In 2024, Ostend celebrates the 75th anniversary of the passing of the unique painter James Ensor, a Belgian artist from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was an eternal outsider: a school dropout, a mama's boy, a rebel, a world improver, a big ego, a misunderstood prophet, an advocate for the environment and animals. His oeuvre consists of a diverse and intriguing assortment of paintings, drawings, and prints…
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The exhibition “Seeing Animals” by Elliot Ross at the Musée de la Photographie Charleroi will be closing on May 26. An Devro writes : Face to face with the animal portraits of the American photographer Elliot Ross, you experience the tension between us and creatures of other species. When you enter the refectory of the former Carmelite convent that is now the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, you are…
Bonhams Skinner proposes he iconic image of Nastassja Kinski, German actress and model at the height of her career, with a Burmese python draped across her body captured by Richard Avedon for Vogue in 1981. It is a highlight of the sale running until May 15. Avedon was commissioned by Vogue to photograph Kinski after the release of Roman Polanski’s movie Tess for which she won a Golden Globe award. Estimated to achieve between US$60,000 – 80,000, the image which evokes the biblical imagery…
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If we were a self-righteous magazine, we would be talking about Redemption! The one that signifies the triumph of Art over the Flesh. But we're just a photography magazine, so we'll forget about redemption in favor of adventure and amazing evolution. Some of these photos are 40 years old. They are signed Eric Neveu. He was at the end of the 70s and during the 80s, the emperor of the…
In the exhibition “Barbara Wolff : Photographs“ at the Goethe-Institut Bordeaux, works from the series “Biography“ (1982 - 1989), “Metropolis“ (2018 - 2020) as well as “Amazonia“ (2019) will be shown in collaboration with Collection Regard Berlin. In the series “Biography“ she observed life on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Like few photographers, she has been able to reflect on her images and experiences on both side of Germany…
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Leitz Photographica has set a new world record with the auction of an extremely rare Leica piece sold for 14.4 million Euros. The mass production of the Leitz camera, or Leica for short, the world's first 35mm camera, was a turning point in the history of modern photography at the start of the 20th century. Before the first cameras became available in the mid-1920s, Ernst Leitz produced around 23 models…
Alain Teulié : A nostalgic vision of the world. After his baccalaureate, Alain Teulié entered the Cours Florent. He acted in several plays. In 1984, he became Jean Marais' assistant for his play "Cocteau Marais". A very beautiful and enriching experience, he remembers with nostalgia. In 1989, he changed course and joined Paris Première where he presented a daily prime-time talk show: Tout Paris. For seven years, he saw artists…
Photographer, filmmaker and screenmaker David Lykes Keenan has produced a short documentary on Garry Winogrand in 2019, entitled Winogrand in Austin 1973 - 1978. Here it is in its full scale, with words by the filmmaker himself. [video_embed_hd url="https://vimeo.com/384361916"] “Made as an adult student while attending the Austin School of Film, this short film explores the life and career of Garry Winogrand while he lived in Austin, Texas. Winogrand is…
The Selects Gallery is releasing never-before-seen images and contact sheets by Robert Farber of supermodel Gia Carangi as part of its current exhibition: “Gia Marie Carangi : Known as Gia.” In celebration of Pride Month. The exhibition is being hosted in collaboration with Sandy Linter, makeup artist, staple of the disco era, and love interest of Gia. The simple name Gia evokes a number of headlines: the first supermodel, a…
Until October 1, 2022, the Municipal Archives of the city of Lyon will host the third exhibition of photographer Philippe Schuller. A founding member of the Lyon-based agency Editing, his protean work deals in turn with French society, urban transformations, particularly in Lyon, the art of portraiture, or bears witness to the beauty of the world. His many sided work seems to be at the crossroads of documentary and poetry,…
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the international photography and visual arts festival PHotoEspaña, the director Claude Bussac answers questions from our correspondent, Zoé Isle de Beauchaine. Claude Bussac, what is your assessment of these twenty-five years of PHotoEspaña? For a festival director, the balance sheet can be seen with the spectators, and we really do have a large public, which is very active since it is…
To meet, finally to exchange, to give substance to a photographic event that crosses the whole city, to also show what has been created despite everything during these last two suspended years. This is what the Hamburg Photographic Triennial has imagined for this new edition which takes over 12 places in the port city from May 20 to September 18, 2022. Tour of the city, of the spaces and exhibitions…
“All the streets that Ernest Pignon-Ernest has taken over in France and around the world lead him to Landerneau this summer. He invites us to follow in his footsteps and enter into his work, to meet his places, his characters, facing history, human stories.” Michel-Edouard Leclerc “What I do is a bit like composing a painting or making a montage. My palette is places, places and their history. I try…
Until June 19, the festival of auteur photography takes place in Montélimar. 39 photographers are presented. One exhibition particularly touched us: that of Françoise Nunez, marvelous photographer, wife of Bernard Plossu, who passed away last December. Jean-Jacques Naudet Présence(s) photographie Association loi 1901 1, avenue Saint-Martin 26200 MONTELIMAR www.presencesphotographie.fr https://www.facebook.com/presencesphotographie https://www.instagram.com/presencesphotographie
The international festival Fotografia Europea 2022, which has truly filled the city of Reggio Emilia with photographic exhibitions and events, is inspired by a quote by Albert Camus, so its 17th edition is entitled “An Invincible Summer”. “Our interpretation of the Camus’ quote: ‘In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there lay within me an invincible summer *,’ relates to the courage to resist, to persist, to see…
After an artistic training in Seoul (South Korea), Jungjin Lee left in 1988 to study photography at New York University. She has since resided primarily in the United States. Robert Frank's assistant in the early 90s, she considers him a mentor, a "Zen sage" to whom she regularly showed her work. He wrote in the preface of the book Desert, published in 2002: Jungjin Lee is the American Desert Traveler...…
David Hill and Carrie Scott present Gloire Immortelle, the first ever solo exhibition by West-African photographer Rachidi Bissiriou. The show includes previously unseen portraits and coincides with The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Africa Fashion opening in July which features Bissiriou’s work. Born in 1950 in the town of Kétou, Bissiriou began photographing members of his community after Benin was finally granted independence in 1960. In 1968, he opened Studio Pleasure in…
The exhibition "Les tempêtueuses" by Irène Jonas presented by La chambre claire Galerie de Douarnenez at the beginning of this summer 2022 testifies, in its first part, to the meteorological and geographical elements close to the environment of the Pays Bigouden in which Irène Jonas now lives two-thirds of her time. It traces the storms that regularly break on the Brittany coast, from Lesconil to Saint-Guénolé and which forge the…
Etherton Gallery presents the exhibition, Kate Breakey: Transience, which highlights photographs and multi-media images by Kate Breakey, who has dedicated her artistic career to preserving wildness in the natural world. Speaking recently about her 2022 retrospective at the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas, Breakey said, “My own collection of images serves as a record – a random, disjointed, visual diary of the things I’ve seen and loved – a way…
DartBLAY, gallery outside the walls for 12 years, presents FORME(S), an exhibition revolving around nudity, the body and its movement and offers the work of four photographers with distinct and singular universes. Not seeking confrontation but rather complementarity, this collection of works offers an eclectic and suggestive vision of the body and its mysteries. Nancy Wilson-Pajic Multidisciplinary artist Nancy Wilson-Pajic presents ten gum bichromate prints made in 1987 from the…