Commuter Motions Traveling from the industrial town of Easton, Pennsylvania, through sparsely populated western New Jersey, and into the cacophony of New York City, Commuter Motions is a photography series that develops from the experiential capture of an eighty-mile commute. By opposing the usual fixity of photography, the series attempts to capture the energy and movement of that commute using an almost Bergsonian approach, which, through time-lapse, builds images from…
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On the road to Woleu Ntem A family story as a starting point, then images of a journey on a freshly paved road. The machine disembowels the country from bottom to top, and reveals an African photographic atmosphere. A travel diary where Jocelyn Trembleau takes the road in Gabon, which is good for him.
White regality In Copenaghen, UNESCO World Capital of Architecture 2023-2025, I have had the great privilege to enter The Royal Danish Opera House’s by the Danish architect Henning Larsen and I have been impressed by the elegant geometry of its interiors. From the chandeliers in the foyer created by the international artist Olafur Eliasson to the design of the main spaces, everything resonates with the surrounding landscape of the city…
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We know Belgian artist Bart Ramakers mainly for his elaborately staged photographic scenes, in which he playfully actualises mythological scenes, legends, gospels and other classical tales. In the process, he mixes very diverse narrative elements and likes to turn roles around, turn things upside down, to create a new mythology, sometimes alienating and surreal, often baroque, always sumptuous in an excess of detail, sensual and enchanting. Sideways We saw this…
This is the funniest email of the week and we love the pictures! I have been working on this project for a long time, at a slow pace because it takes me a lot of time, energy, and it is for various reasons complex to organize. I have for the moment 9 images, which seems to me the minimum number to start calling it a series; and I said to…
The historically 'Foxy Lady', is hardy enough to stand this. Cheyco Leidmann’s highly influential work, its influences and impact and how his work shot forty years ago seeded so much, and as color spread so far, this book, reprinted in seven editions and distributed in twenty countries and hailed by Vogue magazine as one out of the nine significant iconic classic art books for the last five decades, intends to…
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As soon as you see the first two exhibitions of Luma: James Barnor and Arthur Jafa: you understand: the scenography is sublime and the presentation perfect, Arles has entered contemporary art and we have just changed eras. The city breathes this change. Every day, houses, apartments, buildings change owners. This week, half of the city was under Airbnb status and 115 shops had turned into paying galleries. 300 meters from…
Etherton Gallery presents the work of one of the most influential photographers of the American West, Jay Dusard, in their new summer show, Jay Dusard: Cowboy with a Camera. Cowboy with a Camera features a selection of monumental scale, cowboy portraits most of which were made during 1980-1982. In 1981, Jay Dusard was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and embarked on an epic adventure, photographing the working cowboys and women of…
For its next major annual exhibition, the Abbaye de Daoulas invites the MEG-Ethnography Museum of Geneva with “Africa. The religions of ecstasy”. This exhibition offers a trip to Africa, to discover the religious cultures of this continent; a real plunge into an atmosphere of mysticism and discovery of the fervor of believers. Faithful to its vocation to take up major social issues, including the most sensitive ones, the Abbey of…
In her photographic series Sous la peau (Under the skin), produced during an artist residency in Rio de Janeiro at the end of 2021, beginning of 2022 at the invitation of the French Embassy in Brazil, Pauline Daniel continued her work initiated in France with and for the Food Banks on the theme “fighting waste” (Peel me, October 2014). In Under the Skin, the photographer focuses on the aesthetic representation…
Sarah Schorr is an American photographic artist, educator and researcher living in Denmark. Presently, she is completing her Munn/Versailles Foundation Fellowship Artist Residency at Claude Monet’s Garden and home in Giverny, France. She is a daily swimmer, which has drawn her to the subject and nature of water. Monet conceived and was inspired by his gardens which included water as a focus. As well, Schorr’s captivation comes from water and…
Oded Wagenstein : Giving and Receiving Photographer and lecturer, Oded Wagenstein uses photography as a medium to explore the link between aging and exclusion. His work on this subject has been published by National Geographic, the Washington Post, the BBC, the Guardian, VOGUE, and others, and has been exhibited internationally, including exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery (London, UK), the United Nations (New York, USA), and other venues. He holds…
Robert Mann Gallery considers all the artists they work with family, and some actually are. Robert Mann Gallery presents their summer exhibition, Friends + Family. This exhibition features works by artists connected not only through the gallery that exhibits their work, but also through the strong ties built between artists sharing a craft. Many artists or thereafter their estates have been with Mann since the 1980’s. After 40 years this…
On the occasion of the exhibition Jean Painlevé: Le pieds dans l'eau at the Jeu de Paume from June 8 – September 18, 2022 Gitterman Gallery is presenting an online exhibition as a tribute to Jean Painlevé. Painlevé was a French filmmaker and photographer whose work was innovative, both in its scientific exploration and its artistic expression. His underwater imagery of sea creatures helped expand the visual vocabulary of the…
Copied, imitated, diverted, lent, stolen, hidden or evacuated during the wars, and recently encrusted, The Mona Lisa "L.H.O.O.Q."* since Leonardo da Vinci! Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr *ref. Marcel Duchamp
For his second exhibition at the in camera gallery, the Catalan photographer Txema Salvans guides us, as usual, through a candid journey far from any artifice. Industrial areas, cargo ports, power stations and evanescent seaside resorts, the series “My Kingdom” documents with humor and light tenderness the gloomy summer adventures of the Spaniards. “I photograph my own culture, people and landscapes. I have to feel a physical connection with the…
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait? - Charles Baudelaire The human urge to immortalize its likeness is as old as the emergence of civilization: the Ancient Greek immortalized important figures in marble and stone, Ancient Egyptian portraiture flourished from about 5,000 years ago. Before the invention of photography, painting, sculpting, and drawing were the only ways to record someone’s appearance.…
Jonk releases his eighth book, Après l’hiver (After Winter), an illustrated post-apocalyptic novel. The pitch: 2026, near Paris. A global conflict and the successive nuclear winter will soon cause the end of life on Earth. Caught off guard, a scientist specializing in cryogenics decides to be the first human guinea pig for his experiments and programs an awakening ten years later. When he opens his eyes, the world is not the…
Pre-war tennis, between sportswear and ready-to-wear. From the 1920s, athletes abandoned tie and long skirt for an outfit more suited to the practice of tennis while maintaining elegance. Some athletes declined their name as a brand and opened shops that combine "sport" and "city", this was the beginning of "sportswear". Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet6, rue de Seine 75006 Pariswww.roger-viollet.fr
Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle Whether their name is Aesop, de La Fontaine, Perrault or Orwell, literary creators have often taken malicious pleasure in identifying us, with our vices and our virtues, to the animal family. The fox is cunning, the ant remains a bit stingy, the heron appears dismissive and the cat - even when running with long strides - displays its independence and subtlety. Today, I'm going to tell…
The photo agency MYOP took over the courtyard of the Archdiocese this year. Take advantage of it, it is the only free place of this festival, and it houses all the professional organizations providing aid and support for photography. And it is also the only place where despite the sadness and gloomy concern, a certain conviviality remains! Jean-Jacques Naudet www.myop.fr www.rencontres-arles.com