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Ansel Adams is a San Francisco born photographer whose best work was arguably done in America’s West Coast, namely Yosemite National Park. Adams is often considered the “Godfather of high resolution, black and white photography”. He along with fellow photographer Fred Archer developed ...
of California at Berkeley in 1903. While living in the Bay Area, he became interested in the burgeoning Pictorialist movement in photography that flourished there, and his images met with immediate success. Kales moved to Los Angeles to work in advertising but returned to San Francisco in… ...
Small San Francisco-based studio Pacific Helm released Camera Noir on Tuesday, a simple black and white photography app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch that produces top notch images. From left: Lo filter, level to ground; Med, slightly angled; Hi, extremely tilted.With just three ...
Working primarily in black and white digital photography, I strive to reveal the beauty and art that I see in nature and architecture, inspired by the unlikely similarities in each, which I discover throughout New York City and beyond. I have called New York City home for more than 30 year...
Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to open the fall season with the work of Bevan Davies. Bevan Davies: New York Typologies will feature vintage black and white photographs of lower Manhattan made in the mid-1970s. Davies utilized a large-format view camera to generate images of great depth an...
First came “The Black Swan” and now comes “The White Crow.” There’s always something about the world of dance that invites provocative multi-faceted examinations of a person’s psyche. It always raises the question of, how far is one willing to push themselves?Ralph Fiennes explores thi...
In this new series of black and white photographs, Katseff continues to explore themes of minimalism and the reductive form but moves his focus, contextually, to water. In this work water, in the form of rivers and falls, is separated out from the surrounding darkness, reflecting the slow,...
A friend had found a producer to make her first CD, and I took pictures of her recording music with famous Brazilian artists in the studio. It was an incredible experience that compelled me to pursue photography, which eventually led me to San Francisco, a magnificent city to go to live ...
She studied photography at Columbia University and worked at a New York portrait studio until 1918 when she began to travel. Stranded in San Francisco, she continued doing studio work during the 1920’s. With her husband, the painter Maynard Dixon, she traveled the southwest, photographing Native...