Art historian Maeva Dubrez has published a well-documented essay on Deborah Turbeville's work, the fruit of extensive research, with ACTEDITIONS. Here is an extract of her essay: This essay solves the enigma of Deborah Turbeville's work by going over her photographic prints with a fine tooth-comb and exposing the infinite layers that lie beneath. She is more than a photographer : her work continually breaks down the blurred boundaries between…
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As part of Women's History Month and to celebrate the release of the monograph "Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage," The National Arts Club of New York hosted the symposium "Deborah Turbeville and the Female Gaze," focusing on women's perspectives and portrayal in photography. First defined by Laura Mulvey in 1975 in her article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," the concept of the female gaze emerged as a rebellion against the male gaze.…
Photo Elysée recently paid tribute to Deborah Turbeville, an American photographer recognised in the 1970s for her fashion photographs. But Turbeville is much more than that; it is a work on photography and its materiality. In collaboration with the MUUS collection, Photo Elysée allows us to discover a true female artist. It's challenging to classify Deborah Turbeville's (1932-2013) work because her oeuvre is rich in research and diverse use of…
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Until February 18, the Galerie Chantal Bamberger in Strasbourg is presenting a collective exhibition entitled: White! White is a color. Our collaborator, Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, has chosen to show you the work of Véronique Sablery accompanied by this text. The white work of Véronique Sablery In this multi-medium and collective exhibition, alongside and among others the drawings of Titus-Carmel and the statuary of Jan Voss, the photographs of Véronique Sablery…
This essay examines the role that photo-based imagery played in the immediate aftermath of Liberation by means of The Nuremberg Trials. The Allies and Soviets were confronted with what to do with the 8.5 million members of National Socialist German Workers’ Party and their millions of collaborators who participated in robbing, torturing, and murdering two out of every three European Jews, wiping out entire centuries-old communities. The Nazis killed so…
Marian Goodman Gallery presents Memory Lost, their first exhibition in New York with Nan Goldin, who joined the gallery in September 2018. This major exhibition is the first solo presentation by the artist in New York in five years and presents an important range of historical works together with two new video pieces and the debut of two new series of photographs. Memory Lost (2019), an important, new digital slideshow,…
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Doyle Wham presents In Bloom, Morgan Otagburuagu's first solo exhibition worldwide. Otagburuagu (b. 1997, Abia State, Nigeria) is a self-taught photographer who has made major waves in the fashion and art industries with his unique style of portraiture. In this exhibition, a new series, In Bloom, receives its global debut. These works are of monumental significance to the artist, as they represent a move towards rebirth and re-emergence after a…
London Gallery Weekend, the biggest gallery weekend in the world, has announced returns return from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 June 2023. Established in 2021, this third edition of the free public event will bring together the city’s galleries and attract tens of thousands of visitors to engage with art at locations across the city. We present to you four of the exhibiting galleries. Mazzoleni presents Toscani Chez Mazzoleni, the…
Galerie Max Hetzler, London presents an exhibition dedicated to new works by Thomas Struth (b. 1954). This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in the London gallery and the first time his renowned photographs taken at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, are shown in the UK. Struth’s renditions of CERN form part of Nature and Politics (2007 -), a group of work that examines how ambition and human…
Sprüth Magers presents Mirror, an exhibition by Jean-Luc Mylayne. Poetry and existential philosophical questions define Jean-Luc Mylayne’s conceptual photographic practice of over four decades. Capturing birds in their natural habitats, the artist creates formally surprising and carefully calibrated images. Sprüth Magers is pleased to present Mirror, a choreographed selection of Mylayne’s works forming a distinctive ensemble thematically revolving around the fragility of our shared ecosystems and the brevity of life…
Foto Wien turns 10 On June 1, Austria’s largest photography festival inaugurated its anniversary edition with a focus on truth and lies in photography. The festival, which is affiliated with the European Month of Photography, is celebrating its tenth anniversary with around three hundred events at 110 venues and 350 artists from twenty-five countries. Foto Arsenal Wien will host Foto Wien for the first time, with its festival base at…
At the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen in Paris, the Académie des Beaux-Arts is exhibiting the first photographic series of Franco-Swiss reporter Bruno Barbey, The Italians. It's a tribute to this pillar of the Magnum photos agency who died in 2020. He is one of the few photographers to have been elected to the Institut de France, where a section dedicated to the eighth art was created in 2006. Bruno Barbey…
Alongside the worlds of politics, culture and fashion, Françoise Huguier began to travel the world as a place of encounters, magnetized by the diversity of cultures and societies. Whether in Europe, Africa or Asia, she has the same singular and graphic eye that never lacks humor. In 1989, she traveled the African continent in the footsteps of Michel Leiris. A maiden voyage that inspired her first book, “Sur les traces…
teNeues presents Between Worlds, an unprecedented dive into the decades-long career of fine art photographer Barbara Cole, chronicling her shapeshifting vision of the world that is as romantic as it is timeless. Gathered together like this for the first time, the images in Between Worlds trace Barbara Cole’s pioneering spirit from her early use of Polaroid before it disappeared and her quest to develop her own painterly approach to photography;…
To use an analog camera is always a gamble. You think you know you got what you wanted, but in the end, it is often something else, sometimes for the better or… the worse. To shoot for double exposures with a film camera increases several notches the level of uncertainty, as there is no way to know in advance how the two images may dialog on the same frame. At…
Thierry Clech photographs during his travels. He works exclusively in black & white film. He has published several books (the last three: Indian lights, Kehrer Verlag, 2020; Istanbul, 89Books, 2021; Sunset on Ukraine, Snoeck Publishers, 2022). His images have been exhibited in France and abroad: Galerie Basia Embiricos, Galerie Argentic, Galerie Artphotoby, Galerie Nadar, Fotofever, National Library of Belarus, BlowUp Angkor Festival, FotoIstanbul Festival… He is also a novelist. “You…
London Gallery Weekend, the biggest gallery weekend in the world, has announced returns return from Friday 2 to Sunday 4 June 2023. Established in 2021, this third edition of the free public event will bring together the city’s galleries and attract tens of thousands of visitors to engage with art at locations across the city. With over 120 participating galleries confirmed so far and including 15 new participants, 2023 will…
After 18 months on the road, the Prix Pictet Fire, the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet photography prize arrived at the Fotografiska Museum in New York for its final destination. Today’s edition is entirely dedicated to the extensive exhibition and the body of work of the 13 photographers presented, headlined by the winner of the prix Pictet : Sally Mann. With our thanks to Isabelle von Ribbentrop, Michael Benson,…
Filmmakers and artists, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige question the fabrication of images and representations, the construction of imaginaries, and the writing of history. Their artworks create thematic and formal links between photography, video, performance, installation and cinema. The artists are known for their long-term research based on personal or political documents, with particular interests in the traces of the invisible and the absent, histories kept secret such as the…
Born in 1972 in Shiga Prefecture, Japan, Rinko Kawauchi lives and works in Tokyo. In 2001 she simultaneously released a series of three photographic books – UTATANE, HANABI, and HANAKO from publisher Little More, and in 2002 she was awarded prestigious 27th Kimura Ihei Award for UTATANE and HANABI. Hanabi, 2001 Artist statement I photographed fireworks every summer between 1997 and 2001, and this collection represents that body of work.…
Sally Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Her works explore family, social realities, and the passage of time, capturing tensions between nature, history, and memory. Born in Lexington, Virginia, Mann began studying photography in the 1960s, attending the Ansel Adams Gallery’s Yosemite Workshops in Yosemite National Park, California and the Putney School and Bennington College, both in Vermont. She received…