Steidl presents Nags Head, Joel Sternfeld’s candid images of an Outer Banks summer, which went on to inform his seminal work American Prospects. Joel Sternfeld entwines two personal stories in this book that together reveal the roots and evolution of color theory in his work over the past five decades. In the summer of 1975, facing surgery with a risk of paralysis, Sternfeld went in search of a last idyll—and…
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Presented by the ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, The Luminescence of Memory consists of a selection of daguerrotypes taken by Binh Danh at various US National Parks, such as Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Yosemite National Parks. Beyond these beautiful silvered landscapes, Danh uses the National Parks as a way to explore his experience having immigrated to the United States from Vietnam as a child. In a way, these daguerreotypes visualize…
Her name: Marylise Vigneau. She just won the Gomma Grant with these images. "Aarzoo" is an Urdu word meaning wish and longing. This series is about these emotions and their deviations. It is a subjective journey through Pakistan, a country that remains a riddle despite several extended stays since 2010 and the mix of exasperation and tenderness I feel for it. The construction of these diptychs occurred slowly over the…
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Josef Dapra is an Austrian photographer born in 1922. Starting from the idea that "The world is all that is going on" dear to Wittgenstein, he doubled reality as it is with his portraits of the women of his country. When knowledge is inscribed on the matrix of reality, the artist adds an extra bit of soul to it. He gives each portrait a special emotion. Suggestion creates a particular…
Leonardo Glauso, 1989, born and grew up in Florence is a professional photographer specialized in artistic nude and fashion photography. He has a degree in graphic design at Libera Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. He also studied photography at Scuola Internazionale di Fotografia in Florence. Between 2014 and 2017 he lived in Milan where he collaborated as Fashion Photographer for agency and fashion's magazines. He always travel in the…
Color for Color. No psycho-babble title, the subject is the color. I am a Rochester Institute of Technology BFA graduate and was fortunate to have studied with Minor White and Ansel Adams. Pete Turner was a big early influence with his great use of color and sense of design. I was always interested in color photography, but was frustrated with the printed results. Digital photography made it possible to get results that match expectations.…
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The Françoise Demulder Award, created by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan international photojournalism festival, promotes the careers of women press photographers by awarding every year two of them for the quality and uniqueness of their project. The 2022 edition rewards Nanna Heitmann and Adrienne Surprenant. Nanna Heitmann (born in 1994), for her reportage War is peace on the indoctrination of the Russian population carried out by…
Last year, I got a chance to work with a group of Polish photographers, following an invitation by curator Jens Pepper, and discovered the work of Karolina Wojtas. One of her images particularly stuck in my mind: a boy, eyes closed, whose face is covered by a green plastic bag. Shockingly brutal yet somehow innocent, this and other photographs I encountered during the show, testify to the punch and power…
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie from January 27 through May 1, 2023. Organized by renowned writer and curator Helen Molesworth, the exhibition presents portraits of luminaries in the arts by three of the most prominent portraitists of our time. Face to Face will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by ICP and…
“How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.” - Victor Hugo After having been displayed throughout the summer of 2022 under the vaults of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier as part of the partnership between the Metropolis of Orleans and Danysz Gallery, "Tumultes" is presented from January 28 to February 25, 2023 at Danysz Paris - Marais. Icy and Sot, Liu Bolin, Robert Montgomery, Charles Pétillon, Rero…
On the occasion of the upcoming Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, The Eye of Photography discussed developments in food photography with Michael Pritchard, director of Education and Public Research at the Royal Photographic Society. Michael Pritchard, could you tell us about the genesis of food photography? Food and its associated accoutrements have been associated with photography from its earliest days in the 1840s when the inventor of…
The three 2022 winners of the Prix Polyptyque are exhibited at the Galerie Sit Down until February 25! Julia Gat, Andréa Graziosi and the duo Jeanne and Moreau. They were chosen by a jury which was composed of Pascal Beausse, head of the CNAP photography collection, Françoise Bornstein, director of the Sit Down Gallery, Florence Bourgeois, director of Paris Photo, Pascal Neveux, director of the FRAC Picardie Hauts de France,…
Until March 19, the New York gallery Miguel Abreu presents the exhibition of François-Marie Banier entitled: Writings and Pictures. “I don’t know if I have any talent, and I won’t be able to know it, neither will you, nor your children, history wins (will it be capable of knowing it?) but I’m 18 years old and nurture ambitions, too many perhaps, I love life and very much like myself. I…
The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ) presents the exhibition The Tribulations of Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950. Our edition today is dedicated to Blumenfeld, one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. An experimenter and innovator, he produced an extensive body of work including drawings, collages, portraits and nudes, celebrity portraits, advertising campaigns and his renowned fashion photography both in black and white and color. With many thanks…
“Each image a story. As I take beauty seriously. All my portraits are charged with the moment that is mine.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 Before making it his profession, Blumenfeld practiced photography as an amateur – an activity he discovered at the age of 10, when he received his first box camera from an American uncle, which was followed by many cameras. Among his many…
“I seek, balancing on the limits of the possible, to release the unreal from reality, to realize visions, to penetrate through unknown transparencies.” Erwin Blumenfeld, “The mystery of reality rediscovered by photography”, L’Amour de l’art, Paris, 1938 Erwin Blumenfeld's career as a photographer began in Amsterdam when, his leather goods business in decline, he asked his clients to take their portraits. In 1932, he discovered in his back room a…
“There are many wonders in the world, but nothing is more wonderful than dreams. Awakened, I could never regain its creative power.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In 1937, Blumenfeld created a series of a nude veiled in wet silk around Margarethe von Sievers, a Swedish countess. In the exhibition, these are series about draped and veiled nude that we have sought to reveal, thus highlighting…
“ More than anyone else I owe Führer Schicklgruber. Without him […], I would not have had the courage to become a photographer. […] As a thank you, I made on the night of his accession to power a horror montage of his face with a skull and I then, completely drunk, ran through the night on the twenty -five kilometers that separate Amsterdam from Aerdenhout.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et…
"What I really wanted: to be a photographer in onself, art for art's sake, a new world that the American Jew Man Ray had just discovered in triumph." Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 From his installation in Paris in 1936, inspired by the example of Man Ray, Blumenfeld engaged in a number of experiments. The female body became the main object of his formal explorations. He…
“I thought I was the victim of a collective hallucination: neither France nor I could have fallen so low.“ Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In the summer of 1939, Blumenfeld traveled to New York and signed a contract with Harper's Bazaar to follow Parisian fashion. He returned to France in August 1939 and was surprised by the war. A German national (although stateless), he had to…
"I decided to smuggle culture into my new homeland, to thank it for welcoming me." Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In the United States, Blumenfeld managed to continue his personal experiments despite his intense activity for fashion magazines and in advertising. In 1941, he also embarked on color photography with Kodachrome and then Ektachrome. It will define an America in color and freedom. Here we show…