The Next Generation in Classic Photography – Wouter Lambrechts
Some six years ago, aficionados of classic photography were made aware of a new dealership, Bazar Nadar. The man behind the intriguing name is the Belgian dealer and teacher Wouter Lambrechts. He…
The Next Generation in Classic Photography – Kate Hershkowitz
Kate Hershkowitz is the daughter of renowned 19th century photography dealers Robert and Paula Hershkowitz. After a successful, 15-year-long career in the charity sector, she is joining Robert…
Unending frames
To take a photograph is to slice and dice the world. The camera frames the world, dividing it into legible, palatable slices. The camera has a say in the shape of things. Then the photographer…
Framing Portraits –
Art Nouveau and Beyond
This article is an appendix to the article Frames of Mind, published in issue 11 of The Classic. In it, I interviewed Julien Faure-Conorton, a French photography historian, specialising in…
The Next Generation in Classic Photography – Barnabé Moinard
The French dealer Barnabé Moinard started his dealership in 2022 and has quickly become a familiar face on the classic photography scene. I started out by asking him about early interest in…
"The Whole of Old Paris"
Highlights from the Mary & Dan Solomon Collection at the Getty Museum
This autumn at the Getty Center, an impressive recent acquisition is on display: Eugène Atget: Highlights from the Mary & Dan Solomon Collection. Below, The Classic takes a peek at the…
Philippe Garner:
An exhibition of his photographs at Hamiltons Gallery
Philippe Garner has been a key figure in the international photography world for over 50 years. He was in charge of the December 1971 sale at Sotheby’s, London, the first specialist photography sale…
A Second Lease of Life-
Sitters and PhotographersPart Five: Mr Boswell’s “Field Days”
In Mexico it is believed that a person does not really die until their name is spoken for the last time. I must say I like the idea since it seems to give some purpose to the articles I write. As a…
An Alternative History of Photography:
Works from the Solander Collection at
The Photographers' Gallery
On display through 19 February 2023, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, presents An Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection, a bold new perspective on the history of…
“A Marvelous History Through Object and Image”
The Cromer Collection of Nineteenth-Century French Photography
On 26 December 1924, Gabriel Cromer stood in front of the Société française de photographie and made an impassioned proposal: We must create a Photography Museum. A noble proposition, one infused…
A Tall Tale and a Mystery Wrapped in a Conundrum
Captions and annotations on photographs are not always to be trusted. And here, Stephen White shares two favourite examples from his collection. Stephen writes: The title in the lower left of…
Alfred Hind Robinson’s Panoramas
Alfred Hind Robinson was born at Osmanthorpe Hall in Leeds, England in 1864, the son of Col John Robinson (and his wife Jane) a wool merchant working for John Vance & Co of Leeds. Educated at…
“And then I suddenly realised I had bought Gustave Le Gray’s La Grande Vague”
“AN ILL FAVOURED THING, SIR, BUT MINE OWN.” - Touchstone in As You Like It by…
B.C. Almanac(h) C.-B.
Re-drawing the map
PROLOGUE Picture this: A photographic exhibition where the catalogue was the artwork. A photography show in which there were no original photographs on the wall. Consider this: A…
L’Origine du Monde
This collection of 33 original albumen prints is interesting in various ways. There is its erotic character; its early dating, given that the prints are known to have been produced during the 1870s;…
The Photographers' Gallery at 50:
Notes on a long association
Philippe Garner viewing the 17th December 1976 Co-Optic auction at The Photographers' Gallery, photograph by Homer Sykes. My memory is hazy on the circumstances of my first visit to The…
"Problems, problems" - Letters to and from Photographers
This article is an appendix to the article "Dear John" - Letters to and from Photographers, published in issue 6 of The Classic, available as a free downloadable pdf on our website. In the letters…
La Salpêtrière - Fact, fiction and speculation about Blanche Wittmann
This article is an appendix to the article Photography at La Salpêtrière and beyond, published in issue 6 of The Classic, available as a pdf on our website. As discussed in the article in the…
Masterworks of Modern Photography 1900-1940: The Thomas Walther Collection at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Exhibition at Jeu De Paume 14 September 2021 - 13 February 2022
In 2001 and 2017, The Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired just over 500 photographs from the collector Thomas Walther, from the period 1900 to 1940, by the recognised masters as well as…
The London Photograph Fair - 40 Years On
2022 will mark the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the London Photograph Fair. Its first outing was on Sunday September 12th 1982, and it was held at The Photographers’ Gallery in…
A Gust of Photo-Philia: Photography in the Art Museum
by Alexandra Moschovi
Where does photography stand in today’s art museum? And how did it arrive there? These questions are at the heart of Alexandra Moschovi’s new book, A Gust of Photo-Philia: Photography in the Art…
The Democratic Picture: Grace McCann Morley and Photography in the San Francisco Museum of Art
The San Francisco Museum of ArtThe author would like to thank the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Archives for kindly allowing the publication of the cited archival material and photographs, the…
History of Photography in China: New Discoveries and Research
Since the publication in 2013 of the last of my 3-volume History of Photography in China,Terry Bennett, History of Photography in China 1842-1860 (London: Quaritch, 2009); Terry Bennett, History of…
Wendy Red Star at Joslyn Art Museum:
Re-examining The Indian Congress 1898.
An Interview with Annika Johnson, Associate Curator of Native American Art
In the summer of 1898, over 500 citizens of 35 Native American nations gathered in present-day North Omaha to participate in the Indian Congress. Some had travelled over 800 miles to get there. The…
Antonia Gotte:
A Much Photographed Model
I have written somewhere else about Antonia GotteDenis Pellerin, History of Nudes in Stereoscopic Daguerreotypes – Collection W. + T. Bosshard, 2020. The book was published simultaneously in…