Vince Aletti, collector, author, curator and winner of this year’s AIPAD Award, lives in a seven-room apartment in New York’s East Village. It’s filled to the brim with his enormous collection, or as he describes it, “a collection of collections”, of magazines, photographs, books, vinyl records, and all manner of ephemera. Still, there’s always room for more. How would you describe yourself as a collector? – As someone who looks…
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In September last year, the J. Paul Getty Museum announced the acquisition of a collection of 209 photographs by the French photographer Eugène Atget. It had been built over 25 years by Dan and Mary Solomon, by carefully adding one masterpiece after another. The couple prefers to keep a low profile in the photography world but are incredibly active as collectors, curators, publishers, and most significantly as generous donors to…
AIPAD presents the 2nd edition of the Monumental exhibition. This special project show- cases large-scale photographic works throughout the public areas of The Park Avenue Armory, providing a unique opportunity for galleries and their artists to display new, challenging and impactful pieces not generally shown at fairs, creating a captivating visual spectacle for visitors. This article originally appeared in the AIPAD Catalogue sponsored by MUUS Collection. The Photography Show…
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On the occasion of the month of photography and on the fringes of "Paris Photo 2022", the Nouchine Pahlevan Gallery presents "I Want Him To Be Ocean" by Christian Mamoun. This exhibition invites itself into the heart of a kind of waiting room before entering the adult world. In the meantime, this Parisian youth are questioning themselves , confronted with "sturm et drang" impulses (the storm and the impulse), which…
Nino Mier Gallery presents Women’s Work, an exhibition of photographs and videos by Finnish artist IIU SUSIRAJA. Susiraja is known for her still and moving image portraits, which capture the artist in her own home or her parents’ home, interacting with items such as housekeeping tools and pantry staples with prurient, deadpan humor. In Women’s Work, which will be on view from February 18 - March 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, Susiraja brings a…
Spanning the years 1976 to 1981, The Beginning brings together the earliest works of acclaimed American photographer Tina Barney (b. 1945). Featuring images largely unseen by the public, the exhibition chronicles a period of technical and artistic development that would lay the foundation for the complex and incisive tableaux that ultimately established Barney as a key figure in international photography. While quarantining during the Covid-19 outbreak, Barney began to sort…
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An intimate portrait of humanity depicting rituals from all over the world. These photographs by David Katzenstein emerged from his lifelong artistic journey as a visual chronicler of humanity. His mission led him to travel to many parts of the world to experience other cultures and peoples firsthand, capturing images that relate to the themes he is drawn to. In the process, he came to be fascinated by rituals. The…
The Promenades Photographiques of Vendôme are on until August 27th. We have chosen to present Christine Spengler's exhibition to you. Christine Spengler, a French photographer, was raised in Madrid after her parents' divorce. From the age of 7, her uncle Louis, a great aficionado, regularly took her to bullfights, while her aunt Marcelle introduced her to painting by introducing her to the masterpieces of the Prado. The child was immediately fascinated…
In Refractions 2, Ralph Gibson gives intellectual, philosophical and incredibly practical guidance to photographers on how to develop a distinctive visual signature in their work. When looking at fine photographs – you can identify a Cartier-Bresson, an Atget, a Mann, an Arbus – and a Gibson from across the room. How did these photographers find such a unique and identifiable way of seeing and making photographs? Gibson reveals his process…
SN37 presents the fourth show in their not-for-profit gallery at the Seaport in New York City: National Anthem by Luke Gilford. The exhibition is Gilford’s first solo show in New York. The work Gilford is presenting is the result of years documenting the unique subculture within the International Gay Rodeo Association (IGRA) – the organizing body for the LGBTQ+ cowboy and cowgirl communities in North America. Gilford’s father was a…
