Scott Nichols Gallery in Sonoma closed during AIPAD 2022

Posted on May 17, 2022 | No Comments

Scott Nichols Gallery in Sonoma is closed until May 26, while we attend

AIPAD 2022

The Photography Show

May 20-22, 2022

at Center415 NYC

Scott Nichols Gallery
Booth #217

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM
The Unmade Bed. 1957
Vintage signed gelatin silver print
9 1/2″ x 13″

AIPAD is open to the public.
Tickets on sale now.

For location, dates, and ticketing information, visit:
The Photography Show 2022

EDWARD WESTON
Floating Nude (Charis). 1939

Vintage signed gelatin silver print

7 1/2” x 9 1/2″

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The Photography Show 2022

Posted on March 10, 2022 | No Comments

We are pleased to join the 41st edition of The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD.

Located at Center415:

415 5th Avenue
Between 37th and 38th streets
New York, NY 10016

Scott Nichols Gallery:
Booth #217

Friday, May 20th, 1 – 7pm
Saturday, May 21st, 12 – 7pm
Sunday, May 22nd, 12 – 5pm

For tickets, register here.

For more information on the show, click here.

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Horace Bristol: PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul

Posted on March 8, 2022 | No Comments

Horace Bristol: PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul

PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul, 1944
10 1/4″ x 10″ Signed platinum print

Horace Bristol was part of a small group of acclaimed photographers who were chosen by Edward Steichen to photograph different war theaters during World War II. At the time, Steichen was Director of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit.

While in the South Pacific, Bristol was on this PBY, a flying boat and amphibious aircraft that was produced in the 1930s and 1940s.

During assignment, he encountered a pilot who had been shot down 24 hours earlier. The pilot’s hands were burnt, but he was able to pop out into a small raft, doing what he could to survive until possible rescue.

The raft floated out into the ocean and the PBY was looking for him, later locating this young pilot. Once the PBY found him, the gunner pictured had stripped his clothing off and swam out to his raft, then tying it to the PBY craft, helping the injured pilot to safety.

On his return to the PBY, Japanese forces arrived and it was all hands on deck. The rescue mission was under attack. The photograph PBY Blister Gunner, Rescue at Rabaul shows the gunner manning his station, immediately following rescue of the injured pilot.

Downed Pilot Approaching PBY, Rescue at Rabaul, 1943/1944
10 3/8″ x 10 1/8″ Unique vintage gelatin silver print

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Classic Photographs Los Angeles 2017

Posted on January 19, 2017 | No Comments

Come Visit Us at:

Edward Weston, Nude, Charis on Dunes, Oceano, 1936

(Signed Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph)

Located at Bonhams:

7601 W. Sunset Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90046

Booth #26

Public Hours:

Saturday, January 21 – 11:00 am – 7:00 pm

Sunday, January 22 – 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

For more information on the show, click here

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“Antigua” Book Signing with Margo Davis

Posted on January 7, 2017 | No Comments

Antigua 1967-73

By Margo Davis

Margo Davis, Antigua

Book Signing:

Saturday, January 14, 2017

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Scott Nichols Gallery and Nazraeli Press present Antigua 1967-73 by Margo Davis. Margo began photographing in her early twenties. Her first photographs were of family, friends, and people she encountered in her native New England. Although she experiments with many forms of photography, Davis always finds herself drawn to “the landscape of the face” and all the feeling and life that her skilled eye can evoke from the people she photographs. Among her many travels she photographed the island people of Antigua.

The economy of all the Caribbean islands was determined by the transatlantic slave trade from the 15th to 19th centuries. From Cuba to Trinidad, rural island villages were homes to the stalwart African slaves who worked the sugar cane and cotton fields. Antigua, which is situated exactly at the elbow of the Caribbean island arc, is a microcosm of this history. When Margo Davis visited Antigua for the first time in July of 1967, she was struck by the faces of these villagers, and it is here that her passion for portraiture began.

When the Antiguan photographs were made, very little had changed from earlier colonial times. These stunning images have now become iconic. It is for this reason that Nazraeli Press is presenting this exquisite new monograph focusing on the people and culture of African heritage in the New World.

Antigua: Photographs 1967–1973 is an ambitious work, beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper in an edition of 1000 copies. Margo Davis’s work is in many private collections and the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University and the Sack Photographic Trust destined for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.