Published by TBW Books, here is My Mother, My Son by Mary Frey. Using the title of her 2004 photograph, My Mother, My Son, as an inspirational and creative starting point, Mary Frey pulls from her vast archive of photographs to create a pictorial story collapsing linear time. Frey intimately and masterfully captures subjects at ease in environments that feel, at once, wholly familiar yet unmoored from their own reality.…
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This new book published by GOST Books presents a typology of 100 portraits of households in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia taken in 2020 during some of the strictest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world. The restrictions allowed photographer Luke David Kellett a unique opportunity to compile a visual representation of architecture and inhabitants of Newcastle and contribute to a collective memory of the period. “I’ve only felt compelled to work…
Éditions du Ruisseau presents the book Le Bordeaux des grands photographers. Between the 1930s and 1960s, Jean Dieuzaide, Willy Ronis, Robert Doisneau, François Kollar, Henri Cartier-Bresson and René-Jacques came to photograph the Aquitaine capital and its surroundings. The streets and monuments of old Bordeaux, the still active harbour de la Lune, the grape harvests with ox carts in Margaux or Saint-Émilion, the small street trades, the oyster farmers' huts of…
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Symphony Symphony is a series of personal works that come close to painting and pay homage to it, without crossing the line between photography and painting. Kami Zargham www.kamiphoto.com
The Galerie Roger-Viollet Hors les Murs and the city hall of the 10ᵉ arrondissement of Paris present their new exhibition Irmeli Jung - Visages de Paris et d'ailleurs. Born in Finland in 1947, Irmeli Jung discovered photography at the age of 13. In 1965, she moved to Hanover in Germany and completed her apprenticeship with the photographer Kurt Julius. In January 1968, while she was staying in Paris, a friend…
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…
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Joey L’s Ethiopia is a visual ode to every region of the country and a celebration of all the diverse peoples found within. This highly anticipated volume explores the cultural, physical, and natural glory of Ethiopia, from iconic locations to unseen regions that remain lesser known. Joey L’s lens explores every corner of the country, from the cosmopolitan hub of Addis Ababa famous for its Ethiopian Jazz, to the hinterlands…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the actuality of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine has a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. For the past fifteen years, Daniel Gordon has been composing exuberant and colourful photographs from objects made of images. Playing with the codes of photography, sculpture and…
The Opioid crisis in the United States has become one of the most worrisome issue across the land. Between the increase of the International drug trade and the drug consumption by American citizens, the United State government and its attached drug law inforcement agencies have been incapable in stemming the flow of illicit drugs crossing its Southern borders. The illegal drug trade is, however, only part of the story. Indeed…
In his debut monograph 'Portlanders', Nick Gervin presents a surreal look into the flip-side of contemporary American life, all captured on the stage of the small city of Portland, Maine. In December 2008, Gervin suffered a traumatic head injury after being assaulted, an event that would dramatically alter the course of his life. Barely able to afford rent after having recently been laid off from work in the fallout of…
The Hulett Collection presents this selection of newly acquired works by René Groebli. The Hulett Collection 1311 E. 15th St. Tulsa, OK 74120 www.thehulettcollection.com
Jean-Jacques Debout : Following our own instinct Successful performer and composer, Jean-Jacques Debout crosses the ages. Untiring, and known for being unfiltered, the artist has lived a thousand lives, rubbed shoulders with the greatest artists before they became icons, and forged unimaginable friendships. From Charlie Chaplin to Mick Jagger, from Jean-Paul Belmondo to Johnny Hallyday, or Marlene Dietrich, all have crossed his path and marked his life with incredible anecdotes,…
I never thought that the Russians would invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022. I was betting it was a bluff of Comrade Putin trying to obtain concessions by threat. I was wrong. The augurs were right: these eight years spent testing themselves in the trenches on both sides were finally going to materialize in a real good old-fashion war. The Russians were winning! The people's army had triumphed over many…
The exhibition Francesca Galliani INCROLLABILE (UNWEVAERING) just closed at VisionQuesT 4rosso in Genova. We wished anyway to share her work with you. After more than twenty years, these unique photographs have emerged from Francesca Galliani's archives (photographs that Galliani printed in analogue and selenium and sepia toned herself); the unchanged tension given by the combination of faces and bodies, - only apparently unambiguous in genre – is expressed by the…
The book is very surprising. The title is: Eaux fortes. The author is Christophe Jacrot. He wrote these few sentences at the beginning of the book: “One day during the summer of 2022, flames dangerously surrounded the hamlet and the house where I live in the Drôme. Never have I dreamed so much of rain, cold, snow and bad weather! A lost world, that of our childhood, where I remember…
Patrick Gilliéron Lopreno publishes a book of photographs U-TURN with the Editions Till Schaap in Switzerland with a text by the writer Slobodan Despot ("Le Miel", Gallimard). This book defends the different spiritualities as a bulwark against chaos and the announced catastrophe. Here is an excerpt of the text by Slobodan Despot: Strangeness Weekly When did we enter the technosphere? Barely two centuries ago, and that seems like a civilization to…
The exposition ended recently. Still, here is Roland Blum’s work. The place Originally a hospice of the Order of St. John, built in 1218, the small church in the middle of Feldkirch's historic centre is now, after a chequered history, home to an extraordinary exhibition space for contemporary art. The relics of the past range from the Romanesque foundation walls to the Baroque frescoes and the New Gothic high altar.…
Triennale Milano’s 23rd International Exhibition, called Unknown Unknowns, will be extended until January 8th 2023. Initially due to close December 11th the high levels of public interest has led the organisers to extend the three main exhibitions for another month. 23rd Triennale Milano International Exhibition Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries July 15 – January 8, 2023 Triennale Milano Viale Alemagna 6 20121 Milan, Italy https://triennale.org/
In celebration of Inge Morath’s upcoming centennial in May, 2023 — Versicherungskammer Kulturstiftung's Kunstfoyer, CLAIRByKahn and the Inge Morath Estate present a retrospective exhibition of Magnum Photos photographer, Inge Morath (1923-2002). The exhibition titled “Inge Morath - Hommage” showcases over 200 images from Inge’s prolific career featuring her iconic images, as well as portraits of celebrities, artists, and literary figures. Inge Morath was born in Graz, Austria, on 27 May,…
Photographer for fashion and advertising during the two decades preceding the year 2000, Gilles Serrand surprised with his colors, his lighting and his humor, often quirky, sometimes provocative. A burst of laughter on the tattered walls, Susie's yellow sweater, her smile... I gasp, I exult! the woman is not an object, but part of a radiant tomorrow. The bus had disappeared with all the musicians, the technicians, and there was…
The MUUS Collection is a group of photography archives based in the United States that brings together bodies of work that mark major turning points in history. The growing archive of preeminent photographers that is ever evolving and expanding, currently includes nearly half a million images and supporting ephemera, including contact sheets, personal papers, manuscripts, publications, and more. MUUS Collection is a functional archive that showcases and elevates the works…