Lunn Galerie
Brooklyn. Paris. Normandy.
Fine Art Photographie - Explore & Collect
"Photography helps people to see." Berenice Abbott
Collections
Presented here is a series of "collections," photographs acquired and curated into themes, like threaded beads on a necklace, each telling a different story, within a greater narrative. We hope you enjoy them and they inspire you.
Nature
Nature photography has always been a shared passion in the Lunn family. Since working with Ansel Adams in the early 1970s.
Portraits
Through the lens, we seek to portray the intricate beauty and unique stories of individuals, blending the artistry of portraiture with the reverence for nature that has defined our family's photographic legacy.
Shadow Memories
"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. Like a phosphorescent stone, which, when in darkness, shines, but when exposed to the light, loses its fascination as a precious stone, beauty loses its existence if one removes the effects of the shadows."
Takeshi Shikama (1948)
New Work
"We find beauty not in the thing itself but in patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates. Like a phosphorescent stone, which, when in darkness, shines, but when exposed to the light, loses its fascination as a precious stone, beauty loses its existence if one removes the effects of the shadows."
Leon Levinstein (1913-1988)
"In my photographs, I want to look at life -- at the commonplace things as if I just turned a corner and ran into them for the first time."
Leon Levinstein (Photography Annual 1955 (New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1954), p. 248
"A good photograph will prove to the viewer how little our eyes permit us to see. Most people, really, don't see -- see only what they have always seen and what they expect to see -- where a photographer, if he's good, will see everything. And better if he sees things he doesn't expect to see." (1988 - Interview with Adam and Jem Cohen)
James Van Der Zee (1886-1983)
Eighteen Photographs was published by Harry H. Lunn, Jr. (Graphics International, Ltd., Washington D.C.) with the James Van Der Zee Institute in 1974.
The gelatin silver prints from this portfolio were printed by Richard Benson, under the guidance of the photographer. Some prints were toned to replicate the original feeling of Van Der Zee's vintage prints.
Each print is mounted, numbered, and signed in pencil by the artist.
The portfolio is limited to an edition of 75 signed and numbered copies. An additional 15 copies (numbered in Roman numerals) were reserved for the James Van Der Zee Institute.
These prints are from the Estate of Harry H. Lunn, Jr. (1933-1998)
Lisette Model (1901-1083)
Harry Lunn published several photographic portfolios in the late 1970s, including Lisette Model, 12 Photographs.
The portfolio’s twelve bromoil silver gelatin prints were created by Gerhard Sander, August Sander’s grandson, under Lisette Model’s supervision. Each print is signed and numbered the verso, and limited to 75 copies.
12 Photographs includes some of Model’s most iconic images, from her 1930s French Riviera portraits to Manhattan speakeasies or fashion spots, including the Reflections series. Model’s famous portrait of an opulent swimmer (Coney Island Bather) - her first commission for Alexey Brodovitch at Harper's Bazaar, which graced the cover of her Aperture monograph (1979) is also part of the portfolio.
Bill Brandt (1904-1983)
Harry H. Lunn, Jr. collaborated with Marlborough gallery on several projects, including Bill Brandt, whose reprinted some of his most iconic images in the late 1970s.
