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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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…
A dialogue in word and image, The Moons of Saturn monograph, newly published, is a collaboration between photographer Frank Rodick and writer Nancy Brokaw. The book is based on Rodick’s suite of images, completed in 2021, that reflect on the human condition in extremis, particularly during the time of Covid. Using a foundation of vernacular photographs—of both intimates and strangers—that anchor the constructed images, each picture may be understood as…
This is the twenty-seventh dialogue from the Ettore Molinario Collection. A dialogue that for the first time brings together two photographs by the same author, Frank Horvat. And I think no one better than this master has been able to talk about imagination and desire, and how men imagine women’s desire. Ettore Molinario He looked at them and let himself be looked at. Frank Horvat looked at women and…
The Centre d'Art et de Photographie de Lectoure has announced its program for August. Exhibitions, guided tours, courses, workshops for young people... All info online here
We learned of the passing of Jim Lee, through the years we published many times his body of work, today’s edition, taken from our archive, is entirely dedicated to him. Holden Luntz Gallery published the following text : It is with profound sadness that we share with our friends and collectors the passing of Jim Lee on July 30, 2023. He was a talented, original, and creative artistic force. His…
Archive - May 7, 2020 Jim Lee has worked in the fashion industry for over 50 years now. He was originally nicknamed “the original wild child of fashion photography". In this interview given to London Live, he recalls his experiences as a career artist, giving an insight on his cinematic narratives, asymmetrical compositions, and bold colors helped usher in an era of expressive liberty for fashion photography. Born in 1945,…
Archive - December 11, 2017 An exhibition on view in Zurich, Switzerland, currently features the work of British fashion photographer Jim Lee. Photographer and filmmaker Jim Lee has always kept an ear to the ground – mindful of the zeitgeist and anticipating the trends. But, as with many artists, it is only the benefit of hindsight that reveals some of the most remarkable aspects of his work. As a fashion…
Archive - February 6, 2017 For Jim Lee, storytelling was always at the heart of his work and his life. Lee was born in 1945 to parents who were both MI5 operatives marking a beginning to a life that followed anything but a conventional path. At the young age of 17 he decided to move to Australia where his interest and passion for photography sparked. His time in Australia was…