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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Sophie Delaporte is exhibiting her new series “Sculpting Color” during the Rencontres d’Arles at the Palais de Luppé, echoing the plaster and bronze works and paintings from the collection of Luppé’s catalog raisonné. On the occasion of this project, the artist offers fifteen photographs in monumental format, playing with the disruption of proportions for an unprecedented organic journey. Installed in several rooms of the Luppé palace, the free and powerful…
Wilde Gallery in Zurich presents Nan Goldin (b. 1953 D.C., USA). The exhibition highlights artworks from various series created by the artist throughout previous collaborations with the gallery over the span of two decades. Goldin has emerged as one of the most influential photographers of the late 20th century, renowned for her deeply personal and unreserved portraiture. Through her intimate images, she creates a visual autobiography that captures herself and…
After demonstrating the Tenderness of Le Corbusier’s Concrete French ambassador to Delhi and passionate photographer Emmanuel Lenain is presenting another of his camera investigation in India’s urbanization, as in “when man turns his back, nature strikes back”. Using deliberately the reference to one episode of Star Wars “The Empire Strikes Back” he wanted to emphasize the forceful revenge of nature to man’s urbanization. This is a series of forty-one black…
Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle Respect is the word we hear on every street corner only to be told, in all areas, that it no longer represents anything. Respect is extinguished with the disappearance of values and their scale. More landmarks, more positioning, more respect, even minima. This observation, whose impact we are beginning to see in societal behavior, produces the same effects in creation and in technologies. Our Photography is…
f3 - freiraum für fotografie presents the exhibition Renegades. San Francisco: Queer Life in the 1990s by Chloe Sherman. In the 1990s, San Francisco was the stronghold of queer life in the Western-influenced world. Young people, artists and free spirits flocked to the city to experiment with art, style, gender and identity, to be free, and to live their lives independent of mainstream society. A style-defining subculture emerged: affordable rents…
At the bend of a narrow street in the Mitte district of Berlin, the Robert Morat gallery welcomes within its walls the Italian photographer Matteo di Giovanni. “True Places Never Are” is a trilogy born of years of rediscovering known places and surveying unknown places. It is the indefinable aspect of the places we come across that is at the heart of the work of Matteo di Giovanni. The three…
The Cantor Arts Center presents Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929–1941, an exhibition featuring over 100 photographs, periodicals, and photobooks. This material collectively pushes against the typical history of 1930s photography that views the work of this period as primarily documentary, and instead illustrates that artists of this era frequently used photography to ignite the imagination. The exhibition and the expansive art historical narratives it illuminates result from Dr.…
Top nineties fashion photographer Thierry Le Gouès created some of the nineties’ hottest fashion looks, shooting with the experimentation and innovation that made him a star of the European Condé Nast and Fairchild fashion bibles (Vogue, Marie Claire, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar), in addition to breakthrough work in the US editions and genre-bending shoots for the UK frontrunners (i-D, The Face) and downtown chroniclers Detour and Flaunt. These pictorials defined a…
After Rome, the exhibition of the French writer is being held this summer in Berlin. Images that explore the iperceivable of things and the photographer's quest for self discovered late in life. What would Hervé Guibert think seeing his photographs hanging on the walls of the KW, here in Berlin, more than thirty years after his death, he who had always considered himself an amateur photographer? In all sobriety, Guibert…
Malian photographer Malick Sidibé (1936-2016) was known as ‘the Eye of Bamako’ for his depictions of the exuberant scene that unfolded in the city following Mali’s independence from France in 1960. Born in the village of Solaba, Sidibé studied at the École des Artisans Soudanais in Bamako (now the Institut National des Arts) from 1952 and then apprenticed with the French photographer Gérard Guillat-Guignard’s for three years. He began to…
Synonymous with the art of travel since 1854, Louis Vuitton continues to add titles to its "Fashion Eye" collection. Each book evokes a city, region or country, seen through the eyes of a photographer. Jonathann Llense's journey to the island of Tahiti is anything but an exotic adventure, thwarting stereotypes of elsewhere. To open Tahiti is immediately to feel a kind of lightness and laughter, or at least a distance,…
Bruce Davidson: The Way Back is on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from through September 16, 2023. Selected by the acclaimed photographer from his vast archive, the exhibition presents previously unpublished work dating from 1957-1977. The photographs represent the arc of Davidson’s versatile career with individual images that were overlooked at the time. Some are from Davidson’s most well-known series—East 100th Street, a look at one Harlem block in 1966-68;…
“It’s important that there’s a meaning to my photographs, a passion that sustains me, and a clear reason for being there. In 1979/1980 the subway contained all those things for me,” said Bruce Davidson. “I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the color, sensuality and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day.”…
“For East 100th Street, the idea was to get these pictures in front of the mayor and city officials to improve the conditions of that community. I felt that by documenting them, it was giving the community a human face and voice. I thought I could impart some positive knowledge, through my work, to make a change.” Bruce Davidson Bruce Davidson : The Way Back June 22 through September…
“Holiday magazine set me to document historic Camarvon Castle in Northern Wales. After I completed the assignment, which I found boring, I traveled to the mining country of South Wales,” said Bruce Davidson. “My friend and fellow Magnum photographer, Philip Jones Griffiths introduced me to the Welsh poet Horace Jones. Horace knew the people and places that would afford the most interesting possibilities and also introduced me to the miners…