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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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…
Rouchon Paris honors the photographer Jérôme Sainte-Rose with the exhibition Brazilian Mix, a work of 3 portfolio collections at Studio Rouchon. Born in Paris, based in São Paulo for 17 years, Jérôme has been back in France since 2020. He began his career in photography at the Louis Lumière school. In 1985, he joined the Astre studio (Rouchon Paris) where he met photographers as an assistant to such as Bert…
An appreciation of Helga Paris’s photography reached a wider audience than ever before with a 2019 major retrospective in Berlin, the city where she lived and worked. An exhibition at Kicken Berlin at the end of the following year confirmed the realization that Helga Paris’s work was of considerable and intrinsic interest. Now, two books of her portrait photography in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) make clear that the enduring…
Faithful to her singular style, in an incessant back and forth between painting and photography, Catherine Balet brilliantly mixes the imaginary with the real to tame the infinite versatility of nature over the seasons. The Endless series, a true ode to life, is an invitation to embrace the inescapable force of time. Installed in the countryside for a few years, it is near the pond located below her studio that…
“In a way of containing talkative speech to keep only the compressed expressive charge. Thomas Klotz decided not to play with what he knows so well, not to be the reporter of crimes and misdemeanors, but to find aesthetics in the ethics of his subject: a “fair” photograph”. The words chosen by Michel Poivert to describe Justice, the latest series by Thomas Klotz, reflect the atmosphere that is built during…