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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Contrejour presents Recompositions, the new book of Jean-Claude Gautrand. “To photograph is to engage in a chase against oblivion, disappearance, nothingness. It is a fight against time, a challenge to forgetfulness. (...) It is an unstoppable weapon against cultural genocides or voluntary abandonment; the counterpoison to passivity.” Jean-Claude Gautrand was only 24 years old when he discovered the work of German photographer Otto Steinert, founder of “Subjektive Fotografie” and follower…
Galerie Obsession, the new space of Pierre Passebon and Florent Barbarossa dedicated to the male nude, presents the exhibition “Tomber des nu(e)s” by Marc Martin and Mathis Chevalier. An eponymous book by Marc Martin is being released by Editions Agua. It is the story of a meeting between two men separated by a quarter of a century. On one side, the photographer – attached to the body – who questions…
Bigaignon presents Chris McCaw's first solo exhibition in France from April 23rd to June 1st, 2024. Experimenting with large format cameras and various printing processes, Chris McCaw began building his own cameras in 1995. The artist equips his large format cameras with powerful lenses typically used for military surveillance. Instead of film, Chris McCaw inserts gelatin silver photo paper made from expired fibers directly into the camera. By pointing the…
“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
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…
Stéphane Granzotto: The art of observation. Photographer as well as professional filmmaker, Stéphane Granzotto is first and foremost an enthusiast. As a photographer, he is particularly interested in the underwater world, a passion that dates back to his childhood. He took his first photo when he was just 10 years old, but it wasn't until he was 17 that he seriously considered making a career out of it. He studied…
CAMERA WORK Gallery presents the exhibition Hawai‘i with works by Berlin-based photographer Olaf Heine. The exhibition includes over 40 monochrome, partly large-format works from the long-standing, conceptually conceived series Hawai‘i. The accompanying photo book to the exhibition Hawai‘i (teNeues Verlag) is available now. “Is there any place more thoroughly photographed than Hawai‘i? Even if you’ve never visited the islands, you probably think you at least know what they look like.…
The Package Holiday 1968-1985 compiled by Jake Clark with photography by Trevor Clark is published by Hoxton Mini Press. Archive of images of British tourists on holiday, mainly in Majorca, taken by a photographer for the travel industry. Nostalgic color photos of British tourists abroad in the heyday of package holidays. Brightly colored swimsuits. Factor 2 sunscreen. Relax with a cocktail and a cigarette by a chlorinated swimming pool while…
The Nakba ‘breathes down our necks, invading our national identity and contorting our earliest encounters with our sense of self’, writes Mohammed El-Kurd in the foreword to the 2024 edition of a book of photographs first published in Spanish in 2016. The trauma of dispossession and expulsion is the Nakba and these photographs, from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, bear visual and affective…
Fisheye Gallery presents Alice Pallot’s exhibition, Algues Maudites, a Sea of Tears. Through an anticipatory documentary, Alice Pallot questions the impact of human activities on the environment. Imbued with an imagination worthy of science-fiction, her photographs intrigue and reveal invisible issues through her vision of the near future. The Algues Maudites, a sea of tears project was initiated as part of the 1+2 Residence in collaboration with the Wallonia-Brussels Center…
Published by Fyshe Limited, Macchina is a limited-edition, hand-crafted volume of images by photographer Jon Nicholson, documenting the people and passion of motor sport. Macchina chronicles the freedom, excitement, teamwork and poetic essence at the heart of this unique sport. These are the atmospheric images that take you behind the scenes into every aspect of the world of motor sports, from the raw, grass roots energy of banger racing to…
Twice a year, Michael Diemar publishes a magazine: The Classic. As always, it’s marvellous! Issue 11 has been released and is now available to download at : https://theclassicphotomag.com/ Judge for yourself! JJN
Mauve MAUVE is the title of a series of photographic images shot over the last years. It functions allegorically, as signifier of a series of psychological attributes that characterize the gaze during this photographic work. A gaze that expresses a stance, a reaction to the current social reality. I copy from the dictionary: ‘‘… Mauve is more than yet another hue in the palette. It is registered as mysterious, exuding…
Solitude My name is Xavier Cristau. This is a series of 12 photos. 10 are recent and 2 were taken when I was 18, when I started photographing in the street. Retired since 2018, I've been able to resume my passion for photography. I photograph lonely people in the street and cemeteries. I've chosen to present a series of my street photos first. My photos of cemeteries, which could be…