Éditions Contrejour is publishing Gladys' monograph. Gladys began her career as a photographer at the end of the 1970s and signed her photographs with her first name only. Her first black and white images explore a world where childhood memories, imaginary landscapes and poetic stories coexist. In 1987, Gladys benefited from the Villa Médicis scholarship outside the walls and went to Japan for a residency. The Mamonakou series continues work…
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Jef Van den Bossche presents his book On a soif. As a child, my father used to take me to small pubs all across Belgium. In 2001 he wrote a book about the last so-called volkscafés, or people’s pubs in the province of Antwerp. Nearly two decades later I returned the favor and dragged my father on a quest for Belgium’s last remaining volkscafés. Although no strict definition applies to…
L'Officiel Belgique announces that photographers from Studio Harcourt are arriving at TheMerode and offering a private shooting worthy of the biggest stars to Brussels photophiles. Notice to amateurs! From April 19 to 21, 2024, the Brussels private club TheMerode welcomes the talents of the prestigious Studio Harcourt. The opportunity for enthusiasts, members of the circle or not, to have their portrait taken by those who immortalized the greatest, enhanced by…
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Rock photographer Neal Preston recently launched “Outtake Gallery”, an online platform featuring never-before-seen images of some of rock music’s most legendary performers. In his statement about creating Outtake Gallery, Preston says: “I've been fortunate to have had a long and fairly successful career as a professional photographer. When I moved from New York City to Los Angeles at the tender age of 19, part of what I packed in my…
Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, the Netherlands, presents a retrospective of British celebrity photographer Terry O'Neill (1938-2019) until 10 September 2023. The exhibition Famous shows more than 125 portraits of international music legends, movie stars and fashion icons, particularly from the 1960s and 1970s. In addition to exclusive colourised editions, the focus is on classic black and white portraits. Terry O'Neill is one of the most iconic, influential and…
Some images that you see once, you will never get out of your head. They will stay in your mind forever—because they triggered a certain emotion, and often, because they are uniquely beautiful, too. Images like these sometimes become part of the collective memory and, in Arthur Elgort’s case, part of fashion photography’s collective memory. Arthur Elgort is a master of creating iconic moments: Stella Tennant, fully dressed, diving into…
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David Turnley presents at the Mairie du 3ème in Paris the exhibition Photographier l’âme de l’humanité (Photographing the Soul of Humanity). He sent us the following text : Growing up in the industrial Midwest in the United States during the 60s, with a father who was a great athlete, and a mother who was an incredible pianist, I lived to play football. From a young age I was aware of inequality…
Text by Marguerite Rossouw When Roger Ballen was selected to represent South Africa at the Venice Biennale, we immediately realised that his photographs from ‘The Theatre of Apparitions’ would be the best choice. This series was created during an eight-year period from 2005 to 2013.It was called a Theatre as a lot of Ballen’s work can be seen as Theatre. As Didi Bozzini wrote’ The embodiment of Ballen’s internal psychological…
le bec en l’air Editions presents Philong Sovan’s book, City Night Light, an immersion, at night, in contemporary Cambodia revealed by cinematic light. Christian Caujolle wrote the text of which here is an extract: Straight behind the welded metal gate, he seems totally frozen but his left hand, as if abandoned, gives fragility to this portrait of a teenager staring fixedly at the lens. Located in Koh Dach, very close…
His name is Daniel Psenny. He is a journalist turned photographer. It's a lovely story. There it is. And tomorrow we will publish a very interesting text he just wrote about Hungarian photography! It has been three years since I left Paris to settle in Budapest. After forty years of journalism in France, including twenty-one years at Le Monde, I decided to put away my pen and enjoy life. By…
Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. presents, 19th Anna Atkins to Doris Ulmann and early 20th century photographs, drawings and specimens from nature by Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, Lucy Fleming, Mary Wyatt, Blanche Shelley, Bertha Jaques, Bertha Wehnert-Beckmann and Doris Ulmann. Anna Atkins (1799-1871) is one of the earliest of women photographers. On display is her “Gleichenia flabellata (Australia),” circa 1851-1854, which shows a fanlike, forked frond of this large Australasian…
Deana Lawson was announced as the 2022 winner of the prestigious £30,000 prize at a special ceremony at The Photographers’ Gallery in London, on Thursday 12 May 2022. The other finalists received £5,000 each – an increase from previous years when the award fund was £3,000 each. The four artists shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2022 are Deana Lawson, Gilles Peress, Jo Ractliffe and Anastasia Samoylova. This…
By the time Olivier Rebbot started photographing child prostitutes around Times Square, the city was going to hell. Forget the phony graffiti-airbrushed disco nostalgia. In the spring of 1977, New York was a rat-infested, shit-smeared, crime-ridden, vandalized sleazepit. “This town’s in tatters,” Mick Jagger sang on that year’s Shattered — which is as perfect a theme song for the era as there is — and it was only getting worse.…
When we read the captions and look at the images in the book “L’illusione di una storia senza futuro. Maurizio Galimberti” (and those in his recent exhibition Maurizio Galimberti. Uno sguardo sulla nostra storia at the Museo Diocesano in Milan), we feel like experiencing history unfolding right before our eyes. They deal with the most recent history, a history too often made of wars and terrorist acts. A history that…
Her name: Tina Cosmai. She has just released a book with Contrasto editions entitled: Via di Fuga a Mare. The curator and art critic Gigliola Foschi presents it as follows: Images like figures of distance, of silence, of speaking in a low voice, almost in allusion. Photographs of the same place that change from image to image, as if they wanted to guide us on a motionless journey to an…
For a year and a half, users and caregivers from the adult psychiatry department of pole 94G16 joined a workshop led by photographer Marion Gronier, on the question of self-representation through photography. How to express, through the photographic image, the way I perceive myself, how I feel, how I experience my relationship with others? To show oneself, to conceal oneself, to tell of a presence in the world that is…
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana During the 1970’s and 1980’s, photojournalist Arthur Grace travelled extensively behind the Iron Curtain working primarily for news magazines. One of only a small corps of Western photographers with ongoing access to the area, he was able to take the time to delve into the most ordinary corners of people’s daily lives while also covering significant…
This paradoxical journey includes an outdoor exhibition, Erve, sacred river, an original creation by Jean-Claude Moschetti for the images and Pierre Guicheney for the script and the photomontages of old images of the Mayenne valley of the Erve and its remarkable places. Both complementary and independent of the Fata Morgana route, the exhibition will be freely accessible from May 31 to July 28 at the foot of the oratory and…
The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. This is a selection of their portfolio : Green Envy The Agents Club, founded in 2018 by Alexandre and Wanda Orlowski, is a unique mobile platform showcasing the most sought-after photography agencies worldwide and the exceptional image-makers they represent. This feature was first published by The Agents Club. www.theagents.club
Cacho Falcon : The truth laid bare Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Cacho Falcon lives and works in Brooklyn. He began his career as an artist selling what he called "therapeutic jeans". Working with his customers, he would turn their confessions and stories into drawings on their jeans - a one-of-a-kind experience! This led him to work with Perry Ellis, Guess, and eventually Tina Knowles (Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign t-shirt…
A new and expanded edition of Susan Meiselas’ 1976 classic, perhaps one of the most important photobooks of the postwar era is published by Steidl. From 1972 to 1975, Meiselas spent her summers photographing women who performed striptease for small-town carnivals in New England, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. As she followed the shows from town to town, she captured the dancers on stage and off, their public performances as well…