Art historian Maeva Dubrez has published a well-documented essay on Deborah Turbeville's work, the fruit of extensive research, with ACTEDITIONS. Here is an extract of her essay: This essay solves the enigma of Deborah Turbeville's work by going over her photographic prints with a fine tooth-comb and exposing the infinite layers that lie beneath. She is more than a photographer : her work continually breaks down the blurred boundaries between…
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As part of Women's History Month and to celebrate the release of the monograph "Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage," The National Arts Club of New York hosted the symposium "Deborah Turbeville and the Female Gaze," focusing on women's perspectives and portrayal in photography. First defined by Laura Mulvey in 1975 in her article "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," the concept of the female gaze emerged as a rebellion against the male gaze.…
Photo Elysée recently paid tribute to Deborah Turbeville, an American photographer recognised in the 1970s for her fashion photographs. But Turbeville is much more than that; it is a work on photography and its materiality. In collaboration with the MUUS collection, Photo Elysée allows us to discover a true female artist. It's challenging to classify Deborah Turbeville's (1932-2013) work because her oeuvre is rich in research and diverse use of…
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Until February 18, the Galerie Chantal Bamberger in Strasbourg is presenting a collective exhibition entitled: White! White is a color. Our collaborator, Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, has chosen to show you the work of Véronique Sablery accompanied by this text. The white work of Véronique Sablery In this multi-medium and collective exhibition, alongside and among others the drawings of Titus-Carmel and the statuary of Jan Voss, the photographs of Véronique Sablery…
This essay examines the role that photo-based imagery played in the immediate aftermath of Liberation by means of The Nuremberg Trials. The Allies and Soviets were confronted with what to do with the 8.5 million members of National Socialist German Workers’ Party and their millions of collaborators who participated in robbing, torturing, and murdering two out of every three European Jews, wiping out entire centuries-old communities. The Nazis killed so…
Marian Goodman Gallery presents Memory Lost, their first exhibition in New York with Nan Goldin, who joined the gallery in September 2018. This major exhibition is the first solo presentation by the artist in New York in five years and presents an important range of historical works together with two new video pieces and the debut of two new series of photographs. Memory Lost (2019), an important, new digital slideshow,…
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Bonhams offers an exceptional collection of contemporary photography by African artists in their upcoming sale in New York on July 27th, 2022. Among the highlights : An iconic work by Malian artist Seydou Keïta, titled Bamako, is exemplary of his style and has been exhibited at the Guggenheim in New York and Grand Palais in Paris. It presents two women dressed in matching m'boubous patterned with ostriches and arranged with…
Art director and Saudi photographer born in Germany, Rayan Nawawi is now based in Jeddah. After graduating from the Academy of Arts in San Francisco, Ryan Nawawi quickly opened his creative studio. It is around the theme "Summer of white" that the photographer collaborates with Nike x Vice. His support: the famous Air Max 97. In his series "Satellite Culture" that he imagines with the artistic director Ali Cha'aban, Ryan…
Anastasia Samoylova's Breakfast With series, in which photo books are splayed open and the iconic images therein mingle with the first meal of the day, read as affectionate homages to the greats of twentieth century photography. These playful pictures also inspire reflection on what it means to be nourished; we drink in artistic inspiration with our eyes and the effects are not unlike a strong cup of morning coffee. Samoylova's…
New Queer Photography is dedicated to all queer people who suffer for their way of life, fight for it, or simply celebrate it. Julia Gunther takes us on a lesbian beauty pageant in a South African township in her series "Rainbow Girls", Bradley Secker portrays LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers from the Middle East in "SEXugees", Shahria Sharmin documents the lives of "Hijras", who have been tolerated as transgender and intersex people…
Photographer Bettina Gorn has been dancing for many years. In her photography takes, she captures and develops moments while emphasizing their constant transformations. Like her models Gorn is in the movement of her own ritual. Despite appearances there is nothing chaotic about it. Everything always remains determined. So much so that the eye is caught by the selected move. And suddenly the viewer inevitably gets involved with the images in…
The Château de Tours presents the exhibition Noces de Pigment / Pigment Bride by Sandra Daveau. She describes her work in these words: Embryonic views, wombs, cocoons, female nests, human drop, ash lift. My brush-women evolve in circular shapes creating living paintings whose only trace is photography. Sprinkled, sown from above with various layers of flour, ashes, coal, clay and pigments, they then take on a pictorial color. Their femininity is…
Marshall Gallery presents an exhibition of works by German artist and designer Robert G. Achtel. This is Achtel’s second presentation with the gallery and the first full display of his suite of nine works from The City of Namara, including the debut of three new pieces from the multi-year project. The City of Namara by Robert G. Achtel presents an American city that exists somewhere between reality and fiction through nine…
Improvised refreshments, infirmary, rest day, airline or karting driver, accordion players... find the other side of the Tour de France . Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
I watch as evidence mounts that the concept of value for a photograph is changing. First, it was the billion a day picture explosion of phone cameras, and the internet, then NFTs, and now this story in L’Oeil of June 10th: Jean-Marie Perier’s Yesterday and Today. In it, he writes “I offer an exhibition of 41 photos of my “60s” pictures free of rights to be placed on the walls…
Hamiltons Gallery presents Richard Learoyd & Irving Penn: Flowers. This unprecedented exhibition brings together exquisite examples of still life, photographs of flowers by two masters of the subject. Hamiltons Gallery’s association with Irving Penn and later his Foundation spanned three decades; and for the first time, the gallery unites the work of Penn who was one of the most renowned photographers of his time – alongside that of contemporary, British…
On the occasion of the Rencontres d'Arles, the Fisheye gallery presents Delphine Diallo's new series, Golden Age, produced in collaboration with WhiteWall. Mixing photographs and collages, the exhibition is an invitation into the universe of this protean artist. The Golden Age series originated with a proposal: the wish of a great lover of African art to create a work from his own collection. Among the 3,000 artifacts that make up…
Initiated at the end of the 1970s, at a time when artistic photography was almost exclusively a matter of black and white, the “Photocolore” series is particularly revealing of the practice of John Batho, an artist born in 1939. Very early, from 1963 , the choice of color seems obvious to him. In the photographs he takes of his close environment, he isolates everyday objects on a colored background to…
Le Point du Jour, art center and publisher in Cherbourg presents an exhibition and a book by Maxence Rifflet entitled: Nos Prisons (Our Prisons). Nos prisons is the result of work carried out over three years by Maxence Rifflet with prisoners from seven French prisons. At the start of the project, there was a question: how to photograph in a space kept under surveillance without doubling it, how to frame…
Sandra Cattaneo Adorno is one of those artists who gained international attention and fame following a first career in a different field. Having launched her photography career at age 60, she is currently charming the Venetian audience with her first solo exhibition featuring works from Scarti di Tempo and Águas de Ouro as part of the group show Personal Structures. To dive a little deeper into her fantastical world and learn more about the…
As in many fields of art history, the work of women photographers has often been overlooked, and few of their names are now widely recognized. However, women were closely involved in all major photography movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, and have used the camera as an extraordinary tool for emancipation and experimentation. These are artists who never stopped documenting, questioning and transforming the world, breaking down social boundaries,…