“Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?” - Constantin Brancusi Simple Pleasures is an ongoing series curated by Holden Luntz Gallery, presenting a few of their favorite pictures organized thematically. This is Form and Light : Sculpture in Photography We hope you find these photographs as a gentle reminder that there are always simple pleasures to be found! https://www.holdenluntz.com/magazine/simple-pleasures/form-and-light-sculpture-in-photography/ Holden Luntz Gallery332 Worth AvenuePalm Beach, FL 33480www.holdenluntz.com
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On May 7th, the J. Paul Getty Museum is releasing Hippolyte Bayard and the Invention of Photography, the first English-language volume about Hippolyte Bayard, one of the inventors of photography who helped transform the burgeoning medium into an art form. Hippolyte Bayard (1801–1887) is often seen as an underdog in the early history of photography. From the outset, his contribution to the invention of the medium was eclipsed by others…
Seen on the Corridor Éléphant website, this portfolio by Diane Givry, a series of self-portraits taken between 2019 and 2023 (the series is in progress). Diane Givry is a 31-year-old French photographer currently living in Haute-Savoie. She is primarily interested in analog photography, being fascinated by the process, from shooting to dark room printing. She most often uses a Rolleicord medium format camera (6x6), and recently a Toyo camera for…
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This is the funniest email of the week and we love the pictures! I have been working on this project for a long time, at a slow pace because it takes me a lot of time, energy, and it is for various reasons complex to organize. I have for the moment 9 images, which seems to me the minimum number to start calling it a series; and I said to…
For his second exhibition at the in camera gallery, the Catalan photographer Txema Salvans guides us, as usual, through a candid journey far from any artifice. Industrial areas, cargo ports, power stations and evanescent seaside resorts, the series “My Kingdom” documents with humor and light tenderness the gloomy summer adventures of the Spaniards. “I photograph my own culture, people and landscapes. I have to feel a physical connection with the…
Willy Maywald (1907-1985) was one of the most important photographers in Paris from the 1930s to the 1960s. His training at the Werkkunstschulen in Krefeld, Cologne and Berlin shaped his avant-garde formal language. In 1932 he moved on the Seine, where he made friends with many protagonists of artistic modernism. His range of subjects, which includes both commissioned and free works, extends from a spectacular collection of portrait photographs and…
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In the series “Yes I admit it, I would give anything to come back to that day”: Françoise Hardy in Rome in 1963. We had stayed at the “Hotel de la ville”, the haunt of the French in Rome in those years. It was in this wonderful place that I had discovered this city in 1956 with my father when he was about to shoot "Les nuits de Cabiria" with…
A lovely surprise: we knew her as a singer, she also has a passion for photography. On the occasion of the release of her new album, Melody Gardot will present a photographic exhibition at La Hune until September 30 entitled “From La Hune with Love”. Discover a little more than 150 snapshots by Melody Gardot, also a photographer, from her completely unpublished personal collection as well as three prints (signed…
Anastasia Samoylova Anastasia Samoylova’s work explores notions of environmentalism, consumerism, and the picturesque. At Art Rotterdam, we presented a selection from her new series Floridas — a layered portrait of the state and a follow-up on her previous project FloodZone. There’re seductive contradictions in Florida’s scorching heat and the refuge of excess. The boundary between land and sea is not razor sharp. Florida is swept into its own myths as…
S H A F A G H is the Persian word for twilight. To photographer Klaartje Lambrechts, it’s a clear metaphor for Iranian society, and a beautiful title for her exhibition on dance and movement in Iran. For the creation of Shafagh, Klaartje Lambrechts traveled to Iran three times between 2015 and 2019. She discovered a country with harsh laws yet unlimited possibilities. Many of these possibilities are created in…
The well-known Amsterdam gallery Ravestijn presents five projects with the well-known fashion photographers Inez & Vinoodh van Lamsweerde Matadin, as well as four projects balancing between plastic arts and photography. Inez van LAMSWEERDE 1963 & Vinoodh MATADIN 1961 the Netherlands Photographers duo Inez & Vinoodh, are known for their fearless and adventurous photography that fluidly moves between art and high fashion. The Dutch, New York-based, artists are partners and…
Gilleam Trapenberg Born in 1991 in Willemstad, Curaçao; lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Gilleam Trapenberg (1991, Willemstad, Curaçao) moved to the Netherlands at the age of nineteen and graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague in 2017. He participated in multiple group exhibitions, such as In The Presence of Absence at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2020). In 2017 he published his first photo book Big Papi and in 2018…
At Art Rotterdam 2022, TORCH Gallery is showing new photographic work by Ellen Kooi alongside artists Eelco Brand & Monty Richthofen. Ellen Kooi (1965) was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, and lives and works in the Netherlands. The large-scale panoramic photographs by Ellen Kooi challenge us to view the world as a dramatic narrative. She wants us to seek the border between fantasy and reality. At first glance, the people…
Bryan Schutmaat At Art Rotterdam galerie van Leeuwen shows two series of Bryan Schutmaat. The first, Grays the Mountain Sends is inspired by the poetry of Richard Hugo. It explores the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West. The second goes under the name County Road. These photos were taken in rural Texas and they represent the transition from winter to…
Until a few years ago the Haute Photographie fair had its home during Art Rotterdam Week next to the Fotomuseum Rotterdam. Now it was organised for the first time at the new location of Kahman Gallery Rotterdam. The place may not be familiar yet, but it is located next to the HAKA building the venue of the Object exhibition - area now known as M4H. Haute Photographie is “a boutique…
Against all the institutionalised supremacy, a young dynamic, accessible answer is being formulated in the exhibition Rotterdam Photo XL. This initiative, is a few years old, but today it is on an international scale: more than 100 photographers from all continents in a pop-up location on the edge of the museum district. For the organisers, values such as awareness, ecology, democracy, tolerance, integration and involvement are central, which is reflected…
Art is everywhere, especially in Rotterdam last week. Art, design and architecture enthusiasts found various fairs throughout the city, special openings of exhibitions in museums and art institutions, open-air installations, pop up shows and open workshops. Central to the activities is the Art Rotterdam fair that takes place in the historic Van Nelle building - for the non-subscribers we take the liberty of reproducing an excerpt from last year's contribution::…
Deborah Metsch (b 1970) is a photographer and visual artist who lives and works in Toulouse, France. From 1974 and 1983, Metsch lived in the Ivory Coast. In 1997, she returned to Africa and exhibited her first photographs at the America Centre in Accra, Ghana. She has also spent time living and working in New York City and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Other cities she has captured through…
Inge Meijer (Beverwijk, 1986) studied Fine Art at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem. In 2012, she won the Hendrik Valk Award with her graduation film at ArtEZ University of the Arts. In 2017, she completed her residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, where her films and installations received a great deal of attention and were highly acclaimed at the Open Studios in 2016 and 2017. After participating at…
Bildhalle presented a a special solo exhibition with the latest works of Dutch photographer Casper Faassen at Art Rotterdam. Faassen shows at Art Rotterdam work under the title “Madoka”, and he selected images from the dance series Movement, landscapes that seem as they are viewed through the mists of time, captivating still-life’s and portraits. Faassen creates mesmerizing artworks, using his characteristic and unique combination of photography, paint, and the application…
For ten years, the Galerie Binome has been exploring new forms and the limits of photography. For its second participation in Art Rotterdam, the Galerie Binome proposes «Between two», a group show of four artists Laurence Aëgerter, Anaïs Boudot, Thibault Brunet and Marie Clerel. The selection of the works revisits the approach to landscape in photography, shaking up all the traditional markers of the medium. Between the real and the…