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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Centro Torrente Ballester & Contemporánea presents the retrospective show in Spain of Iranian photographer Shadi Ghadirian. This exhibition entitled “Como todos los días” (Like Everyday), is curated by Mario Martin Pareja, and includes more than fifty photographs which explores all the Ghadirian’s series from 1998. Shadi Ghadirian’s work is intimately connected to her identity as a woman living in Iran. Her art also questions themes specific to women in other…
Trivialized killings due to firearms and the sacrosanct 2nd amendment in the US are fortunately not part of our daily lives on this side of the Atlantic. Nevertheless, since the dawn of time, toy weapons have populated the imagination of children's games. Who has not played war, indians and cowboys, cops and robbers in the streets and playgrounds? Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine…
"The Napalm Girl" - 50 Years After. Nick Ut’s photo of burning Kim Phuc, one of the most important icons of photojournalism, was taken on June 8th 1972. 50 years later, photographer Petra Gerwers creates a bridge from the past to the present with her double portrait of the two. The picture, which won the 18th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Women Photographers, is part of Petra Gerwers' long-term project…
The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. This is a selection of their portfolio : Fatal Beauty The Agents Club, founded in 2018 by Alexandre and Wanda Orlowski, is a unique mobile platform showcasing the most sought-after photography agencies worldwide and the exceptional image-makers they represent. This feature was first published by The Agents Club. www.theagents.club
I met Gerhard Kassner several years ago through Matthias Harder and Vera Mercer. With his gentle demeanor and soft voice and ultra-glamorous images of the Who’s Who of Hollywood and beyond, he is one of the best portraitists I have ever worked with. Quick, gentle, but precise, he took more than 2,000 photographs during the Berlinale years 2003 to 2019. With his recent show HOLLYWOOD Stars at the Berlinale in…
Curatorial presented recently at Photo London the work of Paul Outerbridge. Paul Outerbridge’s (1896-1958) new color photographs from California and Mexico circa 1950 mark the discovery of a powerful and previously unknown body of work by one of America’s earliest masters of color photography. Outerbridge built his extraordinary reputation by making virtuoso carbro-color prints of nudes and still lifes, mainly in the studio, during the 1930s. His new color photographs from California…
"It is the visual codes and conventions within the frame that interest me most." (K Young) K Young (they/them) is a lens-based artist living and working in London, UK. A graduate from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, K Young works primarily with collage and a process, which they term re-photography. Using appropriated photographic imagery found in second-hand books and magazines, the artist intervenes on the material, instinctively…
A trip in the past, a nostalgic orgasm, a return to basics: this is what this wonderful hidden place invites us to discover in Sablé in Sarthe, 3 hours from Paris: the Atelier Malicot. The Atelier Malicot at the heart of the History of Photography. The Malicot photography studio was built on the site of a kind of terrace by the river, the Erve. At the origin of the construction…
The Robin Rice Gallery presents Flowers, a photographic exhibition by Leonardo Pucci. Flowers is Pucci’s second solo exhibition at the Robin Rice Gallery. Paralleling his previous, “episodes (without real order)”, this series is also a project about beauty and intimacy. Flowers was created in the beginning of the pandemic. Pucci says, “the lockdown came to get me out of a creativity crisis I was going through at the time.” He…
This is the fourteenth dialogue of the Ettore Molinario Collection. A dialogue that pays homage to Aby Warburg and his studies on the memory of antiquity, which inspired this same collection. In comparison, the weapons of war and art, those of Christopher Columbus and every western conquest, and those of Venus. And entrusting ourselves to the goddess of love and her beauty, I invite you to follow our next appointments. Ettore…
From October 3rd to 9th, Bayeux is hosting the 29th edition of the Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for War Correspondents. A tribute to the work and commitment of great reporters. It is also an opportunity to meet and discuss with the public. Thomas Dworzak, president of the jury for the 29th edition Caucasus specialist Thomas Dworzak is an internationally renowned war photographer. He has documented a large part of world…
Thomas Lemut : Generosity, poetry & contemplation Thomas Lemut is a special artist. He was born into a family of soldiers and foresters. This double lineage and very early immersed in an artistic universe considerably influenced him. According to him, movement is the best way to approach the cycles of life. If today he creates exceptional furniture, sculpts and photographs, his work, whatever it is, is of an extreme purity…
Gérard Rancinan is probably the greatest contemporary “academic” photographer, but very few people realize that. He is the Jean-Léon Gérôme, the Fernand Cormon, the Bouguereau of the fixed image. Go see his exhibition which is held at the priory of Vivoin until July 22: it is a declaration of love for this movement. 35 years ago, I had the opportunity to produce one of his best reportage: Rois sans Royaume…
For thousands of years, people of all civilizations have been intrigued by the ocean and have pictured it in a diversity of artistic forms. The ocean is the source of life on earth and symbolic of the unbounded spectrum of animate being. The infinite movement of these masses of water also symbolizes stability. Conversely, the oceans may also stand for formlessness and chaos and, in the interpretation of dreams, for…
About thirty photographs are exhibited in the rooms on the ground floor of the museum. With a personal approach to portraiture, Denis Dailleux plays with light and shadow to offer poignant shots. Between colors, flowers and smells, India tells its story and weaves an immediately recognizable iconography. Tribute to the India year of the perfumer Fragonard, the photographic work of Denis Dailleux is of the essence. Made in India, using…