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Brett Weston(American, 1911-1993)Garapata Beach, 1954gelatin silver print, printed latersigned and dated in pencil (on t...
09/26/2026

Brett Weston(American, 1911-1993)
Garapata Beach, 1954
gelatin silver print, printed later
signed and dated in pencil (on the mount)
image/sheet: 14.7/8 x 18 inches

“It seems very likely that among the influences on Edward Weston was the work of his son Brett.” - John Szarkowski, Looking at Photographs, The Museum of Modern Art, 1973.

Brett Weston began photographing at thirteen, working alongside his father in Mexico. Although deeply influenced by Edward Weston, he quickly developed an independent vision, distinguished by bold compositions, rich tonal contrasts, and an increasingly abstract approach to the natural world.

In Garrapata Beach, Weston transforms the rugged California coastline into a study of form, texture, and light. The sharply defined rocks and deep shadows contrast with the softly receding hills, demonstrating his remarkable ability to discover abstraction within the landscape.

Szarkowski’s observation acknowledges Brett’s significance not simply as Edward Weston’s son, but as an artist whose work helped shape the photographic vision of his father.

Roger Vail (American, 1945-2026)Great Lakes Drag Strip, Union Grove, Wisconsin, Spring, 1968vintage gelatin silver print...
09/24/2026

Roger Vail (American, 1945-2026)
Great Lakes Drag Strip, Union Grove, Wisconsin, Spring, 1968
vintage gelatin silver prints
6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 14x11 inch mount

In 1969, Roger Vail’s photographs were exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago in Photographs by Roger Vail and Larry McPherson, organized during Hugh Edwards’s influential tenure as Curator of Photography. The exhibition ran from July 12 through September 1, 1969.

A teaser from our upcoming exhibition of photographs by American photographer Roger Vail (1945-2026). Vail’s Rod and Cus...
09/24/2026

A teaser from our upcoming exhibition of photographs by American photographer Roger Vail (1945-2026). Vail’s Rod and Custom photographs look at the car culture of the period, its customized automobiles, gathering places, and the young people who inhabited that world. Photographed early in Vail’s career, the series already reveals the directness and careful attention to subject that would characterize his later work. The exhibition will feature a selection of vintage gelatin silver prints from the series.

image: Great Lakes Drag Strip, Union Grove, Wisconsin, 1968

W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918–1978)Deleitosa, Spain, 1950vintage gelatin silver print13 × 10 inches. signed twice in s...
09/19/2026

W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918–1978)
Deleitosa, Spain, 1950
vintage gelatin silver print
13 × 10 inches.
signed twice in stylus on the print recto

Made during Smith’s month-long stay in the rural village of Deleitosa in Extremadura, this photograph was part of the body of work produced for his landmark photo essay Spanish Village, published in LIFE on April 9, 1951. Smith photographed the daily life of a community that remained largely isolated from the economic and technological changes taking place elsewhere in postwar Europe. Here, three schoolgirls sit in a village classroom, the foreground figure separated by Smith’s selective focus and strong use of available light. The photograph is characteristic of Smith’s ability to combine the direct observation of photojournalism with a carefully structured sense of composition and tone.

Walt Odets (American, 1947–2026) began photographing as a young man and pursued photography as his first career, long be...
09/18/2026

Walt Odets (American, 1947–2026) began photographing as a young man and pursued photography as his first career, long before becoming known as a psychologist and writer. The son of playwright Clifford Odets, he grew up between Los Angeles and New York and developed an attentive, psychologically acute way of looking at ordinary life. In this photograph, two children occupy the same stretch of city sidewalk but seem to inhabit entirely different worlds: one disappearing behind a telephone pole, reduced to a pair of outstretched arms, the other caught mid-stride, absorbed in her own private drama. Odets had a wonderful eye for these accidental arrangements, where humor and mystery coexist in an otherwise unremarkable moment. His photographs are held by the Brooklyn Museum, Oakland Museum of California, and Cantor Arts Center at Stanford, and in 2007 he received the James D. Phelan Award in Photography.

Declan Haun: Between Fact and FeelingSeptember 19 - October 31, 2026Opening reception on Saturday, September 19, from 5–...
09/17/2026

Declan Haun: Between Fact and Feeling
September 19 - October 31, 2026
Opening reception on Saturday, September 19, from 5–8 pm.
 
Declan Haun (1937–1994) was a keen observer of American life whose photographs combine the immediacy of photojournalism with a personal, intuitive way of seeing. A photographer with the influential Black Star agency, Haun worked within the postwar American photojournalism tradition while developing a distinctly individual sensibility. Drawn primarily from the 1960s, the photographs in this exhibition range from political and public events to quieter observations of everyday life. Throughout, Haun was attentive to gesture, expression, circumstance, and the telling detail, often finding something unexpected within otherwise straightforward situations. Declan Haun: Between Fact and Feeling brings together photographs that reveal both the immediacy of the world Haun encountered and his personal response to it.

Declan Haun  Between Fact and FeelingSeptember 19 - October 31, 2026Opening reception on Saturday, September 19, from 5–...
09/17/2026

Declan Haun  Between Fact and Feeling
September 19 - October 31, 2026
Opening reception on Saturday, September 19, from 5–8 pm.
 
Declan Haun (1937–1994) was a keen observer of American life whose photographs combine the immediacy of photojournalism with a personal, intuitive way of seeing. A photographer with the influential Black Star agency, Haun worked within the postwar American photojournalism tradition while developing a distinctly individual sensibility. Drawn primarily from the 1960s, the photographs in this exhibition range from political and public events to quieter observations of everyday life. Throughout, Haun was attentive to gesture, expression, circumstance, and the telling detail, often finding something unexpected within otherwise straightforward situations. Declan Haun: Between Fact and Feeling brings together photographs that reveal both the immediacy of the world Haun encountered and his personal response to it.

Frank Gohlke (American, 1942 )Grain Elevator and Lightening Flash, Lamesa, Texas, 1975vintage gelatin silver print14 x 1...
09/16/2026

Frank Gohlke (American, 1942 )
Grain Elevator and Lightening Flash, Lamesa, Texas, 1975
vintage gelatin silver print
14 x 14 inches

Roger Vail (1945–2026) was a photographer and educator whose work was grounded in rigorous photographic training and a l...
09/10/2026

Roger Vail (1945–2026) was a photographer and educator whose work was grounded in rigorous photographic training and a lifelong commitment to teaching. He earned both his BFA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before joining California State University, Sacramento in 1970, where he taught photography and art for more than four decades, influencing generations of students. This photograph, Venice Beach Pier, 1975, a gelatin silver print, comes from a body of work Vail made during two periods spent photographing along the beaches of Southern and Central California in the 1970s and ’80s. Here, the pier is reduced to its most elemental form: a single piling, water, atmosphere, and time. The barnacles and weathered surface record the physical effects of the sea, while Vail’s long exposure softens the surrounding water almost to abstraction. Like much of his work, the photograph is less about describing a place than about looking closely enough for the familiar to become something else.

Enrico Natali (American, 1933 )Woman outside a tire factory waiting for a bus, 1968vintage gelatin silver print6 3/4 x 4...
09/07/2026

Enrico Natali (American, 1933 )
Woman outside a tire factory waiting for a bus, 1968
vintage gelatin silver print
6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches

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