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William Eggleston Portraits

So many people take those simple snapshots of life, but there’s something about Eggleston that no one can match.  —Sofia Coppola Ivy Sanders Schneider— William Eggleston (b. 1939),”the father of color photography,” is celebrating, among other accolades this year, an exhibition at the The National Portrait Gallery and the release of

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That Day by Laura Wilson… January 14th, 2008

The unforgettable images in That Day: Pictures in the American West, Laura Wilson’s new book of photographs, tell sharply drawn stories of the people and places that have shaped, and continue to shape, the dynamic and unyielding land known as the western United States.  As Rick Brettell writes in the

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That Day by Laura Wilson… December 14th, 1996

The unforgettable images in That Day: Pictures in the American West, Laura Wilson’s new book of photographs, tell sharply drawn stories of the people and places that have shaped, and continue to shape, the dynamic and unyielding land known as the western United States.  As Rick Brettell writes in the

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TR Ericsson: Crackle & Drag — meet the artist

This Saturday, December 12th, we’ll be at the Aperture Foundation Holiday Book Bazaar (547 W 27th St in New York) with a fine selection of books on and of photography.  We’re thrilled that artist TR Ericsson, whose book Crackle & Drag was shortlisted this year for the Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation Photobook

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That Day by Laura Wilson… November 3rd, 1993

The unforgettable images in That Day: Pictures in the American West, Laura Wilson’s new book of photographs, tell sharply drawn stories of the people and places that have shaped, and continue to shape, the dynamic and unyielding land known as the western United States.  As Rick Brettell writes in the

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