Jan Staller

"Untitled (Boulder)", Signed Chromogenic Print in Colors

1998

Sonja Bullaty (Czech/American, 1923-2000), Autumn River Reflections, Chromogenic Print, signed in pencil lower right, numbered edition "2/250" lower left, silver-tone metal frame. I...

Tracey Baran (American, 1975-2008), Untitled (Front Porch), Chromogenic Print in Colors, 1998, wood frame. Image: 10.5" H x 13.75" W; frame: 17.5" H x 20.5" W x 1.25" D. Provenance...

Anne Sager (American, 1930-2024), Forest Reflections, Color Photograph, Digitized Iris Print on Paper, signed in pencil lower right, with artist's estate stamp to verso, unframed. Im...

Anne Sager (American, 1930-2024), Kneeling Female Figure, Color Photograph, Chromogenic Print on Kodak Paper, mounted on posterboard, from the "Women Over 50" series, depicting a wom...

In this series the artist found that the rocks were so round that they looked like prehistoric holes, each one telling a story and reflecting a bit of her soul. Mauricio Velez's pho...

In this series the artist found that the rocks were so round that they looked like prehistoric holes, each one telling a story and reflecting a bit of her soul. Mauricio Velez's pho...

In this series the artist found that the rocks were so round that they looked like prehistoric holes, each one telling a story and reflecting a bit of her soul. Mauricio Velez's pho...

1981, Chromogenic Print. It is supposed to be signed lower right recto but has not been examined out of frame. Provenance: Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York; ARCO Chemical Company, Newtown Square, PA. Sonja Bullaty (October 17, 1923 - October 5, 2000) was a Jewish American photographer. Bullaty is known for her "lyrical composition" and strong use of color during her fifty-year collaboration with her husband, Angelo Lomeo. Bullaty and Lomeo's photographs appeared in LIFE, Time and Audubon magazines and journal.They have both exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the George Eastman House, UMPRUM Museum in Prague, in the Nikon House galleries and other venues. Bullaty was born in Prague to a Jewish banking family. Her family gave her a camera when she turned fourteen. Since Bullaty had been forced to leave school at the time, the camera was a "consolation gift." When Bullaty was eighteen, she was deported by the Nazis to Poland, where she was kept in the Lodz ghetto, and then later taken to Auschwitz and Gross-Rosen concentration camps. During a death march near Dresden, she and a friend successfully hid in a barn and were able to escape and return to Prague. When she got back to her home city, she discovered that no one else in her family had survived the Holocaust. Bullaty, "her head shaved," saw and answered an advertisement to be the helper to Czech photographer, Josef Sudek. As his assistant, she mixed chemicals for the darkroom, organized his negatives and learned from his sense of composition.[1] Sudek called her his "apprentice-martyr." Sudek's work often focused on the Czech landscape and windows, such as in the series The Windows of My Studio (1940-1954). Bullaty also photographed windows, but unlike Sudek, who photographed his own windows looking out, Bullaty photographed windows looking into buildings. Bullaty published a book, Sudek (1978), about her mentor, and it was the first publication of his work in the West. Bullaty found work with a photographer on her third day in New York. Also in 1947, she met Angelo Lomeo. They were brought together when she was inquiring about a darkroom in a building he managed. Lomeo was intrigued by Bullaty's accent and went to see her. They started photographing together a year later, traveling and sharing resources; during their time together, they became close. Bullaty and Lomeo were married in 1951. Later, when she was married, she and her husband would visit Sudek and bring him photography supplies. They visited him in Czechoslovakia "almost yearly." In 1971, she helped mount an exhibition of Sudek's work in New York. As photographers, Bullaty and Lomeo started using studio cameras...