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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Like last year, the international fair dedicated to photography is taking up residence in the ephemeral Grand Palais, a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower. Panorama of this 25th edition with things seen and heard. If there is something that resonates with the place, it is the pictures dedicated to the city of Paris that emerge here and there, like magnificent trophies that come to underline all of its intrinsic…
This is one of our favorite exhibition from Paris Photo. The photographer's name is Hannah Hughes. She is presented by the Robert Morat Galerie with this text: Hannah Hughes is a visual artist working across photography, collage and sculpture. Her work explores the relationship between image, sculpture and language, focusing on the potential of negative space, and the salvaging and re-use of discarded materials. Her research takes root from histories of…
With Al rio / To the River presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the photographer invites us to take a close look at the political question of migration to the United States and human constructions in relation to nature. A very strong visual and narrative advocacy that gives all its letters of nobility to photography. Zoe Leonard spent about three weeks hanging this exhibition, which takes up…
Kiki Xue was born in 1986 in China in the province of Sichuan. He lives and works in Paris. While studying mathematics, it was by chance that he turned to photography by collecting the books of the "great masters of photography" before learning the techniques of photography. Since 2010, he has established himself as one of the main emerging figures in fashion photography. He notably won the PhotoVogue prize in…
Published by Morel Books and AMC, this new book with its dark blacks and luminous whites draws the reader into a category of images that has largely escaped the notice of historians. As we turn the pages, we are regaled with a corpus of several hundred Real Photograph Postcards (RPPCs). These original silver prints are a hybrid between a photo and a postcard. They were printed directly onto paper, marketed…
Staley-Wise Gallery presents the exhibition Harry Benson : Moments. Photojournalist Harry Benson has been witness to a great many of the major political and social events in modern history. With an uncanny instinct for being in the right place at the right time, his unforgettable photographs have found their way into the national consciousness. Benson was born in 1929 in Glasgow, Scotland. His 1964 photographs of The Beatles propelled his career as he went on to capture…
From subzero nights in teepees, four feet snowstorms, Wyoming's howling and toppling winds to the summer heat; French photographer Anouk Masson Krantz rode, climbed, fell, slid, and witnessed first-hand what it really means to be a rancher. Traveling solo with just her camera, Anouk aims her lens at Wagonhound, one of the largest working ranches in America. At over 300,000 acres, Wagonhound is very much a real-life "Yellowstone". The men…
Phillips presents Ultimate Ellen Von Unwerth, an exclusive selection of 20 unique Polaroids taken by the celebrated photographer Ellen von Unwerth. The majority of these works were created during editorial assignments for international publications, including Vogue US, Vogue Italia and The Face, in the supermodel heyday of the 1990s. Advertising campaign images include Paris Hilton for Guess in 2004 and Alessandra Ambrosio for Victoria’s Secret in 2005. This curation, showcasing…
On Monday, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson inaugurated the Tube, its new space and an exhibition entitled: Henri Cartier-Bresson With Martin Parr: Reconciliation. Yan Morvan followed the opening for us. The exhibition initiated by François Hebel is accompanied by a catalog published by Delpire. The unpublished photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson that we discover resonate in a disturbing way with the shots taken by Martin Parr, more than 20 years apart, in…
On the pebbly southern coast of the United Kingdom, Brighton has two piers. One of faded glory, the other a wreck. The pier that is still open - scattered with joyrides, video games and fast-food outlets - stretches half-a-kilometre into the Atlantic. What lies beyond is the rest of the world, much of which an expansionary Great Britain once conquered and ruled. The other pier, or what remains of it…
La Galerie Rouge presents Made in Chicago, a thematic exhibition on Chicago and its photographic representation from the 1940s to the present day. This city has represented for several generations of photographers a subject, a studio, a sociological object but also a starting point to realize themselves as artists. Cradle of modern architecture, theater of social and racial divisions, capital of American industry, city of diverse and dynamic cultures, all…
Andy Sweet, full name Andrew John Sweet, was a young photographer living and working in Miami Beach in the late 1970s. Talented, jovial and enthusiastic, his life and his more than promising photographic journey were cut short on October 16, 1982, the day of his assassination in Miami Beach at the age of 29. Andy's aesthetic is as refreshing as his colors. He rejected all formalism. His vision is a…
Euqinom Gallery presents Mona Kuhn: Timeless, a stunning career retrospective of one of today's most respected and widely exhibited contemporary art photographers , coinciding with her 2021 retrospective monograph, Works, published by Thames & Hudson. Mona Kuhn is internationally acclaimed for her contemporary re-interpretations of the nude, employing playful visual strategies and drawing from traditional iconography to create profoundly intimate depictions of the complexities of human nature and our link…
Robert Mack, photographer, visual artist, photographed and filmed criminally insane men for his project, Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity. These extremely rare black and white photographs were taken in 1981 and are compassionate yet sobering portraits of insane patients many who have committed murder. The legal courts determined these men to be dangerous to themselves or others, and so they are were sent to a maximum security hospital for treatment,…
A Gallery For Fine Photography presents fifteen silver gelatin prints by artist Lucienne Bloch. Acclaimed muralist, sculptor, and photographer Lucienne Bloch was born on January 5, 1909 in Geneva, Switzerland to the famous composer and photographer Ernest Bloch and his wife Marguerite Elisabeth Augustine Schneider Block, a musician as well. In 1917, the Bloch family immigrated to America, eventually building their home in Cleveland, OH. After excelling in her art…