Steidl presents Nags Head, Joel Sternfeld’s candid images of an Outer Banks summer, which went on to inform his seminal work American Prospects. Joel Sternfeld entwines two personal stories in this book that together reveal the roots and evolution of color theory in his work over the past five decades. In the summer of 1975, facing surgery with a risk of paralysis, Sternfeld went in search of a last idyll—and…
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Presented by the ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica, The Luminescence of Memory consists of a selection of daguerrotypes taken by Binh Danh at various US National Parks, such as Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Yosemite National Parks. Beyond these beautiful silvered landscapes, Danh uses the National Parks as a way to explore his experience having immigrated to the United States from Vietnam as a child. In a way, these daguerreotypes visualize…
Her name: Marylise Vigneau. She just won the Gomma Grant with these images. "Aarzoo" is an Urdu word meaning wish and longing. This series is about these emotions and their deviations. It is a subjective journey through Pakistan, a country that remains a riddle despite several extended stays since 2010 and the mix of exasperation and tenderness I feel for it. The construction of these diptychs occurred slowly over the…
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Josef Dapra is an Austrian photographer born in 1922. Starting from the idea that "The world is all that is going on" dear to Wittgenstein, he doubled reality as it is with his portraits of the women of his country. When knowledge is inscribed on the matrix of reality, the artist adds an extra bit of soul to it. He gives each portrait a special emotion. Suggestion creates a particular…
Leonardo Glauso, 1989, born and grew up in Florence is a professional photographer specialized in artistic nude and fashion photography. He has a degree in graphic design at Libera Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. He also studied photography at Scuola Internazionale di Fotografia in Florence. Between 2014 and 2017 he lived in Milan where he collaborated as Fashion Photographer for agency and fashion's magazines. He always travel in the…
Color for Color. No psycho-babble title, the subject is the color. I am a Rochester Institute of Technology BFA graduate and was fortunate to have studied with Minor White and Ansel Adams. Pete Turner was a big early influence with his great use of color and sense of design. I was always interested in color photography, but was frustrated with the printed results. Digital photography made it possible to get results that match expectations.…
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Based in Bordeaux, LesAssociés collective has existed since 2013. It now has 7 photographers and 2 directors. After two collective projects on territorial and social issues, he is working on the consequences and questions of the giant fires of La Teste and Landiras in Gironde. The fires made headlines in the summer of 2022. On an unprecedented scale, they marked the spirits by their violence, their size and their duration.…
Good news: a number of great exhibits. Less good news: 4 of the most amazing Arbus, Leiter, Wenders and Casa Susanna by the stinginess of their organizers only allow us to show a tiny handful of images. Jean-Jacques Naudet WIM WENDERS / POLAROID OF MY FRIENDS Espace Van Gogh At the end of 1976, I shot The American Friend in Hamburg and Paris, with Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper.…
It's been so long since I've seen a real exhibition of real photographic works! For the context, originally, there is the existence of a collection of photographs which brings together a large number of exceptional, or at the very least, fascinating shots. All these images, of excellent quality, have been patiently collected by Florence and by Damien Bachelot, according to their own criteria as collectors. Firstly, the photographs acquired are…
The book is exceptional. It brings together the images of almost the majority of today's great photojournalists who have traveled to Ukraine. The book Ukraine: A War Crime fruit of the 2023 FotoEvidence Book Award is dedicated to the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and it is historical document and a collection of photographs and witness accounts by Ukrainian and International photojournalists. Nighty one photojournalists from 29 countries…
Harold Feinstein cannot be reduced to a single series. Nevertheless, for this native of Coney Island, this ‘land without shadows’ remains first and foremost the field of his photographic practice and above all the perfect illustration of a certain vision of American society. In partnership with The Harold Feinstein Photography Trust. This exhibition takes part of the Rencontres d’Arles program as part of the Grand Arles Express manifestation. Born in…
An exhibition at the Sainte Trophime convent and 2 book publications: this is the presence of Agnes Varda in Arles this year! At the convent: La Pointe Courte, from photographs to film. With La Pointe-Courte, Agnès Varda produced in 1954 a radical film alternating between a graphic and realistic style which did not escape informed film lovers of the time. The film displays an artistic independence that breaks with the…
Serge Assier is great. For 38 years: he has been celebrating Arles and not only is he sending us the photos of his exhibition this year, but he is announcing those of 2024 and 2025! Jean-Jacques Naudet Hello. As my friend René Char wrote in 1985 “Our life is not a soap opera but a necklace of lightning discovering the fantastic under it, its diversity in abundance. The photographer's…
On July 10, 2023, La Poste issues a stamp on Arles, the Rencontres de la photographie as part of the EUROMed competition, the 2023 theme of which concerns Mediterranean festivals. www.laposte.fr
Arles opens on Monday, here you will find everything it has to offer: exhibitions, organised evenings, prizes, screenings, portfolio readings and workshops. Arles or rather the many Arles for the multiplication of decision-making and power centers. That was the lesson of last year: the Rencontres had come to an end: long live Arles Basel! Let's forget about nostalgia for a while and discover tomorrow. Jean Jacques Naudet Arles 2023…
The 54th edition hosts 45 exhibitions, and this year again, experimentation crosses the field of exhibitions and themes. Maciejka Art manipulates photography and transforms it, to better reflect an exploration of femininity and motherhood. The artist/curator duo of Eva Nielsen and Marianne Derrienn invests the landscapes of the Camargue and seizes optical phenomena to reveal their richness. Zofia Kulik handles the photographic medium and builds a new feminine identity, full…
Among the 45 exhibitions on the program for this 54th edition, several offer an exploration of distant memories, and invite us to probe the notion of exile: Jean-Marie Donat makes us rediscover Marseille, land of arrival and departure, city of passage for women and men from the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa. Between our walls retraces a History of Iran from the 1950s to the present day, while the presence of…
Throughout the city day and night, photographers and curators of the program meet the public at evening projections, exhibition tours, debates, lectures... https://www.rencontres-arles.com/en/semaine-d-ouverture/
Echoing the Eveningside exhibition presented this summer at La Mécanique Générale, this performance, with images and live music, offers a unique exploration into the work of Gregory Crewdson, set to original music by James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) and multi- instrumentalist/composer Stuart Bogie. For the past thirty years, Gregory Crewdson has been creating a meditative portrait of an America whose wide-open eyes have been blinded by the lights of an exhausted dream. His…
ARTE, loyal partner of the Rencontres d’Arles, offers a screening of a documentary directly linked to one of the exhibition of the programmation of the Rencontres d’Arles 2023, Casa Susanna. In the 50s and 60s, in the middle of the vast American countryside, a small wooden house was home to the first underground network of transvestites. Diane and Kate are now 80 years old. At the time, they were men. They…
To complement this summer’s exhibition Light of Saints. A Photographic Pilgrimage at the Chapel of the Museon Arlaten, the Rencontres d’Arles has invited director Tony Gatlif (Latcho Drom, Gadjo dilo, Exils, Liberté, Tom Medina…) to tell us the story of the Gitanos, Manouches, Romani, and Travelers of France and Europe. Through the voice of actor James Thierrée, Tony Gatlif recounts the tale of these peoples, whose memory is lost in an endless…