Gene Lemuel's ESO Gallery in Los Angeles presents until May 11 the work of Rusty Long, a surfer, journalist, writer and photographer. He writes: From the first step into the water to the initial glide onto a wave, a Smooth Entrance determines so many of the sequential moments. It sets the correct pace. Surfing, like so many other things, is about flowing with the elements present. In the case of…
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Release by Artiere editions of To Be by Lois Conner. She presents it like this: When I was 17, my older sister Susan let me photograph her. I was amazed at how her newly prominent veins and capillaries defined her pregnant body as they raced down her arms and across her abdomen and breasts. I felt I could almost see the growing child through her pale skin. Around the turn…
This is a quite rare occurence. On May 14, Christie’s will present their 21st Century Evening Sale with artworks by artists such as Brice Marden, Georgia O’Keeffe, David Hockney, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Claude Monet. And among these exceptional artists, we will also find Diane Arbus with a magnificent print of the photographer's iconic Identical Twins. This is a rare foray of “classic” Photography in a sale always awaited in the…
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The site Your Daily Photograph proposes this vintage photograph of Saint-Tropez by Robert Doisneau. Title: Saint Tropez Artist: Robert Doisneau Date of image: 1965, printed 1965 Size: 7x9 inches (18x23 cm) Format: silver gelatin Features: notated and artist hand stamp on back Price: $1500 https://www.yourdailyphotograph.com/
One morning last week, there was this email from Tina Trumpp! “What about doing an article with nudes and also landscape photos, in the same way as my general style is (looking like paintings)?” Here is the result! Accompanied by this text from the photographer. “After photographing nudes continuously for 6 years and then successfully publishing my book ‚Shades Of Sensuality‘ with the publisher teNeues in 2021, I wanted to…
Alcatraz Since 2020 I’ve visited Alcatraz - the former prison island in San Francisco Bay – to reflect on pandemic-era themes of isolation, confinement, and social control. Alcatraz is Spanish for a type of bird. We say “free as a bird,” but some birds live in cages. Sometimes they are jailbirds. Alcatraz Island, whose name evokes freedom, has become synonymous not with the bird but with the cage. Although the old penitentiary’s…
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This is the twenty first dialogue in the Ettore Molinario Collection. I have the pleasure of starting 2023 staging an imaginary encounter between Consuelo Fould and Cindy Sherman. Perhaps few remember the first, yet we can consider her a pioneer of those issues that the American artist has been dealing with for forty years now. This dialogue is therefore a wish and a tribute to the women who still fight…
The Françoise Demulder Award, created by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with Visa pour l'Image-Perpignan international photojournalism festival, promotes the careers of women press photographers by awarding every year two of them for the quality and uniqueness of their project. The 2022 edition rewards Nanna Heitmann and Adrienne Surprenant. Nanna Heitmann (born in 1994), for her reportage War is peace on the indoctrination of the Russian population carried out by…
Last year, I got a chance to work with a group of Polish photographers, following an invitation by curator Jens Pepper, and discovered the work of Karolina Wojtas. One of her images particularly stuck in my mind: a boy, eyes closed, whose face is covered by a green plastic bag. Shockingly brutal yet somehow innocent, this and other photographs I encountered during the show, testify to the punch and power…
The International Center of Photography (ICP) presents Face to Face: Portraits of Artists by Tacita Dean, Brigitte Lacombe and Catherine Opie from January 27 through May 1, 2023. Organized by renowned writer and curator Helen Molesworth, the exhibition presents portraits of luminaries in the arts by three of the most prominent portraitists of our time. Face to Face will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by ICP and…
“How sad to think that nature speaks and mankind doesn't listen.” - Victor Hugo After having been displayed throughout the summer of 2022 under the vaults of the Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre-le-Puellier as part of the partnership between the Metropolis of Orleans and Danysz Gallery, "Tumultes" is presented from January 28 to February 25, 2023 at Danysz Paris - Marais. Icy and Sot, Liu Bolin, Robert Montgomery, Charles Pétillon, Rero…
On the occasion of the upcoming Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year, The Eye of Photography discussed developments in food photography with Michael Pritchard, director of Education and Public Research at the Royal Photographic Society. Michael Pritchard, could you tell us about the genesis of food photography? Food and its associated accoutrements have been associated with photography from its earliest days in the 1840s when the inventor of…
The three 2022 winners of the Prix Polyptyque are exhibited at the Galerie Sit Down until February 25! Julia Gat, Andréa Graziosi and the duo Jeanne and Moreau. They were chosen by a jury which was composed of Pascal Beausse, head of the CNAP photography collection, Françoise Bornstein, director of the Sit Down Gallery, Florence Bourgeois, director of Paris Photo, Pascal Neveux, director of the FRAC Picardie Hauts de France,…
Until March 19, the New York gallery Miguel Abreu presents the exhibition of François-Marie Banier entitled: Writings and Pictures. “I don’t know if I have any talent, and I won’t be able to know it, neither will you, nor your children, history wins (will it be capable of knowing it?) but I’m 18 years old and nurture ambitions, too many perhaps, I love life and very much like myself. I…
The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ) presents the exhibition The Tribulations of Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950. Our edition today is dedicated to Blumenfeld, one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. An experimenter and innovator, he produced an extensive body of work including drawings, collages, portraits and nudes, celebrity portraits, advertising campaigns and his renowned fashion photography both in black and white and color. With many thanks…
“Each image a story. As I take beauty seriously. All my portraits are charged with the moment that is mine.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 Before making it his profession, Blumenfeld practiced photography as an amateur – an activity he discovered at the age of 10, when he received his first box camera from an American uncle, which was followed by many cameras. Among his many…
“I seek, balancing on the limits of the possible, to release the unreal from reality, to realize visions, to penetrate through unknown transparencies.” Erwin Blumenfeld, “The mystery of reality rediscovered by photography”, L’Amour de l’art, Paris, 1938 Erwin Blumenfeld's career as a photographer began in Amsterdam when, his leather goods business in decline, he asked his clients to take their portraits. In 1932, he discovered in his back room a…
“There are many wonders in the world, but nothing is more wonderful than dreams. Awakened, I could never regain its creative power.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In 1937, Blumenfeld created a series of a nude veiled in wet silk around Margarethe von Sievers, a Swedish countess. In the exhibition, these are series about draped and veiled nude that we have sought to reveal, thus highlighting…
“ More than anyone else I owe Führer Schicklgruber. Without him […], I would not have had the courage to become a photographer. […] As a thank you, I made on the night of his accession to power a horror montage of his face with a skull and I then, completely drunk, ran through the night on the twenty -five kilometers that separate Amsterdam from Aerdenhout.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et…
"What I really wanted: to be a photographer in onself, art for art's sake, a new world that the American Jew Man Ray had just discovered in triumph." Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 From his installation in Paris in 1936, inspired by the example of Man Ray, Blumenfeld engaged in a number of experiments. The female body became the main object of his formal explorations. He…
“I thought I was the victim of a collective hallucination: neither France nor I could have fallen so low.“ Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In the summer of 1939, Blumenfeld traveled to New York and signed a contract with Harper's Bazaar to follow Parisian fashion. He returned to France in August 1939 and was surprised by the war. A German national (although stateless), he had to…