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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Until June 19, the festival of auteur photography takes place in Montélimar. 39 photographers are presented. One exhibition particularly touched us: that of Françoise Nunez, marvelous photographer, wife of Bernard Plossu, who passed away last December. Jean-Jacques Naudet Présence(s) photographie Association loi 1901 1, avenue Saint-Martin 26200 MONTELIMAR www.presencesphotographie.fr https://www.facebook.com/presencesphotographie https://www.instagram.com/presencesphotographie
The international festival Fotografia Europea 2022, which has truly filled the city of Reggio Emilia with photographic exhibitions and events, is inspired by a quote by Albert Camus, so its 17th edition is entitled “An Invincible Summer”. “Our interpretation of the Camus’ quote: ‘In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there lay within me an invincible summer *,’ relates to the courage to resist, to persist, to see…
After an artistic training in Seoul (South Korea), Jungjin Lee left in 1988 to study photography at New York University. She has since resided primarily in the United States. Robert Frank's assistant in the early 90s, she considers him a mentor, a "Zen sage" to whom she regularly showed her work. He wrote in the preface of the book Desert, published in 2002: Jungjin Lee is the American Desert Traveler...…
David Hill and Carrie Scott present Gloire Immortelle, the first ever solo exhibition by West-African photographer Rachidi Bissiriou. The show includes previously unseen portraits and coincides with The Victoria and Albert Museum’s Africa Fashion opening in July which features Bissiriou’s work. Born in 1950 in the town of Kétou, Bissiriou began photographing members of his community after Benin was finally granted independence in 1960. In 1968, he opened Studio Pleasure in…
The exhibition "Les tempêtueuses" by Irène Jonas presented by La chambre claire Galerie de Douarnenez at the beginning of this summer 2022 testifies, in its first part, to the meteorological and geographical elements close to the environment of the Pays Bigouden in which Irène Jonas now lives two-thirds of her time. It traces the storms that regularly break on the Brittany coast, from Lesconil to Saint-Guénolé and which forge the…
Etherton Gallery presents the exhibition, Kate Breakey: Transience, which highlights photographs and multi-media images by Kate Breakey, who has dedicated her artistic career to preserving wildness in the natural world. Speaking recently about her 2022 retrospective at the Grace Museum in Abilene, Texas, Breakey said, “My own collection of images serves as a record – a random, disjointed, visual diary of the things I’ve seen and loved – a way…
DartBLAY, gallery outside the walls for 12 years, presents FORME(S), an exhibition revolving around nudity, the body and its movement and offers the work of four photographers with distinct and singular universes. Not seeking confrontation but rather complementarity, this collection of works offers an eclectic and suggestive vision of the body and its mysteries. Nancy Wilson-Pajic Multidisciplinary artist Nancy Wilson-Pajic presents ten gum bichromate prints made in 1987 from the…
Still Lifes 1948-1960 by Jean-Pierre Sudre Having decided in 1948 to become a photographer, the opportunity suddenly arose to take my first images with the announcement of the imminent destruction of the woods of my youth. As for family portraits, immortalizing loved ones, my approach hoped to keep forever what my memory had let out in puffs of humus, rustling leaves and chiaroscuro. Using my walnut large format camera 13x18cm…
Portuguese photography makes a stopover in the Mediterranean. Michel Puech gives us this report that was published in his magazine a-l-oeil.info As part of the France-Portugal Season being held simultaneously in both countries between February and October 2022, the Villa Tamaris, in La Seyne-sur-Mer, art center of the Métropole Toulon Provence Méditerranée (TPM) welcomes from from June 4 until September 2022, an exhibition dedicated to Portuguese photography. After Yan Arthus…
Tomorrow will be inaugurated at the Château de Laréole, the retrospective of Jane Evelyn Atwood. This exhibition entitled: “Seven Stories (1976-2010)” takes place within the framework of the Photo Festival MAP Toulouse. Jane Evelyn Atwood was born in New York and lives in France since 1971. Fascinated by people and by the notion of exclusion, she managed to penetrate worlds that most individuals ignore or decided to ignore. She chose these…
"What a beautiful book...a great presentation and wonderful insight into these historic guitars." -Nils Lofgren on 108 Rock Star Guitars From the photographer of the critically acclaimed 108 Rock Star Guitars comes a new collection of guitar photos, including B.B. King, Kurt Cobain, and Prince as well as more than one hundred legendary rock icons. Lisa S. Johnson's journey into the world of rock and roll photography began more than…
The Lili Grenier Collection will be auctioned on Monday June 13, 2022 with the Étude Millon in Paris. Two albums of vintage prints of the model and muse of the greatest painters of the late 19th century such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas are presented. Lili Grenier was notably photographed by François Gauzi (1862-1933), painter, draftsman, engraver, writer and photographer. The discovery and associated research around these photographic albums plunge us…
For forty years, celebrated photojournalist Ed Kashi has delivered the world's stories through images that both imply, as well as directly show, humanistic challenges and joys. Abandoned Moments: A Love Letter to Photography (Kehrer Verlag, Spring 2022) is a window into Kashi's unique voice and craft, and presents glimpses of ordinary life, as well as extraordinary events, struggles, and triumphs. A tenet of journalism is to remove one's own voice,…
Amanda Rowan an American photographer based in Los Angeles is opening a Multi-media exhibition titled Place Setting, at the Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe, New Mexico, from May 20 to June 30, 2022, At this premier exhibition The Acequia House is re-opening its doors from a historic house museum into a contemporary art space that engages with its history in association with the Women’s International Study Center (WISC). In…
There is nothing lavish about the scenography of the exhibition that the Centre Pompidou is currently presenting in its Photography's Galery: no sophisticated technological support or spectacular lighting, no monumental wall paper, dazzling colors on the walls or luxurious settings; to tell the truth, there are no frames - or almost no frames: the photographs are displayed directly on the walls or in showcases, with a rather unexpected sobriety. Then,…