The Spinner, Spanish Village, 1951	Spanish Wake, Spanish Village, 1951

 The show of over thirty photographs by this master photojournalist includes many of his best known images including The Spanish Wake, The Spinner, Guardia Civil, Welsh Miners, Thelonius Monk, Albert Schweitzer, Madness Haiti, and Tomoko in Her Bath.  The show features representative images from some of his best-known photo-essays from World War II to Minamata including Pittsburgh, The Nurse Midwife Series, Chaplin at work, Schweitzer's Man of Mercy Series, Minamata and others.  Smith's camera equipment which were used to make some of his most famous pictures will also be displayed as well as the original issues of Life magazine in which some of his photo-essays were published.

Dance of the Flaming Coke, 1955	Smoky City, A Labyrinthian Walk, 1955	Railroad Tracks, 1955

 W. Eugene Smith began photographing in high school in Wichita, Kansas where he was born in 1918.  During his senior year he began photographing for the Wichita Eagle and the Wichita Beacon recording environmental devastation during the Dust Bowl era.  In 1937, following the suicide death of his father, he quit college and moved to New York City and joined the staff of Newsweek.  Fired by Newsweek for use of a "miniature" camera (35mm) He joined the Black Star picture agency in 1938, and does work for Life, Collier's, Harpers Bazaar.  In 1939 he signs a retainer agreement with Life magazine but resigns two years later due to dissatisfaction with assignments.

Soldier Finding Baby, Saipan	Sticks and Stones and Bits of Human Bones	Bandaged Soldier

 World War II found Smith photographing mostly in the Pacific where he island hopped from Tarawa, to Wake, Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa where he was severely injured by an exploding shell, spending two years of painful convalescing.  His legendary photograph "The Walk To Paradise Garden" (1947) marked his return to photography.  His subsequent photo-essays for Life were to include The Country Doctor (1948)   Spanish Village (1951)  Nurse Midwife (1951)  Chaplin At Work (1952)  and A Man of Mercy (1954).  Layout disagreements with Life cause him to resign again from the Life staff before the Schweitzer "Man of Mercy" story was published.  His work is exhibited in Steichen's Magnum Opus The Family of Man Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (1955).  In 1956 he produces his "Pittsburgh" series under a Guggenheim Grant, From My Wimdow 1957-58, Haiti 1958-59, Hitachi 1961-62 , and Minamata 1971-75.  Smith died October 15, 1978.
 
 

Jimmy Stevenson, The Loft from Inside In, 1958-68	Thelonious Monk, The Loft From Inside In, 1958-68	Thelonious Monk, The Loft From Inside In, 1958-1968

We are happy to announce our sale of the Joseph Brumlik Collection of Photographs by Josef Sudek.  The collection of some 500 photographs by the legendary Czech photographer Josef Sudek had been assembled over a 30 year period (1946 until Sudeks death in 1976) by the Czech expatriot cardiologist Joseph Brumlik.  Brumlik and Sudek, friends from before World War II, corrseponded for some 30 years with Sudek writing his share of the letters on the backs of his own photographs.  So on one side of the object you have Sudek's visual expression, while on the other you have the verbal.  An extraordinary collection.

Olive Tree	Scorpius Milkyway Rising	Starry Grove

Our gallery Artist Neil Folberg's evocative, elegant, spiritual and fantasmagorical Celestial Nights Series will be published as a monograph this spring by Aperture Press in New York.  The work displays the vast scattering of stars atop a firmament with its dark volumes and shadow detail miraculously intact!  Photographed mostly in Israel, the photographs are stunning examples of the photographers craft being applied with wondrous effect.

Carla Shapiro, the newest addition to our roster of gallery artists, has just published a catalogue of her most recent work series Timeless Tasks.  The catalogue, available from us, was published with the assistance of a grant from The New York State Foundation for the Arts.  Ms. Shapiro, a frequent fellow at the McDowell Arts Foundation has been working on this series on domestic activities for the past 3 years.  Her work appeared as part of our July - August "Debuts and Updates" contemporary show.

We will be exhibiting at the Fourth Annual Paris Photo November 15th - 19th at the Carrousel du Louvre, 99 Rue Rivoli, Paris 75001.  For information call +33-1-42775894 or fax +33-1-42777427.

The show, one of the largest of its kind, will feature booths from over 90 dealers and galleries world-wide.  Located in the spacious, elegant Carrousel du Louvre (just beneath the glass pyramid) exhibition area, it has enjoyed great success.  More visitors came to last year's opening then came to all 4 days of The Photography Show last year here in New York.  We will be featuring our contemporary photographers as well as a small selection of vintage work.  Join us...  need an excuse to go to Paris? Here it is!