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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M77 presents Charlotte Perriand. The Avant-Garde is Female, an exhibition curated by Enrica Viganò and realized in collaboration with the Archives Charlotte Perriand, Admira and Cassina. The exhibition project sets out to shed light on the rich and versatile production of Charlotte Perriand, the famous French designer and photographer, collaborator and friend of Le Corbusier and other great names of her time, placing her photographic production of the 1930s in…
Her name is Emma Prince. She exhibits her images in Bonnieux as part of the Art Secret festival until September 18th. She accompanies them with this text: Getting back to the very essence of photography. To time and patience, to chance and to the shortcomings specific to film photography. When I was studying at the Beaux-Arts, I discovered that it was possible to make your own camera, by drilling a…
My neighbor Sam Szafran (1934-2019) was an extraordinary man, artist, friend. We often had lunch together, and we had agreed to paint his portrait. More concerned about our shared friendly moments talking about our life, our backgrounds, current events, than freezing a moment; time has passed too quickly. Sam bowed out, and it was his coffin that I photographed. During a visit to his widow Lilette, overcome with regret at…
Birgit Kleber presents her book project Photographers in these words. The focus of my work is the portrait. As a portrait photographer I have made a name for myself beyond Berlin and developed my own signature. My work was recently shown in three large solo exhibitions at the Deutsches Filmmuseum Frankfurt, the Helmut Newton Foundation Berlin and the Haus am Kleistpark Berlin. Since the early 1990s I have been photographing…
The Art-Z Gallery invites you this summer to Arles, with an exhibition of shared views of great photographers who met and influenced each other in Bamako, from the 1970s to the present day. This exhibition pays tribute to the "Swinging 70's Bamako" of Malick Sidibé, and confronts it with Bamako today. Mali's independence in 1960 was the time of an identity re-appropriation, with a rebel youth in search of new models,…
As the fourth part of the exhibition series Sheroes of Photography and on the occasion of the artist’s comprehensive exhibition this summer at the Berlinische Galerie, Kicken Berlin is showing a selection of rarely seen series from Sibylle Bergemann’s extensive oeuvre in a cooperation with her estate. Sibylle Bergemann is considered one of the most important German photographers since the 1970s. Together with her husband, Arno Fischer, she assumed a…
The Queen's Platinum jubilee took place on June 2nd. Over the years one of her favourite events has been the Royal Windsor Horse Show which takes place each year in the grounds of Windsor Castle. Even at 96-years-old the Queen didn't miss this year's event. Set in the grounds of Windsor Castle, The Royal Windsor Horse Show and Windsor Castle Royal Tattoo is a quintessentially British event on a truly…
"I make books because I have stories to tell and want to share some of my visions; because I am passionate about a subject and want to explore it over a long time period with my camera. I do a book because I have to, because I wish to add my voice and viewpoint to the conversation. Might I say that I do a book to change people a little,…
The Ernst Leitz Museum Wetzlar presents A Certain Strangeness, an extensive retrospective of photographer and musician Andy Summers. The artist Andy Summers (*1942, Blackpool, UK) is a true multi-talent who has made his passion for music and photography his profession for more than 40 years. While in his teens, Summers earned his pocket money as a beach photographer; in 1979, he took up photography again when he went on tour…
On World Refugee Day, the virtual exhibition Añrá Rohingya (We Are Rohingya) was launched by Rohingyatographer Magazine. The exhibition showcases unique photographic work by a collective of Rohingya photographers based in the world’s largest refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. The exhibition deals with the subject of identity through intimate recordings of the daily lives of a displaced community. Having fled violence and persecution in Myanmar in August 2017, this…
Polka Factory presents the exhibition Mélomane (Music lover) by Jean-Pierre Leloir. It was a time when Brel, Brassens and Ferré discussed, puffing on a fag, around a microphone; when Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were not yet legends; when Françoise Hardy chatted quietly with Bob Dylan backstage at the Olympia... It was a time when one could photograph freely, without limit, on an airport tarmac, in a minibus…
Fire Island Pines Historical Preservation Society presents Souvenirs Fire Island 1970s: The Photography of Meryl Meisler, installed at the Ice Palace Resort, home of the Ice Palace Nightclub, a Fire Island staple since the 1950s and the location of several iconic images on display. Meryl Meisler grew up in the 1950s & the 60s on North Massapequa, Long Island. Souvenirs Fire Island 1970 will be the first exhibition dedicated to…
To coincide with Milan fashion week, Giorgio Armani inaugurated Magnum Photos - Colors, Places, Faces at Armani/Silos, a composite and multifaceted narrative that reflects a unique mix of art, journalism and storytelling through a kaleidoscope of different visions. Curated by Giorgio Armani in collaboration with Magnum Photos, the exhibition offers an eclectic perspective as perceived by ten international photographers and their respective understanding of photography. Some of these artists are…
“Photography for me is improvisational, it is creating something new in the moment, creativity that is disciplined, emerging in real time. A great photograph breathes, it is alive, has body, emotion, and it is timeless.”– Herb Robinson Music, Jazz in particular, has been an important influence on legendary photographer Herb Robinson’s working style. I wanted to get to know Robinson better as an artist before embarking on this journey through…
‘How do you paint a picture of timelessness?’ reads Barbara Cole’s artist statement. ‘How do you capture the feeling of being weightless in an image?’ Barbara Cole, born in 1953 in Canada has always adopted the belief that opportunities of photography are endless. Her raw, hands on approach to the medium plays with the notions of time, place and identity. Her artistic portfolio, whether still lives, underwater subjects or the…