Hand in Hand

Posted on November 29, 2022 | No Comments

A photograph by Ruth Bernhard

RUTH BERNHARD
Hand in Hand. 1956, printed 1976 by Ruth Bernhard
9 1/2″ x 7 1/2″ Gelatin silver print on Agfa Portriga Rapid
Edition of 15; this print is the original artist’s proof
Signed, titled, and numbered

This image was captured by Ruth Bernhard shortly after she moved to San Francisco. Bernhard teamed up with Melvin Van Peebles, a then 25-year-old cable car gripman, as he wrote his first book. Their collaboration resulted in the photo essay The Big Heart, a love letter to San Francisco’s cable cars and the people who ride them.

Over the course of his career, Melvin Van Peebles was an author, actor, filmmaker, writer, and composer. When he and Ruth Bernhard first met, he had a B.A. in literature and had recently finished serving a term with U.S. Air Force. According to the author, it was a cable car passenger who suggested that he should become a filmmaker.

Melvin Van Peebles passed away in September 2021.

This original photograph, one of the last ever to be printed by Ruth Bernhard comes from her personal copy of The Gift of the Commonplace portfolio.

The same pair of hands is also featured in:

Mr. Reilly and Friend at Fellowship Church, San Francisco, 1956

RUTH BERNHARD
The Gift of the Commonplace. 1976
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— Dunes —

Posted on November 17, 2022 | No Comments

BRETT WESTON
Dunes Oceano. 1984, printed no later than 1986
10 1/2″ x 13 3/4″ Signed gelatin silver print

WILLIAM GARNETT
Sand Dune #1, Palm Desert, CA. 1975, printed no later than 1981
9″ x 7″ Signed, stamped gelatin silver print

EDWARD WESTON
Dunes, Oceano. 1936, printed 1950
7 1/4″ x 9 1/4″ Initialed and dated gelatin silver print

ANSEL ADAMS
Sand Dunes, Oceano, California. 1950, printed c. 1980
19 5/8″ x 15″ Signed and dated gelatin silver print

JIM BANKS
Oceano #11, Oceano, California. 2012
11″ x 14″ to 30″ x 40″ Signed and dated carbon pigment print

HUNTINGTON WITHERILL
Dune Form #4, Death Valley. 1986
10 1/2″ x 13 5/8″ Signed and stamped gelatin silver print

WYNN BULLOCK
Death Valley. 1940, printed c. 1970
7 1/2″ x 9 1/2″ Signed gelatin silver print

BRETT WESTON
Dunes and Clouds, Shoshone, California. 1969, printed in the mid-1980s
10 1/2″ x 13 1/2″ Signed gelatin silver print

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Graphic Design in Photography

Posted on November 10, 2022 | No Comments

From 3 great portfolios

EDWARD STEICHEN, Matches & Match Boxes. 1926
Gelatin silver print, printed by George Tice

EDWARD STEICHEN, Gorham Silver. 1930
Gelatin silver print, printed by George Tice

RUTH BERNHARD, Two Leaves. 1952
Signed gelatin silver or platinum print

RUTH BERNHARD, Lifesavers. 1930
Signed gelatin silver or platinum print

RALPH STEINER, Ham and Eggs. 1928
Signed gelatin silver print

RALPH STEINER, Typewriter as Design. 1921–1922
Signed gelatin silver print

Complete portfolios available.
See more from each:

EDWARD STEICHEN
Juxtaposition 1920s–1930s

RUTH BERNHARD
Gifts of the Commonplace
(available as gelatin silver print or platinum)

RALPH STEINER
Ten Photographs from the Twenties and Thirties & One from the Seventies

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Bill Owens – 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection

Posted on September 26, 2022 | No Comments

Bill Owens – 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection

Portfolio Release and Exhibition
with Artist Talk and Reception

BILL OWENS, This is our second annual Fourth of July block party. This year thirty-three families came for beer, barbequed chicken, corn on the cob, potato salad, green salad, macaroni salad, and watermelon. After eating and drinking we staged our parade and fireworks.
Archival pigment print from the 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection Portfolio

Exhibition
October 8 – November 13, 2022

Artist Talk and Reception
Saturday, October 8, 3–6pm
at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California

Bill Owens and True North Editions celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the seminal book, Suburbia with the production of a profound limited-edition portfolio available through Scott Nichols Gallery.

