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Art Brewer (1951-2011) a native Californian, who grew up embracing the ocean in all its facets – swimming, diving, surfing, and fishing. Combining his love for the ocean and passion for photography as a teen, Art etched his name into the annals of surf and pop culture history with a notable photography career spanning five decades. Earning his first published photo in Surfer Magazine at the age of fifteen, Art…

“Think while you shoot”, is the fundamental motto of the Hungarian master of photography Martin Munkacsi. While he lived with his camera in his hand and photographed everything he saw, he announced the importance of capturing the moment, the movement, the idea that is born the moment you click the camera. The exhibition set up in Brescia at the Paci contemporary gallery, a large space dedicated to photography, is realized…

Galerie Écho 119 presents a unique exhibition highlighting two emblematic figures of contemporary Japanese art: Nobuyoshi Araki and Toshio Saeki, entitled Araki/Saeki, The fantasma(ero)tic heritage of shunga. Araki/Saeki: The fantasma(ero)tic heritage of shunga offers a rare opportunity to penetrate the transgressive universe of two contemporary artists while exploring an erotic tradition that has deeply marked Japanese visual culture. The exhibition explores the heritage of Japanese erotic iconography - and in…

Gitterman Gallery presents an exhibition of early work (1989-1997), from the secondary market, by the Guatemalan artist Luis González Palma (b. 1957). During his early career, Luis González Palma made portraits of Guatemalan people of Mayan or mixed Mayan descent to honor their heritage and bring attention to the discrimination and exclusion they faced. In the process, he gained a greater understanding of his own mestizo ancestry. González Palma explains…

The Institut pour la Photographie presents outside the walls at the Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse the exhibition by Jean-Michel André, Room 207. A photographic project in the vein of autofiction, Room 207 is based on the reconstruction of memories lost following a childhood trauma. On August 5, 1983, while stopping for one night with his family on the road to vacation, Jean-Michel André's father was murdered with six other people…

Laurence Demaison presents until February 2nd, 2025 a series of Haikus at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, as part of the museum's recent acquisitions. https://musee-des-beaux-arts.nancy.fr/agenda/details-agenda?uuid=7a4b15bc-00bd-11ef-a515-099cb42afd1f www.laurencedemaison.com

The most touching email of the week. It is signed by Marie-France Pougnard. These women, my alter egos. Shyness isolated me from others for a long time, depriving me of their riches. At 70 I discover the joy of encounters. I turn to these women, my alter egos, with a unique journey but so close to mine. In one I find this restraint which handicapped my youth. In this one…

Joseph Bellows Gallery presents an online exhibition of Oscar Bailey ‘s work : Abstract. Back in 1960, John Canady wrote: Oscar Bailey’s Paint Surface is an abstraction that also intensifies our response to reality, in this case not by evoking or reinforcing associations already formed, but by revealing a new aspect of something so familiar that we never look at it for ourselves. Obviously the camera’s limitation is that it…

For over 25 years, New Yorker E.A. Kahane has photographed the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from her third-floor apartment window on Central Park West at 64th Street. From this special vantage point, Kahane is able to capture with her camera an unrestricted view of the parade as it passes by her window. Her images document every aspect of the festivities, including the clowns, Broadway stars, floats, marching bands, cheerleaders, cheering…

Published by Morel Books by British author, broadcaster and photographer Johny Pitts, Afropean: A Journal is a new chapter in his long-term exploration of Black identity in Europe. Who hasn’t dreamed of an Interrail trip? Since 1972, this rail pass has erased borders and become the ultimate ticket for any student eager to explore Europe on a budget. But what is Europe? What does European identity mean? In 2010, when…

Kehrer presents Adam Lampton’s book, Nothing Serious Can Happen Here Photographs from Macau, Lampton’s eye on Macau's transformation from historic city to fantastical dreamscape. Over the past decade, Adam Lampton has photographed the former Portuguese colony of Macau (now a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China) and witnessed its transformation from a small enclave into an international gambling mecca and leisure destination. In 2007, Macau overtook Las…

This is the unusual email of the week. It comes from photographer Sophie Harris-Taylor. Tweakments I’ve slowly become aware that I’m one of the few women of my peers who’s never had a so-called ‘tweakment’ – botox and fillers for lips, cheeks or brows. Salons offering these treatments seem to be popping up on every high street, with them even available at dentists and hairdressers. I wanted to find out…

Manfred Baumann's 2025 calendar. Any further comments would be superfluous! JJN The 18th edition of the calendar is limited to a strict edition of only 1,000 copies. https://www.manfredbaumann.shop/en www.manfredbaumann.com

Release of two new opuses from the “Poursuites et Ricochets” collection published by Lamaindonne, a collection which enjoys combining family photography and literature. Here are those of Bernard Plossu and Françoise Huguier.   Bernard Plossu : Memories Are Made Of This In front of twelve family pictures, Bernard Plossu tells us about… His childhood readings, his father, a walker and photographer, his trips to Italy, Africa and so many other…

An exhibition by Diane Meyer is on display at the Mitte Museum Berlin until February 23, 2025, as part of the commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. During Paris Photo, the Gallerie Sit Down showed a selection of works from the series soberly titled Berlin where the artist combined photography with cross-stitch embroidery. It was accompanied by these few words: Diane Meyer uses this…