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SALLY MANN :: AT WARM SPRINGS, 1991
AMY SILLMAN: ‘what I had thought were my two most distantly related activities, abstract paintings and jokes, were not only connected to each other but that my work may even be seen as constituted by the terrain between them’
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CCS Amy Sillman Artist
a small assortment of works from the highly prolific and multi-faceted Amy Sillman.
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AKIRA SATO :: UNTITLED, 1960
“Akira Sato, the Japanese photographer, was noted for his graphic and iconic experimental photographs of women. His seminal book, also entitled Woman, is an enigmatic collection of portraits finely meshed with a type of fashion, but as with all things Japanese, his work retained an exotic quality that was to define his style. Sato was born on July 30, 1930 in Tokyo. While a student of economics at Yokohama National University he was an avid reader of LIFE and other photographic and fashion magazines at the American CIE library in Hibiya. He graduated in 1953 and one year later made the move and became a freelance photographer, specializing in fashion. Continue reading AKIRA SATO :: UNTITLED, 1960
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ELLIOTT ERWITT: NEW YORK CITY, USA, 1953 Transcending the Personal into the Universal
‘The photograph that Elliott Erwitt made in 1953 of his newborn daughter and her mother in the family’s modest Manhattan apartment is among the most widely reproduced of its time, having appeared in venues as different as Edward Steichen’s seminal 1955 photography exhibition (and book) “Family of Man,” and in magazines, on postcards and even in drug company advertisements. But if Mother and Child is a mainstay of modern photography, to the mischievous Erwitt, 74, it’s just “a family picture of my first child, my first wife and my cat,” he says. “I still see it as a snapshot. But it happens to be a pretty good one.” -Adriana Leshko, Smithsonian Magazine, August 2002″
NOBUYOSHI ARAKI : YAKUZA, 1994
Gueorgui Pinkhassov : Fish Market, Jakarta 1989.
The Incubator 