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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS Ansel AdamsVINTAGE AND MODERN PRINTS
September 11, 2010
The importance of Ansel Adams' contributions in the art of photography are many. Adams (1902-1984) started the first classes to teach photography at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. He taught and mentored countless photographers. Adams founded the Group f/64 along with fellow photographers Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham, and he invented the zone system in photography.
The recent widely-reported controversy surrounding a Fresno man's garage sale find of a box of glass plate negatives, that he attributed to Adams, has a silver lining -- many people are discovering (or re-discovering) Ansel Adams. According to gallery director Daniel Miller, "This interest presented us a great opportunity to present an educational seminar, and brief exhibition on Ansel Adams."
Here is the schedule of the Sunday, September 19th event:
2-3 pm Carol McCusker, PhD, presents a one-hour multimedia lecture on "The Life and Work of Ansel Adams." McCusker was the former Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts (MoPA), San Diego. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in art history with an emphasis on the history of photography at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She is also Adjunct Prof at the University of San Diego and UCSD where she teaches the history of photography.
3-4 pm John Upton (photo-historian, photographer and friend/colleague to Adams), Carol McCusker, and noted San Francisco Ansel Adams photography expert Scott Nichols will conduct a round table conversation about Adams' work, connoisseurship, and the newly found glass plates.
There will be a selection of authentic Ansel Adams photos on display, including Moonrise, pictured above. The gallery will also have the first public viewing of three of Earl Brooks "Uncle Earl" photographs, side-by-side with the glass plate images that have been attributed to Ansel Adams (prints will be on display during gallery hours from Sept 11 until Sept 19).
Just 30 seats are available for this seminar. The fee is $40 per person. Please click here to buy on Pay Pal (no special account required), or call the gallery with a credit card to reserve (310) 838-2440. |
PAST EXHIBITIONS COLLECTORS' FAVORITES
August 14, 2010
The Photographic Arts Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Duncan Miller Gallery are pleased to announce COLLECTORS' FAVORITES, a special exhibition of photographs on loan from private collections of members of LACMA's Photographic Arts Council.
Click here to see article in Los Angeles Times
Opening reception, Thursday, Aug 19, 7-9 pm |
| Rolfe HornLANDSCAPE
June 12, 2010
Horn's photographs exemplify the peace and simplicity of the natural world, images that capture a transcendental sense of euphoria at the joy of being alive.
Horn's exhibition is the fourth in the series of revolving solo shows from four San Francisco-based artists. The exhibition includes Amy Auerbach's series of photographs entitled "Vanishing Waterfront", Monica Denevan's "Songs of the River: Portraits from Burma", and Ben Nixon's "Surface Tension" photographs. |
| ELECTRIC FLOWERS
April 8, 2010 View Artist's Work →
Artists Robert Buelteman and Ed Martin present an exhibition of photographs -- flowers and plants -- taken without cameras.
With their own special techniques, each artist coaxes the plant to reveal a different type of photograph -- colorful, other-worldly and unique. |
| Jeff Dunas30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
January 15, 2010 View Artist's Work →
Criss-crossing the U.S., Dunas created a series called American Pictures, spending time in the Mississippi delta he photographed blues players. He shot nudes in France. Baroque and Renaissance gardens, and street pictures from around the world. |
| CHRIS McCAWNEW WORKS
December 15, 2009
Photographer Chris McCaw has released a new series of original work, based on paper negatives, long exposures, and the sun burning its way across the image.
This series is titled P.O.P., and is made using an arcane photographic paper that was popular in the early 1900's. The paper's common name is "Printing Out Paper." This paper produces beautiful, ethereal prints with a range of colors from deep magenta, violet or brownish tint. The subtle color hues in each piece are quite different in each piece as a result of the paper, the hand processing and the gold toning of each image during processing.
Due to the scarcity of this paper, this series is currently limited to 16 pieces. As each piece is the actual negative that was placed in the camera, they are one-of-a-kind and cannot be reproduced.
McCaw's work has been recently acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Works are currently on display in both museums. |
| Frank PaulinCOLOR PHOTOGRAPHS
October 22, 2009 View Artist's Work →
We are pleased to produce the first exhibition of color photographs from artist Frank Paulin. These color images date back to the early 1950s and represent a substantial body of newly discovered work.
"Vibrant work... shot a half-century ago but never printed until this year. Many of the pictures read like montages, layered assemblages of motion, reflection, and signage, the choreography of the city (usually Manhattan) stilled for a brief, dynamic moment." -- from Los Angeles Times review, November 13, 2009
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| WoodstockTHE 40TH ANNIVERSARY
August 15, 2009 View Artist's Work →
"Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary" a photographic exhibition. Featuring the works of Jim Marshall, Baron Wolman, Henry Diltz and Lisa Law, this show recreates the experience of the crowd, the ambiance and the music of the world's most famous music festival. See our Press section for video and reviews of this exhibition.
