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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Luhring Augustine presents Yasumasa Morimura: Self-Portraits, the artist’s ninth solo show with the gallery, and his first presentation in their Tribeca location. For nearly four decades Morimura’s conceptual multi-media practice, which includes photography, film, and performance, has been realized through the meticulous and innovative use of costumes, makeup, and staging. Masterfully transforming himself into famous figures who are often pulled from the Western cultural canon, such as Vincent Van Gogh,…
This splendid place dedicated to the protean Hungarian artist presents the meeting of two great personalities, that of the artist Alexander Camaro with the German photographer Lothar Wolleh. We find there iconic portraits of the painter made with Hasselblad and savor a color facet of Wolleh that had remained in the semi-darkness. Alexander Camaro (1901-1992), arms crossed, fishnet t-shirt, white pants and gazing away: this is how photographer Lothar Wolleh…
Home is Home (All Alone) is a diary of images and a long-term research. Stories of places and people in different worlds, in a society in which I explore relationships, private moments, loneliness, abuse, love, nightlife, music and artists’ lives. I endlessly investigate the relationship between certain people and the space they live in. (…) In my encounters and desperate search for a home, I have collected storms, tempests, dreams…
2023 World Press Photo global winners show the cost of war and of peace. This year’s World Press Photo Contest global winners, chosen from thousands of entrants, highlight the climate crisis, community, war’s impact on civilians, and the importance of press photography around the world. The four World Press Photo Contest global winners are: With Russia’s war in Ukraine constantly in the news, the Photo of the Year goes to…
Tony Cederteg, the founder and director of the Libraryman publishing house, is releasing 4 books, among them Sol & Luna by Viviane Sassen. Originally produced as an initiative for Swedish fashion brand Our Legacy in 2009 as an alternative to a runway show, Viviane Sassen (b. 1972, Dutch) was commissioned to portray androgyny and beauty as key principles. - Tony Cederteg First edition of 300 copies, numbered. Revised and re-released…
Staged on a farm in rural Japan, externaling Higashikawa in Hokkaido, Osamu Yokonami’s (b. 1967, Japanese) images demonstrate his particular use of photography as an artistic medium. Working with straightforward camera angles, Yokonami transforms ordinary bodies, farming tools and the local produce into haunting images—unexpectedly absurd and familiar. Headless figures, an aubergine-masked face, an abandoned baby on a paper bag, a topless character submissively kneeling in the grass while balancing…
For I Left My Grandmother’s House, Victoria Hely-Hutchinson (b. 1984, British) turns not only her eye, but her ear as well to her extended family in Austria, merging fragments of family lore with keenly observed photographs. The work neither provides a tidy critique of the extant aristocracy, nor does it blithely venerate the decor, saying “ooooh,” while rolling the brocade curtains between its fingers. Instead, it simply shows and tells,…
I’ve never observed Benedict Brink (b. 1985, Australian) step towards perfection, I get a sense of disdain for anything too clean, or right-angled. People often mistake her for a man because of her name. I think perhaps, it’s also due to this crude-commitment type-way of seeing. Benedict defies any traditions of how an image of a body may be expected to be represented through a female lens — or male…
Galerie Julian Sander presents a selection of photographs from the private archive of Rosalind Fox Solomon. Solomon began her photographic career in the early 1970s, where she studied with Lisette Model during regularly trips to New York City. ‘My liberation began with her,’ she said. ‘I took all kinds of pictures. Model encouraged me to go for the strongest picture, not to be afraid because they were disturbing.’ Rosalind Fox…
Mauro Restiffe's photographs at Villa Sauber capture the spirit of Santo Sospir, the villa Jean Cocteau lived in and decorated in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat between 1950 and 1962. When he entered Santo Sospir for the first time in the spring of 1950, Jean Cocteau was sixty years old. Build in Saint-Jean Cap-Ferrat, overlooking the harbor of Villefranche-sur-Mer, the villa was a haven of peace for him, reminiscent of his youthful days on…
This photographic series by Mahdi Ehsaei shows a side of Iran, which is widely unknown even to Iranians: a minority of people who influenced the culture of a whole region by continuing their African heritage with their clothing style, their music, their dance and their oral traditions and rituals. Ehsaei set out to the Hormozgan Province in the Persian Gulf to shed some light on this part of Iran, which…
Japanese jazz bars and coffee shops are insular worlds where time ceases to exist, removed from the speed and chaos of the modern urban landscape. Tokyo Jazz Joints is a visual chronicle of this unique culture that captures the transient beauty of these spaces. Established in 2015 to document Tokyo’s myriad »jazu kissa«, the project has gradually expanded to cover the whole of Japan.These dedicated jazz listening spaces are slowly…
Burt Glinn. Half a Century as a Magnum Photographer celebrates the compelling, elegant, and expressive ways Burt Glinn experienced the world through photography. Highlighting his extraordinary talent for picturing iconic and everyday scenes from the second half of the 20th century, this is the first monograph covering the breadth of Glinn's storied career. From the Introduction by Sarah Stacke: I remember Burt’s wit and his lopsided grin when he told…
This is the briefest email of the week. Hello L’Oeil de la Photographie, This is Erik Messori photographer, with Corsiero Editore we just released the book: Independence On My Skin the unique trip into the IRA world through their tattoos. We would like to ask you if you are interested in helping us to promote the book. Erik Messori We like the pictures, so here there are, along with…
The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) presente RetroBlakesberg: The Music Never Stopped, a solo exhibition that travels through some of the most explosive moments in music history through the lens of Bay Area-based photographer Jay Blakesberg. On view August 31, 2023–January 28, 2024, the exhibition explores the connection between music and cultural memory, showcasing photographs that evoke the sounds and stories that have shaped the Bay Area and beyond. The…