Commuter Motions Traveling from the industrial town of Easton, Pennsylvania, through sparsely populated western New Jersey, and into the cacophony of New York City, Commuter Motions is a photography series that develops from the experiential capture of an eighty-mile commute. By opposing the usual fixity of photography, the series attempts to capture the energy and movement of that commute using an almost Bergsonian approach, which, through time-lapse, builds images from…
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On the road to Woleu Ntem A family story as a starting point, then images of a journey on a freshly paved road. The machine disembowels the country from bottom to top, and reveals an African photographic atmosphere. A travel diary where Jocelyn Trembleau takes the road in Gabon, which is good for him.
White regality In Copenaghen, UNESCO World Capital of Architecture 2023-2025, I have had the great privilege to enter The Royal Danish Opera House’s by the Danish architect Henning Larsen and I have been impressed by the elegant geometry of its interiors. From the chandeliers in the foyer created by the international artist Olafur Eliasson to the design of the main spaces, everything resonates with the surrounding landscape of the city…
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Sensuelle This series began in 2009 and continues today. Along with working on water and the ocean, I play with the flame. The chiaroscuro, the mood of the moment, the place of fire, everything is conducive to evocation. The curve is the muse, the light the mistress, the black the revealer. The framing, the black and white then the color and finally the gradient towards the monochrome are a photographed…
This was the solo show at Paci contemporary gallery for the modern art fair in Milan, Miart Milano, which took place this weekend. Leslie Krims remains one of the most amazing photographers of the turn of the last century, one of the most provocative too! Photography had a pope at that time: John Szarkowski, the director of the photography department at MoMA. Leslie called him an old arthritic tap dancer. We all…
Alain Teulié : A nostalgic vision of the world. After his baccalaureate, Alain Teulié entered the Cours Florent. He acted in several plays. In 1984, he became Jean Marais' assistant for his play "Cocteau Marais". A very beautiful and enriching experience, he remembers with nostalgia. In 1989, he changed course and joined Paris Première where he presented a daily prime-time talk show: Tout Paris. For seven years, he saw artists…
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The eighth edition of Photo London will take place at Somerset House from May 11th to 14th, with an exclusive VIP Preview Day on Wednesday May 10th, the Fair presents an eclectic mix of 125 leading international galleries, alongside various special exhibitions. Photo London Somerset House, Strand London WC2R 1LA https://photolondon.org/
Celebrities are instantly recognizable - or are they? Staley Wise Gallery presents the exhibition Who's Who, the concept is playful as the viewer is challenged to identify the celebrity in the photograph. Some are readily known by hair, hands, clothing, and posture. Some others are not so easy. Perhaps that’s where the fun comes in, and perhaps the real person emerges. Sometimes, the element of disguise or concealment is a…
Les Douches La Galerie presents until May 27 the exhibition Jean-Claude Gautrand: L’assassinat de Baltard. “A few years later I still remember the crashing of the beams collapsing in a cloud of dust eclipsing, for a moment, the rays of the sun. I can still hear, interpreted by a resident of the district, the last post accompanying the collapse of one of the pavilions. This demolition which brought down a…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the news of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine takes a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. While 83% of the world's population has never seen the Milky Way and the stars are invisible to the naked eye in most of our cities, Mattia…
Galería Alta presents Film Noir an exhibition of black and white vintage prints by Ray K. Metzker, one of the great masters of American Photography. Metzker (1931-2014), graduated at the Institute of Design, Chicago, in 1959, a school referred to as the New Bauhaus, where he studied with fellow modernist photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Metzker’s work pushed the boundaries of what seemed formally possible in black and white…
Werner Mansholt presents his exhibition entitled "Zwischenwelten" ("Worlds Between”) and is part of the Photo-Festival " 12. Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie“. He presents it as follows. I have photographed in different cities and countries on photographic journeys I have undertaken over the last 10 years. As a photographer I work as as a flaneur, the images that emerge from my work as a street photographer are much more the result…
Renowned for his work in East Germany, Manfred Paul has also traveled the world to show a plurality of human existences from which arise timeless and poetic images. Romania, India and Paris...Three journeys and different facets of Manfred Paul who share the same desire to dive into realities other than his own. This exacerbated curiosity leads him to the meeting of cultures with an anchored identity, he photographs the humans…
The Classic Photograph Fair presents its second edition, taking place at historic Conway Hall in Red Lion Square, Holborn, WC1R 4RL, 13 May, from 9am -4pm. The Classic Photograph Fair is London’s only free photography fair, which focuses on classic and vintage photography. Taking place during Photo London, The Classic Photograph fair celebrates photography dating from the earliest years of the medium. Over 20 exhibitors, including UK and continental dealers,…
It was June 1978, issue #129 of PHOTO. A portfolio entitled Operation Helico and signed Cheyco Leidmann. This unknown that the artistic director of PHOTO: Eric Colmet Daage published 3 times in a year became one of the stars of photography at the time. His first book Foxy Lady and then a second Banana Split were going to be publishing triumphs. It is to him and his partner Ypsitylla von…
Ypsitylla von Nazareth is the Artistic director and producer of Cheyco Leidmann. Their first artistic collaboration was on 'Foxy Lady'. Gifted with stylistically and organizational abilities she took responsibility for all the production procedures, kept the team together with her enormous creative energy and participated to his oeuvre with her artistic work . She designed the graphics of the book 'Bananasplit', the quintessential 80's layout reference, as well as as…
Cheyco Leidmann's stylized surreal cutting edge style images began in the 1980s, before the world of visualization immersed in the blessing of retouch and digital techniques characterized by a powerful rainbow-like chromatic scale a magic box of artificial crayons, when Cheyco shook up with profound effect the art community with his classic world bestseller monograph 'Foxy Lady'. He redefined the visual aesthetics with traditional, analogue means and established and imprinted…
Cheyco Leidmann's knowledge and expertise and inspiration had a significant impact on the contemporary photo art world and made him a leader in this field. He is renowned for his groundbreaking and highly innovative work and has a magical art of staging, inimitable and immediately recognizable. Although his style was straight away copied, reclaimed, admired, criticized, it has evolved, but remains unique amongst all. His visuals have been published in…
The historically 'Foxy Lady', is hardy enough to stand this. Cheyco Leidmann’s highly influential work, its influences and impact and how his work shot forty years ago seeded so much, and as color spread so far, this book, reprinted in seven editions and distributed in twenty countries and hailed by Vogue magazine as one out of the nine significant iconic classic art books for the last five decades, intends to…
Cheyco Leidmann kept reinventing his visual language. In more recent years, he went on with monographs 'SEX is BLUE' and 'TOXYTT' a sort of social analysis through explicit and disturbing images that show the “toxicity” of modern life and he continues with 'ZIGGURAT' to be a prolific artist. Leidmann is fond of exaggerated forms and pushing the boundaries and challenging customs and conventions. His individual, extraordinary, commanding, unique approach of…
Cheyco Leidmann eagerly uses the aesthetic tradition of art brut. Like any type of art, his work is his personal interpretation, it incites the viewer more than ever with the hard edges of anguish and expectancy of the world around him. These interpretations always develop, but remain his distinctive view on humanity that continue to resonate with audiences. Leidmann is, without a doubt at the top and his perpetual success…