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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After a first tour of Hamburg that took us from a bourgeois building in the Altona district to the impressive History Museum, passing by the Museum of Fine Arts, Labor and Ethnology... We continue our journey to discover the last six exhibitions that make up this ambitious edition of the Hamburg Photographic Triennial. Before returning to the center of Hamburg and looking up at this fascinating multi-faceted architecture, at once…
Littoral Marseille is a series that documents, in the form of a puzzle, a narrow strip of land: 20 km long from Estaque to Prado beach, a few tens of meters wide, always as close as possible to the sea. in Marseille, the sea is neither central nor touristic. The center is the Old Port and La Canebière, not the Chemin du littoral hidden under a highway. Thus, to the…
In his collection of drawings Un peu de Paris (2001) Sempé sketched Parisian scenes and places with tenderness, poetry and humour. The title of Éric Laforgue's new exhibition is a nod to and a tribute to the famous cartoonist. Graphic decorations The photographer has tightened the boundaries of his urban explorations to the 13th arrondissement, close to Ivry-sur-Seine where he lives. He strolls, day or night, in these new neighborhoods…
Alter Ego Nudity is the ultimate form of self-expression. It is precisely this form of expression and the struggle one has with their identity which Bert Van Pelt showcases in his poetic photography of young men. His latest project, Alter Ego, evokes this part of our personality that sometimes has difficulty to emerge. Engaged in a conceptual artistic process, he has been able to renew the genre of the male…
The Jeu de Paume pays tribute to the photographer Frank Horvat, who died on October 21, 2020 at the age of ninety-two, with an exhibition presented at the Château de Tours from June 17 to October 30, 2022. Accompanied by a monograph, it brings a renewed vision of the fiery activity of the photographer during his first fifteen years of career, from 1950 to 1965, a period during which he…
From June 17 to August 14, 2022, Maison Doisneau presents Mary Ellen Mark, the lives of women and Lavoir Numérique L'été au Lavoir. Mary Ellen Mark (Philadelphia, 1940 - New York, 2015) is probably one of the most unique photographers of the 20th century. She belongs to this family of artists who measured themselves against the reality of the world and who questioned the margins of our societies where the…
The exhibition “Drowning in Plastic” by James Whitlow Delano will open at the Pangea Photo Festival in Italy on 18 June through 18 September 2022. Here is the introduction to the series. Here’s the biggest problem with plastic: It is one of humanity’s most versatile inventions. Even steel, a metal alloy, which can be bent into a pretzel, is heavier and less versatile by a long shot than plastics. Plastics…
The title is intriguing: «Reconsidérer la photographie érotique». (“Reconsidering erotic photography”). The text itself is brilliant and of great intelligence. In this 1987 essay, historian Abigail Solomon-Godeau traces avenues for exploring a history of erotic and pornographic photographic production, a history hitherto repressed and absent from narratives. Thus opening the door to a feminist and revised history of the photographic medium, she shows how much this imagery has been abundant…
On June 18 and 19, 2022, the artist Malo Jénin presents his exhibition Ubiquité (Ubiquity), the culmination of a research initiated several years ago on the scope of the medium. Photography thus becomes the basis of a broader, interdisciplinary reflection, the purpose of which is systematically to highlight the nobility and poetry of each situation, of each image. Faced with the diversity of points of view that photography suggests, Ubiquité…
The Monthly Chronicle of Thierry Maindrault We have all, at one time or another, heard of the innumerable and invisible black holes which would represent the largest part of the supposed mass of our known universe. These phenomena are conspicuous for the lack of light which characterizes them. For the lovers of light that we are, let us specify that the plausible explanation is the absorption and concentration of matter…
Galerie Bene Taschen in Cologne presents the new solo show Hang Time by Gregory Bojorquez. The American photographer Gregory Bojorquez started taking pictures in the 1990s, documenting everyday life in East Los Angeles, where he was born in 1972. He quickly became known for his images of local subcultures, such as skaters, car tuners, and gang members. Hang Time shows his friends and neighbors living la vida loca, the crazy…
Gourcuff Gradenigo Editions presents previously unseen work on the Franco-Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). The author Doïna Lemny, specialist of Brancusi, paints a meticulous and illustrated portrait of this recognized sculptor, differentiating herself from the monographs produced on the latter by offering a new enlightened vision of his work. Punctuated with numerous archival illustrations, the book is above all a formidable source of black and white photographs of Brancusi's works,…
There are sometimes surprising moments like the one yesterday when we received these images from Yutaka Takahashi : Mantis Religiosa. This exhibition is presented by Helio as part of lille3000/Utopia. Cultural event whose theme is the relationship between the living and nature. It is visible until August 13, 2022 at the Nadar gallery of the André Malraux media library in Tourcoing. It is accompanied by this amazing text from the…
TINTERA presents the first solo exhibition by Maria Saba in Cairo. Throughout the main gallery space, Saba presents four bodies of work from 2017 to the present day, in which she examines issues of identity and place in relation to living between two countries and cultures: Egypt and France. Urban Jungle (2017-2022) is a photographic series that evokes the relationship between body language and the urban environment. Primarily focused on…
The photographer : Cédric Roux. He called his exhibition My Wonderland. He presents it like this: "It took me a first trip to New York to overcome my natural shyness and dare to take the plunge to start photographing. Since that day, I try to take pictures. “My Wonderland” is a quirky look at the streets of New York, sharp street photography showing my love for this city." Cédric Roux…