Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. presents the exhibition Paris : City of Light & Shadow. La Ville Lumière! Paris first earned the sobriquet, “City of Light,” as a center of learning during the Age of Enlightenment. In the early nineteenth century the advent of gas lighting brought the city’s streets and boulevards alive at night. Light, the very currency of photography, soon enabled Paris to become the first city to…
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The most touching email we have received recently, it comes from a photographer, Christophe Jacrot - JJN Good morning, You have a fairly central position in the small world of photography, I understand that you appreciate my work. It is for this reason that I allow myself to open up to you. Indeed, I am on the brink of giving up photography, If the real support of two good galleries…
In 2006, Emmanuelle Fructus created her gallery: Un livre – une image. Today, she announces its closure in these terms: Historian, iconographer and artist, in 2006 I created the gallery Un livre – une image. At that time, for me it was an act of freedom and independence which allowed me to invent my working tool by distributing artists' books and images and hunting the Parisian markets. Today, the time…
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The Wall This sculptural series is a new take on the limits we encounter daily, all along our lives. Indeed, human beings tend towards a constant evolution. They want to dominate and shape the reality around them. They try to reach beyond their physical and existential limits, never giving up, but eventually, they often find themselves trapped in a deterministic form of the human condition. Luca Izzo
For the first time since his death, an exhibition of fashion photographs from the 1960s and 1970s by the trailblazing photographer Gösta (Gus) Peterson is presented by presented by Deborah Bell Photographs. Peterson (1923-2017) was one of the most innovative and progressive fashion photographers of the 20th century, known for breaking barriers and challenging conventional approaches to fashion photography of the time. His playful, graphically rigorous compositions were widely published…
Dr. Eran Gilat is a Neuroscientist and Fine Art Photographer. Eran has been engaged for many years in fine art photography. His ‘Life Science’ project was vastly presented in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums around the world. The study was published by numerous platforms, such as world photography magazines, newspapers and wired media platforms. ‘Life Science’ Photography book was published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg. Long lasting passion…
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Clarendon Gallery, Mayfair, presents Beyond, an exhibition by the celebrated British photographer Harry Skeggs. Documenting a journey he made to the Antarctic peninsula, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands in the early Spring of 2022, this presentation is comprised of around thirty works and captures the dramatic landscape of the Antarctic, an area known as the ‘Polar desert’, as well as the wildlife that exists there and on the Sub-Antarctic…
Bildhalle celebrates the new representation of French artist Marguerite Bornhauser with her first solo show in Amsterdam. She has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Simon Baker, Director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris (MEP), who hosted her first solo show in 2019, writes: “Color is not just the focus of her work, but more often a way of perceiving, seeing again and picturing the world. And…
For the second edition of the Les Docs de Noirmoutier festival, the Salorges cultural center will host the photographic and documentary exhibition "Solastalgia" by Marina Vitaglione. “My insularity has been my blessing and my curse. The insularity made my singularity and the singularity made my charm, the charm brought the crowds and the crowds brought my metamorphosis. Irony is a singular thing.” These would be the words that beautiful Venice…
Stéphane Plassier: The human being at the center of everything. He defines himself as a "global designer" and conjugates art in a plural form. Alternately art director, fashion designer, visual artist, architect or designer, Stéphane Plassier is above all a lover of shapes, art and materials, but most import, a precursor of the transversal approach. The simplicity of the forms, the work of the color and the humor are the…
Goran Tomašević is a living legend. He has not only survived in conflict zones for 30 years, but he also masters the art of photography, interpreting the world in the most humanistic way, following in the footsteps of Robert Capa and James Nachtwey. This powerful, terrible book conveys a Dantesque vision of our humanity. The current circumstances, this morning in Ukraine, make us believe that this madness will never stop…
For the first exhibition of the season, the gallery presents the exhibition "E blanc" by Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand. In one of his poems (*), Arthur Rimbaud gave colors to his vowels. The E is white. In a very analogical way, it seemed to me that some of my works possessed together a kind of elementary grammar which neither the theme nor the date of creation could bring together, except for a…
For Agnès Geoffray, the epigraph of the novel The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates was a vision. Words taken from the Journal of Dr. Moses, written at the end of the 19th century, exposing the symptoms of hydropsychism, a sort of Stendhal syndrome of Niagara Falls: "the eyes of the bewitched victim are fixed and dilated", the eye hypnotized by the cataract, the will of the soul crushed, the body…
Inspired by Virginia Woolf ’s novel The Waves, this collaborative project brings together the work of creative partners Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb. This intimate collection serves as a pandemic logbook in words and images, created while the couple was largely sequestered on Cape Cod from March 2020 through May 2021. Rebecca provides original, hand-written poetry that punctuates her lyrical photographs and Alex’s panoramic seascapes. Their images serve as…
GalleryX presents Andrew Prokos: New Abstraction, a comprehensive exhibition in two parts presenting large-scale architectural abstractions from the photographer's series Metropolis Abstracted and Inverted. Metropolis Abstracted incorporates elements of contemporary architecture such as close-up views of facades, building details and reflections of architecture on glass. Through the process of abstraction Prokos delves deeper into the possibilities of the medium, exploring its confines and boundaries, in order to present a body…
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the CAMERA WORK gallery in Berlin asked Philippe Garner to be the curator of the exhibition. Here is his choice! 25 Years CAMERA WORK Until October 1, 2022. CAMERA WORK AG Kantstraße 149 10623 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 (0)30 310077-73 Fax: +49 (0)30 310077-80 www.camerawork.de
Written by Luc Debraine The Swiss photographer spent four months in residence in Budapest last year. Before organizing an outdoor exhibition last spring, which garnered criticisms and praises. In the 1980s, Michael von Graffenried was the enfant terrible of Swiss photography. He had surprised, among other insolences, the parliamentarians of the Federal Palace dozing off or with their fingers in their noses. Scandal! The photographers accredited to the Palace had…
Isabelle Chapuis has her first published book : it is entitled VIVANT, Le sacre du corps. It is a work to which she has dedicated herself for 7 years. "I propose through this work an experience of meeting the living. In its human, plant or animal forms, I am keen to celebrate its manifestations in their rich and complex beauties. For this project, I chose to listen to the intimate details with…
Alain Ernoult has entrusted us with images which are exhibited in Perpignan until September 11th. He accompanied them with this text: "My work on what is called the "sixth extinction" aims to raise awareness to the vulnerability of species in our world through a photographic concept centered on the transmission of emotions. Being as close as possible to the animal allows me to capture the magical moment that will give…
Days of Punk, Los Angeles-based photographer and director Michael Grecco’s multi-media solo exhibition celebrating punk music and culture, will open on August 30 at the Southeast Museum of Photography, a service of Daytona State College, in Daytona Beach, Florida. The show is presented in partnership with the Lisbon, Portugal-based production firm Terra Esplendida. It will run through December 17, and marks the first time “Days of Punk” will be shown…
Quitting Your Day Job: Chauncey Hare’s Photographic Work is the first critical biography of the American photographer Chauncey Hare (1934–2019). Although Hare experienced a significant, if fleeting, degree of professional success, including a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1977, an Aperture monograph, and three Guggenheim fellowships, his work has not received the critical attention it deserves and his extraordinary life story remains obscure. This lack of recognition…