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May 31, 2013 — June 29, 2013
“The glare of many fires and sweeping clouds of smoke kept hiding the shape. Then a wind sprang up. Suddenly, the shining cross, dome and towers stood out like a symbol in the inferno. The scene was unbelievable. In that moment or two, I released my shutter.” Herbert Mason on his iconic 1940 photograph of St Paul’s Cathedral.
In this exhibition of vintage photographs from the 1940s, Londoners salvage their possessions from the rubble of their homes and take refuge in the city’s underground stations. Walls crumble, buildings open like dollhouses, and families go about their errands wearing gas masks. Many of these photographs were used for press purposes and are unique historic documents as well as important works of art.
The Blitz lasted from 7 September 1940 to 21 May 1941. In this time, Germany attacked London 71 times, rendering more than 1.4 million people homeless. The main air offensive against British cities diminished after May 1941, but sporadic and lethal raids continued for several more years, with the V-1 and V-2 rockets deployed between 1944 and 1945 killing nearly 9,000 civilians.
Although evidence of WWII persists in this historic city, the majority of bomb sites remain unmarked and unremembered, and it is difficult to imagine what it must have been like to experience such destruction. As the number of people who remember the Blitz dwindles, we hope to reignite awareness of this significant time in London’s history.
Please join us for the opening of this very special exhibition on Thursday May 30th, from 6-8pm.
April 25, 2013 — April 28, 2013
For the inaugural Paris Photo LA we are proud to present “History in the Taking”, an exhibition of iconic Pulitzer Prize winning and News Pictures photographs. This show, the first commercial Pulitzer exhibition of this calibre, has been assembled with much time and effort from collections, archives and dealers. The majority of prints in the show are vintage – many even wire-transmitted before they became prize-winners. Some of the prints have additional historical significance due to the ink stamps and news clippings on the back or editorial marks on the front.
The show includes fantastic large prints of prominent works such as Malcolm Browne’s “Burning Monk”, Robert Jackson’s infamous image of the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald and Eddie Adams’ harrowing “Execution in Saigon”.
The exhibition will also include the discovery of the photographic image Andy Warhol used as inspiration for an important 1950s drawing. We will show here for the first time the original drawing alongside the Pulitzer Prize winning photograph “Teen-Age Shooter” by Frank Cushing.
Paris Photo LA 2013
Paramount Pictures Studios
5555 Melrose Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90038
United States
Opening: 25 April
Exhibition: 26 and 27 April: 12 – 7pm
28 April: 12 – 6pm
April 4, 2013 — April 7, 2013
For AIPAD 2013 we present an exhibition of rare vintage prints portraying famous events and news stories. Some of the large-format pieces are precious art prints, others are wire-transmitted, all are extraordinary photographs of artistic, historic and cultural significance.
The exhibition is focused on stop-the-press pictures that have not only documented but helped to define history, including Pulitzer Prize and Picture of the Year photographs ranging from the 1930s to the 1970s.
The highlight of this first-of-its-kind exhibition is a series of large-format vintage prints from 1937 illustrating the tragic destruction of the Hindenburg. This event marks the first time a news picture made it nationwide into the next morning’s paper and represents an immense development in the use and significance of photo-reportage.
Booth 400
The AIPAD Photography Show
Park Avenue Armory
67th St. and Park Avenue
New York City
Opening:
April 3, 5 – 9 pm
Exhibition:
April 4-6, 11 – 7 pm
April 7, 11 – 6 pm
Find out more about From Silverpoint to Silver Screen, our exhibition of Warhol drawings at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark.
February 22, 2013 — April 13, 2013
Daniel Blau is pleased to present an exhibition of affordable vintage 20th century American photojournalism. From traditional Americana – classic iconography including flags and road imagery – to gritty visions of the realities of mid-century American culture, “Happy-Go-Lucky” explores the complex history of America in the 1900s.
Post-war America was a place of euphoric positivity and untamable determination, fueled by winning World War II, reaching the moon and taming the atom. Despite this, the American Dream – the notion that all people are entitled to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” – remained a distant dream as it was punctured time and time again by war, economic instability and civil rebellion. The show incorporates photographs of life in inner-city Chicago housing projects, scenes of social unrest and defunct industry, fish-eye views of Manhattan and reportage that captures the zeitgeist of the era.
Many of these original photographs are press prints, which often carry ink stamps and news clippings on the back and touch-ups or crop marks on the front, adding to their historical significance. This exhibition presents a new way of looking at and collecting 20th Century American pictures.
When Daniel Blau met the gatekeeper of the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York and asked if
there was any more of the artist’s unseen work that could be had, he was not hugely optimistic.
He could scarcely believe his eyes when forgotten and unpublished early drawings locked away
for more than 20 years were brought out.
“It was unbelievable … just unbelievable,” Blau told the Guardian – read the story
The Financial Times has called our London exhibition “A small yet powerful show“.
March 15, 2012 — March 24, 2013
Daniel Blau is pleased to present two special exhibitions at TEFAF 2013. Following the very successful show at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark earlier this year, we are happy to announce a new exhibition of original drawings by Andy Warhol, many of which are now presented to the public for the first time. All of these drawings were discovered last year in Warhol’s estate. Some of them are illustrated in our comprehensive publication that finally sheds light on this neglected period in the artist’s work.
“Araki, Bailey, Close – Polaroids” will accompany our Warhol show with an exhibition of unique polaroids by three renowned contemporary artists. This innovative show ranges from a series of Planet of the Apes pictures taken in 1974 by David Bailey, to an exceptional large-format polaroid self-portrait by Chuck Close from 1979 to more recent works by Nobuyoshi Araki.
Now that Polaroid material is out of production, the inherent quality and intriguing colour scheme of the medium has become increasingly apparent. We are proud to be able to present such a high calibre selection of unique photographs by these pioneers and masters of Polaroid technology.
Stand 443
TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair)
MECC
6229 GV Maastricht
The Netherlands
Daniel Blau mentioned in an article by Francesca Pini in Italian magazine “Sette”.
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