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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With his first photobook Hong Kong, The New York Times’ photo editor Mikko Takkunen captured one of the world’s greatest metropolises during a time of political uncertainty and the pandemic. As the city was still recovering from the aftermath of the anti-government protests of 2019, Takkunen began to concentrate on the purity of seeing and capturing the world anew. Inspired by the masters of the New York School, like Faurer,…
The Galerie Mira in Ménerbes offers an exhibition of hand-painted photographs by the visual artist photographer Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon. Her first book Album published by the Marseille publishing house Cé éditions will also be presented during the exhibition. Eloïse works on the preciousness of the object image through frozen moments on black and white analog film, which she then colors prints with oil paint, using her brushes or the pads of…
As flowers all across the Northern hemisphere begin to lift their first buds above the parapet on the first day of Spring, Open Doors Gallery releases a new family of species for you to consider & collect. The catalogue contains the full set of prints available from Jennifer Latour’s ongoing Bound Species series. Including a selection of brand new species created by hand in the artists studio over the winter…
The New York Times reported that Josh Kushner and his wife, the entrepreneur and model Karlie Kloss, bought the rights to revive Life as a regular print magazine from Dotdash Meredith, the publisher owned by Barry Diller’s IAC. The deal is being done through Bedford Media, the media start-up that Kloss leads as C.E.O. (The price wasn’t disclosed.) Kushner will serve as Life’s publisher and and Bedford will begin hiring…
Titan My TITAN SERIES is a series that began in 2013. The digital revolution had diminished my interest in photography and I needed to re ignite my interest in the art I had learned with analogue cameras and darkroom printing. I needed to enjoy photography again. The pin hole camera presented a way to do this. A difficult system to manage, often resulting in failure, always requiring time, planning and…
The Structure of Things Part 2: I am interested in the experiences that the camera process of photography creates. These largely abstract images in Part 2 of the series are created by an in camera technique of essentially short circuiting and disrupting the digital capture creating a new experience existing only in photographic form and not merely reflective of the world in front of the camera. As viewers of images,…
Fishermen, migrants in Thailand Tribute to the families of fishermen from the port of Khanom (Southern Thailand)! The preparation of their boat takes place over several days with the fear of not forgetting anything; fuel oil, food, water, repairing nets, etc. everything needed to work and live in the Siam Sea. Departure takes place regularly early in the morning, families are present to accompany sailors whose return is uncertain. These…
Nasturtium anatomy This work began at the start of the first confinement, in March 2020. I planted nasturtium seeds outside my apartment windows and watched them grow, open and wither. Every moment, death at work transformed their colors. Under each of the pots, I installed mirrors gnawed and pitted by time. I observed the growth cycle of the flowers, using a macro lens to focus on the one-way membrane separating…
Music-MusicS As a musician myself, I'm always at the heart of orchestras or close to them, on stage, backstage or in the street... Jazz orchestras, brass bands and brass players in particular are extraordinary playgrounds for the ear, but of course for the eye too... And I always carry a little camera with me, so I can decide to capture the moment!
Manon's horse On a wintry Wednesday, Manon's horse went for a ride in Marseille's oldest district, Le Panier, filled with color, thanks to its graffiti... Marseille January 31, 2024 https://annie.gava.fr/
The elegance of simplicity The interplay between light and shadow always creates something lyrical that shapes the environment, mingled with abstraction; everything becomes an imaginary canvas, and the forms of nature take on elegant textures and visions almost unheard of in their simplicity, in an impalpable atmospheric veil. Facebook Instagram: marianovellofoto for color photos ; marianovellobw for black and white photos
Pace presents an exhibition of work by Josef Koudelka at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York. This will be the artist’s first solo show in New York in nearly a decade, bringing together six large-scale panoramas he created between 1987 and 2010 as part of a project titled Industries. The exhibition will also include a display of small-scale, accordion-style maquettes of Mission Photographique Transmanche, Beyrouth Centre Ville,…
Atelier EXB publishes the book Akihiko Okamura : Les souvenirs des autres edited by Pauline Vermare. During the Troubles, the struggle for independence which lasted from 1969 to 1998, Northern Ireland attracted a large numbers of foreign photojournalists who came to document the events. Some of them found a subject that touched them personally, pushing them to go beyond the codes of photojournalism. This is the case of the Japanese…
Caroline Hayeur is the guest of honor at the 17th edition of the Festival Are You Experiencing held from March 29th to April 30th, 2024 in Le Havre. Inspired by the photographer's body of work, those responsible for the festival have chosen the theme of the 2024 edition: La Nuit Je Voyage…(During the Night I Travel) “Radioscopie du dormeur” is an installation combining photography and video produced in Quebec. It…
Robin Grierson’s photo book, Steam Rally published by Lost Press, explores the steam rally scene in England over the past 30 years. Following on from his earlier book John Laidlaw (which accompanied a show at The Photographers Gallery), Grierson’s Steam Rally is the first Art Photography book to document the unheralded world of the traction engine scene. His images record the people, their restored machines, and the unique culture of…