These days, everyone is a photographer. Pocket-sized cameras are ubiquitous; Flickr is a phenomenon; Facebook has reinvigorated the photo album and the self-portrait. Lest we forget that this was not ...

Preface and acknowledgments / Vladimír Birgus and Pierre Bonhomme -- Czech avant-garde art and the world / Vladimír Birgus -- From pictorialism to the avant-garde / Vladimír Birgus -- Optical words ...

As America mourns the death of Jerry Lewis, written tributes and obituaries have recounted the legendary comedian’s storied career, from his work on stage and screen to the vast sums he raised for ...

A year after the Soviets won the first round of the space race by launching Sputnik into orbit, the United States responded by employing an avant-garde photographer to take pictures of rippling water ...

Emerging from this milieu was a group of photographers pushing the boundaries of their medium. The avant-garde in 1920s Prague, the surrealists in Paris and exponents of the Neues Sehen (New Vision) ...

PARIS — The use of mirrors in art has been a rich one, used by Pop, Kinetic, Minimal, and Conceptual artists. In this long tradition, the Jeu de Paume currently offers an additional point of reference ...

__ Caption: "Nocturne 6," Judy Sherrod, tintype, part of the exhibit "Antiquarian Avant-Garde Photography: Works by the North Texas Alternative Process Group" at Sun to Moon Gallery, July 19-Aug. 18, ...

The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden announced the acquisition of 11 new photographic works—its first by major figures Eikoh Hosoe, Minoru Hirata, Tatsuo Kawaguchi, Miyako Ishiuchi, ...

The Hirshhorn Museum displays dynamic works of Chinese self-expression Roger Catlin | Museums Correspondent “A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography in China” (above: Chinese Landscape ...

The Department of Contemporary Art coordinates some of the most important auctions at DESA Unicum. Every year we organise more than 10 auctions thematically divided into 5 categories: Classics of the ...