: ‘Why only girl friends? This also exists.’ So I photographed my first distortion in 1917 – others followed later, especially the nudes in 1933." -André Kertész, Kertész on Kertész

With around 250 photographs and countless magazine contributions, a retrospective of photographer André Kertész is on display at the Fotomuseum Winterthur on view until May 15, 2011.  www.fotomuseum.ch