Gene Lemuel's ESO Gallery in Los Angeles presents until May 11 the work of Rusty Long, a surfer, journalist, writer and photographer. He writes: From the first step into the water to the initial glide onto a wave, a Smooth Entrance determines so many of the sequential moments. It sets the correct pace. Surfing, like so many other things, is about flowing with the elements present. In the case of…
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Release by Artiere editions of To Be by Lois Conner. She presents it like this: When I was 17, my older sister Susan let me photograph her. I was amazed at how her newly prominent veins and capillaries defined her pregnant body as they raced down her arms and across her abdomen and breasts. I felt I could almost see the growing child through her pale skin. Around the turn…
This is a quite rare occurence. On May 14, Christie’s will present their 21st Century Evening Sale with artworks by artists such as Brice Marden, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Claude Monet. And among these exceptional artists, we will also find Diane Arbus with a magnificent print of the photographer's iconic Identical Twins. This is a rare foray of “classic” Photography in a sale always awaited in the…
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The site Your Daily Photograph proposes this vintage photograph of Saint-Tropez by Robert Doisneau. Title: Saint Tropez Artist: Robert Doisneau Date of image: 1965, printed 1965 Size: 7x9 inches (18x23 cm) Format: silver gelatin Features: notated and artist hand stamp on back Price: $1500 https://www.yourdailyphotograph.com/
One morning last week, there was this email from Tina Trumpp! “What about doing an article with nudes and also landscape photos, in the same way as my general style is (looking like paintings)?” Here is the result! Accompanied by this text from the photographer. “After photographing nudes continuously for 6 years and then successfully publishing my book ‚Shades Of Sensuality‘ with the publisher teNeues in 2021, I wanted to…
Alcatraz Since 2020 I’ve visited Alcatraz - the former prison island in San Francisco Bay – to reflect on pandemic-era themes of isolation, confinement, and social control. Alcatraz is Spanish for a type of bird. We say “free as a bird,” but some birds live in cages. Sometimes they are jailbirds. Alcatraz Island, whose name evokes freedom, has become synonymous not with the bird but with the cage. Although the old penitentiary’s…
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Cheyco Leidmann's knowledge and expertise and inspiration had a significant impact on the contemporary photo art world and made him a leader in this field. He is renowned for his groundbreaking and highly innovative work and has a magical art of staging, inimitable and immediately recognizable. Although his style was straight away copied, reclaimed, admired, criticized, it has evolved, but remains unique amongst all. His visuals have been published in…
The historically 'Foxy Lady', is hardy enough to stand this. Cheyco Leidmann’s highly influential work, its influences and impact and how his work shot forty years ago seeded so much, and as color spread so far, this book, reprinted in seven editions and distributed in twenty countries and hailed by Vogue magazine as one out of the nine significant iconic classic art books for the last five decades, intends to…
Cheyco Leidmann kept reinventing his visual language. In more recent years, he went on with monographs 'SEX is BLUE' and 'TOXYTT' a sort of social analysis through explicit and disturbing images that show the “toxicity” of modern life and he continues with 'ZIGGURAT' to be a prolific artist. Leidmann is fond of exaggerated forms and pushing the boundaries and challenging customs and conventions. His individual, extraordinary, commanding, unique approach of…
Cheyco Leidmann eagerly uses the aesthetic tradition of art brut. Like any type of art, his work is his personal interpretation, it incites the viewer more than ever with the hard edges of anguish and expectancy of the world around him. These interpretations always develop, but remain his distinctive view on humanity that continue to resonate with audiences. Leidmann is, without a doubt at the top and his perpetual success…
On a final note, Cheyco Leidmann is a gallery orphan since his gallerist in Paris sadly died suddendly of a stroke. Thus follows the search for a new dealer partnership which is open to date. With all our thanks to Ypsitylla von Nazareth for the realization of this edition. The Eye of Photography. http://www.cheycoleidmann.com www.cheycoleidmann.blogspot.com https://www.youtube.com/user/CheycoLeidmann/videos http://cheycoleidmann-foxylady.blogspot.com https://www.instagram.com/cheycoleidmann/ https://www.instagram.com/cheycoleidmannvisuals https://www.instagram.com/ypsityllavonnazareth/ https://www.instagram.com/cheycoleidmannvisokult/ Instagram: @cheycoleidmann @ypsityllavonnazareth @cheycoleidmannvisuals …
