The Berlin space presents a retrospective of the committed Austrian artist Valie Export. From her first successes to her practice of land art, through her reinterpretations of classic paintings, the exhibition retraces an entire body of work dedicated to the cause of women. In 1967, at the age of 27, she took the pseudonym Valie Export. A capital act for the woman who, through this means, got rid of the…
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With Cars and Cows, Ute Behrend presents us with her subtle observations on the myth of progress of the American Dream and the fragility of our era – a poetic look beyond the roadside! Just as the American Dream is coming of age and gradually deteriorating, Ute Behrend‘s photographs bring together two outdated models reminiscent of the good old days in the United States: American Classic Cars and old Breeds…
ACC Art Books releases New York: High Life, Low Life by Dafydd Jones. If there was ever a time to get away with a little trouble, it was New York in the 1990's. As Graydon Carter puts it, "This New York was the one of new money trying to catch the attention of old money and of Wall Street vampires who raided the accounts of widows and orphans while their…
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Kourtney Roy - Enter as Fiction 3 Kourtney Roy was born in 1981 in Ontario, Canada. She studied Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in photography. Kourtney Roy began making self-portraits at the university. Between fashion portraiture, theatricality and everyday photography, her work shows the cross-over influences between these worlds. Her work blends fiction and self-fiction, and explores the sublime and the strange in everyday life,…
Here is The Best Of from November 2021 by Arthur Dayras. Arthur Dayras is responsible for partnerships for L'Œil de la Photographie and editor at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole. Co-founder of the literary review L'Allume-Feu, he also worked as an assistant curator for the Dia Art Foundation or the independent Arles platform Extramentale.
Cattle that mean the world to the Mundari With 12 million cattle, South Sudan is the country with one of the highest cattle populations in Africa. The Ankole-Watusi cattle of the Mundari are considered the "kings of cattle" thanks to their imposing horns. To say that the Mundari love their cattle is an understatement. Their entire world revolves around them. When I arrive at the camp, located in a clearing,…
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As part of the PHOTO 2024 festival, the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) in Fitzroy, Australia announces its feature exhibition ‘Only the future revisits the past’. Here is the text of presentation. In this internationally significant exhibition, artists look towards the past to speculate future possibilities and consider change. It is well established that photography and film record the past, but these types of documents can also transform and dictate…
"- Do you want a souvenir?” At the beginning of the 20th century, to have a portrait of oneself became accessible. The “photo card” met this expectation. Traveling photographers did go out to meet their clients at their places of residence or work or stationed themselves in busy areas such as crossroads, tourist places, resorts, spas or means of transport. They also benefited from exceptional events such as religious celebrations,…
VisionQuesT 4rosso presents Benjamin Juhel's exhibition Le Murmure Du Crépuscule in collaboration with Valeria Bella Gallery of Milan. Juhel stages landscapes and characters within the great freedom of composition that photography gives to choreography and space. The works of Le Murmure Du Crépuscule tell of a peaceful wandering in that transition time when, as night falls, streets get darker and interiors lit up. Shot in California, these works maintain Juhel's…
On Wednesday March 20th, 2024, Annie Leibovitz will be installed as a Foreign associate member of the French Académie des beaux-arts by Sebastião Salgado, member of the Photography section. Annie Leibovitz had been elected on November 23rd, 2022 as a Foreign associate member in chair V previously occupied by the architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917-2019). At the end of the installation ceremony, to be held under the Coupole of the…
In the limelight Since I began photographing professionally (in 1987), the nude has always been one of my favorite subjects, along with portraiture and fashion. Today, however, I'm forced to admit that for many years now, it has become increasingly difficult to exhibit nudes, whether in galleries or on social networks. Without going into sociology, it's obvious that various reasons are behind the return of this form of prudery, which…
First, the Paolo Roversi exhibition at the Palais Galliera unveils 50 years of photographs, and reveals how the artist seized fashion to create a unique work. This is the first monograph dedicated to the photographer in Paris; and also publication by Gallimard of a new book, Lettres sur la Lumière with Emanuele Coccia, here are two great opportunities to dedicate this edition to the italian photographer who granted a rare…
Paolo Roversi: Between Light & Darkness Paolo Roversi photographs fashion like no one else. He is also an outstanding portraitist, creating images that are both soft and deep, and whose signature is instantly recognizable. His work is instinctive and irrational, as he likes to say. His world is made of fantasy, dreams and poetry. The aestheticism of his images is like an imaginary language created by the photographer. To celebrate…
Gallimard publishes Lettres sur la lumière (Letters on light) by Paolo Roversi and Emanuele Coccia. Paolo Roversi (born in 1947), is one of the most famous fashion photographers - but also a remarkable portraitist and Emanuele Coccia (born in 1976), philosopher, thinker of eternal transformation, keen on fashion and the morals of our era, chose the epistolary genre to deliver their thoughts to us. This correspondence revolves around light, taking as…
Archives - September 27, 2022 If Paolo Roversi has become one of the great names in fashion photography, it is perhaps thanks to the fascination he has always felt for the "mutual and intimate confession" that played out during the meeting of the the photographer and his model. That guided and inspired all his work and he took care to maintain its magic in the theater of his studio, using…
Archives - November 1, 2023 For this fifteenth title in the Des oiseaux (On Birds) collection, the fashion photographer and portraitist Paolo Roversi invites falconry birds to freely take over his studio and produces an intriguing series where owls, hawks and falcons appear shrouded in saturated lights on large format Polaroids. . The minimalist approach to portraiture and the monochrome tones, which are the signature of the Italian photographer, allow these…
Archives - April 27, 2021 Ravenna, an amazing city lighted up by the gold of the mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale and the deep blue ones with stars in Galla Placidia’s mausoleum. A city that is celebrating Dante Alighieri, who spent here his final years. And a well-versed one in photography, too. An example? The solo exhibition Paolo Roversi – Studio Luce at MAR Ravenna Art Museum dedicated…
Archives - Mars 2, 2021 Birds is the first North American exhibition of Italian fashion photographer Paolo Roversi. Presented at Dallas Contemporary, the exhibition features over 40 of Roversi’s photographic works and will focus on his longstanding collaboration with the fashion brand Comme des Garçons and its founder Rei Kawakubo. Titled Birds to highlight Roversi’s use of movement in photography, the exhibition examines how the Italian photographer has created a…
Archives - February 19, 2021 This is Al Mukalla, by Paolo Roversi Al Mukalla is Paolo Roversi’s secret book, the fruit of a trip to Yemen in 1993, it was produced just after his return, in just seven copies, all hand-written. Twelve inset prints give the scent and poetry of this timeless journey to Happy Arabia. It is obviously a pleasure and a privilege to bring together in this exhibition…
Archives - Septembrer 3, 2019 The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Intangible Presence, a solo exhibition of works by photographer Paolo Roversi. This exhibition will feature commanding portraits, nudes, and interior studio still lifes that underscore his deep and direct connection with his subject matter. Whether nude, or adorned in haute couture, Roversi is able to strip down his subjects to their bare essentials, drawing forth pure abandon, and creating photographs that…
Archives - April 20, 2018 Two masters of photography discutent and works side by side. On one side, Christophe Batifoulier, Picto's printer. On the other side, Paolo Roversi, fashion photographer and portraitist. Together, the artist and the technician share common memories, discuss printing techniques like piezography and remember about switching from analog to digital cameras. [video_embed_hd url="https://youtu.be/E1tAQb5azt0"] © Picto France En partenariat avec L'Œil de la Photographie.