Vince Aletti, collector, author, curator and winner of this year’s AIPAD Award, lives in a seven-room apartment in New York’s East Village. It’s filled to the brim with his enormous collection, or as he describes it, “a collection of collections”, of magazines, photographs, books, vinyl records, and all manner of ephemera. Still, there’s always room for more. How would you describe yourself as a collector? – As someone who looks…
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In September last year, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of a collection of 209 photographs by the French photographer Eugène Atget. It had been built over 25 years by Dan and Mary Solomon, by carefully adding one masterpiece after another. The couple prefers to keep a low profile in the photography world but are incredibly active as collectors, curators, publishers, and most significantly as generous donors to…
AIPAD presents the 2nd edition of the Monumental exhibition. This special project show- cases large-scale photographic works throughout the public areas of The Park Avenue Armory, providing a unique opportunity for galleries and their artists to display new, challenging and impactful pieces not generally shown at fairs, creating a captivating visual spectacle for visitors. This article originally appeared in the AIPAD Catalogue sponsored by MUUS Collection. The Photography Show…
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On the occasion of the month of photography and on the fringes of "Paris Photo 2022", the Nouchine Pahlevan Gallery presents "I Want Him To Be Ocean" by Christian Mamoun. This exhibition invites itself into the heart of a kind of waiting room before entering the adult world. In the meantime, this Parisian youth are questioning themselves , confronted with "sturm et drang" impulses (the storm and the impulse), which…
Nino Mier Gallery presents Women’s Work, an exhibition of photographs and videos by Finnish artist IIU SUSIRAJA. Susiraja is known for her still and moving image portraits, which capture the artist in her own home or her parents’ home, interacting with items such as housekeeping tools and pantry staples with prurient, deadpan humor. In Women’s Work, which will be on view from February 18 - March 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, Susiraja brings a…
Spanning the years 1976 to 1981, The Beginning brings together the earliest works of acclaimed American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). Featuring images largely unseen by the public, the exhibition chronicles a period of technical and artistic development that would lay the foundation for the complex and incisive tableaux that ultimately established Barney as a key figure in international photography. While quarantining during the Covid-19 outbreak, Barney began to sort…
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Deconstructing Edward Weston’s Nudes in the form of self-portraits, the artist Tarrah Krajnak inserts herself as both author and subject into Weston’s original work. Replicating the poses of models Bertha Wardell and Charis Wilson, she sits before the camera with a remote shutter release in hand, her body depicted beyond the boundaries of Weston’s original fragmentation, confronting the lens with a light meter, a gas mask, a defiant gaze. Krajnak’s…
Les Promenades Photographiques de Marseille are joining forces with the Artplexe cinema to offer a photographic exhibition within the walls of the most recent cinema created by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte, inaugurated in October 2021 on the Canebière. Until September 30, 2024, photographer Romain Boutillier, an adopted Arlesian, will present his series Lost in Camargue highlighting a timeless and mysterious territory, full of history, as opposed to the iconic images that…
David Schonauer reported in Pro Photo Daily the following news : Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly resigned from the board of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation on Tuesday, blasting the group for cowardice in rejecting Trump critic Liz Cheney as the recipient of its top yearly award. Kennerly, who served as White House photographer during the Ford administration in the 1970s, claimed in a letter to fellow trustees…
Sylvia Galmot : Committed! Sylvia Galmot: COMMITTED! Sylvia Galmot freely admits that she didn't choose photography, but photography chose her. She began her career working for 10 years as a photographer for the most prestigious Parisian agencies, including H&K. This experience enabled her to work with a host of celebrities, including Mélanie Thierry, Isabelle Adjani, Raphaêl Enthoven, Emmanuelle Seigner, Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Andrée Putman, Alain Chabat and Lambert Wilson,…
The Fondazione MAST presents the exhibition Vertigo - Video Scenarios of Rapid Changes curated by Urs Stahel: 29 international artists address the theme of our changing society through the artistic medium of video art. From February 10 to June 30, the MAST galleries will host 34 video art installations that analyze, comment on, explore and investigate rapid change in different contexts, including work and production processes, trade and circulation, new…
“Our columnist, Thierry Maindrault, is exhibiting in Kyoto at the Kaleïdoscope Museum Kyoto, as curator, with his photographs and those of Alain Robert, and Jun Sato. He presents this exhibition as follow: Nebula Incerta by Thierry Maindrault These are some of the latest works resulting from my work, begun in 1966, on uncertain vagueness. Research and experiments that I was able to refine until 2008. This photographic technique anticipates the…
They adorn the walls, dress the elevator doors, appear in monumental installations on the ground floor; on the occasion of the “Paris Venise en tête-à-tête” campaign, anonymous photographs are installed at the Samaritaine department store in Paris, before flying off to the Biennale. These photographs are those of men and women who lived in the seventies. Neither place, nor date, nor name are specified... it is up to us visitors…
For three years, Marine Peixoto photographed the sports sessions at the municipal street workout area in Bercy Park, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris. She created an exhibition presented at the BAL in Paris, as well as a book co-published with Roma Publications. What if photography were a sport? When Medhy, the creator of Bercy Street Workout, invited her to immortalize this park and its members, French photographer Marine Peixoto…
We received this email from Dan Hayon. It is very sad! Hello J.J. I am writing to you because I saw in yesterday's newsletter a post concerning the sale at Christie's of a famous photo by Man Ray from the collection of Marion Meyer, estimated between 40,000 and 60,000 euros. A few days ago, an American friend, a former photography professor and great collector, Jack Wilgus, published a post on…
Clarissa Ward, CNN's multi-award-winning chief international correspondent agreed to chair the work of the jury for this 31st edition. She has been covering the planet's most violent conflicts for more than 20 years. Her experience, her career and the respect she inspires in the profession will make her participation in Bayeux an event. JOURNALISTS SEND YOUR REPORTAGES NOW AND UNTIL JUNE 6 Photo, radio, television and written press reports dealing…
LAUNDRY Pionki, Poland, 2023 People with intellectual disabilities consist of about 3% population of Poland. The same is true for Pionki, a town in the Masovian Voivodeship. These persons were often visible wandering on the streets of the town, prompting the city authorities to establish 25 years ago to provide them with the necessary assistance. A puppet theater was also created there, where they became actors This marked the beginning…
Postcards from Italy There are two Venices: one that is always celebrating something, making noise, smiling, and leisurely spending time on the Riva degli Schiavoni—the waterfront; pigeons, tides of tourists, and tables in front of the cafe Florian with glittering objects. It seems that except for two - three winter months, there is a restless idle existence here year around. You only need to watch the tides of human waves…
UBC CONCRETE - A different perspective of a Campus The 15 submitted images are a selection of 33 images published in my newest book: UBC CONCRETE - A different perspective of a Campus This photo book is about a different side of the University of British Columbia's' Campus. Not a high glossy advertising brochure but photos of a satisfying artistic scenery. A University Campus is a place designed for people.…
Corps-Île In her series "Corps-Île," Emmanuelle Rosso takes us on a profound artistic journey anchored in the material and mysteries of the shoreline. Since her installation in 2017 on the enchanting island of Belle-Île-en-Mer, Rosso has explored with a unique sensitivity the textures and hues shaped and abandoned by the sea on the shore. For her, the shoreline is not merely a boundary between land and sea, but a place…
The Dark Side We all have a part of ourselves that we don't like, a part of us that we try to hide from society for fear of not being accepted, a part that we reject in ourselves. We see our shadow side in others, but it's harder to see the dark side of our own heart. Jung called it the "shadow." When we discover the dark side of ourselves,…