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Midwest Materials, a solo exhibition of photographs by Julie Blackmon. The works on view are a collection of imperfectly perfect narrative images that focus on the complexities and contradictions of modern life. As part of the Fahey/Klein Gallery’s tradition of promoting cutting-edge talent that is redefining the medium of Fine Art Photography, “Julie Blackmon: Midwest Materials” is a collaborative exhibition with the Fahey/Klein Gallery and NFT…
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Geof Kern “Midtown Exit”, a selection of photographs taken throughout Kern’s career which beautifully demonstrate his ability to illustrate whimsical scenes with a cinematic aesthetic. Kern’s multifaceted style combines photography and illustration and redefines the traditional photographic genres of fashion and still life. He uses fabricated sets and pseudo-suburban scenes to mock the mundane. Steering away from high profile models, Kern prefers neighbors, acquaintances, and locals…
Launched in 2021, under the aegis of Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Tasweer Photo Festival Qatar aims to promote the photographic work co-directed by Charlotte Cotton and Qatari photographer Khalifa Al Obaidly. An initiative that is in line with Her Excellency's vision of what could be the post-oil economy of Qatar", explains Charlotte Cotton who, for her part, does not wish to make this…
As May is about to begin, all eyes will be on Toronto, which for a month will be the world's photography rendez-vous. On the occasion of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, we talked to its Chief Executive Officer, Darcy Killeen. The 27th edition of the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography festival starts on April 28th and runs until May 31st. Through all these years, what are the most important evolutions of…
Alice Brill Czapski was a photographer, engraver and draftswoman. She was born in Hamburg, where she lived with her family. After traveling to several countries in Europe, fleeing Nazism, she immigrated with her father to São Paulo in 1934. In the course of the 1940’s, she attends the Santa Helena Group, striking friendships with artists Mario Zanini, Paulo Rossi Osir, Alfredo Volpi, among others. She got a scholarship for the…
“An excuse to record, a desire to retrace. An attempt to cross time and space.” —Mona Kuhn In Kings Road, Mona Kuhn lyrically reconsiders the realms of time and space within the architectural elements of the Schindler House in Los Angeles. Kuhn’s impressionistic photos render this female presence physical, even as it seems to be dematerializing: fleeting images that question the very nature of photography as record. The exhibition Mona…
The 26th edition of the Bienne Festival of Photography offers multiple photographic perspectives on contemporary issues. In an era where the world of screens coexists with the world of bodies, the festival offers, under the title Physicalities, a reflection on what "become one" in our society. Bienne Festival of Photography From May 5 to 28, 2023 16 exhibitions, 1 performance, 12 locations, 4 countries https://bielerfototage.ch/en/
Aurélien Bouvier : Photography as an outfall Aurélien Bouvier was born in Normandy to a veterinarian father and a teacher mother. He learned very quickly that autonomy was priceless. After a complicated school career because the traditional framework of the school was not made for him, he found his way to cinema. He is also fascinated by music and by so many other things as long as they have a…
The role of photography, according to Giorgio Armani Colours, surrealism, a touch of noir. The exhibition spaces of the Armani / Silos in Milan, host the images by the French photographer Guy Bourdin (Paris 1928-1991). One hundred photographs have been selected by Giorgio Armani and the Guy Bourdin Estate, including both iconic shots and lesser-known images (like his quite fascinating twenty-one black and white photographs). One hundred like the ones…
Jaeger Art exhibits the current works of Kristian Schuller for the first time in its premises at Brunnenstraße 161. In collaborative projects with his wife Peggy, he has further developed his distinctive visual language, focusing particularly on the play of light and shadow. In his photographs, you can perceive the fascination of the eternal "Cherchez la femme". Growing up Romania under communism, Kristian's repugnance for the then ever-present and very…