The Little Black Gallery presents its new online exhibition Beneath The Surface featuring the work of Canadian photographer Lucas Murnaghan, who died in 2021, on its BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! platform which promotes queer and gay fine art photography. Ghislain Pascal, editor and curator of BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! and co-founder of The Little Black Gallery, said: “Lucas joined BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! at the very beginning, in 2018, and the response to…
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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…
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 Just as the American Dream is coming of age and gradually deteriorating, Ute Behrend‘s photographs bring together two outdated models reminiscent of the good old days in the United States: American Classic Cars and old Breeds…
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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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Until September 9th, La chambre claire Galerie in Douarnenez presents Étoile du soir, the latest exhibition by Corinne Mercadier. " I am looking for images of a particular, unpredictable conjunction between the body, the object, the decor and the light. "... for The sky starts here, " I am accompanied by melancholy and the mystery of Dürer, Kubrick, Spilliaert and Poe." Corinne Mercadier La chambre claire Galerie 3 rue Voltaire…
The museum presents two Berlin series in an exhibition where the visions of their authors confront each other to deliver a profound and fascinating autopsy of the German capital. Berlin, 4,000 inhabitants per square kilometer and almost as many ways to look at it. Berliner Kontraste combines two visual worlds sharing black and white but with very distinct materials and contours. These photographs, taken between 2004 and 2015, explore the…
My first job was wedding photographer. Which I was for almost ten years. It suited me to watch others be happy and to think that I was the one on whom the memory of the happiest day of their lives depended. Besides, I only worked on Saturdays, which left me time to think about other things. After the shootings, all the photographers met in the laboratory to wait for the…
The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is devoted to the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan. On 26 May 2023, the NGO Amnesty International published jointly with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) a report urging the International Criminal Court to qualify the abuses committed by the Taliban as a “crime against humanity” based on gender and sexuality, under article 7 of the Court’s Rome Statute. "While…
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Muses & Self: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg. This exhibition of Ginsberg's personal photographs balances our understanding of the public, outspoken poet and most prominent figure of the Beat Generation. At his core, Allen Ginsberg was a witness and chronicler of the world; his profound admiration for the beauty of the vernacular, intense observation, and celebration of the present moment guided his photography and poetry. The photographs…
A dialogue in word and image, The Moons of Saturn monograph, newly published, is a collaboration between photographer Frank Rodick and writer Nancy Brokaw. The book is based on Rodick’s suite of images, completed in 2021, that reflect on the human condition in extremis, particularly during the time of Covid. Using a foundation of vernacular photographs—of both intimates and strangers—that anchor the constructed images, each picture may be understood as…
This is the twenty-seventh dialogue from the Ettore Molinario Collection. A dialogue that for the first time brings together two photographs by the same author, Frank Horvat. And I think no one better than this master has been able to talk about imagination and desire, and how men imagine women’s desire. Ettore Molinario He looked at them and let himself be looked at. Frank Horvat looked at women and…
The Centre d'Art et de Photographie de Lectoure has announced its program for August. Exhibitions, guided tours, courses, workshops for young people... All info online here
We learned of the passing of Jim Lee, through the years we published many times his body of work, today’s edition, taken from our archive, is entirely dedicated to him. Holden Luntz Gallery published the following text : It is with profound sadness that we share with our friends and collectors the passing of Jim Lee on July 30, 2023. He was a talented, original, and creative artistic force. His…
Archive - May 7, 2020 Jim Lee has worked in the fashion industry for over 50 years now. He was originally nicknamed “the original wild child of fashion photography". In this interview given to London Live, he recalls his experiences as a career artist, giving an insight on his cinematic narratives, asymmetrical compositions, and bold colors helped usher in an era of expressive liberty for fashion photography. Born in 1945,…
Archive - December 11, 2017 An exhibition on view in Zurich, Switzerland, currently features the work of British fashion photographer Jim Lee. Photographer and filmmaker Jim Lee has always kept an ear to the ground – mindful of the zeitgeist and anticipating the trends. But, as with many artists, it is only the benefit of hindsight that reveals some of the most remarkable aspects of his work. As a fashion…
Archive - February 6, 2017 For Jim Lee, storytelling was always at the heart of his work and his life. Lee was born in 1945 to parents who were both MI5 operatives marking a beginning to a life that followed anything but a conventional path. At the young age of 17 he decided to move to Australia where his interest and passion for photography sparked. His time in Australia was…
Archive - February 18, 2013 François Truffaut once wrote that there are no good or bad movies, only good or bad directors. That was the upshot of his “politique des auteurs”, his politics or policy of authorship, which was based on the idea that the force of a personal vision could subdue the money-making machinery of the film industry to its own ends—and that anyone whose vision had the force…
Archive - September 19, 2012 Jim Lee – ‘Arrested’: 50 extraordinary years of the original wild child of fashion photography Jim Lee, often referred to as England’s answer to Guy Bourdin – made himself a name with his fresh and illustrious take on fashion; the original wild child of fashion photography. Arrested is the biography of London-based photographer and film director Lee and traces his photographic development as well as…
Exorcism, provocation or derision the photographer Jim Lee made this picture the day he learned that suffering from a serious eye disease he soon had to undergo an operation. www.jimlee.tv