Fragility Road Steps of Melancholy I travelled between space and time, between touch and smell, between sight and hearing. Everything was open, closed in my house. The rust-coloured air smells of antiquity. Of an antique that, you feel, belongs to you. Of an antique that speaks to you. That colour speaks to you. Roots present in things appear to you in the flow of views and perspectives. Visions of feeling…
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Being: I am in, I found you I became who I was afraid of becoming. A being with a social form as its only identity. And the worst thing for the one I was is that he did rather well. 40 years ago I was doing photography then for more than 20 years I stopped. I traveled and led a professional career as a sociologist, leaving the photography boxes in…
Skies of Highlands The Scottish Highlands offer an unforgettable experience for those who want to take the time to immerse themselves in them. Many places are renowned for their beauty. But these landscapes would only be a shadow of themselves without the incredible skies that sweep over them. The sky, or rather the skies, are the subjects of this series. The relief is merely a showcase for these masses of…
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The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Alex Stoddard: INSEX, a solo exhibition of works by emerging artist Alex Stoddard. This exhibition is a celebration of Stoddard’s debut publication and marks the artist’s first cohesive collection of work - and first exhibition at the Fahey/Klein Gallery. The photographs from INSEX explores the parallels between metamorphosis in the natural world and human coming-of-age. Through staged, highly stylized images, Stoddard invites viewers into a colorfully…
The relationship between dance and fashion began in the Renaissance period, where social dancing echoed society's values. Historically, around the 1830s-1840s Romantic era, ballerinas were becoming the epitome of beauty. Ballerinas were idealized and regarded as celebrities. Today fashion models are more so subject to these standards. Around the same time, ballroom dance culture emerged, beginning with the waltz. Social developments of the time were reflected through the movements, but…
LE BAL presents the first exhibition in France dedicated to the Polish artist Joanna Piotrowska, noticed at the last Venice Biennale and winner of the Lewis Baltz Research Fund (2018) initiated by LE BAL. For the past ten years, she has been developing a visual universe at the crossroads of photography and performance, which examines the complex and ambiguous relationships within the family circle. Joanna Piotrowska in conversation (fragments)…
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Pierre Dubreuil (re)discovered On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his birth, the Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille is taking a step towards the rehabilitation of Lille photographer Pierre Dubreuil. Composed of around a hundred prints, the exhibition Pierre Dubreuil, Tableaux Photographiques reveals the striking shots of this little-known, even unknown photographer, whose work was nevertheless intended to mark the history of photographic modernity. During a career ranging…
Gitterman Gallery exhibits vintage black and white photographs by Roger Mayne (1929–2014). This exhibition features some of the most famous images from Roger Mayne's seminal body of work on the streets of West London and similar working-class neighborhoods of Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s that made him one of the most important post-war British photographers. The majority of prints in the exhibition comes from Ann’s Box, a selection…
A group of more than 40 photographs by Ray Metzker is gifted to the Saint Louis Art Museum. Spanning three decades, from the 1950s to the 1980s, this gift from collectors and dealers Ronald and Jan Greenberg strengthens SLAM’s 20th century American photography collection. The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) announced today that it has received a gift of 43 vintage photographs by American artist Ray K. Metzker (1931-2014). One…
Lowell Ryan Projects presents Miss Americhka a solo exhibition by Molly Surazhsky. Miss Americhka depicts modes of self-portraiture and performance art through sculpture, photography, installation, and digitally printed textile-based works that explore, critique, and satirize this uniquely polarizing time in America’s political landscape. The title of the exhibition is a reference to the artist's grandmother’s endearing Russian-inflected nickname for America. This will be Molly Surazhsky’s first exhibition with the gallery.…
Jean-Claude Lemagny. He was the adviser, the father, the hero, the mentor of all artistic photography from 1970 to the 2000s. To visit him in his office at the Bibliothèque Nationale or in the room that bore his name at the Arlatan hotel in Arles during the festival was for many an absolute “must”, a quest for an unavoidable blessing. What an amazing couple he formed with his wife Anne Biroleau,…
Eric Lafforgue : Beyond appearances Born in France, Eric Lafforgue started his career in the media, the music industry and mobile applications. In 2006, he started publishing his photos on the Internet via Flickr. They were quickly noticed by magazines around the world. He had started with portraits, but quickly evolved to more social things capturing moments of life. He likes to dig deeper to get beyond appearances. His work…
A peaceful and sharp look at Corsica Men in black sitting on the wall of the church of Piana; at the edge of the shadow, a white dog asleep at their feet. Vision could not be more normal for the island inhabitant. Except for the photographer who witnessed the scene! This photograph is surely the best known of the reportage that André Kertész made in Corsica in 1933 for the…
Peter Fetterman Gallery presents the exhibition, A Beautiful World: The Power of Nature. Landscapes have inspired some of history’s most striking photographs. This year, Peter Fetterman Gallery curates a collection of photographs focused on the beauty and power of the natural landscape. An homage to our planet, and call to protect its great vistas, this exhibition will feature works by photographers, Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Paul Caponigro, Jeffrey Conley, Gregory…
Large families The birth rate is at its lowest since 1946 according to INSEE. A look back at a time, encouraged by family policy, when it was not uncommon to come across families with five, six or more children, and when governments relied on this demographic vitality to finance pensions. Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
The Little Black Gallery announces that Italian photographer Jacopo Paglione is the winner of its BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Photography Competition with his series Milza. The runners up, who were highly commended by the judges, were Michael Joseph and Callum Leo Hughes. The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Photography Competition is part of the platform from The Little Black Gallery committed to promoting queer and gay fine art photography. Images play a vital…
We learned of the death of Jean-Claude Lemagny who was one of the mythical directors of photography of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Claude Nori sent us this text. Dear Jean Claude, You leave discretly as you have always done. And you leave a huge void in the world of French photography that you revitalized in the early 1970s. At first, with your little goatee and your glasses, your impeccable…
I never planned or plotted any of this. I have, however, always followed my mother’s dictum: ‘When opportunity knocks, open the door!’ — Bob Colacello It Just Happened, Photographs 1976-1982 is an exhibition of photographs by the American photographer and writer Bob Colacello, documenting his long-standing collaboration with Andy Warhol and the cycle of parties and travelling that animated their frenetic lives. Curated by Elena Foster and the Ivorypress team, the exhibition…
Lehmann Maupin presents Part Two: Run, an exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Prager, marking the debut of Prager’s ambitious new film, Run and featuring a selection of new photographs and sculptures. Directly responding to a period of cultural ambivalences and uncertainties, the exhibition urgently examines human perseverance and explores the opportunities for empathy, participation, and action present both within art and everyday life. Across her practice, Prager…
The International Photojournalism Center of Perpignan, presents a major exhibition on war photographers: The World Under Our Eyes with photographs by Alizée Lemaoult - What their eyes have seen, Giles Duley - Legacy of War - and Alexandra Boulat - Shards of War . We have chosen to show you the work of Alexandra Boulat, who covered the conflicts that rocked the former Yugoslavia for 6 years. This exhibition was…
Joseph Bellows Gallery presents the exhibition, Steve Fitch: Drive-In Theaters. Drive-In Theaters will showcase a remarkable selection of vintage and modern gelatin silver prints representing the architecture of these distinctly American movie-viewing monuments. For more than forty years, Steve Fitch has been photographing the American West revealing its changing vernacular landscape and vanishing roadside attractions. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 with a bachelor's degree…