Art historian Maeva Dubrez has published a well-documented essay on Deborah Turbeville's work, the fruit of extensive research, with ACTEDITIONS. Here is an extract of her essay: This essay solves the enigma of Deborah Turbeville's work by going over her photographic prints with a fine tooth-comb and exposing the infinite layers that lie beneath. She is more than a photographer : her work continually breaks down the blurred boundaries between…
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As part of Women's History Month and to celebrate the release of the monograph "Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage," The National Arts Club of New York hosted the symposium "Deborah Turbeville and the Female Gaze," focusing on women's perspectives and portrayal in photography. First defined by Laura Mulvey in 1975 in her article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," the concept of the female gaze emerged as a rebellion against the male gaze.…
Photo Elysée recently paid tribute to Deborah Turbeville, an American photographer recognised in the 1970s for her fashion photographs. But Turbeville is much more than that; it is a work on photography and its materiality. In collaboration with the MUUS collection, Photo Elysée allows us to discover a true female artist. It's challenging to classify Deborah Turbeville's (1932-2013) work because her oeuvre is rich in research and diverse use of…
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Until February 18, the Galerie Chantal Bamberger in Strasbourg is presenting a collective exhibition entitled: White! White is a color. Our collaborator, Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, has chosen to show you the work of Véronique Sablery accompanied by this text. The white work of Véronique Sablery In this multi-medium and collective exhibition, alongside and among others the drawings of Titus-Carmel and the statuary of Jan Voss, the photographs of Véronique Sablery…
This essay examines the role that photo-based imagery played in the immediate aftermath of Liberation by means of The Nuremberg Trials. The Allies and Soviets were confronted with what to do with the 8.5 million members of National Socialist German Workers’ Party and their millions of collaborators who participated in robbing, torturing, and murdering two out of every three European Jews, wiping out entire centuries-old communities. The Nazis killed so…
Marian Goodman Gallery presents Memory Lost, their first exhibition in New York with Nan Goldin, who joined the gallery in September 2018. This major exhibition is the first solo presentation by the artist in New York in five years and presents an important range of historical works together with two new video pieces and the debut of two new series of photographs. Memory Lost (2019), an important, new digital slideshow,…
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With the digital platform Elles font la culture, the Ministry of Culture intends to help women and gender minorities develop their careers. Laurie Chapotte and Sarah Witt introduce us to Elles font la culture, the Ministry of Culture's new platform for women photographers. Could you start by introducing yourself and the other members of Elles font la culture? There are five women behind Elles font la culture. Jennifer Stephan,…
The Museum of Sex in New York presents Self Power | Self Play: 50 years of Erotic Portraiture by Linda Troeller. For half a century, artist Linda Troeller (b. 1949) has used the camera as a tool for sensual empowerment. The first museum retrospective of Troeller’s work in New York City, Self Power | Self Play will feature over sixty erotic photographs on loan from the artist’s studio and Bryn…
AMI and Magnum Photos collaborate to give birth to a photographic project on the theme of the family. The Parisian brand joins forces with Magnum Photos for an extraordinary collaboration, and entrusts 13 members of the renowned photography agency as well as 2 guest video artists, to interpret the theme of the family. This collaboration, FAMILY, is the subject of a traveling exhibition in four cities around the world, as…
Stéphane Mahé presents his new exhibition at the Galerie L'Entrée des Artistes until November 12th. Alexandra Palka who wrote this text! Imbued with an aura on almost fantastic, Stéphane Mahé's images lose us in the labyrinthine narration of a mysterious logbook offering a wandering of the mind. The photographer with an alert and fleeting brush handles the effects of light with the delicacy of a tightrope walker to reveal to…