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| Daniel WheelerGULP
April 9, 2009 View Artist's Work →
Wheeler's GULP series features large-format color landscapes of Southern California -- but photographed through the waters of a series of swimming pools. |
| Group f.64
February 5, 2009 View Artist's Work →
Opening reception: Thursday, Feb 5th, 6-9 pm
Group f.64 was an association organized in 1932 by a group of eleven photographers: Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, John Paul Edwards, Sonya Noskowiak, Henry Swift, Willard Van Dyke, Consuelo Kanaga, Alma Lavenson, Preston Holder and Brett Weston. One of the finest collections of f.64 work has been assembled for an exhibition at Duncan Miller Gallery. |
| Kim WestonPAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS
February 5, 2009 View Artist's Work →
Kim is a third-generation member of one of the most important and creative families in photography. He learned his craft assisting his father Cole in the darkroom making gallery prints from his grandfather Edward's original negatives. Kim also worked for many years as an assistant to his uncle Brett. This exhibition consists of one-of-a-kind pieces -- Kim's silver prints that he paints with oil. |
| CHEMA MADOZOBJECTS
November 6, 2008 View Artist's Work →
In his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Chema Madoz exhibits a series of surreal and refined black-and-white photographs from the past decade. Madoz engages ordinary objects in different ways -- by manipulating, juxtaposing, and constructing -- and then photographing the new entities without digital manipulation, creating visual images that are placed out of their original context and joined together to create a new reality. |
| Henri Dauman and Florence GruereSHARP CONTRASTS
September 18, 2008
Paris-based Florence Gruere, originally a filmmaker, turned to fine art photography in the early 1970s. She began making portraits, an ongoing preoccupation and an emotional process for her as she sought to reveal the subtleties of personality. In Sharp Contrasts Gruere exhibits a series of portraits made in the 1970s of well-known photographers, among them Man Ray, André Kertész, and Jacques Henri Lartigue; each photograph is heavily imbued with shadow and mood.
Gruere also focuses her lens on the broader aspects of life in Paris -- for example, autumn along the Seine -- capturing the character of the city without romanticizing her subject. These paysages are delicate contrasts of light and dark which invite the viewer in for closer inspection and revelation. The same is true for her photographs of female nudes, a series that she began in 2000 in which she uses the same lens utilized in her other work.
Fascinated by technique, Gruere set out in the mid-1990s to learn how to print using the gum bichromate process. She recently commented, “My pictures have sharp contrast; they focus on the essential, the main features rather than the details, a fact that is reinforced when using the gum process.”
Henri Dauman, based in New York, is a well-known photojournalist who has documented historical events, personalities, and cultural changes of the twentieth century. He garnered worldwide attention as a feature photographer for Life magazine, for which he captured personalities from the political world as well as celebrities from the art and pop culture scenes.
In Sharp Contrasts Dauman exhibits a series of photographs that portray life in New York City in the early 1960s. These black-and-white images not only depict social issues of the day, but they also mark a specific time and place in America. The images reflect a sense of lyrical beauty even as they reveal everyday occurrences on the streets of the city.
Focusing on a much more intimate subject, Dauman will also show his quixotic portraits of well-known film directors -- François Truffaut, Jean Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, and others -- taken during the same time period. The portraits are pensive and yet alluring, as they capture these towering figures of film in unguarded moments. |
| CHRIS McCAWSUNBURNS
April 10, 2008 View Artist's Work →
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| GIL GARCETTIGIL GARCETTI
October 4, 2007 View Artist's Work →
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| OLEG DOUOLEG DOU
August 2, 2007 View Artist's Work →
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| FOUR RUSSIANSFOUR RUSSIANS
May 3, 2007
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| LOAN NGUYENLOAN NGUYEN
March 1, 2007 View Artist's Work →
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| EDWARD WESTONEDWARD WESTON
January 10, 2007 View Artist's Work →
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| Edouard Boubat and Jean-Philippe CharbonnierFRENCH MASTERS
August 15, 2006 View Artist's Work →
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| George Rose, Ethan Russell, Baron WolmanICONS OF ROCK
June 8, 2006 View Artist's Work →
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| MARC RIBOUDMARC RIBOUD: THE WORLD. HIS LENS
March 1, 2006
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| FRANK PAULINFRANK PAULIN: MOMENTS
December 1, 2005
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