In 2024, Ostend celebrates the 75th anniversary of the passing of the unique painter James Ensor, a Belgian artist from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was an eternal outsider: a school dropout, a mama's boy, a rebel, a world improver, a big ego, a misunderstood prophet, an advocate for the environment and animals. His oeuvre consists of a diverse and intriguing assortment of paintings, drawings, and prints…
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The exhibition “Seeing Animals” by Elliot Ross at the Musée de la Photographie Charleroi will be closing on May 26. An Devro writes : Face to face with the animal portraits of the American photographer Elliot Ross, you experience the tension between us and creatures of other species. When you enter the refectory of the former Carmelite convent that is now the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, you are…
Bonhams Skinner proposes he iconic image of Nastassja Kinski, German actress and model at the height of her career, with a Burmese python draped across her body captured by Richard Avedon for Vogue in 1981. It is a highlight of the sale running until May 15. Avedon was commissioned by Vogue to photograph Kinski after the release of Roman Polanski’s movie Tess for which she won a Golden Globe award. Estimated to achieve between US$60,000 – 80,000, the image which evokes the biblical imagery…
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If we were a self-righteous magazine, we would be talking about Redemption! The one that signifies the triumph of Art over the Flesh. But we're just a photography magazine, so we'll forget about redemption in favor of adventure and amazing evolution. Some of these photos are 40 years old. They are signed Eric Neveu. He was at the end of the 70s and during the 80s, the emperor of the…
In the exhibition “Barbara Wolff : Photographs“ at the Goethe-Institut Bordeaux, works from the series “Biography“ (1982 - 1989), “Metropolis“ (2018 - 2020) as well as “Amazonia“ (2019) will be shown in collaboration with Collection Regard Berlin. In the series “Biography“ she observed life on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Like few photographers, she has been able to reflect on her images and experiences on both side of Germany…
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What do we see when we look at a photograph? Contemporary artists and photographers Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Michel Campeau, James Casebere, Gregory Crewdson, José Damasceno, Denis Darzacq, Alexandre Dufaye, Mickaël Marchand, Sarah Pickering, Catherine Rebois, Patrick Tosani and Bernard Voïta have come together to confront, question and consider the “Contours of the Real”. This new exhibition raises questions about representation, one that brings into play the real, reality, fiction or even…
Nenad Samuilo Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco. The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation device, a skeletal extension meant to alter the…
Escapades is an artistic project resulting from seven years of photography. It is created as a continuous frieze presenting views gleaned from the four corners of the world. Space and time are thus merged. The frieze leads the viewer to “travel” from the first to the last image, knowing that there is no imposed sense. The prints are deliberately small in size in order to invite the viewer to get…
For the opening of their second space on rue Chapon in Paris, the Les filles du calvaire gallery presents Persona, a collective exhibition bringing together artists from the gallery and guest artists. This inaugural exhibition is spread over the 300m2 of this new place. The diversity of the works presented reflects the sensitivity of the gallery, its affections and its curiosity. Persona evokes the mask, that of ancient theaters and…
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Bastiaan Woudt’s inaugural solo exhibition in Los Angeles, “Cadence”. The works on view are a collection of photographs representing the oeuvre of Woudt’s fine art output of the past decade. Bastiaan’s work is a 21st century perspective on the 20th century traditions of fine art photography. His distinctive point of view is directly influenced by the photographic masters of yesteryear, while his monochromatic imagery is wholly…
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker presents a monographic exhibition by Dutch artist Justine Tjallinks. Justine Tjallinks lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2014 at the age of thirty, then artistic director of the Dutch magazine L'Officiel, she decided to become an artist photographer. The artist is above all a portraitist. She questions the traditional codes of beauty by upsetting the aesthetic standards of contemporary society. She seeks to capture with her lens…
Camera Work presents an exhibition of more than 20 of the most important works of the renowned photo artist Robert Polidori in the Virtual Gallery. The exhibition is globally accessible 24 hours a day. Robert Polidori, one of the world's leading architectural photographers, uses a distinctive visual language to document living spaces that are defined by their strikingly corresponding colors and compositional perfection. The main focus of the exhibition is…
Galerie Polka presents for the first time in France, the second part of the world series "The Day May Break" by Nick Brandt. For the second chapter, the British artist traveled to Bolivia in the spring of 2022. As with the first part, the men, women and children who agreed to be photographed have all suffered tragedies linked to the consequences of global warming. The animals come from the Senda…
Galerie Polka presents "Magnum Opus", an exhibition by Sebastião Salgado. "Magnum Opus" is an original proposal of Sebastião Salgado: fifty images printed in platinum-palladium in the laboratory of Georges Charlier in Belgium, for the first time in a limited edition of seven copies. These fifty prints come from a selection specially made by the photographer and his wife Lélia Salgado, which includes the most recent series, "Amazonia" and "Genesis", but…
The Parisian gallery W exhibits until March 4 the images of Chris Morin-Eitner. As a presentation, he wrote these few lines: While walking through the temples of Angkor, I was fascinated by the way nature had reclaimed the premises. At the height of their splendor, in the middle of the jungle, these temples must have been impressive, as are today the gigantic buildings where man asserts his domination over nature.…
Artist Grace Lau recreates a 19th century Chinese portrait studio in a Southampton shopping centre, inviting participants and passers-by to sit for free photographic portraits alongside Chinese New Year celebrations. Portraits In a Chinese Studio by Grace Lau is based on her research into studio portraits made by 19th century and early 20th century Western photographers in China. Lau realised that Chinese subjects were placed in a Victorian studio setting…
This book celebrates Dayanita Singh as the 2022 winner of the Hasselblad Award, considered the most prestigious international photography prize. Sea of Files highlights Singh’s consistent and unique engagement with the archive, both in a real sense (including the overflowing bundles of India’s public and private archives) and metaphorically: the archive as a vessel of cultural experience. The book includes Singh’s associative visual essay “Sea of Files” in its entirety,…
The Town Hall of the 16th arrondissement presents on its gates from February 2nd to 27th some forty photographs by Ergy Landau, centered on Paris, from the 1920s to the 1950s. Since her arrival in 1923 and until her death in 1967 Ergy Landau traveled around her adopted city and her arrondissement (she lived in the 16th arrondissement, first rue Lauriston, then rue Scheffer) photographing monuments, scenes streets, children in…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the actuality of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine takes a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. The book opens and closes on a handful of branches and dead leaves resting at the bottom of a wheelbarrow touched by a soft light. An image…
Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013) is considered one of the most important documentary photographers. For nearly forty years, he has looked at cities around the world and developed a reflection on landscape photography. The "Retours à Beyrouth"exhibition, which presents for the first time the four photographic missions carried out in 1991, 2003, 2008 and 2011, documents the progressive reconstruction of the city and bears witness to the photographer's great affection…