Photography

Arena Studios is one of the freaky little gems you come across in New York City. That is - if you're into S&M, Fetish, Kinky happenings and provocative art.

For the past sixteen years Arena has been involved in the transformation of the New York City fetish scene while their events, most notably the world famous Black & Blue Ball, has kept them at the forefront of the scene world-wide.

English chemist, linguist, archaeologist, and pioneer photographer. He is best known for his development of the calotype, an early photographic process that was an improvement over the daguerreotype of the French inventor L.J.M. Daguerre. Talbot’s calotypes involved the use of a photographic negative, from which multiple prints could be made; had his method been announced but a few weeks earlier, he and not Daguerre would probably have been known as the founder of photography.

Since its founding in 1974 by Cornell Capa in the historic Willard Straight House on Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile, ICP has presented over 500 exhibitions, bringing the work of more than 3,000 photographers and other artists to the public in one-person and group exhibitions and has provided thousands of classes and workshops that have enriched tens of thousands of students. ICP was founded as an institution to keep the legacy of 'Concerned Photography' alive.

James Danziger began his career in the photography world in 1977 as the youngest Picture Editor of The London Sunday Times Magazine. In the 1980s he became Features Editor of Vanity Fair where he was instrumental in repositioning the magazine and in championing Annie Leibovitz.