Graciela Iturbide 50 Years of Photographic Treasures, an exhibition of work by Mexico's greatest living photographer, is at Throckmorton Fine Art in Midtown East, Manhattan, Monday-Saturday, March 28 - May 18, 2019. FREE Graciela Iturbide Mexico is one of the lands where magical realism or surrealism continues to live in every day life. Salvador Dalí, the great Spanish … [Read more...] about Graciela Iturbide 50 Years of Mexican Photography
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Time of Change Lola Alvarez Bravo & Mariana Yampolsky
Time of Change ~ a visual dialogue between Lola Alvarez Bravo and Mariana Yampolsky is a fine art photography exhibition at Throckmorton Fine Art in Midtown East, Manhattan, Tuesday - Saturday, September 21 - December 1, 2018. Lola Alvarez Bravo Lola Alvarez Bravo was the wife Manuel Álvarez Bravo, the father of Latin American photography. She both assisted him and was an … [Read more...] about Time of Change Lola Alvarez Bravo & Mariana Yampolsky
Tierra, the pre-Columbian Latin American Landscape
Tierra, a Latin American Landscape, is at Throckmorton Fine Art in Midtown East, Manhattan Tuesday - Saturday, from June 28 - September 15, 2018. www.throckmortonnyc.com Tierra, Earth, the cradle of the people. Mexican Aztec and Maya, and Peruvian Inca built great cities in the tierra and then some of them disappeared. Their geometries inspire art. Their masks stir fears. … [Read more...] about Tierra, the pre-Columbian Latin American Landscape
William Ropp ‘Tafari: He who Inspires Awe’ Ethiopia
William Ropp Ropp is a French photographer nicknamed "the shadow sculptor" for his unusual portrait technique. The Shadow Sculptor Spencer Throckmorton describes how Ropp would, "shine a bright beam of light from a 50-year old Czech flashlight to illuminate his subjects, who are placed in total darkness and asked to stare directly into the camera lens in a pose of their own … [Read more...] about William Ropp ‘Tafari: He who Inspires Awe’ Ethiopia
Aldo Sessa, Argentine Photographer of Gauchos and Ports
Aldo Sessa Aldo Sessa is one of the great photographers of Argentina. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1939. Sessa started his professional photography career when he was just ten years old. He first exhibited at a group show in Buenos Aires in 1952. Sessa worked as a photojournliast for La Nación, one of Argentina's two leading newspapers. He has collaborated with noted … [Read more...] about Aldo Sessa, Argentine Photographer of Gauchos and Ports
Valdir Cruz “Presences” the Spirits of the Brazilian Rainforest
Valdir Cruz is a Brazilian-born, Guggenheim Award-winning, New York fine art photographer. He is represented by Throckmorton Fine Art. Valdir Cruz Presences sees what nobody else sees Presences is Cruz's seventh solo exhibition at Throckmorton. It is a selection of vintage gelatin silver prints from three projects: Faces of the Rainforest, The Water’s Way (O … [Read more...] about Valdir Cruz “Presences” the Spirits of the Brazilian Rainforest
Surrealismo Ojos de Mexico ~ Surrealism in Mexican Photography
Surrealismo Ojos de Mexico ~ Surrealism in Mexican Photography is an exhibition of vintage fine art photography at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York City from September 21 - December 2, 2017. Surrealism in Mexico A fertile period in Mexican culture after the Mexican Revolution of 1910 - 1920 coincided with the development of Modern Art in Europe, and the first attempts to … [Read more...] about Surrealismo Ojos de Mexico ~ Surrealism in Mexican Photography
Fritz Henle “Mr. Rollei” in 1930s Mexico
Fritz Henle was a German-born photographer who traveled the world in the 1930s, worked for New York magazines in the 1940s, and settled in the Caribbean. On his way to New York City in the late 1930s, Henle spent time in Mexico in the company of leading artists of the time such as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Jose Clemente Orozco, and others. Henle is remembered for his New … [Read more...] about Fritz Henle “Mr. Rollei” in 1930s Mexico
Iconic Photographs of Cuba “Under the Cuban Sun”
Under the Cuban Sun is an exhibition of fine art photography of Cuba from the 1930s to the near present at Throckmorton Fine Art June 17 - September 17, 2016. “What is so moving in these 42 photographic images is how the consequences of each period of political upheaval in Cuba, -- from the 1930s dictatorship to the 1960s Revolution to its abandonment by the Soviet Union in the … [Read more...] about Iconic Photographs of Cuba “Under the Cuban Sun”
Christian Cravo: 25 Years of Bahia, Brazil
Christian Cravo: 25 Years at Throckmorton Fine Art January 14 - February 27, 2016 was a fine art exhibition and book launch by one of the great Brazilian photographers. The exhibition provided a rich insider's look at the people of Bahia in northeast Brazil. Cravo is an unusually young photographer at Throckmorton Fine Art. Given Throckmorton's eye, we predict that Cravo, who … [Read more...] about Christian Cravo: 25 Years of Bahia, Brazil
Graciela Iturbide is Mexico’s Leading Living Photographer
Scenes from an Exhibition [slider_pro id="37"] Last night the herd ran to the art fairs, but the quality in New York City's Latin art world was up on East 57th Street at the opening of Graciela Iturbide (Mexico City, 1942) at Throckmorton Fine Art. The 71 year-old Iturbide, a world-renowned artist, is the protege of the father of Latin American photography Manuel Álvarez … [Read more...] about Graciela Iturbide is Mexico’s Leading Living Photographer