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Chess Game
$315Photograph by Iva Zimova
Image Title: Chess Game
Paper Dimensions (H x W): 18 x 24 inches
Image Dimensions (H x W): 18 x 24 inches
Medium: Digital Inkjet Print
Year Created: 2004
Inkjet printed signature on bottom right
Image Description:
Ferghana Valley, Kyrgyzstan, 2004.
Men gather for a game of chess in the early evening.
I watched two men playing chess for some time before I decided to make this picture. I felt I had to take a picture from above. The man who was wearing shoes was winning over the man in sandals. I think it can be seen in the photo, who is winning, who is more confident, and who is losing.
Photographer's Bio:
Iva Zímová was born in former Czechoslovakia. She graduated from the School of Industrial Art in Jablonec nad Nisou, with a specialization in jewelry (1977). In 1982, she immigrated to Canada where she studied at the Dawson College Institute of Photography (1987-1990), and then continued her study at Concordia University with a major in photography (1990-1993).
In 1992, she was awarded the Canada Council Grant to photograph Czech minorities in Romania and in 1993, she received a grant by the Ministère de Culture du Québec to document the native people of northern Québec.
In 1994, she was contracted by the Canadian International Development Agency to record aspects of everyday life in Ukraine through photographs.
In 1999, she documented the diversity of CAW workers (National Automobile, Aerospace, Transportation and General Workers Union of Canada).
Since 1997, she has been contributing her work to the Czech NGO, People in Need. She has exhibited her work alongside others internationally in Ukraine, China, Canada, the Czech Republic, Ethiopia, Russia, Georgia, the United States, and Mexico.
Iva lives for her photography and uses her manifest talent in service of the persecuted and the forgotten: Indians, gypsies, refugees, orphans, and the deeply impoverished. Her camera does not condescend to pity her subjects; it humanizes their plight and ennobles them as survivors that few will ever know.
Iva is represented by Panos Pictures.
132
Painting Over Liquor Billboard
$400Photograph by Michael Kamber
Image Title: Painting Over Liquor Billboard, 1990
Paper Dimensions (H x W): 11 x 14 inches
Image Dimensions (H x W): 8 x 12 inches
Medium: Silver Gelatin Print
Year Created: 1990
Signed on verso and recto
Image Description:
Bronx, 1990. Activist painting over Hennessy liquor billboard, one of thousands that cover poor neighborhoods around NYC.
I took this photo as I followed a group of activists who were painting over cigarette and alcohol billboards which were everywhere in the Bronx, Harlem and Brooklyn. You rarely saw these billboards and ads in Manhattan or wealthier neighborhoods and the activists, many allied with local churches, were dedicated to their eradication. This print is a silver gelatin print from the original negative that I did myself. I selenium toned the print as well for archival purposes.
Photographer's Bio:
Michael Kamber has worked as a journalist for more than 25 years. Between 2002 and 2012, he worked for The New York Times, covering conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, the Sudan, Somalia, the Congo, and other countries. He was the first person in New York Times' history to routinely file photos, videos and written articles to the paper. His photographs have also been published in nearly every major news magazine in the United States and Europe, as well as in many newspapers. In 2011, Kamber founded the Bronx Documentary Center, an educational space dedicated to positive social change through photography and film. Kamber is an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He is the winner of a World Press Photo award, the Mike Berger Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Award, American Photo Images of the Year, and is a member of The New York Times team that won a 2003 Overseas Press Club award. The New York Times twice nominated Kamber's work for the Pulitzer Prize.
https://www.bronxdoc.org/about
202
RFK Funeral Train
$300Photobook by Paul Fusco
Title: RFK Funeral Train
Publisher/Info: Umbrage Editions, 1st Edition, Signed
Year Published: 2001
Description:
In tribute to Robert F. Kennedy's raw empathy, his determination to make our lives better, and his insistence that the government is answerable to all - black and white, rich and poor - hundreds of thousands of people stood patiently in the searing heat on June 8th, 1968 to watch his funeral train travel slowly from New York to Washington, D.C., just as Abraham Lincoln's had, 103 years before. Paul Fusco photographed the silent, mourning crowds from the passing train. The result, brought to light over thirty-years later, is a moving snapshot of America at a crucial moment of trauma and transition.
