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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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. About the belly button by Ieva Stankutė has a special place among recent photographic publications on motherhood. An artist's book more than a photographic one, blending photographs,…
The territories of the Grand Est in France through the lens of five photographers In early 2016, Alsace, Champagne-Ardenne and Lorraine merged to create the Grand Est Region. Aware of the historic turning point in which all Alsatians, Champardennais and Lorrainers were engaged, the brand new Regional Collectivity then decided to launch a photographic mission. This unprecedented initiative set itself the objective of representing a territory at a given moment,…
This infantry corps created in 1857 is made up of soldiers from the French colonies in Africa. They were sent as "scouts" and found themselves on the front line, as in the two world wars. Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
Govinda Gallery presented Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Day in the Life of Sgt. Pepper in 2008, featuring Henry Grossman’s rarely-seen photographs of The Beatles during the recording of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band, arguably the most iconic and influential album of all time. This is the first exhibition of Henry Grossman’s remarkable photographs of The Beatles. Taken during a single night’s session–as the band recorded “Lucy In The Sky With…
Jean-Gabriel Barthélemy's exhibition: "Notre-Dame, Versailles, la Cité des 4000. Secret de notre patrimoine", will be open to the public from January 7th. The opening will take place on January 19th, 2023 from 6 p.m. The exhibition runs until May 2023. This exhibition brings together his work on Notre-Dame de Paris, before and after the fire and during its reconstruction, on the Cité des 4000 in La Courneuve, considered then, in…
Misr is the romanized Arabic name for Egypt. Between 1992 and 2013, Denis Dailleux passionately discovered, loved and photographed this country where he lived for fifteen years. Several books and exhibitions have punctuated these Egyptian years, successively revealing the stages of a work that is nothing more than a part of the photographer's life. Today appears Misr, a compendium on this period, magnificently published by Le bec en l’air. To…
PDNB Gallery an exhibition by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. in celebration of his recent Lifetime Achievement award given by the Art League, Houston. A small installation of his photographs from the Third and Fourth Wards of Houston will be featured. Earlie has been documenting the African American community since the 1970’s when he was studying art at Texas Southern University. His mentors were the muralist John Biggers and Professor Thomas Freeman. Besides Houston,…
Across the UK, town centres are undergoing a major transformation. Over the past decade, empty storefronts have become an increasingly familiar sight as businesses disappear from our high streets, leaving an atmosphere of uncertainty in their wake. In 2021 alone, more than 17,000 stores shut down nationwide – the combined result of the growth of out-of-town retail, the rise of megastores and more recently a shift towards online shopping, all…
Tate presents the Tate Photography Series, a new publishing programme providing an introduction to some of the most important and exciting photographers at work today. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen - Born in Finland, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen studied in London and then moved to North East England in the 1960s. She has been based in Newcastle ever since, deeply rooted in the local community. Focusing on two of her photographic series, this book captures…
After two years of online activities, adapted in response to Covid-19, the Angkor Photo Festival is able to reopen their home. This edition seeks to be a refueling point for the community, providing an intimate, non-competitive space for the sharing of lens-based work and professional development. 18th Edition of the Angkor Photo Festival 6 – 15 January, 2023 Siem Reap, Cambodia www.angkor-photo.com
“While evolving my use of aerial perspective, in these recent photographs I am surveying two very distinct aspects of the landscape; that of the earth as something intact, undisturbed yet implicitly vulnerable… and that of the earth as opened up by the systematic extraction of resources… The vastness and beauty of the wilderness in these countries was something of a revelation and also provided a contrapuntal balance to a lengthy…
Until January 21, Galerie XII presents an exhibition by Christopher Thomas entitled Exquise Nostalgie. He presents it like this: “This series is about emotions, sad times, happy days and all the in-between. It's about joy and fear, melancholy and warmth, it's about gain and loss, it's about the beginning and the end of life. He talks about the passage of time and all that changes - around us and within…
High and Dry, an exhibition of new photographs by Victoria Sambunaris, documents the inexorable evidence of human activity on the desert landscape from the literal to the geological. Seven new large-scale photographs traversing the intersection of the natural open terrain and the interventions shaped by climate change, resource depletion, and environmental degradation are presented. Inspired by the intrepid 19th-century photographers whose work helped to define understanding of the region, Sambunaris embarks upon…
Published to coincide with Jack Pierson’s recent tenth solo show with Regen Projects, the full-color book surveys thirty-five years of his artistic practice, including photographs, collages and his famous word sculptures. This monograph details works made in the 1980s to present day, definitively outlining his practice overall and the themes he often investigates: experiments with fantasy and self-imaging while toying with spectatorship in a way his contemporaries have never accomplished.…
Tate presents the Tate Photography Series, a new publishing programme providing an introduction to some of the most important and exciting photographers at work today. Four titles will be published each year, all connected through a common theme. The first four books, on Liz Johnson Artur, Sheba Chhachhi, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Sabelo Mlangeni explore community and solidarity in distinct ways. Sheba Chhachhi is a photographer, women's rights activist and an…