“Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?” - Constantin Brancusi Simple Pleasures is an ongoing series curated by Holden Luntz Gallery, presenting a few of their favorite pictures organized thematically. This is Form and Light : Sculpture in Photography We hope you find these photographs as a gentle reminder that there are always simple pleasures to be found! https://www.holdenluntz.com/magazine/simple-pleasures/form-and-light-sculpture-in-photography/ Holden Luntz Gallery332 Worth AvenuePalm Beach, FL 33480www.holdenluntz.com
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On May 7th, the J. Paul Getty Museum is releasing Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography, the first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium into an art form. Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1887) is often seen as an underdog in the early history of photography. From the outset, his contribution to the invention of the medium was eclipsed by others…
Seen on the Corridor Éléphant website, this portfolio by Diane Givry, a series of self-portraits taken between 2019 and 2023 (the series is in progress). Diane Givry is a 31-year-old French photographer currently living in Haute-Savoie. She is primarily interested in analog photography, being fascinated by the process, from shooting to dark room printing. She most often uses a Rolleicord medium format camera (6x6), and recently a Toyo camera for…
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This is the funniest email of the week and we love the pictures! I have been working on this project for a long time, at a slow pace because it takes me a lot of time, energy, and it is for various reasons complex to organize. I have for the moment 9 images, which seems to me the minimum number to start calling it a series; and I said to…
For his second exhibition at the in camera gallery, the Catalan photographer Txema Salvans guides us, as usual, through a candid journey far from any artifice. Industrial areas, cargo ports, power stations and evanescent seaside resorts, the series “My Kingdom” documents with humor and light tenderness the gloomy summer adventures of the Spaniards. “I photograph my own culture, people and landscapes. I have to feel a physical connection with the…
Willy Maywald (1907-1985) was one of the most important photographers in Paris from the 1930s to the 1960s. His training at the Werkkunstschulen in Krefeld, Cologne and Berlin shaped his avant-garde formal language. In 1932 he moved on the Seine, where he made friends with many protagonists of artistic modernism. His range of subjects, which includes both commissioned and free works, extends from a spectacular collection of portrait photographs and…
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This is one of our new sections for 2021: Coup de Coeur! Favorite! Every day we receive photos that we cannot publish because they either stand alone or without a current context. baudoin lebon presents this photograph by Les Krims. Les KRIMS, Robin Tressler's Valentine, Buffalo , 1988, tirage jet d'encre, Image : 43 x 56 baudoin lebon - paris 42 rue de montmorency 75003 www.baudoin-lebon.com Nouvelle exposition maya mercer…
Rome, MAXXI Museum: 200 people, 200 portraits by Giovanni Gastel. Faces, who “have passed on something to me, taught me, touched my soul”, as the photographer states. It’s an unseen Gastel. The exhibition presents a never dealt issue in his photographic work: the portrait. A fascinating gallery, featuring many people from the worlds of culture, design, art, fashion, music and politics Giovanni Gastel met during his career. Among them, Barack…
His 'visual diary', is how Jacques Henri Lartigue called his photographic albums which he revised throughout 1970 - 1980. This exhibition shows his photographs next to the original album pages. The images of Jacques Henri Lartigue from the beginning of the 20th century were first exhibited by John Szarkowski in 1963 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) in New York. At the time, the curator presented Lartigue as a…
How to represent sex as a place of ecstasy rather than pornography? How to transcend the unavoidable physicality of the sexual act, sometimes tender, sometimes violent, to reach what Diana Michener calls “the place of communion … the unknown, the cosmic”? Michener initially considered depicting live models for this book, yet finally decided to photograph stills from pornographic films, transforming the hyperreality of the sex industry, its tarnished colored gloss, into…
