VOLCANIC ERUPTION ICELAND 2010
Photography Stephen Toner
VOLCANIC ERUPTION ICELAND 2010
Photography Stephen Toner
TERRY RODGERS - APPROXIMATIONS OF THE SUBLIME
The artist continues to develop an iconography of muscled young men and slender young women, all more-or-less (un)dressed, adopting lascivious poses in a luxurious décor, ostentatious and baroque. Beyond one's first impression, that of a contemplative voyeur snatching a glance of an orgiastic fest, what then suddenly hits you is the absence of rapport amongst the protagonists, the eerie sense of detachment. The characters seem isolated in their own bubbles, gazes never cross. "My paintings describe imaginary worlds born out of 'offers' peddled by the media - luxury, riches, as well as a 'validated' version of beauty and desire - but then always with a dose of reality running through it. Just how difficult is it for the participants to get out of themselves and to 'connect' with one another?" Each composition is realized starting from individual portraits, portraits of persons crossed in the street and asked by the artist to pose for him.
These anonymous figures, who had never previously met, are then brought together at the heart of vast compositions. More rarely, they appear alone, but their attitude always suggests the presence of others outside our view.
In this process, photography plays a preponderant role - the models are photographed before being painted - but Rogers' approach is decidedly painterly. His technique is perfectly mastered, but has nothing to do with photorealism. It goes right to the essential to better emphasize the play of artificial light on the skin, or to highlight the éclat of a piece of jewellery or a fabric.
It is also particularly interesting to see him mutate into a veritable photographer, because these images are fundamental to understanding the thinking that underlies his work. Contrary to his paintings, the photographs have no special set or setting: the models emerge against a black background, plain, and appear as still more fragile and solitary. Beautiful as they may be (and indeed are), the bodies do not have the perfection that the brush provides them. And what is more, they do not benefit from the eternity that painting brings: they again become mortal.
Opposite - Marjin, 2013
Exhibition runs through till July 21st, 2013
Aeroplastics Contemporary
32 rue Blanche
1060 Brussels
Belgium
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LIU BOLIN - MASK
In Liu Bolin's new series, Hiding in California, the artist makes use of his famed process to blend into the background of the iconic Hollywood sign in addition to the pioneering TED stage. Hiding in California No. 1 - TED speaks to the innovative, creative, and groundbreaking minds that take to the TED platform to affect change in the world. It is a representation of the speakers - Liu Bolin himself included - who compile their ideas and their efforts under the TED banner in order to spread their message and craft a better tomorrow.
Hiding in California No. 2 - Hollywood is a representation of the countless individuals who dedicate themselves to the entertainment world that Hollywood has come to symbolize. It also serves as a representation of those who are lost and forgotten in the pursuit of the fame that Hollywood epitomizes. Both of these works speak to an America that is in many ways similar to the themes the artist portrayed in the Hiding in New York series.
In an expansion of his Hiding in New York series, Liu Bolin's photograph, Hiding in New York No. 6 - Intrepid, is a multifaceted work speaking to both the prevalence of American strength as well as the consequence of military dominance.
Mask is a new body of sculptures that craft a contemporary twist on traditional Peking Opera masks. Peking Opera masks are traditional forms of art that are used to depict heroes, legends, and gods found in Chinese history and culture. They are symbolic reflections of Chinese society and its values. By recreating these masks using the advertising and labeling of popular food and drink products seen throughout China, Liu Bolin addresses the rapidly changing, highly commercialized values of Chinese society. By adding a necessary layer to these works-welding masks - Liu Bolin speaks to the dangers Chinese face in their contemporary society. With constant risk of food and drink contamination, living in China can feel as dangerous as working with molten hot metal. For this reason, the series Mask - an evolution of a traditional art form - is intensely provocative.
Opposite - Hiding in California No. 2 - Hollywood, 2013
Exhibition runs through till July 21st, 2013
Eli Klein Fine Art
462 West Broadway
New York
NY
10012
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YVONNE VENEGAS - BORRANDO LA LINEA
Venegas continues to investigate the notion of portraiture. This practice was instilled in the artist through the work of her father- a photographer who captures various social events in the Mexican city of Tijuana. As a youth, Yvonne began her exploration of capturing images through photographs that she took of her twin sister Julieta, now a famous pop singer in Mexico.
For her current exhibition, the main gallery features 16 images taken from a body of work titled "Inedito". Yvonne was on set for select sessions of filming the third season of the Mexican telenovela "Rebelde". Most of the images are taken either at Televisa San Angel Sound Stage 3, on location at Royal Forest country club or live at concerts in the US. The telenovela follows a group of students from an elite academic institution, as several students create a band. The fictional band created for the show became a national sensation and performed live concerts to thousands of fans around the world.
It is this particular notion of blurred reality that fascinates Venegas. In her images, it is often unclear what is a set, and what is reality. A few images focus on the fans of the band, who seek to emulate the band members by mimicking their school uniform. The irony of fiction juxtaposed with reality becomes crystallized in many of the shots she takes. The process of perception in understanding roles- who is an actor, what is real; is blurred even further in some images, as the subjects of some photos mistake Venegas for her famous twin sister and attempt to capture her image while she is taking theirs. On a larger social scale, the telenovela actors take on huge impact in the culture with their mass popularity. It is suggested that a few of the actors are paired with local politicians in real life as strategy to boost election votes for that candidate. Again fiction runs side by side with reality.
Opposite - Cumpleaños, 2006
Exhibition runs through till August 23rd, 2013
Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue B1
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
CA
90404
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NORTHERN IRELAND: 30 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography, an ambitious exhibition featuring almost 200 photographs. Since the 1980s Northern Ireland has produced a distinctive body of photographic work by photographers from within and outside Northern Ireland. Many of the photographers to be included in the exhibition have established global reputations, but have not previously been considered in any sustained way as group of photographers interacting with each other’s work. The exhibition focuses on the growth of new, fine-art documentary practices, more often produced for the gallery space and the photo-book rather than for a press or media context.
Taking a historical and thematic approach, Northern Ireland: 30 Years of Photography begins with the media imagery of the Troubles that compelled photographers and artists to intervene in the flow of press photography that dominated a global, visual portrayal of Northern Ireland in the 1970s. From this response, and influenced by wider, international trends in contemporary photography, an engaged and often polemic aesthetic emerged, individual to each photographer but also shared across diverse photographic practices. With the Peace Process in the 1990s a new dynamic entered the scene which required photographers to think about the social and political past and future of Northern Ireland, and which also offered new opportunities for exhibiting and publishing work.
Opposite - Victor Sloan, Belfast Zoo III, 1983
Exhibition runs through till July 7th, 2013
Belfast Exposed
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
Belfast
BT1 2FF
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UNDER MY SKIN - NUDES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Mona Kuhn curates a group exhibition titled "Under My Skin" exploring the role of the nude in contemporary photography. Artists include Adou, Jeff Bark, David Dawson, Maciek Jasik, Nadav Kander, Malerie Marder, Geir Moseid, Mariah Robertson, Alec Soth, Bill Sullivan, Spencer Tunick and Shen Wei.
Opposite - Alec Soth, Las Vegas, 2011
Exhibition runs from June 20th to July 27th, 2013
Flowers
529 West 20th Street
New York
NY
10011
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UNDER MY SKIN - NUDES IN CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Mona Kuhn curates a group exhibition titled "Under My Skin" exploring the role of the nude in contemporary photography. Artists include Adou, Jeff Bark, David Dawson, Maciek Jasik, Nadav Kander, Malerie Marder, Geir Moseid, Mariah Robertson, Alec Soth, Bill Sullivan, Spencer Tunick and Shen Wei.
Opposite - Alec Soth, Las Vegas, 2011
Exhibition runs from June 20th to July 27th, 2013
Flowers
529 West 20th Street
New York
NY
10011
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CHLOE SELLS - SENESCENCE
Using the stylized and archetypal format of the still life, the objects within the body of work are symbolic surrogates, coordinates embedded with notations of exploration and movement. Relics of archaic civilizations, organic matter in varying states of decay, elements of the quotidian, the utilitarian, the exotic and the occult constitute the carefully-constructed totems. Without conferring a specific history, the objects summoned together within each image create rather than re-create narratives. Sells’s arrangements become less a document of an actual place, and more an allegory of her relationships to those places.
Each of the works is a unique analogue C-type print, handmade by Sells, using conventional negatives overlaid with colour and patterns in the darkroom, subverting the tradition of the meticulously created tableaux. The darkroom process itself is physical, dynamic and time-consuming, constituting a further mapping of the journey. The artifice created through unusual colour and warped light is used to heighten tension between the familiar and the exotic. Image fragments and oddly cut prints have been sketched and painted upon so that each outcome is unique.
Exhibition runs from June 21st to August 31st, 2013
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
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NYC, c. 1985
NYC, c. 1985, is a group exhibition including artworks by Armand Agresti, Amy Arbus, Janette Beckman, Larry Clark, Janet Delaney, Andrew Garn, Nan Goldin, Arlene Gottfried, Keizo Kitajima, Catherine McGann, Jeannette Montgomery Barron, Mark Morrisroe, Christine Osinski, Gunar Roze, Les Simpson, Gail Thacker, and Brian Young.
Through a wide range of photographic images by both established and less-familiar artists, the exhibition represents a major metropolis in transition. Compared to the 1970s, a restrained optimism prevailed to a certain extent in New York City over the next decade with the Wall Street boom and a general decline in unemployment. However, such appalling blights as homelessness, violent crime, and racial tensions - not to mention the explosion of the AIDS epidemic, all served to shred the very social fabric of the city.
The exhibition includes work that depicts both the high and the low in terms of culture, from Jeannette Montgomary Barron’s portraits of many now-canonized visual artists (including Andy Warhol and Cindy Sherman) and social luminaries (such as Bianca Jagger) to Les Simpson’s blithe snapshots of club kids and drag queens.
Many of the images in the show highlight the burgeoning punk and later new wave and Hip Hop music scenes with portraits of Madonna and The Clash by Amy Arbus, and Run DMC by Janette Beckman.
The range of fashions of the era are well documented by Gunar Roze’s portraits of people on the streets and Keizo Kitajima’s gritty shots of downtown nightlife.
Exhibition runs through till July 3rd, 2013
ClampArt
531 W 25th St
New York
NY
10001
USA
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GARRY FABIAN MILLER - THE MIDDLE PLACE
In 1976, aged just 19, the artist Garry Fabian Miller embarked on a body of work now known as Sections of England: The Sea Horizon, a series of photographs taken from the roof of Fabian Miller’s home at Clevedon, near Bristol, looking west across the waters of the Severn Estuary. Taken from this fixed point the lens, film and exposure remained constant, so that all that changes from picture to picture is time and the seasonal cycle. Each image is a simple square, divided precisely in half along the horizon.
In 1977 eight of these photographs were exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery in London and two years later they formed a principle element of Miller’s first one-man show at the Arnolfini in Bristol. For nearly 20 years, they then lay unseen until an enquiry from curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, who realizing the increasing significance of this body of work, brought Miller’s early career back into focus.
Exhibition runs through till July 13th, 2013
Ingleby Gallery
15 Calton Road
Edinburgh
EH8 8DL
Scotland
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JULIÃO SARMENTO: 75 PHOTOGRAPHS, 35 WOMEN, 42 YEARS
Julião Sarmento: 75 Photographs, 35 Women, 42 Years brings together a large body of work that has never been shown in the UK. First exhibited at Vieira da Silva & Arpad Szenes Fundation in Lisbon, Portugal in 2010, the collection of images has been gathered from Sarmento’s extensive photographic archive by the curator Sérgio Mah. The selection of 75 photographs, taken by Sarmento from the late 1960s to early 2000, was based upon the common link of portraits of individual women.
The portrayal of the female form, normally faceless women or monochrome silhouettes, has been a major theme throughout Sarmento’s practice. However, the practice of portraiture has predominantly been associated with Sarmento’s photographic works. 75 Photographs, 35 Women, 42 Years not only depicts the female face, but the title of each image reveals the woman’s name and connects her to a time and place in Sarmento’s life. Collectively the portraits reflect upon relationships, especially the connection and dialogue between each woman and the artist. The candid shots capture personal and intimate exchanges, along with more impulsive and playful moments. In some of the photographs the preparatory and experimental nature of the shot alludes to Sarmento’s wider conceptual and aesthetic sensibilities.
Exhibition runs through till June 27th, 2013
Pilar Corrias Gallery
54 Eastcastle Street
W1W 8EF
London
UK
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ESKO MANNIKKO & PEKKA TURUNEN - PEMOHT
The title takes its' name from a photographic essay realised by the two artists in conjunction over a seven year period between 1989 and 1995. This significant series has been reassembled by the artists and can now be seen in its' almost integrality. This will also be the first time both artists will be shown together in a gallery context.
The title PEMOHT refers to the Cyrillic script for the Russian word Remont – a term which can be translated as reparation and stands as the euphemistic and tragic symbol for the collapse of a country and the subsequent failure of its' institutions, devices and social structures. Within the immediate wake of the Soviet Union's dissolution the two photographers travelled to the Kola Peninsula, a remote area on the border of northern Finland. At the beginning of the Soviet period the peninsula was heavily industrialised and militarised, largely due to its’ strategic position and the discovery of the vast nickel and heavy metal deposits in the 1920s. As a result, the ecology of the area suffered major ecological damage, including contamination by military nuclear waste and nickel smelting.
Set against the bleak backdrop of this violated area, Männikkö and Turunen’s colour photographs set out to document the everyday reality of a disenfranchised community living on the margins during times of major transition. A haunting document of post-Soviet living conditions, PEMOHT captures this new reality with poetry, clarity and grit.
Exhibition runs through till June 22nd, 2013
Galerie Nordenhake GmbH
Berlin Lindenstrasse 34
DE-10969
Berlin
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NICHOLAS MUELLNER - THE NAUTILOID HEART
His projects investigate the limits of photography as a documentary pursuit and as an interface to literary, political and personal narratives.
The Nautiloid Heart is a shipwrecked novel. Occasionally, its flotsam washes up on foreign shores: images, allegories and scraps of lore. In this exhibition of salvage from a vanished book, photographs and text fragments evoke this tropical-gothic tale, set on the tiny island of Little Corn, sixty miles off the coast of Nicaragua. Over the past 500 years, the island has been a Carib Indian way-station, a pirate hideaway, a hunting ground for Spanish and British sailors, an American coconut plantation, a Nicaraguan penal colony, a drug-runners’ haven and a beach retreat for backpackers.
Photographing on the island between 2009 and 2012, the artist asked: how does one document a landscape so subject to the vicissitudes of other peoples’ imaginations? The Nautiloid Heart is an incomplete fiction, set in a version of a real place. On a land defined by passing fancy, depiction and projection momentarily converge.
Exhibition runs through till June 24th, 2013
Noshowspace
13 Gibraltar Walk
London
E2 7LH
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ANJA NIEMI - STARLETS
In Starlets, her latest series of photographs, exhibited for the first time, she continues to combine the self-portrait with the idea of the staged narrative. The images are like film stills or movie posters, with herself cast as the lead character. The stories are loosely told, leaving room for interpretation, and although it is mostly fiction, "there will always be a bit of me in them" she says. Unlike her previous series Do Not Disturb, where she purposely tried to distance herself from her everyday life in Norway, this time she photographed herself mostly close to home, in everything from landmark hotels, private homes and historic architectural houses, adding to the series a hint of her Scandinavian heritage.
The images possess an eerie, unreal quality, combining tragedy with humor. She uses a stylised language to create artworks that probe the false promise of perfection, suggesting that there is usually something hiding behind a flawless facade.
Born in Norway in 1976, Anja Niemi studied at London College of Printing and Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York. She has exhibited widely in both Europe and USA with her previous series ‘Do Not Disturb’, ‘Portrait of the Invisible’ and ‘Porcelain’.
Exhibition runs from June 4th to June 29th 2013
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
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WAITS/CORBIJN ‘77-‘11
WAITS/CORBIJN ‘77-‘11, a collector’s edition linen slipcase book limited to 6,600 copies. The coffee table art book not only features over 200 pages of Waits’ portraits taken by Corbijn over four decades, but also includes over 50 pages of the first published collection of musings and photographs taken by Waits himself.
The book is the chronicle of an artistic collaboration that reaches back more than 35 years, to those first black-and-white photographs of Tom Waits taken by a young Anton Corbijn in Holland in 1977. Corbijn would go on to acclaim for his iconic enigmatic portraits of musicians and other artists, from U2 and Miles Davis to Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood to Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter, also becoming a designer, a pioneer in music video and more recently, an award-winning director of feature films. By 1977, Tom Waits was already known world-wide for a series of stunning, timeless albums, filled with songs of a noir-tinged Los Angeles that owed as much to writers like John Fante and Jack Kerouac as it did to jazz, blues and tin-pan alley that had soaked into Waits’ pores from childhood. Ahead of Waits lay his partnership with Kathleen Brennan, leading to such touchstone recordings as Rain Dogs and Mule Variations—his film work with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Jim Jarmusch, and his stage projects with legendary director Robert Wilson.
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RANKIN - ALIVE: IN THE FACE OF DEATH
Featuring more than 70 images, in 'Alive: In The Face of Death', photographer Rankin sets out to explore and challenge our perceptions of death. Through his lens, the stories of those touched by death are revealed.
They include people living with a terminal illness, those who have faced death and survived, and those who work within the death industry.
One portrait is of 48-year-old Mum, Sandra, who was diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago. In Rankin’s image of her, Sandra feels she is displaying her ‘inner warrior’ as she battles her condition.
Rankin’s own response to the subject is reflected in a series of self-portraits and in his ‘life masks'. These include images of living stars such as Jarvis Cocker, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joanna Lumley along with those who have passed away such as Marlon Brando and Peter Cushing.
Exhibition runs through till September 15th, 2013
Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EL
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TERRY EVANS - THE INHABITED PRAIRIE
Inhabited Prairie, an exhibition of vintage black and white aerial photographs taken by Terry Evans between 1990 and 1994, which explore the complexities and contradictions in America’s heartland, specifically the artist’s local landscape in her native Kansas. This particular region has a deep and varied history of use. For instance, Smoky Hill Weapons Range, the nation’s largest Air National Guard bombing site, is contained within fertile fields and agro-industrial lands, and is only a short distance from the Tallgrass Prairie Natural Preserve, the last uncultivated tallgrass prairie ecosystem in North America.
Having photographed the ecology of the prairie floor from ground level for several years, Evans determined that the story of the land was incomplete without a macroscopic perspective of what she described as the "disturbed, cultivated, militarized" prairie.
In 1990, Evans began taking flights in a 25-mile radius around her home in Salina, Kansas, cataloguing the farms, flooded fields, cemeteries, ancient Indian village sites, highways, train tracks, bridges, military sites, cattle ranches and industrial gravel pits comprising the land below. Flying at 700 to 1000 feet, Evans could read specific pieces of visual information on the ground, without the entire landscape veering into abstraction. This distinction is critical to Evans’ practice, and it allowed for her unflinching look at the relationship between human intervention and the natural prairie. As Evans writes: "The thing I love the most was learning to read the landscape history from the air. I felt I was acquiring a sort of visual literacy of the ground. It was about reading the clues that told me whether or not the ground had ever been plowed, where the cemeteries were, what part was military, and what the history of all those markings meant."
Exhibition runs through till July 3rd, 2013
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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NOBUYOSHI ARAKI
Araki is the king of provocation. In a very particular - and arguably peculiar – way he has made the subject his own. And here we celebrate those images from his most controversial body of work, Kinbaku, the Japanese art of bondage. Kinbaku-bi meaning literally the beauty of tight binding. And yes, though strong and offensive to some, disturbing to others, the pictures are often beautiful.
Araki’s other great obsession, which he started photographing as a schoolboy, is the traditional districts of Tokyo. In his mind the two – the women and the city – seem to be inextricably linked as themes. He has often spoken of his fascination with beginnings, the idea of the womb, and his desire to uncover that which society seeks to conceal. Sex, death and the transitory nature of life are the ideas that persist throughout his work.
Exhibition runs through till June 8th, 2013
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
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SEBASTIAN LISTE - URBAN QUILOMBO
Urban Quilombo documents life inside Barreto, the occupied chocolate factory that became home to an entire community. Sebastian Liste tells their story in a mythical, almost magical, visual narrative. A town within a town, Barreto was a poor society, but one that also gave meaning and a sense of control to its inhabitants. It provided strength and courage for seeking new ways of surviving within the urban environment. Often counter-cultural and rebellious, the system of values and relationships of Barreto developed until the eviction of its occupiers in 2011. Now, they've been moved to the extra-radius, and Barreto has been cleaned to make way for the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.
Exhibition runs through till June 16th, 2013
Third Floor Gallery
Third Floor
102 Bute Street
Cardiff
CF10 5AD
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PATRICK AND TRISTRAM FETHERSTONHAUGH
Transplant is a deceptively uncomplicated series of photographic prints of London blossom trees by Patrick and Tristram Fetherstonhaugh, taking a classic subject and approaching it with a uniquely rigorous, process-based method to explore cross-cultural connections.
The process involved the two brothers walking through the city from their studio, taking a single photograph of each blossom-covered tree they came to until the roll of film ran out. The photographs were taken with a Japanese-made Nikon camera using Japanese Fuji film. The unexposed rolls were then sent to Tokyo to be developed and printed, physically making the journey suggested by the cultural connection between blossom trees in London and the symbolism of blossom in Japan - in doing this what looks like a simple picture is, in fact, the physical embodiment of a thought process connecting two countries.
Exhibition runs through till May 25th, 2013
Margaret Street Gallery
63 Margaret Street
London
W1W 8SW
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DUFFY ARCHIVE PRESENTS DAVID BOWIE
Duffy Archive presents David Bowie at the White Cloth Gallery, Leeds. The exhibition features previously unseen and behind-the-scenes images of the Lodger and Aladdin Sane cover shoots. Along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, Duffy was part of the 'Terrible Trio' seen as defining and capturing the London of the 'Swinging Sixties', moving models from studios and elevating successful photographers to celebrity status.
Exhibition runs through till August 11th, 2013
White Cloth Gallery
24 - 26 Aire Street
Leeds
LS1 4HT
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TOSHIYA MURAKOSHI
The current exhibition is comprised of 15 works that Murakoshi shot in his hometown, Sukagawa city in Fukushima prefecture between spring and early summer 2009.
In January 2009, My Grandmother was Admitted to the Hospital. The Doctor told U.S. She had three months to Live. I went back to my parents' house as many times as I Could, thinking about capturing her image as Frequently as I Could. But I Could Hardly do this Because She was more Emaciated Each time I saw her. I walked around my house and Took Photographs of it as if I Sought for the shadow of my Grandmother. She passed away in April as the Doctor had predicted. The funeral , the 49th day after death, the Bon Festival, all HAS passed so Quickly. Continued I to go back to my parents' house to Take Photographs Afterwards. The year 2009 Came to an End in That way. I noticed That I Could feel her presence more strongly from the photographs taken around my house than those taken of her, herself and of which I had only a few shots. Memories will fade out little by little from one's mind, but I realized that the fragments of memory that were etched into Little a landscape where I Spent with her Will REMAIN from Now on. The landscape Which Seemed Nothing much to me Before, HAS Become a beautiful memory Now.
Toshiya Murakoshi
Exhibition runs through till May 11th, 2013
Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film
2F 6-6-9 Roppongi Minato-ku
Tokyo
106-0032 #
Japan
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BRYAN GRAF - BROKEN LATTICE
By using found objects, low-fi processes, and an experimental approach to materials, Grafʼs photographs and assemblages explore the opposing forces of control and chance through methods of repetition, inversion and accumulation. Most of the works in the exhibition were produced as unique, camera-less photograms, a process by which Graf can exert certain constraints while leaving other elements beyond his control.