Alon Zakaim Fine Art presents a solo exhibition ‘If Only These Walls Could Talk’ – a new body of work from London-based Persian artist Maryam Eisler, shot at the fabled Hôtel Nord-Pinus in Arles. Photographed at the legendary hostelry amid the ghostly presence of Picasso, Cocteau, Callas, Chaplin, Hemingway, and Van Gogh, Eisler’s work explores the masculine and feminine tensions that the city has seen and lived over centuries. During…
German photographer Ilse Bing (1899-1998) has secured her place as one of the major photographers of the 20th century. Her pioneering images during the inter-war era reveal a modern vision influenced by the impact of both the Bauhaus and Surrealism. Alongside her personal work she produced images in the fields of photojournalism, architectural photography, advertising and fashion, and her work was published in the major magazines of the period and…
Photofestival 17TH, Milan’s art photography festival, goes on in November and beyond. Photofestival’s itinerary spreads throughout the territory, covering the metropolitan area of Milan and some neighbouring Lombardy provinces. In its previous 16 editions, Photofestival gave life to 1650 exhibitions by 1600 Italian and international authors and involved 707 different exhibition spaces. It managed to engage photographers and visitors offering the opportunity for outreach and communication on photography and visual…
Photographer Rob Hammer logs in an average of 35,000 miles per year road-tripping around the United States in his truck with his dog, exploring, discovering, and photographing what he's said can be "an endless expanse of unknown." He's come to call the trips "treasure hunts," and the 75 color images collected in his new book, Roadside Meditations (Kehrer Verlag) reflect a sense of respect and wonder not only for the…
Contradicting to enter resistance. Lee-Ann Olwage is originally from Durban, South Africa. A visual storyteller, her work explores themes of identity, transitions and universal narratives through long-term projects. Interested in using photography as a mode of celebration, her collaborative projects allow individuals to engage in the co-creation of their stories and how they are represented. For Lee-Ann Olwage figuration is meaningless, oblivion and absence are impossible. This is how the…
Until November 12, the Sarto gallery presents an exhibition by Véronique Fel entitled Habana Old Cars which she tells us about in this way: Havana, Cuba, May 2017. I could not return without having in my images, these old American cars, essential and universal. They are the joyful emblem of a tormented country, under American embargo for more than 50 years, embargo partially lifted in 2016. I knew that the…
A nice surprise was waiting in the church at Aubrac. A work full of finesse and subtlety fixed in high quality photographs. The mushrooms were in the spotlight! The author of this work is a photographer specializing in the portrait of dogs. He travels the country far and wide, with his traveling studio, to photograph dogs in their environment. What I saw is an uncompromising professionalism mixed with knowledge and…
Galerie STP in Greifswald, Germany, shows selected works of the German-American documentary photographer Gerd Ludwig. For nearly three decades, he was a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. His photographs in the STP gallery stem from four major bodies of work - photographs of the late artist Joseph Beuys, whom Gerd Ludwig accompanied for a week before his monumental exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum; photographs from a two-week visit…
Fundamental to renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted's vision in his park designs was the key role of time. He had the ability to see a plot of land for what it was in the raw undeveloped state, as well as to visualize how his designs would translate several decades into the future after the trees and shrubs he planted had rooted and spread and integrated with the space. In…
Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam presents a solo exhibition of the American-Korean visual artist Koh Sang Woo. The exhibition Wild in Blue shows a selection of colorful photographic paintings. The vivid portraits of wild animals, with human characteristics, display a prominent use of the color blue with a subtle pink hart. Koh Sang Woo is internationally known for both his blue tone photography as the recent 'Blue Endangered Animals' series in…
Galerie Goutal presents for the first time in France, in Aix-en-Provence, the work of Dutch photographer Erik Hijweege. Born in the Netherlands in 1963, Erik Hijweege has exhibited in many museums including the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam and the Oude Kerk Museum. His works have been included in prestigious collections: ABN AMRO New York, BNP Paribas, SNS Bank, Hermitage Netherlands, BVDM Moscow, ABN AMRO Netherlands, Pels Rijcken, Madurodam, Natuurhistorisch…