Vince Aletti, collector, author, curator and winner of this year’s AIPAD Award, lives in a seven-room apartment in New York’s East Village. It’s filled to the brim with his enormous collection, or as he describes it, “a collection of collections”, of magazines, photographs, books, vinyl records, and all manner of ephemera. Still, there’s always room for more. How would you describe yourself as a collector? – As someone who looks…
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In September last year, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of a collection of 209 photographs by the French photographer Eugène Atget. It had been built over 25 years by Dan and Mary Solomon, by carefully adding one masterpiece after another. The couple prefers to keep a low profile in the photography world but are incredibly active as collectors, curators, publishers, and most significantly as generous donors to…
AIPAD presents the 2nd edition of the Monumental exhibition. This special project show- cases large-scale photographic works throughout the public areas of The Park Avenue Armory, providing a unique opportunity for galleries and their artists to display new, challenging and impactful pieces not generally shown at fairs, creating a captivating visual spectacle for visitors. This article originally appeared in the AIPAD Catalogue sponsored by MUUS Collection. The Photography Show…
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On the occasion of the month of photography and on the fringes of "Paris Photo 2022", the Nouchine Pahlevan Gallery presents "I Want Him To Be Ocean" by Christian Mamoun. This exhibition invites itself into the heart of a kind of waiting room before entering the adult world. In the meantime, this Parisian youth are questioning themselves , confronted with "sturm et drang" impulses (the storm and the impulse), which…
Nino Mier Gallery presents Women’s Work, an exhibition of photographs and videos by Finnish artist IIU SUSIRAJA. Susiraja is known for her still and moving image portraits, which capture the artist in her own home or her parents’ home, interacting with items such as housekeeping tools and pantry staples with prurient, deadpan humor. In Women’s Work, which will be on view from February 18 - March 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, Susiraja brings a…
Spanning the years 1976 to 1981, The Beginning brings together the earliest works of acclaimed American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). Featuring images largely unseen by the public, the exhibition chronicles a period of technical and artistic development that would lay the foundation for the complex and incisive tableaux that ultimately established Barney as a key figure in international photography. While quarantining during the Covid-19 outbreak, Barney began to sort…
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To coincide with Sydney World Pride in Australia, The Little Black Gallery presents BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! World Pride, an exhibition of works by 62 queer and gay photographers, is at Working Dog Gallery, Sydney from 23 February - 11 March. BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! is a project by The Little Black Gallery curated by co-founder Ghislain Pascal, to promote queer and gay photography. It now represents more than 60 photographers from…
For a few days, I traveled through SF, San Francisco for friends, beautiful Frisco, the flagship of California, the richest state in the United States. What I saw there, me, had nothing of Golden, nor Glamor. This is perhaps the role, the duty, of the photographer: to see what others do not see. This city filled me with horror and deep sadness: SF is a city where you step over…
This is one of the most unexpected portfolios we have recovered: Graveyard flowers! It was accompanied by these few sentences from photographer Peter B Leighton. Gone Tomorrow Flowers of all kinds are farmed and readily available where my wife and I once lived in the Andean Highlands of Ecuador. They liberally adorn the graves of the prosperous and poor alike. It is written in an Ecuadorian folk song, in fact,…
Far from the twenty kilometers of altitude that certain balloons can reach today, these aircraft did not cross America from West to East but could be destroyed by cannons if they were considered as enemies. Around the 1900s, experiments and competitions abound. Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
“Because his photos are cousins to mine, because in his memory there are twin residues of mine, he speaks to me as if I were his brother. Jacques Henri Lartigue, The Eye of Memory, 1932-1985 In the early 1960s, the Museum of Modern Art in New York devoted monographic exhibitions to two photographers: Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) and André Kertész (1894 -1985). One qualified as "the greatest amateur of the 20th…
The exhibition in 5 chapters 1st part: The emblematic A first part in the form of a pantheon of famous images that identify Kertész and Lartigue as photographers of the early 20th century. These works are the ones with which they became famous. 2nd part: The genesis of a work, birth of a discourse These old prints and archival documents were used in the late reconstruction discourse set up from…
In Nice on the Promenade des Anglais, Sacha Goldberger presents "Portraits croisés" from February 22 to March 22, 2023. "Portraits croisés" is the crazy idea of a unique series of photos from loomed up from the mind of Sacha Goldberger, which transforms personalities from cinema, song, theater or literature into emblematic figures of the culture, real or fictitious, current or historical. Sacha Goldberger was able to photograph a gallery of sometimes…
This exhibition is a collaboration between photographer Tom Bartowicz and Sarah Abitbol. Sarah Abitbol is a French figure skating champion who was raped by her coach at the age of 15. “You were my coach. I had just turned fifteen. And you raped me. It took 30 years for my hidden anger to finally turn into a public cry. You destroyed my life, Mr. O., while you quietly led yours.…
Cunard, the luxury cruise line, celebrates 100 years of circumnavigation today. On this occasion, it has partnered with British photographer and documentary film maker Mary McCartney as part of an exceptional exhibition called "Sea Views" retracing a century of magical moments. Never-before-seen images from the Cunard archives, as well as a selection of personal photos of passengers taken over the decades, will be presented at the end of February 2023. This…
On February 8, the VII agency foundation celebrated the opening of the Alexandra Boulat Campus in Arles with the exhibition Modest by Alexandra Boulat and All Tomorrow's Phantoms, Channeling the Camargue by Philip Blenkinsop. The Alexandra Boulat Campus is both a cultural space dedicated to education in the field of the press and media, and a place for exhibitions, conferences and debates. With its presence in Arles, the VII Academy…
ArtsLibris, in its eighth edition at ARCOmadrid, presents 67 national and international exhibitors, with a notable presence of Ibero-American publishers from Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador and Portugal, as well as an extensive cultural program highlighting the participating artists and publishers. ArtsLibris / ARCOmadrid 2023 IFEMA Madrid Pabellón 7 / Stand C31 22.02.2023 - 26.02.23 https://artslibris.cat/artslibris-arcomadrid-2023/ ArtsLibris Bookstore Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 627 08010 Barcelona https://artslibris.cat/
Galerie XII Paris presents American artist Patty Carroll's first exhibition in Paris, "Anonymous Women". Selected by Fisheye among the 10 most significant artists on the occasion of their 10th anniversary, Patty Carroll will also be exhibited in several stations of the Paris metro until the end of March. Recognized American photographer, winner of several awards and exhibited internationally, Patty Carroll has been pursuing her series entitled "Anonymous Women" since 2016.…
The Hulett Collection announces representation of Viki Kollerová and her series of enigmatic land-art nudes with a touch of the surreal. Enjoy. Viki Kollerová was born in Czechoslovakia in 1984 to a plant virologist and an internationally recognized climber. After finishing her MA in Translation and Interpretation, Viki continued her postgraduate studies focused on semantics and eventually abandoned the academy life to the passion for photography in 2009. One of…
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation presents the exhibition "Foam Talent 2022" at The Cube in Frankfurt/Eschborn . The extensive exhibition brings together the works of 20 contemporary photographers from 14 nations and illustrates the current state as well as future trends and themes of contemporary photography. The artists were selected as part of Foam's young talent programme, which the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is supporting since 2017. The artistic positions…
In 1959, at just 20 years of age, Antanas Sutkus began photographing on the streets of Vilnius, then the capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. Strolling through the town, his attitude was more that of a flaneur than of a photographer, observing and absorbing the essence of daily life as it was offered to him by his fellow citizens. At the time it was difficult to find safe…