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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In 2012, Simon Arcache moved to North Carolina (United States) and joined the team of the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a non-profit organization whose objective is to support Blues musicians in precarious situations by providing them with everything they need to make a worthwhile living from their music. He then befriended many musicians supported by the foundation, whom he accompanied both on stage, as a guitarist, and in their criss-crossing…
The Kunstpalast is showing a comprehensive exhibition on the oeuvre of Evelyn Richter. Richter, who died in Dresden in October 2021 at the age of 91, ranks among the most eminent photographers in Germany. In 2020 she was awarded the newly founded Bernd and Hilla Becher Prize of the City of Düsseldorf for lifetime achievement. In her working life spanning more than 60 years, Richter documented eastern Germany life both…
Mitch Epstein’s classic portrayal of desire, jubilance, and alienation in late 20th-century America greatly expanded and remastered. Between the 1970s and ’90s, Mitch Epstein photographed the rituals of pleasure and undercurrent of alienation that defined late twentieth-century America. These pictures marked the beginning of his photographic inquiry into the American psyche and landscape that has now lasted half a century. Recreation captures the vitality of modern America in a pre-smartphone,…
This is the most laconic email and text of the week! My Dear Friend, Jean-Jacques Naudet Eran Gilat is a scientist and a Fine Art Photographer. He is mostly known for his LIFE SCIENCE project and his book by Kehrer Verlag. Eran frequently takes black and white images, some of still life scenes but mostly erotic ones with his old Nikon F2 film camera. After publishing some of my BW…
The Griffin Museum of Photography presents Rachel Portesi: Standing Still, a solo exhibition of works by artist Rachel Portesi, featuring a selection of collodion tintypes made with large-format vintage cameras that explore the evolving lifelong complexities of female identity. Also on display are a selection of 8 x 10 Polaroids, 3D Viewmasters, and video installations with footage of her process which creates a voyeuristic experience of looking through the lens at…
Galerie Roger-Viollet presents its new exhibition Zaramo/Kwere/Kuba/Makonde. A trip to Central Africa, where objects from the Lipoboska collection interact with photos from the Roger-Viollet collection. Kuba fabrics, Zaramo and Kwéré dolls, Makonde masks, dating from the middle of the 20th century, are confronted with beginning of the twentieth century portraits of women and men populating Tanzania, Congo and Zaire. Exhibited by the Galerie Roger-Viollet for the first time, the modern photographic…
The project: two months on the streets every day, shooting full-length portraits ‘in situ’ of an unexpected Greece - foreigners who’ve migrated here, coping with relocation and a strange language, sending their kids to Greek schools; along with Greeks who don’t conform to traditional visions of what the society should be. The focus is on younger Athenians transforming the capital - beyond the financial crisis, Covid, and flood of refugees.…
After more than two years of absence, Rolling Paper Festival of independent photo publishing, returns to the BAL for its fourth edition from September 23 to 25, 2022. Launched in 2017 by booksellers from BAL Books, Emilie Lauriola and Chloë Rebmann, Rolling Paper is the back-to-school event in Paris for all fans of photographic books and fanzines. Accessible free of charge, it has brought together music, photography and books since…
Reflex Amsterdam presents a solo exhibition of the American photographer Spencer Tunick. The Public Interventions show includes new and unseen works by the visual artist, worldwide renowned for his colossal nude photography and human installations in urban and natural surroundings. For Tunick it’s the first gallery exhibition in the Netherlands. The opening is in presence of the photographer. Spencer Tunick’s work defies genres. He transforms public spaces with temporary monuments…
Slavery in the United States officially ended in 1865, after the country’s civil war, but it took another hundred years for significant progress in desegregation to take place in the southern states. Gordon Parks' Segregation Story captures moments in black lives from just one year in that century-long interregnum between the abolition of slavery and demands for racial justice in the American south. Three generations experienced life in what was…
Non Correre by Aldo Frezza is a book that moves around the concept of memory. Through archival photographs, the author deconstructs what are the last tarnished memories of a person suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Photography, as an auxiliary tool to human memory, is the most appropriate language to evoke the feeling of the patient who is unable to give a name to their loved ones. The sequence with an editing…
Daily Rituals of Work and Play – The Collective Life of a Village 1975-2012 is the first major survey exhibition in the UK of Lithuanian artist-photographer Rimaldas Vikšraitis (b. 1954, Sintautai, Lithuania). The exhibition spans nearly 40 years of Vikšraitis’ artistic practice, from early unseen archival material and 8mm films through to 70 photographic works, a large number of which are being shown for the first time. The photos on…
An adventurer of photojournalism from the 1950s It's all about meeting. Seeking to record the testimonies of veterans of post-war II photojournalism, I interviewed Russel Melcher, the American founder of an agency called Omnicron who became picture-editor of Magnum Photos Paris. Russ, as his friends call him, talked about an agency I knew nothing about: Telephoto. It was founded by a man named Silvio Galardi. A complete stranger, a curious…
EUQINOM Gallery presents Eric William Carroll’s Field Recordings, a new body of cyanotype works which familiarize himself with a new landscape, addressing climate anxiety, and revisiting his previous bodies of work (Blue Line of Woods and Plato’s Home Movies) with fresh eyes. Born out of creek restoration and erosion control following a 100-year flood event from Tropical Depression Fred, this new work focuses on revisiting specific species of plants growing…
Foam Magazine #62 is now available. They introduce the issue as follow. Are we able to navigate the complex intersection between identity politics and national movements in today’s Europe? Are the images we are creating, producing and disseminating able to actually say something about us and our sense of belonging? We proudly present the new issue of Foam Magazine: m/otherlands, created to explore the ways in which identity intersects and…