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Phillips presents in London today their sale Photographs & Helmut Newton: Provocateur. The section dedicated to Helmut Newton (lots 121-170) comes from Simon de Pury’s exceptional collection. The noted auctioneer, curator, and collector was a close friend of Newton. And if a lot of the iconic photographs are of course present, a substantial number of much lesser known images and variants of classics give a fresh flavor to the sale.…

An exploration of the best of the past, present and future of the medium, Photo London 2024 brings together over a hundred exhibitors from 44 cities across four continents, showcasing important works from across the globe from the dawn of the medium to today, from May 16 to 19, 2024. Fair Director Kamiar Maleki comments: “Welcome to the ninth edition of Photo London. In its first decade the Fair has…

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) presents a selection from their Karl Struss artist archive, offering unprecedented access to ephemera from all stages of Struss’ career, from his invention of a pioneering soft-focus lens to becoming the paradigmatic cinematographer of Hollywood’s Golden Age. Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood follows Struss’ artistic evolution from early fine-art photographer to innovative filmmaker. The Carter holds over…

Since the cataclysmic events of September 11, 2001, Ruben Natal-San Miguel has committed his photographic lens to the resilience of cultural identity and human connection in the dense urban environment of New York City. The exhibition Nature Finds a Way brings together portraits, with a particular focus on the Bronx, showcasing individuals in both real and synthetic nature. Here, tropical murals, artificial plants and floral prints also find a way to…

Frida Orupabo receives the SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie 2025 der Stiftung Niedersachsen. The prize is endowed with 15,000 euros, a exhibition of her work at the Sprengel Museum Hannover and a publication. The Norwegian artist receives the prize for her photographic collages, in which she explores questions of identity, race, gender and the sexualised exploitation and objectification of black bodies in a special way. Frida Orupabo creates new narratives…

There are various ways of organising photography archives: alphabetically, thematically, or date of capture. Not so at the Archive of Modern Conflict in Holland Park in London. The 8 million plus images (and there could be many more) are filed according to the date of acquisition, with the archive function- ing almost as a diary, a library of the imagination in the Borgesian sense, or Situationist drifts. Of all the…

The Carré de Baudouin in Paris hosts an astonishing exhibition by Frédéric Stucin. Le Serment d’Opéra is the result of a meeting between Doctor Alberto Velasco psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at the Sainte-Anne Hospital Center of  Paris psychiatry & neurosciences and Myriam Mazouzi, director of the Academy of the Paris National Opera. Invited to pass through the doors of the Paris Opera, patients have agreed for two years to take part…

Man Ray (1890-1976) is an essential figure of the 20th century, inseparable from the history of photography, especially in this year 2024, when the surrealist movement celebrates its centenary. In this context, Photo Elysée opens its doors to an exhibition presenting a selection of works from one of the largest private collections, never before shown in Europe. Led by Nathalie Herschdorfer, the museum's director and exhibition curator, the curatorial focus…

Published by Damiani, Loft Law: The Last of New York City’s Original Artist Lofts by Joshua Charow is a photographic journey through the last vestiges of New York City’s artist lofts. Envied by artists and apartment hunters alike for their wide windows and open floor plans, New York City’s lofts were once manufacturing centres in the late 19th and early 20th century. As urban density pushed industry into the suburbs,…

The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. Italian-born and Swiss citizen, Roberto Greco is a commercial & fine art photographer based in Paris. He started his career as an ornamental horticulturist before studying Photography, Art and Visual Communication in Lausanne. Whether he shoots a portrait or a still life, Roberto Greco's view of the real world…

In 1979, she graduated in History from the Federal University of Pará - UFPA. She was encouraged to learn to take photos so that she could record her daughters’ childhood. She attended the first Fotoativa workshop courses in 1984, conceived as a project by Miguel Chikaoka, a leading figure in the photo world of the country’s northern region. In 1985, Elza showed her first pictures on photo clothesline during a…

Photographs from a series taken indoors and whose films of the same origin were developed in different alternative ecological developers. After having developed black and white films in different ingredients, photographs of still lifes, flowers, various landscapes... I chose this time to approach reportage photography with the presence of characters in my images. This type of shooting, practiced by many photographers, was essential to my experiences with the widest possible…

Workshop Arts releases the book Björkvägen (Birch Road). Allen Wheatcroft's images have been about the study of people through a street photography aesthetic and orientation. In this new body of work, Björkevägen (Birch Road), Wheatcroft is still exploring people and their influences and idiosyncrasies, but now through a study of place and environment. While Wheatcroft has lived for 15 years on Chicago’s northside in the city’s historic Swedish neighborhood, during…

Christie’s will propose in New York on Thursday night, May 16, the photograph by Richard Avedon titled Marilyn Monroe, New York City, 1957. This large scale print, artist proof number two of two, aside from an edition of 10, will be auctioned with an estimate of $600,000–$800,000. “For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe…Then there was the inevitable drop…she sat in…

Fotografia Europea is back, as always with new suggestions. From 26 April to 9 June, the 19th edition of the festival is on in the city of Reggio Emilia (Emilia Romagna) and winds its way between the institutional venues (with more than 20 exhibitions) and those of the Circuito Off, following a precise thread: Nature Loves to Hide, according to a fragment by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. The festival explores…