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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On August 6, 1965, exactly 20 years after the destruction of Hiroshima, Kawada Kikuji (born 1933) published his landmark photobook Chizu / The Map, a searing humanitarian statement about the profound effects of the nuclear bombings in Japan. Today, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has announced the important acquisition of the book’s 87 photographic images as well as their negatives, Kawada’s binders containing contact sheets and personal notes, and…
Declaration of love to Nature: photographer Joel Sartore photographs 20,000 species and fights against mass extinction. A former photographer for National Geographic magazine, Joel Sartore is the founder of the National Geographic Photo Ark. His personal commitment is clear: to photograph every species in captivity in the world. He was approached by CNN as part of the Call to Earth initiative. He explains the project: “The Photo Ark is the…
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the most important film festival in the country, the Centovalli and Pedemonte Regional Museum is pleased to pay tribute to the Locarno Film Festival with an exhibition by the well-known Swiss photographer René Burri. The latter, a great lover of the seventh art, attended the Festival for years, also sitting on the jury in 2004. Through his camera, which accompanied him on…
I started the book Unanimated in February 2003 and I finished it in 2015. Always shooting occasionally during my constant traveling. I was not entirely satisfied with the work, I felt the need to continue and, in 2020, I completed Unanimatedue. Meanwhile, Peter Weiermair, who had published Unanimated with his publishing house All Saints Press, passed away. I didn't have the energy to look for another publisher, and I published…
An American couple Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison’s fine art photography embodies a world of surreal and symbolic imagery, where Robert is the main character. Their photographs have been displayed in over 45 solo exhibitions and over 100 group shows worldwide and their work can also be found in over thirty-five collections, including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, The George Eastman House, The Whitney Museum, LACMA,…
Captured by Boogie, one of the most influential photographers of street culture in the new millennium, these edgy and gritty—nay, jolting—images track the darker side of Bangkok, Thailand…the Land of Smiles. "What comes to mind when you think of Thailand? For many, it's the Land of Smiles, but that couldn't be further from the truth," argues Boogie, "at least when you take the time to scratch beneath the surface." After…
I wanted for this exhibition to show my photos as I would have shown movies. I started to photograph actresses at the age of 16-17 and I found in them playmates with whom I have continued since, to create images, to take pictures, but most often wanted to put them in a place, in an atmosphere, as if this shot there, this image there, were the beginning of a film.…
After her mother’s death in 2010, Celine Marchbank started to clear out her mother’s house, sorting through everything she had left behind. As she stood staring at the boxes in her home, still in a state of shock, she began to discover her recipes, beautiful handwritten notes. Her mother Sue Miles, had been a head-chef for 40 years; described in her obituary in The Guardian as ‘the doyenne of the…
This month, it was my pleasure to interview the German-American collector Artur Walther, a true powerhouse in the fields of photography and art. For some time I’ve been following the activities and exhibitions of the recipient of the 2021 Culture Award of the German Photographic Society (DGPh Kulturpreis) and was thrilled to have this opportunity to chat with him about what's new. Nadine Dinter: Mr. Walther, you were just…
Claire and Philippe Ordioni : Jean-Claude Dreyfus beside himself. It all started - well almost - the day when Jean-Claude Dreyfus, who spent his life in the parallel worlds of theater and movies, "died" under the influence of mockery. It might sound terrible. But make no mistake, the actor is a hydra, a phoenix. Even better: a pretty flower. Claire and Philippe Ordioni as meticulous horticulturists took care of it.…
Mother and Father is a moving journal of the final years of a sixty-year marriage. For ten years, from 1997 to 2007 Paddy Summerfield photographed his parents, reflecting on the bond between them, which even the effects of Alzheimers could not break. They become symbols in a drama of balance and tension, which is both domestic and epic. As he says: “I recorded my mother’s loss of the world, my…
You can enjoy the magic of the landscapes of Tuscany, but an attractive destination for those who are keen on photography is located right in the heart of the region. Indeed, the 12th edition of the international photography festival Cortona On The Move, focusing on Me, Myself and Eye: The Intimate Relationship Between Photography, Society and Identity is on until October 2, with dozens of exhibitions, talks, portfolio reviews, conferences…
Eric Kroll: He is one of the last geniuses of New York photography world. Alternately photojournalist, erotic photographer, publisher, curator of exhibitions but above all a lady's man whom he collected all his life. He has just released a huge book: The New York Years 1971-1994. It is a pure marvel for those who adore this era. He entrusted us with these images as well as this text by his…
We have already told you about this wonderful bookstore and small gallery "John Doe Books" in Coustellet in the Vaucluse. This village which is home to one of the best farmers' markets in France on Wednesdays and Sundays. The gallery this summer hosted an exhibition by Lluis Ripoll. Here it is with the text that accompanies it! Jean-Jacques Naudet The bookstore and small gallery "John Doe Books" in Coustellet,…
Taunus Foto Galerie in Bad Homburg is showing Monochrome Perspectives, a series of exhibitions lasting some months, all black and white - some analogue, some digital. The cycle start with the well-known landscape photographers Roman Loranc and Oliver Miller. Both are connected by decades of intuitive enthusiasm for monochrome photography, with which they capture their visual landscape experiences through compositions of unique moments of light and shadow; these are then…