An essay by Norman Mailer, as well as a retelling of the events surrounding the funeral of RFK by prizewinning Newsweek editor Evan Thomas, join the tribute given by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, capturing how this man and his vision of America touched us with steadfast idealism and humanity.
https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/politics/paul-fusco-rfk-funeral-train/
208
Red Ball of Sun Slipping Down
$125Photobook by Eugene Richards
Title: Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down
Publisher/Info: Many Voices Press, 1st Edition, Signed
Year Published: 2014
Description:
The Arkansas Delta has been called at different times the soul of the South, the land of opportunity, a place ruled by race, a forgotten place. Eugene Richards (born 1944) first went to the delta as a VISTA volunteer in 1969. It was less than a year after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a time when cotton, religion, prejudice and poverty were what characterized most peoples' lives. Increasingly drawn to this both sorrowful and beautiful place, Richards would stay for more than four years, working as a social worker and reporter until the community service organization and newspaper he helped found were forced to close their doors. But over the years he would keep returning.
Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down is a book that speaks of remembrance and change, of struggle and privation, of loving and loss, of then and now. Black-and-white photographs made long years ago but never before published are interwoven with recent color photographs and, in turn, with a short story that relates Richards' relationship with an impoverished delta family as well as a growing awareness of his own aging and mortality.
https://eugenerichards.com/store/red-ball-of-a-sun-slipping-down-1
209
Ramadan Moon + A Camel
$125Photobook by Fazal Sheikh
Title: Ramadan Moon + A Camel for the Son
Publisher/Info: New York: Fazal Sheikh, 1st Edition, Signed (Set of 2 books)
Year Published: 2001
Description:
A Camel for the Son brings together two bodies of work: the first, a series of photographs made in Somali refugee camps in eastern Kenya between 1992 and 1994; the second, a series made nearly a decade later, after those camps had been consolidated around the town of Dadaab.
On his earlier trips Fazal Sheikh had made a series of portraits of mothers and their babies at the feeding center in Mandera.
When he returned in 2000, he found some of the same women and their children - now approaching puberty - still living in the camps. One of the main problems suffered by women in the camps was that they were being sexually assaulted - by Kenyans and by men from their own groups - when they went beyond the perimeter to find firewood.
The United National High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) had appointed a special advisor to interview the victims and bring some of the perpetrators to justice. Over the years, the women in the camps had organized themselves into powerful groups.
Abshiro Aden Mohammed, the leader of the women's group in Dagahaley camp, handed Fazal Sheikh a letter, in effect a manifesto, in which she described the inequalities between men and women in her society. The letter provides the title for A Camel for the Son, the first in a series of books produced by the International Human Rights Series (IHRS), established by Fazal Sheikh in order to make his work more widely available free of charge.
A Camel for the Son and Ramadan Moon are the first two books in the International Human Rights Series (IHRS) and are intended as companion volumes. The IHRS was established by Fazal Sheikh in 2001 in order to further the understanding of complex human rights issues with which he was involved and to disseminate his projects in a variety of accessible forms to a wide international public. A Camel for the Son and Ramadan Moon received support from the Volkart Foundation, Winterthur, Switzerland.
https://www.fazalsheikh.org/projects/a-camel-for-the-son.html
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Violet Isle
$245Photobook by Alex Webb/Rebecca Norris Webb
Title: Violet Isle
Publisher/Info: Radius Books, 1st Edition, Signed
Year Published: 2009
Description:
This multi-layered portrait of "the violet isle"-a little-known name for Cuba inspired by the rich color of the soil there-presents an engaging, at times unsettling document of a vibrant and vulnerable land.
The book combines two separate photographic visions: ALEX WEBB's exploration of street life, with his attuned and complex attention to detail, and REBECCA NORRIS WEBB's fascination with the unique, quixotic collections of animals she discovered there, from tiny zoos and pigeon societies to hand-painted natural history displays and quirky personal menageries.
The result is an insightful and intriguing blend of two different aesthetics inspired by Cuba's existence over the last fifty years in an economic, political, cultural and ecological bubble virtually untouched by the rest of the world, and unlikely to remain that way for much longer.
https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/travel/alex-webb-violet-isle/