Steidl presents Nags Head, Joel Sternfeld’s candid images of an Outer Banks summer, which went on to inform his seminal work American Prospects. Joel Sternfeld entwines two personal stories in this book that together reveal the roots and evolution of color theory in his work over the past five decades. In the summer of 1975, facing surgery with a risk of paralysis, Sternfeld went in search of a last idyll—and…
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Presented by the ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, The Luminescence of Memory consists of a selection of daguerrotypes taken by Binh Danh at various US National Parks, such as Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Yosemite National Parks. Beyond these beautiful silvered landscapes, Danh uses the National Parks as a way to explore his experience having immigrated to the United States from Vietnam as a child. In a way, these daguerreotypes visualize…
Her name: Marylise Vigneau. She just won the Gomma Grant with these images. "Aarzoo" is an Urdu word meaning wish and longing. This series is about these emotions and their deviations. It is a subjective journey through Pakistan, a country that remains a riddle despite several extended stays since 2010 and the mix of exasperation and tenderness I feel for it. The construction of these diptychs occurred slowly over the…
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Josef Dapra is an Austrian photographer born in 1922. Starting from the idea that "The world is all that is going on" dear to Wittgenstein, he doubled reality as it is with his portraits of the women of his country. When knowledge is inscribed on the matrix of reality, the artist adds an extra bit of soul to it. He gives each portrait a special emotion. Suggestion creates a particular…
Leonardo Glauso, 1989, born and grew up in Florence is a professional photographer specialized in artistic nude and fashion photography. He has a degree in graphic design at Libera Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. He also studied photography at Scuola Internazionale di Fotografia in Florence. Between 2014 and 2017 he lived in Milan where he collaborated as Fashion Photographer for agency and fashion's magazines. He always travel in the…
Color for Color. No psycho-babble title, the subject is the color. I am a Rochester Institute of Technology BFA graduate and was fortunate to have studied with Minor White and Ansel Adams. Pete Turner was a big early influence with his great use of color and sense of design. I was always interested in color photography, but was frustrated with the printed results. Digital photography made it possible to get results that match expectations.…
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Screw You Cancer, by Sáshenka Gutiérrez Special mention from the Jury of the 26th edition of the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award of Médicos del Mundo. The series tells the story of Sandra Monroy, a 36-year-old breast cancer survivor. She lost her breasts to the disease, which was detected in early 2021. After the diagnosis, doctors explained to Sandra that a double mastectomy was necessary because, although the cancer…
Where oblivion may not dwell, by María Clauss Winner of the 26th edition of the Luis Valtueña International Humanitarian Photography Award of Médicos del Mundo. Memory is an exercise of reconstruction of the past in the present moment, photography is a "medium" to recover it. Each portrait of a repressed person is kept as a treasure in the hands of their families, each place that has power in itself for…
Théo Le Foll : Knowing how to deliver your truth At only 22 years old, Théo Le Foll, self-taught and passionate about photography, has already signed several advertising campaigns, including the most recent one for Paco Rabanne's perfume "Fame". It was during a "five o'clock tea" in the showroom of a fashionable Parisian decorator that I met this young man. His angelic face and his self-confidence tinged with naivety (compared…
Holden Luntz Gallery presents new acquisitions by Will McBride. McBride is a photographer of reportage, art photography and book illustration. He is also known as a painter and sculptor. He has had a 50 year independent career. McBride grew up in Chicago, attended the Art Institute of Chicago then the University of Vermont and finally graduated from Syracuse University College of Fine Art in 1953. He was a private student of…
Vivienne Westwood. London. March. 1994. On her own, she summed up in what is somewhat stupidly called “Swinging London” a certain elegance close to the so-called “rock” scene. But she was much more than that. Queen of urban culture, with her companion Malcom McLaren she had opened a shop, the “Paradise Garage”, which became the bridgehead of the “punk” attitude, very fashionable insolence in Great Britain in the 70s. In short,…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the actuality of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine has a tirelessly curious and knowledgeable look at the latest publications. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, Sylvain Besson, director of the museum since 2008, has published an original history…
Naohiro Harada’s (b. 1982, Japanese) series is an attempt to explore the origin of the eccentricity of Japanese visual culture through the usage of traditional methods by composing a fictional documentary for the audienceless 2020 Olympics, which was postponed due to the restrictions of the pandemic. During this phantasmal time, Harada decided to convert the strange experience into a series of contemporary Mitate-e, i.e. a genre term within Japanese art that…
Rodney Smith was a prominent fashion and portrait photographer based in New York. His whimsical work invited comparison to that of surrealist painters like Rene Magritte. Long acclaimed for his iconic black and white images that combine portraiture and landscape, Smith created enchanted worlds full of subtle contradictions and surprises. Smith’s un-retouched, dream-like images are matched in quality by his prints’ craft and physical beauty. Rodney Smith cared deeply about…
Traveling throughout the United States, David Graham captures the colorful and sometimes surreal in the American landscape. He seeks out subjects that celebrate our singular freedom of expression, whether in colorful roadside attractions, idiosyncratic sculptures, or everyday people who revel in impersonating famous characters. Chronicling the American scene with this unique sensibility, Graham celebrates the creativity and dreams of the common man. Mayfair, Philadelphia, PA, was made in the neighborhood where Graham’s…
Presented by Spirit St Barts in collaboration with UNICEF Gala St Barts and Gallery 211 int., this exhibition presents one of a kind photos of Basquiat by Christopher Makos. Basquiat, aka King Pleasure, doesn’t need any introduction, he is best known for his primitive style and his collaboration with pop artist Andy Warhol. Often spotted besides Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, Basquiat would show up to Mr. Chow decked out…
A.galerie presents the exhibition Africa by Kyriakos Kaziras. Kyriakos Kaziras is a professional photographer, Greek and French, now living in France. Born in Greece, his passion for photography and painting began at an early age, thanks to the influence of his two grandfathers, one an artist and the other a keen amateur photographer. His family moved to Geneva when he was 16, where he learned French. He then moved to…
The Miz Du covers the forfeiture announced, all the dead look alike, they wear gray, translucent skin, nails and hair are still growing slightly, liquids flee, stiffness is essential. Michel Monteaux's inanimate objects do not need an embalmer to recover their colors. The aesthetically pleasing soul is trapped in the photographer's gaze. Despised things of the products of human industry, their silent and tiny lives reinforce the spiritual allusion of…
David Zwirner presented recently The Outlands a selection of photographs by William Eggleston, the majority of which have never before been seen publicly. It was Eggleston’s fifth solo exhibition with David Zwirner since joining the gallery in 2016 and coincides with the release of William Eggleston: The Outlands, Selected Works, a new publication by David Zwirner Books focusing on this series, with a foreword by William Eggleston III and new…
Volume 2 presents the wealth of Ukrainian photography over the course of five decades. It begins in the 1970s, at the moment when Ukrainian visual art began to publicly express its own language, and concludes with the war that engulfs the country in the present. It visualizes key events in the history of Ukraine and looks at the development of photography during this period. The circulation of Volume 1 and…
Editions ARP2 presents Synchonicités, the book by Sophie Aaron. In his preface, Alain D'Hooghe writes: With the first image, I begin to smile. A young blonde woman stands in front of a painting by Gerhard Richter in a museum in Baden-Baden. She wears a jacket or a coat (the framing does not allow us to specify) whose vertical and multicolored lines resemble those that make up the painting she admires.…