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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The Académie des beaux-arts is hosting the exhibition Fulani of the Sahel by Pascal Maitre, winner of the 2022 edition of the Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière Photography award- Academy of Fine Arts. Thanks to this award, Pascal Maitre has been working for two years on this project which has taken him to Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin. The Fulani people number no less than 70 million men and women, spread…
After Home in 2014, Les Douches la Galerie is devoting a new personal exhibition to the work of Tom Arndt. Accompanying the publication of the book Reflets d’Amérique by the atelier EXB, the exhibition brings together twenty-six photographs taken from 1970 to the present day, printed by the artist. Together, they tell the poetry of simple things in an America of big cities, suburbs and the rural world. Since the…
For a decade, The Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year has established itself as the leading award in food photography and widely contributed to expand the definition and understanding of the what and why of photographing food. The Eye of Photography has teamed up with the Award to shed a light on this ambitious programme. Let's meet Caroline Kenyon, its founder and director. What are the origins of…
Starting on November 26, 2022 Camera Work Gallery presents the exhibition Olaf Heine: Human Conditions with works by Berlin-based photographic artist Olaf Heine. Featuring more than 40 works, the exhibition shows numerous main works from the artist’s body of work as well as new photographs, which are exhibited for the very first time. It is Olaf Heine’s most comprehensive exhibition so far, who is exclusively presented by CAMERA WORK Gallery.…
He was born 1886 in Guadalajara and died 1980 in Madrid: José Ortiz Echagüe was a man of many talents. In 1914, the engineer and balloon and aircraft pilot, took part in the first successful attempt to fly across the Straits of Gibraltar. He also founded two of Spain’s most successful large corporations, namely the C.A.S.A. aircraft factory in 1923 and in 1950 the automobile manufacturer SEAT. At the same…
Christopher Anderson began photographing his family in a completely organic way. His images were simply the natural action of a partner trying to stop time, and not let one moment of his relationships slip by. As a photographer, he had never thought of his personal photographs as ‘work’ until photographer Tim Hetherington saw a photograph Anderson had made of his wife Marion and said, “this is about the passing of…
On the occasion of the publication of the book The American West, Les Douches la Galerie presents its fourth personal exhibition of Ernst Haas. Taken between 1952 and 1981, the thirty-two photographs presented testify to his sensitive explorations of the American West and the wide technical palette that characterizes his work. In the summer of 1952, Ernst Haas, an Austrian-American photographer, set off on a journey to the heart of…
This is the 27th installment of the online series by Peter Fetterman Gallery called the Power of Photography highlighting hope, peace and love in the world. We invite you to enjoy and reflect on these works during this time. William Klein (b. 1928) Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1990 © The Estate of William Klein/Courtesy Peter Fetterman Gallery Only a smart, sensitive, intelligent, maverick like William Klein could have pulled this image off. It indeed has power…
A.Galerie presents Storytelling by David Yarrow. Published by Rizzoli Editions and released in Europe and the United States, this new 350-page book includes more than 125 iconic photos of the artist and also includes a signed print. For more than two decades, British photographer David Yarrow has created evocative images of iconic personalities, sporting moments and endangered wildlife. The images in this book alone have generated nearly $40 million and…
This deluxe coffee table volume, Film Noir Portraits, is a collector’s edition of essential genre portraits by era-defining studio photographers such as Robert Coburn, Ernest Bachrach and A.L. Whitey. Film Noir Portraits, published in November 2022 by Reel Art Press, includes unseen images and previously unpublished outtakes from Night of the Hunter and Sweet Smell of Success, and classic stills from films like Gilda, Double Indemnity and Lady From Shanghai. Subjects range from A-list superstars (Robert Mitchum, Barbara Stanwyck,…
Samuel Fosso (Kumba, CM, 1962–Bangui, CF; Paris, FR) is one of the most renowned African photographers working today. He has been a key innovator in the great tradition of African studio photography since the mid- 1970s, developing and successively refining a distinctive form of explicitly theatrical self-portraiture. Fosso’s self-portraits blend photography with performance and intertwine autobiographical themes and conceptions of the self with political and historical perspectives. The works articulate…
The Escape Landscapes exhibition by Maja Strgar Kurečić presents abstract photography that belongs to the very top of contemporary Croatian photography. The exhibition consists of forty original large-format photographs. It is an abstract photography of an organic landscape that is both very personal and powerful. Escape Landscapes represent a great example of organic abstraction, which finds its foundations in Aaron Siskind's abstract photography focused on the details of things with…
A stunning collection of vintage studio photographs from Egypt, including princes, pashas, and members of the now vanished ruling class, presented in a sumptuous edition. From the invention of the camera, photographers, like painters, have sought to portray other people, and early studio photographs, with their highly stylized props, poses, and costumes, offer a beguiling window onto the prevailing fashions, tastes, and attitudes of their time. The portraits in this…
"Cafés", whatever the country, are the place where people meet spontaneously and where everyone is welcome. Friendly, one can meet people of all origins, all social classes, all religions. Each one of them is an actor, playing the main part in his own story. In 30 years of calendars, Lavazza has told us the stories of many of those people, mixing dreams and reality over a cup of coffee. …
Eaux troublées exhibition explores the controversial relationship between humankind and water: the most precious liquid, essential resource for life, basic part of our body, planet and living. Between 2009 and 2014 Edward Burtynsky travelled to five continents - from the Gulf of Mexico to the Ganges riverbanks - to capture the life cycle of water. He followed the course of rivers and studied the seas; he has described the different…