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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We received this report from Jonathan Alpeyrie on which he has worked for the last five years. It is accompanied by these 2 texts. For the past 5 years, I have been covering the drug wars in both South America and North America with the intent to create a large retrospective on the current situation of the Great Interntional Drug trade and its implications. Indeed, This project has both an…
Release by Contrejour of Illusion by Edouard Caupeil. It was during one of his reportages in the United States that Édouard Caupeil, accompanied by journalist Nicolas Bourcier, discovered Mound Bayou, the first black town in the country. Planted in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, in the deep south of the United States, Mound Bayou is an apparently ordinary town whose approximately 3,000 inhabitants nevertheless have the particularity of being all…
Steidl presents Nags Head, Joel Sternfeld’s candid images of an Outer Banks summer, which went on to inform his seminal work American Prospects. Joel Sternfeld entwines two personal stories in this book that together reveal the roots and evolution of color theory in his work over the past five decades. In the summer of 1975, facing surgery with a risk of paralysis, Sternfeld went in search of a last idyll—and…
Presented by the ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, The Luminescence of Memory consists of a selection of daguerrotypes taken by Binh Danh at various US National Parks, such as Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Yosemite National Parks. Beyond these beautiful silvered landscapes, Danh uses the National Parks as a way to explore his experience having immigrated to the United States from Vietnam as a child. In a way, these daguerreotypes visualize…
Her name: Marylise Vigneau. She just won the Gomma Grant with these images. "Aarzoo" is an Urdu word meaning wish and longing. This series is about these emotions and their deviations. It is a subjective journey through Pakistan, a country that remains a riddle despite several extended stays since 2010 and the mix of exasperation and tenderness I feel for it. The construction of these diptychs occurred slowly over the…
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents the debut solo exhibition of Magdalena Wosinska, held in conjunction with the release of her newest monograph, Fulfill the Dream. This exhibition will include a selection of photographs from Fulfill the Dream, in addition to Wosinska’s photojournalism imagery which captures the intimacy of human connection that balances adventure and introspection. Central to Wosinska's photography is the celebration of spontaneity. Viewers find themselves immediately immersed in Wosinska's…
Gitterman Gallery presents Jackie Robinson and the Color Line, an exhibition of the collection of Paul Reiferson, which uses photographs and artifacts to vividly narrate the story of baseball’s journey toward integration. Jackie Robinson, a trailblazing figure in civil rights, shattered baseball’s color line when Martin Luther King, Jr. was still in college, earning praise from King as “a sit-inner before the sit-ins, a freedom rider before freedom rides.” The…
Galerie XII Paris presents the work of Danish artist Susanne Wellm who combines photography with weaving. Gabriel Bauret writes this text. The history of photography, since its invention, is that of a conquest to gain more details, to master the restitution of lights and colors, to the point of giving an ever more realistic representation of the world. And as in a pendulum swing, artists have conversely worked to find…
This is one of the most poignant portfolios we have received. It is signed Antoine Lecharny. Thanks to Renate Gallois Monbrun at the origin of this submission! Sous terre, Buchach, Ukraine, January 2022 Under the earth, under the trees, under the pavement of the sidewalks, ruins of synagogues and graves full of bones. What we see on the surface replaces what we can no longer see. A city returned to…
Corridor Eléphant editions publish Dialogue, the first book by Julien Drogoul. He presents it like this: “Dialogue”, a book resulting from an eponymous project covering ten years of street photography, is intended to be a collection of fictional and ephemeral stories. When they are not purely contemplative, their tones sometimes humanist or poetic; often humorous, will certainly give an idea of the great photographers who have shaped my outlook over…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents Ulisse by Marc Ohrem-Leclef. He presents it like this. In Ulisse, I work with found letters and photographs, vernacular images, as well as original photographs from my archive and recent images made in ongoing collaborations in Sicily and New York. In dialogue, these visuals –dating from the 1940s to today– explore themes of belonging and memory through three, seemingly unconnected, histories of migration. Marc Ohrem-Leclef…
You are a European photographer over 60 years old, you wish to highlight a unique artistic and photographic journey developed over several decades, you have until April 29, 2024 to submit your application for the Prix Viviane Esders. Composition of the 2024 Jury The jury, made up of personalities linked to the world of art and culture, accompanies Viviane Esders to designate the five nominated photographers and among them the…
Joseph Beuys is regarded worldwide as one of the 20th century’s most important and influential artists. But where exactly did he find his artistic roots? What were the sources of his strength? In January 1978, photographer Gerd Ludwig impressively captured Joseph Beuys as he revisited his past in the town of Kleve and its Lower Rhine surroundings, the very places where it all began for him. In 2021, Frank Mehring…
Les Douches la Galerie presents Made in USA : Vivian Maier (1926-2009) | Sabine Weiss (1924-2021). One of them, Sabine Weiss, was born in 1924. The other one, Vivian Maier, was born in 1926. Both chose the street as their field of action and had a deep empathy for the passers-by they photographed. One of them, Sabine Weiss, was born in Switzerland but became a naturalized French citizen. The other, Vivian Maier,…
This second exhibition was selected in the KG+ category. “Who are We?” it includes three main categories of portraits which require active participation from visitors. One for Two for One by Thierry Maindrault The ensemble presented continues the photographic work on the psychological and biological decals in ancient couples. The photographs represent a reconstruction of chimeras in the lineages of imaginary representations from the dawn of time. These are of…