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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Published by Steidl, Events of the Social is a comprehensive investigation into photographic works by artists from the African continent and its diaspora. Taking the politics of the “colonial gaze” as its starting point, the book looks at the diverse complexity of the nineteenth-century archive through a selection of vintage portraits, cartes de visite, postcards and album pages. Three generations of African artists from the 1940s till now then chart…
From January 20th to February 28th, 2023, Les Docks in Lausanne hosts the exhibition L'or bleu, a project realised by the first year students option Photography Option at éc a l. This project developed by the first year students in Photography at ECAL, under the direction of photographer Nicolas Haeni, invites us to question the symbolism of water. Since the dawn of time, this blue gold has intrigued and inspired,…
A Franco-Swiss photographer, author of nearly thirty books, all self-published by Blurb, including 40 Years of Photography, Jean-Marc Martin du Theil has worked in the theatre with Marcel Maréchal, Roger Planchon and Patrice Chéreau. The photographer Claude Bricage made him buy his first Leica. From 1972 to 1992, he joined Marc Enguérand's photo agency in Paris specialised in performing arts. In 2013, his archives were received by the Department of…
Her name is Benedicte Hanot. Her images are exhibited at the Hostellerie des Vins de Rognes until March 31. Born in Brussels in 1972, Bénédicte's childhood was steeped in both Flemish painting and Belgian surrealism. She followed a training in management, left Belgium. Provence became her adopted country in 2003. She trained as a graphic designer, which she exercises as a freelancer in parallel with her own work. Hostellerie…
Heinz Cibulka: from tradition to invention A friend of Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Heinz Cibulka was part of the Viennese Actionist movement in the 1960s. He was with two students Matthias Fiegl and Wolfgang Stranzinger the founder of Lomography in 1991 when they discovered the Lomo LC-A at a Prague flea market. The device is then no longer in production. Sensing the potential of the images taken with the device, they founded the…
Kacper Kowalski is coming to Amsterdam especially for an artist talk on February 4th at Bildhalle to guide through his current exhibition Event Horizon. “Whether it was fog or snow, frost or thaw, I took to the sky by my motorized paraglider to see if it was possible to fly. If possible, I flew over frozen bodies of water to orbit the shimmering structure of the ice, fascinated by its…
The Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro in Venice will host, from February 4th to April 2nd, 2023, the exhibition of the French artist photographer of Greek origin Nikos Aliagas (Paris, 1969) in the spaces on the ground floor and the courtyard of the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, an area covering more than 400 m2. The exhibition Nikos Aliagas. Regards Vénitiens is the result of an artistic residency that took place between July and…
What do we see when we look at a photograph? Contemporary artists and photographers Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, Michel Campeau, James Casebere, Gregory Crewdson, José Damasceno, Denis Darzacq, Alexandre Dufaye, Mickaël Marchand, Sarah Pickering, Catherine Rebois, Patrick Tosani and Bernard Voïta have come together to confront, question and consider the “Contours of the Real”. This new exhibition raises questions about representation, one that brings into play the real, reality, fiction or even…
Nenad Samuilo Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco. The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation device, a skeletal extension meant to alter the…
Escapades is an artistic project resulting from seven years of photography. It is created as a continuous frieze presenting views gleaned from the four corners of the world. Space and time are thus merged. The frieze leads the viewer to “travel” from the first to the last image, knowing that there is no imposed sense. The prints are deliberately small in size in order to invite the viewer to get…
For the opening of their second space on rue Chapon in Paris, the Les filles du calvaire gallery presents Persona, a collective exhibition bringing together artists from the gallery and guest artists. This inaugural exhibition is spread over the 300m2 of this new place. The diversity of the works presented reflects the sensitivity of the gallery, its affections and its curiosity. Persona evokes the mask, that of ancient theaters and…
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Bastiaan Woudt’s inaugural solo exhibition in Los Angeles, “Cadence”. The works on view are a collection of photographs representing the oeuvre of Woudt’s fine art output of the past decade. Bastiaan’s work is a 21st century perspective on the 20th century traditions of fine art photography. His distinctive point of view is directly influenced by the photographic masters of yesteryear, while his monochromatic imagery is wholly…
Galerie Sophie Scheidecker presents a monographic exhibition by Dutch artist Justine Tjallinks. Justine Tjallinks lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2014 at the age of thirty, then artistic director of the Dutch magazine L'Officiel, she decided to become an artist photographer. The artist is above all a portraitist. She questions the traditional codes of beauty by upsetting the aesthetic standards of contemporary society. She seeks to capture with her lens…
Camera Work presents an exhibition of more than 20 of the most important works of the renowned photo artist Robert Polidori in the Virtual Gallery. The exhibition is globally accessible 24 hours a day. Robert Polidori, one of the world's leading architectural photographers, uses a distinctive visual language to document living spaces that are defined by their strikingly corresponding colors and compositional perfection. The main focus of the exhibition is…
Galerie Polka presents for the first time in France, the second part of the world series "The Day May Break" by Nick Brandt. For the second chapter, the British artist traveled to Bolivia in the spring of 2022. As with the first part, the men, women and children who agreed to be photographed have all suffered tragedies linked to the consequences of global warming. The animals come from the Senda…