Produced in partnership with and under the supervision of Bill Owens, digital remasters were created by scanning the original negatives at the highest possible resolution. All image repairs and adjustments remain faithful to the original negative and are approved by Bill Owens.

Prints in Bill Owens – 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection were made using an Epson SureColor P7570 printer on Moab Juniper Baryta Cotton Rag 305 paper for the highest archival standards. This paper was chosen for the quality preferred by Bill Owens in reproducing his work as closely as possible to the silver gelatin papers of 1972.

Title pages and essays are printed on Epson Hotpress Bright Rag. Cover sheets featuring quotes from the subjects or titles are printed on Epson Enhanced Ultra Premium Presentation Matte.

Project concept, editing, design, and production by Geir and Kate Jordahl.

BILL OWENS, Reagan on TV.
Archival pigment print from the 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection Portfolio

Bill Owens – 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection
36 archival pigment prints on 17″ x 22″ sheet
Edition of 8 + 2AP
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The portfolio and traveling exhibit will be on display at the Center for Photographic Arts, Carmel from October 8 – November 13, 2022, then will travel to Norway for the Nordic Light Photographic Festival.

BILL OWENS, I don’t feel that Richie playing with guns will have a negative effect on his personality. (He already wants to be a policeman). His childhood gun-playing won’t make him into a cop-shooter, By playing with guns he learns to socialize with other children I find the neighbors who are offended by Richie’s gun, either the father hunts or their kids are the first to take Richie’s gun and go off and play with it.
Archival pigment print from the 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection Portfolio

Limited Edition Book

BILL OWENS, The Legacy of Suburbia.
Limited release by True North Editions
Edition of 100 with 4th of July Parade print

A limited-edition book, Bill Owens: The Legacy of Suburbia, Photographs 1964–2022, is available with a special print, 4th of July Parade, included. This book features images from Bill Owens’ entire career from his work in Jamaica with the Peace Corps to his current Digital Renaissance. The book is available through Scott Nichols Gallery and True North Editions in an edition of 100.

BILL OWENS, We had a ball on the fourth of July. The whole neighborhood came out for the parade.
Archival pigment print from the 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection Portfolio

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BILL OWENS was born on September 25, 1938, in San Jose and lives in Hayward, California. From his travels around the globe including a Peace Corps tour in Jamaica, he developed his unique skills and aptitude as an anthropological and social photographer. His book Suburbia, one of the 100 seminal photography books of the 20th century, captured the change in his home territory with much the same spirit of the traveler that he brought to foreign places. Our Kind of People (1975), Working: I Do It For the Money (1977) and Leisure (1979), followed Suburbia. Bill Owens’ work is in museums and collections throughout the world including the Museum of Modern Art NY, Berkeley Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the San Jose Museum of Art. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two NEA grants. Owens founded Buffalo Bill’s Brew Pub in Hayward in 1983, one of the first brewpubs to open since prohibition. In 2003, Bill Owens founded the American Distilling Institute, a professional membership organization and publishing house “to promote and defend the art and enterprise of craft distilling.” As the president of ADI, Owens has become one of the leading spokesmen of the craft distilling movement.

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BILL OWENS, Before the disolution of our marriage my husband and I owned a bar. One day, the toilet broke and we brought it home.
Archival pigment print from the 50th Anniversary Suburbia Collection Portfolio

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Imo & Friends: an exhibition featuring Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, and Anne Brigman

Posted on June 13, 2022 | No Comments

Imo & Friends

AN EXHIBITION FEATURING PHOTOGRAPHS FROM:
Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, and Anne Brigman

IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM, The Unmade Bed. 1957, Vintage gelatin silver print, 9 1/2″ x 12 3/8″

Exhibition
June 23 – September 19, 2022

Reception
Saturday, June 25, 12–5pm

Scott Nichols Gallery is pleased to announce Imo & Friends, an exhibition featuring the works of photographers Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Marion Post Wolcott, and Anne Brigman. This exhibit follows the success of the recently finished Imogen Cunningham: A Retrospective at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, and runs in conjunction with the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art’s exhibition Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, which is on view through August 28, 2022.

The reception for Imo & Friends coincides with an afternoon event at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art: Recollecting Imogen from Two Former Groupies, with California photographers Judy Dater and Chris Johnson, who both collaborated with Cunningham. Pre-registration with SVMA is required to attend.

