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AIPAD 2015 : Esther Woerdehoff Gallery (FR)

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The Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, established in the Montparnasse district since 1996, is one of the few French galleries devoted exclusively to photography. It offers a classic selection of great photographers of the second half of the twentieth century (René Burri, Frank Horvat, Edouard Boubat, Philipp Giegel) and the significant estate of Swiss photographer Karlheinz Weinberger. It also gives a large place to European contemporary photography, with established artists such as Chema Madoz, Simone Kappeler and Michael Schnabel. It encourages the discovery of talents such as Elene Usdin, Juliette Bates and Iris Hutegger, who first exposed by the gallery now enjoy international recognition. In part of the AIPAD Photography Show 2015, the gallery selected for us a selection five photographs, Elene Usdin, Iris Hutegger, Jens Knigge, Sabine Guedamour and Simone Kappeler.
 

1. Elene Usdin
Born in 1971, Elene Usdin graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs of Paris in 1996. Working first as an illustrator and a set decorator for cinema, she regularly publishes her illustrations in newspapers and magazines. Visual artist, illustrator and photographer, she develops since 2002 an artistic body of work with precision and lightness and a great delicacy. Women are the favorite subject of her series, with an approach that plays with genre and stereotypes. Elene Usdin does not hesitate to put herself on stage, in self-portraits between derision, tribute to the great female figures of the history or inspiration found in fairy tales. Rewarded in 2006 by the Picto Prize for Young Fashion Photography and in 2008 by the International Photo Awards, her first monograph, Stories, was published in 2013 by editions Contrejour. In 2014, the Museum of New Art in Detroit showed a large retrospective exhibition of her work: Awake While I Am Dreaming.

2. Iris Hutegger
Iris Hutegger was born in 1964 in Schladming, Austria. She moved to Switzerland in 1990 and currently lives and works in Basel. In 1994, she began taking classes in sculpture and drawing at the School of Art and Design in Zurich and Lucerne (HGK) and graduated from The Basel School of Art and Design in 2005. Since 2004, she regularly exhibits her work. By mixing techniques such as sculpture or photography, Iris Hutegger creates installations that question the landscape, the space, the natural and the artificial. She puts pieces of landscapes in suitcases, draws chairs with cotton tread, creates flower meadows in exhibition spaces and develops a figurative and conceptual work of great poetry. In her photographic work, Iris Hutegger takes mountains as subject. She prints in black and white from color negatives and from those almost abstract documentary photographs, embroiders her own colours with a sewing machine on the landscape, bringing an emotional third dimension to the pictures.

3. Jens Knigge
Born in 1964, in Eilenburg, Jens Knigge grew up in East Germany and studied to become an engineer. In 1987, he moved to Berlin, where he still lives today and in 1993, he began working as a photographer, making portraits of jazz musicians and architectural photography. In 1998, against the rise of digital photography, he chose to devote himself to the archaic technique of platinum palladium print he learned from the famous printer Wolfgang Moersch. His photographs, taken with a large format camera, are printed by contact with a precise craftmanship that limits his images edition to a few prints. Exploring austere subjects: medieval and contemporary buildings, structure details, a landscape under the snow, he reveals sublime shades of gray, with an extreme sensibility to light and shadows, shapes and textures and a photography at the verge of abstraction. Since 1996, he has published several books and regularly shows his work, mainly in Germany, Japan and the United States.

4. Sabine Guedamour
French photographer Sabine Guédamour was born in 1972, she lives and works in Paris. For several years, she studied and worked in the US, where she created and directed the Tilt Gallery, now located in Scottsdale, Arizona and dedicated to alternative and historical photographic processes. This experience allowed her to explore the action of light on all kinds of photo-sensitive materials and practice new possibilities of expression through photography: pinhole, large-format or polaroid camera or the delicate process of palladium printing … in 2008-2009, she came back to France to study at Spéos International School of Photography and since April 2011, she has been working at the Galerie Esther Woerdehoff as artistic director. Organized in series, her personal work focuses on story-telling and the relationship, all of us may have to the passing of time and history, a sensible exploration through landscape and people … 

5. Simone Kappeler
Born in 1952 in Frauenfeld (Switzerland) where she still lives and works, Simone Kappeler began taking photographs at the age of 11 year-old. After studying German literature and art history, she attended the Zurich University of the Arts in photography major. In 1981, she began a four-month journey through the U.S. driving an old Gran Torino. During her road trip, she took black and white and color pictures with toy cameras like a Diana. With these images, rediscovered only in 2010, we dive into a world of sensations, a personal representation of what the United States were thirty years ago, long before the Bush era and the invention of the internet and mobile phones. Since 1970, Simone Kappeler explores all types of photographic techniques using Leica, Diana, Brownie, Polaroid, disposable camera, outdated or infrared film. Her photographs, both experimental and poetic, reveal a strangely foreign world that surrounds us. Her work has been regularly exhibited in Europe and gathered in a first monograph Seile. Fluss. Nacht. Fotografien 1964-2011, published by Hatje Cantz. She recently had her first solo show in New York City.

 

INFORMATIONS
AIPAD 2015
16 – 19 April, 2015
The Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
USA
http://www.aipad.com

Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
Modern and Contemporary Photography
36 rue Falguière
75015 Paris   
France

http://www.ewgalerie.com

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