The latest very funny project by Romain Mader (ECAL Lausanne) entitled "Get The Look!" is presented until June 15 at Galerie Dix9. A series of self-portraits in this project on fast fashion, both ironic and sarcastic. The artist photographs himself with clothes purchased online on sites that encourage consumers to buy quickly and cheaply by using algorithms. The photographs are presented against a background made of clothes and accessories found…
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This is the most unusual text received this week. It is by Daniel Dytrych, the author of these photos! Does anything else release stress and problems in life more than an outdoor swim in the warm sun? My partner embraced an empty pool in Lanzarote. We have been together for ten years and I have never seen her enjoy being underwater, ever! I guess we learn something new about our…
Les Filles de la Photo association announces the launch of the 3rd edition of Les Filles de la Photo Mentoring program. The Les Filles de la Photo association, created in 2018, currently has 280 members representing nearly 30 professions in the photography eco-system. All wishing to be “better informed in order to better act ”, these women together wish to run a laboratory of ideas and use their influence to…
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Among a few invitations by e-mail to traditional vernissages, an image immediately caught my attention on the invite of the Fontaine Obscure. What an interesting photograph, it jumps out at you, intoxicates your mind without knowing why. Well almost, because after the first feeling and emotion, the inquisitive eye will look for other images of the series which it dissects and analyzes. It is this curiosity, a little useless; but,…
An appreciation of Helga Paris’s photography reached a wider audience than ever before with a 2019 major retrospective in Berlin, the city where she lived and worked. An exhibition at Kicken Berlin at the end of the following year confirmed the realization that Helga Paris’s work was of considerable and intrinsic interest. Now, two books of her portrait photography in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) make clear that the enduring…
Beauty, complexity and cruelty Born in 1948 in Toulouse, Philippe Blache has always seen his mother paint, and this is how he became familiar with the world of art. But very early on it was photography that attracted him, and more particularly the work of the photographer Edward Weston. Equipped with a 24x36 Miranda, he developed his films in the kitchen and when the day was over, it was the…
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The Hulett Collection will participate at Photo Forward Los Angeles with the debut of a new series of unseen, unpublished unique works by gallery artist, Kit Young, who will be in attendance. The two-day photography fair will open on Saturday, February 18, from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm and continue on Sunday, February 19, from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. The fair will be held at the Danziger Gallery (B1)…
Joseph Bellows Gallery is exhibiting at the inaugural photo fair of the non-profit Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles. The fair will be held in Bergamot Station Arts Center and will feature both photography galleries and book publishers. Find photography and lens-based art — from vintage to contemporary — with diverse curatorial focus presented by exhibitors established in the field. Discover works priced in a range for beginning to advanced collectors.…
This joint exhibition of father Patrick and son Victor demonstrates the extreme elegance and perfection of their imagery and the continuation of a rich photographic legacy to the next generation. Patrick Demarchelier is a towering name in contemporary fashion photography. In a career that spanned over four decades he maintained his position at the pinnacle of his profession by his consummate taste, style, and meticulous technique. Born in the port…
The Mast Photography Grant on Industry and Work is in its seventh edition and, as for previous editions, brings a breath of fresh air with a broad international outlook, thanks to the young photographers who got involved with a complex and global issue, which comprises, with different declinations, the whole planet. Until May 1st, 2023, the projects by Hicham Gardaf, Lebohang Kganye, Farah Al Qasimi, Maria Mavropoulou and Salvatore Vitale…
