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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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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Until May 6, Polka Galerie presents The Circuit, the exhibition by Bruce Gilden. In the spring of 2020, when the Covid forced the world to isolate itself, Bruce Gilden is stuck at home in New York State, without an assistant, with his Leica, his wife and his car. He who adores movement, feels imprisoned and has the feeling of suffocating. “Bruce was starting to lose the ball, explains his wife…
Until May 6, Polka Galerie presents Welcome to Paradise, the new exhibition by Philippe Chancel. "I wanted to realize, to see for myself, that we are indeed in this world." - Philippe Chancel Nature is no exception. It is another victim of this forced march towards prosperity that the photographer describes. In Flint (2015), this city in the United States once renowned for its flourishing economy, the population today suffers…
The influential New York photographer Jamel Shabazz has created portraits of the city’s communities for over 40 years. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Shabazz began photographing people he encountered on New York streets in the late 1970s, creating an archive of cultural shifts and struggles across the city. His portraits underscore the street as a space for self-presentation, whether through fashion or pose. In every instance Shabazz aims, in his…
Until March 28, Laetitia Lesaffre exhibits at the Galerie de la Sainte Chapelle at the Court of Appeal in Paris. Her exhibition is titled: Kintsugi. She presents it like this: Kintsugi, reflections of women: Repair. Rebuild. Reinvent. The Kintsugi comes from the Japanese Kin (gold) and Tsugi (joint), and therefore literally means: gold joint. This ancestral technique, discovered in the 15th century in Japan, consists of repairing broken ceramics with…
It’s rare to come across an artist who has slipped into obscurity after gaining significant recognition. Such is the case for Ann Treer (also know as Agatha Reimann) a photographer of Hungarian descent who created a small but concise body of photographs during the 1950’s and 1960's. Robert Mann Gallery presents an exhibition of Treer’s beautiful and sensitive works, opening on March 8, 2023. Treer passed away in 1985 and…
For 10 years, photographer Andréa Blanch has been publishing a marvel of magazine: Musée. Number 28 is on presale! https://museemagazine.com/magazine/musee-magazine-issue-no-28?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=63f7b3380802a633f6ec671e&ss_email_id=63ff3e73689fbd49ec930fe7&ss_campaign_name=Moment%3A+James+Marquis&ss_campaign_sent_date=2023-03-01T12%3A01%3A49Z https://museemagazine.com/
It’s my greatest pleasure to kick off a new series for The Eye of Photography. Together with the established “What’s New” features that we have been sharing with you since September 2019, our new series presents in-depth interviews with renowned gallerists, publishers, curators, and more. I am thrilled to start with one of the most famous New York-based gallerists – Howard Greenberg. Ever since I started working in photography, Greenberg’s…
Until May 28, the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation in Arles exhibits Gilles Massot. Beyond a discipline, Gilles expresses multiple expressions where the fabric of mixed stories is woven, imprinted with particular emotions, with the aim of giving us the elegance of the moment, carried by a constant flow of interior music. A dancer, he carries his energy towards an elsewhere, without borders, while being framed by the grid of the world,…
Guerlain's bee bottle seen by 11 women photographers An exhibition in tribute to the oldest perfume bottle which celebrates its 170th anniversary this year and the 400th anniversary of the Pochet du Courval factory. Eleven contemporary artists send in their own way a very personal message to the Dear Eugenie. Each establishes an intimate dialogue with the Empress through this precious Flacon aux Abeilles by summoning in turn light, transmission,…
The French National Assembly, upon the initiative of its president Mrs. Yaël Braun-Pivet, organized an exhibition Pierres vives d’un monde en mutation. Portraits d’Iran 2017 – 2022 by photographer Alexandre Arminjon, in the salons of the Hôtel de Lassay. The exhibition is part of the support process deployed by the National Assembly to Iranian men and women who defend their freedom. Attracted by the heritage of ancient Persia, Alexandre Arminjon…
VisionQuesT 4rosso presents the exhibition Les Inconnues by Alessandra Calò (a tribute to Anna Atkins and Constance Fox Talbot). The project pays tribute to Anna Atkins and Constance Fox Talbot, the first two women who created photographs and illustrated books using photographic images. Since the origins of photography, an extraordinary union between photographic images and publishing has come about, destined to last over the centuries. In the nineteenth century, together…
Yas Crawford : Abstraction & Ambiguity Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, where the geological landscape and biological composition have subliminally influenced her work, Yas Crawford is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and a Fellow of the Geological Society. Also a geology graduate with a master's degree in photography, she has held a variety of positions in the business world, has been a business leader in the life sciences, and…
Séquences japonaises is the book of a flâneur. Michel Vermare, an amateur photographer born in 1945, has spent many years walking the streets of Tokyo. From these decades of wandering, he has drawn a set of bewitching images in which the city is revealed in a new light, peaceful and frozen in time, far from the teeming energy that we know. The hundred or so photographs that make up this…
Pierre Apraxine died on the night of February 25 to 26 in New York. Of rare elegance, culture and class, he was the absolute eye of photography and the craftsman of one of the most beautiful collections of photographs in the world: the Gilman collection. The end of the 1960s and the 1970s saw the birth of a mythical generation of collectors, dealers and museum curators to whom we owe…
For five decades, the photographer Mitch Epstein has taken the American scene as his subject. His iconic images of the nation at leisure in a pre-selfie, pre-digital era will be on view at Yancey Richardson from February 23 through April 8, 2023. Titled Recreation, the exhibition portrays American celebrations, rituals, competitions, travel and other pursuits from 1973 to 1988. With a wry and subtle wit, Epstein presents a late 20th…