Robert A. Sobieszek Libri

Shows examples of photographs used in advertising for automobiles, cosmetics, clothing, and jewelry, and looks at trends in advertising

An Exhibition of the daguerreotypes from the Boston studio of Southworth & Hawes which constitute one of the most significant achievements of American Art.

Roger Ballen (b.1950) challenges the ways in which we perceive the ‘reality’ of photography. His striking, ambiguous images of people, animals and objects posed in mysterious, cell-like rooms occupy the grey area between fact and fiction, blurring the boundaries between documentary photography and art forms such as painting, theatre and sculpture. This most recent body of work, made between 2000 and 2004, is a product of the decades Ballen has spent working with and photographing people on the fringes of South African society.

Here, brought together for the first time, are great self-portraits of the masters of photography from the 1850s to the present, including Andre Kertesz, Nadar, Cecil Beaton, Edward Weston, Irving Penn, Duane Michals, and Cindy Sherman. A probing essay by Robert A. Sobieszek illuminates each of the 149 images.

. 1969, clean bright copy