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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Bradwolff & Partners - Reflections & Perspectives: Katrin Korfmann (1971), Eva- Fiore Kovacovsky (1980) & Jaehun Park (1986) (images 1-2) Katrin Korfmann is well known for her characteristic bird’s eye view. The works she creates stem from observing encounters in the public space of our daily lives. During Unseen, we will be presenting two of her new works. Bright colours and sharp shadows subtly seduce the viewer into the position…
Galerie Bart: Marleen Sleeuwits (images 1-2) During Unseen Amsterdam 2022 we are presenting the newest body of work by Marleen Sleeuwits in a solo presentation which will consist of seven photos, based on three site specific installations she made in 2021: at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, at Expo Bart in Nijmegen and at a ppr oc he in Paris. All photos will premiere at Unseen Amsterdam. Multi-disciplinary artist Sleeuwits (1980,NL)…
Gallery Japanesque Paris : Yasuo Kiyonaga (images 1-2) We will present two works by the Japanese artist Yasuo Kiyonaga with the theme of nature. In "Spirit of Forest", Kiyonaga has photographed and developed his unique images of forest spirits that he has encountered in the depths of the Japanese forest. In "Woods of Strife" he tries to describe a distance between humans and nature, based on the sacred forests of Mount…
LANGart: Laura Hospes (1994) (image 1) Laura Hospes (Wageningen, 1994) started as photographer but soon she expanded her art practice and incorporated performances, video works, sculptures, drawings, paintings and writing to her body of work. “…retrieving the existence of my body is something I have been doing for years by aggressively forcing my skin to feel. Exploring other versions of reality by capturing and archiving the capabilities of my body…
ROOF-A : Tania Franco Klein, Sjoerd Knibbeler, Diana Scherer, Frank van der Salm & Marjan Teeuwen (images 1-2) Tania Franco Klein | The glow of cinema images in the dark Tania Franco Klein is an artist from Mexico making her Dutch debut. Her presentation at UNSEEN takes one entire wall with both new work and a selection from her young oeuvre. The public moves with her through an imaginary travel…
UNBOUND – exploring the limits of photography… and beyond! Unbound is an independent non-profit extension of Unseen, dedicated to exploring the expanding outer limits of the photographic universe on a monumental scale, and Unseen’s most ambitious project to date. Unbound presented in the 700 m2 industrial heritage Transformatorhuis hall next to the main section in Westergas, is curated by an independent external curator, and is the venue for a professional…
This publication by Kehrer Verlag, both alarming and poignant, sheds light on unresolved racial injustices in the time of Black Lives Matter. The Mississippi Delta has been called “The Most Southern Place on Earth”, a region of layered histories that collide with each other on a daily basis. It is a place that defines America like no other part of the country – a culture entwined with slavery, poverty, and…
In his first book, Timothy Eastman presents us with portraits of and interviews with people called workampers, people for whom the most promising form of the American Dream is a life lived on the road. Workampers are people who typically live in an RV or van, moving between temporary and seasonal jobs. Often, they are people who had lived a more mainstream life but found themselves barely getting by. Some…
How is it possible to feel immediately at home in a place you have never seen before? This question still haunts photographer Ryan Bakerink twenty years after he first stepped off the train in Chicago, where he continues to live to this day. This book is dedicated to the city for which his heart beats and describes a journey of self-reflection that ends in a time capsule of sorts. Throughout…
Scottish photographer Dougie Wallace is internationally recognised for his long-term social documentary projects and a distinct direct style of expressive street photography. On show for the first time at the Motel Collection Gallery, London since August 2022, Wallace’s latest and on-going project, ‘Soho Unlocked’, which charts the re-emergence of life in the pubs, clubs, theatres and streets of one of London’s most diverse and culturally rich areas. A selection of…
Bonne Espérance Gallery presents Celebration, the first exhibition in Paris of Lee-Ann Olwage, a South African photographer who received the prestigious Contemporary African Photography award in 2022 for her series entitled The Right to Play. Born in 1986 in Durban, South Africa, Lee-Ann Olwage is an image storyteller. Her work deals with identity, collaboration and celebration. She has a particular interest in photography as a mode of co-creation. With her elaborate…
ARCHIVES - MARCH 17, 2022 The gallery Le Réverbère continues its 40th anniversary with a firework display of 100 photographs by William Klein : 8 painted contacts, B&W from all his great stories, many of them unpublished, carefully chosen with his assistants in his studio. The gallery shared this text : With KLEIN + L’ATELIER we celebrate 30 years of companionship with Klein, his 94th birthday, and our 40th anniversary!…
ARCHIVES - MAY 13, 2021 FIFTY ONE TOO presents a series of 9 platinum prints by the influential American photographer, filmmaker, graphic designer and painter William Klein (born in 1928 in the US, who lives and works in Paris, France). The exhibition features some of the most well known images that this ‘enfant terrible of photography’ made on assignment for Vogue magazine in the 1950s and 60s that are now…
ARCHIVES - NOVEMBER 18, 2019 A JFC column for the William Klein Academie des Beaux Arts Photography Award awarded to Raghu Rai on October 30, 2019 On Wednesday, October 30, all those who count in the small world of photography were invited, in the great hall of the sessions of the Institute of France - where François Arago, a hundred and eighty years ago, offered to the world the patent of…
ARCHIVES - MAY 27, 2019 Looking back from the perspective of his 90 years, William Klein selects his favorite works, those that he considers to be the very best he has made over the course of his long career, in order to pay homage to the medium of photography itself. This book, appropriately titled Celebration, provides a tour of his most emblematic works, traversing New York, Rome, Moscow, Madrid and…