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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“Society’s treatment of plants is a mirror image of itself,” botanist artist Lois Weinberger* liked to say. His work is an invitation to consider differently those who are called vagabonds or invasives, and who are described as "crazy" or "bad" that is to say without value or presenting a defect. Denigrated and belittled, these plants are often doomed: uprooting or chemical disappearance. The Weeds! brings together recent works which, involving…
The “open call” as with every year has no theme constrictions or entry fee and applicants just need to submit 10 images, a description of the project and a short biography, by April 16th. The images submitted must not have been published on or offline before. This global open call is entitled Unpublished Photo. It is aimed at young and emerging new photographers, between the ages of 18 and 30…
Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents a retrospective of British celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill (1938-2019) until 10 September 2023. The exhibition Famous shows more than 125 portraits of international music legends, movie stars and fashion icons, particularly from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to exclusive colourised editions, the focus is on classic black and white portraits. Terry O'Neill is one of the most iconic, influential and…
GILBERT GARCIN: DIRECTOR, PHOTOGRAPHER, AND STAGE DESIGNER Gilbert Garcin is one of the rare polymaths who is a director, photographer, and stage designer. He orchestrates each step of his craft. His black and white, cleverly staged images are a highly intellectual and skillful blend of humor and gravity, questioning the transient nature of human condition and existence. Belonging to the surrealist genre, his work has been associated with the likes…
PDNB Gallery celebrates the diverse talents that live in our great state of Texas. This exhibition will highlight a rich pool of artists in the group show, Deep in the Art of Texas. The photographs range from landscape, portraiture, and documentary to abstract and conceptual. The dates span from the 1940’s to present. There is no theme in common with these Texas artists, each has their own style and vision,…
The projects of the five young photographers, finalists of the current edition of The MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work, now in its seventh edition, are on show at MAST, in Bologna until May 1st 2023. The projects by the five young finalists of the current edition of The MAST Photography Grant on Industry and Work, now in its seventh edition, are on show at MAST, in Bologna until…
From March 3rd to May 21st 2023, ECAL presents Under Your Smell at Photo Elysée. In collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier, Bachelor of Photography students propose their interpretation of the brand's fragrances through an immersive exhibition celebrating gender diversity and new definitions of beauty. The exhibition Under Your Smell takes possession of Photo Elysée. The event is headed by a number of eminent contributors, including Creative Director at Jean Paul Gaultier, Florence Tétier; photographer,…
Sylvie Castioni's solo exhibition celebrates the liberation of the body. Through her photographic practice rooted in the enhancement of women, Sylvie Castioni gives voice to their sensuality and power. With several emblematic figures of French cinema as models, such as Léa Seydoux or Emmanuelle Béart, the photographer creates their portraits, through which the self-confidence that her muses experience next to her shines through. Statement by Nikita Dmitriev, curator. In…
Founder, at UNIL, of the first school of scientific police in the world in 1909, the criminal lawyer, Rodolphe Archibald Reiss (1875-1929) put his mastery of chemistry and photography at the service of his science, developing shooting photography techniques that are still used today. In collaboration with the UNIL's School of Criminal Sciences, the Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey is devoting an exhibition detailing his photographic methods applied to crime…
Essay # 7 LIBERATION by Robert Hirsch This essay examines the role photography has played in shaping a public Holocaust narrative following the arrival of Soviet and Allied forces at the Nazi work and death camps. This piece also scrutinizes the complex emotional, physical, and political challenges the liberated prisoners confronted and how their liberators attempted to assist them in salvaging their devastated lives at the start of the Post…
Marking the 50th anniversary of Edward Steichen’s death, this exciting project showcases the work of two eminent contemporary artists, Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf (*1959) and Belgian visual artist Hans Op de Beeck (*1969). Out of their appreciation for each other and their shared admiration for Steichen’s oeuvre, Olaf and Op de Beeck agreed to collaborate on a project for the first time ever. Published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of…
Kahmann Gallery expands to Berlin! Kahmann + Krollmann’s art collection, which includes nearly 100 works by international artists, will be presented to the public for the first time. The new space is located on the corner of Hohenzollerdamm & Uhlandstrasse amidst the bustling heart of Berlin. The corner building covers 250 m² and will exhibit the collection of Udo Krollmann and Kahmann in its first exhibition. An excellent opportunity and…
Marcus Schaefer (Germany 1987) (Images 1-4) Marcus Schaefer is certainly an artist in the true sense of the word. He cannot be captured under one heading e.g. "photographer" because then you ignore his creative primal power. He is a multi-disciplinary artist and film director driven to capture his state of mind of that moment… Schaefer escapes from a world predominantly ruled by colour images, and expresses himself through the visual…
For a little over a decade, the South African scene is undoubtedly the richest and most dynamic on the African continent and is of major importance on the scale of the art world. Due to the political context in South Africa, black artists have been ignored for too long. The Maison des Arts has chosen to give the floor to four of them: Leila Rose Fanner, Lindokuhle Khumalo, Morgan Mahape…
Mathilda May for the magazine “ELLE” in the 90s. It seems to me that at that time she was pregnant. If you look closely, you can see it in her eyes. There is in the eyes of the women at this precise moment a disturbing mixture of plenitude, confidence in the future and a grateful love for the man in question, which the latter had better take advantage of because…