American Photographer Henry Wessel passes away
Born in 1942, Henry Wessel was one of the participants in the 1975 landmark exhibition, “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape”, alongside Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott and Stephen Shore.
Represented by the New York gallery Pace/MacGill, Henry Wessel spent his career capturing the Californian surroundings through photography.
In 2007, a retrospective was dedicated to the photographer at the SFMOMA. More information available via the New York Times.
Eight New York-based emerging artists rewarded by the Rema Hort Mann Foundation
Adama Delphine Fawundu, Julien Cheyenne, Dana Lok, Ektor Garcia, Jeannine Han, Jose Delgado Zuniga, Jules Gimbrone and Sara Stern will each receive $10,000. The recipients of the financial donation were selected by a jury made up of Laura Phipps, an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Susan Hort, cofounder of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation; artist and critic David Humphrey, who also serves as a professor at Columbia University; Kyle Dancewicz, director of exhibitions and programs at Long Island City’s Sculpture Center; and artist and Columbia University professor Aliza Nisenbaum.
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Detail of panel two and three of Jose Delgado Zuniga’s La Cita, 2017.