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IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM (1883-1976) was a prominent figure of bay area west coast photography movements in Pictorialism, Surrealism, and she was a founding member of Straight photography Group f/64. Cunningham is best known for her sharply detailed botanical imagery, direct (and occasionally unflattering) portraiture, and — photographs of dogs. The exhibition will feature works from Cunningham that span her 60-year career, including vintage photography, still life, portraiture, and later images which revisit her use of soft-focus lenses.

DOROTHEA LANGE (1895–1965) was a documentary photographer and photojournalist who captured Depression-era photographs for the Farm Security Administration, humanizing the consequences and impact of this event across the nation with her imagery. Her work illustrates the anxiety and uncertainty of these times — dilapidated homes among bleak scenery, lines of people waiting for provisions, and individuals comforting one another with obvious strain on their faces. Lange’s photography is not pretty; it depicts with unmistakable honesty, and therein lies its power.

MARION POST WOLCOTT (1910–1990) was a photographer working for the Farm Security Administration from 1938–1942 who documented poverty, deprivation, and the Jim Crow South during the Great Depression. She covered thousands of miles in the United States and produced more than 9,000 photographs during her roughly 4-year span at the FSA. Her work highlights domestic life, women’s labor, and lifestyle vignettes, illustrating the broad socioeconomic spectrum of the period.

ANNE BRIGMAN (1869-1950) was a member of the Photo-Secession movement who exhibited frequently and with great acclaim throughout the bay area and California from 1902–1936. She was adjunct to Group f/64, and a fixture in their social circle. Her work is known for its soft, dramatic depictions of the female form convening with nature, situated poetically within the landscape. Her photographs were primarily taken in the wild Sierra Nevadas, with herself or her sister as the model.

SCOTT NICHOLS GALLERY is a fine art photography gallery located in the Mercato Complex on Sonoma Square, in Sonoma, California. The gallery sells artist originals by established, up-and-coming, and contemporary photographers. Scott Nichols began his career as a private dealer in 1980, and is considered an expert on Group f/64 photography. His gallery houses one of the largest private collections of classic California photographers such as Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Brett Weston, Dorothea Lange, Imogen Cunningham, Ruth Bernhard, Wynn Bullock, and William Garnett.

Scott Nichols Gallery is a member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD). This is the 200^th exhibition at Scott Nichols Gallery since the gallery opening in 1992.

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Missed AIPAD? See our booth here.

Posted on June 6, 2022 | No Comments

Scott Nichols Gallery at AIPAD 2022
Center415 NYC

Booth highlights include a museum curator-led tour in partnership with AIPAD sponsor SIDLEY. The tour covered rare works including a “Cancelled” Moonrise over Hernandez, New Mexico by Ansel Adams and Shells 6S (1927) by Edward Weston.

Watch the video here:
Scott Nichols speaks at AIPAD 2022

ANSEL ADAMS
“Cancelled” Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
1941, printed in the late 1960s
Rare gelatin silver print with “cancelled” perforation

We also enjoyed a visit and book signing by George Tice in support of his latest release, Lifework — his catalog raisoné. Lifework is available at Scott Nichols Gallery.

George Tice signs a copy of “Lifework” while Nicolò Sertorio looks on.
Lifework is George Tice’s latest book release.

Following the event, the gallery (among others) received a wonderful write-up from photographer and fine art writer Dave Rudin of Figures of Grace. His article touches on many notable and unusual works seen at this year’s show. Worth the read.

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and more photos from the exhibition:

Additional press:

Collector Daily
LensCulture
The Eye of Photography
Untitled Magazine

ANSEL ADAMS
Moonrise from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California, “Full Negative”
1948, printed 1970s. Rare signed gelatin silver print

For more information or to schedule a consultation, please contact Scott Nichols Gallery.

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Portfolio Release: Clark James Mishler’s The Amish

Posted on May 26, 2022 | No Comments

Saturday, May 28, 2–5pm

Scott Nichols Gallery is pleased to announce the portfolio release for

Clark James Mishler

The Amish
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

The Amish, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 2022
14 3/4″ x 11 1/2″ Signed and dated portfolio
Edition: 15 + 3AP

This limited edition portfolio contains fourteen monochrome archival pigment prints.
Each print is signed, dated, and numbered.
Prints come in a foil-stamped acid-free clamshell box.