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Surfacex As pointed out by the curator Gigliola Foschi, “Paolo Bonfiglio’s photographs are time’s collections and apparitions, which come from a long search in the wrinkles of the visible side. They hold and express tracks of vanished – or only hidden – presences. They tell us a story without stating a definite meaning, but they evoke fluctuating thoughts. (…) Like time marks able to accommodate unintentional genealogies emerging from street…
On what sky are my nights written? We live every day under a new sky, and sleep every night a different sleep. Who knows if the two don't weave links without our knowledge, the day sky printing its colors to the rhythm of our night? To explore this relationship, for several months I respected an intangible protocol, photographing the sky of each of my days, and recording the hypnogram of…
While it's raining outside A rainy evening waiting in an empty parking lot. I begin to watch the rain fall on the car windows and the external environment slowly transforms. Reality transmutes before my eyes, slowly distorts and dissolves. It curls up on itself and erodes known forms. Everything takes on its original appearance, vibrates and moves despite being inanimate matter. I look with new eyes at that place that…
Fondazione Mast
Via Speranza, 42, Bologna, Italy
from January 25th, 2023 to May 1st, 2023
Galerie Roger-Viollet
6 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
from January 26th, 2023 to March 25th, 2023
Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
London, Great-Britain
from January 18th, 2023 to February 5th, 2023
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Last year, I got a chance to work with a group of Polish photographers, following an invitation by curator Jens Pepper, and discovered the work of Karolina Wojtas. One of her images particularly stuck in my mind: a boy, eyes closed, whose face is covered by a green plastic bag. Shockingly brutal yet somehow innocent, this and other photographs I encountered during the show, testify to the punch and power…
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie from January 27 through May 1, 2023. Organized by renowned writer and curator Helen Molesworth, the exhibition presents portraits of luminaries in the arts by three of the most prominent portraitists of our time. Face to Face will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by ICP and…
“How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.” - Victor Hugo After having been displayed throughout the summer of 2022 under the vaults of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier as part of the partnership between the Metropolis of Orleans and Danysz Gallery, "Tumultes" is presented from January 28 to February 25, 2023 at Danysz Paris - Marais. Icy and Sot, Liu Bolin, Robert Montgomery, Charles Pétillon, Rero…
On the occasion of the upcoming Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, The Eye of Photography discussed developments in food photography with Michael Pritchard, director of Education and Public Research at the Royal Photographic Society. Michael Pritchard, could you tell us about the genesis of food photography? Food and its associated accoutrements have been associated with photography from its earliest days in the 1840s when the inventor of…
The three 2022 winners of the Prix Polyptyque are exhibited at the Galerie Sit Down until February 25! Julia Gat, Andréa Graziosi and the duo Jeanne and Moreau. They were chosen by a jury which was composed of Pascal Beausse, head of the CNAP photography collection, Françoise Bornstein, director of the Sit Down Gallery, Florence Bourgeois, director of Paris Photo, Pascal Neveux, director of the FRAC Picardie Hauts de France,…
During its plenary session of this Wednesday, January 25, 2023, the Académie des beaux-arts elected Françoise Huguier to the chair V of the photography section, created during the adoption of new statutes by the Academy on October 12, 2022 This election will be subject to the approval of the President of the Republic, Protector of the Academy. The photography section is now composed of 5 members: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Sebastião Salgado,…
Until March 19, the New York gallery Miguel Abreu presents the exhibition of François-Marie Banier entitled: Writings and Pictures. “I don’t know if I have any talent, and I won’t be able to know it, neither will you, nor your children, history wins (will it be capable of knowing it?) but I’m 18 years old and nurture ambitions, too many perhaps, I love life and very much like myself. I…
The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ) presents the exhibition The Tribulations of Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950. Our edition today is dedicated to Blumenfeld, one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. An experimenter and innovator, he produced an extensive body of work including drawings, collages, portraits and nudes, celebrity portraits, advertising campaigns and his renowned fashion photography both in black and white and color. With many thanks…
“Each image a story. As I take beauty seriously. All my portraits are charged with the moment that is mine.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 Before making it his profession, Blumenfeld practiced photography as an amateur – an activity he discovered at the age of 10, when he received his first box camera from an American uncle, which was followed by many cameras. Among his many…
“I seek, balancing on the limits of the possible, to release the unreal from reality, to realize visions, to penetrate through unknown transparencies.” Erwin Blumenfeld, “The mystery of reality rediscovered by photography”, L’Amour de l’art, Paris, 1938 Erwin Blumenfeld's career as a photographer began in Amsterdam when, his leather goods business in decline, he asked his clients to take their portraits. In 1932, he discovered in his back room a…
“There are many wonders in the world, but nothing is more wonderful than dreams. Awakened, I could never regain its creative power.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In 1937, Blumenfeld created a series of a nude veiled in wet silk around Margarethe von Sievers, a Swedish countess. In the exhibition, these are series about draped and veiled nude that we have sought to reveal, thus highlighting…
“ More than anyone else I owe Führer Schicklgruber. Without him […], I would not have had the courage to become a photographer. […] As a thank you, I made on the night of his accession to power a horror montage of his face with a skull and I then, completely drunk, ran through the night on the twenty -five kilometers that separate Amsterdam from Aerdenhout.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et…
"What I really wanted: to be a photographer in onself, art for art's sake, a new world that the American Jew Man Ray had just discovered in triumph." Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 From his installation in Paris in 1936, inspired by the example of Man Ray, Blumenfeld engaged in a number of experiments. The female body became the main object of his formal explorations. He…
“I thought I was the victim of a collective hallucination: neither France nor I could have fallen so low.“ Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In the summer of 1939, Blumenfeld traveled to New York and signed a contract with Harper's Bazaar to follow Parisian fashion. He returned to France in August 1939 and was surprised by the war. A German national (although stateless), he had to…
"I decided to smuggle culture into my new homeland, to thank it for welcoming me." Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In the United States, Blumenfeld managed to continue his personal experiments despite his intense activity for fashion magazines and in advertising. In 1941, he also embarked on color photography with Kodachrome and then Ektachrome. It will define an America in color and freedom. Here we show…
