Following her critically-acclaimed solo show at Flowers Gallery in London in 2023, Janelle Lynch: Endless Forms Most Beautiful, a new show of works from the same series opens at Exhibition The Barn in Bridgehampton, New York in collaboration with Frampton Co. The exhibition presents cyanotypes and large-format black and white photographs that Lynch created in Amagansett, New York during 2022-2023, exploring the intricate connections between life’s forms and the afterlife. Janelle Lynch utilizes…
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The Griffin Museum of Photography presents the exhibition Traces of Existence, featuring photographs by artists Alejandro Cartegena, Muriel Hasbun, Ilena Doble Hernandez, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and Alejandro Morales. The exhibition speaks to ideas of migration, history, reminiscence, family, and existence through experimental photography, such as collage, visual juxtapositions, and physical manipulations. Though distinguished stylistically, the artists' exploration of their identity and homeland unite them conceptually. In her series Pulse: New Cultural…
At Christie’s in New York, a record was set yesterday for André Kertész after a print of his photograph Satiric Dancer (1926) hammered for $450,000, or $567,000 with fees; that was just above its pre-sale estimate of $500,000–$700,000. The day before, Diane Arbus Identical twins, (Cathleen and Colleen), Roselle, New Jersey, 1966 sold for $1,197,000 with fees, and Richard Avedon, Marilyn Monroe, Actress, New York City, 1957 sold for $880,000…
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Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle The doors of Paris Photo, vintage 2022, have just closed. With my accreditation: “press” in hand, I was able to access the so-called VIP day on Wednesday. Incidentally, it should be noted that the “Very Very VIPs” had already been invited the day before by a very great American international bank, which was - this year - the leader of the sponsors for this shining event.…
On the occasion of the Rencontres d'Arles, the Fisheye gallery presents Delphine Diallo's new series, Golden Age, produced in collaboration with WhiteWall. Mixing photographs and collages, the exhibition is an invitation into the universe of this protean artist. The Golden Age series originated with a proposal: the wish of a great lover of African art to create a work from his own collection. Among the 3,000 artifacts that make up…
An icon of gay art and one of the most famous names in physique photography, Bruce Bellas is remembered today as a pioneer of beefcake. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until his death in 1974, Bellas photographed some of the most important figures in the world of physical culture; bodybuilders Steve Reeves, Bob McCune, and George Eiferman, and models Joe Dallesandro, Mark Nixon, and Brian Idol are just a few of…
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The Hulett Collection presents the work of French artist, Alain Laboile, who happened upon photography while searching for a way to document his massive sculptures created in the French countryside near his home. Within a short amount of time his lens had turned towards his six homeschooled children and their daily lives. This has resulted in an earnest and beautiful series of work created by a photography outsider, of sorts.…
Roberto Spampinato was one of the post-war Italian photographers who documented Italy’s socioeconomical condition in the mid-twentieth century and its birth as a democratic nation. He captured the faces and scenes of a nation liberated from dictatorship, in which everything was difficult and almost impossible, but nonetheless vibrated with vitality and hope. Spampinato was born in Milan in 1924 and began to photograph in the 50s, with a precise taste…
This is one of the most attractive best wishes portfolios we have received. It is signed Marc Dubord. He added these few sentences: The naked body is in art a recurrence of all disciplines and has covered the walls of our museums and exhibitions for decades... The back is something present in the odalisques and other art, but we do not think about the live models and their perception... This…
On December 1, Gabriel Bauret gave a formidable lecture on Robert Doisneau for Camera at the Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin. En voici une transcription écrite faite par lui ! Aujourd’hui Robert Doisneau Cette exposition n’est pas une rétrospective ; elle n’embrasse pas la totalité de l’œuvre – la quantité de négatifs conservés, 450.000, donne la mesure de l’étendue de la production –, mais participe d’un désir de mettre…
