Art historian Maeva Dubrez has published a well-documented essay on Deborah Turbeville's work, the fruit of extensive research, with ACTEDITIONS. Here is an extract of her essay: This essay solves the enigma of Deborah Turbeville's work by going over her photographic prints with a fine tooth-comb and exposing the infinite layers that lie beneath. She is more than a photographer : her work continually breaks down the blurred boundaries between…
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As part of Women's History Month and to celebrate the release of the monograph "Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage," The National Arts Club of New York hosted the symposium "Deborah Turbeville and the Female Gaze," focusing on women's perspectives and portrayal in photography. First defined by Laura Mulvey in 1975 in her article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," the concept of the female gaze emerged as a rebellion against the male gaze.…
Photo Elysée recently paid tribute to Deborah Turbeville, an American photographer recognised in the 1970s for her fashion photographs. But Turbeville is much more than that; it is a work on photography and its materiality. In collaboration with the MUUS collection, Photo Elysée allows us to discover a true female artist. It's challenging to classify Deborah Turbeville's (1932-2013) work because her oeuvre is rich in research and diverse use of…
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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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Galerie Polka presents "Magnum Opus", an exhibition by Sebastião Salgado. "Magnum Opus" is an original proposal of Sebastião Salgado: fifty images printed in platinum-palladium in the laboratory of Georges Charlier in Belgium, for the first time in a limited edition of seven copies. These fifty prints come from a selection specially made by the photographer and his wife Lélia Salgado, which includes the most recent series, "Amazonia" and "Genesis", but…
The Parisian gallery W exhibits until March 4 the images of Chris Morin-Eitner. As a presentation, he wrote these few lines: While walking through the temples of Angkor, I was fascinated by the way nature had reclaimed the premises. At the height of their splendor, in the middle of the jungle, these temples must have been impressive, as are today the gigantic buildings where man asserts his domination over nature.…
Artist Grace Lau recreates a 19th century Chinese portrait studio in a Southampton shopping centre, inviting participants and passers-by to sit for free photographic portraits alongside Chinese New Year celebrations. Portraits In a Chinese Studio by Grace Lau is based on her research into studio portraits made by 19th century and early 20th century Western photographers in China. Lau realised that Chinese subjects were placed in a Victorian studio setting…
This book celebrates Dayanita Singh as the 2022 winner of the Hasselblad Award, considered the most prestigious international photography prize. Sea of Files highlights Singh’s consistent and unique engagement with the archive, both in a real sense (including the overflowing bundles of India’s public and private archives) and metaphorically: the archive as a vessel of cultural experience. The book includes Singh’s associative visual essay “Sea of Files” in its entirety,…
The Town Hall of the 16th arrondissement presents on its gates from February 2nd to 27th some forty photographs by Ergy Landau, centered on Paris, from the 1920s to the 1950s. Since her arrival in 1923 and until her death in 1967 Ergy Landau traveled around her adopted city and her arrondissement (she lived in the 16th arrondissement, first rue Lauriston, then rue Scheffer) photographing monuments, scenes streets, children in…
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 takes a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. The book opens and closes on a handful of branches and dead leaves resting at the bottom of a wheelbarrow touched by a soft light. An image…
Italian photographer Gabriele Basilico (1944-2013) is considered one of the most important documentary photographers. For nearly forty years, he has looked at cities around the world and developed a reflection on landscape photography. The "Retours à Beyrouth"exhibition, which presents for the first time the four photographic missions carried out in 1991, 2003, 2008 and 2011, documents the progressive reconstruction of the city and bears witness to the photographer's great affection…
The Bodleian Libraries present the exhibition A New Power: Photography in Britain 1800-1850 on 1 February 2023, at the Weston Library, home of the Bodleian’s special collections. A New Power will gather an unprecedented array of objects and photographic materials, providing a fascinating insight into the role of photography in the British Empire. Comprising over 160 items, the exhibition will explore the early history of the medium, starting with its…
The Dhaka Art Summit (DAS) today announces the full list of artists who will be participating in the 2023 edition. Titled Bonna - both the word for ‘flood’ and a girl’s name in Bengali - the Summit will bring together a diverse array of over 160 artists and collectives to explore Bangladesh’s nuanced relationship to words and water. Free to the public, the biannual 9-day research and exhibition platform takes…
Jean-Philippe Charbonnier is often described as an adventurer, an intrepid reporter looking for new horizons, traveling the world for the monthly magazine Réalités, for which he was employed since 1950. However, he spent a lot of time photographing his own country, from Roubaix to Arles, passing through the Creuse and Paris, his hometown. Fascinated by his contemporaries, whether they were close or unknown to him, he used to say: “Exoticism…
At Paris Photo 2022, I turned a corner and was caught by a wall of small format prints in dark sepia tone, those were genuine gelatin silver prints. Looking closer I saw carcass of tanks and ruins from bombed buildings, I realized suddenly that the Ukraine war had come to Paris Photo! One image in particular attracted my attention: did this Jesus on the crucifix lose his arm after blocking…
The Leica Gallery in Los Angeles presents the exhibition of Sleeping Beauty by American photographer Maggie Steber as an intimate visual account of her mother’s nine-year melancholic voyage into memory loss. An only child of a brilliant scientist, Steber used photography as a therapeutic tool to survive what she called the longest goodbye. In overseeing her mother’s care, Steber discovered the real Madje, not someone defined only by the role…
During the 2020 pandemic-imposed lockdown and subsequent loss of his job bordering a paralysed music industry, Kim Thue grabbed the rarely presented opportunity away from everyday distractions to re-engage with his otherwise neglected photography. Drawers full of previously unseen negatives and contact sheets generated from extensive travels from his home in London to far flung corners of China, Iceland, Spain and Sierra Leone had become an unresolved issue sitting in…
Dirk Braeckman started out as a painter, initially only using photography as a medium to document his subjects. This initial practice of painting was decisive in the way in which photography then became the catalyst for a painter's eye. Dirk Braeckman's art does not produce images because images have no surface, unlike his works whose granulation matters as much as a painter's touch matters. A painting is first of all…
The 38th edition of the International festival of fashion, photography and accessories - Hyères, will take place between Thursday 12th and Sunday 15th October 2023 at the villa Noailles. The exhibitions will be open to the public until January 2024. Jean-Pierre Blanc is both the founder and the director of the festival which will be presided over by Pascale Mussard. Since 1986, the festival has promoted and supported young international…