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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The Galerie du Jour agnès b. - La Fab presents an exhibition entitled Dance and Music. The title as an imprecation, a temptation to finally leave behind what has prevented us for many months from finding the sound and the body of others. It is a desire to share, to meet around what is the great common popular song; the one who causes the movement of the dance. Music is not…
The famous "Planète Albert Kahn Association", named after the no less famous philanthropic banker (born in the second half of the nineteenth century), humanist and passionate about photography, was created by Jean François Fortchantre. He initiated a few years ago several prizes related to images and the humanism they reflect. Of course, one of the prizes is for photography. A jury of personalities attributes a real distinction to photography through…
The Galerie du Lendemain offers for its second exhibition with Christian Maillard a selection of Kodakrome color slides, selected in the 1970s. The photographer’s favorite themes are travel, the taste for discovery, the confrontation with foreign cultures. They are perfectly embodied here through these portraits who seem to come from such a distant past - these photographs are however hardly more than 50 years old -, from a world so…
A contemporary X-Mas art show in the centre of Mediacity Hilversum. Kahmann Gallery and DUB Gallery together present a wide variety of contemporary art. In the old bank building of ABN/Amro in the center of Hilversum, December 17 from noon - 6 p.m. December 18 from 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. December 23 from 12.00 - 18.00 December 24 from 12.00 - 17.00 Kahmann Gallery Amsterdam www.kahmanngallery.com + www.haute-photographie.com
Fotografiska New York present until January 15th 2023 its first full-building takeover: Make Believe, the largest U.S. exhibition and first New York museum solo show of the interdisciplinary artist and photographer David LaChapelle, ten years after LaChapelle’s takeover of Fotografiska’s Stockholm flagship. The collection of 150 works on view surveys 11 thematic bodies of fine artwork, some never-exhibited, and is also interspersed with iconic, intergenerationally resonant staples of visual culture…
Photographer and visual artist, Cris Bierrenbach is one of the references in Brazil’s contemporary photography. Inventive and artisanal, her main subjects comprise the feminine body, gender issues, identity and the self-portrait. Cris Bierrenbach graduated in Geology before taking the cinema course at the School of Art and Communications of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP). She carried out her first solo show at the Museum of Image and Sound (Museu…
Photographer Jean-Christophe Ballot brings his gaze on The Epic of Gilgamesh, the first story of humanity, and brings to life 100 Mesopotamian works in an art book published by Éditions Diane de Selliers. In order to take the full measure of this ancient civilization, accompanied by Diane de Selliers, Jean-Christophe Ballot went to Iraq to photograph the archaeological sites of southern Mesopotamia: Babylon, Borsipa, Nippur, Our, Ourouk and the Marshes region, thus…
Originally published in 1983 by Jonathan Cape, Sirkka‐Liisa Konttinen’s Byker is recognised as a seminal body of work and a modern classic of photography. Konttinen documented a close‐knit community in Newcastle in an area that was her home for seven years and which was destined for wholesale redevelopment. The work gained national recognition as a key photographic account of a richly working class culture on the eve of its destruction.…
Monday opened the exhibition of the National Library entitled: La Photographie à tout prix. It presents the Nicéphore Niépce and Nadar awards, the Talent award and the Florence and Damien Bachelot collection print award. Yan Morvan attended this opening and is sharing it with us. Bibliotheque Nationale Until March 12, 2023 allée Julien Cain site Francois Mitterand entrée rue Emile Dirkhei 75013 Paris https://www.bnf.fr/fr
The Galerie Cécile Fakhoury presents the exhibition of photographer François-Xavier Gbré. For this first Parisian exhibition, François-Xavier Gbré presents a new chapter of a long-term research initiated in the early 2010s, which gives the keys to a reading of the history of the economic and urban development of the Côte d'Ivoire. In this new body of work, the geography and history of Côte d'Ivoire is told through the images and…
The 12th book of photographs by Jean Mounicq is in the bookshops, “Portraits”… (Editions de Juillet). Jean Mounicq is of an unfailing rigor and an absolute eye, the ability to see the essential and to show it as obvious. Here is an excerpt from the text by Françoise Denoyelle. Jean Mounicq, the quest for human adventure around the world. The attention always on the alert, the eye is assured, the…
The Galerie Daltra presents until February 12 a new exhibition entirely devoted to the eye of six photographers on the landscape, one of the most traveled genres in the history of art: André Carrara, Estelle Decléènne, Iris Hutegger, Gilles Lorin, Nicolas Seurot and Laetitia de La Villehuchet. Landscapes from December 02, 2022 to February 12, 2023 Galerie Daltra 20 Rue du Clos des Rennes 74120 Megève Wednesday to Sunday:…
Her name: Eman Ali. She is a photographer from Oman. She presented her work to Paris Photo through the Fellowship organization. Here are the images and words that were given to us: Eman Ali works on the cultural intricacies of Khaleeji societies and the representation of women in the Arab world. She has integrated her practice as a social critic, observer and investigator of the multilevel histories of the Gulf,…
The Hulett Collection presents L’Hiver à Paris, an exhibition that is as much a treasure trove for the eyes as it is an ode to the city of Paris, France. Pulling inspiration from Le Salon, the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris which focused on encouraging the development of fine arts and serving as an outlet for young artists from 1667 to present day. Following in…
The two things happened simultaneously, learning about activism and learning to make a photograph. - Sunil Gupta Aperture announced the relaunch of Aperture Ideas—an essential series of books devoted to the finest critical and creative minds exploring key concepts in photography—with the publication of Sunil Gupta’s We Were Here: Sexuality, Photography, and Cultural Difference. In 2004 the cultural theorist Stuart Hall credited Gupta with being a photographer whose images had…