Mind's Eye / Galerie Adrian Bondy presents the exhibition Présences by Nacho Gómez Sales. The photographer introduces his work as follow. When I take photographs, I try to ensure that my images help to analyse the configuration of the space represented, its genealogy, and the use made of it by those who live there and those who have lived there. On the other hand, alongside this analytical aspect, there is…
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Today I invite you to return to the beginning of my tests and research into alternative developers. In fact, a year ago, I carried out my first processings in this type of developer. I started by using old expired black and white and color film. I had carefully inherited them from my photographer father, telling me that these emulsions could perhaps be useful to me later. Forty years have passed,…
For more than 15 years, Photo Folio Review has offered portfolio readings during the festival’s opening week in Arles. Over 300 photographers and 165 international experts from more than 30 countries participate in the Photo Folio Review. You can meet international photography experts (art directors, gallerists, publishers, curators, iconographers, etc.) during special private appointments. Every year, some of these meetings lead to exhibition, acquisition and/or publication projects. During PHOTO FOLIO…
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Modern photographic reinterpretation My photographic reinterpretation of classical works of art represents a tribute to famous painters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens and other admirables. When remaking a painting, there is the possibility of creatively projecting new concepts, new information that give new meaning to the scene and make us observe and extract a new discourse. Each generation attributes new meanings to art and needs to retake the entire historical…
Renée Jacobs : A free woman A former American lawyer specializing in civil rights and constitutional litigation, Renée Jacobs is now well known for her nude photographs of women - her favorite subject - and is thus fulfilling a childhood dream. Atypical in her approach, her reconversion quickly earned her the International Photography Award (IPA) in 2008. While working as a photojournalist for The New York Times and the Philadelphia…
The legendary photographs of Marilyn Monroe from Bert Stern’s “The Last Sitting” are the subject of this exhibition at Staley-Wise Gallery. Indeed, very few photo shoots are legendary, one above all the others checks all the boxes : Marilyn Monroe and Bert Stern at the Bel Air Hotel for VOGUE in 1962. This is why we dedicate today’s entire edition to this true gem which would be without doubt impossible…
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The Longing of The Stranger Whose Path Has Been Broken is a fruit of the 2022 FotoEvidence W Award. " This book has been almost 10 years in the making. The project started out as my process to reconnect to my Bedouin ancestry then turned into an opportunity to connect, learn from and work with the community. Along the way my visual voice has unearthed. The Longing Of The Stranger…
The International Center of Photography (ICP) hosted an opening reception for the new exhibition Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie on the evening of Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Sponsored by DIOR, the event drew many artists featured in the photographs and videos on view in the exhibition—with some special guests coming face to face with their portraits on the walls of the…
This is the twenty first dialogue in the Ettore Molinario Collection. I have the pleasure of starting 2023 staging an imaginary encounter between Consuelo Fould and Cindy Sherman. Perhaps few remember the first, yet we can consider her a pioneer of those issues that the American artist has been dealing with for forty years now. This dialogue is therefore a wish and a tribute to the women who still fight…
The Françoise Demulder Award, created by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan international photojournalism festival, promotes the careers of women press photographers by awarding every year two of them for the quality and uniqueness of their project. The 2022 edition rewards Nanna Heitmann and Adrienne Surprenant. Nanna Heitmann (born in 1994), for her reportage War is peace on the indoctrination of the Russian population carried out by…
Last year, I got a chance to work with a group of Polish photographers, following an invitation by curator Jens Pepper, and discovered the work of Karolina Wojtas. One of her images particularly stuck in my mind: a boy, eyes closed, whose face is covered by a green plastic bag. Shockingly brutal yet somehow innocent, this and other photographs I encountered during the show, testify to the punch and power…
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie from January 27 through May 1, 2023. Organized by renowned writer and curator Helen Molesworth, the exhibition presents portraits of luminaries in the arts by three of the most prominent portraitists of our time. Face to Face will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by ICP and…
“How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.” - Victor Hugo After having been displayed throughout the summer of 2022 under the vaults of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier as part of the partnership between the Metropolis of Orleans and Danysz Gallery, "Tumultes" is presented from January 28 to February 25, 2023 at Danysz Paris - Marais. Icy and Sot, Liu Bolin, Robert Montgomery, Charles Pétillon, Rero…
On the occasion of the upcoming Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, The Eye of Photography discussed developments in food photography with Michael Pritchard, director of Education and Public Research at the Royal Photographic Society. Michael Pritchard, could you tell us about the genesis of food photography? Food and its associated accoutrements have been associated with photography from its earliest days in the 1840s when the inventor of…
The three 2022 winners of the Prix Polyptyque are exhibited at the Galerie Sit Down until February 25! Julia Gat, Andréa Graziosi and the duo Jeanne and Moreau. They were chosen by a jury which was composed of Pascal Beausse, head of the CNAP photography collection, Françoise Bornstein, director of the Sit Down Gallery, Florence Bourgeois, director of Paris Photo, Pascal Neveux, director of the FRAC Picardie Hauts de France,…
Until March 19, the New York gallery Miguel Abreu presents the exhibition of François-Marie Banier entitled: Writings and Pictures. “I don’t know if I have any talent, and I won’t be able to know it, neither will you, nor your children, history wins (will it be capable of knowing it?) but I’m 18 years old and nurture ambitions, too many perhaps, I love life and very much like myself. I…
The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ) presents the exhibition The Tribulations of Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950. Our edition today is dedicated to Blumenfeld, one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. An experimenter and innovator, he produced an extensive body of work including drawings, collages, portraits and nudes, celebrity portraits, advertising campaigns and his renowned fashion photography both in black and white and color. With many thanks…
“Each image a story. As I take beauty seriously. All my portraits are charged with the moment that is mine.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 Before making it his profession, Blumenfeld practiced photography as an amateur – an activity he discovered at the age of 10, when he received his first box camera from an American uncle, which was followed by many cameras. Among his many…
“I seek, balancing on the limits of the possible, to release the unreal from reality, to realize visions, to penetrate through unknown transparencies.” Erwin Blumenfeld, “The mystery of reality rediscovered by photography”, L’Amour de l’art, Paris, 1938 Erwin Blumenfeld's career as a photographer began in Amsterdam when, his leather goods business in decline, he asked his clients to take their portraits. In 1932, he discovered in his back room a…
“There are many wonders in the world, but nothing is more wonderful than dreams. Awakened, I could never regain its creative power.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In 1937, Blumenfeld created a series of a nude veiled in wet silk around Margarethe von Sievers, a Swedish countess. In the exhibition, these are series about draped and veiled nude that we have sought to reveal, thus highlighting…
“ More than anyone else I owe Führer Schicklgruber. Without him […], I would not have had the courage to become a photographer. […] As a thank you, I made on the night of his accession to power a horror montage of his face with a skull and I then, completely drunk, ran through the night on the twenty -five kilometers that separate Amsterdam from Aerdenhout.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et…