Published by TBW Books, here is My Mother, My Son by Mary Frey. Using the title of her 2004 photograph, My Mother, My Son, as an inspirational and creative starting point, Mary Frey pulls from her vast archive of photographs to create a pictorial story collapsing linear time. Frey intimately and masterfully captures subjects at ease in environments that feel, at once, wholly familiar yet unmoored from their own reality.…
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This new book published by GOST Books presents a typology of 100 portraits of households in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia taken in 2020 during some of the strictest COVID-19 lockdowns in the world. The restrictions allowed photographer Luke David Kellett a unique opportunity to compile a visual representation of architecture and inhabitants of Newcastle and contribute to a collective memory of the period. “I’ve only felt compelled to work…
Éditions du Ruisseau presents the book Le Bordeaux des grands photographers. Between the 1930s and 1960s, Jean Dieuzaide, Willy Ronis, Robert Doisneau, François Kollar, Henri Cartier-Bresson and René-Jacques came to photograph the Aquitaine capital and its surroundings. The streets and monuments of old Bordeaux, the still active harbour de la Lune, the grape harvests with ox carts in Margaux or Saint-Émilion, the small street trades, the oyster farmers' huts of…
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The Galerie Roger-Viollet Hors les Murs and the city hall of the 10ᵉ arrondissement of Paris present their new exhibition Irmeli Jung - Visages de Paris et d'ailleurs. Born in Finland in 1947, Irmeli Jung discovered photography at the age of 13. In 1965, she moved to Hanover in Germany and completed her apprenticeship with the photographer Kurt Julius. In January 1968, while she was staying in Paris, a friend…
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…
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The 1970s work of California-based photographer Michael Jang, who portrays suburban and urban life with irony and whimsy, is being rediscovered by some major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Lee Gallery, Winchester, Mass., will devote a solo exhibition to Jang's work—the artist’s first in New York City—and will include monumental wheat paste murals that will cover a 10-by-25-foot wall. His work is now on view…
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, will present a selection of works by gallery artists including Zanele Muholi, Carolyn Drake, Terry Evans, David Alekhuogie, John Divola and Guanyu Xu. Of particular note are the self-portraits of the internationally-renowned photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi, whose work frequently documents South Africa’s LGBTQIA+ community. For AIPAD 2022, Muholi will present new work from the series that continues their ongoing exploration of identity and…
Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, will exhibit this image from The Americans, Robert Frank’s magnum opus which changed the way journalism was used by artists and photographers, establishing the field of personal journalism. Documentary records merged with snapshots and serious diaries and placed the photographer right in the middle of the action rather than on the periphery. The Americans was transformational and an entire generation of photographers followed in its…
Among the notable pictures on view at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, is a substantial piece by Peter Beard, Andy Warhol Collage (Nothing is Perfect). This imposing work, built from hundreds of individual photographs, has remained unseen for the past 23 years and is in perfect condition. Peter Beard and Andy Warhol were supremely active in New York City throughout the 1970s and ‘80s. They knew each other quite well from…
Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, will feature a selection of whimsical works by fashion photographer Rodney Smith whose signature style captured poise, beauty, and grace. The gallery will exhibit extraordinary works including Aaron Siskind's Gloucester (Wire Mesh Window), a 1944 photograph made in the earliest period of his transition from social documentary to abstraction; Man Ray's Les champs delicieux, 1922, one of the photos that introduced the world to the Rayogram;…
Atlas Gallery, London, will show a variety of important works including Lisetta Carmi’s arrestingly intimate portraits of Genoa’s transvestites; the U.S. launch of Nick Brandt’s The Day May Break (Bolivia), 2022, a global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction and climate change; color Polaroid nudes by Franco Fontana; zebra nudes by Lucien Clergue; works by Florence Henri whose confounding nudes, portraits and…
Bruce Silverstein, New York, represents an international roster of contemporary artists as well as established artists of great influence. The gallery is committed to discovering, examining, and contextualizing known and unknown artworks by modern masters as well as innovative artists of today. At AIPAD, the gallery will feature the work of Adger Cowans, a founding member of The Kamoinge Workshop; Barbara Morgan, widely recognized for her groundbreaking photographic images of…
Monroe Gallery of Photography, Santa Fe, will present two distinct exhibitions exemplifying the power and immediacy of photojournalism. The first recognizes the new wave of independent photojournalists who are battling situational danger amidst growing public skepticism of the media. The second exhibition features the work of Tony Vaccaro, who has survived the Normandy Invasion and Covid-19, and just recently celebrated his 99th birthday. A highlight is the art-fair premier of…
Michael Dawson Gallery, Los Angeles, will be showing a large group of vintage and later prints highlighting the career of Max Yavno who was the first photographer to live in Los Angeles and record the city in a documentary style. The exhibition will feature work made in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles between 1938 and 1980. Yavno was president of the Photo League in New York between 1938…
Utópica, São Paulo, will present Brazilian photography at The Photography Show by AIPAD. Two award winning series by Lalo de Almeida will be on view: Amazonian Dystopia (2022 World Press Photo and 2021 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant) and Ashes from Paradise (2021 World Press Photo). These photographs not only shed light on the destruction of nature, but also the genocide of the peoples of the forest. Utópica will also…
Edward Burtynsky's recent work explores nature's disquieting transformation by industry in Africa. Through diverse photographic projects over the decades Burtynsky captures the complex global intersection of industrial growth and environmental impact. Exquisitely detailed and exactingly rendered, his images, among the works on view at Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, strike an intricate balance between a somber reportage and a powerfully seductive aesthetic, reflecting the dilemma between society’s desire for prosperity…
Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, will present photographs spanning nearly a century – all of them featuring animals, whether in their natural habitat or in the most unexpected and irreverent environments. Louise Dahl-Wolfe’s Mary Jane Russell in a Balenciaga Gown with Cat, Paris from 1951 will be on view along with David LaChapellle’s fantasia of over-sized crustaceans, Arthur Elgort’s charming giraffe peeking through a lodge in Kenya, Steven Klein’s menacing canine,…
Throckmorton Fine Art, New York, is known for its focus on Latin American masters of photography including Ruven Afanador, Mario Algaze, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Flor Garduño, and Graciela Iturbide who is considered one of the greatest contemporary photographers of Mexico—and all of Latin America. For the past 50 years, Iturbide has produced majestic, raw, and visceral photographs. Rather than acting as a distant voyeur, Iturbide seeks to…
In 1923 Tina Modotti and Edward Weston moved together from California to Mexico City and, from the start, Modotti became a perceptive student. Some of Weston’s earliest Mexican images, many of them architectural, revealed his developing interest in the inherent geometry of otherwise ordinary objects and structures. This aesthetic would inspire Modotti, so evident in this formal, architectural study of shape and form, on view at Michael Shapiro Photographs, Westport,…
Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc., New York, will show the work of leading 19th century photographers including William Henry Fox Talbot. A brilliant scientist, Talbot conceived of the art of photography during the 1830s, combining the use of a camera obscura with light-sensitive chemistry. Unlike the other early photographic processes, heliography and the daguerreotype, Talbot's negative-positive process on paper became the basis of all modern photography. A Fruit Piece, 1845…