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Archives - April 28 2023 Sex on the beach “The beach is a better pickup spot than any cocktail party. There’s always a lot of pawing going on. And you get the product properly displayed.” - Elliott Erwitt - On the Beach (1991) The recipe for success “If you’ve got no responsibility and don’t have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring,…
Archives - April 28 2023 Between the sexes “We all find new dimensions of love between the sexes. The sober, profound, long-lasting possibilities for love: affection and loyalty and friendship, not confused by urgent passion. This isn’t a second-best, thirdhand kind of love. It is, for some relationships, the right love for the season.” - Elliott Erwitt - Between the Sexes (1994) Love hurts “1st Truth: It is painful to…
Archives - April 28 2023 The alchemy of a photograph “When photography is good, it’s pretty interesting, and when it is very good, it is irrational and even magical… nothing to do with the photographer’s conscious will or desire. When the photograph happens, it comes easily, as a gift that should not be questioned or analyzed.” - Elliott Erwitt’s Personal Best (2006) "I rely on a hunch, a little luck,…
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“These photographs tell something that echoes our own lives, yet they are portraits of strangers. The boundary between them and us is blurring. Finally, whose story is this photograph? Ours." With these words, Judith Joy Ross (1946) synthesizes the deep meaning of her artistic approach: to think about life, the contemporary world and more particularly her country, the United States, through portrait. Because for more than forty years, her reflections…
Galerie Ephémère presents Gil Rigoulet and his guests, Victoire Orth and Nervis Ferrer. Three dialogues around the Body, three intimacies. Abstract Truth "Time reveals an intimacy, 20 years later these images reappear in serenity, a vanished love lays down these precious paintings. These visions are a sketch. This body that I look at every day is no longer a body made of skin and flesh, it draws pictorial forms born…
"I AM - Celebrating the Perfect Imperfect.” It’s been my passion, my intuition, my vision, my desire, my obsession, and my quest to reveal and showcase ageless beauty of women over 40 to make us all more visible. Using my camera as a therapeutic tool and instrument of social commentary, I have attempted to capture, something raw and refined, edgy and elegant, honest and pure., Naked portraits of strong women…
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Archives - April 28 2023 Elliott Erwitt, the American documentary photographer who has had a substantial impact on contemporary photography, is best known for the offbeat humor in his pictures. With a humanist approach to photography, his best-known images present the viewer candid and often playful scenes. The Early Years Elliott Erwitt was born in Paris in 1928, and spent his childhood in Milan, before moving to the US in…
Archives - April 28 202 Ways of seeing “To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…. I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” - Elliott Erwitt - Museum Watching (1999) The endless fascination of museums “People seem to be attracted to items in museums with which…
Back in 2020, the Holden Luntz Gallery shared the documentary At Home with Elliott Erwitt. Produced and directed in 2013 by Jackie Holland, it was first shown at the Point Conference in May 2013, in London. [video_embed_hd url="https://vimeo.com/62358161"] In this video, Elliott Erwitt's goes back on the influential career. Shot in New York, the photographer discusses joining the Magnum agency, meeting Edward Steichen, Robert Capa, and Roy Stryker. While the…
Until December 20th, Les filles du calvaire gallery is exhibiting Katrien de Blauwer with Why I Fear Red, Love Blue (And) Hate Yellow. The gallery presents her like this: Katrien de Blauwer, who is presented as a “photographer without a camera”, uses images from old magazines and newspapers to shape her stories. With her intimacy and sensitivity, she seeks in the images of others, loaded with memory and carrying her memories,…
Les filles du calvaire gallery presents the images of Lore Stessel At the same time as those of Katrien de Blauwer until December 20th. Entitled Vague, this exhibition brings together a set of photographic works, the result of the meeting between the photographer and the dancer(s). Lore Stessel studied painting then photography. From painting, learned at the Luca School Arts in Brussels, she has kept the support and the gesture,…