After the documentaries devoted to Frank Horvat, George Tourdjman and Satoshi Saikusa, Philippe Abergel's "Portrait of a Photographer" series returns with a fourth episode devoted to the Spanish photographer Javier Vallhonrat. Abergel followed him at home in Madrid and in the Spanish high mountains. [video_embed_hd url="https://vimeo.com/510702914"] Born in Madrid in 1953, Javier Vallhonrat grew up under Franco and lived in his youth, his first artistic gestures with the implosion of…
The George Eastman Museum, presents a retrospective of artist Carl Chiarenza’s (American, b. 1935) nearly seventy-year career this winter. The exhibition, Carl Chiarenza: Journey into the Unknown, was curated by William Green and will remain on view through June 20. This retrospective exhibition spans the Rochester-based artist’s entire career, beginning with early photographs Chiarenza made as a high school student in Rochester in the 1950s and concluding with a large selection…
The Monthly Chronicle by Thierry Maindrault The mains definitions of Art are as numerous and as varied as the number of art lovers and art creators. The proofs of Art also move over time. Some works that we consider today as Art, were not considered as such yesterday and may not be tomorrow, provided they really are today. More, there are the digressive strata of Art which are linked to…
Les Filles de la Photo association offers "Tête-à-Tête": practical and strategic interviews for women photographers. http://www.lesfillesdelaphoto.com/portfolio/les-tete-a-tete/ Experts and experts from different professions in the ecosystem (art purchase, galleries, publishing, iconography, photo prize juries, sponsorship, exhibition curators ...) are there to meet women photographers and give them practical advice and benevolent in order to enhance their work and develop their career. The second edition will take place the week of March…
A life-time spent documenting the world From the 1950’s to the 1970’s, Hélène Roger-Viollet travelled the world with her Rolleiflex camera. America, Asia, Africa... As the eldest daughter of the French engineer and amateur photographer, Henri Roger-Viollet, Hélène grew up among her father’s photographic experiences. In 1938, after studying journalism, she founded the Roger-Viollet photo agency with her husband Jean Fischer. Her trips were an excuse to complete, document and…
Founded in 1938, the Roger-Viollet photo agency, located at 6 rue de Seine in Paris, is one of the oldest French agencies. Its collections constitute a unique photographic collection in Europe counting over 6 million documents illustrating more than 180 years of Parisian, French and international history. After three months of renovation works, this unique place dedicated to photo archives has kept its soul. It now offers a 1000 sqft…
Henri Roger was born in 1869. He took his first photograph at the age of eleven. In is twenties, and already a young engineer, he became one of the precursors of photographic special effects. His first work was a series of self-portraits. The first, "Man and his double" dates from 1892. In the 1890s, he used his whole family for his fanciful staging of bourgeois life. Even his engagement with…
Henri Martinie who was born in Corrèze in 1885 had a career particularly centered on literary circles. During the years 1920 to 1940 in his studio on the rue de Penthièvre, he took an exceptional group of portraits of French and foreign writers, among them Philippe Soupault, Georges Bernanos, Jean Cocteau, James Joyce and Paul Eluard. In addition, the Martinie Sudio worked regularly at the French National Assembly taking portraits…
Françoise Demulder, born in Paris in 1947, was one of the most famous women photojournalists at the end of the 20th century, working for major French & International press agencies. She began by covering the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon, then went to other crisis spots around the world, going from war to war: Angola, Lebanon, Cambodia, Ethiopia.... She also covered the first Gulf War in 1991 and…
Jack Nisberg was born in Chicago (USA) in 1922. His studied photography but was interrupted when the U.S. entered World War II. At first he served on the Pacific front and later in Japan. On returning to the U.S. in 1947, he continued his studies at the famous Art Center in California. In 1950 he set up a studio in New York and for a time studied under Alexei Brodovitch.…
From the 1960s to the 1990s, the French newspaper “France-Soir” had a circulation of over a million copies and counted 25 photographers who illustrated the pages of its numerous daily editions. 24/7, Bernard Charlet, Michel Pansu, Jacques Boissay, André Grassart, to name but a few, took turns and covered news about politics, sports, show-business and news items... The photographic collections of the newspaper “France-Soir”, counting 12 million pictures, from the…