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Lisette Model, Shadows, 1940-41 Gelatin silver print, printed c. 1960s, 13 3/8 x 9 7/8 in., Courtesy Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York
Exhibition from April 28 to June 18, 2016 at Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Paris Fair Exhibitor
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Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present Songs and the Sky, an exhibition of art and music.
Artworks by Lisette Model, Barbara Morgan, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, and Alfred Stieglitz will be paired with musical compositions by Ernest Bloch, John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, and Christopher Washburne. Historically and conceptually relevant musical compositions were chosen to provoke, compliment, enhance, and challenge a reading of the visual artworks. Music served as literal or ideological inspiration for these artists, who sought to create images with the equivalent potential to communicate or translate abstract concepts directly…
Read more at parisphoto.com/agenda/songs-and-the-sky
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FAKING IT : Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
Frederick Sommer (Italian 1905, 1999)
Max Ernst
1946
Gelatin silver print
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
(image via Frederick and Frances Sommer Foundation)
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