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Archives - August 12, 2022 James Hyman Gallery presented recently the very first London exhibition of one of the greatest figures in the history of photography, the Countess of Castiglione. This major solo exhibition includes over fifty rare portraits of the Countess from the 1850s to the 1890s. Directed and staged by the Countess, herself, and created in collaboration with the studio photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson, these “self-portraits” are some of…

Archives - August 12, 2020 Daniel Blau presents Backstage and Kammerspiele - an exhibition comprising Margaret Bourke-White’s backstage photographs of burlesque dancers shown alongside the 1920s theatrical pictures of Li Osborne (1883-1968). Bourke-White’s sensual photographs of Broadway burlesque performers give us a glimpse of New York’s entertainment world in the mid 1930s. The subjects of these striking photos are New York’s chorus girls and performers as they prepare their makeup…

Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary photographer and enrolled member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation whose work explores Indigenous identity, history, and the relationship between people and place. His work is currently on view at The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Church in Sag Harbor, the Memorial Gallery at Farmingdale State College, Floyd Memorial Library, the North Fork Art Collective, WaterFire Arts Center, and the Long Island Museum. Based on the…

The Galerie du Bolero in Versoix Switzerland presents the exhibition Cités Délaissées by Jean-Marc Yersin; Les carnets d’un autre temps No. 5 is the accompanying publication. Jean-Marc Yersin writes: In 2016, an old childhood friend, settled in Gary Indiana, south of Chicago, invited me to explore his city, hit hard by the crisis. During that trip, I used a sketchbook to build coherence into the series and lay the first groundwork…

Galerie Sakura presents a series by Aikaterini Theocharidou. Aikaterini is a Greek visual artist based in Italy, whose work sits at the crossroads of photography, digital art, and graphic design. Trained in architecture in Florence, she has developed a minimalist, surrealist world in which color, geometric forms, and pared-down compositions give rise to poetic, dreamlike images. Galerie Sakura 58 rue Gioffredo 06000 Nice www.galerie-sakura.com

One day in June 2024, having just finished a few darkroom tests as part of my research into natural alternative developers this time formulated with chicory I sent my results and my new recipe sheet to Gilles Decamps, our editor-in-chief at The Eye of Photography. Among the black-and-white images I had taken in the field, I sent him some poppies that had caught my eye. During our phone call, Gilles…

Archives - August 11, 2020 The photographs in his book depict the hands of prisoners from the early 20th century Turkey, drawn from the photograph albums of Abdul Hamid II, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Hayal & Hakikat (translated as Dream & Fact), by Cemre Yeşil Gönenli, takes the form of two booklets ⁠— A Handbook of Forgiveness and A Handbook of Punishment ⁠— which can be viewed…

Archives - August 11, 2022 On the 100th anniversary of his birth, we pay tribute to Magnum photographer Erich Hartmann with a selection of his most iconic images. Erich Hartmann, who would have been 100 years old July 29, 2022 – was a quintessentially 20th-century photographer, both in the story of how he came to be an image maker, and in his pioneering of emerging practices. Born into a Jewish…

Klavdij Sluban: The Image Against Evidence There are photographers who show us the world. Klavdij Sluban belongs to that much rarer breed who question it. For him, photography does not document; it clarifies. It seeks neither proof nor spectacle, nor even the decisive moment. It moves against the tide of time, at a deliberately unhurried pace, until reality ceases to be an obvious fact and becomes a question. Born in…

Hegel’s image about the owl of Minerva (wisdom) only spreading its wings with the coming of dusk can be taken to mean that, after flapping its wings and flying off into an approaching darkness, an insight is left behind that will later come to light. Meaning emerges retrospectively, interpretation only comes into existence after the event, so there is no way of being sure how the present will be understood…

The work of Marlo Pascual, a prescient and thought-provoking American artist who stretched the boundaries of photography, is on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA). Marlo Pascual: Making Something Out of Something, the first solo museum exhibition of Pascual's work in 15 years, introduces viewers to an artist who developed a practice of manipulating found images, creating works that blur the line between photography and sculpture. Pascual worked…

TBW Books announces the publication of Bell Pond, a new monograph by artist Stephen DiRado. Bell Pond documents the summer of 1983 at a public swimming pond in Worcester, Massachusetts, where DiRado spent months photographing the community that gathered there. Arriving one afternoon on a whim during an early heat wave, he introduced himself to anyone willing to pay attention—and kept coming back. Working with a large-format camera on a…