The artist explains his way of seeing thusly: “As I write this correspondence, the blind is down, covering the window to the right of my desk. The window is open and the screen projects a moiré-patterned shadow onto the fabric of the blind. This image fluctuates in and out of focus as it breathes with the wind. The lattice outside the opposite window is bending, warping under the weight of nature. And at this late, subterranean time of day the distinction between the orderly framework of the lattice and the entangled labyrinth of Wisteria vines is unclear. The two structures are blending into one another, forming a solid inky mass outside the bay window of my studio. This impression lasts for a few moments before sinking into the night. Focus. The screen is a filter – a grid maintaining repetition, order and control. Folded, warped and tangled, it creates visual noise, disturbances and interference. It becomes a dragnet, a visualization of chance-based actions within a repetitious structure. The grid is a lattice, a support system for nature; being constantly broken and sculpted by the persistent and omnipresent activity of the natural order.”
Exhibition runs through till May 18th, 2013
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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TYLER SHIELDS - SUSPENSE
Tyler Shields' "Suspense," an exhilarating array of images that began with a shot the photographer took of himself backflipping across train tracks in the middle of the desert, was originally planned as a series of self-portraits. But then Shields' previous muse Emma Roberts and girlfriend Francesca Eastwood learned of the project and immediately wanted to get in on the action.
"When people look at these images, you see a moment when sometimes somebody looks like they're about to die, and sometimes somebody looks like they’re about to live. And that was one of the most exciting things to me: How can you create an image that really makes somebody feel something?" - Tyler Shields
Exhibition runs through till May 19th, 2013
Guy Hepner
300 N Robertson Blvd
West Hollywood
CA
90048
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MARTIN PARR & TOM WOOD
Parr and Wood embarked on their careers at a time when the perception of photography was shifting. At the start of the 1960s it had been the eccentric face of the London fashion world; the visual language of advertising, and a middle-class hobby. Parr and Wood were amongst the first photographers to turn their cameras on modern Britain, elevating everyday life into fine art.
Charlotte Keenan, Tomlinson Curator of works on paper said: “Taken between 1976 and 1987 the emotive photographs in Every Man and Woman is a Star convey the similarities in the work of Tom Wood and Martin Parr, who are old friends, as well as their differences.
“The photographs are an important part of the Walker’s works on paper collection. They represent a significant period for photography, which was finally establishing itself as a fine art, as well as the changes in society for both the local area and on a wider scale.” Parr’s images span the period 1976 to 1983 and predate his change to colour film. They respond to his desire to document the world around him before it disappeared, illustrating many of his enduring interests including leisure, consumerism and community. These continue to influence his work, which he describes as ‘subjective documentary.’
Included in the exhibition are a selection of Parr’s images of the west ofIreland, which reveal the modern face of American investment, as well as the unusual customs and traditions of a vanishing community. There are also several images of the patrons of Yates’s Wine Lodge,Liverpool, some of his last work in black and white. Wood photographed the area and people of Merseyside for more than 20 years, earning himself the nickname ‘photie man’. The photographs on display were taken between 1980 and 1986. Wood’s photographs are the result of chance encounters. From fellow passengers on a bus, claustrophobic scenes in a nightclub, and well-kept suburban gardens, there is a voyeuristic quality about the work.
Exhibition runs through till May 19th, 2013
Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EL
England
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BERT HARDY - CENTENARY EXHIBITION
Bert Hardy, who would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year, is rightly regarded now as one of the country’s foremost photojournalists. Though he was a gifted war photographer, Hardy's sharp, spontaneous images of people in everyday situations were more characteristic of his work. His work stands out because he himself had come from a very poor background but his photographs never strayed in to sentimentality and he was able to achieve captured moments that resonate to this day.
Most of the exhibited photographs were shot shot using Hardy’s second hand Leica camera which he personally adapted to enable him to shoot in poor lighting conditions. Some of the editions were printed from the original negatives at the time, but there is also more recent signed work, affording a rare buying opportunity for limited edition photography print collectors.
Exhibition runs through till May 26th, 2013
The Photographers' Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Posted by Exit 29/04/2013
MEGAN CUMP - BLACK MOON
For Cump, the dark is itself a wilderness of sorts, full of the promise of the unknown. It is fitting that the locations she has photographed: underground caves, deep woods, night skies and oceans, conjure up mythic tales of transformation and the underworld. Some of these landscapes are inhabited by wild creatures, including a fox, ghostly white deer, and a shadowy woman who, in one photograph, floats in water black as the night, bringing to mind the ancient Hermetic axiom "as above, so below." This woman is, in fact, the artist, but one could argue that all of Cump's figures, even the animals, are enigmatic self-portraits.
Replete with auspicious meteor showers and subterranean passages, these photographs transport us, suggesting the other side of things. Stars appear to burn through the atmosphere and the evening sky fills with otherworldly light and color. The vivid flames are produced by deliberately introducing light leaks that simultaneously destroy and create anew the imagery on the negatives. In the past, Cump notes, the night imparted fundamental knowledge, serving as navigational field, timekeeper, and source of cosmologies. Distinctions were not drawn between scientific observation, spirituality, and art. Recent research suggests that some Paleolithic cave paintings are also prehistoric star maps–the stray dots and dashes overlaid on depictions of animals mark the earliest constellations.
Exhibition runs through till May 12th, 2013
Station Independent Projects
164 Suffolk Street
New York
NY
10002
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FRANCIE BISHOP GOOD
Far From Apple Hill reveals far as a relative term. To experience Bishop Good's large-scale, digital photographs is to fall between antipodes, cut through the center of the Earth on the straightest path between diametrical opposites, slip from memory to lived experience. The artist compresses place and time like folding a map, making visible an expired wind in the shape of trees or the passion in muscle memory.
You can't go home again, cautions Thomas Wolf. Bishop Good reaches impossibly toward her distant past in Apple Hill, Pennsylvania from her present South Florida, itself a transient region shaped by pirates, political refugees, and seasonal tourists. The resulting images draw from these varied locations; familiar bodies and strangers; specific cultures and diasporas; reconstruction and autopoiesis. Bishop Good's photographs are monuments to Walter Benjamin's notion of memory not as "an instrument for exploring the past, but rather a medium."
Bishop Good depicts the place and time of the other, who, as in folklore, is also a familiar. Bishop Good sets upon the world with a keen vision, filtering the darkness of time and place, moment and memory, sign and signifier so that the vulnerability of early childhood, the bosom of a landscape, or the trauma of a torn umbrella is yours, and you can recognize it, suddenly, as clear as a photograph. Bishop Good's work resonates exponentially at the roots of collective memory. Far From Apple Hill is inspired and troubled by memory in hyperreality, both painfully removed and staggeringly intimate.
Exhibition runs through till May 4th, 2013
David Castillo Gallery
2234 NW 2 Avenue
Miami
FL
33127
Posted by Exit 22/04/2013
JOSHUA LUTZ - HESITATING BEAUTY
In "Hesitating Beauty," Lutz breaks down the structure of the photograph as truth and challenges the traditional function of the medium in building narrative. The project is an intimate portrait of the artist's mother unlike any other photographic model.
Blending family archives, interviews, and letters with his own photographic images, Lutz spins a seamless and strangely factual (yet unflinchingly fabricated) experience of a life and family consumed by mental illness. Rather than showing us what it looks like, "Hesitating Beauty" plays with our conceptions of reality to show us what it feels like to grapple with a family member's retreat from lucidity.
Joshua Lutz writes: "Holding on so tightly to what I believed was sanity and being consumed by fear of depression and schizophrenia prevented me from being fully present to my mother's reality. The past few years, as she slipped away from the aggressive paranoia and depression of my youth to an almost calming sense of delusion, made it much easier for me to rid the anger that veiled my life and to attempt to find a place of empathy and compassion as I managed her care. In making this work and simultaneously falling deeper into her psychosis, I tried to imagine a time when the past, present and future collided; a place where the weight of memory is heavier than reality."
Exhibition runs through till May 18th, 2013
ClampArt
521-531 West 25th St
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 22/04/2013
MIKE BRODIE A PERIOD OF JUVENILE PROSPERITY
For three intense and prolific years, Brodie crisscrossed the states hopping trains, hitchhiking and employing whatever freely available means to fuel his burning lust for movement. The resulting photographs weave a telling photo narrative relatable to Kerouac’s On The Road, capturing the raw spirit of adventure and unbridled freedom Brodie and his friends sought and lived.
A natural, Brodie’s camera functioned as an extension of himself, an obsession. There was no thought-out intention to document or record, the resulting images just happened after Brodie found a Polaroid SX-70 on the backseat of a friend’s car. Soulfully and intimately depicted against a constant backdrop of movement are savages “riding suicide,” maps in filthy hands, tender moments of slumber and ruddy faces framed by wind-whipped hair eagerly leaning into the next adventure.
Brodie’s tightly knit traveling community was bound by movement, ravenous for life’s varied experiences and interactions and fueled by an intense curiosity to see, to feel, to meet something and someone beyond the towns in which they had been raised. Living outside of society’s norms, this highly creative group lived neither on nor off, but parallel to the beaten path, gleaning society’s detritus along the way to support their chosen version of the American Dream.
Exhibition runs through till May 11th, 2013
M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles
California
90069
Posted by Exit 15/04/2013
DAVID BENJAMIN SHERRY - WONDERFUL LAND
With this exhibition, Sherry presents a new series of analog photographs taken over the course of several months while he travelled through the Western and Southwestern states, recording scenes of the American landscape, in exceptional detail. Through a painstaking darkroom process, Sherry transformed these photographs of national parks, monuments, and familiar panoramas into impossibly chromatic and passionate renditions of the country.
Sherry traversed these feral regions equipped with a large format, handmade, wooden camera. Using an f/64 aperture, he was able to capture photographs that were evenly sharp from foreground to background. This exposure setting was an aperture used by Group f/64, a group comprised of seven 20th century photographers, including Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, whose pictures were characterized by carefully framed images captured in sharp focus – often of the American West. The result of Sherry’s technical process, photographing parallel subject matter, delivers prints that are hyper-real in their detail, exposing an infinite depth. His images inhabit an unfamiliar, strange space, as we recognize the physical inability of our own eyes to gauge such extreme levels of visual information. His attention to process relays his personal conviction, but it also insists on reflection, appreciation, and preservation of his muse.
Exhibition runs through till May 17th, 2013
OHWOW Gallery
937 N. La Cienega Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90069
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MELANIE MANCHOT - LEAP AFTER THE GREAT ECSTASY
Set on the world's largest natural ski jump, the video charts the intense preparations for an annual world cup, both in terms of the materiality of the site and the individuals involved. The piece tracks in great detail those elements that contribute to the construction of a large-scale event as well as the obsessive focus required to perform at the edge of what is possible, to attain ten seconds of human flight and to briefly defy gravitational pull.
Explored in the work is the tension between nature and a human desire for control. Arguably many of the processes and gestures observed across the work's distinct sequences contribute to the endeavor to shape and sculpt a section of nature for a specific human activity, to make it perfect, even just for a moment.
Manchot has devised an installation that takes over the gallery, its yard and playhouse and transforms these into a continuous choreography. A small group of night time photographs opens the show and sets the stage: each of the images is a portrait of the location, of its dense physicality and what it might stand for in terms of danger and desire. Further staging devices such as a provisional seating structure and an outside wooden room reflect the material nature of these temporary events while providing custom made environments for the work.
Exhibition runs through till June 1st, 2013
CARSLAW St* Lukes
137 Whitecross Street
St* Lukes
London
EC1Y 8JL
Posted by Exit 15/04/2013
WENDY BEVAN - INVENTORY
Wendy Bevan is known for her surreal aesthetic, and a tender, sympathetic portrayal of the feminine form, working exclusively in Polaroid film. Each Polaroid acts as Bevan’s negative, from which she works free from digital manipulation. As such they are distinct, precious, and totally unique objects, being exhibited for the first time in a pop up show.
“One of the charms of working exclusively with Polaroid film, is that the collection I have in my photography archive is vast, and ever expanding. Having worked as a photographer for nearly a decade, I have decided to sell a selection of these Polaroid’s from my archive of thousands of images, which remain unseen, and unpublished. ‘Inventory’ is a journey through the last 10 years of my photographic work on Polaroid.”
The photographs in the show will be a selection of personal works, and unpublished images from commissions for many of the major publications that Bevan has worked for, including Vogue, Vogue Italia, Vogue Russia, I-d, Harpers Bazaar, Muse Magazine, Nylon, How To Spend It, Marie Claire Italia, Stiletto, The Independent.
Exhibition runs from April 11th to April 14th, 2013
The Cob Gallery
205 Royal College Street
London
NW1 0SG
Posted by Exit 08/04/2013
CLAIRE AHO - STUDIO WORKS
In the early 1950s, at a highpoint in Finnish design culture, Aho established a Helsinki-based photography studio under her own name. Her prolific output spanned advertising, editorial, reportage and fashion for a range of commercial applications. She dealt with all aspects of the creative process, from casting models, set-making, styling and lighting to developing and printing her own images.
Aho’s relationship to the studio space is taken as the starting point for this exhibition, and is used as a prism through which to understand the relationship with her subjects, and – in particular – her dialogue with form, colour and pattern. Evidence of the mechanics of the image making process, such as colour charts, studio lights and backdrops are often included within the frame of the exhibited images.
The exhibition will also include a display of original materials where the images have been cropped and combined with graphics for magazine covers, advertising and packaging.
The photographs, spanning her career from 1950 to 1970, illustrate Aho’s trademark vibrancy and humour, through formally inventive compositions and scenarios constantly reimagined.
Exhibition runs from April 19th to May 21st, 2013
The Photographers' Gallery
16-18 Ramillies St
London
W1F 7LW
thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Posted by Exit 08/04/2013
LOTTIE DAVIES - MEMORIES AND NIGHTMARES
Lottie Davies work is concerned with stories and personal histories, the tales and myths we use to structure our lives: memories, life-stories and beliefs. She takes inspiration from classical and modern painting, cinema and theatre as well as the imaginary worlds of literature.
Her Elaborately staged scenes are the visual manifestation memories and nightmares, one of her own the day my brother was born and others gleaned from other people. The multiplicity of the layering in her photographs through analogy, metaphor and physical placement gives each image the possibility of numerous interpretations. Self-fulfilling prophecies can often have a rippling effect as the series has delighted audiences throughout the world, whom have re-interpreted and projected their own histories within her imagery.
These are not quiet pleasant photographs to glance upon. They are bold, strong - intensely intriguing - parodies worthy of prolonged viewing. Davies images are for the strong willed, confident individual who is not afraid to face their demons. Colour is key to her work; using bold imaginative strokes she wields the lens towards her meticulously constructed tableaux. Furniture, costume and props are found to build each individual set around her models that are varied and striking in equal measure. Intricate planning and careful placement render her work truly mesmerizing. Strong emerald greens, reds and turquoise feature throughout which immediately grab our attention as the subtleties of detail come into view, whether it be the strange impossible reflection in a mirror or the rocking horse in a maternity ward.
Exhibition runs through till May 5th, 2013
London Metropolitan University
Central House
59-63 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7PF
Posted by Exit 08/04/2013
JOACHIM BROHM - PLACES & EDGES
The exhibition will feature work from throughout Brohm’s 30 year career, from early series including Ruhr (1980 – 1983) and Ohio (1983-84) through to more recent projects such as Culatra (2008 – 2010). The exhibition will also include Paradis, an early series, which has never been exhibited in a gallery show before.
Joachim Brohm rose to prominence in the early 1980s and was among the first Europeans of his generation to recognise the artistic power of American photographers including William Eggleston, Robert Adams and Stephen Shore. He was also one of the first photographers in Europe to shoot exclusively in colour starting in the late 1970s, connecting the visual possibilities of colour photography with a newly defined “everyday cultural landscape.” At the same time, Brohm’s sequences of photographs show how important the medium and the artist’s archive have become as reflectors of our day-to-day existence, challenging him to keep developing and reviewing them in the light of changes to the reality of our lives.
Opposite - Ohio, On Fire, 1983-1984
Exhibition runs through till May 4th, 2013
Brancolini Grimaldi
43 - 44 Albemarle Street
First floor
London
W1S 4JJ
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FALLING FROM GREAT HEIGHTS
Falling from Great Heights, is a group exhibition featuring photographic works by Siri Kaur, John Knuth, and Heather Rasmussen. While each of the three Los Angeles-based artists owns a distinct style, all have a fascination with photography as a vehicle to abstract locations and space. Each artist’s work transcends the materials used to dislocate the viewer by means of manipulation, scale, and movement. All of them engage with the sublime, the beauty and fear of the spectacle of nature and the unknown. This poetic leitmotif draws their work together, however each artist manifests this in different ways.
Opposite - John Knuth, Faded Siren #18, 2012
Exhibition runs through till May 11th, 2013
Cohen Gallery
7354 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA 90036
Posted by Exit 01/04/2013
WOLFGANG LAIB
The exhibition will include color photographs and projected images depicting Vedic fire rituals, and Pulimalai, a mountain in southern India, where the artist is planning the creation of a monumentally-scaled Brahmanda, an egg-shaped form symbolizing the wholeness of the universe in Indian philosophy, culture, and religion. A group of new drawings related to the photographs will also be on view.
The fire rituals, performed by Brahman priests from Tamil Nadu in southern India, took place in February of 2009 in India and in June of 2009, in connection with an exhibition of works by Wolfgang Laib, at the Fondazione Merz in Turin, Italy, an exhibition space primarily dedicated to the preservation of works by the Italian artist Mario Merz (1925–2003), with whom Laib enjoyed a close personal friendship.
In keeping with his desire that the exhibition at the Merz Foundation not be “...limited to one individual, neither to one place, neither to a certain time," Laib arranged for it to be inaugurated in February through the enactment of fire rituals on the mountain Melavalavu, north of Madurai, near his studio in India. It concluded in June when he invited 45 Brahman priests to travel to Turin to conduct a week–long series of rituals called a mahayagna in the foundation's courtyard. Continuing a tradition that dates back thousands of years, ghee (clarified butter), spices, and food were burned in the spirit of sacrifice, to honor and purify the environment with smoke and aromatic fumes.
For the titles of both this exhibition and the one at the Merz Foundation, Laib chose a quotation from one of the Upanishads, the ancient philosophical texts that form the basis of the Hindu Religion.
Exhibition runs through till May 4th, 2013
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
535 West 22nd Street
Sixth Floor
New York
N.Y
10011
Posted by Exit 01/04/2013
ANNETTE KELM
The photographs by artist Annette Kelm seem to filter significations as a system of values and codes that are established and stabilized by various forms of image production including their distribution by the art market, media and consumers: among them phenomena of sports and daily life as well as botanics, exoticism, Hollywood film and architecture. She produces both individual and series of works with individual motifs and, in her exhibitions, shows a combination of photographs that refuse to submit to a single reading of a theme or concept. Different ways of viewing her works are offered, but never quite fulfilled-instead they rather seem to undo themselves.
Exhibition runs through till April 20th, 2013
Taka Ishii Gallery
1-3-2 5F Kiyosumi Koto-ku
Tokyo 135-0024
Japan
Posted by Exit 25/03/2013
DAVID QUENTIN - SILT
Slit is a new collaboration between photographer David Quentin and bestselling travel writer Robert Macfarlane. Silt - one of the most striking chapters of his recent book The Old Ways (2012), sees Macfarlane walk the Broomway, notorious as the “deadliest path in Britain”. Quentin documented this atmospheric journey along an Essex offshore path that has claimed the lives of more than sixty people over the centuries.
David Quentin’s photographs of the walk are now to be published by Penguin Books in a special e-book edition of Silt. The photographic series reflects upon this disorientating mirror-world and show the transition from purposeful walk to an isolated end - at the mercy of a great optical expanse. Quentin’s work with photographic film; generally using vintage camera equipment, documents various kinds of human intervention in landscape. His photographs have appeared in publications as diverse as The Financial Times and Artrocker Magazine.
Exhibition runs through till April 13th, 2013
4 Windmill Street Gallery
4 Windmill Street
London
W1T 2HZ
Posted by Exit 25/03/2013
LAURENZ BERGES
The current work of Berges shows mostly deserted homes and urban street scenes, which tell the story of a long forgotten time and more recent present. Whether old-fashioned interiors, staircases or weathered walls and asphalt - the traces of transience are omnipresent. The pictures are reminiscent of his earlier works of abandoned Russian barracks and residential areas, which had to give way to the open brown coal pit and were left behind after former use by its residents.
In the works presented here, however, the subject deviates from the mere past to a transition of an ever-changing present. The old furniture and piles of left-behind objects add an almost narrative element to the fragmented interiors. The aura of a human presence is clearly felt and thus expands the recognizable signature of the artist to a more complex visual language and compositional possibilities.
Berges' documentary style gives very personal insights of the places from his environment, which are carefully selected and recorded in a time-consuming production process with a plate camera. The highly detailed representation slows down the readability and therefore allows close observation. Shrouded in indirect daylight, these places somewhere in-between inhabited and deserted terrains convey a sense of calmness and peace. But although the works seem timeless, time is a crucial factor. These images depict traces of everyday life and the recent past in a poetic way.
Exhibition runs through till April 27th, 2013
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
Frankfurt am Main 60314
Germany
Posted by Exit 18/03/2013
JIM DOW - AMERICAN STUDIES
For over thirty years, american photographer Jim Dow has been recording the places where people enact their everyday rituals and regional traditions; petrol stations, beauty salons, pool halls, baseball stadiums, drive-thru burger bars, courtrooms, the shifting, vanishing backdrops of our daily lives. “The hundreds of pictures I have made and the thousands of miles I have travelled could be said to comprise a straight line, my interest in photography centres on its capacity for what appears to be exact description. I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit that still remain in the everyday landscape.”
Dow earned a B.F.A. and a M.F.A. in graphic design and photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1965 and 1968 respectively. An early influence was Walker Evans’s seminal book American Photographs (1938). Dow recalls the appeal of Evans’s razor sharp, infinitely detailed, small images of town architecture and people. What stood out was a palpable feeling of loss, pictures that seemingly read like paragraphs, even chapters in one long, complex, rich narrative. Immediately after graduate school Dow had the opportunity to work with Evans being hired to print his mentor’s photographs for a 1972 Museum of Modern Art retrospective.
Exhibition runs through till April 12th, 2013
Public House Projects
62 Gowlett Road
Peckham
London
SE15 4HY
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MARTIN USBORNE - THE SILENCE OF DOGS IN CARS
Martin Usborne’s photographs focus on the ever-curious relationship between humans and other animals. The Silence of Dogs in Cars was inspired by a childhood memory of waiting in a car whilst his parents were shopping in a supermarket, and the youthful fear that they would not return.
His “photographs are haunted by questions of muteness. Through Usborne’s lens, it appears that the dog left in the car speaks volumes that we cannot (or will not) hear”.
Usborne’s book The Silence of Dogs in Cars was awarded ‘Best in Show’ in the Creative Review Photography Annual 2012. He was also the recipient of the 2009 Taylor Wessing Award at the National Portrait Gallery for his photograph “Tiger, Rag, Johnny and Emma”.
Exhibition runs from March 19th to April 27th, 2013
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 18/03/2013
STUDIO SITTINGS
What remains unchanged over a period of more than 150 years is the fascination of photographers, art lovers and collectors with images of artists and their creative spaces. We still see these pictures as a record and one possible key to understanding the artist, the creative process, and the social environment in which they lived. Anne Purkiss, 2013.
For over 25 years, portrait photographer Anne Purkiss has been taking pictures of Royal Academicians. Often posed in their studios, these images are a unique record of some of the most celebrated artists of recent times. From Dame Elisabeth Frink, to Sir Peter Blake and Sir Anthony Caro the images provide a telling insight into the artist’s working environment and their creative spaces.
