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The River Thames is not even the longest river in the British Isles and a mere pygmy in comparison with many other rivers in the world, yet its significance to British and world history is immense. The river starts as a small trickle in hills to the north west of London and travels for nearly 450 km through the south of England, the centre of London and thence out into the North Sea via the Thames estuary, passing some of England’s most picturesque towns and villages on its way. London is one of the major cities of the world today, […]

Laurence Miller Gallery presents BODY OF EVIDENCE, featuring over thirty photographs and works on paper largely drawn from a single Midwest collection. The exhibition explores a wide variety of interpretations and representations of the human body, from procreation to incarceration; from the factual to the fantastic; from humorous to tragic. The pictures, by more than twenty artists, fit into four major themes: Family, Evidence, Individuality, and Performance. Collectively, these diverse representations of the body powerfully intersect with contemporary politics, ethics, and cultural priorities. Within the idea of family are Cindy Sherman’s self-portrait as a pregnant young woman, originally produced for […]

The exhibition dedicated to American photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood recounts 35 years of work. Organized around major series (Prostitutes, The Blind, Women in Prison, Jean-Louis) and around twenty photographs unpublished on different subjects, the numerous prints of the exhibition retrace the journey of an uncompromising photographer, sensitive to the destinies of those who have been rejected on the outskirts, far from the eyes of society, by their condition and dramas of life. “Through her personal choices, Jane Evelyn Atwood always seems to go towards difficulty, as a challenge, often placing herself, in the eyes of others, of us, spectators, on […]

Deborah Bell Photographs presents E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits. Thirty-six printing-out-paper prints, made later by Lee Friedlander from Bellocq’s original glass plate negatives, will be on view. E.J. Bellocq (American, 1873-1949) remains an ambiguous figure in history. Following his death in 1949, eighty-nine glass plate negatives of portraits of female prostitutes from New Orleans’ Storyville district were found in his desk. All of the images were taken circa 1912 by Bellocq, who was a commercial photographer practicing in New Orleans. Photographer Lee Friedlander acquired the plates in 1966 and made contact prints of the 8 x 10-inch negatives on the same […]

The International Center of Photography (ICP) opens its new integrated center at Essex Crossing on Manhattan’s Lower East Side with CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, one of four inaugural exhibitions. Produced and originated at the Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles’s premier destination for photography, CONTACT HIGH: A Visual History of Hip-Hop is a journey through nearly four decades of photography, documenting a movement that impacted music, politics, race relations, fashion, and the culture at large. Curated by Vikki Tobak, based on the bestselling book of the same name, and with creative direction by Fab 5 Freddy, the […]

Lower East Side : Selections from the ICP Collection, is one of four inaugural exhibitions of the newly opened integrated center of The International Center of Photography (ICP). The Lower East Side, one of the most densely populated, multiethnic, and modern places in the country, has been mined by photographers for more than 100 years. While late 19th-century social reformers attempted to show “how the other half lives,” later photographers had a different, and often more personal, relationship with the neighborhood. Drawn from ICP’s rich holdings of mid-20th-century works, this exhibition examines the role images play in creating narratives about […]

It’s not just me who fondly remembers these Kacere paintings in Daniel Filipacchi’s office. I received this funny email from Roger Turqueti and his photo is great! – Jean-Jacques Naudet In my first life as a photographer I worked for Playboy France by making portraits of celebrities in B&W for the section “to the end with …”. It was in the 70s during the heyday of Filipacchi editions which were at 63 Champs Elysées. It was there that I was able to meet Daniel Filipacchi and discover a hyperrealist painting by John Kacere hanging behind his desk. Great memory for […]

$75,000 flower study by one of the giants of modern photography leads highlights at Swann Auction Galleries’ February 25 sale. As one of the founding fathers of modern photography, Edward Steichen’s influence is extraordinarily far-reaching. No one featured more frequently in Camera Work, the ground-breaking magazine published by Alfred Stieglitz from 1903 to 1917. Steichen’s work with the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 prepared the ground for modern fashion photography, and he went on to work with Vogue and Vanity Fair as well as with the advertising agency J Walter Thompson, making him the highest paid photographer in the […]

After Clément Cogitore, LE BAL presents the first monographic exhibition devoted to Yasmina Benabderrahmane (1983), winner of the LE BAL Award for Young Creation with Adagp and a young artist graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and from the National Studio of Contemporary Arts Le Fresnoy. Returning to Morocco after 14 years of absence, Yasmina Benabderrahmane delivers with the Beast a filmic tale, between metaphor and rough fragments, marked by two characters from her family : Her uncle who is a geologist, responsible for “the Beast”, pharaonic work site of the new Grand Theater of the […]

I Will Greet the Sun Again, a retrospective of the work of Shirin Neshat, was exhibited at The Broad in Los Angeles. The book of that exhibition has recently been published and it covers Neshat’s work in photography, as well as film and video, from the early 1990s to the present. As a teenager, Neshat left Iran in the mid1970s to study in the US and her work as a visual artist gets under way in the years that followed return trips to her home country in the early 1990s. Iran’s cultural heritage and the social changes wrought by the […]