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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Quite surprisingly, in these two decades when Dada and surrealism developed, these two movements showed little influence on nude photography, at least those which were selected to be printed and published in albums. Of course, Raoul Ubac and Georges Hugnet mainly, Wols, Erwin Blumenfeld and Dora Maar, shall I cite Man Ray?, produced at this time photographs that were fantastic in every way, even surreal for some (Cf. the excellent…
The Hotel Fontfreyde, Clermont Ferrand Photographic Center presents until June 1st an exhibition by Yan Morvan titled Résistances Mémorielles. He presents it like this. On the razor edge The bus of the "special envoys" of the "international" press went from Teheran to Shatt-el-Arab, the scene of the battle between Iraq and Iran for the possession of the oil terminals. We stoped, at night, on a height overlooking the towns of…
Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents an exhibition by British photographer and filmmaker Alison Jackson. The exhibition 'Truth is Dead' shows sixty humorous portraits of international celebrities and two videos. The artist uses cleverly styled lookalikes and actors to stage simulated paparazzi shots and documentary footage. The famous public figures include members of the British royal family, David and Victoria Beckham, Bill Clinton, Simon Cowell, Elton John,…
Galerie Caroline O’Breen in Amsterdam is presenting ‘Nightcall’, a solo exhibition of new works by artist Satijn Panyigay, who has been photographing temporarily vacant interior spaces extensively over the past years – empty museums, depots, new or repurposed buildings and homes. In her latest project ‘Nightcall’ (2024), she turns her lens to nocturnal exteriors. Captured overnight in the urban environment of Utrecht, the Netherlands, her compositions highlight brief moments of…
For this exhibition of works by American artist Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989), the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery has invited Ghanaian-born British editor Edward Enninful OBE to collaborate with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation to present his singular vision of the photographer’s work. In the exhibition, Enninful presents his selection of 46 prints in pairs, forging new dialogues between them and inviting visitors to see even some of Mapplethorpe’s best-known photographs anew. With this…
In this chapter, Jacques Revon explores the use of an ecological alternative developer made with raw, old and artisanal cider at 7°. “Film photography is initially authentic because the negative remains, even if one day it is scanned and therefore becomes digital at the risk, as we know, of being later manipulated.” – JR Sheet 9. Making an alternative developer in a quantity of 1 liter ready to use, with raw, old and…
The in focus gallery, B. Arnold in Cologne, presents Nick Brandt: The Day May Break, an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. Chapter One was photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in 2020, Chapter Two in Bolivia in 2022. The people in the photos have all been badly affected by climate change, from extreme droughts to floods that destroyed their homes…
B, or the Memory of Childhood is an exhibition that combines two of the best-known series by the Franco-Moroccan artist Carolle Benitah : Photo Souvenirs developed from her family and personal archives and the other entitled Jamais je ne t'oublierai constructed from found and anonymous photos. For almost twenty years now, Carolle Benitah's artistic intention has been telling us about the constant search for balance between familial ties hoping happiness…
Love, Lust and Freedom is on display at Kunstmuseum Brandts. From quiet kisses and doing the laundry to hardcore raves. Life as a queer person and the right to love or desire whoever and however you want is addressed in a new photography exhibition at Kunstmuseum Brandts. From the humdrum of the everyday to the experimental and, in some cases, potentially dangerous love life of certain members of the queer…
In their series Photo Spotlight, Holden Luntz Gallery presents the work of Bernie Taupin based on the photographs of Terry O'Neill. Two Sides of the Sixties Terry O’Neill was both a great friend and an inspiration. His personality behind the camera was an infectious and kinetic pantomime of chaotic charm. Terry was a star in his own firmament as much as the icons he photographed over the decades. His images…
Les Douches la Galerie pays tribute to Marvin E. Newman. Marvin E. Newman, who died on September 13, 2023, photographed everything with great joy: from street reporting to advertising or sports commissions, including nightlife and fashion. Les Douches la Galerie, which presented his first personal exhibition in France in 2018, wanted to pay tribute to him, a few months after his death, with this exhibition of photographs taken in color,…
Cédric Roux presents his book Before Rebirth published by Édition Odyssée. He introduces it like this: Before Rebirth began during a month-long photography residency in Wilson, NC in December 2021. Invited by the Eye on Main street festival, I made several stays. Accustomed to capturing the movement and intense life of the streets of New York, the first contact with Wilson was a real shock. In search of a city…
The Porosus endowment fund, the Régnier pour la Création fund and Les femmes s’exposent are launching the new scholarship to support emerging creation. This scholarship will be awarded to an active professional female photographer, with less than 10 years of experience, for the production of artistic or documentary photographic work. The proposed subject could be a new photographic project or the new chapter of an ongoing project that has never…
Willy Cartier : Chameleon. Willy Cartier is a versatile artist, born into a family steeped in art in all its forms. His father, a classical dancer, painter and writer, and his mother, also a dancer, undoubtedly influenced his artistic path. From an early age, he felt different, with his long, eye-catching black hair, sometimes considered too long by some, but ultimately becoming an integral part of his identity. Navigating backstage…
On March 20 was Annie Leibovitz's installation session at the Académie des beaux-arts, here is her speech. Speech by Annie Leibovitz Sebastião Salgado It is an honor to be in your company Sebastião. Thank you. You are a great man. There is a universal truth in your photographs. In his most recent work, Sebastião Salgado turned to nature as a subject—to places untouched by humans. “I am pessimistic about humankind,”…