Exhibition runs from March 15th to June 2nd, 2013
Leighton House Museum
12 Holland Park Road
Kensington
W14 8LZ
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ZANELE MUHOLI - FACES AND PHASES
Faces and Phases is an ongoing series of photographic portraits of black lesbians and transgender individuals Muholi has met in South Africa and beyond.
The portraits work as a visual statement as well as an archive, presenting and preserving an often abused and ostracized community through visual records. As Muholi writes: “In the face of all the challenges our community encounters daily, I embarked on a journey of visual activism to ensure that there is black queer visibility. It is important to mark, map and preserve our movements through visual histories for reference and posterity so that future generations will note that we were here.”“In Faces and Phases I present our existence and resistance through positive imagery of black queers (especially lesbians) in South African society and beyond. I show our aesthetics through portraiture. Historically, portraits serve as memorable
records for lovers, family and friends.”
Exhibition runs through till April 6th, 2013
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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FORMAT13
Photography Festival is building up to be the biggest and most ambitious yet, making the city of Derby once again the place to discover new and exciting photography from around the world. Artistic Director Louise Clements has curated a rich line up of exhibitions under the festival's theme FACTORY: Mass Production, and includes an exciting new exhibition Notes Home - the history of the British postcard produced by the Archive of Modern Conflict; the UK premier of Album Beauty from the collection of Erik Kessels; Silvermine a unique view of China discovered from found photography and curated by Thomas Sauvin; Ken Grant's intimate portrayal of Thatcher's working class Britain No Pain Whatsoever and Still Waters a special commission by Brian Griffin, one of the UK's most influential and creative portrait photographers.
Located in Derby, a UNESCO World Heritage site, FORMAT13: Factory will be a celebration of the city as the birth place of mass production, and explore how the factory continues to be relevant in the 21st century digital age.
FORMAT has built its reputation through its championing of international photography presenting the best of emerging talent, showcasing it alongside the masters of photography and in particular bringing new talents from China, Indian sub-continent, Africa, South America and the Middle East to the UK for the first time.
Opposite - Paul Wenham-Clarke: Silicon limb worker, 2012
Exhibition runs through till April 7th, 2013
FORMAT Festival
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby
DE1 3AS
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
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TOM WOOD - PHOTOGRAPHS 1973 - 2013
Tom Wood has taken photographs almost every day for the last 40 years. The resulting, remarkable bodies of work now form the basis of this new retrospective exhibition, his first in the UK.
Most of Wood's work has been taken in Liverpool and on Merseyside, where he has lived for much of the last four decades. He has photographed on the streets, in pubs, clubs and markets, workplaces, parks and outside football grounds.
Wood's photographs are not organised in series, where one project has a start and end date. Instead, he works daily on an unfolding, diary-like recording of his observations and encounters. He will spend many years returning to particular places and studying them in an attempt to refine and distil the essence of them in his photographs. The result is a constantly evolving celebration of the pleasures of photography and its potential to transform its subjects.
Exhibition runs through till June 16th, 2013
National Media Museum
Bradford
West Yorkshire
BD1 1NQ
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
Posted by Exit 04/03/2013
STIAN ANDERSEN - A-HA
A series of stunning black and white images of the band’s intimate and iconic moments from acclaimed photographer Stian Andersen. To the very first photo he took of the band in 1994 to the very last concert on December 4, 2010, Andersen has been closer to the band than any other photographer. Backstage, on stage; in private planes and hotel rooms: all taken with Andersen’s analogue film camera – apparent in the grainy, atmospheric quality of the images – see A-ha as you have never seen them before.
Andersen worked as A-ha´s photographer for ten years shooting the band’s different album covers and promotional photos. To capture the images in this exhibition he travelled with the band across the globe to twenty cities in twelve different countries for a total of 37 concerts: to places like Tokyo, Osaka, Rio, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires and Santiago De Chile, St Petersburg, Minsk, Moscow, London and New Jersey. He was even there for the recording of their last ever album “Foot Of The Mountain” and the band’s emotional final concert.
Exhibition runs through till March 17th, 2013
Strand Gallery
32 John Adam Street
London
WC2N 6BP
Posted by Exit 04/03/2013
ERWIN OLAF - BERLIN
In a significant departure from his previous projects, ‘Berlin’ is set and shot on location at six different historical locations throughout the grand city, rather than in imagined settings, constructed in Olaf’s Amsterdam studio. Following the recent awarding of the Vermeer Prize to Olaf (the most important cultural recognition conferred by the Dutch government), this latest series further reiterates his status as one of the world’s most talented, prolific andinfluential artists. With ‘Berlin’, Olaf has again broken the boundaries of contemporary photographic practice.
Creating powerful imagery that is at once historical and contemporary, with a tension-filled and ever-shifting narrative, the artist manages to entrance, perplex, confound and delight viewers. Esteemed photographic critic Francis Hodgson, in his essay exploring ‘Berlin’, comments: ‘You could see Berlin as an opera. There are the grand elements from history, which are like the bits of legend or myth or biblical story that make up the plots of opera. Here are some of them: The Neue Sachlichkeit (the New Objectivity, an art-history label for the harsh realism of painters such as Otto Dix or Christian Schad).
Here’s the building where John Kennedy called himself a Berliner (“lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today, to the hopes of tomorrow, beyond the freedom merely of this city of Berlin, or your country of Germany, to the advance of freedom everywhere.”). Here is a broad hinted reminder of the great Jesse Owens, carrying off the plaudits at Hitler’s own Olympiad, and making a mockery of the Chancellor’s racism in doing so. Here’s the peculiar sub-culture of the duelling clubs, there’s a kid who looks uncomfortably like an enthusiastic recruit to the Hitler Youth, with his slicked hair and his black leather gloves. These are concrete references but not deployed to be specific. Olaf uses them to take us through a range of moods, exactly as opera does. We don’t need an exact narrative because so many of the historical references are so clear. Instead we get a set of pictures just imbued with Berlin.’
Exhibition runs through till May 10th, 2013
Hamiltons Gallery
13, Carlos, Place
London
W1K 2EU
Posted by Exit 04/03/2013
RICHARD BILLINGHAM - RAY'S A LAUGH
A major show about the Black Country and some of its characters. Turner Prize nominee Richard Billingham’s, ‘Ray’s a laugh’ consists of photographs Richard took of his father Ray and his mother Liz, in Cradley Heath. These are photographs with real integrity drawing out the troubled yet deeply human and touching personalities of his alcoholic father Ray, and obese, heavily-tattooed mother, Liz.
Exhibition runs through till May 6th, 2013
The Public
New Street
West Bromwich
West Midlands
B70 7PG
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JAN DIBBETS
Jan Dibbets has been a major figure in the international art world for more than forty years. Initially trained as a painter at the fine arts academy in Tilburg, Jan Dibbets turned to photography at the end of the 1960s, and such early series as "Perspective Corrections" became one of the essential foundations of Conceptual Art. To this day his work revolves around questions that pertain to the structure of photography and the mechanisms of perception, "what we see" as opposed to "what we know."
For this first exhibition at the gallery, Jan Dibbets will show for the first time a new series of large-scale photographs, New Colorstudies 1976/2012. Using negatives shot in the 1970s that were quite direct explorations of depicting color without an obvious structure, these new works use a large scale unavailable at that time to create almost painterly monochrome works. All are close-cropped details of car hoods – "flat and shiny like a photograph" – on which might be reflected sky and trees, photographs that are simultaneously as abstract as they are precise representation. The found industrial color of the cars, reproduced with the equally industrial chemical color of film chemistry, in the 70s Dibbets left unaltered; but in this new series he has often manipulated the color, bringing us back to the questions of representation and reality that are at the core of Dibbets’s work.
Exhibition runs through till March 29th, 2013
Galerie Nelson-Freeman
59 rue Quincampoix
75004 Paris
France
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THRESHOLDS
This exhibition explores the relationship between truth, fiction and fantasy within documentary photography. The artists included in Thresholds have, in different ways, made work that explicitly address these aspects of documentary photography practice.
Sophie Ristelhueber’s photographs, Eleven Blow Ups, are at first glance instantly recognisable as scenes from a contemporary conflict; familiar to us from the proliferation of images presented in the media. These photographs are in fact elaborate fictions, digitally manipulated by the artist.
Peter Watkins and Tereza Zelenkova also refer to the fictional potential of the documentary photograph. For An Index of Time the artists collaborated on a project about the Byci Skala cave in the Czech Republic, a rich source of local mythology and folklore. During the process of documenting the cave, the photographers were struck by the heavy influence that these tales had on their work.
Maja Daniels documents twins Monette and Mady as they go about their daily routine in Paris. The women live a performative existence in which they pose as the mirror image to each other, rarely appearing in public separately and never without identical clothes, hair and accessories.
Stephen Gill’s series Hackney Wick, also shows the ability of photography to transform the everyday into a theatre of the surreal. His photographs represent the area of London in which Gill lives.
Luke Stephenson is interested in documenting subcultures within British culture. In his series An Incomplete Dictionary of Showbirds, Stephenson has photographed birds commonly kept as domestic pets in the U.K. that are entered into ‘showbird’ competitions.
Exhibition runs from March 15th to April 26th, 2013
Belfast Exposed
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
Belfast
BT1 2FF
Posted by Exit 25/02/2013
JOEL TETTAMANTI - COMPASS POINTS
Joël Tettamanti's photographs are a vast archive of the structures, villages and cities that people create and inhabit, and the landforms and climates that shape their culture. Although his photographs are often unpeopled, the focus of his work is the human presence in the landscape and the people who are uplifted and sometimes defeated by the land they inhabit. This contradiction of human frailty and resilience, and the continuities people form with the land, are embedded in Tettamanti's photographic vision.
Joël Tettamanti was born in 1977 in Efok/Cameroon and is a graduate of ECAL, Lausanne. Based in Zurich and Lausanne, he has worked from Asia to the Arctic Circle on assignment for magazines and commercial clients such as Wallpaper, Victorinox, Clariant, and Gigon Guyer.
Exhibition runs through till August 31st, 2013
MIT Museum
265 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
MA
02139
Posted by Exit 18/02/2013
MICHAEL EASTMAN - HAVANA
This magical body of work exposes the colourful and crumbling interiors and exteriors of Cuba’s capital. Eastman is recognized for his large-scale photographs of the world’s most beautiful cities including Rome, Paris, and New Orleans. Inspired by Aaron Siskind, Eastman is transfixed by the textures of architectural decay and the narrative they reveal about the life of a building. This often leads Eastman to abstraction: areas of walls are cropped, reducing them to flat painterly planes of colour. In other instances, he draws us in with expansive perspectives creating inviting depths into rooms and doorways. His exacting technique of long exposure times, no artificial light and a wide angled lens captures a realistic field of vision, authentic light and colour.
“Putting one of his photographs up is like punching a hole in the wall and opening onto a vista of a much grander room than the one you are in”- Vicki Goldberg It is the details of these pictures which make them endlessly fascinating and poignant: ghostly rectangles of lighter colour on walls where paintings once hung, beach chairs that stand in for finely carved furniture, laden clothes lines hanging amongst chandeliers, above intricately tiled floors.
But these exquisitely deteriorating rooms and facades also tell a larger story: these are the homes of the successful and rich, who were knocked off their pedestals by revolution and whose country, abandoned by its Russian supporters and blockaded by America, still has very little in the way of material goods. While his photographs may provoke nostalgia for the glory days of Havana, Eastman’s emphasis is on the subtle grandeur of these buildings in ruin, the beauty inherent in decay.
Exhibition runs through till March 13th, 2013
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
Posted by Exit 18/02/2013
LARRY CLARK - TULSA
For the first time in Sweden, the exhibition will present Clark’s magnum opus, the notoriously iconic Tulsa-monograph, compromising the complete series of fifty vintage photographs from a private collection.
Taken in Tulsa, Oklahoma between 1963 and 1971, when the artist was in his twenties, the images are acclaimed for their powerful impact as both social documentary and subjective autobiography.
The main theme for Larry Clark’s body of work has always been honesty. With an unapologetic, unorthodox, and unedited depiction of sex, drugs and other vices, the Tulsa-series is acclaimed by critics for stripping bare the myth that Middle America had been immune to the social convulsions that rocked America in the 1960’s.
From rouge artist to rebel icon, Larry Clark has served as a saint of provocation and his documentary aesthetic has inspired generations of artists and filmmakers. Without Larry Clark there would be no Nan Goldin, Ryan McGinley, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Juergen Teller, Spike Jonze, Martin Scorsese, or Gus Van Sant.
Opposite - Untitled, 1971
Exhibition runs through till March 17th, 2013
Snickarbacken 7
111 39 Stockholm
Sweden
Posted by Exit 11/02/2013
TARYN SIMON - THE PICTURE COLLECTION
The Picture Collection comprises forty-four works inspired by the New York Public Library’s picture archive, one of the august institution’s lesser-known troves. The archive contains 1.2 million prints, postcards, posters, and printed images, most of which have been cut from secondary sources, such as books and magazines. It is the largest circulating picture library in the world, organized according to a complex cataloging system of over 12,000 subject headings.
Since its inception in 1915, it has been an important resource for writers, historians, artists, filmmakers, fashion designers, and advertising agencies. Diego Rivera, who made use of it for his legendary mural for the Rockefeller Center, Man at the Crossroads (1934), noted how the scope of this picture collection might go on to shape contemporary visions of America.
Each work is made up of a number of images that Simon has selected from a given archival category, such as Chiaroscuro, Handshaking, Haircombing, Express Highways, Financial Panics, Israel, and Beards and Mustaches. In artfully overlapped compositions, only slices of the individual images are visible, each fragment intimating its whole. Thus multiple related images are transformed into almost abstract color fields and geometric shapes. The framing and mounting has been specifically designed to make reference to early hanging systems in libraries and museums.
Exhibition runs through till March 28th, 2013
Gagosian Gallery
17-19 Davies Street
London W1K 3DE
Posted by Exit 11/02/2013
TOM HUNTER - PUBLIC SPACES, PUBLIC STAGES
Tom Hunter’s “Public Spaces, Public Stages” is series of photographs the artist took within the local London borough of Hackney.
Speaking about his new exhibition, Tom said, “These photographs are Earthly, here the word evokes the inter-relatedness of the environment to the life that takes place within it... Physical human situations, stories, people and places in-between. I have sought to express and explore a self-reflection and quietness through which one might transcend the immediate realities, pressures and distractions of contemporary urban society.”
The photographs are created using the pinhole technique. According to Tom “My choice to make these photographs with a pinhole camera is critical. It has implications on various levels not only for the construction of the image but also the construction of meaning or interpretation around the image. The pinhole camera is an arcane technology, the most rudimentary of interventions with allusions to the pre and early history of photography. The pinhole camera has no shutter. It makes no sound. Its mechanism; the action of light ‘seeping in’ has the quality of absorbing not grabbing.”
Exhibition runs through till March 25th, 2013
Print House Gallery
18 Ashwin Street
London
E8 3DL
Posted by Exit 11/02/2013
TREVOR PAGLEN
Commissioned by Creative Time, Paglen worked with scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to produce a disc micro-etched with 100 photographs, designed to last in space for billions of years. The project culminated in November of 2012 when the disc was attached to a communications satellite and launched from Kazakhstan into Earth’s orbit.The exhibition includes a selection of key images from The Last Pictures.
Among the large color prints and black-and-white diptychs is Angelus Novus (2012), a photograph of the backside of Paul Klee’s 1920 painting of the same name. Once owned by Walter Benjamin, the painting is an important reference in the philosopher’s last work “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (1940). In the essay Benjamin argues for a circular conception of history, one recognizing that despite the notion of progress, societies produce and reproduce similar economic, humanitarian, and political crises. For Benjamin, the “angel of history” faces the past and is propelled backwards into the future by the ongoing explosions of the present. By presenting the back of the painting, Paglen asks his audience to look back at the ongoing crisis of the present.
Additionally, there is a grid of 182 images collected for the project but ultimately excluded and a video of the satellite in orbit. Also exhibited are photographs, "skyscapes," of nearly undetectable surveillance drones in a seemingly empty field, a massive National Security Agency data center under construction in suburban Utah, and secret satellites in the night’s sky. Paglen’s images are both documents of clandestine military operations and a contribution to the history of photographic abstraction, following in the tradition of Alfred Stieglitz’s landmark “Equivalents” series of imposing clouds in an inordinately black sky.
Opposite - EchoStar XVI launch in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, November 21st 2012
Exhibition runs through till March 9th, 2013
Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 04/02/2013
JAMES SMITH - TEMPORAL DISLOCATION
Smith uses photography to capture evidence of man’s contemporary and historical relationship with landscape, and the nuances of activity that are made manifest by edifices and constructions within it. From Brutalist architecture to towering stacks of hay, these dislocated forms of quasi ‘sculptures’ are evidential signs of power, class and labour.
Temporal Dislocation explores the fine line between stability and impermanence, and the inexorably cyclical nature of the physical environment after human intervention. A primary intent of the work is to expose how form follows function in order to reveal the inherent aesthetics and resonances contained within that of ‘the found’.
Underpinning the work is a desire to bridge the divide between the photographer’s explicit framing of the constructed landscape and the casual viewer’s benign, unknowing or unconscious dismissal of its functions and attributes.
Exhibition runs through till March 8th, 2013
Photofusion
7A Electric Lane
London
Brixton
SW9 8LA
Posted by Exit 04/02/2013
GIZMON ICA IPHONE 5 CASE
The Gizmon iCA case is now available for the iPhone 5. Rather than just redesigning it and making it compatible with the new iPhone, the makers of the case have added a series of new functions to it.
Transforming your iPhone into a working rangefinder camera, the case now also comes with a built in and working shutter button. Also the Gizmon iCA comes with a built in viewfinder, a new leather case and strap in several colors and of course with a series of add-on lenses: Fisheye, Polarizing, Center Focus, Cross Screen (starburst) and the 3 image mirage filter
Posted by Exit 04/02/2013
LUCAS FOGLIA - A NATURAL ORDER
Lucas Foglia looks at the lives of communities of people across the United States who have chosen to live ‘off the grid’:
"I grew up with my extended family on a small farm in the suburbs of New York City. While malls and supermarkets developed around us, we heated our house with wood, farmed and canned our food, and bartered the plants we grew for everything from shoes to dental work. But while my family followed many of the principles of the back-to-the-land movement, by the time I was eighteen we owned three tractors, four cars, and five computers. This mixture of the modern world in our otherwise rustic life made me curious to see what a completely self-sufficient way of living might look like.
From 2006 through 2010, I traveled throughout the southeastern United States befriending, photographing, and interviewing a network of people who left cities and suburbs to live off the grid. Motivated by environmental concerns, religious beliefs, or predictions of economic collapse, they build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs, and hunt, gather, or grow their own food. All the people in my photographs are working to maintain a self-sufficient lifestyle, but no one I found lives in complete isolation from the mainstream. Many have websites that they update using laptop computers, and cell phones that they charge on car batteries or solar panels. They do not wholly reject the modern world. Instead, they step away from it and choose the parts that they want to bring with them."
Exhibition runs through till March 8th, 2013
Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
BT1 2FF
Belfast
Northern Ireland
Posted by Exit 28/01/2013
NICHOLAS HUGHES
Dust particles rising through the projector beam of a darkened London theatre form the genesis of Nicholas Hughes’s series Aspects Of Cosmological Indifference, which examines the space between the world that people inhabit and that which nature still claims as its own. In this intermediary space between the two, the photographer seeks to explore the essence of the human spirit and itsrelationship with nature. By focusing on boundaries, planes and surfaces he acknowledges the limits humanity has imposed on the natural world and contemplates the future for both.
With a deep environmental concern running through all his work, Hughes acknowledges the limits humanity have imposed on the natural world and contemplates the future for both. Nicholas Hughes said: In experiencing our insignificance I found reassurance. We can but amount to mere scratches upon the Earth's surface. No more than splashes of colour before we return to dust.
Exhibition runs from February 7th to March 31st, 2013
The Photographers' Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
Soho
London
W1F 7LW
thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Posted by Exit 28/01/2013
REALISM IN RAWIYA
Realism in Rawiya presents the work of the first all-female photographic collective to emerge from the Middle East, Rawiya. Operating within what is still a predominantly male-dominated industry, and one fraught with politics, the group credits pooling resources and talents for their rapidly developing profile throughout the Middle Eastern region and beyond.
Each artist established their individual careers as photojournalists, working for news agencies and publications across the Arab world. By living and reporting in the region, the photographers gained an insider’s view of the extremities of these settings, whilst also observing how their reportage could become reframed in the international media’s final edit of events. This shared experience inspired the members to create their own platform, to present what they felt to be the wider political and social stories currently going unseen.
Exhibition runs through till April 20th, 2013
New Art Exchange
39 - 41 Gregory Boulevard
Nottingham
NG7 6BE
Posted by Exit 28/01/2013
YAAKOV ISRAEL
The exhibition’s title, The Quest for the Man on the White Donkey, was inspired by a chance encounter with a Palestinian man who rode past whilst Yaakov was photographing near the Dead Sea. The photographer says, ‘It was only after developing the photographic plate that I realised I had encountered my ‘Messiah’: in Orthodox Jewish tradition, the Messiah (the Prophet) will arrive riding on a white donkey’.
Yaakov’s large scale meticulously detailed images encourage us to appreciate the multi-faceted political and social state of this contested region, offering us a highly personal insight into spaces often overlooked by the world’s media. His images evoke an incomplete utopia: an abandoned, overgrown swimming pool in the Northern Judean Desert indicates long standing neglect, whilst a disconcerting armed presence at the Dead Sea Hilton reveals the tension now commonplace in this landscape of uncertainty. Yaakov’s images are filled with allusions to barriers, both physical and metaphoric, which serve as a constant reminder of the unsettled and indeterminate nature of the country itself.
Elsewhere, Yaakov reveals the peace and tranquility that also exists, with images of everyday occurances such as gathering herbs in Haifa, or a moment of solitude bathing in the Sea of Galilee. These sights appear so idyllic one would be forgiven for not realising that beyond the frame, a deep-seated conflict rages on.
Opposite - Eman, South-Western Negev, 2011
Exhibition runs through till April 13th, 2013
Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square
Bradford
BD1 1SD
Posted by Exit 21/01/2013
JAIMIE WARREN - THE WHOAS OF FEMALE TRAGEDY II
In photographs that explore different female stereotypes from both art history and celebrity culture, distorted through the internet’s bizarre juxtapositions, disposable imagery and memes, this new body of work features the artist and her friends in roles as diverse as Zsa Zsa Gabor, Easy E, The Virgin Mary, Lana Del Rey or Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon.
Like a digital age, Midwestern Cindy Sherman, Warren camouflages herself in handmade costumes, sets and extensive makeup to impersonate internet-distorted celebrities, including a section of “food-lebrities” which you can perhaps imagine (“Lasagna Del Rey”). Unlike self-portrait artist Nikki Lee who aims to “pass” in various subcultures, Warren with her Rubenesque body, big blonde hair and rosy cheeks never quite fits in anywhere, perhaps best as her idol Roseanne Barr. The juxtaposition of her non-celebrity appearance with the sculpted and contrived publicity shots of Lil Kim or Madonna bring the unreachably idealized form back to its much funner corporeal reality.
Exhibition runs through till February 9th, 2013
The Hole NYC
312 Bowery
New York
NY
10012
Posted by Exit 21/01/2013
SELLING DREAM - 100 YEARS OF FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
In 1984, Irving Penn commented that he saw his role at Vogue as 'selling dreams, not clothes'. Selling Dreams is the first touring exhibition from the V&A's Collection to explore the work of international fashion photographers and to draw together such a broad range of important historic and contemporary fashion images.
The photographs reflect key themes in fashion photography throughout the past hundred years featuring more than twenty major fashion photographers.