The Valletta Contemporary gallery in Malta presents those eyes - these eyes - they fade. The exhibition brings together photographs by Nigel Baldacchino, Bénédicte Blondeau, Bernard Plossu and Awoiska Van der Molen. Conceived by Anne Immelé, the exhibition approaches metaphysical photography, from the apparent clarity of the day to the evanescent depths of night shadows. The exhibition invites the visitor to move through environments with striking contrasts, provoking a multiplicity…
Museo Picasso Málaga presents the exhibition Picasso as Seen by Otero, a selection of around sixty photographs from the Roberto Otero Photographic Archive that are part of the Museo Picasso Málaga Collection. These photographs will be on display alongside previously unshown archive materials from the Roberto Otero Photographic Archive. They include the Argentine photographer’s editorial work and some of the notebooks in which he wrote down his conversations with Picasso.…
The Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Étienne offers Thomas Ruff his first exhibition in France. Conceived as a history of photography through its processes, the exhibition brilliantly reveals a complex work on the status of the image, its potential and its lies. He is a photographer who no longer photographs. Except for the use of his telephone, which serves him as it does all of us as an immediate…
Vivian Maier’s Enigmatic Hinterland by Sean Sheehan The story has now been told many times: a person defaults on their storage lockers, the contents go to auction and a bonanza of undeveloped film, negatives and prints are revealed. When some of the material is released on the internet, the unknown photographer is discovered to be a woman, Vivian Maier, a resident of Chicago where she lived for fifty years. The…
“No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky,” wrote the great New Yorker writer and storyteller E.B. White in his incomparable short book on the city, This Is New York. Phil Penman—like me, an expat Brit who has made Manhattan his home—has certainly met that challenge. But in his images of New York, it can seem more as though his lens is…
The exhibition is called: The Teenage Self. It brings together 2 photographers: Sarah Lee Lewis and Iain McKell. It is the latter that we have chosen to present to you. He gave us this text! Private Reality - A Diary of a Teenage Boy In 1976 aged nineteen while studying at Exeter College of Art I got my self a summer job on Weymouth seafront photographing holiday makers. I saw this…
Gary Beeber recently presented the exhibition “Personalities" at PRAXIS Photo Gallery, Minneapolis. He presents his work as follow : Personalities "the quality or state of being a person" – Merriam Webster I have always been fascinated by people's stories. Especially captivating are individuals who push convention, driven by self expression. My background as a producer of an Off-Broadway burlesque variety show, Gotham Burlesque, led me to have intimate access to…
Photographer Rankin’s latest coffee-table book highlights the importance of creativity as a tool for personal mental well being. A companion series to Embrace (Rankin Publishing, 2021) works in this new limited run publication, titled An Exploding World, explore the aesthetic of destruction, through apocalyptic imagery reminiscent of nuclear explosions or comets. The creation of which became for the photographer an intimate take on artistic expression, frustration during lockdown isolation, and…
LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery presents "Découvertes", its summer exhibition dedicated to highlighting emerging artists on the international art scene. The fourth edition of this exhibition, which bets on the young generation, brings together the worlds of 6 artists, 3 men and 3 women, on the walls of the gallery in Abidjan. Each deploys there, his/her singular sensitivity, his/her ontological perception of the world, of what binds individuals to their territory, their…
This is the sixteenth dialogue in the Ettore Molinario Collection. A dialogue dedicated to that stage of voluptuousness and feminine personality that shoes represent. Heeled shoes, of course, photographed by Monsieur X and Helmut Newton, extraordinary masters, one anonymous and the other world-famous, who, even without ever having met, would have understood each other immediately. They were both women and shoes lovers. And walking together with their creatures, we wish…
Moneygame : The Show presents photographer Elizabeth Waterman’s fine art portfolio that recasts the lives of strippers and exotic dancers through a female gaze. Over a period of five years, Los Angeles-based fine-art photographer Elizabeth Waterman spent her Saturday nights in clubs in five U.S. cities, photographing and building a rapport with strippers and exotic dancers working in those establishments. The Los Angeles Times wrote that Waterman “recast the lives…