Vince Aletti, collector, author, curator and winner of this year’s AIPAD Award, lives in a seven-room apartment in New York’s East Village. It’s filled to the brim with his enormous collection, or as he describes it, “a collection of collections”, of magazines, photographs, books, vinyl records, and all manner of ephemera. Still, there’s always room for more. How would you describe yourself as a collector? – As someone who looks…
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In September last year, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of a collection of 209 photographs by the French photographer Eugène Atget. It had been built over 25 years by Dan and Mary Solomon, by carefully adding one masterpiece after another. The couple prefers to keep a low profile in the photography world but are incredibly active as collectors, curators, publishers, and most significantly as generous donors to…
AIPAD presents the 2nd edition of the Monumental exhibition. This special project show- cases large-scale photographic works throughout the public areas of The Park Avenue Armory, providing a unique opportunity for galleries and their artists to display new, challenging and impactful pieces not generally shown at fairs, creating a captivating visual spectacle for visitors. This article originally appeared in the AIPAD Catalogue sponsored by MUUS Collection. The Photography Show…
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On the occasion of the month of photography and on the fringes of "Paris Photo 2022", the Nouchine Pahlevan Gallery presents "I Want Him To Be Ocean" by Christian Mamoun. This exhibition invites itself into the heart of a kind of waiting room before entering the adult world. In the meantime, this Parisian youth are questioning themselves , confronted with "sturm et drang" impulses (the storm and the impulse), which…
Nino Mier Gallery presents Women’s Work, an exhibition of photographs and videos by Finnish artist IIU SUSIRAJA. Susiraja is known for her still and moving image portraits, which capture the artist in her own home or her parents’ home, interacting with items such as housekeeping tools and pantry staples with prurient, deadpan humor. In Women’s Work, which will be on view from February 18 - March 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, Susiraja brings a…
Spanning the years 1976 to 1981, The Beginning brings together the earliest works of acclaimed American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). Featuring images largely unseen by the public, the exhibition chronicles a period of technical and artistic development that would lay the foundation for the complex and incisive tableaux that ultimately established Barney as a key figure in international photography. While quarantining during the Covid-19 outbreak, Barney began to sort…
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FOTOHAUS is once again at the MANUEL RIVIERA-ORTIZ FOUNDATION with Nature and Society. Featured artists : collectif five : Connected visions of a related world collectif LesAssociés : 600° Docks collective : Une année le long des rives Philippine SCHAEFER : Chrysalide Isabelle CHAPUIS : Vivant - Le sacre du corps Verdiana ALBANO : surrounded www.fotoparisberlin.com FONDATION MANUEL RIVIERA-ORTIZ 18, rue de la Calade, 13200 Arles www.mrofoundation.org ARLES ASSOCIÉ…
For a summer, MYOP takes over an old hotel to make it a space for dialogue; photographers share an ethical, political and poetics vision of the world. Their manifesto? An injunction to see what surrounds us and an invitation to exercise our rights. Côté Jardin (Garden side), in response to a carte blanche from Amnesty International, MYOP presents an iconography of demonstrations around the world. An exhibition as a collective…
For over 15 years, the Photo Folio Review offers portfolio assessments during the opening week. The event is geared toward professional photographers, art school students using photography and amateur photographers who already have an advanced practice. Assessment is carried out by international experts: publishers, exhibition curators, museum directors, agency heads, gallerists, collectors, critics, press art directors and others. Through individual exchange, each participant benefits from a constructive critical appreciation of…
At the invitation of the Rencontres d’Arles, France PhotoBook is once again organizing the Arles Books Fair, at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie and the Collège Saint-Charles. Dedicated to the richness and variety of publishing practices, this event will be punctuated by a program of meetings with photographers and authors. Arles Books Fair will bring together over sixty international publishing houses. ► Full program of Arles Books Fair available online on…
Created at the founding of the festival, the Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards support each year with renewed fervor, the extraordinary creativity of photographic publishing, and strive to be one of the major actors for its wide dissemination. Each award is endowed with 6,000 euros and rewards a photographic work published between June 1, 2022 and May 26, 2023 (included) A pre-selection followed by the designation of the winning works is…
The festival accompanies children and adults in their discovery of photography. Workshops and guided tours will punctuate the whole summer. Exciting moments that stimulate everyone’s curiosity, creativity, and conviviality. https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/visites-et-activites/
Harry Gruyaert's exhibition at LE BAL is magical. Harry is an amazing color photographer. But what is also magical is this gift from Diane Dufour, the soul of the BAL, this unique place: an entire day of the Eye of Photography dedicated to Harry, his passions and favorite themes commented by superb texts. Thank you Harry, thank you Diane, thank you to everyone who contributed to this day. There are…
Brice Matthieussent : When did you go to New York for the first time? Harry Gruyaert : In 1968. […] In Manhattan, I encountered again Richard Nonas, an American sculptor I met in Paris, who became a great friend. I stayed three or four months in New York, in Trisha Brown's loft, where Richard was staying at that time. He helped me meet a lot of artists, including Gordon Matta-Clark,…
No ideas but in things « No ideas but in things », says William Carlos Williams, the American poet; no ideas that cannot be embodied in juxtaposed, moving things. « The poet thinks with his poem. In that lies his thought, and that in itself is the profundity. » The photographs of Harry Gruyaert have always seemed to me images of things, even when they are pictures of people. But…
When I first went to Morocco in the 1970s, I fell in love with the country. I felt like I had fallen into a painting by Brueghel. Then I went back to find certain places, to relive the initial emotion. What first seduced me was the order of things and life in the countryside. There was a splendid harmony between shapes, colors, daily gestures and nature. The importance of family,…
Brice Matthieussent : In your images of Morocco, there are a lot of people moving, few sedentary people. Travelers, walkers, passengers, the man in the red fez in the street, the woman with the bundle of wood, the one who seems to be dancing as she tumbles down her stairs in the blue city, the man alone among the red walls, the little girl who has her hand over her…
Moscow, USSR 1989 Something is wrong. This large room, empty as the bottom of a swimming pool, is full as an egg. And everything it contains says something other than what it shows. The electric hand dryers and the no smoking sign indicate a public place, but everywhere else the signs of private space are multiplied: medicine cabinet, poster, sideboard, placemat, fruit, vases, plants. And it is indeed the strangeness…
Harry Gruyaert's affinity with cinema was recently confirmed with his film series A Sense of Place. In the tradition of the slideshow (projection of slides with a soundtrack), these short videos link photographs of the same territory, to original music by Tuur Florizoone. This project is also an opportunity for Harry Gruyaert to review the selection of his images and to rework, using digital tools, the chroma of the images…
Harry Gruyaert : I feel closer to visual arts and cinema than to journalism. I have seen films whose image has taught me more than the color photos I knew at the time. For example, "The Red Desert" by Antonioni. It is also in this film that he painted entire streets to try to create a very specific emotion. When I see the work of photographers who stage their pictures,…
ACC Art Books and Iconic Images present Being Bardot : Photographed by Douglas Kirkland and Terry O'Neill featuring the work of these two acclaimed photographers with many stunning images taken from their archives to reveal iconic and never-before-seen images of the star. The photographers Douglas Kirkland and Terry O’Neill both worked with Brigitte Bardot at the peak of her fame in the 1960s and early 1970s, photographing the star on…