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René Burri was born in 1933 and died in 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland. Throughout his life, he was on the front line of global history. He joined Magnum Photos in 1955, becoming one of its members in 1959. Over the course of his career spanning almost sixty years, he travelled to Europe, the Middle East, North, Central and South America, Japan and China, recording with lucidity and acuity most of the momentous events of the second half of the 20th century. Numerous influential people were also captured by his lens including Picasso, Le Corbusier, Niemeyer, Barragan, Giacometti and Tinguely. In […]

Pace Gallery presents an exhibition of more than seventy new works by Lucas Samaras, marking the artist’s thirty-fifth solo exhibition atPace since joining the gallery in 1965. In his new body of work, Samaras appropriates and transforms imagery from his personal archive of family photos using commercial software, producing alternately haunting and humorous compositions that meditate on the role of mythology, mortality and fantasy in our inner lives. Samaras’s exhibition of recent photographic works will be presented alongside a selection of his pioneering sculptural objects from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as iconic works from later decades, and isaccompanied […]

The most comprehensive exhibition to pay homage to New York’s legendary LIGHT Gallery will be on view at the Center for Creative Photography from December 14, 2019 through May 9, 2020. The Qualities of LIGHT: The Story of a Pioneering New York City Photography Gallery will showcase the work of more than 20 photographers whose work rose to prominence during the gallery’s run from 1971 to 1987, including Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Linda Connor, Emmet Gowin, Betty Hahn, Eikoh Hosoe, Ray Metzker, Duane Michals, Stephen Shore, Aaron Siskind, and Garry Winogrand. The exhibition will be accompanied by a documentary film, […]

Galerie Thierry Marlat presents the photography of Robert Grosvenor, a major artist on the American scene since the 1970s. Mainly known as a sculptor, Robert Grosvenor is also the author of works on paper and photographs. The Max Hetzler gallery exhibits his recent sculptural creations from January 18 in Paris and the New York gallery Karma has devoted an exhibition to him since January 8. The Dijon consortium organizes from November 2020 to February 2021 the third personal exhibition of the artist in his place. Robert Grosvenor is an artist who escapes classification. His photographic work, like his sculpture, emphasizes […]

by Jean-Jacques Ader Do you know the oldest French Rock group in activity? : The Frantic Rollers. The group was founded in Agen in 1963, with singer and guitarist Gilles Mora on the microphone. If his ear retained the attraction for music from across the Atlantic, his gaze was educated in the South of the continent where Elvis Presley was born.   Jean-Jacques Ader : What was your first contact with the United States? Gilles Mora : It was at the beginning of the 1970s, after studying literature and after getting my teaching degree I had to do my military service. […]

The Arts Club London presents two Spring exhibitions, Robin Rhode and Patricia Leite, curated by Amelie von Wedel and Pernilla Holmes of Wedel Art, presented across the Club’s Drawing Room and Ante-Room. Performance and visual artist Robin Rhode utilises whimsical imagery and playful narratives to counter darker influences from his early life in post-apartheid South Africa. Often staging performances in the streets of Johannesburg, Rhode creates sequential photographs or stop-motion works that display and explore the act of drawing. By creating performed narratives, like drawing a bike on a wall and mimicking riding it, Rhode borrows from the genres of […]

A day with Marie Sophie Wilson-Carr Marie Sophie ’s house is exactly liker her, beautiful and unsettling. Normally, people choose houses without great imagination but in Marie Sophie  this choice was radical. A choice of freedom.   In the morning I took a walk with her. There was a small river. I stopped. She was wearing a very long shirt, she was barefoot. She raised her shirt a little and entered the water. She told me that sometimes she washes herself like this. Unsettling.   During a dinner where she taught me how to make crêpes, she showed me her […]

“All For Our Country” , Nevada, 2019. This series has been part of an ongoing project I started last May in the state of Nevada. The project focuses on the remote parts of the Silver State, highlighting casino cities that struggle to reinvent themselves. Nevada is also the location of some of the most famous gold rushes that allowed cities to boom, back in the day. These cities then suffered tragic events that left them abandoned. All for our country Is an ode to the other America, the one far from the bustle of the city. From a ghost town abandoned […]

Inquisitive Creatures – The book, Inquisitive Creatures, is a story about 4 child prodigies, living in an abandoned workshop, on a quest to solve one of science’s most difficult problems, time travel. As the four friends set out to build a time machine, through trial and error, they discover that teamwork, persistence and above all friendship are the ingredients that make their dream come true. “We carefully plan each photograph which means a lot of time is spent building the sets and props in our New Jersey studio. Our whole process is actually quite simple. A story is written and […]

The wait – It’s a series of self-portraits about the body that is changing. That of a pregnancy. It’s taking ownership of these new curves, looking at yourself better, loving yourself better. Having fun with her curves, her heavy breasts. Understand what awaits me. Avoid postpartum discomfort by looking straight ahead. It’s also filling time. 9 months. 9 months to love each other. 9 months to love you.