Christian | Reilly

01/26/2022

Flashback, 1978. Witkin Gallery. Photographs: A Selected Offering. If I could go back in time and make any purchase from this catalog, it would be to spend $750 on this Robert Frank.

12/26/2021

Wayne Thiebaud, “Office Still Life” 1975.

12/19/2021

Jesse Alexander, Maserati 4.5 Coupe Prototype at Modena, 1957. Sorry to hear about Jesse’s passing at 92. He was a great photographer and the nicest man you could hope to meet. https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/jesse-alexander-obituary?id=31933848

12/16/2021

Tonight, , and are hosting a Bubbles Bar Hop, downtown Santa Cruz 5 pm until 8 pm. If you find yourself at Bad Animal, don’t forget to visit the rare book room to see original photographs by Robert Frank, Josef Sudek, Edward Weston, Andre Kertesz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, Laura Gilpin, Aaron Siskind, William Garnett and Michael Kenna or peek into Birichino to see two Eugene Atget albumen prints of Paris.

12/08/2021

Rodney Smith, Odalisque No. 1, Winfred Estate, Long Island, NY, 2004. Today at 3:00 Pacific, Paul Martineau will be hosting a discussion, What Makes Fashion Photography Art? Register via www.eventbrite.com/e/what-makes-fashion-photography-art-tickets-198936182477

07/13/2021

Strangers made his small-town portraits famous in the art world. Decades later, his heirs want control of the estate.

07/24/2019

A non haunted version can be had for $325 from the Ansel Adams Gallery.

I believe this picture to be cursed or haunted, it has brought bad luck to my house since I've had it. When viewed from a distance it looks like a demon face. I never realized this until a child asked why i had a picture of a demon on my wall.

02/04/2019

Can we ever get enough Robert Frank? No. The answer is no.

Thousands of Robert Frank’s unpublished photographs taken during and after his journeys that led to “The Americans” have never been witnessed by wide audiences.

12/10/2018

Amazing.

Michael Koerner’s photographs ask the questions of those one step removed from paradigm-altering historical atrocities: What shall we remember? What has been warped? What and who has, and will, slip from our grasp?

03/09/2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/05/lens/the-surrealist-photos-of-ralph-gibson.html

Ralph Gibson self-published his own photo books decades ago. Now, those books — filled with dreamlike sequences — have been released in a single volume.

11/21/2017

Some great press for Kirk Crippen's and Gretchen LeMaistre's Live Burls project:

For 'Live Burls: Poaching the Redwoods,' photographers Kirk Crippens and Gretchen LeMaistre documented the rampant theft of redwood burls in California.

10/16/2017

Sometimes we all have a cross to bear.