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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Until the 10th of June , the Studio Art Gallery of New Delhi presents the exhibition "Truth or Dare" - Women breaking Gender Stereotypes in India. The curator Sandeep Biswas sent up this text : “While the truth can be disguised, one must dare to question its intent.” Women in India have had a substantial role in the growth of Indian economy. Despite a lack of access to capital, they…
Preview Day: 10th May. The serious business of buying and selling gets under way, especially in the erected pavilion in the quadrangle of Somerset House, the venue for Photo London 2023. Some thirty galleries from across the world are in the pavilion alone and any negotiations that take place unfold at a discreet pace; a champagne bar is there for deals to be sealed. Some of those whose work is…
Until June 30, the Galerie 127 in Marrakech is exhibiting Sandrine Rousseau. The gallery thus presents the series entitled: Le Palais Intérieur, El Badiâ Conceived as sketches, the works in this corpus combine the expression of an interior universe with the essence of a place perceived from its details. This series produced at the Baadi Palace in Marrakech is part of a larger set on Moroccan alleys and architecture. Here,…
We have received this: we share it with you! Le Temps des cerises, a collaborative work by the couple Lia and Paolo Aldi, transforms exhibition spaces into an anachronistic world that is both ancient and contemporary. The dialogue between the two artists and the photographs from over 150 years ago is like a centrifuge: aspirations of brotherhood and fratricidal clashes, desire for self-determination and violent repression, places and dreams that…
He has portrayed luminaries from music, art and showbiz, surreally depicted the boundlessness of the big city and brought the greats of photographic history in front of the camera. With Abe Frajndlich. Chameleon, the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) presents the iridescent diversity in themes of the American photographer Abe Frajndlich (*1946, Frankfurt/Main). On view are around 160 works from the 1970s onwards, including Frajndlich's earliest vintage prints from Cleveland. As…
It was my inveterate curiosity that, during my last column, led me into an investigation that was far too serious and in-depth compared to my initial intentions; moreover, it would not be finished since I committed myself at the end of this focus devoted to the fascinating photos of Count Charles de Clugny to put black on white, – extreme contrast which is not the prerogative only of photographers, since…
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) presents Kinship: Photography and Connection, featuring six contemporary photographers whose work results from deep relationships including friendship, ties to place, to community and beyond. On view at SFMOMA from May 20 through November 2023, Kinship: Photography and Connection brings together over 80 captivating works by photographers who share a special affinity with their subjects: Farah Al Qasimi, Mercedes Dorame, Jarod Lew, Paul…
Palermo, to life and death The Fondazione Merz honors the Sicilian capital through the eyes of five photographers from the island: Enzo Sellerio, Letizia Battaglia, Franco Zecchin, Fabio Sgroi and Lia Pasqualino. The exhibition Palermo, my love retraces the turbulent history of this warm-blooded city, from the 1950s until 1992, a period marked by the post-war rural exodus, severe poverty, as well as an intensification of mafia violence, culminating in…
The Zillman Art Museum (ZAM) presents the exhibition Meryl Meisler: 70s Suburban Sensibilities - Friends & Family from May 19 through August 19, 2023. Meryl Meisler was born in the Bronx in 1951 and raised in Massapequa, a Long Island suburb of New York City. Meisler’s neighborhood was largely composed of Jewish and Italian families, although there were also Irish, German, Greek and other first and second generation Americans. Meisler’s…
Taunus Foto Galerie presents the exhibition by Adriano Henney, Venice - Beyond the Mask from May 19th through July 29th. Adriano grew up in Italy and England and through his family knows Venice intimately. His alternative view of the city combines recognizable motifs with quiet, mysterious locations away from the hustle and bustle, aiming to capture the city's soul in the gradual, unrelenting erosion that seems to be its sad…
This year there will be the first edition of the contest "La Muta": The candidates will be exhibited in the shops of the city center and the winners will be chosen by public vote. The Biennale di Senigallia, your new destination: A Renaissance city amid seascapes and mountains, Adriatic beaches, photographic exhibitions, accessible artworks, curious gastronomy. Join and meet collectors, curators, photographers and passersby in lectures, debates and town squares.…
Hans Silvester received the Prix International Planète Albert Kahn in December 2022 for his entire career and for his testimonies for an era ranging from 1960 to the present day. Thanks to his openness to the world, the sharpness of his photographer's eye and his sense of beauty, he gives us iconic images representing everyday characters, witnesses of a culture, a place, of a moment... The photographer's eye freezes an…
In her “Looking for the Masters in Ricardo’s Golden Shoes” series, presented from May 13 to July 15 at La Maison du Regard in Le Havre, artist Catherine Balet pays tribute to the great Masters of photography by revisiting 176 years of its history. With her charismatic interpreter in golden shoes, Ricardo Martinez Paz, Catherine Balet revisited 130 iconic images in order to better understand the photography trends of today…
Ralph Ellison (1913–94) is a foremost figure in American literature, hailed for his seminal novel Invisible Man (1952), a breakthrough representation of the American experience and Black everyday life. Lesser known, however, is his lifelong engagement with photography. Photographer is the first book dedicated to Ellison’s extensive work in the medium, which spans from the 1930s to the ’90s. Throughout his life, photography played multiple roles for Ellison: a hobby,…
For this eighth edition, the organizers of Photo London have thought of several geographical focuses, in particular the one devoted to Iranian photography. Overview of the different proposals. Roya Khadjavi Projects and Nemazee Fine Art (New York) exhibit five photographers with original practices, united by their social and environmental involvement. Tahmineh Monzavi, known for his documentary work, now associated with an artistic approach, presents a mix of several series linked…