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Honoring the artistry and advocacy of Sebastian Copeland, this exhibition brings together his work as a celebrated photographer, polar explorer, and environmentalist. His newest book, The Arctic: A Darker Shade of White (Rizzoli 2024), reflects his dedication to these landscapes and serves as the foundation for the exhibit. On display are twenty of Copeland’s most recent works from his Arctic expeditions, featuring both iconic pieces and previously unseen creations. The…

On view at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal from November 14, 2024– March 16, 2025, Being There: Photography in Arthur Erickson’s Early Travel Diaries draws upon the CCA’s extensive archive to examine Erickson’s belief that architecture must be experienced to be understood, tracing how his encounters with people, places, landscapes, and ideas during his early travels in Europe and North Africa between 1950 and 1952, and in Asia…

Kehrer Verlag publishes Oceano (for seven generations), a book by Lana Z Caplan. These are the dunes of Edward Weston’s iconic photos; of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 buried movie set for The Ten Commandments; of the Dunites— the artists, poets, nudists, and mystics who lived in dune shacks from the 1920s to the 40s—hosts to Weston during shooting trips; and fundamentally, of the native Chumash. These dunes now host a…

Published by Hatje Cantz, Call Me Lola is a photographic essay by Loli Kantor, an acclaimed Israeli-American artist and documentary filmmaker. For over twenty years, she combed through the family archives of her Polish-born father, a doctor and political activist. The focus is on her mother, Lola, who died in childbirth: a woman who manifests herself mainly through images and stories rather than direct memories. Family documents and photographs that…

Daylight Books publishes The River Will Be a Part of Us, a book by Justus Wayne Thomas. In the Summer of 1981, an international assortment of young people gathered at a public park on the banks of the Missouri River just outside Kansas City. In ten days, they built a 16x24-foot raft from assorted lumber, a telephone pole and thirty-two 55-gallon oil drums. Propelled only by the river current and…

This is the 39th dialogue of the Collezione Ettore Molinario. A dialogue that celebrates the 75th year of the publication of what I believe to be the most important Italian critical essay on photography, Message from the Darkroom, signed in 1949 by Carlo Mollino, the great architect. For me, an initiatory book. And not only to the mysteries of photography. Ettore Molinario   When I read it for the first time, and I…

Lisson Gallery presents a new exhibition by multi-disciplinary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, marking his first show in Los Angeles in over a decade. The presentation, titled Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form, showcases Sugimoto’s investigation of the visible and invisible world through the forms of photography, architecture, sculpture and the written word. At its core is the American debut of Brush Impression, Heart Sutra (2023), accompanied by iconic photographs from the…

Les Douches la Galerie presents a new exhibition dedicated to Ernst Haas. Composed of twenty color photographs, taken mainly in New York, it reveals the most personal and poetic project of the American photographer, around abstraction. This astonishing series coincides with the publication this fall of a book, Ernst Haas Abstract, which will be a landmark in his bibliography. Ernst Haas’ Abstract project represents one of the most daring and…

Denis Darzacq presents his exhibition entitled Faire corps at the Galerie de l’Illet at the Confluence in Betton until March 16, 2025. He writes: When I discovered the magnificent room of La Confluence in Betton, I immediately saw that there was an opportunity to seize: To present, in a single space and for the first time, all of my photographic series that focus on bodies in action. All the photographs…

Brian Finke sends us his series Drag Racing. Presidio, TX. He presents it as follows. Located between larger and more well-known border cities El Paso and Eagle Pass, Texas, both at the heart of the migrant debate, Presidio is a much smaller and lesser-known West Texas border town with big-time culture, small-town drama, significant history, and captivating personalities. It is also home to the Presidio International Dragstrip. Established in 1683,…

Audrey Tautou's photo book Superfacial has been released by Fisheye Éditions. It is presented as follows. In 2017, during the Rencontres d'Arles, Audrey Tautou revealed her photographic practice with an exhibition of work she began two decades ago. With the book Superfacial, she takes up some of these images, but goes even further by revealing her questioning and mischievous view of the world and herself. She questions her status as…

Founded ten years ago, the collective Les Globules Noirs brings together three artists who "grew up together in photography." Passionate about creating images, confronting them, and making them interact, Caroline Lusseaux, Andréa Wasaff, and Céline Gobillard invite us into the making of La Résistance de nos corps à l’oubli (The Resistance of Our Bodies to Memory Lapse), a work that is as intimate as it is collective.   When and…

Corden Potts online gallery is currently showing Our City By the Bay, featuring iconic images of San Francisco by photographer, Rory Earnshaw. His photographs of the places and things that define San Francisco are elegantly captured on film using medium and large format cameras. He then hand-processes and makes black and white silver gelatin prints that have a classic quality and clarity that evokes the past. Rory Earnshaw started taking…

One of the prettiest greeting cards of the week! This one from Keith de Lellis Gallery. A photograph by Margaret Bourke-White of toys at Higbee's Department Store in Cleveland, Ohio created in 1929.Higbee's store on Public Square was prominently featured in the 1983 movie A Christmas Story and in the 2022 movie A Christmas Story Christmas.   Keith de Lellis Gallery 41 East 57th Street, Suite 703 New York, NY…

Released within the highly charged political climate of the United States in the months prior to a pivotal presidential election, photographer Michael Dressel's latest book, The End is Near, Here (Hartmann Books), presents black and white images showing a polarized society in crisis. Urban street scenes and desolate abandoned landscapes taken throughout the country but mostly in California, combine imagery describing economic struggle, and the cultural conflicts in today’s America. In an interview…