Until December 2, the Chiaroscuro Gallery in Santa Fe is exhibiting Renate Aller. The latter presents her images as follows: “’Commensalism’ is a relationship between organisms of different species in which one derives some benefit, while the other is unaffected nor harmed. Humans benefit from nature, and we should not harm it in return. We are part of nature, made stronger by our interconnectedness. Echoing the forms of the landscape,…
Timeless, colorful, the images of America taken by photographer Carl Corey are among those that fascinate Europeans. Revealed by the Galerie Catherine and André Hug, this author traveled the Midwestern region of the United States during twenty years and brought together a rich and precious iconography, emblematic of the American visual imagination. The exhibition Entre chien et loup presents a new series with several photos taken from his latest opus,…
The Galerie Talmart recently presented the exhibition Au fil de l’eau by Senegalese photographer Adama Sylla as part of AKAA (Also Known As Africa) 2023. Adama Sylla, born in 1934, is the last Saint-Louis photographer of his generation still alive. His work has been shown in several exhibitions at the Institut de Saint-Louis (2019), at the Musée de la Femme in Dakar (2020), at the Galerie Sud in Lyon (2022)…
Untill january 6 th, the Haines Gallery presents David Maisel : Un/Earthed. For over thirty years, Maisel has created photographs of sites transformed by human intervention. At once mesmerizing and disquieting, his composed aerial images consider the aesthetics, politics, and environmental impact of these radically altered landscapes . Un/Earthed brings together a survey of aerial works from various series created between 1989 and 2018, chronicling the effects of mining, agriculture,…
Thierry Bouët presents his Offices series as follows: Offices is a series of portraits of men and women whose work makes them influential people. In the collective imagination, the office is the emblem of our professional power. Exuberant or humble, isolated or shared, this room in which we spend more time than in our bedroom is a reflection of our identity. By choosing inventors, public figures, artists, leaders, the portraits…
Gagosian presents Seeing Is Believing: Lee Miller and Friends at 976 Madison Avenue, New York. The exhibition centers on the long, fruitful relationship between American photographer Lee Miller (1907–1977) and English Surrealist painter, collector, art historian, and Picasso biographer, Roland Penrose (1900–1984). In addition to photographs by Miller and Penrose, it features paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper by Joseph Cornell, Max Ernst, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Valentine…
Hamiltons Gallery presents the exhibition Gone Wild by Mario Testino. This new series contributes to Testino’s ongoing project ‘A Beautiful World’ which explores and documents the cultural traditions of people and the natural world from around the globe, Hamiltons presented the first glimpses of Testino’s ‘A Beautiful World’ in 2019. Whilst Testino has historically been recognised as one of the world’s most in-demand commercial and fashion photographers, his life and…
Johanna Breede PHOTOKUNST presents an exhibition by Koichiro Kurita. The selection of Kurita’s photographs on exhibition presents nature as the artist sees it in terms of Chi Sui Ki, or terrasphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, and the borders that each of these realms share with one another and all forms of life. Kurita’s ongoing project, Beyond Spheres, is about his visual journey to understand Thoreau’s perceptions as he traces the writer’s…
Architectural and documentary photographer Steven Evans is releasing his self-published documentary project about Ontario Place, Toronto with essays by John Lorinc and Maia-Mari Sutnik. The 160-page book features 102 black-and-white photographs that Evans produced between November 2021 and June 2023. The release of this book comes at a time when current provincial government plans will fundamentally change the public purpose of Ontario Place. In his preface, Evans states: “These photographs…
The New York Public Gallery presents the exhibition Alen MacWeeney : New York Subways 1977. In 1977, photographer Alen MacWeeney captured a melancholy, painterly series of images of people on New York’s subways. Born in Dublin, MacWeeney began his photographic career in Paris as an assistant to Richard Avedon. After moving to New York, he became captivated by the challenge of making images of people sitting and standing in the…
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