Vince Aletti, collector, author, curator and winner of this year’s AIPAD Award, lives in a seven-room apartment in New York’s East Village. It’s filled to the brim with his enormous collection, or as he describes it, “a collection of collections”, of magazines, photographs, books, vinyl records, and all manner of ephemera. Still, there’s always room for more. How would you describe yourself as a collector? – As someone who looks…
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In September last year, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of a collection of 209 photographs by the French photographer Eugène Atget. It had been built over 25 years by Dan and Mary Solomon, by carefully adding one masterpiece after another. The couple prefers to keep a low profile in the photography world but are incredibly active as collectors, curators, publishers, and most significantly as generous donors to…
AIPAD presents the 2nd edition of the Monumental exhibition. This special project show- cases large-scale photographic works throughout the public areas of The Park Avenue Armory, providing a unique opportunity for galleries and their artists to display new, challenging and impactful pieces not generally shown at fairs, creating a captivating visual spectacle for visitors. This article originally appeared in the AIPAD Catalogue sponsored by MUUS Collection. The Photography Show…
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On the occasion of the month of photography and on the fringes of "Paris Photo 2022", the Nouchine Pahlevan Gallery presents "I Want Him To Be Ocean" by Christian Mamoun. This exhibition invites itself into the heart of a kind of waiting room before entering the adult world. In the meantime, this Parisian youth are questioning themselves , confronted with "sturm et drang" impulses (the storm and the impulse), which…
Nino Mier Gallery presents Women’s Work, an exhibition of photographs and videos by Finnish artist IIU SUSIRAJA. Susiraja is known for her still and moving image portraits, which capture the artist in her own home or her parents’ home, interacting with items such as housekeeping tools and pantry staples with prurient, deadpan humor. In Women’s Work, which will be on view from February 18 - March 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, Susiraja brings a…
Spanning the years 1976 to 1981, The Beginning brings together the earliest works of acclaimed American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). Featuring images largely unseen by the public, the exhibition chronicles a period of technical and artistic development that would lay the foundation for the complex and incisive tableaux that ultimately established Barney as a key figure in international photography. While quarantining during the Covid-19 outbreak, Barney began to sort…
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The Zillman Art Museum (ZAM) presents the exhibition Meryl Meisler: 70s Suburban Sensibilities - Friends & Family from May 19 through August 19, 2023. Meryl Meisler was born in the Bronx in 1951 and raised in Massapequa, a Long Island suburb of New York City. Meisler’s neighborhood was largely composed of Jewish and Italian families, although there were also Irish, German, Greek and other first and second generation Americans. Meisler’s…
Taunus Foto Galerie presents the exhibition by Adriano Henney, Venice - Beyond the Mask from May 19th through July 29th. Adriano grew up in Italy and England and through his family knows Venice intimately. His alternative view of the city combines recognizable motifs with quiet, mysterious locations away from the hustle and bustle, aiming to capture the city's soul in the gradual, unrelenting erosion that seems to be its sad…
This year there will be the first edition of the contest "La Muta": The candidates will be exhibited in the shops of the city center and the winners will be chosen by public vote. The Biennale di Senigallia, your new destination: A Renaissance city amid seascapes and mountains, Adriatic beaches, photographic exhibitions, accessible artworks, curious gastronomy. Join and meet collectors, curators, photographers and passersby in lectures, debates and town squares.…
Hans Silvester received the Prix International Planète Albert Kahn in December 2022 for his entire career and for his testimonies for an era ranging from 1960 to the present day. Thanks to his openness to the world, the sharpness of his photographer's eye and his sense of beauty, he gives us iconic images representing everyday characters, witnesses of a culture, a place, of a moment... The photographer's eye freezes an…
In her “Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes” series, presented from May 13 to July 15 at La Maison du Regard in Le Havre, artist Catherine Balet pays tribute to the great Masters of photography by revisiting 176 years of its history. With her charismatic interpreter in golden shoes, Ricardo Martinez Paz, Catherine Balet revisited 130 iconic images in order to better understand the photography trends of today…
Ralph Ellison (1913–94) is a foremost figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser known, however, is his lifelong engagement with photography. Photographer is the first book dedicated to Ellison’s extensive work in the medium, which spans from the 1930s to the ’90s. Throughout his life, photography played multiple roles for Ellison: a hobby,…
For this eighth edition, the organizers of Photo London have thought of several geographical focuses, in particular the one devoted to Iranian photography. Overview of the different proposals. Roya Khadjavi Projects and Nemazee Fine Art (New York) exhibit five photographers with original practices, united by their social and environmental involvement. Tahmineh Monzavi, known for his documentary work, now associated with an artistic approach, presents a mix of several series linked…
As the eighth edition of Photo London opened on May 11, the presence of many photographers from the African continent among the stands reflects the growing importance of this part of the photography market. Overview. Let us first note the strong French interest in this region. The Bonne Espérance gallery (Paris) presents a South African selection through a retrospective of the work of the great documentary maker Jürgen Schadeberg, whose…
The Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem presents ‘Documenting Israel: 75 Years of Vision’, an exhibition of photographs opening on Israel’s 75th Independence Day 'Documenting Israel: Visions of 75 Years' is an exhibition of photographs that documents Israel from many angles, covering the State’s entire history as well as the years leading up to its founding. Comprising works by renowned local and international artists, the exhibition is curated by Anna- Patricia Kahn,…
Michaela Spiegel’s Instant Memoir 1994-2017 published by Kehrer pictures turbulent time travel in Polaroid pictures, spanning more than two decades full of love, food, and art. It’s all a question of digestion. This Instant Memoir is an ambient travelling guide through my head and across twenty-three years of my life. It entails a discrete selection of culinary and amorous souvenirs from among approximately sixteen thousand convivial moments of the chronological…
Before graduating from the Ecole des Arts et Métiers of Vevey in Switzerland in 1962, Bruno Barbey was so bored that he decided to cross the border to check out the other side of the Alps. Italy was not far away, and Italian is one of Switzerland's three official languages, so he wasn't going to terra incognita. If he had brought along his camera, it was not for shooting advertising…
During the spring and summer seasons of 2023, the Frac MÉCA is devoting an important exhibition to Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) embracing all aspects of his work, which has long been controversial but is indeed incredibly contemporary. This exhibition will explore his direct sources of inspiration and affiliation (e.g., surrealism, fetishism, tantrism) and reveal unpublished archives and testimonies. It will also highlights connections with contemporary artists (including Cindy Sherman, Luciano Castelli,…
Samuel Fosso, star of contemporary African photography recognized by institutions around the world, and Jean-Marc Patras, his historical agent, choose the young Christophe Person gallery to represent him. If the iconic images of the artist, virtuoso of the self-portrait, are very present in museums - the MEP devoted an exhibition to him a year ago - they are rare on the market. To inaugurate this collaboration, the CHRISTOPHE PERSON gallery…
The Centre Pompidou presents a dialogue between Lynne Cohen and Marina Gadonneix, two photographers who share an interest in the interior spaces of our modern societies, from places of scientific study to places of entertainment and consumption. Although the spaces documented by both artists are marked by the absence of human figures, their traces remain visible, inviting us to better understand and protect the social and natural environment. We publish…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the news of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine takes a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. Elder Sex, published by JBE Books, is a voluptuous and shimmering ode to the sexuality of seniors. Part of these images taken by Marilyn Minter originally illustrated…