Gene Lemuel's ESO Gallery in Los Angeles presents until May 11 the work of Rusty Long, a surfer, journalist, writer and photographer. He writes: From the first step into the water to the initial glide onto a wave, a Smooth Entrance determines so many of the sequential moments. It sets the correct pace. Surfing, like so many other things, is about flowing with the elements present. In the case of…
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Release by Artiere editions of To Be by Lois Conner. She presents it like this: When I was 17, my older sister Susan let me photograph her. I was amazed at how her newly prominent veins and capillaries defined her pregnant body as they raced down her arms and across her abdomen and breasts. I felt I could almost see the growing child through her pale skin. Around the turn…
This is a quite rare occurence. On May 14, Christie’s will present their 21st Century Evening Sale with artworks by artists such as Brice Marden, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Claude Monet. And among these exceptional artists, we will also find Diane Arbus with a magnificent print of the photographer's iconic Identical Twins. This is a rare foray of “classic” Photography in a sale always awaited in the…
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The site Your Daily Photograph proposes this vintage photograph of Saint-Tropez by Robert Doisneau. Title: Saint Tropez Artist: Robert Doisneau Date of image: 1965, printed 1965 Size: 7x9 inches (18x23 cm) Format: silver gelatin Features: notated and artist hand stamp on back Price: $1500 https://www.yourdailyphotograph.com/
One morning last week, there was this email from Tina Trumpp! “What about doing an article with nudes and also landscape photos, in the same way as my general style is (looking like paintings)?” Here is the result! Accompanied by this text from the photographer. “After photographing nudes continuously for 6 years and then successfully publishing my book ‚Shades Of Sensuality‘ with the publisher teNeues in 2021, I wanted to…
Alcatraz Since 2020 I’ve visited Alcatraz - the former prison island in San Francisco Bay – to reflect on pandemic-era themes of isolation, confinement, and social control. Alcatraz is Spanish for a type of bird. We say “free as a bird,” but some birds live in cages. Sometimes they are jailbirds. Alcatraz Island, whose name evokes freedom, has become synonymous not with the bird but with the cage. Although the old penitentiary’s…
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Lisa Kristine : Humanist above all. Born in San Francisco, California as a child, Lisa Kristine spent countless hours in the darkroom with her uncle, learning the developing process, and it was there that her love for photography was revealed... her other passion being anthropology. After graduating from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in San Francisco, she flew to Europe and then Asia where she spent five years…
More than a dozen veteran conflict photographers will show their work in a benefit exhibition, URGENCY! Ukraine, opening at the Bronx Documentary Center on June 22 at 7 PM. Curated by Ukrainian-American photographer Sasha Maslov, New York Times photo editor Cecilia Bohan and BDC Director Michael Kamber, the exhibition will feature more than 50 photos showing the devastating conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Photos will be sold to raise money for Ukrainian…
The Festival International du Grand Reportage d’Actualité et du documentaire de société "The Screens of Reality" in Douai has just ended. Alain Mingam who attended sent us his text and these images of Pedro Brito Da Fonseca. “KABUL UNDER TALIBAN LAW” Pedro Brito da Fonseca is a highly sought-after director-cinematographer, who has an outstanding reputation following his numerous award-winning documentaries. But he is also an exceptional photographer able to…
Documentary photographer Alissa Everett will be in conversation with Royal Photographic Society President Simon Hill on Monday 20 June at the Royal Photographic Society Bristol. She will also be speaking at the Frontline Club London on Tuesday 21 June. Nairobi-based, photographer Alissa Everett creates more than images, she inspires change. An intrepid traveler, she has documented social issues, remote locations and indigenous cultures in more than 100 countries on six continents, instinctively…
After a first tour of Hamburg that took us from a bourgeois building in the Altona district to the impressive History Museum, passing by the Museum of Fine Arts, Labor and Ethnology... We continue our journey to discover the last six exhibitions that make up this ambitious edition of the Hamburg Photographic Triennial. Before returning to the center of Hamburg and looking up at this fascinating multi-faceted architecture, at once…
Littoral Marseille is a series that documents, in the form of a puzzle, a narrow strip of land: 20 km long from Estaque to Prado beach, a few tens of meters wide, always as close as possible to the sea. in Marseille, the sea is neither central nor touristic. The center is the Old Port and La Canebière, not the Chemin du littoral hidden under a highway. Thus, to the…
In his collection of drawings Un peu de Paris (2001) Sempé sketched Parisian scenes and places with tenderness, poetry and humour. The title of Éric Laforgue's new exhibition is a nod to and a tribute to the famous cartoonist. Graphic decorations The photographer has tightened the boundaries of his urban explorations to the 13th arrondissement, close to Ivry-sur-Seine where he lives. He strolls, day or night, in these new neighborhoods…
Alter Ego Nudity is the ultimate form of self-expression. It is precisely this form of expression and the struggle one has with their identity which Bert Van Pelt showcases in his poetic photography of young men. His latest project, Alter Ego, evokes this part of our personality that sometimes has difficulty to emerge. Engaged in a conceptual artistic process, he has been able to renew the genre of the male…
The Jeu de Paume pays tribute to the photographer Frank Horvat, who died on October 21, 2020 at the age of ninety-two, with an exhibition presented at the Château de Tours from June 17 to October 30, 2022. Accompanied by a monograph, it brings a renewed vision of the fiery activity of the photographer during his first fifteen years of career, from 1950 to 1965, a period during which he…
From June 17 to August 14, 2022, Maison Doisneau presents Mary Ellen Mark, the lives of women and Lavoir Numérique L'été au Lavoir. Mary Ellen Mark (Philadelphia, 1940 - New York, 2015) is probably one of the most unique photographers of the 20th century. She belongs to this family of artists who measured themselves against the reality of the world and who questioned the margins of our societies where the…
The exhibition “Drowning in Plastic” by James Whitlow Delano will open at the Pangea Photo Festival in Italy on 18 June through 18 September 2022. Here is the introduction to the series. Here’s the biggest problem with plastic: It is one of humanity’s most versatile inventions. Even steel, a metal alloy, which can be bent into a pretzel, is heavier and less versatile by a long shot than plastics. Plastics…
The title is intriguing: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique». (“Reconsidering erotic photography”). The text itself is brilliant and of great intelligence. In this 1987 essay, historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau traces avenues for exploring a history of erotic and pornographic photographic production, a history hitherto repressed and absent from narratives. Thus opening the door to a feminist and revised history of the photographic medium, she shows how much this imagery has been abundant…
On June 18 and 19, 2022, the artist Malo Jénin presents his exhibition Ubiquité (Ubiquity), the culmination of a research initiated several years ago on the scope of the medium. Photography thus becomes the basis of a broader, interdisciplinary reflection, the purpose of which is systematically to highlight the nobility and poetry of each situation, of each image. Faced with the diversity of points of view that photography suggests, Ubiquité…
The Monthly Chronicle of Thierry Maindrault We have all, at one time or another, heard of the innumerable and invisible black holes which would represent the largest part of the supposed mass of our known universe. These phenomena are conspicuous for the lack of light which characterizes them. For the lovers of light that we are, let us specify that the plausible explanation is the absorption and concentration of matter…
Galerie Bene Taschen in Cologne presents the new solo show Hang Time by Gregory Bojorquez. The American photographer Gregory Bojorquez started taking pictures in the 1990s, documenting everyday life in East Los Angeles, where he was born in 1972. He quickly became known for his images of local subcultures, such as skaters, car tuners, and gang members. Hang Time shows his friends and neighbors living la vida loca, the crazy…