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Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 – May 7, 1965) was an American artist known for his Precisionist paintings, commercial photography, and the 1921 avant-garde film, Manhatta, which he made in collaboration with Paul Strand.
291 is the commonly known name for an internationally famous art gallery that was located in Midtown Manhattan at 291 Fifth Avenue in New York City from 1905 to 1917. . Originally called the "Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession", the gallery was established and managed by photographer Alfred S
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Manhatta documents the early 20th-century look of Manhattan.With the city as subject, the film consists of 65 shots sequenced in a loose non-narrative structure, beginning with the Staten Island ferry approaching Manhattan and concludes with a sunset view from a skyscraper.
Strand spent the Summer of 1916 at a cottage in Twin Lakes, Connecticut.Strand's interest and understanding of the cubist esthetics, "abstraction through fragmentation, multiple points of view, and a reduction of people and objects to basic geometry", according to The Art Institute of Chicago website, led him to transform everyday objects, like furniture and crockery, into works of abstract ...
Musya S. Sheeler (1908–1981), born Musya Metas Sokolova, was a Russian dancer who, at age 15, fled with her family from the Russian Revolution to the US, where she became a photographer. Her work was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art three times and featured in magazines including Life and Vogue.
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Peter Shelton was born in Troy, Ohio, on January 18, 1951.. Shelton spent his early school years in Tempe, Arizona.He was a pre-medical student at Pomona College, Pomona, CA studying sociology, anthropology and theatre, before he received his B.A. in Fine Art in 1973.