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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Tom Wright, legendary among rock’s elite, muse to some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century, yet little-known by the public, died last August at the age of 78. He has more more than 500,000 images archived at the University of Texas at Austin. Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones called Wright “a f**king great photographer with a special touch.” Joe Walsh of the Eagles compared Wright to Jack…
After 2 years of work that began at the end of the first confinement, Quentin Caffier presents Banquette Arrière (Back Seat) at the Vivienne Art Galerie. Banquette Arrière is a series of photographic images paying homage to the first experiences of adolescence. Real couples of all ages, origins or sexual orientation love each other in mythical vehicles, which become less a mean of transport than a place out of time,…
Lights out. Energy saving measures will force Parisian shop keepers and the Eiffel Tower to turn off their lights earlier. A look back at the nocturnal illuminations that made Paris shine at night. Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
"The most striking thing about monuments is that you don't notice them. There is nothing in the world as invisible as a monument." — Robert Musil, 1927 In the exhibition Colonial Monuments in Belgium at Be-Part Kortrijk, Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers (°1968, Heist-op-den-Berg, lives and works in Antwerp) shows a selection of one hundred photographs of monuments commemorating his country's colonial past. Kempenaers is known for his photographs of urban…
This fall, Aperture celebrates seventy years in print with an issue that explores the magazine’s past while charting its future. Reflecting on the founding editors’ original mission and drawing on Aperture’s global community of photographers, writers, and thinkers, “70th Anniversary” features original commissions by seven artists and essays by seven of the most incisive writers working today, each engaging with the magazine’s archive in distinct ways. https://aperture.org/magazines/aperture-248/?mc_cid=e1ee8c0094&mc_eid=db7e2b3d80
Until November 27, is held in Cergy Pontoise, the Festival du Regard. The theme this year is: Bonjour la nuit ! which will take you into the nocturnal worlds of twenty photographers. Juliette Agnel : Taharqa, de nuit Merry Alpern : Dirty Windows Evgenia Arbugaeva : Arctic Stories Evgen Bavcar : L’Inaccessible étoile René Burri : Blackout New York Celine Croze : Siempre que... Thierry Cohen : Villes éteintes Françoise…
Editions de La Belle Étoile* are publishing this book by Riego van Wersch. Here are some images accompanied by this text from the editor Stéphane Coutelle. Riego van Wersch photographs as one paints, the gesture is paramount. This gesture which invents clear fuzziness, which creates textures and materials. The sea like fine linen, The wave that throws up sparks of foam, The ocean scratched like an engraving, A navy sky…
A jewel emerging from the blue sea in the Gulf of Naples, an island with a lush nature beloved by writers and poets. Capri, reina de roca… this is the incipit of the poem Pablo Neruda dedicated to the island when he arrived there exiled. Capri was a source of artistic inspiration for Axel Munthe, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, and Marguerite Yourcenar, to mention a few. It was also a favourite destination…
In "grand reportage", as for the rest, there are some very good series and some tourist style stories a lot less exhilarating in search of sensational discoveries. And then there can be the exceptional. Because there are still a few photographers who master the light, the technique and above all the instinct of the moment. The result is there ! This collection of photographs corresponds to the work normally expected…
Galerie Julian Sander presents a retrospective of the work and career of the artist Sean Hemmerle. Walls. They can be found all over the world. Separating countries, neighbors, people. They protect in the eyes of those who erect them - from the others. But they are actually only one thing: memorials of fear and demarcation. Manifested in concrete, barbed wire or bricks. But for Sean Hemmerle, the others do not…
This exhibition presents nearly 60 innovative photographs—all departures from the traditional still life—drawn from the MFA’s Lane Collection. Grouped thematically, the works on view span the entire history of photography, from its first introduction in England during the 1840s by William Henry Fox Talbot to the work of contemporary artists such as Adam Fuss, David Hilliard, Kenro Izu, Abelardo Morell and Olivia Parker. Works by American modernists are prominently featured,…
As part of PHOT'AIX 2022 and the extension of the exhibition at the Municipal Archives Famille(S), this Album(S) exhibition at La Fontaine Obscure presents five other art views on the theme of the family album, recomposed or composed. Katell Delia: Meanwhile, from Malta to Tunis “My Maltese paternal family has kept many photos from the time when they had to immigrate to Tunisia. At one point, these photos were no…
Between Real and Unreal Dafna Talmor is a London-based artist and lecturer whose practice encompasses photography, spatial interventions, curating and collaborations. Much of her work consists of landscapes staged from collages and montages of color negatives taken in various locations, merged and transformed to give them even more depth. The resulting photographs are an amalgam, "real" but also virtual and imaginary. Her wish: to transform a specific place - initially…
The Sit Down gallery presents a dialogue between the French photographer Chantal Stoman and her Italian colleague Marco Lanza. By reducing photography to a game of cuts, collages and cropping, the latter delivers a work on photographic time that is as playful as it is brilliant. To write that photography confronts death, or revolves around it, is from now on a used and hackneyed cliché, which without the words of…
The solo exhibition Remembering You presents the latest works by Dutch artist Paul Cupido, who deals with memory, loss and hope – with feelings that are familiar to everyone. The loss of a loved one may be immeasurable, but one thing is never lost: the time spent together. Memories survive along with the certainty that shared moments cannot be taken away. The feeling of missing someone also arouses a feeling…