Hackney-based visual arts charity, Autograph, presents a new outdoor display and online gallery sharing the journey of the Windrush generation before, during and after arriving in the UK. Following the Second World War, thousands of people from Commonwealth countries in the Caribbean were invited by the British government to relocate to the UK to address labour shortages. They, along with their descendants, are often referred to as the Windrush generation,…
“I’ve always been intrigued by oblique perspectives, like aerial views. There’s something about the tabletop … taking a viewer up in the air, so you can look down from an angle.” - Ed Ruscha Yancey Richardson presents a series of seminal early photographs by Ed Ruscha. Parking Lots, a portfolio of 30 images from 1967, anchor the artist’s trajectory over a career spanning six decades. One of the most influential…
Hugh Mangum (1897-1922) was an American itinerant photographer who worked in the Southern states during the rise of the Jim Crow era laws mandating racial segregation and discrimination. His clientele was both racially and economically diverse. Through Mangum’s lens, we witness a varied citizenry whose unique personalities and essences Mangum has captured, redefining our sense of history and of place and time. After his untimely death at age forty-four from…
Il s’agit du vingt-huitième volet de la série en ligne de la Peter Fetterman Gallery intitulée The Power of Photography mettant en évidence l’espoir, la paix et l’amour dans le monde. Nous vous invitons à apprécier et prendre le temps de la réflexion sur ces œuvres. Sebastião Salgado Elephant (Against light), Kafue National Park, Zambia, 2010 © Sebastião Salgado / Amazonas Images/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery Nous avons tous vu…
Henryk Ross (1910-1991) photographically documented multiple aspects of Jewish people imprisoned inside the Łódź Ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland from 1940 to 1944. Officially, Ross worked for the Statistics Department of the ghetto’s Jewish Administration, photographing the ghetto’s Jewish inhabitants for identification cards and Nazi propaganda. Conversely, Ross risked his unique privileges and his life to photograph the reality of daily ghetto existence. This was especially critical as Jews were…
In 2023, visual artist Joachim Romain will celebrate his 20-year career with multiple events throughout the year in France: exhibitions, collaborations, editions, prints, etc. In his Fast Shop series, Joachim Romain draws on his intuitions and feelings about the frenetic and hypnotic impulses caused by online shopping. Indeed, the rise of new technologies and the virtual have allowed brands to develop worldwide via the support of the web. E-merchandising has…
Tate presents the Tate Photography Series, a new publishing programme providing an introduction to some of the most important and exciting photographers at work today. Sabelo Mlangeni is based in South Africa and works collaboratively with the people he photographs to tell the stories of communities on the periphery of society. He has focused on Johannesburg, as well as the rural areas surrounding his hometown of Driefontein. Mlangeni’s work seeks…
Scott Billy : Another way of looking at the world An American by birth, Scott Billy moved to Johannesburg over 25 years ago. He has always been interested in art, and is totally passionate about South African art and design. Before becoming a gallery owner, he worked in marketing in South Africa, a job that didn't quite fulfill him. It was because of the many South African artists he met…
William Wegman’s first monographic exhibition at Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois offers a journey through the artist’s work, emphasizing its deep consistency across various techniques and subject matters. Bringing together over 60 works, ranging from 1970 to 2022 and selected in conjunction with William Wegman and Christine Burgin, the exhibition revolves around the notion of agility, a recreational and athletic discipline partnering man and dog. “I’ve always considered my work…
Jean-Marie Donat collects photographs of artificial Christmas trees, those featuring the Coca-Cola logo or representing televisions. This initial observation leads us to two conclusions. Jean-Marie Donat has an exceptional collection which is true. Jean-Marie Donat has mental health problems which deserves to be nuanced. Four decades of collecting photographs that today are considered vernacular have forged this collection. The market value of these images is as heterogeneous as their origins.…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the actuality of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine has a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. About the belly button by Ieva Stankutė has a special place among recent photographic publications on motherhood. An artist's book more than a photographic one, blending photographs,…