Exhibition runs from February 2nd to April 20th, 2013
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Schoolhill
Aberdeen
AB10 1FQ
Posted by Exit 21/01/2013
KEITH ARNATT - WORKS 1967 - 1996
To highlight Arnatt’s conceptual approach, this survey combines texts, sculptural installation and photographically realised works as well as photographs. Early pieces from the 1960s in the form of artist’s prints are set alongside text pieces and a floor-based sculpture created in accordance with Arnatt’s instruction. The work ‘KEITH ARNATT IS AN ARTIST’ questions the role of the artist as a whole. Arnatt was also interested in expanding the meaning and function of an artwork in terms of its relationship to the discrete acts of bringing a work into being.
Groups of photographs such as ‘Walking the Dog’ and ‘The Forest’ from the 1970’s and 80’s reveal Arnatt’s analytic method of working and emphasise the point at which he adopted the camera as his primary tool for producing art rather than documenting it. Series from this period use an observational style influenced by Arnatt’s awareness of the typological preoccupations of artists and photographers as diverse as Bernd and Hilla Becher and Robert Adams.
Opposite - from the series: The Forest, 1986
Exhibition runs through till January 27th, 2013
Maureen Paley
21 Herald Street
London
E2 6JT
Posted by Exit 14/01/2013
CHARLOTTE DUMAS - ANIMA
Anima. The series was commissioned by and recently exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and is comprised of portraits of the majestic burial horses of Arlington National Cemetery. Dumas photographed these animals in their stalls as they relaxed and moved towards sleep after a day of work. Exposed only with available light, these pictures are both powerful and intimate. She has also created a video work that will be screened in the project gallery portraying the animals as they drift in and out of sleep.
Dumas travels the world making evocative formal portraits of animals, characterizing them by their utility, social function, or by the way they relate to people. "The bond between mankind and animals, and the extensive history that it accompanies, is my great interest," says Dumas as she seeks to express how humans "use and regard animals for our own purposes, literally and symbolically."
Exhibition runs through till March 9th, 2013
Julie Saul Gallery
535 West 22 Street
6th Floor
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 14/01/2013
FRED HERZOG - IN COLOR
Herzog has received significant critical attention over the past five years, beginning with his first major exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the publication of his first monograph FRED HERZOG: VANCOUVER PHOTOGRAPHS, in 2007. Especially in Europe his celebration of American cars and culture, offhand points of view and a rich palette have garnered much attention and resulted in major publications and exhibitions, and a comparison to fellow European Robert Frank.
This increased attention inspired Herzog to look more closely at original slides previously overlooked and never before printed. Our exhibition includes twenty works from 1957-2001, taken in Vancouver as well as Portland, Kansas City and Curacao. In addition to a marvelous eye for color, this selection also reveals his strong sense of abstraction.
Opposite - Crossing Powell, 1984
Exhibition runs through till January 26th, 2013
Laurence Miller Gallery
20 West 57th Street
NY
New York
10019
Posted by Exit 14/01/2013
PIETER HUGO
This new series of photographs (2011 – 2012), on show for the first time, consists of nearly one hundred close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom have made South Africa their home or who are from there. Through a digital process of converting colour images to black and white while manipulating the colour channels, Hugo emphasizes the pigment (melanin) in his sitters’ skins so they appear heavily marked by blemishes and sun damage. Damages that are common to all human beings. As the result, these images denounce the contradictions of racial distinctions based on skin colour. Discriminations that, from Hugo’s point of view, remain ineradicable even in hell, as Morrissey says in his ominous song: “Our skin | And our blood | And our bones | Don’get in your way | Making you ill | The way they did | When we lived | Oh, There is a place | A place in hell | Reserved | For me and my friends”.
Opposite - Yasser Booley, 2011
Exhibition runs through till January 19th, 2013
Extraspazio Gallery
Via San Francesco di Sales 16/a
I - 00165
Rome
Italy
Posted by Exit 07/01/2013
E.O. HOPPE - LONDON
Hoppé was one of the most renowned portrait photographers of his day, as well as a brilliant landscape and travel photographer. His strikingly modernist portraits describe a virtual Who’s Who of important personalities in the arts, literature, and politics in Great Britain and the US between the wars. Among the hundreds of well-known figures he photographed were George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, A.A. Milne, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, G.K. Chesterton, Leon Bakst, Vaslav Nijinsky and the dancers of the Ballets Russes, and Queen Mary, King George, and other members of the Royal Family.
Beginning art photography in 1903 Hoppé was admitted as a member of the Royal Photographic Society where, over the next four years, he regularly exhibited his amateur photographic works. In this same year Hoppé was also associated with The Linked Ring Brotherhood and fellow members Alvin Langdon Coburn, Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901), and George Davidson (1854-1930), who played an important role in international art photography, maintaining close ties with continental and American groups including the Vienna Camera Club and the Photo Secession, New York.
Opposite - St James Park towards Westminister, London, 1935
Exhibition runs from January 15th to January 19th, 2013
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California
90404
Posted by Exit 07/01/2013
DOMINGO MILELLA
Over the last ten years, Milella’s subjects have been cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, tombs and hieroglyphs – in short, signs of man’s presence on earth. His interest lies in the overlap between civilization and nature and how landscape and architecture are invested with individual and collective memory.
In the ancient Turkish city, Myra, Milella has photographed the spectacular tombs that are carved into stone cliffs, as if they are part of the mountain. The carved facades appear almost like a cluster of homes, the design reflecting how the wooden houses of the period would have looked. In another image, Milella has photographed a sanctuary in Phrygia, a lime stone formation filled with ancient holes, shaped by both natural and human interaction. A place of refuge, of spiritual purpose and sacrifice, the sanctuary encapsulates Milella’s enquiry into an identity which is simultaneously archaic and contemporary.
The fallen ruins of the Greco-Roman theatre of Termessos stand at 1600m above sea level and almost appears to be part of and contained by the Taurus mountains that surround them. They have endured over two thousand years of elemental weathering, frozen in time on the day the city was abandoned. The idea of durability and the passage of time on language and culture are also present in the image of the cemetery at Van, a city on the border between Turkey and Iran. Muslim graves stand in a snowy field. Their height and dark, monolithic presence make them appear like the skyline of a modern city. Inscribed with Selgiuchid writings, the graves are an architectural model of time, of memory and of survival.
Opposite - Phrygian Sanctuary, Turkey, 2012
Exhibition runs through till January 26th, 2013
Brancolini Grimaldi
43 - 44 Albemarle Street
First floor
London
W1S 4JJ
Posted by Exit 07/01/2013
DAVID HILLIARD - THE TALE IS TRUE
In this new body of work, Hilliard continues to deconstruct issues surrounding familial relation-ships, and the struggle to secure a sense of self and place in a chaotic world. For over 20 years Hilliard has intermittently made photographs of his father, often including himself, exploring their relationship and the process of aging. In The Tale is True, Hilliard returns to the father-son narrative, using his multi-panel panoramas (polyptychs) to explore a family’s perseverance as they struggle to avoid an entropic slide toward ruin. Their Cape Cod family home, a legacy of generations of Yankee prosperity and tradition, serves as a symbol of identity, entrapment and history. Within these photographs, Hilliard unfolds the story of a father and son trying to maintain their physical and emotional footing while being swept up in the confluence of a complicated past and uncertain future. The tension between disillusionment and hope pervades this narrative, and is further punctuated by allegorical and symbolist cues within Hilliard’s multi-panel arrangements.
Much like the polyptychs of Renaissance ecclesiastical painting, each of Hilliard’s photographs offers the viewer the opportunity to explore from panel to panel the universal story of man’s frailty, and travails of the human spirit. Just as earlier paintings displayed stories or religious histories coupled with the mystical and mythological, Hilliard utilizes narrative and metaphor to reveal philosophical and spiritual themes of fate and faith, and the necessity of patience in adversity.
Exhibition runs from January 10th to February 16th, 2013
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 31/12/2012
HOME -YPA MENTORING 2012
The Young Photographers’ Alliance (www.ypauk.org) charity was created to nurture young photographic talent, helping photographers aged between 18 and 29 to develop both the technical skills and business acumen required to build successful and sustainable careers. “Home”: YPA Mentoring 2012 showcases the images from this year’s YPA Mentoring Programme. The Mentoring Programme links emerging artists with established photographers and picture editors/ art buyers, teaching the mentees how to work to a brief while honing their technical skills and creative approach.
The small teams of young photographers are collectively assigned a common brief and they are given two months to deliver their final projects. The mentors meet regularly with their teams, offering support and guidance from the initial conceptual stage through to the final editing process.
The theme for the 2012 Mentoring Programme was “Home”. In the UK, YPA hosted teams in Bristol, Glasgow, and London (a Commercial and an Editorial team). The mentors included McCann London Head Art Buyer, Sophie Chapman-Andrews, Independent on Sunday Picture Editor, Sophie Batterbury, and leading reportage photographer, Justin Sutcliffe. The British Mentoring Programme ran in conjunction with the charity’s North American scheme, creating 18 teams across the US, Britain, and Asia.
Exhibition runs from January 8th to January 17th, 2013
Margaret Street Gallery
63 Margaret Street
London
W1W 8SW
Posted by Exit 31/12/2012
E. CHAMBRE HARDMAN
Irish-born Edward Chambré Hardman (b.1898 d.1988) is best known for his photograph The Birth of the Ark Royal (1950) and for the highly successful commercial portrait studio that he ran on Liverpool’s Bold Street from 1923, and Rodney Street from 1949. The early 1930s marked a turning point for Hardman as he began to develop his passion for picturing the varied British landscape – from the wilderness to the pastoral, in a style that moved him away from the soft focus of Pictorialism.
In 1979 Hardman’s entire photographic output would have been lost were it not for the intervention of Peter Hagerty, the Open Eye Gallery’s then Director. Hagerty played a pivotal role in saving this archive, dedicating many years to cataloguing, conserving, and contextualising Hardman’s work.
This exhibition brings together a selection of E. Chambré Hardman’s landscapes taken over a forty-year period. Curated by Julia García Hernández, it is delivered in partnership with the National Trust.
Exhibition runs through till February 17th, 2013
Open Eye Gallery
19 Mann Island
Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 1BP
Posted by Exit 31/12/2012
MARCUS DOYLE - THURSDAYS BY THE SEA
Thursdays By The Sea features Doyle’s images from the desolate area surrounding the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California. Formed accidently in 1905 by a breach in the Colorado River, this lake was, in the 1950s, a bigger tourist attraction than Yosemite National Park. But over the years the local population and tourists have been driven away.
From its main water supply, the New River, the Salton Sea became heavily polluted with agricultural runoff and sewage from Mexico. As the volume of runoff increased, the lake’s water levels fluctuated so greatly that whole towns were flooded with this filthy, saline water. In the late 70s, the entire shoreline surrounding Bombay Beach had to be abandoned, leaving behind a sparsely inhabited ghost town.
Inspired by both Richard Misrach’s photographs of the Salton Sea from the 1980s and the extraordinary light in the area, Doyle embarked on this twelve month project. For months at a time from 2004 to 2005, Doyle visited the Salton Sea every Thursday, photographing the deserted landscape and the remnants left behind. His images capture both an elegance and a sense of re-birth within this odd, decaying environment.
Exhibition runs through till January 2nd, 2013
Margaret Street Gallery
63 Margaret Street
London
W1W 8SW
Posted by Exit 24/12/2012
JÖRG SASSE
Whether curtains, stairways, radiators, reflections in windows or unique lighting conditions - with an eye for detail Jörg Sasse reveals fragments of our everyday environment. Since the 1980s the artist has photographed seemingly plain everyday objects in private homes, public buildings and shop windows, unimpressive at first glance. Through unusual perspectives and detail, he transfers the preexisting composition into images with a distinct aesthetic quality. The transformation of a rather "simple" objects into a picture-worthy image as well as its form, shift the contextual meaning of the individual picture and their relation to each other.
For the current exhibition 38 Still Lifes from 1984 to 2012 are arranged and presented in four blocks. Through the use of databases the artist categorizes his works, thus being able to examine similarities and differences in order to subsequently compare various constellations to one another. The interaction of materials, shapes and colors reveal interrelations that any viewer can discover and formulate for themselves.
Exhibition runs through till January 5th, 2013
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
Frankfurt am Main 60314
Germany
Posted by Exit 24/12/2012
ERICA BAUM - NAKED EYE
The exhibition will include new and recent examples from the artist’s acclaimed Naked Eye series.
In this body of work, begun in 2008, the artist photographs the fanned pages of dime-store novels, celebrity biographies, and popular non-fiction books. Her strategic cropping and framing of their illustrations, glimpsed between fragments of text and the turquoise, marigold and vermillion edges of their pulpy pages, evoke new narratives born of each viewer’s own free associations. While Baum’s compositions range from the lushly figurative to more dramatically spliced geometric abstractions, all of the works share a sense of dark romance and a voyeuristic appeal. Featuring a cast of characters that includes political figures, musicians, and stars of 1970s film noir, these flattened images of reimagined stories are created without darkroom or digital alterations.
Exhibition runs through till January 11th, 2013
Jancou
63, rue des Bains
Geneva 1205
Switzerland
Posted by Exit 24/12/2012
NADAV KANDER - BODIES - 6 WOMEN, 1 MAN
Coated in white marble dust and set against the void of the photographer’s studio, the subjects of Nadav Kander’s BODIES. 6 Women, 1 Man serve as monumental studies of the human condition.
Far from the airbrushed perfection that permeates images of nudity in popular culture, Nadav Kander presents us with honest photographs of the human form. The ‘bodies’ featured reference the forms of the classical and renaissance past, whilst modernising the genre of the nude to act as a tool for philosophical investigation. Faces turned from the viewer, but bodies offered completely, the forms invite the meditation and self-reflection customarily associated with religious iconography and tomb sculpture. Kander has cited Elizabethan notions of purity as an influence for his bleached treatment of the auburn haired bodies.
The subjects are placed awkwardly, contorted and twisted or bowed reverently. In Audrey with Toes and Wrist Bent (2011) the form reclines, her toes and fingers curled uncomfortably from limbs. Flaws laid bare, the figure is exposed and vulnerable to our gaze. It is this sense of vulnerability, and of humanity stripped of its defences that Kander investigates as a point of beauty.
Exhibition runs from January 11th to February 9th, 2013
Flowers Gallery
21 Cork Street
London
W1 3LZ
Posted by Exit 17/12/2012
JULIAN YEWDALL - A PERMANENT RECORD
With explanatory text by the photographer, A Permanent Record features over 160 black and white photographs of Joe Strummer, legendary Clash frontman, as well as unpublished images of seminal all-girl punk band The Slits.
Yewdall first met Strummer in 1974 when the then John 'Woody' Mellor moved into the squat at 101 Walterton Road in London's Maida Hill. Yewdall sang and played harmonica in an early line-up in The 101'ers, then briefly managed the band before abandoning the musical for the visual by picking up a camera. These intimate pictures are direct from the heart of the West London squatting movement of the early seventies, that exceptional period when access to abandoned properties provided opportunities for artists to develop their craft without the constraints of financial imperatives. The pictures include posed portraits as well as informal reportage taken when stardom was only a glimmer in the eye of this inimitable artist. The images of Strummer date back to his earliest days when he was a singer with The101'ers, the quintessential squat-rock group in which he learned his musical and political 'chops'. In Yewdall's live pictures of the hirsute guitar-player you can see the frenetic movement and stage presence that he honed to perfection as frontman of the Clash, today considered one of the greatest bands of all time.
Exhibition runs through till December 22nd, 2013
Subway Gallery
Kiosk 1
Joe Strummer Subway
Edgware Rd / Harrow Rd
London
W2 1DX
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SEDUCED BY ART - PHOTOGRAPHY PAST AND PRESENT
The exhibition explores early photography from the mid-19th century and the most exciting contemporary photographs, alongside historical painting. It takes a provocative look at how photographers use fine art traditions, including Old Master painting, to explore and justify the possibilities of their art.
Work by leading photographers such as Martin Parr, Craigie Horsfield, Sam Taylor-Wood, Richard Billingham, Julia Margaret Cameron and Gustave Le Gray will be on display beside key paintings from the National Gallery collection.
Exhibition runs through till January 20th, 2013
The National Gallery
Trafalgar Square
London
WC2N 5DN
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MARK COHEN - GRIM STREET
Pennsylvania's rust belt. In Mark Cohen's photographs the overcast days feel as dark as nights. Worn brick walls and pavements feel tired and grey. The streets, back alleys and yards are inhabited by shadows and traces of human presence. Occasionally we find a full on confrontation with the inhabitants of Wilkes-Barre. It is as if the camera was an alien probe in search of the true mood and feeling of this industrial town.
Mark Cohen's Grim Street is a seminal piece of 1960-1970s street photography. Leaving the much walked paths of its predecessors, but not the town of Wilkes-Barre, Cohen approaches photography in a truly confrontational manner, focusing often on the abstract patterns, textures and gloomy atmosphere that results from fast grab shots. Radical crops, disorienting closeups, a touch of of-kilter humour and the strong contrast resulting from the use of flash all took the art world by storm. In one photograph, against a dark and sinister background a woman's face is occluded by a voluminous bubble gum and a hand seems to come off her head, in another a group of women all hide their faces from the encounter with the camera.
Exhibition runs through till January 27th, 2013
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery
102 Bute Street
Cardiff Bay
Cardiff
Wales
CF10 5AD
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WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: IMAGES OF ARMED CONFLICT
The exhibition examines the relationship between war and photography, exploring the types of photographs created during wartime, as well as by whom and for whom. Rather than being organized chronologically, or as a survey of “greatest hits,” the images are arranged to show the progression of war: from the acts that instigate armed conflict to “the fight,” to victory and defeat, and photos that memorialize a war, its combatants, and its victims. Portraits of servicemen, military and political leaders, and civilians are a consistent presence.
Images have been recorded by more than 280 photographers, from 28 nations, span 6 continents and more than 165 years, from the Mexican-American War in the mid-1800s to present-day conflicts. Iconic photographs as well as previously unknown images are featured, taken by military photographers, commercial photographers (portrait and photojournalist), amateurs, and artists.
Exhibition runs through till February 3rd, 2013
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston
TX
77005
USA
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AUGUST SANDER
The exhibition of German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) draws together 175 photographs and a wide range of archival material from the collections of Tate, National Galleries of Scotland, Anthony d’Offay and Gerd Sander.
This presentation creates a unique opportunity to see the different facets of August Sander’s photographic practice, including his celebrated portraits alongside less well known aspects of his work. August Sander’s most significant project was ‘The People of the Twentieth Century’. Sander wanted to create an encyclopaedic survey of different types of people from the first half of the twentieth century. His working life in Germany spanned the First World War, the interwar years, the rise of the Nazi party, the Second World War and its aftermath.
His photographs are unflinching documents of a society going through huge change. The work reflects both the catastrophic political convulsions that Germany was enduring and a society slowly coming to terms with the impact of industrialisation. The clarity and breadth of his vision remains powerful and his vocational portraits still resonate today.
Exhibition runs through till January 6th, 2013
New Walk Museum & Art Gallery
New Walk
Leicester
LE1 7EA
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JUERGEN TELLER - WOO
Considered one of the most important photographers of his generation, Juergen Teller is one of a few artists who has been able to operate successfully both in the art world and at the centre of the commercial sphere. This exhibition will provide a seamless journey through his landmark fashion and commercial photography from the 90s, presenting classic images of celebrities such as Lily Cole, Kate Moss and Vivienne Westwood, as well as more recent landscapes and family portraits.
Teller entered the London photography scene through the music industry taking photographs for record covers, it was Teller’s photograph of Sinéad O’Connor for her single Nothing Compares 2 You that marked an important moment in his career. Teller’s photographs first appeared in fashion magazines in the late 80s, and included portraits of Kate Moss when she was just fifteen years old. Teller’s images could be described as the antithesis of conventional fashion photography seen perhaps most markedly in his campaigns for Marc Jacobs.
Picture and Words introduces a series from his controversial weekly column in the magazine of Die Zeit which often provoked outcry amongst readers, and the exhibition will feature many of the letters of complaint that the magazine received. Irene im Wald and Keys to the House are Teller’s most recent bodies of work, revealing the photographer’s more personal world in his hometown in Germany and family home in Suffolk.
Exhibition runs from January 23rd to March 17th, 2013
Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London
SW1Y 5AH
Posted by Exit 03/12/2012
TYLER UDALL
As an emerging photographer Tyler Udall has already made a big impact in American photography. In his two short years as a photographer he has shot for several prolific fashion and art magazines and published a book of his haunting imagery, which sold out. Based in London in the early 2000’s, Tyler Udall was ‘senior fashion editor’ at Dazed & Confused, Another, and Another Man and was involved in creating iconic covers of Kate Moss, Kirsten Dunst, Tilda Swinton and Nathalie Portman. He returned to New York to take up the role of Creative Director for the agency ‘Fred and Associates’, where he teamed up legendary fashion greats with world leading artists.
Exhibition runs from February 11th to March 16th, 2013
The Little Black Gallery
13a Park Walk
SW10 0AJ
London
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GUY GORMLEY - VIGIL
Guy Gormley's latest exhibition and publication show a series of images taken during a nocturnal walk from the peripheries of South London to the sea over three consecutive nights. Together they build a picture of the artist's state of mind on this solitary excursion. The photographs show tunnel-like rural roads, traces of undergrowth or barely seen horizons illuminated by the camera flash or scarce ambient light. They suggest a tense atmosphere; the photographer alert to unknown surroundings.
In the publication, alongside the images, are descriptions of remembered dreams; notes made by Gormley on waking. They depict ill-defined landscapes pervaded by a sense of danger and unrest. The photographs relate to certain aspects of these records and Gormley intentionally blurs the distinction between his own dream and waking lives by photographing at night.
Exhibition runs through till December 21st, 2012
Son Gallery
Unit 9C
CIP 133 Copeland Road
Peckham
London
SE15 3SN
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JOE MALONEY - SOME PICTURES
Although Joe Maloney’s work remains largely unknown to a greater public, he is one of the most important members of the group of artists who belong to the artistic movement called “New Color Photography.” Based on the exhibition title “The New Color,” an exhibition project by Sally Eauclaire at The International Center of Photography, New York in 1981, the term “New Color Photography” has become a recognized part of the art-historical canon. It describes exactly the sort of photography where artists deliberately use color as a form of artistic expression.
In his work, Maloney deals foremost with the perception of reality. The gradation of color plays a decisive role in this process. It is achieved through different exposure times and also partially by making use of a conversion filter. Both means are part of a greater artistic strategy, by which Maloney achieves to set himself apart from the historical and classical themes of advertising and amateur photography. Exposure times that can be several minutes long and the use of artificial light film for outdoor photography make it almost impossible for the viewer to determine the time of day at which Maloney has captured the moment, such as in “O’dells Spring Creek, Montana.” By using a conversion filter, Maloney furthermore achieves a color intensity and artificiality in his photographs, which emanate an air of the surreal. It is exactly at this point where Maloney’s artistic credo revels itself to the viewer. Like no other artist of his generation, Maloney counteracts the notion of reality by way of deliberate modification through color.
Opposite - East Branch, Delaware River, NY, 1989
Exhibition runs through till January 5th, 2013
Kai Heinze Berlin
Charlottenstraße 2
10969 Berlin
Germany
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FAKING IT - PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE PHOTOSHOP
The urge to modify camera images is as old as photography itself - only the methods have changed. Nearly every type of manipulation we now associate with digital photography was also part of the medium's pre-digital repertoire: smoothing away wrinkles, slimming waistlines, adding people to a scene (or removing them) - even fabricating events that never took place.
This international loan exhibition traces the history of manipulated photography from the 1840s through the early 1990s, when the computer replaced manual techniques as the dominant means of doctoring photographs. Most of the two hundred pictures on view were altered after the negative was exposed - through photomontage, combination printing, overpainting, retouching, or, as is often the case, a blend of several processes. In every instance, the final image differs significantly from what stood before the camera at any given moment.
