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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Contradicting to enter resistance. Lee-Ann Olwage is originally from Durban, South Africa. A visual storyteller, her work explores themes of identity, transitions and universal narratives through long-term projects. Interested in using photography as a mode of celebration, her collaborative projects allow individuals to engage in the co-creation of their stories and how they are represented. For Lee-Ann Olwage figuration is meaningless, oblivion and absence are impossible. This is how the…
Until November 12, the Sarto gallery presents an exhibition by Véronique Fel entitled Habana Old Cars which she tells us about in this way: Havana, Cuba, May 2017. I could not return without having in my images, these old American cars, essential and universal. They are the joyful emblem of a tormented country, under American embargo for more than 50 years, embargo partially lifted in 2016. I knew that the…
A nice surprise was waiting in the church at Aubrac. A work full of finesse and subtlety fixed in high quality photographs. The mushrooms were in the spotlight! The author of this work is a photographer specializing in the portrait of dogs. He travels the country far and wide, with his traveling studio, to photograph dogs in their environment. What I saw is an uncompromising professionalism mixed with knowledge and…
Galerie STP in Greifswald, Germany, shows selected works of the German-American documentary photographer Gerd Ludwig. For nearly three decades, he was a regular contributor to National Geographic magazine. His photographs in the STP gallery stem from four major bodies of work - photographs of the late artist Joseph Beuys, whom Gerd Ludwig accompanied for a week before his monumental exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum; photographs from a two-week visit…
Fundamental to renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted's vision in his park designs was the key role of time. He had the ability to see a plot of land for what it was in the raw undeveloped state, as well as to visualize how his designs would translate several decades into the future after the trees and shrubs he planted had rooted and spread and integrated with the space. In…
Wanrooij Gallery in Amsterdam presents a solo exhibition of the American-Korean visual artist Koh Sang Woo. The exhibition Wild in Blue shows a selection of colorful photographic paintings. The vivid portraits of wild animals, with human characteristics, display a prominent use of the color blue with a subtle pink hart. Koh Sang Woo is internationally known for both his blue tone photography as the recent 'Blue Endangered Animals' series in…
Galerie Goutal presents for the first time in France, in Aix-en-Provence, the work of Dutch photographer Erik Hijweege. Born in the Netherlands in 1963, Erik Hijweege has exhibited in many museums including the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam and the Oude Kerk Museum. His works have been included in prestigious collections: ABN AMRO New York, BNP Paribas, SNS Bank, Hermitage Netherlands, BVDM Moscow, ABN AMRO Netherlands, Pels Rijcken, Madurodam, Natuurhistorisch…
Today would have been Helmut Newton’s 102nd birthday. Several exhibitions are on now, at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin, as well as in Vienna and Monaco. He remains as relevant as he was when he left us in 2004, often copied but never equalled his images are still a constant inspiration to countless creatives around the world. To celebrate his birthday, today’s edition is dedicated to him, with thanks…
The Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin presents until November 20th the exhibition “HOLLYWOOD” featuring works by Eve Arnold, Anton Corbijn, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Michael Dressel, George Hoyningen-Huene, Jens Liebchen, Ruth Harriet Louise, Inge Morath, Helmut Newton, Steve Schapiro, Julius Shulman, Alice Springs, and Larry Sultan. Photographs by George Hurrell and publications by Annie Leibovitz and Ed Ruscha are also on view in glass displays. Helmut Newton is always the point of…
On December 2, the new exhibition HELMUT NEWTON. BRANDS opens at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. With over 200 photographs, the show features many unknown motifs from Newton’s collaborations with internationally renowned brands, such as Swarovski, Saint Laurent, Wolford, Blumarine, and Lavazza. When it came to composition and style, the photographer Helmut Newton did not differentiate between magazine editorials and brand assignments, which were often arranged through advertising agencies.…
Helmut Newton’s wish was for a “lively building, not a dead museum.” He decided to establish an eponymous foundation in his native city of Berlin, in public-private partnership with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. In Fall 2003 this endeavor was sealed with a contract and a curator – 65 years after Newton boarded a train at Berlin’s Bahnhof Zoo railway station to flee the Nazis. Three years following his successful…
On 19 October the expansive retrospective exhibition HELMUT NEWTON. LEGACY opened at the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien in Austria. With around 300 works, half of which are being shown for the first time in Austria, the retrospective will feature lesser-known aspects of Newton’s oeuvre, including many of his more unconventional fashion photographs, which span the decades and reflect the changing spirit of the times. The presentation will be complemented by…
The title of the exhibition clearly circumscribes a geography, that of the Côte-d'Azur to Bordighera, in Italy, which Helmut Newton photographed from the 1960s until his death in the early 2000s. Newton, Riviera is thus a pretext to explore the work of a major 20th century photographer in a different way, through now famous images, and others rarely presented to the public. "I like the sun ; it is no…
On the occasion of the new exhibition "Helmut Newton. Brands", the revised new edition of "Helmut Newton. A Gun for Hire" will be published by Taschen with forewords by Matthias Harder and June Newton and statements by Pierre Bergé, Tom Ford, Josephine Hart and Anna Wintour. Helmut Newton. A Gun for Hire Taschen hardcover 23 x 30.5 cm 1.85 kg 240 pages (English, German, French) ISBN 978-3-8228-4643-8 € 50…
My Body Collective - A Self-Portrait Journey I am a New York-born photographer living in France. I specialize in self-portraiture as a means to create a visual journal and a journey toward self-acceptance and healing - either dealing with or escaping from trauma and abuse I endured in my life which was based and focused on my weight and appearance. In addition to my self-portraiture, I am an artists' model,…