Taormina

TaorminaIntroduction by Roland Barthes Wilhelm von Gloeden began photographing the male nude in the early 1890s in Taormina, a hillside town on the northeast coast of Sicily. Following his death in 1931, von Gloeden's collection of over three thousand glass plate negatives was left to his longtime friend and model, Pancrazio Bucini. When Mussolini's fascists entered Taormina in 1936, the negatives were seized and Bucini was accused of "keeping pornography."

For all lovers of early Hollywood and studio portrait photography

Dennis Hopper

The Black Eye continues Michal Chelbin’s exploration of the world of athletes and performers from Eastern Europe

The photographs reflect the mood and vision of his first monograph and include work from America

Made as memoirs of family and friends

Chelbin searches for a certain expression in which they have almost calmed their breath but not yet fully regained their self-awareness

436 Black Americans between 1882 and 1950

it is not simply a matter of looking

spanning five years

and under thirty

Meditations on space

"I analyze the pictures