Whether modified in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, or commerce, the pictures featured in the exhibition adopt the seamlessly realistic appearance of conventional photographs. They aim to convince the eye, even if the mind rebels at the scenarios they conjure, such as a woman bathing in a glass of champagne or a man brandishing his own severed head.
Opposite - Untitled, Jerry N. Uelsmann, 1976
Exhibition runs through till January 27th, 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
99 Margaret Corbin Drive
New York
NY
10040
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ROLLS-ROYCE HOSTS KARL LAGERFELD PHOTOGRAPHY
Besides his work as a fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld has extensively pursued his passion for photography since 1987. His images have been shown in several international exhibitions, from the Langen Foundation in Neuss, to the Museum del Bramante Cloister in Rome.
His latest work explores a fascination with textures, surfaces, shapes and abstractions that transcend his highly acclaimed position in the fashion world. Photography provides an ideal platform from which to appreciate the finest of details and facilitates the juxtaposition of automobile, light and nature. Lagerfeld’s exhibition explores these themes by connecting and contrasting the forms visible before the camera and shaping a different view.
Talking about the exhibition, Mr Lagerfeld said, “I can no longer view life without juxtaposing its abstraction. I view the world, fashion and automobiles through my camera lens. That allows me to keep a critical distance to my work. This approach serves me more than I had ever thought possible in my view of reality. Each of my shots of the Rolls-Royce is the abstract representation of a concrete reality. The technical medium of photography is a welcome means for my artistic work, creating my different view.”
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars Ltd
Stane Street
Goodwood
Chichester
PO18 0SH
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FERGUS GREER - LOOKS
The extensive series Looks by Fergus Greer was created over a period of six years (1988 -1994) and in around forty photo shootings. Like no other, he succeeded in depicting Leigh Bowery between stylization and performance. The photographer posed the Australian performance artist before a neutral background in various outfits enwrapping his face and body entirely or adorning them sparingly. Thus Greer accented the theatricality and expressive posturing of Leigh Bowery. Even when he disappears fully behind his creations, Bowery’s spirit seems to play with the permeability of the garments enwrapping him and to push through them. In pictures rich in contrast that make use of a highly professional lighting concept, Fergus Greer underlines the sculptural quality of Bowery’s body.
Opposite - Session VI Look 31, March 1992
Exhibition runs through till January 12th, 2013
Christine Koenig Galerie
Schleifmuehlgasse 1A
1040 Vienna
Austria
www.christinekoeniggalerie.com
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DOMINGO MILELLA
Domingo Milella’s subjects are cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, tombs and hieroglyphs – in short, signs of man’s presence on earth. His interest lies in the overlap between civilisation and nature and how landscape and architecture are invested with individual and collective memory. He is drawn to places where the cultural and the natural meet, where architecture grows out of the earth and is born of necessity, mirroring its makers and inhabitants.
Polignano a Mare (2008) shows fortifications and housing built on top of a rocky outcrop, appearing almost as if they have grown organically out of the land. In Cheops and Chephren, Giza, Egypt (2009), the Pyramids rise up from behind modern apartment blocks on the edge of the desert and in Acitrezza (2008), teenagers perch high up on the distinctive lava rocks watching a wintery sunset. Milella seeks to create an alternative imagery, of looking for a sense of identity and a culture that is simultaneously ancient and modern. In an increasingly virtual age where communities are being eroded by technological interaction and the pressures of consumerism, his images question where we headed and what kind of world are we creating in the process.
Opposite - Naucalpan, Mexico City, 2004
Exhibition runs through till January 26th, 2013
Brancolini Grimaldi
43–44 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4JJ
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SASQUATCHFABRIX X POLAROID SX-70
Japanese brand SASQUATCHfabrix. has worked with Polaroid on custom versions of the iconic SX-70 camera. SASQUATCHfabrix. decided to go with vintage metal customizations, resulting in a rather interesting look. Two colorways of the camera have been produced as part of the collaborative project and are on sale now in Tokyo for 55’000 Yen.
www.polaroid.com
www.sasquatchfabrix.com
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ANSEL ADAMS - FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA
A retrospective of the twentieth-century landscape photographer Ansel Adams. The exhibition, which focuses on the photographer's life-long fascination with water, features images of seascapes, rapids, waterfalls, geysers, clouds, ice, snow, ponds and rivers, many famous, some that have never before been on display in the UK. Adams (1902-1984) was a photographic pioneer who brought the American wilderness into the homes of millions with his images of rugged and romantic landscapes. The show brings together some of the most famous photographs of the twentieth century, such as 'Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite' and 'Stream, Sea, Clouds, Rodeo Lagoon, Marin County, California', along with lesser-known examples. It also provides the opportunity to see Adams's largest known works, a series of three murals produced for the American Trust bank.
Opposite - Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California, 1937
Exhibition runs through till April 28th, 2013
Royal Museums Greenwich
Romney Road
London
SE10 9NF
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FINDERS KEEPERS - MICHAEL HOPPEN GALLERY 20 YEARS
To celebrate the gallery’s 20 years, Michael Hoppen unveils the treasures of his extraordinary private photography collection in the gallery’s largest public exhibition to date. Presented over three floors, Finders Keepers brings to light 130 photographic gems, handpicked for their fascinating narrative, masterful technique and historical relevance, ranging from anonymous 19th century pictures to iconic post-war snapshots.
Finders Keepers offers a unique journey through hundreds of captivating photographs, full of beautiful and bizarre stories that reflect Hoppen’s personal interests and passions, and his extremely focused appreciation of the image. The formation of Hoppen’s collection, which started in 1992, has grown out of two elements: a strong and passionate interest in photography, and a deep and addictive love for collecting. It has never been simply about ownership. The hunt for and discovery of an image has always been more important and exciting than its acquisition. While the collection features some contemporary photographs, it is mostly comprised of exquisite vintage works, covering a wide variety of genres such as anonymous photography, evidential photography, boxing images, travel and anthropological photography.
Opposite - Denise Grünstein, Tied, 2009. © Denise Grünstein / Courtesy of Charlotte Lund Gallery
Exhibition runs from December 12th, 2012 to February 2nd, 2013
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
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FOR PRESIDENT
Starting from John Fitzgeral Kennedy, the first president to have reached the rest of the world through television, For President retraces the history of the different election campaigns, all having relied on photojournalism, contemporary art and the widespread production of paraphernalia and advertising for the various candidates. The exhibition delves into the colourful and fascinating world of propaganda.
Every four years, the world follows the long race to the Whitehouse with tense anticipation. Although it is a purely American event, the presidential election is the one political event which influences political and economical fate of the rest of the world to such a profound degree. The American election campaigns are in their specificity largely theatrical, full of strong emotions, and heavily based on premeditated strategy.
Starting from John Fitzgeral Kennedy, the first president to have reached the rest of the world through television, For President retraces the history of the different election campaigns, all having relied on photojournalism, contemporary art and the widespread production of paraphernalia and advertising for the various candidates.
In the spaces of the Fondazione, the artists who were influenced by their own research on the elections mix their work with the iconic images of the agency Magnum, the oldest and most prestigious photography cooperative in the world.
Exhibition runs through till January 6th, 2013
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
via Modane 16
Torino 10141
Italy
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TOM WOOD - MEN AND WOMEN
Editing from long-term and previously unseen bodies of work, such as the Football Grounds, Shipyard and Docks and Women’s Market, Tom Wood has re-evaluated these images through a creative collaboration with artist Padraig Timoney. Grouping the images in a non-chronological order under the headings Men and Women, the exhibition will showcase a curated selection of these photographs, soon to be published as two separate books by Steidl.
The installation of the photographs will reflect the sequencing of the books mixing the different formats, styles and processes. This arrangement will highlight the formal correspondences and relationships between pictures as well as Wood’s prolonged involvement with his subject matter. His photographs include both candid and posed portraits of people alone or in groups. Images of strangers are interspersed with those of friends and family and are often made from repeated engagements with particular locales.
Trust and empathy are both key elements in Wood’s practice and his photographs are the result of considered observation, offering affirmative responses to moments from the lives of those he pictures.
Opposite - Not Miss New Brighton, 1978/79
Exhibition runs through till January 6th, 2013
The Photographers' Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Posted by Exit 05/11/2012
CARTIER-BRESSON - A QUESTION OF COLOUR
It is well-known that Cartier-Bresson was disparaging towards colour photography, which in the 1950s was in its early years of development; his reasoning was based both on the technical and aesthetic limitations of the medium at the time.
Featuring 10 Cartier-Bresson photographs never before exhibited in the UK alongside over 75 works by 14 international acclaimed photographers, this extensive showcase will illustrate how photographers working in Europe and North America adopted and adapted the master's ethos famously known as the ‘decisive moment' to their work in colour. Though they often departed from the concept in significant ways, something of that challenge remained: how to seize something that happens and capture it in the very moment that it takes place.
Exhibition runs through till January 27th, 2013
Somerset House
Terrace Rooms & Courtyard Rooms, South Wing
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
Posted by Exit 05/11/2012
JITKA HANZLOVA
In 1982 Jitka Hanzlová defected from the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia and settled in Essen in West Germany. Since then she has sought to explore her experiences through photography, producing a body of work at once poetic and truthful. Hanzlová’s photography is in constant pursuit of the relationship between the individual and the context in which he or she lives. It scrutinizes the ways in which home and surroundings indelibly shape identity. Drawing on her own life story, Hanzlová’s photographs also speak to a more universal longing for a sense of place.
The photographer develops her work in series, beginning with Rokytník made between 1990 and 1994, the village in Eastern Bohemia which she left a decade earlier. Of central significance to Hanzlová, Rokytník is the creative bedrock for everything that follows. Taken together, her photography constitutes an imaginative investigation of ‘belonging’, whether a commentary on the alienation of city life or the photographer’s deep identification with the mysterious northern forests. This is essentially a form of extended portraiture and Hanzlová has most recently turned to portrait photography itself, in particular exploring the potential of Renaissance archetypes.
This is the first major retrospective of Hanzlová’s photography over the last two decades. Emerging from her experience of two different cultures and political systems, her work is a profound meditation on European identity in a post-Cold War world.
Exhibition runs through till February 3rd, 2013
Scottish National Gallery
The Mound
Edinburgh
EH2 2EL
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TIM WALKER - STORY TELLER
Story Teller is a major new exhibition of work by Tim Walker – one of the most visually exciting and influential fashion photographers working today. Coinciding with a book of the same name, the exhibition features over 175 inspirational images, collages and snapshots from Walker’s personal archives. Walker turns fashion shoots into fairytales or, in his own words, ‘daydreams into photographs’. He constructs flamboyant worlds that unfold like a series of stills from unrealised films.
Drawn from the world’s leading magazines such as British, French, American and Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, W and The New Yorker and with some of the biggest names in contemporary fashion and culture, witness Stella Tennant in a pink cloud among an English country garden; Agyness Deyn in the sand dunes of Namibia; Tilda Swinton in Iceland; Alexander McQueen and a memento mori of skull and cigarettes; Helena Bonham Carter and Tim Burton turning an Essex garden centre into a danse macabre.
Exhibition runs through till January 27th, 2013
Somerset House
East Wing Galleries, East Wing
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
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KOBI ISRAEL - IN BETWEEN LANDS
The trilogy, Land Scapes, a travelogue that evolves around the mythic, nomadic nature of landscape photography, is a symbolic tale forming an epic cinematic journey. Each chapter explores psychological territories, using landscape as a stage on which to cast the themes of desire, identity and personal history whilst the spectator is encouraged to assemble clues and construct a personal narrative. The first trilogy, Promised Lands, marks the start of the journey and depicts waterfronts, mountains and beautiful woodlands symbolic of abundance and promises of love, relating to personal identities embedded in Israel’s consciousness.
The second - the current exhibition - In Between Lands, represents the passage between the promised and dreamed - transitory, nomadic spaces that hang between memory and being; documenting the split of time moving simultaneously towards the future and the past, yet seemingly suspended in the present. The third and last series – still in development - Dreamed Lands, depicts landscapes that once epitomised fantasy, now lie in rot and decay; here Israel highlights that we are unable to fix memories, instead we edit, redraft and rewrite them.
Exhibition runs from November 9th to November 30th, 2013
Hamiltons Gallery
13 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EU
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NIKON 1 V2 WITH INTERCHANGEABLE LENSES
The latest camera from the Japanese manufacturer is the Nikon 1 V2 camera. The newest installment in their Nikon 1 line includes a 14.2 megapixel camera, built-in flash, and a new mode called the Best Moment Capture. The new mode includes Slow View which allows photographers to slow down a live moment in real time in order to capture the best moment. Another is Smart Photo Selector which fires 20 shots with a single shutter press and selects the best five for you.
In addition, the camera features a new and bigger sensor, a Hybrid AF system with contrast and phase detection, 3” LCD, Full HD capability, and an ISO range of 160-6400.
Posted by Exit 29/10/2012
TIM BRADLEY - CALIFORNIA DWELLING
This exhibition encapsulates Bradley's photography from 1978- 1981 titled California Dwelling.
"From 1978 to 1981, I photographed in a neighborhood that had an uncanny visual presence. The layering of ancient bungalows, postwar apartments, outdated cars, and contemporary suburban life made the place look like no one knew what decade it was. Sunlight burnished surfaces with a pastel vibrance and night brought out illuminated doorbells and impossible shadows, projecting a feeling of theatricality.
The view from the sidewalk could be disarming. It seemed as though time was holding its breath to accommodate the incidental arrangements of a suburban tableau. Looking at the groundglass I often felt that I was engulfed in a virtual space rather than aiming at a subject, as if I had stumbled onto a stage set or into someone else’s memory.
For four years I looked and photographed. My interest was aesthetic at first, inspired by the color photography emerging during the 70s and the unexpected beauty of my surroundings. But I soon realized that I was also documenting a fragile corner of southern California that would soon be overwritten. I made prints from about one hundred negatives and put everything into storage for thirty years."
Tim Bradley
Opposite - Untitled (Tailfin and Hill), 1980
Exhibition runs from December 1st to January 12th, 2013
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue, Building B-3
Santa Monica
California
90404
Posted by Exit 22/10/2012
BRUNO BISANG: 30 YEARS OF POLAROIDS
Swiss photographer Bruno Bisang is one of Europe's leading photographers working with all the major supermodels, magazines & fashion houses. Bisang's debut London exhibition features unique polaroids (often signed by the models) and prints from his 30 year career including images of Monica Bellucci, Carla Bruni, Naomi Campbell, & Claudia Schiffer. All the pictures are taken from his book of the same name Bruno Bisang: 30 Years of Polaroids published by teNeues.
Exhibition runs from January 15th to February 9th, 2013
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
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BELAIR X 6-12 CAMERA BY LOMOGRAPHY
Lomography has introduced a new line of their Belair X 6-12 cameras. The new line includes all the features of a panoramic medium format camera in a smaller, sexier, more compact case. The camera has an auto-exposure feature as well as the ability to take photographs in 3 different sizes: regular 6 x 9 photos, 6 x 6 squares, and 6 x 12 panoramas.
The Belair X 6-12 also has an interchangeable lens system allowing you to attach either a 90mm standard lens or a 58mm wide-angle lens. The camera comes in 3 editions, Globe-trotter, Jetsetter, and City Slicker.
Posted by Exit 22/10/2012
JULIE BLACKMON - DAY TRIPPING
Through a complex process involving models, a highly staged set and carefully composed tableaux, Blackmon weaves intricate stories of the complexities of everyday life in large and busy households. Blackmon is one of the most exciting photographers working today, and in this exhibition she will debut six never before seen images.
As the oldest of nine children, Blackmon's work has always drawn inspiration from her familial life, her extended family playing the role of both model and muse. At the same time, her work looks far back into the history of art to the paintings of the Dutch Renaissance master Jan Steen, who was known for his carefully constructed scenes of domestic chaos. However, in this newest work, we see Blackmon taking a more contemporary approach by shifting her focus to the work of the French painter, Balthus. His paintings of street scenes include many figures who seem to exist each in their own worlds - often indifferent to what is going on around them. Like Blackmon's work, they are scenes in which time stands still, a moment of anticipation before the full story unfolds and reveals how these characters' lives may, or may not intertwine.
Exhibition runs from November 3rd to January 12th, 2013
Robert Mann Gallery
525 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
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ATTACHMENTS
Bringing together a group of young photographers who explore the depths and boundaries of the photographic medium. Widely varied in their practices, these artists add unique perspectives to their ever-expanding and mutating photographic dialog. Using photography in new ways, especially across disciplines, each artist will present a group of works that overlap with what are traditionally the concerns of other media; whether that be cinema, the internet, publishing, sculpture, poetry, painting or curation.
Andrew Kuo is a multimedia artist who will show a seires of iPhone photos where he color averaged areas to make pie charts in circles on top of the photograph.
Asger Carlsen makes photographs that depict ruptures in reality with the insertion of illogical and highly surreal moments and distortions.
Jason Nocito takes analogue photographs of the world around him that look digital, or manipulates digital photos to look analogue. His long history of making photographic publications informs his editing process and presentation.
Jessica Eaton makes photographs of things that don’t have a real-world indexical referent.
Jim Mangan treats photography like a major movie shoot, taking a group of friends on a journey of self-exploration into foreign places to create his work.
Kate Steciw makes digital photographic compositions where she deliberately misuses technology to make objects that are reminiscent of photographs but visually resemble sculptures or collages.
Peter Sutherland makes unique photographic objects by printing a photo and then adhering a perforated sticker with a different photo on to the front of it.
Sandy Kim is a documentary photographer of the seedier side of life with her coterie of interesting looking and debaucherous friends in the tradition of Larry Clark or Nan Goldin, but updated through her blog and internet experiences.
Tim Barber will present a new group of subtle and poetic photographs that continue to expand on his unique and personal visual language.
Exhibition runs through till November 3rd, 2012
The Hole
312 Bowery
New York
NY
10012
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GOPRO HD HERO3
The new design features a huge resolution in a smaller, more compact arrangement. The HD HERO3 comes in 3 editions: Black, Silver, and White with each edition carrying different specs at 3 different price points ranging from $199 – $399 MSRP. The new model is 30% smaller than the HERO2, 25% lighter, and includes Wi-Fi and App compatibility.
All editions include waterproof housing specially developed to fit close to the new flatter lens design, a mini-USB port for syncing and charging, and will use micro SD cards as opposed to the regular SD cards used in previous versions.
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DANIEL STIER - IN MY COUNTRY
In my country, a series of portraits depicting immigrants living in London. In each portrait Pakistanis, Poles, Ghanaians, Indians, Peruvians all don their national dress. The dress serves as a symbol of their cultural heritage and lends their portraits a timeless quality. Some wear their outfit only on special occasions and have changed clothes exclusively for the purpose of posing for the photograph. Others present themselves more naturally, their traditional dress also serving as their day-to-day clothing.
Exhibition runs through till October 29th, 2012
Stour Space
7 Roach Road
Fish Island
E3 2PA
Posted by Exit 08/10/2012
EWEN SPENCER - ENGLAND’S DREAMING
England’s Dreaming consists of a series of images taken in and around the country that encompass the artist’s profound interest in youth and street culture. This highly anticipated exhibition, shot over 15-years, examines what it means to be young in 21st century Britain, capturing the awkward moments of adolescence that are familiar to so many of us.
Shot in Spencer’s signature flash photography style, the candid photos show Britain’s youth in action as they tackle the sensitive issues of dating, sex and socialising. What results is a strikingly intimate, somewhat shocking and often disturbing display of what goes on when parents are absent and youths are left to their own devices.
Exhibition runs through till November 4th, 2012
White Cloth Gallery
24 - 26 Aire Street
Leeds
LS1 4HT
Posted by Exit 08/10/2012
BRIGHTON PHOTO BIENNIAL 2012
This year's edition of Brighton Photo Biennial explores photography and the politics of space in a broad sense. Works included.
Julian Germain's In the Eye of The Street is a compelling body of work shot on loaned cameras by teenagers and kids sleeping rough in Brazil. The project is now into its 18th year and provides a record of these young lives - most of 55 participants have died, disappeared, or are in prison.
During the crisis, the Cuban capital, Havana, transformed from a highly mechanized and fossil fuel reliant agricultural system to a completely organic local food production system in just a few years. This outstanding achievement has put Cuba at the forefront of sustainable agriculture, and is recorded in a series of photo essays by Lulu Ash.
In Trevor Paglen's Geographies of Seeing we see images of top-secret U.S. government sites, some shot at up to 65 miles away on a specially adapted camera.
In Control Order House, 2012 Prix Pictet prize nominee Edmund Clark presents an eerie study of a house interior, occupied by a suspected terrorist. Clark is the first artist to have gained access to the home of someone living under a Home Office control order.
The UK premiere of Omer Fast's film Five Thousand Feet is the Best features a former drone operator being interviewed about the controlled unmanned planes he fired at militia in Afghanistan and Pakistan from his base in Las Vegas.
Jason Larkin and Corinne Silva look at the increasing polarisation of the rich and poor in Cairo, Egypt, and southern Spain, in an exhibition addressing urbanisation, migrant workers, and landscapes shaped by the forces of capital.
October, a new multimedia installation from the 2012 Jarman Award nominated artists Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead, explores the imagery produced by the Occupy movement.
Whose Streets, an exhibition of archive photos from Brighton's long established paper the Argus, shows the city's rich history as one of contested political space through pictures of street protest.
Opposite - Trevor Paglen, They Watch the Moon, 2010
Exhibition runs through till November 4th, 2012
Brighton Photo Biennial 2012
58-67 Grand Parade
Brighton
BN2 9QA
Posted by Exit 08/10/2012
CHANEL: THE LITTLE BLACK JACKET EXHIBITION
The photographs display the versatility and timelessness of the iconic Chanel jacket through 113 photographs shot by Lagerfeld himself, with each personality adapting the garment to reflect their own inimitable style.
The project, which was the brainchild of Chanel's creative director Karl Lagerfeld and ex- Vogue Paris editor Carine Roitfeld, began with a coffee table book consisting of photographs of 'friends of the House' - models, stylists, actors, designer and musicians, all wearing Chanel's classic little black jacket in different ways.
The accompanying book, "The Little Black Jacket: Chanel's classic revisited by Karl Lagerfeld and Carine Roitfeld," will be available this autumn.
Exhibition runs from October 12th to October 28th, 2012
Saatchi Gallery
Duke of York's HQ
King's Road
London
SW3 4RY
thelittleblackjacket.chanel.com
Posted by Exit 01/10/2012
ED VAN DER ELSKEN - LOOK ED!
Annet Gelink asked the three most prominent female Dutch artists Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, and Marijke van Warmerdam to make a selection of works by Ed van der Elsken.
Dijkstra, Dumas and Van Warmerdam have each made their own selection which provide interesting insights on Van der Elsken and the three artists. Jhim Lamoree: "Ed van der Elsken's photographs had a range of expression, and the selections made by Marlene Dumas, Rineke Dijkstra and Marijke van Warmerdam attest to this. Each was drawn to a different aspect of his work. They, too, observed and made choices. The connection between Ed, Marlene, Marijke and Rineke is their ability to seek out the other without losing sight of, or a sense of, themselves. They size up the world in a humane, personal manner. Their attitude is similar, but the aesthetic results of each differ entirely. The selections cause an intriguing and enigmatic doubling to occur: the show not only gives a varied portrait of Ed's oeuvre, but also a self-portrait of the oeuvres of Marlene, Marijke en Rineke."
Exhibition runs through till October 13th, 2012
Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016 PL
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Posted by Exit 01/10/2012
ROADS TO WIGAN PIER
Taking as their starting point George Orwell’s seminal 1937 publication The Road to Wigan Pier, a sociological investigation into the bleak living conditions of the working class in Yorkshire and Lancashire, six newly graduated students of photography were commissioned by Impressions to record and document social aspects of the North of England. Each worked independently and each took a personal viewpoint.
