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 life of the great photographer Sam Levin will have covered almost the entire 20th century. He was born in Ukraine in 1904 and died in Paris in 1992. First a chemical engineer, he became more and more passionate about photography, which he discovered at the age of seven. Completely self-taught, he became a photographer without having really wanted to. He began as a set photographer during the 1930s, photographing…
The exhibition From Her To Eternity: The Women Who Photograph Music created and curated by singer and actress Courtney Love will be until September 18th at Chicago's outdoor gallery, Wabash Arts Corridor. Here is the text they gave us ! Courtney Love and Julie Panebianco, ARCny Creative Director and Philanthropist, have brought together the work of 46 world-renowned Music Women Photographers into one grand urban tapestry that highlights the so important role…
One of the most surprising portfolios received this week with this text. My name is Susi Belianska, and I am a photographer and artist. My project titled “Das Unheimliche” explores the intersection between human and artificial, inviting reflections on complex emotional dynamics and dilemmas that arise when we confront the possibility of replacing a human creation with a living being. The photographs portray girls representing the idea of artificial figures…
TBW Books presents Tender, the first monograph by artist Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years, the images in Tender comprise a complete, personal self-portrait of a young, queer, Black woman intimately exploring the realm of her own possibility. When Williams was eighteen and studying photography at Princeton, she began making the black and white and color portraits…
Thierry Maindrault’s Monthly Chronicle : Let's not mix every thing please. There is no single user of photographic techniques; but a multitude, as for many, of the technologies invented by Man through the ages. There are many people who can claim the title of painter, from Johannes Vermeer to painters of buildings or road signs. It is the same for Photography, from the gifted creator to the anthropometric photographer, passing…
John Szarkowski, director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for thirty years, wrote she was "a social observer by choice and an artist by instinct". Indeed, Dorothea Lange (1895-1965) was just that, as she documented historical events that changed the economic and social structure of the United States. The exhibition Dorothea Lange. Racconti di vita e lavoro (Tales of Life and Work), on show at…
Until August 21st, C+C Photography Gallery in Nantucket presents Nostalgia, an exhibition by Nathan Coe. Here is the text of the gallery : Coe’s newly released 2022-23 Nantucket series captures the nostalgic essence of the island complemented by the artist’s signature element of surprise. Emphasizing the beautiful unpredictability of both the natural landscape and of the human body, each work documents a specific moment in time that cannot be replicated.…
The Hulett Collection presents a newly available selection of images from Noell Oszvald's ongoing self-portrait series. While some have been published for a number of years, there are a few within that have never been made available until now. Self-taught, Noell is known for the unique and minimalist universe she creates and embeds herself in, as both the artist and the subject of her imagery. Notes of fellow Hungarian photographer,…
Julia Scully, who after 20 years as editor of Modern Photography magazine wrote an acclaimed memoir about her Depression-era childhood, when her mother put her and her sister in an orphanage before moving the family into a roadhouse in a remote part of Alaska, died July 18 at her home in the New York City borough of Manhattan. She was 94. Her death was confirmed by Jana Martin, a daughter…
Until September 9th, La chambre claire Galerie in Douarnenez presents Étoile du soir, the latest exhibition by Corinne Mercadier. " I am looking for images of a particular, unpredictable conjunction between the body, the object, the decor and the light. "... for The sky starts here, " I am accompanied by melancholy and the mystery of Dürer, Kubrick, Spilliaert and Poe." Corinne Mercadier La chambre claire Galerie 3 rue Voltaire…
The museum presents two Berlin series in an exhibition where the visions of their authors confront each other to deliver a profound and fascinating autopsy of the German capital. Berlin, 4,000 inhabitants per square kilometer and almost as many ways to look at it. Berliner Kontraste combines two visual worlds sharing black and white but with very distinct materials and contours. These photographs, taken between 2004 and 2015, explore the…
My first job was wedding photographer. Which I was for almost ten years. It suited me to watch others be happy and to think that I was the one on whom the memory of the happiest day of their lives depended. Besides, I only worked on Saturdays, which left me time to think about other things. After the shootings, all the photographers met in the laboratory to wait for the…
The 14th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award is devoted to the condition of women and girls in Afghanistan. On 26 May 2023, the NGO Amnesty International published jointly with the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) a report urging the International Criminal Court to qualify the abuses committed by the Taliban as a “crime against humanity” based on gender and sexuality, under article 7 of the Court’s Rome Statute. "While…
The Fahey/Klein Gallery presents Muses & Self: Photographs by Allen Ginsberg. This exhibition of Ginsberg's personal photographs balances our understanding of the public, outspoken poet and most prominent figure of the Beat Generation. At his core, Allen Ginsberg was a witness and chronicler of the world; his profound admiration for the beauty of the vernacular, intense observation, and celebration of the present moment guided his photography and poetry. The photographs…