Swann Galleries’ winter 2023 sale of Fine Photographs is an App Exclusive timed auction; the sale opened for bidding Thursday, February 2 and closes Thursday, February 23 at 12pm eastern. Bidding is available on the Swann Galleries App and on www.live.swanngalleries.com. The sale is led by Irving Penn’s exceptionally bold and textural Blast, 1980, printed 1981 ($30,000-45,000). Other works by Penn include the artist’s charming Old Friends: Balkin, Beaton, Platt Lynes, Joffe,…
Synonymous with the art of travel since 1854, Les Éditions Louis Vuitton continues to add titles to its "Fashion Eye" collection. Each book evokes a city, a region or a country, seen through the eyes of a photographer. Las Vegas by American photographer Jeff Burton tells neither the story of the city of vice, but focuses on its inherent aesthetic dimension. For those who know how to read (with curiosity),…
For its first exhibition of the year 2023, the Pavillon Populaire - photographic art space of the City of Montpellier - welcomes "La Surface et la Chair. Madame d'Ora, Vienne-Paris, 1907-1957". Indeed, under the name of Madame d'Ora, Dora KALLMUS (1881–1963) was a renowned photographer, working as a society portraitist first in Vienna, then a major cultural center and laboratory of modernity in Europe, then in Paris in the Roaring…
Konrad Bartelski is the next photographer in Taunus Foto Galerie series Monochrome Perspectives. In the 1970s and 1980s, Konrad Bartelski was Britain's pioneering downhill racer, competing in three Winter Olympics and becoming the first Briton to stand on a World Cup podium. Konrad has pursued his intense passion for skiing, exploring the extremities of the globe, from the Arctic to Antarctica, from Japan to Patagonia; always carrying a camera while…
We Cry In Silence is Smita Sharma’s seven-year-long investigation into cross-border trafficking of minor girls across India, Bangladesh, and Nepal for sex work and domestic servitude. The project focuses on highly organized trafficking rings, unveiling the vulnerability of these young women and why they become trafficking victims. The project aims both to understand this complicated issue and open a dialogue that might spur people to work towards solutions. The project…
After attending the same artist residency in Xiamen, China, photographer Sarah Mei Herman and visual artist Tara Fallaux explore the concept of intimacy in a culture different from their own. The resulting projects are presented in an artistic dialogue at Galerie Caroline O’Breen. Rather than highlighting contradictions between Western and Eastern culture, both artists seek out the universal. They find common ground in the meaning of love and intimacy among…
40 years 14,610 days 350,640 hours 21,038,400 minutes 1,262,304,000 seconds Jean-Michel Leligny was born to a woman in her forties. A few years later, she ended her life. He wanted in this work associating a still wild nature and these portraits of naked women, to pay homage to her, but also to question this symbolic moment which corresponds, in our time and in our society, to the living environment. He…
To truly know who the other: how is this even possible? Beyond words. Without words. A look, a caress, a breath, the sensual curve of a body or of several intertwined. Who knows, perhaps a kiss? Not the meeting of two mouths, but that of two beings who offer themselves in abandon, confiding in each other... Such is the journey that allows us to land on the shores of the…
Gallery Catherine & André Hug presents for the first time in France, Jerry Takigawa’s photography series Balancing Cultures. With an eye toward recent history and its direct impact on the present day, Takigawa and his series Balancing Cultures delves into the incarceration of all persons of Japanese ancestry living on the west coast of America during World War II. In 1942, President Roosevelt’s Executive order 9066 authorized the establishment of…
Hans Silvester and his friends: Céline Domas, François-Xavier Emery, Laurent Gayte, Alain Gualina, Henri Kartmann will exhibit from February 14 to April 22, 2023, at the Carzou Foundation and Jean Giono Center in Manosque. Water considered from the geographical, ethnological, economic, political, literary and poetic points of view. An exhibition organized by the DLVA (Durance Luberon Verdon Agglomeration), the Jean Giono center, the Carzou Foundation. HANS SILVESTER. The color of water From the 1980s, his reports were marked by his environmental commitment. Hans Silvester is the photographer par excellence of…
The Monterey Museum of Art. presents an exhibition : Constructing the Photograph. Here is the work of Diane Pierce one of the 2 photographers ! Thinking About Drawing and Paper Constructs are two series that have recently come together in The Monterey Museum of Art exhibition Constructing the Photograph. Thinking About Drawing explores the daily practice of drawing; it is the prolonged act of looking to make a traditional drawing…