These non-judgemental, yet sometimes shocking, photographs show us a way of life that was in terminal decline. This picture of Orwellian dystopia acts as an elegy of the northern urban landscape and its people, on the brink of irrevocable social and cultural change. Today, in-post industrial Britain, we are perhaps inclined to forget the recent past as many of the symbols of poverty and neglect have been replaced by regeneration.
Exhibition runs through till January 5th, 2012
Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square
Bradford
BD1 1SD
Posted by Exit 01/10/2012
MITRA TABRIZIAN - ANOTHER COUNTRY
Another Country is a series of 8 large-scale group and individual portraits showing real people: immigrants who have come to Europe from the Middle East, and their children, some of whom were born in the UK. The scenes are shot in everyday settings in London - a school, a café, a cemetery, but the geographic location remains ambiguous. Where is here? “In this context, which challenges the polarity of identifications, the title ‘Another Country’ no longer refers to some other country out there, but to a culture within” says the artist.
Mitra Tabrizian’s work explores a range of issues including post-colonial theory, corporate culture in the West and the recent cultural and political shifts in Iranian society. Blurring the boundary between fact and fiction and combining documentary techniques with those of film, she produces meticulously choreographed photographic scenes of condensed narratives.
Exhibition runs through till November 2nd, 2012
The Wapping Project Bankside
65a Hopton Street
London
SE1 9LR
www.thewappingprojectbankside.com
Posted by Exit 24/09/2012
ZOE LEONARD
Engaging many of today’s core questions around photography and image-making, and stepping back from current debates about analogue versus digital (or nostalgia versus progress), Leonard will transform one of the gallery’s spaces into a camera obscura.
In this embodied experience of viewing, a constantly changing panorama of 17th Street - with its mix of architecture and urban activity that reflects the immense changes in Chelsea in recent years - will project continuously on the floor, walls, and ceiling. Neither analogue nor digital, the dark box of the camera obscura can be understood as a model for the mind and the unconscious, an apparatus that makes visible the mechanics of sight. What happens inside resembles what transpires in one's eye: light lands on the retina inverted and reversed, and a series of transformations occurs in the brain allowing us to comprehend the images we receive.
Exhibition runs through till October 27th, 2012
Murray Guy
453 West 17th Street
New York
10011
Posted by Exit 24/09/2012
VANLEY BURKE
Widely recognised as one of the UK’s foremost photographers, Vanley Burke’s contribution to photography has been significant. It is a contribution which represents probably the greatest photographic document of the Caribbean diaspora in post-war Britain, detailing the experience of Black people in the UK and their community identity.
Vanley Burke has been taking photographs in this area of Birmingham since the 1960s. Each venue on the trail has one or more of Vanley’s photographs on display. All are free to visit, opening times vary and some venues are closed on certain days, please call ahead if you are making a special journey.
Exhibition runs through till November 18th, 2012
Mac birmingham
Cannon Hill Park
Birmingham
B12 9QH
Posted by Exit 24/09/2012
NEIL LIBBERT - PHOTOJOURNALIST
This display focuses on key works from 1958 - 1984, many on show for the first time, and includes two portraits that were used on the front page of the Guardian newspaper. One of these photographs is of conservative politician and statesman, Sir Winston Churchill, with Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy, taken in 1963. The other cover photograph is of actress Jayne Mansfield, union leader Ted Hill, President of the Amalgamated Engineering Union William Carron, and general secretary of the Labour party, Morgan Philips. Other portraits on display are of novelist Kingsley Amis, artists Francis Bacon and Edward Burra, footballer George Best, photographer Patrick Lichfield, actors Helen Mirren and Paul Robeson, and playwright Harold Pinter.
Opposite - Kingsley Amis, 27 April 1961
Exhibition runs through till April 21st, 2013
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin’s Place
London
WC2H 0HE
Posted by Exit 17/09/2012
EVERYTHING WAS MOVING - FROM THE 60S AND 70S
This major photography exhibition surveys the medium from an international perspective, and includes renowned photographers from across the globe, all working during two of the most memorable decades of the 20th century. Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s brings together over 400 works, some rarely seen, others recently discovered and many shown in the UK for the first time.
It features 12 key figures including Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov, Sigmar Polke, Malick Sidibé, Shomei Tomatsu, and Li Zhensheng as well as important innovators whose lives were cut tragically short such as Ernest Cole, Raghubir Singh and Larry Burrows.
The world changed dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s. From the Cultural Revolution to the Cold War; from America’s colonialist misadventure in Vietnam to the indelible values of the civil rights movement; this was the defining period of the modern age. It also coincided with a golden age in photography: the moment when the medium flowered as a modern art form.
Opposite - David Goldblatt, Saturday morning at the Hypermarket: Semi-final of the Miss Lovely Legs Competition. 1979-1980
Exhibition runs through till January 13th, 2013
Barbican Centre
Silk Street
London
EC2Y 8DS
Posted by Exit 17/09/2012
PAUL SMITH FOR LEICA X2
Leica unveiled a special edition X2 Camera, designed by fashion designer Paul Smith. Limited to 1500 examples, the special release features an interpretation of Paul’s signature bright stripes. The top plate is finished in bright orange, the baseplate in brilliant yellow and the leather finish is done in British racing green. Further details include an engraved light bulb ‘doodle’ on the pop-up flash, a carrying strap and a camera protector in taupe-coloured, premium calfskin and a lens cleaning cloth labelled ‘Paul Smith for Leica’.
leica-camera.com
www.paulsmith.co.uk
Posted by Exit 17/09/2012
NAOYA HATAKEYAMA - NATURAL STORIES
One of Japan's most prominent photographers, Naoya Hatakeyama is known for austere and beautiful large-scale pictures that capture the extraordinary forces we deploy to shape nature to our will - and, in photographs made after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the equally powerful impact of natural forces on human construction. Whether photographing factories, quarries, mines, or his tsunami-swept hometown in northeastern Japan, Hatakeyama is a keen observer of landscapes in transition, witnessing scenes of transformation with calm precision.
The artist's first solo exhibition in the United States, Natural Stories brings together more than 100 photographs and two video installations spanning Hatakeyama's entire career. It offers insights into his practice and place in the rich history of Japanese photography, and into the ways in which humanity and nature both clash and coexist.
Exhibition runs through till November 4th, 2012
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission + Howard)
San Francisco
CA
94103
Posted by Exit 10/09/2012
WILLIAM KLEIN + DAIDO MORIYAMA
This is the first exhibition to look at the relationship between the work of influential photographer and filmmaker Klein, and that of Moriyama, the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. With work from the 1950s to the present day, the exhibition demonstrates the visual affinity between their urgent, blurred and grainy style of photography and also their shared desire to convey street life and political protest, from anti-war demonstrations and gay pride marches to the effects of globalisation and urban deprivation. The exhibition also considers the medium and dissemination of photography itself, exploring the central role of the photo-book in avant-garde photography and the pioneering use of graphic design within these publications.
Exhibition runs from October 10th to January 20th, 2013
Tate Modern
Bankside
London
SE1 9TG
Posted by Exit 10/09/2012
NIKON FULL FRAME D600 DIGITAL CAMERA
The camera comes with a 24MP full-frame sensor and with features that remind of the popular D7000. The main features of the camera:
Nikon’ most compact FX-format HD-SLR
Newly developed 24.3 MP FX-format CMOS sensor
Share D600 images with the optional WU-1b Wireless Mobile Adapter (sold seperately)
Cinema-quality Full HD (1080p)
Compatible with all NIKKOR lenses, FX and DX formats
Posted by Exit 10/09/2012
JUERGEN TELLER - IRENE IM WALD
"Gebrüder Grimm, witches, the big bad wolf, the forest is one hell of a scary place, I thought. But even as a child I was drawn towards it - it was scary, but the beauty and the peacefulness of it all sucked me in."
Juergen Teller's images tell stories, usually they are the stories of people. For "Irene im Wald" (Irene in the Forest), Teller photographed the woods nearby the artist's childhood home near Nuremberg, Germany. Only sometimes including figures, Teller's mother Irene and other relatives, the solitary nature of the pictures in "Irene im Wald" contributes to the intimacy of this honest portrait of the forest that he grew up with, capturing its haunting and lingering personality.
Exhibition runs from September 13th to November 4th, 2012
The Journal Gallery
168 North 1st Street
Brooklyn
NY
11211
Posted by Exit 03/09/2012
ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN
The title of Broomberg and Chanarin’s new solo exhibition was originally the coded phrase used by Kodak to describe the capabilities of a new film stock developed in the early 80’s to address the inability of their earlier films to accurately render dark skin.
Jean-Luc Godard famously refused to use Kodak film during an assignment to Mozambique in 1977, on the grounds that the film stock was inherently ‘racist’. In response to a commission to 'document' Gabon, Broomberg and Chanarin recently made several trips to the country to photograph a series of rare Bwiti initiation rituals, using only Kodak film stock that had expired in the late 1950’s.
Using outdated chemical processes Broomberg and Chanarin succeeded in salvaging just a single frame from the many colour rolls they exposed during their visits. It is presented along side an array of black and white photographic tests, whose parameters were dictated to them by a deceased family friend, an anatomist and amateur photographer, Dr. Rosenberg.
The exhibition centers around a series of these partly exposed, haphazardly cropped proto-images, originally printed as test strips. The grey tones, grain and texture of black and white photographic chemistry are foregrounded in these outsized ‘darkroom’ experiments.
Exhibition runs from September 13th to October 20th, 2012
Paradise Row
74a Newman Street
London
W1T 3DB
Posted by Exit 03/09/2012
OLIVER HOLDEN - UNCERTAIN BRISTOL
Uncertain Bristol is an ongoing process that explores the possibility of visually representing the formation of memory through photography. The way in which a viewer interprets discernible information in a photograph relies heavily on experience and memory. With this, one reconstructs a certain memory through thought; fragmented, multi-levelled and fluid but with information lacking at certain points. Despite this, perception attempts to fill in the information. Smell, sound and touch enters the equation, transforming the original visual memory into a multi-dimensional sensory experience. Each capture attempts to do just that. Not to "copy"what is visually seen, but to represent the atmosphere at the point of shutter close. To encourage the viewer to delve into ones memory and experience to complete the picture.
Uncertain Bristol focuses on the heart of Bristol's historic industrious landmarks, the docks, factories and railways. These raw materials are striking form, power and grandeur, delivered through the lens of an affected manual film camera under uncertain visceral circumstances. Once captured, the results visually emulate certain stages of memory reconstruction whilst challenging the perception of the viewer
Exhibition runs through till September 29th, 2012
Tobacco Factory
Raleigh Road
Bristol
BS3 1TF
Posted by Exit 03/09/2012
DAIDO MORIYAMA - TIGHTS + LIPS
This latest group of pictures entitled “Tights” is the development of his famous earlier series “How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido” of 1987, a small selection of images depicting close-up shots of legs in fishnets.
The complete series now numbers 20. Our show coincides with a major exhibition at Tate Modern “William Klein/Daido Moriyama” which will chronicle how these two artists have influenced each other, and how they have both explored the cities of New York and Tokyo in their celebrated depictions of modern urban life.
Moriyama is known for his raw, gritty gaze, his portrayal of Japan’s dark underbelly in the post-war era. His early career coincided with the seismic cultural changes in that country as it struggled to cope with the devastation wreaked by the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Moriyama voraciously devoured and regurgitated what he saw – not always intrusively, but there has certainly always been something predatory about his photography. This comes at his own admission; indeed, one of his famous, early books of 1972 is called “Hunter”. In his ceaseless wandering and photographing, we see the artist’s faith in the journey; the idea that by virtue of searching and looking, something will be found. Moriyama inherited this philosophy from Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”.
Exhibition runs from September 7th to October 20th, 2012
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
Posted by Exit 27/08/2012
KOHEI YOSHIYUKI
First exhibited in Tokyo in 1979, Kohei Yoshiyuki’s (Japan, b. 1946) twin projects The Park and Love Hotel ignited furious debate about photography’s relationship with voyeurism and surveillance.
Yoshiyuki was a young commercial photographer in Tokyo in the early 1970s when he and a colleague walked through Chuo Park in Shinjuku one night. They noticed a couple on the ground, then spectators lurking in the bushes. Fascinated by these illicit games of cat and mouse, Yoshiyuki spent the next six months becoming a participant. “To photograph the voyeurs”, he later wrote, “I needed to be considered one of them”. Returning with his camera, loaded with infrared flashbulbs and film, he photographed in three different Tokyo parks over several years.
Exhibition runs from September 15th to November 25th, 2012
Open Eye Gallery
19 Mann Island
Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 1BP
Posted by Exit 27/08/2012
ALISTAIR TAYLOR-YOUNG - HOLIDAY
Many of the photographs were shot for Conde Nast Traveller, who Alistair has been working for since its launch fifteen years ago: travelling worldwide to Namibia, India, Italy, Pacific Islands, Tanzania & Sardinia.
Alistair Taylor-Young is a highly sought after British photographer working between fashion, beauty, travel & luxury. His enthusiasm for experimenting with light and lenses give his work a poetic feel. He is best known for his perfume campaigns for Dior, Hermes, Lancome, Dunhill, Isabella Rossellini, Pierre Cardin, Fendi & Armani. His first book The Phone Book was published in 2010, and had a sold-out debut exhibition at The Little Black Gallery in 2011.
Exhibition runs from October 22nd to December 8th, 2012
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 27/08/2012
RINEKE DIJKSTRA - A RETROSPECTIVE
Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Her large-scale color photographs of young, typically adolescent subjects recall 17th-century Dutch painting in their scale and visual acuity. The minimal contextual details present in her photographs and videos encourage us to focus on the exchange between photographer and subject and the relationship between viewer and viewed. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective brings together more than 70 photographs and five videos in a major mid-career survey, offering the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work to date.
Dijkstra works in series, creating groups of photographs and videos around a specific typology or theme. In 1992, she started making portraits of adolescents posed on beaches from Hilton Head, South Carolina, to Poland and Ukraine. Shot from a low perspective, the subjects of the Beach Portraits (1992–2002), poised on the brink of adulthood, take on a monumental presence. In contemporaneous works, including portraits of new mothers after giving birth, and photographs of bullfighters immediately after leaving the ring, Dijkstra sought subjects whose physical exhaustion diminished the likelihood of an artificed pose.
Exhibition runs through till October 8th, 2012
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY
10128
Posted by Exit 20/08/2012
RICHARD MISRACH - DESERT CANTOS
Spanning the first 25 years of Misrach's career, the exhibition will offer a rare opportunity to track the artistic development of one of the most significant living American photographers. The chronology of the exhibition begins with the luscious split-toned works realized with a flash shot into desert night scenes. Eerie and magnificent, these works introduce many of the themes that would occupy Misrach in the years to come: staging the condition of aesthetic beauty of the natural world as mediated by human intervention in the landscape - in this case the photographer's own invasive flash. The sublime nature of the damage wrought on the landscape by man-made disasters forms the central theme of his Desert Cantos series.
These concerns can be further traced through the Playboy series, Battleground Point, and the dramatic views from Misrach's porch tracking meteorological conditions around San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate.
These related bodies of work secured Misrach's place as the preeminent American photographer of his generation investigating issues surrounding landscape.
Exhibition runs from September 13th to October 27th, 2012
Robert Mann Gallery
210 11th Ave
Between 24th & 25th Streets
Floor 10
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 20/08/2012
GILES PRICE - E20 12: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
E2012 Under Construction is a documentary project by Giles Price. It combines large format and minutely detailed aerial landscapes with arresting portraits of the workforce taken during the construction of the 2012 Olympic Park.
The aerial pictures push the boundaries of the visual language of satellite imaging, such as Google Earth. These photographs, produced with the aid of the latest camera technology, allow the viewer to experience a new way of seeing the construction of the Olympic Park with stunning detail and beauty. They reveal a previously invisible perspective on the intricacy of the landscape and the overwhelming scale of its transformation. Conversely, the pictures of workers show us the unseen human face of those involved in the construction of the site. These engaging portraits add a personal dimension to the depiction of the transformation, and offer a glimpse into the hidden stories of the Olympic Park.
A book with 48 pages of full, colour, images from the project, also entitled E20 12: Under Construction, will be available from August 31st via www.seestudio.com
Exhibition runs through till September 9th, 2012
The Crossing
The Granary Building
1 Granary Square
King’s Cross
N1C 4AA
Posted by Exit 20/08/2012
HENRY HORENSTEIN
Concentrating on the 1970s, but spanning to the present day, Horenstein’s gritty, black-and-white photographs capture the irrepressible spirit of an American institution. Some say the 1970s were the last great decade of country music - between the pomade, plaid jackets, and goofy hillbilly jokes of the 1950s and the more polished “Urban Cowboy” sound of Nashville in the early 1980s.
Horenstein’s work captures it all, from the roadside seediness of TJ’s Lounge to the backstage glamour at the Grand Ole Opry. From bluegrass festivals and country music parks to the honky tonks and dance halls, these images picture such celebrities as Dolly Parton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Waylon Jennings, up to a recent cardboard cut-out of Garth Brooks (which speaks volumes about the artist’s personal opinion of the direction the genre has taken of late). However, the photographs feature not only the stars, but also include the familiar venues and enthusiastic fans who sustain them.
Exhibition runs from September 6th to October 13th, 2012
ClampArt
531 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 13/08/2012
GUY TILLIM - SECOND NATURE
For the past year Tillim has been photographing the landscape in French Polynesia. He was drawn to this landscape that has been continuously sketched - and later photographed - since Captain James Cook's voyages in the late 18th century, perhaps because it almost eludes convincing representation. In reading the accounts of the artists who accompanied Cook, Tillim was interested to note that their debates on-board ship around the subject of the representation of landscape are very similar to those we have today: how much do you 'give' a scene and how much do you let it speak for itself? In this regard, he explains his own difficulties in finding a way through this binary because of our strongly conditioned notions of the frame and the picturesque.
Opposite - Tautira, Tahiti, 2010
Exhibition runs from September 14th to October 27th, 2012
kuckei + kuckei
Linienstraße 158
D-10115
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 13/08/2012
THERE'S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE
A group exhibition showcasing the work of a new generation of photographers.
in these troubled and uncertain times of upheaval and dissent on a global scale, a new generation of
photographers and image-makers is emerging. Steeped in the process and versed in the
psychology of the medium, they are exploring angst, neurosis, notions of fragility and identity and
even the subjectivity of photography itself.
The photographers included in the exhibition come
from a diverse range of photographic backgrounds: from fashion and still life to conceptual photography
and contemporary art. Despite the diversity of their practice, shared interests emerge. Their work
challenges conventional boundaries of photography in surprising and unconventional ways, from
appropriating found images to incorporating other media.
Exhibition runs from September 14th to November 10th, 2012
Brancolini Grimaldi
43 - 44 Albemarle Street
First floor (above Post Office)
London
W1S 4JJ
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 13/08/2012
DAISAKU OOZU - INVISIBLESCAPES
The exhibition invisiblescapes by the Japanese photographer Daisaku OOZU, shows images of his homeland before and after the nuclear accident in Fukushima.
Exhibition runs through till August 11th, 2012
Galerie Son
Mauerstraße 80
10117
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 06/08/2012
MARK POWER - BLACK COUNTRY STORIES
Mark Power was commissioned by Multistory to create a series of urban landscapes responding to his experience of the Black Country - an area hit particularly hard by the economic recession. For many years, Mark's work has sought to reveal the beauty of the everyday and the overlooked and there is a quiet yet simmering splendour in his photographic observations.
During his visits to the region, Mark noticed an array of thriving beauty salons and gentlemen's clubs peppering local shopping arcades. Investigating this further, he discovered a number of historical precedents for the success of beauty and sex industries in times of austerity. This led to the making a series of short films shot in a beauty salons and nightclubs.
A further series of photographs shows elegant footwear seen from pavement level against a backdrop of grey concrete and crumbling brick, while a sound installation turns the names used to describe the colours of make-up and tattooist’s dyes into a mantra-like poem. All this serves to complement the apparent bleakness of the landscapes depicted in the large format photographs.
Exhibition runs through till September 15th, 2012
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Gallery Square
Walsall
West Midlands
WS2 8LG
www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk
Posted by Exit 06/08/2012
KATE: THE KATE MOSS BOOK
Created by Kate Moss herself, in collaboration with creative director Fabien Baron, Jess Hallett, and Jefferson Hack, this book is a highly personal retrospective of Kate Moss’s career, tracing her evolution from “new girl with potential” to one of the most iconic models of all time.
KATE: The Kate Moss Book will be released with eight unique covers, shot by Mario Testino, Corinne Day, Inez & Vinoodh, Craig McDean, Mert & Marcus, David Sims, Mario Sorrenti, and Juergen Teller and will be shipped to customers at random.
Kate: The Kate Moss Book will be released November 2012 from Rizzoli.
Posted by Exit 06/08/2012
DOROTHY BOHM - SEEING AND FEELING
An undisputed doyenne of British photography, Dorothy Bohm has been taking pictures for over 70 years. She is one of the most productive and versatile photographers active today, with examples of her work held in public and private collections worldwide. She has published fourteen books and has had numerous one-woman exhibitions. At the age of 88, her enthusiasm for taking pictures continues unabated.
Bohm came to England from Lithuania in 1939 as a girl of fourteen to escape the threat of Nazism. She finished her schooling in Sussex and then studied photography at the Manchester College of Technology. She opened her own photographic studio in Manchester at the age of 21, soon making a name for herself as a portrait photographer.
Frequent visits to the Swiss Lakes soon after the war stimulated her interest in outdoor photography. Impressed by the different quality of light and encouraged by a number of well-known painters and sculptors, she soon exchanged studio portraiture for images of the human figure in its infinite diversity and in its natural environment.
In the early 1980s, encouraged by Andre Kertesz, Dorothy Bohm began experimenting with colour polaroids and found that she no longer wished to photograph in black and white. While her work continued to express her profoundly humane approach to the world, colour gave her the means to pursue her fascination with reflections and surfaces, allowing for a witty exploration of spatial ambiguity, even occasionally verging on abstraction.
Opposite - Stockholm, Sweden 1967
Exhibition runs through till September 8th, 2012
Margaret Street Gallery
63 Margaret Street
London
W1W 8SW
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JEAN-LUC MYLAYNE
In his solo exhibition, Mylayne is presenting works which, through changing lines of vision onto nature, give rise to various levels for perceiving time. In a series of photographs, Mylayne focuses intensively on the reconstruction of observation as a temporal movement. In these pictures, he often does not present the birds at the center, but as tiny figures within the landscape.
They are cut off by the frame, appear blurred, or have already flown away from the pictorial segment. Mylayne often sets the horizon of the landscape very low, so that the sky becomes the dominant background. He repeats a view leading from the ground to a high altitude, just like the flying motion of the birds. In the photographs No. 268, No. 269, and No. 270, all of which were created between February and March 2004, he shows three successively altered views of the same tree. In the photographs, there are respective modifications in the perspectives of a bird sitting on a branch, in the exposure to light, and in the color of the sky, until the tree in the foreground of No. 270 is no longer in focus, and only diffuse shadows indicate the presence of the bird.
The pictures acquire the quality of stills which, as individual images, evoke a filmic succession or an ongoing pictorial sequence. In a subtle fashion, as in No. 284, Février - Mars 2004, Mylayne ushers such traces and equipment of human beings into recognizability in the background as a fence, a wood saw, or a windwheel. The indication of human presence sets a dynamic oscillation between presence and absence in motion, which is repeated in the constantly changing positions of the animals. As in a puzzle picture, the viewer is required to reconstruct Mylayne's scenes and can recognize the birds with a groping, gliding gaze only after a certain time.
