Ishimoto and the Japanese photographic scene of the 1950s - By Diane Dufour At the beginning of the 1950s, the strangeness of Ishimoto's images, devoid of journalistic aim, collided head-on with social realism, the dominant mode of post-war Japanese photography. The shock produced by Ishimoto's images on his contemporaries is perceptible in this testimony from Ikko Tanaka (artistic director of Approach magazine): "Who could have forgotten the considerable impact that…
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Yasuhiro Ishimoto - Moment - By Mei Asakura “…Yasuhiro Ishimoto is visually bilingual: Japanese in his culture, Eastern in his way of seeing and Western in his training at the Chicago Institute of Design (contemporary center of the Bauhaus tradition), he speaks English with a German accent.” - Minor White In the late 1980s, Ishimoto began his series “Toki” [Moment], whose working title throughout the years of filming was utsuroi…
Yasuhiro Ishimoto - A scenography at LE BAL under influence - By Cyril Delhomme “The photographs unfold with minimalist restraint in a very beautiful scenography in the form of a maze on two floors. A string of legs in contrapposto, framed in such a way as to extract the textures of the skin and the shapes of the flesh like patterns. [...] However, the exhibition does not fall into the…
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Thomas Millet : The Art of Portrait Thomas Millet was originally destined to be an architect before becoming Denis Rouvre's assistant. In October 2000, he left to be the photographer on the "Wanaume" expedition: 170,000 km in Land Rover and two years of travel from Paris to Cape Town via the Middle East and East Africa, followed by a crossing of South America. Back in France, Thomas Millet began a…
Helsinki Photo Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary with the exhibition Infinite Deep by David Lynch, curated by Danish photographer Christian Nørgaard. This exhibition takes place at Helsinki’s West Terminal 1 in Finland until February 28, 2023. Infinite Deep exhibition is divided into five parts - Snowmen, Factories, Nude, Distorted Nudes, and Portraits - that provide the framework for a unique opportunity to explore Lynch’s photographic works and to help understand…
Launched in March 2021, The Darkroom Rumour online platform allows people to view a rich array of films about photography. "The idea was to be able to offer photography and image lovers a place where they can find the films that cannot be seen anywhere else." It is in these terms that Thomas Goupille, at the origin of The Darkroom Rumour presented his project. With an eclectic offer and attractive…
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A special selection around Ishimoto “Kenzô Tange - Kengo Kuma Architects of the Tokyo Games”, 2024, Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris and Toto publishing Kenzô Tange and Kengo Kuma are the architects of the sports infrastructures built for the 1964 and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games (postponed to 2021): the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and the National Stadium. This catalog of the exhibition presented at the Maison de la…
The Museum of Modern Art presents Life Dances On: Robert Frank in Dialogue, an exhibition that provides new insights into the interdisciplinary and lesser-known aspects of photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank’s expansive career. On view until January 11, 2025, the exhibition delves into the six decades that followed Frank’s landmark photobook The Americans (1958) until his death in 2019, highlighting his perpetual experimentation and collaborations across various mediums. Coinciding with…
For five months, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon hosts All the World's a Stage, the most ambitious and comprehensive exhibition of the work of William Klein (1926-2022) , on the European continent since his death. It covers different aspects of his work through some 200 pictures. “Wherever one looks at Klein's extraordinary output, whether in his fashion pages for Vogue, in his exuberant photo books,…
“Fashion takes itself more seriously than I do. I’m not really a fashion photographer.” - Deborah Turbeville in The New Yorker Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage opens at The Photographers’ Gallery this Autumn, from 9 October 2024 – 23 February 2025. Presenting the work of the truly innovative American photographer, Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013), the exhibition will feature a selection of her personal vintage photocollages and editorial work. Deborah Turbeville revolutionised the world…
“Photography changes nothing. Violence continues, poverty continues. Children are still being killed in stupid wars.” – Letizia Battaglia This Autumn, The Photographers’ Gallery presents Letizia Battaglia: Life, Love and Death in Sicily, on show from 9 October 2024 – 23 February 2025. Letizia Battaglia (1935-2022) was one of Italy’s most important social documentary photographers. She documented everyday life, alongside the brutal reality of the Mafia and their victims in Sicily.…
Release by Dewi Lewis Publishing of The Mothers I Might Have Had by Caroline Furneaux. When Caroline Furneaux’s father Colin died suddenly in 2011, she discovered an archive of 35mm slides that he had shot during the 1960s. They were a beguiling series of beautiful women photographed in idyllic locations, mostly in Sweden. It was during this time that he had first met Caroline’s Swedish mother, Barbro, yet most of…
The title of the exhibition, Mīrārī, is the Latin word for "to wonder at", “to marvel at”, “to gaze at”. Andrei Fărcășanu’s small-format photographs can be imagined as fleeting instants from dreams or traces of distant memories, evoking the emotions experienced at the time. The themes are universal, the natural world being prominent, and so these images have the propensity to likewise trigger emotions in the viewer, emotions emanating from…
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Lena Aliper was born in 1985 of mostly Ukrainian and German blood and grew up in a constructivist neighborhood of Moscow. The turbulence of the post-Perestroika capital blended in perfectly with an almost classical education Lena received in high school. Her formative years saw her reading first The Iliad and Divine Comedy at the age of 12 in the days of political and economic instability followed by reading Jack Kerouac well hidden under the…
Adaptation, made up of nearly 200 photographs from Anastasia Samoylova’s six major works, is a wonderfully pleasurable book to turn the pages of and look at its pictures. Her photos are commonly taken to emanate from an eco-documentary perspective but this is a limiting way of appreciating their worth. In Floridas (2022), overlapping with her earlier FloodZone series by focusing on the U.S’s southeasternmost state, there is no concern with…
Marshall Gallery presents an exhibition of works spanning nearly two decades by California artist Chris McCaw as an official part of PST ART: Art and Science Collide organized by The Getty Museum. The show Marking Time comprises nearly forty works ranging from monumental to intimately scaled pieces resulting from McCaw’s unique “sunburn” photographic process, previously unseen solarized landscapes, and color polaroid experiments. Brand new multi- panel exposures join unseen early…
The Hulett Collection presents Richard Sharum’s newest series Spina Americana. In reaction to the gaining momentum of a fractious American identity, and what it means for our future as a nation going forward, ‘Spina Americana’ (American Spine) attempts to understand a critical and often misunderstood area of the United States, in a time of political division not seen here since the 1850s. Richard Sharum decided to focus his attention on…
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This is the 38th dialogue of the Collezione Ettore Molinario. Here are two extraordinary interpreters of Italian photography, Giorgio Sommer and Fratelli Alinari. And here is a book that guided me into the bowels of the Earth and made me discover the beauty of the most extreme Grand Tour. Ettore Molinario My first dive was into the pages of Journey to the Center of the Earth. Initiatory reading at…
Magnum Photos publishes What is “America?” with Thames & Hudson. The book seeks to unpack the myth and mystery of the United States as seen through the Magnum archive. https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/what-is-america/?utm_source=Audience&utm_campaign=f90fccaf0f-Field_Notes_051024&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_237144cbf5-f90fccaf0f-7159064&mc_cid=f90fccaf0f&mc_eid=ebdb1d61ed