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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Jean-Claude Lemagny. He was the adviser, the father, the hero, the mentor of all artistic photography from 1970 to the 2000s. To visit him in his office at the Bibliothèque Nationale or in the room that bore his name at the Arlatan hotel in Arles during the festival was for many an absolute “must”, a quest for an unavoidable blessing. What an amazing couple he formed with his wife Anne Biroleau,…
Eric Lafforgue : Beyond appearances Born in France, Eric Lafforgue started his career in the media, the music industry and mobile applications. In 2006, he started publishing his photos on the Internet via Flickr. They were quickly noticed by magazines around the world. He had started with portraits, but quickly evolved to more social things capturing moments of life. He likes to dig deeper to get beyond appearances. His work…
A peaceful and sharp look at Corsica Men in black sitting on the wall of the church of Piana; at the edge of the shadow, a white dog asleep at their feet. Vision could not be more normal for the island inhabitant. Except for the photographer who witnessed the scene! This photograph is surely the best known of the reportage that André Kertész made in Corsica in 1933 for the…
Peter Fetterman Gallery presents the exhibition, A Beautiful World: The Power of Nature. Landscapes have inspired some of history’s most striking photographs. This year, Peter Fetterman Gallery curates a collection of photographs focused on the beauty and power of the natural landscape. An homage to our planet, and call to protect its great vistas, this exhibition will feature works by photographers, Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Paul Caponigro, Jeffrey Conley, Gregory…
Large families The birth rate is at its lowest since 1946 according to INSEE. A look back at a time, encouraged by family policy, when it was not uncommon to come across families with five, six or more children, and when governments relied on this demographic vitality to finance pensions. Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
The Little Black Gallery announces that Italian photographer Jacopo Paglione is the winner of its BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Photography Competition with his series Milza. The runners up, who were highly commended by the judges, were Michael Joseph and Callum Leo Hughes. The BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! Photography Competition is part of the platform from The Little Black Gallery committed to promoting queer and gay fine art photography. Images play a vital…
We learned of the death of Jean-Claude Lemagny who was one of the mythical directors of photography of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. Claude Nori sent us this text. Dear Jean Claude, You leave discretly as you have always done. And you leave a huge void in the world of French photography that you revitalized in the early 1970s. At first, with your little goatee and your glasses, your impeccable…
I never planned or plotted any of this. I have, however, always followed my mother’s dictum: ‘When opportunity knocks, open the door!’ — Bob Colacello It Just Happened, Photographs 1976-1982 is an exhibition of photographs by the American photographer and writer Bob Colacello, documenting his long-standing collaboration with Andy Warhol and the cycle of parties and travelling that animated their frenetic lives. Curated by Elena Foster and the Ivorypress team, the exhibition…
Lehmann Maupin presents Part Two: Run, an exhibition of work by Los Angeles-based artist Alex Prager, marking the debut of Prager’s ambitious new film, Run and featuring a selection of new photographs and sculptures. Directly responding to a period of cultural ambivalences and uncertainties, the exhibition urgently examines human perseverance and explores the opportunities for empathy, participation, and action present both within art and everyday life. Across her practice, Prager…
The International Photojournalism Center of Perpignan, presents a major exhibition on war photographers: The World Under Our Eyes with photographs by Alizée Lemaoult - What their eyes have seen, Giles Duley - Legacy of War - and Alexandra Boulat - Shards of War . We have chosen to show you the work of Alexandra Boulat, who covered the conflicts that rocked the former Yugoslavia for 6 years. This exhibition was…
Joseph Bellows Gallery presents the exhibition, Steve Fitch: Drive-In Theaters. Drive-In Theaters will showcase a remarkable selection of vintage and modern gelatin silver prints representing the architecture of these distinctly American movie-viewing monuments. For more than forty years, Steve Fitch has been photographing the American West revealing its changing vernacular landscape and vanishing roadside attractions. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 with a bachelor's degree…
First exhibition of Guénaëlle de Carbonnières at the Galerie Binome, Les marées de pierre brings together several recent photographic sets crossed by a poetics of archeology. If the artist reactivates the images of the vestiges of our humanity and unearths the archives of a common imaginary heritage, she also reinvests by means of photography gestures and above-archaeological processes: survey, excavation, prospecting, reconstitution, sampling, stratigraphy, burial, emergence… Without anachronism, it is…
In Tisser sa toile, Tina Merandon approaches the mother-daughter relationship from a very original point of view. Taking advantage of an artistic residency in Brittany, she used the idea of the woven weft (sheets and tablecloths, textile objects having often been associated with domestic rituals that linked women together) to pose, behind a veil, mother and girl together. The projected shadows are reminiscent of Plato's cave. There is thus an…
The Secret Gallery presents Let's Dance. An exhibition that transforms, jostles, confronts the photographs of Michel Haddi, fashion photographer and contemporary designer Reda Amalou. Today we present the images of Michel Haddi. The exhibition features for the first time in Paris, never published pictures of Michel Haddi. This unconditional "social butterfly" who is part of this small number of photographers who transform simple photos into real artistic creations. Since 1978,…
Collection of black and white analog photographs taken between 1980 and 1985, portraits of friends or strangers encountered in the streets of Paris, scenes gleaned at random but with a formal desire for composition, débutantes presents the first photos of photographer Jacques Graf. "Sleeping Beauties" never shown before, they retrace the poetic and melancholy journey of a young Parisian at the dawn of his career and his love life. A…