Opposite - No. 301, Mars Avril, 2005
Exhibition runs through till August 25th, 2012
Margaret Street Gallery
Sprüth Magers Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178
Berlin
Posted by Exit 30/07/2012
COLIN O'BRIEN - COMMONPLACE
With an exceptional eye for the overlooked details of the world around him, O’Brien has faithfully documented the changing urban and social landscape of London over the course of more than 60 years. His spellbinding photographs capture beauty, grace and dignity in the seemingly mundane business of ordinary people going about everyday life, creating a unique record of the London landscape, in a spiralling cycle of demolition, development and re-imagination.
Opposite - Coming and goings at the corner of Brick Lane, 1986
Exhibition runs through till August 26th, 2012
Christ Church Spitalfields
Commercial Street
Shoreditch
London
E1 6LY
Posted by Exit 30/07/2012
SIMON ROBERTS - WE ENGLISH
Over the course of a year Simon Roberts travelled England in a motor home, training his large format 4x5” plate camera on people and places across the country. His richly detailed largescale photographs provide a vivid and elegiac account of modern England. Showing people playing golf in the shadow of a power station, enjoying a picnic at the side of the road or congregating en masse on a sandy beach, the photographs in We English explore issues of
identity, belonging and the relationship between a people and their land.
We English is a very personal work, drawing on Roberts' childhood memories, his engagement with the tradition of British photographic work from Bill Brandt to Paul Graham, and his journey across the country. It is also a shared vision, informed by the public participation that Roberts encouraged during his journey via his website
Opposite - Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, Nottinghamshire, 16th June 2008
Exhibition runs through till September 2nd, 2012
Third Floor Gallery
Third Floor
102 Bute Street
CF10 5AD
Cardiff
Posted by Exit 23/07/2012
ELLEN VON UNWERTH - DO NOT DISTURB
Straight from the camera to the wall, this latest series of photographs has all the sexy motifs of Ellen’s signature style. The Madonna Inn, LA, sets the scene for these highly stylised and richly coloured images of women, who range from the delicate coquette to robust dominatrix. Each of the rooms in this renowned LA hotel features imaginative and fantastical interior design, as individual as the characters that occupy them, lending to the seductive fantasy narrative of a wild weekend away.
Ellen von Unwerth has become one of the world’s most notable fashion photographers. Her provocative and playful images of models, music stars and movie icons have lead to her own iconic status as a photographer with a unique eye. Adored by the fashion industry, Ellen is listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Fashion Icons and has photographed major campaigns for designers such as Guess, Dior, Lacoste, Alberta Ferretti; as well as album covers for Rihanna, Christina Aguilera and Janet Jackson; and fashion spreads for major publications such as Vogue, ID and Vanity Fair.
Opposite - Room 6, 2012
Exhibition runs through till August 31st, 2012
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
Posted by Exit 23/07/2012
ANTHONY HAUGHEY - SETTLEMENT
Settlement explores the effects of economic growth on the natural landscape. Even in the smallest rural villages and towns private developers and credit rich individuals availed of favourable government tax breaks and laissez faire planning legislation to hastily build domestic housing estates for quick profit and to meet the demands of a growing population.
All the photographs in this series are produced between sunset and sunrise, partly to avoid any potential confrontation with security guards who regularly patrol these sites during the daytime. The combination of darkness, artificial light and long exposures draws attention to the effects of development on the natural environment by reducing each photograph to the key elements of land and manmade constructions. The natural landscape has been disturbed by earth moving machinery generating artificial hills and valleys in front of half built or unoccupied dwellings. Slowly, nature has started to reclaim the exposed landscape.
Exhibition runs through till August 10th, 2012
Belfast Exposed
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
BT1 2FF
Belfast
Northen Ireland
Posted by Exit 23/07/2012
JOEY L - CRADLE OF MANKIND
Shot in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, and featuring portraits of the various tribes that inhabit the area, the photographs are a deeply moving, visual homage to the tribal peoples of Ethiopia, the birthplace of Homo sapiens.
The photographs from Cradle of Mankind, along with Joey L.’s documentary film, Faces of a Vanishing World - which first aired on Ovation TV in September 2010, chronicle the artist’s deep interest in Ethiopia, and the rapid transition of it’s oldest cultures. During his time in the country, Joey L. lived with various tribes in the region, learning the different customs of each while capturing individual portraits. Though these tribes may seem untouched by time, they are in fact in constant danger of disappearing forever. The artist states in a 2010 NPR interview that he is interested in anthropology and likes photographing different cultures, “[b]ut the ones I’ve been paying attention to lately are the, I suppose what you’d call vanishing ones, ... the cultures that are on the verge of extinction, tribes that are threatened by progress and losing their language and losing their ways of life that they’ve sustained for thousands of years.”
Opposite - Portrait of Kolotola, Mursi Tribe, 2009
Exhibition runs through till August 4th, 2012
Stephen Cohen Gallery
7358 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90036
Posted by Exit 16/07/2012
MUZI QUAWSON - SHAWMUT CIRCLE
Shawmut Circle is named after a local playground which functions as the favorite skate site for Cody, one of the film's central characters. The work consists of a series of fragmented vignettes that are set on three screens, and show glimpses of the daily lives of a group of adolescents and grown ups in City of Valley, USA. Muzi Quawson spent several months in this marginalized community on the border of Georgia and Alabama and created a complex, atmospheric portrait of the lives she encountered.
Quawson manages to catch the tranquility of small town life where the girl at the cash desk casually shares family news with a passerby and kids make out in the parking lot. The elderly "Bullet" takes us on a bike ride through the black community and tells us how he got his name. We also meet Cody, the young skater whose appearance clearly sets him apart from his peers. And there is Henry, who sings a hymn to us in the back of his grocery shop/gas pump.
Although the work does not aim to be a sociological document, it is full of references to the cultural background of the American Deep South. "Bullet's" recollections of his work at the cotton mills refer to the time when "cotton was king" - a time long gone. The slow-pace of life, especially that of the youth depicted, tells us of the recession the area had to face since the decline of American textile industries. The clear geographical separation between the black and the white characters documents the racial segregation that was practiced well into the 1970s in Georgia.
Exhibition runs through till August 4th, 2012
Annet Gelink Gallery
Laurierstraat 187-189
NL-1016 PL Amsterdam
Netherlands
Posted by Exit 16/07/2012
DENNIS MORRIS - THIS IS THE ONE
This is The One, published by Who Said It Publishing, offers an exclusive glimpse into the world of The Stone Roses. Internationally recognised photographer Dennis Morris visually records both behind-the scenes material and classic stage footage alongside intimate studio portraits and documents two iconic events in the history of music with never-before-seen images.
Limited to an edition of 1000 with over 250 unseen images and a signed silver gelatin print by Dennis Morris, This Is The One, priced at £295 and available from July, provides both an extraordinary view into the intoxicating world of The Stone Roses as well as a chapter of history charting fashions and trends of the 1990s for passionate fans and intrigued onlookers alike.
Posted by Exit 16/07/2012
ZOE STRAUSS: 10 YEARS, A SLIDESHOW
This slideshow marks the culmination of Strauss’ I-95 project, a ten year long endeavor for
which Strauss displayed her photographs by affixing them to the pilasters supporting the overpass of
Interstate-95 in South Philadelphia. The slideshow featured at the gallery is the artist’s final selection of the images she created for this project over the last decade.
For a single day each May (from 2001-2010), Strauss revitalized and transformed a derelict and
unused public space into a site for art, facilitating community and social interaction through her
installation. At the end of the exhibit, the laminated installation photographs were free for the taking. As an artist, Strauss prioritizes accessibility and she enthusiastically promotes discourse regarding her work and artistic process via her well-known and widely followed blog. She describes her work as an effort to create an “epic narrative that reflects the beauty and struggle of
everyday life.”
While her chosen subjects and scenes of the American urban landscape can
seem unflattering, troubling or blighted, they reflect the artist’s interest in confronting and depicting life in America, not in a manner of pure social journalism, but as a method of exploring her interests in visual abstraction as well as the self-reflexive nature of the medium. The viewer is challenged to question his or her response to Strauss’ depiction of our cultural climate via the signs, streets, storefronts and portraits that comprise it.
Opposite - Kelley, 2008
Exhibition runs through till August 3rd, 2012
Bruce Silverstein
535 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 09/07/2012
PROM: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARY ELLEN MARK
Between 2006 and 2009, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark visited thirteen high school proms to create portraits of attendees with a 20-by-24-inch Polaroid Land Camera. Only five such cameras exist, and they make extraordinary and unique large-format prints. Mark used the camera previously for her 2003 project Twins, and in Prom she applies it to the quintessential American coming-of-age ritual, selecting high schools from across the country that reflect the regional and class differences among Americans. Approximately sixty of Mark’s portraits are included in the exhibition, demonstrating the egalitarian spirit of her project and the continuing democratic potential of photography.
Exhibition runs through till October 28th, 2012
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia
PA
19130
Posted by Exit 09/07/2012
ERIC MARRIAN - CARRE BLANC
The series was an immediate success when first shown in 2005. Eric Marrian was clearly recognized as being original in the way he portrays the body and deals with the universal but difficult genre of nude photography.
'Carré Blanc' represents a new approach, which is sometimes endearing, always sharp and exacting, and designed to amuse. Marrian looks with the eye of the architect and celebrates the science of volumes and the geometry of bodies for the eye of a modern-day public that knows no taboos.
Above all, he shows a new body, shaped by the lens, a body he sees and reveals like the parts of a large puzzle and approaches like a playground; a body that is never shown in its entirety but in segments, fragmented, as if hewn from stone and usually pale in complexion. In short, a ludic, sculptural, exalted and self-sufficient body.
Part of the charm of ‘Carré Blanc’ derives from the fact that the series constitutes a humorous and poetic grammar of sensual elements, with imaginary landscapes and unexpected reliefs. They describe a region that is both familiar and untrodden.
With Marrian the female body, the photographic subject par excellence, is stripped of eroticism. It is tangible but pared down to all but the essentials. He chooses the game and the allegory, he celebrates the metaphors of the flesh. There is nothing obscene about exploring a body which has been taken apart and put together again, which with its intellectual games, charades and spiritual landscapes sometimes closely resembles the world of the surrealists.
It is also a spiritualized body, which hints at the presence of things and the spirit of the work behind the physical frame. The photographs give the woman’s body the sort of depth, density and texture that is rare with nude photographers. Curves which escape and spill out into melodies or into interrupted arabesques and broken lines, studies of curvatures and creases, hands and forearms folded over supple flesh, etc. Replete with nooks and angles, sections and perspectives, this body follows some secret geometric pattern
Opposite - Etude n°9, 2005
Exhibition runs through till September 1st, 2012
Young Gallery
Rue du clos des Rennes 20 - 74120
Megeve
France
Posted by Exit 09/07/2012
WILLIAM ECKERSLEY - DARK CITY
Dark City offers a stark contrast to the glossy marketing of Olympic fervour with a documentary-style photographic presentation capturing London’s less watched moments. Eckersley has, with Becher-esque discipline, spent four years photographing car parks, industrial plants, underpasses and council estates, working only in the pitch black of night, armed with his (5x4 tungsten- balanced Fujifilm). The exhibition, and the accompanying publication, is the product of this work.
Eckersley’s acute awareness of the contrasts between the street halogen lights and the looming darkness have led him to be described as a “master of light”, and in his continued investigation of the built environment and de-peopled cityscapes he has developed a recognisable style similar to the Düsseldorf school with its vivid colours and stringent German precision.
But if the aesthetic is German, then the scene is most certainly London. Locals may recognize a scene inside the underground, a shot beside the canal, or a view on a bridge. Indeed the body of work can be seen as a typology of London space at night, though in Eckersley’s London he captures moments so quiet, so perfectly static, that they could be likened to film sets. Stranded shopping trollies appear choreographed, and stacked tyres are so poised as to be deliberately placed. Even the most throwaway arrangement suddenly becomes loaded with intent. In fact it is hard to imagine a London like this, so different to the bustling reality of everyday life. But in capturing these moments Eckersley has created a new reality, a reality that, whilst eerie, may yet become more attractive in the raucous hubbub of the Olympic Games.
Exhibition runs through till August 18st, 2012
Vegas Gallery
274 Poyser Street
E2 9RF
London
Posted by Exit 02/07/2012
ANDREA MODICA - BEST FRIENDS
With her recent series, Best Friends, Andrea Modica took her 8x10 camera into high schools in the US and Italy for a compelling group of photographs of young men and women. The project began as individual portraits, but it quickly developed into photographs of two students together. As several of the subjects arrived for their appointment with a companion, Modica readily saw that the two friends offered something much more interesting than the single figure. The interaction between the friends, the physical and fashion similarities/contrasts, and the way the students reacted to Modica, provided an opportunity to look at friendship and sense of self among adolescents today, as well as how they differ between countries. Capitalizing on the slow, interactive nature of 8x10 portraiture, Modica was able
to penetrate some of the defensive masks and behaviors of the students to show fragments of who they are as friends and individuals. Beyond the obvious surface information (physical opposites drawn together; mirrored pairs who have found each other), Modica’s images let us see things like the bravado which has slipped for one boy, yet remains intact for his friend, or the defensive, protective pose one girl takes on behalf of the other. Notably, Modica is able to reveal elements of the personal, which elevate the pictures well beyond social observation. The subjects engage us as individuals, and through that connection we are briefly drawn into the complexity, anxiety and excitement of adolescent life.
Opposite - Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor, CT, 2009
Exhibition runs through till July 21st, 2012
Gallery 339
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia
PA
19103
Posted by Exit 02/07/2012
POLAROID Z2300 INSTANT DIGITAL CAMERA
Introducing the newest addition to the Polaroid instant digital camera line, the 10 mp Z2300 features an integrated printer with ZINK® Technology, enabling users to instantly capture, edit and in less than a minute print full color, 2x3” prints. Along with the ability to easily upload images to any social media platform, the Z2300 combines a compact form factor with a host of fun, easy-to-use features to create the ultimate social media machine.
Posted by Exit 02/07/2012
INTA RUKA - THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER
For three decades now, Inta Ruka has been producing various series in which she portrays with characteristic empathy the people from rural and urban areas alike. To this end, she directs her gaze exclusively towards her fellow countrymen. She works with a 1937 6x6cm Rolleiflex aided by a tripod, but foregoes the use of artificial lighting.
The photographer meets her subjects outside their homes either at random or during arranged meetings, on the street, in courtyards or gardens. As a result, increasing familiarity triggers changes in the environment, in which the portrait is taken. Her subjects’ living conditions often play a decisive role in Inta Ruka’s photographs and simultaneously allow for an assessment of their personal relationship. Notwithstanding this aspect, the artist tends to opt for full-length portraits, semi-long shots, or close-ups. And so, the artist creates highly atmospheric silver-gelatine prints in 35 x 33 cm. For the most part, Ruka positions her subjects in a similar way to the Old Masters, namely at the centre of the frame. Despite their calm pose, sitting or standing, it still seems like a conversation had been taking place at the moment the photograph was shot.
The beholder’s mistaken gaze, in combination with Inta Ruka’s personal dairy entries, which she has written on the walls beneath the photos in the exhibition, not only afford insights into the subject’s external surroundings but into their inner world too. Ruka’s sensitive, time-consuming, yet calm working process allows the masterful artist make staged photos appear completely spontaneous.
Opposite - Undine Audijane, Lundis Zamerovskis, 2005
Exhibition runs through till August 30th, 2012
Baukunst Galerie
Theodor-Heuss-Ring 7
D – 50668 Cologne
Germany
Posted by Exit 25/06/2012
ÁLVARO LAIZ - TRANSMONGOLIAN
The Secret History of the Mongols, considered to be the oldest Mongolian language literary work, is the single significant native account of Mongolia's rise to power around the 12th century AD. Providing a clear narration of the vicissitudes that brought a disperse land of nomads to become the greatest domination in Asia, the work paints a clear portrait of the journey taken by a young Temuiin before transforming into, the great ruler of Asia, Genghis Khan.
Blended with fictional and historical accounts, the epic poetry and narrative, recounts how the warrior was able to organize more than thirty tribes battling for control, and how once in power, with the objective to augment his population and face his enemies, declared homosexuality illegal under death penalty.
Today, more than eight hundred years later, Mongolia is a sovereign country with the lowest population rate in the world, lower than two inhabitants per square kilometre and being a homosexual, continues to be taboo. The weight of tradition and the years under Soviet control, a time in which homosexuals were sent to gulag, surmise a ballast for gays, lesbians, and transsexuals, who continue to be repressed, rejected, and victimized. Condemned to a life of secrecy, many of them find themselves turning to prostitution, others lead a life of solitude. The younger wrestle to flee the Mongolian borders, to countries such as the Philippines or Japan, where their 'condition' is much more tolerable and dreams of a sex change are attainable, but above all, to an identity which in their native land, has been denied way too long.
Exhibition runs through till July 27th, 2012
Galería Fúcares Madrid
Conde de Xiquena, 12 1º Izq
28004 Madrid
Spain
Posted by Exit 25/06/2012
ANDY WARHOL - PHOTOGRAPHS & SCREEN TESTS
Warhol was extremely productive as a photographer. Especially in the 1970s and 1980s a significant body of gelatin silver prints was created, taken with a variety of compact automatic- and instant cameras. Easy to handle, they offered the opportunity to capture a candid picture at any given time or place. The resulting photographs chronicle the general public life as well as the artist’s personal obsessions and depict the USA as a country of contradictions.
His photographs draw on the democratic equality of subjects in his paintings, emphasizing Warhol’s pronounced attention to current events and his attempt to dissolve the border between art and commercialism. They feature recurring subjects such as newspaper boxes, displays in shop windows, curiosities, stereotypical images, but also the reality of social differences and poverty. Those scenes of everyday life represent the American Way of Life, which in Warhol’s photographs culminates to a distinct iconography and an eloquent portrayal of America.
A selection of twelve Screen Tests complements the current exhibition of Warhol’s filmic and photographic work. Originally, so-called screen tests are test takes of actors, which the artist developed into his very own and specific form of experimental films. The subjects of these short films are portraits of his staff members, friends and visitors at the Factory, among them the musicians Bob Dylan and Lou Reed, the actors Dennis Hopper and Baby Jane Holzer, the artists Marcel Duchamp and Paul Thek, and many more. Oscillating between the credibility and the mediated nature of an individual “image“, these cinematic portraits became fascinating documents of contemporary history, of important figures of public life, of the media, and the cultural scene.
Opposite - Table Setting, 1976
Exhibition runs through till September 2nd, 2012
Galerie Thomas Zander
Schönhauser Straße 8
50968 Cologne
Germany
Posted by Exit 25/06/2012
BRUNO CALS - HORIZONS
In the words of the curator, Boris Kossoy: “In his Horizons work, Bruno Cals presents a reflection on space and time: landscapes from other worlds and possibly extinct (or still unborn?) civilizations, not necessarily human. How do our minds react to the unknown? To empty landscapes, without historical clues? Cals shows us mostly places that are apparently abandoned; places without any trace of humans or other forms of life; a few exceptions, however, surprise us for containing possible high-tech landscapes that could imply the presence of advanced worlds: space stations, artificial cities? In these images we search for the air, we hear the silence. We reflect on infinite distances and immemorial times. This is the journey of a photographer who finds, in the appearance of things, only the starting point.
Opposite - Untitled 14, 2010
Exhibition runs through till September 28th, 2012
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 18/06/2012
GORDON PARKS - 100 YEARS
To commemorate the centennial of the birth of photographer, filmmaker, musician, and writer Gordon Parks, this show encompasses a large-scale photo mural and slideshow of more than 50 photographs he captured throughout his long, illustrious career.
Three video screens will display his stunning images, which explore such issues as urban and rural poverty, racism and prejudice, politics, and the historic Civil Rights Movement.
“As we celebrate Gordon Parks’ life we also celebrate his legacy as a humanitarian with a deep commitment to social justice,” said Dr. Maurice Berger, Guest Curator. “The body of work he left behind documents many of the most important aspects of American culture from the early 1940s up until his death in 2006.”
Opposite - Emerging Man, Harlem, 1952
Exhibition runs through till January 6th, 2013
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
Posted by Exit 18/06/2012
FIONA CRISP
Generated at the National Trust site of Stourhead (Wiltshire, UK) in 2006, the images eschew any desire to document a specific location; instead, the historic house at Stourhead, along with it’s world-famous 18th century landscape gardens, are employed by Crisp as a formal device to reflect upon the colliding imperatives of heritage, leisure and history at a site of national cultural significance.
Implicit are questions concerning the democratising of cultural ‘assets’ or the space between the public and private sphere but ideas are also articulated through a formal visual language where tensions are set up between proximity and distance, between the flat plane of the photograph and the perspectival depth of landscape or between revealing and obscuring a ‘view’.
The phrase Negative Capability was first used by the Romantic Poet John Keats in 1817 when, in a letter to his brother, he identified the ability to accept uncertainty and the unresolved as prerequisite for creativity. The relationship between knowledge and doubt has long been at the heart of Crisp's practice and is often reflected in her work's wilful instability as it oscillates between illusionistic space and explicit, functional presence.
Exhibition runs through till July 29th, 2012
Matt's Gallery
42–44 Copperfield Road
London
E3 4RR
Posted by Exit 18/06/2012
RALPH GIBSON
The solo exhibition featuring more than 60 photographs gives insight into the impressive body of work of the artist who, together with Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus and others, is among the seminal historic figures who shaped the New York photography scene. Without a doubt, Ralph Gibson is one of the groundbreaking exponents of photographic art and is known above all for his visual mixing of different styles within the medium of photography.
The exhibition will show works from the photographic oeuvre of Ralph Gibson that have been created over a period of 40 years - from the mystic-surrealistic photographs taken from the world-famous series The Somnambulist and works from his series Deja-Vu and Days at Sea, to his recent nudes. Within Ralph Gibson’s body of work, the connecting characteristics of his visual concepts are a pronounced use of powerful black and white contrasts and a distinguishing graininess of the silver gelatine prints. The diversity of motives and subjects does not dampen the mysterious aura inherent in the photographs, blurring the lines between realism, surrealism, expressionism and metaphysic imagery.
Opposite - Untitled, 1968
Exhibition runs through till August 4th, 2012
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 11/06/2012
NANCY HOLT - PHOTOWORKS
This exhibition includes major photographic projects, including early work such as Concrete Visions, 1967; an important project made on Dartmoor while visiting the UK with her husband the late Robert Smithson over forty years ago, Trail Markers, 1969; a series of photographs of dilapidated graves in the American west, Western Graveyards; and photographs by the artist of her most famous work, Sun Tunnels, 1973 – 76 among others.
For more than four decades, Nancy Holt has created an extensive body of work comprised of audiotapes, videos,photographs, site-specific installations, artist’s books and major sculpture commissions around the world: most famously the Sun Tunnels, four large concrete tunnels, 18ft long and 9ft in diameter, based in the Utah desert in the US. The tunnels are aligned in pairs along an axis of the rising and setting sun on a summer or winter solstice; they act as viewing devices for the sky, the surrounding landscape and each other. Holt’s primary aesthetic and social interests converge in this work: they reflect her determination to ‘connect people with the planet earth’, to bring ‘the sky down to earth’ and to render the vast spaces of the desert ‘back down to human scale’. Her work draws attention to the cyclical time of the universe, the daily axial rotation of the Earth and its annual orbit around the sun.
The key themes throughout all her projects are memory, perception, time and space. She uses the natural environment as both medium and subject. Photography has always played a central role within her work, both as a way of engaging with the landscape and as a way of documenting site-specific projects.
