Tcherliabinsk Steel Plant, 1938 by Igor Kovriguine
Belarus 1925 by Igor Kotelnikov
Moscow 1947 by Mikhail Grachev
Loch Katrine, 1844 by W. Henry Fox Talbot
Paris 1938 by Werner Moesle
First Solo Exhibition, Prague 1960 by Jan Svoboda
Rudolf Chametowitsch Nurejew 1990's by Peter Bock-Schroeder
Venus de Cnide 1870 by Giacomo Brogi
Autoportait, 1927 by Man Ray
Paris 2010 by JBS
Mont Blanc 1880 by Georges Charnaux (1864-1939)
Anti aircraft searchlights, Rome 1923 by Giulio Parisio (1891-1967)
The MGM lion, Hollywood 1920 by Karl Stuss (1886 — 1981)
Reading in the Train, Paris 1933 by André Kertész (1894 – 1985)
Seagulls, Wales 1884 by M. Evans
Dancers knitting, Paris 1930 by Brassai (1899 - 1984)
Le Havre, 1856 by Cyrus Macaire (1807 - 1871)
Charlie Chaplin, City lights 1931 by Roland Totheroh (1890–1967)
Central Park, 1970 by Barton Silverman
Nevada, 1956 by Robert Frank (made on his Guggenheim Fellowship)
Greece, 1959 by Peter Bock-Schroeder
Barbershop, 1947 by Wright Morris
Berlin Alexanderplatz, 1919. Photo Credit not available
Flight of the Pélican, 1887 by E.J. Marey
Gartenscheich by IBS Geissler
Nat Carr in "Angel Face", 1925 by J.C. Milligan
Police Shooting Range, Houston Texas by Thomas Hoepker
Troubles, Belfast 1974 by Nancy Moran
Attack, 1941 by Dimitri Baltermants
President Kennedy by Georges Tames
Ground Zero, 2009 by JBS
Distant view of Sebastopol, 1855 by Roger Fenton
Peru 1952 by Peter Bock-Schroeder
Central Park, 1943 by Drahomir J. Ruzicka
Vitrine by Walker Evans
Vitrine by Ivan Baschang
Andalusia 1992 by IBS Geissler
New York 2009 by Jans Bock-Schroeder
Les Gitans, Paris 1900. Photo Credit not available.
Peru 1952, by Peter Bock-Schroeder (30.11.13 - 19.2.01)
Walking on the moon, 1972 by John W. Young & Charles M. Duke
Gio by Marcello Geppetti
Moscow 1956 by Peter Bock-Schroeder by Jans Bock-Schroeder Paris 2012
Man Ray at work (or play?)
Stairs, France 1930 by Andre Kertesz
Andy Warhol, New York 1982 by Peter Bock-Schroeder
Eugene Smith Verso
In the domain of art, each creation is unique, and knows little progress thereafter. Arising over time are all sorts of variations of the same themes, sometimes full-bodied, often quite bland. But the force existing at the beginning of the work is rarely maintained. Similarly, when this force is reapplied, the action produced in the artwork becomes automated and mechanized, so much so that the dulled senses fail to respond to the medium. The time is then ripe for a new invention. What we call the technique is inseparable from the art. And so we are wanting, and this is not a trivial matter, to do away with some ideas. Gutenberg, the inventor of movable type, printed by this means a handful of books, which still remain supreme as realisations of the art of book typography. The centuries which have succeeded him were not marked by any other major invention in this field of interest – until photography.
El Lissitzky, Gutenberg Jahrbuch 1926
Imagine a world without photography, one could only imagine. - Berenice Abbott
Photo Credit: Henri Manuel (1874 - 1947)
The Visual Independence Blog
Robert Doisneau, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, Étienne-Jules Marey, Gustave Le Gray, Tazio Secchiaroli, Alfred Donné, Dimitri Baltermants, Peter Bock-Schroeder, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Wright Morris, Harold Eugene "Doc" Edgerton, Clarence White, Roger Fenton, William Henry Fox Talbot, André Kertész, Otto Wegener, Henri Jean-Louis Le Secq, Herbert List, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre, Eugene Atget, John Collier, Ilse Bing, Philippe Halsman, William Eugene Smith, Paul Strand, Germaine Krull, Nadar, Auguste-Rosalie Bisson, Charles Marville, Dorothea Lange, Marcello Geppetti, Lewis Hine, Leon Gimpel, Pierre Molinier, Miroslav Tichý, Edward Jean Steichen, Karl Struss, Louis-Cyrus Macaire, George Ellery Hale, Israëlis Bidermanas and Walker Evans are amongst the photographers featured in the weekly Visual Independence Blog.
Photography has all the rights, and all the merits, necessary for us to turn towards it as the art of our time. - Alexander Rodchenko
Photo Credit: Jans Bock-Schroeder
Is photography art?
Anyone still asking that question should attend international art fairs, visit renowned galleries and auction houses, or even private residences of some foremost collectors
Photography’s presence within the art world has surged in recent years. The once distinctive line between photography and other art forms has blurred. Today’s photography art market seems to straddle two distinctive subsets – vintage/iconic pieces and current, contemporary creations.
There is a very real sense in which photography is actually the core of the contemporary art market. All sorts of ideas come directly from or through photography.
“There is a new generation of photographers that are creatively and intellectually pushing the envelope,” says Isabella Icoz, art advisor, nominator to the Prix Pictet and veteran art curator in Istanbul. “When I look at them, I don’t think of [their work] as photography but as art. I think it’s important to not look at labels.”
