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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The world of Katia Gehrung captured with its different phases is made of humor and seriousness. Intelligence is always at the rendezvous in what would appear to be exercises in imbecility. And it is no coincidence that Venus comes out of the water or crashes in the middle of roads or fields and other places at her own risk. Nevertheless, onlookers run the same danger where the artist forges his…
The Loewentheil Collection is announcing its first virtual exhibition of selections from the world’s largest and finest collection of early photography of China. “Seizing Shadows: Rare Photographs by late Qing Dynasty Masters,” a virtual exhibition in English and Chinese, is the first exhibition devoted to photographs by the first Chinese photographers. The photographs were taken from the 1860s to 1903. The virtual exhibition is filled with engaging multimedia content that…
Ira Stehmann Fine Art celebrates the summer and its good vibes with an online exclusive exhibition. The depiction of the beach, sea, and sun provoke strong summer feelings. These good vibes and emotions are transported in an uplifting selection of well-known photographs by renowned artists, among them Norman Parkinson, and Jeanloup Sieff as well as by up-and-coming talents such as Albarrán Cabrera. Let the lightness that these photographs breathe have…
Because only the print on the wall can show you what the photographer intended. Seeing the pictures currently on display at Peter Fetterman’s gallery is a revelatory experience. First, because Fetterman is a consummate collector and his holdings represent a lifetime of choosing with a discerning eye. Then because the images reveal themselves to be even more beautiful this way than seeing them on any screen. Most readers of L’oeil…
The exhibition Bande-annonce, The Pigozzi Collection in Cannes proposes a journey through contemporary African creation, one of the most dynamic art scenes in the world. This event also foreshadows the new museum project of the City of Cannes, devoted to contemporary African art and Jean Pigozzi’s world-renowned collection. The Gare maritime of Cannes, a hub for meetings and exchanges and a symbol of travel and new horizons, is the ideal…
It was one of the most original exhibitions of the Gaspesie Festival. It is called A Fragile Landscape. It is signed by Ewa Monika Zebrowski. It is accompanied by her text. Venice continues to seduce me: limpid, operatic, ephemeral. A destination of 118 islands, 177 canals and 400 bridges. suspended between heaven and earth. A city floating in time and space. I always prefer to visit Venice in winter when…
The Bonne Espérance gallery based in Paris is one of the most specialized in contemporary artistic creations and works from Southern Africa. In the field of photography, the gallery is the custodian of a large part of the photographic work of the great German photographer Jurgen Schadeberg. The major part of his activity was in South Africa and was devoted to the important evolution of this society over half a century. His…
Robert Mack, photographer, visual artist, photographed and filmed criminally insane men for his project, Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity. These extremely rare black and white photographs were taken in 1981 and are compassionate yet sobering portraits of insane patients many who have committed murder. The legal courts determined these men to be dangerous to themselves or others, and so they are were sent to a maximum security hospital for…
John Alinder, son of a farmer, was born in 1878 in the village of Sävasta, Altuna parish, in Uppland, a province in eastern central Sweden. Alinder remained in the village all his life. He chose not to take over his parents’ farm and instead became a self-taught photographer and jack of all trades. He was a music lover, holder of the Swedish agency for the British record label and gramophone…
Nature * Patterns is a multidisciplinary photography-based exhibition presented by Galerie Caroline O’Breen (Amsterdam). Italian artist Maura Biava approaches her exhibition Nature * Patterns in a collaborative, sustainable and inclusive way, inviting visual artist Anne Geene (NL) and Emily Joyce (US) and a fashion designer Saskia Van Drimmelen (NL) to elaborate with her on the theme of patterns. The show combines several techniques and opens up photography to fashion, performance…
Hungarian photographer Anna Fabricius loves to portray people and more particularly today's modern women. Her portraits are a mixture of genres. Her approach to images is very cinematic while flirting with the world of comics. She meticulously directs the entire scene and the placing of the protagonists in the image. She also likes to take situations and people out of context to get a new perspective, while adding a humorous…
Bruce Silverstein presents Michael Wolf: Facade, a special online exhibition featuring the abstracted images of one of the artist’s most recognizable subjects - skyscrapers. Wolf’s highly detailed large-scale photographs, shot from windows, rooftops, and terraces, depict the architecture of steel and glass and offer a dystopian view of the exteriors of the urban habitat while leaving traces of the lives within. Michael Wolf investigated new perspectives on urban life and…
Once upon a time before crack, inner-city communities were blighted by poverty and unemployment—but not by the drug wars that tore families apart, destroying lives with needless violence and mindless addiction. Once upon a time before crack, pride and style were as inseparable as a beatbox and mixtape, or as a pair of shoes and matching purse. Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working…
Her name is Séverine Sajous. She sent us a very touching story. Here it is ! Nestled between the very chic Galeries Lafayette and the Opéra Garnier, in the heart of the opulent 9th arrondissement of Paris, a former five-star luxury hotel (the W), which has never reopened since the first confinement, has been transformed until July 2022 in an emergency reception center for 82 women and 63 children in…
Vancouver Beaches Beaches, mountains and forests surround Vancouver and frame the glass towers and other usual city dwellings created by humanity. Perhaps this is why Vancouver excels in surveys which judge quality of life. This natural beauty is a constant reminder that we are the ones that are invading nature and that nature will always be bigger than us. There are several beaches that can be enjoyed throughout Vancouver and…