Arnold Newman is a new addition at Artnet's Artist Works Catalogues, but his name belongs in the pantheon of great American black-and-white photographers, right up there with Carleton Watkins, Imogen Cunningham, and Ed Weston. As the following pictures illustrate, Newman was very very good with color too. He died in 2006.
To view my previous OEN article featuring the black-and-white portrait photography of Arnold Newman, click here. And to view an OEN article with the painted, surrealist portraiture of Almut Heise (for contrast), click here.
I only began really looking at art four or five years ago, which I did not to learn about art but to relax. Consequently, I don't know a lot about it, but I do know what I like.
All the images which follow are courtesy of Commerce Graphics Limited, Incorporated, the Estate of Arnold Newman, and Artnet's Artist Works Catalogs. You can access Artnet's AWC's Homepage, where permission is given to the public to reproduce images there, by clicking here.
It's Christmas! So relax and enjoy Arnold Newman's photographic portraits of seven artists and one impresario, in color:
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