Exhibition runs through till August 25th, 2012
Haunch of Venison
103 New Bond Street
London
W1S 1ST
Posted by Exit 11/06/2012
EDGAR MARTINS - THE WAYWARD LINE
The photographs of Edgar Martins go beyond the mere image and referent on which they are based. By becoming reflexive and self-critical, they escape the scope of the purely photographic without relinquishing its essence. We can consider them to exist in a hybrid terrain, with affinities not only to painting (apparent in the idea of tableaux and the importance that he grants to composition) but also, to cinema ( plateaux ) and even to sculpture, through the way in which they establish themselves as images-objects. This last characteristic causes them to resemble characters in a quasi-absurd or nonsensical narrative and recalls the ready-mades of the Dadaists and Surrealists. The elements of the bizarre that we discover in these images (in which humans and animals rarely appear) are proof of this theory, helping to establish a sense of distance in the observer, who distrusts what he sees but surrenders to it through a sort of suspension of disbelief (Coleridge) that raises questions in his mind: “Is this a real place or one fabricated by the artist? Could we be immersed in an F for Fake kind of world?”
The theatricality and artificiality of these images, which oscillate between the real and the imaginary, bring them closer to the notion of the fantastic via a certain familiar strangeness that imbues the episode in front of us with suspense . Rather than being random images, chosen according to chance, they stem from a process of conceptual idealization undertaken by the artist, who, like a scientist, makes a prior and careful study of the arrangement of the elements, which are placed in a highly elaborate compositive order.
Opposite - Failure to Launch, 2009
Exhibition runs through till July 11th, 2012
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art
Rua Santo António à Estrela, 33
331350-291
Lisbon6
Posted by Exit 11/06/2012
CHRISTER STROMHOLM - LES AMIES DE PLACE BLANCHE
Christer Strömholm (1918–2002) was one of the great photographers of the 20th century, but he is little known outside of his native Sweden. This exhibition presents his most powerful and acclaimed body of work: Les Amies de Place Blanche, a documentation of transsexual "ladies of the night" in Paris in the 1960s. Arriving in Paris in the late 1950s, Strömholm settled in Place Blanche in the heart of the city's red-light district.
There, he befriended and photographed young transsexuals struggling to live as women and to raise money for sex-change operations. Strömholm's surprisingly intimate portraits and lush Brassaï-like night scenes form a magnificent, dark, and at times quite moving photo album, a vibrant tribute to these girls, the "girlfriends of Place Blanche." The photographs were first published in Sweden in 1983, and the book quickly sold out, becoming a cult classic; it is being reissued in French and English this year. Strömholm's photo-essay raises profound issues about sexuality and gender; as he wrote in 1983, "It was then and still is about obtaining the freedom to choose one's own life and identity."
Opposite - Soraya and Sonia, 1962
Exhibition runs through till September 2nd, 2012
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
Posted by Exit 04/06/2012
LISA KERESZI - THE PARTY'S OVER
Continuing her investigation of escapist and fantastical spaces, Kereszi has trained her eye on the gritty, abandoned sites of former amusement parks, strip clubs, theaters, and other entertainment locales. The works offer subtle visual hints of a once happier existence, using windows and reflections, for example, as metaphorical portals to escape a reality of decay.
Though subdued in tone and content, the work is also a celebration of the magic of the purely photographic. Reactive, though quiet, Kereszi’s photos are not pre-conceived or planned out, but rather genuine, instinctive responses to strange, silent and secret beauty. In Topless bar reflected in puddle, Doylestown, PA, Kereszi frames a sliver of the defunct club’s sign in a parking lot puddle, which forms the shape of an arrow and reflects the club’s essential message, Topless Motel Bar Food. The building’s A-frame roof and chimney suggest that this is a former home converted to a strip club, another subtle reminder of the distressed conditions to which Kereszi lends her poetic sensibility.
Elsewhere, Kereszi’s compositions are more direct in their message, as in the show’s title image, The Party’s Over, Disco ball in box, CT, which peers down upon a shabby cardboard box containing a disco ball, no longer spinning overhead, and therefore bereft of its former power to entice. And Plastic Shark in lake behind sports bar, Pocono Mountains, PA, which reveals a comically placed shark head jutting out of shallow water, its toothy mouth agape, a sad, static reminder of a once popular recreational playground cast aside.
Opposite - Topless bar reflected in puddle, Pennsylvania, 2010
Exhibition runs through till July 6th, 2012
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 04/06/2012
GEORGE SCHUMACHER - POLAROIDS
Schumacher, a psychiatrist working in central and northern California, originally considered photography a hobby. He became immersed in the Polaroid medium because of its immediacy as well as its ability to express “deep inner reflection through light and framed subject.” A chance meeting with Ansel Adams in the mid-1950s led to Schumacher’s participation in several of the Yosemite Workshops led by Adams. Adams thought so highly of his protégé’s work that he featured his images in the 1963 publication: Polaroid Land Photography Manual. This technical handbook served to acquaint and instruct photographers on the creative use of this revolutionary new photographic process. It included works by Adams, as well as such early Polaroid practitioners as Paul Caponigro, Minor White, Marie Cosindas, Philippe Halsman and Schumacher.
Schumacher’s success in capturing intimate, delicate, and quiet images led to exhibitions and reproduction in various art and photographic publications including Aperture, Art in America, and Infinity, among others. Aperture magazine, perhaps the most influential photography publication at the time, included Schumacher’s work as early as 1961.
Exhibition runs through till July 14th, 2012
Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla
CA
92037
Posted by Exit 04/06/2012
ZED NELSON - LOVE ME
The exhibition explores a new form of globalisation, where an increasingly narrow Western beauty ideal is being exported around the world like a crude universal brand. Whilst Nelson's subjects appear willing participants in an omnipresent culture of bodily improvement, they might equally be considered hapless victims - at the mercy of larger social forces and locked into an insatiable craving for approval.
As the subject's frailties and pretensions are exposed, so too are we the viewer: our motives for looking, for inspecting, along with uncomfortable reminders of our own vanities and insecurities.
Exhibition runs through till June 24th, 2012
DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery
Aykley Heads
Durham
DH1 5T
Posted by Exit 28/05/2012
VEE SPEERS - THE BIRTHDAY PARTY
This is the first commercial UK exhibition of the critically acclaimed photographer Vee Speers and her infamous series The Birthday Party - which has been published & exhibited worldwide and is now part of many private & public collections. It includes two new images exhibited for the very first time.
Vee Speers is an Australian artist living in Paris. She studied fine art and photography in Brisbane which was followed by a five year career in Sydney with ABC Television as a stills photographer. A short stay in France in 1990 became a permanent move to Paris where she became established in the art world with her hauntingly beautiful portraits of children The Birthday Party.
Exhibition opens September 4th through to October 20th, 2012
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 28/05/2012
RICHARD AVEDON - MURALS & PORTRAITS
In his large-scale murals and the smaller, related portraits of the 1960s and 1970s, Avedon sought to depict the spirit of the times. The transgendered Candy Darling and the naked Taylor Mead testify to the provocative countercultural behavior of the Factory; the positioning of characters within the mural suggest a complicated group dynamic. The spirit of political rebellion is embodied by the Chicago Seven mural, as well as the individual photos of writer Jean Genet, Weatherman leader Bernardine Dohrn, and former turf gang-turned-human rights group, the Young Lords.
The expanding definition of the American family is represented by the mural of the Ginsbergs, while earlier images of Allen in nude embrace with his partner Peter Orlovsky, were found to be too shocking for most publications in 1963. Finally, the war administrators - the Mission Council - are juxtaposed with victims of the war: Vietnamese survivors of napalm attacks. Powerful and dynamic, Avedon's images became icons of their embattled times that resonate for the present and future.
Opposite - Andy Warhol and members of The Factory, New York, May 21, 1969
Exhibition runs through till July 6th, 2012
Gagosian Gallery
522 West 21st Street
New York
NY
10011
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FREDERICK WILFRED - LONDON PHOTOGRAPHS 1957-62
Although little known, Wilfred (1925-2010) was a professional photographer specialising in portraiture, for which he won numerous awards. But, from the late-50s till the mid-60s, he made a series of remarkable documentary photographs of London street life. The Museum of London acquired the archive of 134 street images in 2011.
The photographs display something of the nostalgic charm familiar to post-Second World War photography. Nevertheless, they form a poignant portrait of a society slowly emerging from the effects of the Second World War. Amongst the works on display are shots of the now lost Twickenham Lido, street-sweepers and news-vendors, and the iconic Battersea Power Station pouring smoke from all four chimneys.
Exhibition opens June 18th through to July 8th, 2012
Museum of London
150 London Wall
London
EC2Y 5HN
Posted by Exit 21/05/2012
BEDWYR WILLIAMS - MY BAD
My Bad draws its title from an American vernacular phrase for admitting fault. The exhibition is comprised largely of newly commissioned installation and sculptural pieces, marking a departure from the artist’s previous concerns with Wales and ‘Welshness’.
Williams observes the world with a sharp eye and wry humour. His work includes a wide range of media, including performance, sculpture, painting and photography. Drawing on his own personal narratives and family histories – from school days in a North Wales farming community to his experiences as an artist-in-residence – Williams has become known for sculpture and performance work reflecting on rural life, loss, memory and the folly of ambition.
Exhibition runs through till July 8th, 2012
Ikon Gallery
1 Oozells Square
Brindleyplace
Birmingham
B1 2HS
Posted by Exit 21/05/2012
STORMTROOPER DIGITAL CAMERA
This Star Wars Stormtrooper Digital Camera certainly looks pretty slick but like “real” Stormtroopers, there’s not much going on under the hood. Sure this camera is for the kid’s market and only costs $39 but 1.3 megapixels and a 1 inch screen? That’s nothing in this day and age. It does come with custom photo editing software.
Posted by Exit 21/05/2012
TYLER SHIELDS - MOUTHFUL
Tyler's images don't just stand out in an image drenched internet age - they constantly feature on Yahoo OMG!, TMZ, US Weekly, People Magazine, Mail Online and a host of other of the world's largest media channels. So much so his collectors list is every bit as impressive as his collaborators, with movie, TV stars and studio bosses owning his limited edition works. Tyler's Hollywood shows feature installations and happenings, such as a man being shot with live rounds, which result in them gaining more media exposure than most premiers.
Opposite - Emma and Barbie, 2011
Exhibition opens May 20th, 2012
Ace Gallery
5514 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90036
Posted by Exit 14/05/2012
JEAN-LUC MOULÈNE - FENAUTRIGUES
A public commission of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, “Fénautrigues”, published in 2010, shows 500 pictures out of 7000 shots taken, which constitute an aesthetic and analytical inventory of a landscape in which, from 1991 to 2006, Jean-luc MoulÈne photographed the places of his childhood in the department of Lot.
“Fénautrigues” invites the visitor to contemplate landscape and time, in a manner that is not dictated by the seduction of the image, but rather in a way that entails the autonomy of the latter. Here, photography reflects a necessary and self-revealing autonomy of the glance, which is built in the heart of an active and critical aesthetic.
Exhibition runs through till June 16th, 2012
Galerie Chantal Crousel
10 rue Charlot
75003
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 14/05/2012
OLYMPUS TOUGH TG-1 IHS CAMERA
New from Olympus Tough TG-1. It’s built extra rugged - waterproof up to 40ft, shockproof to 6.6ft, crushproof to 200lbs, freezeproof to 14F, and dustproof. With a high-sensitivity, high-speed 12-megapixel CMOS sensor, the camera’s lens is treated with a water-repellant coating, so don’t worry about rain or shooting in a body of water
Posted by Exit 14/05/2012
TARYN SIMON
This exhibition is the U.S. premiere of Taryn Simon's (b. 1975, New York) photographic project A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters I–XVIII. The work was produced over a four-year period (2008–11), during which the artist travelled around the world researching and documenting bloodlines and their related stories. In each of the 18 “chapters” that make up the work, external forces of territory, power, circumstance, or religion collide with the internal forces of psychological and physical inheritance. The subjects Simon documents include victims of genocide in Bosnia, test rabbits infected with a lethal disease in Australia, the first woman to hijack an aircraft, and the living dead in India. Her collection is at once cohesive and arbitrary, mapping the relationships among chance, blood, and other components of fate.
Simon's project is divided into 18 chapters, nine of which will be presented at MoMA. Each chapter is comprised of three segments: one of a large portrait series depicting bloodline members (portrait panel); a second featuring text (annotation panel); and a third containing photographic evidence (footnote panel).
Exhibition runs through till September 3rd, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
Posted by Exit 07/05/2012
ANTON CORBIJN - INWARDS AND ONWARDS
The large-format portraits featured in the exhibition »Inwards and Onwards« testify to the substantial body of artistic work that Anton Corbijn has created.
Apart from striking photographs of true music legends such as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith or Tom Waits, who have always fascinated Corbijn, the photographer has focussed in his recent work on modern personifications of artistic inspiration such as Marlene Dumas, Gilbert & George or Jeff Koons. Working only in black and white with a Hasselblad camera, Anton Corbijn aims to reduce his photo shoots to the essential. He uses his subjects’ familiar environments as settings and works on his own with available light - assistants or artificial lighting are off-limits for him. Corbijn understands the camera as a means to an end - ultimately, he tries to capture the personality and the character hidden deep within the person portrayed beyond any kind of superficial staging although some playfulness is sometimes apparent as with Damien Hirst’s photograph and that of Jeff Koons.
Opposite - Kate Moss, New York, 1996
Exhibition runs through till June 9th, 2012
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 07/05/2012
RENE BURRI - LARGER THAN LIFE
Having worked for the prestigious Magnum agency since 1982, producing some of the most iconic photographs of our age. The Swiss photographer’s work has been collected and exhibited worldwide as well as being in nearly every major magazine for over the last 60 years. Larger than Life features René Burri’s most iconic and celebrated works presented for the first time in a monumental size and limited edition.
Born in Zurich in 1933, Burri studied design and composition, and worked as a documentary filmmaker before turning to photography during military service. In 1955 Burri had made his first contact with Magnum through Werner Bischof, when his first reportage was on deaf-mute children, which was published in LIFE as well as other European magazines. Henri Cartier-Bresson famously sent Burri away to work on a defining body of work. The resulting work was taken over a six month period, which was a photographic poem on the life of Gauchos on the Argentinian Pampas, which consequently cemented his membership of Magnum in 1959. Burri was 26 when eventually Gauchos was published in 1968. He achieved international recognition with the publication of Die Deutschen (The Germans) in 1962 displaying a powerful portrait of a changing nation in the immediate aftermath of World War II, in the style of Robert Frank’s Americans, at a time when the memory of the war and the consequences of defeat were still evident and recovery was just beginning.
Opposite - São Paulo, Brazil, 1960
Exhibition runs through till June 9th, 2012
Atlas Gallery
49 Dorset Street
London
W1U 7NF
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 07/05/2012
TIMOTHY H. O'SULLIVAN
The photographs made by Timothy H. O’Sullivan as part of the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, or King Survey, comprise an iconic and richly varied body of work.
The first of the great post-Civil War Western expeditions, the King Survey was organized under the authority of the U.S. Army Topographical Engineers. Between 1867 and 1872, Clarence King, the geologist in charge, and his party studied a vast swath of terrain, approximately 100 by 800 miles, encompassing the path of the soon-to-be-completed transcontinental railroad, from the border of California eastward to Cheyenne, Wyoming.
In four seasons with King’s group - 1867, 1869 and 1872 - he created a diverse body of photographs: geological studies, landscapes, views of miners and mining operations, records of cities and settlements, studies of the survey itself and self-reflexive meditations on his own presence in the West.
Exhibition runs through till September 3rd, 2012
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City
MO
64111
Posted by Exit 30/04/2012
BURKE + NORFOLK - PHOTOGRAPHS FROM AFGHANISTAN
In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century Irish photographer John Burke (c. 1843-1900). Burke was the first photographer to make pictures in Afghanistan. He accompanied British forces during the invasion that became the Second Anglo-Afghan War from 1878-1880, producing albums of prints for sale. Virtually unknown today, Burke was a precursor of the contemporary photo-journalist producing work that went beyond reportage. His images do not reinforce British colonial values, but allow for a critical and nuanced reading of the relationship between the British forces and their Afghan peers.
Simon Norfolk (b. 1963) is a landscape photographer whose work over the last ten years has been themed around a probing and stretching of the meaning of the word ‘battlefield’ in all its forms. Norfolk’s photographs re-imagine or respond to Burke’s Afghan war scenes in the context of the contemporary conflict. Conceived as a collaborative project with Burke across time, this body of work by Simon Norfolk is presented alongside John Burke’s images. Rather than artificially restaging Burke’s compositions exactly, Norfolk identified contemporary equivalents, researching and travelling to Burke’s vantage points and developing a digital equivalent of his collodion wet plate technique. Norfolk finds many of the original locations of Burke’s work and conveys modern parallels with their subject matter depicting soldiers, bomb-sites, tented communities, alongside images of contemporary culture such as internet cafés and radar stations.
Opposite - Kabul ‘Pizza Express’ Restaurant behind the Muncipal Bus depot (2011), Simon Norfolk
Exhibition runs through till June 30th, 2012
Crawford Art Gallery
Emmet Place
Cork
Ireland
Posted by Exit 30/04/2012
IKEA KNÄPPA CARDBOARD DIGITAL CAMERA
Designed by Jesper Kouthoofd, the recyclable camera is made out of one piece of folded cardboard which is secured by two plastic screws. A single circuit board holds all the electronics, camera sensor and integrated USB connector. There is a combined on/off and shutter button on the front – holding it down for a few seconds turns the KNÄPPA on or off and a “firm click” takes a photo.
The performance of the KNÄPPA isn’t likely to worry the likes of Nikon or Canon. It shoots decidedly lo-fi images (think a 2004 camera-phone) and IKEA jokes about the lack of functions in the promo video below – to use the “zoom function” you simply extend your arms, and “advanced image stabilization” involves resting the resting the camera on a chair.
Once 40 photos have been taken, users plug the 2.3 megapixel camera – billed as “the world’s cheapest digital camera” – into a USB port and transfer the images in the normal manner. Images can then be deleted from the camera by using a paperclip to press the delete button on the front for about five seconds.”
Posted by Exit 30/04/2012
ALEX PRAGER - COMPULSION
Inspired by the photography of Weegee and Enrique Metinides, and films such as Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou, Compulsion confirms Prager’s vivid cinematic aesthetic. Unlike her previous work, however, the protagonists remain anonymous and distant. Prager’s new series investigates the complexity of observation within a society inundated by compulsive spectators, as well as the recurrent discourse in photography, that “meaning” is often derived from a multiplicity of gazes.
In addition to provocative juxtapositions, Prager manipulates the scenes through her choice of cropping, continually interrogating the truth content within photography, a trope as old as the medium itself. As artist John Baldessari has noted: “For most of us photography stands for the truth, but a good artist can make a harder truth by manipulating forms…It fascinates me how (one) can manipulate the truth so easily by the way (you) juxtapose opposites or crop the image or take it out of context.” Prager’s altered and manufactured scenes, in conjunction with the evocative eyes remove, the images from their original context and allow them to aquire new associations.
Exhibition runs through till May 26th, 2012
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
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PATRICK LICHFIELD - NUDES
Patrick Lichfield (1939-2005) was an internationally renowned photographer who worked for all the major magazines, exhibited worldwide, and published several books during his career. The National Portrait Gallery dedicated a retrospective exhibition to the first twenty years of his work in 2002.
His great break was when he was summoned by Diana Vreeland, the doyenne of fashion editors, to photograph the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and given a five year contract with American Vogue. In 1981 he was appointed official photographer at the wedding of his cousin, The Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer. He is lesser known for his nude work which will be exhibited for the first time.
Opposite - Karen Pini, France,1978
Exhibition runs through till May 26th, 2012
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 23/04/2012
NIKON D3200
Nikon introduces the new Nikon D3200, an entry-level D-SLR camera. The Nikon D3200 features a compact, lightweight body, a super high resolution 24.2-megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor, Full HD (1080p) video recording with full time autofocus (AF) and 4 frames-per-second (fps) high-speed continuous shooting mode. Also, Nikon D3200 users will be able to take advantage of the new WU-1a Wireless Mobile Adapter. When connected to the camera, this optional adapter can wirelessly send images to mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, preview an image before shooting and control the camera remotely.
Posted by Exit 23/04/2012
RYAN MCGINLEY - ANIMALS
Animals consists of McGinley's color studio portraits of live animals with nude models. The exhibition is his first made up exclusively of selections from this growing, and ambitious, body of work. The artist visited various sanctuaries, zoos, and rescue establishments across the United States, erecting a mobile studio wherever possible and working with a number of pre-eminent animal trainers. The animals are not mere props in photographs of people; on the contrary, McGinley considers them the subjects of these images. There exists both tension and tenderness between the models and wild animals, as they claw, clutch, nibble, and hug one another.
This body of work has two starkly contrasting sides, epitomized by two of the photographs on view. In the comical Dakota (Marmoset), a tiny monkey hangs from a male model's pubic hair, partly obscuring his genitals. The human legs and torso are covered in scratches and the marmoset stares directly at the camera, wearing an expression of apparent shock. In Parakeets, a flock of lushly colored birds tears across a blue background while a girl, face obscured by a blurred green and white wing, stretches out her arms in an imitation of flight. The barroom roughhouse of the former and dulcet elegance of the latter act as the exhibition's counterweights. Where the first piece is grotesque and lascivious, as humorous as it is horrifying, the other - a gushing moment of poetic beauty - strikes a profound emotional and visual harmony.
Opposite - Lemur (Lilac), 2012
Exhibition runs from May 2nd to June 2nd, 2012
Team Gallery
83 Grand Street
NY
10013
Posted by Exit 16/04/2012
NADINE ROVNER - SOMEWHERE NOT HERE
In Somewhere Not Here, Nadine Rovner’s scenes of longing, anticipation and hope are formed rather than found by the artist. Rovner works in the tradition of the staged photograph, beginning with a feeling or idea, and creating a scene to portray it. While often associated with contemporary artists, this approach to photography goes back to complex dramas that were made for the camera in the 19th century.
Staged photography is also the foundation for most photographic commercial work, and it has long been a bridge between photography and cinema. Rovner draws from all these precedents, yet her images stand out for their subtlety and understatement. Rather than the harsh irony or hyperrealism that often characterize staged photography, Rovner’s images dwell in a hazy border between reality and memory, hinting at a hidden story, but revealing only fragments. These spare dramas have little overt action, but they contain a palpable sense of tension, like the opening moments in a film, when many things are possible, or the closing sequence where much remains undetermined.
Opposite - One at a Time, 2008
Exhibition runs through till May 5th, 2012
Gallery 339
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia
PA
19103
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JOHN CHIARA - CREATMONT AT CORAL
The exhibited works were primarily shot in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill, Excelsior, Diamond Heights and Mission districts using his 34 x 28 inch camera, which he tows around the city on a trailer. Chiara captures quiet vignettes of urban life – juxtaposing views of streets and buildings with more scenic vistas that only subtly nod to their city surroundings. As if physical manifestations of one’s memory of the landscape, the pictures are evocative, meditative and brooding.
Chiara’s singular approach combines shooting and darkroom processing, printing directly onto positive color photographic paper known as Ilfochrome; as such, they are unique works that cannot be reproduced. He affixes the paper to the camera using tape, vestiges of which often mark the picture’s surface to varying effect. Chiara controls the exposure time instinctively, using his hand to dodge and burn the image. Due to their large scale, the prints are developed in capped PVC pipes, a process in which the chemicals are blindly agitated across the paper, leaving behind their ethereal, almost painterly traces on the images. The resulting pictures reflect a sophisticated balance between Chiara’s dexterity with his tools and the serendipity intrinsic to his treatment of materials and process.
Opposite - Coral End, 2012
Exhibition runs through till May 26th, 2012
Haines Gallery
49 Geary Street
Suite 540
San Francisco
CA
94108
Posted by Exit 16/04/2012
HERB RITTS - L.A. STYLE
He revolutionized fashion photography, modernized the nude, and transformed celebrities into icons. Through hard work and a distinctive vision, Herb Ritts (1952–2002) fashioned himself into one of the top photographers to emerge from the 1980s. Ritts's aesthetic incorporated facets of life in and around Los Angeles. He often made use of the bright California sunlight to produce bold contrasts, and his preference for outdoor locations such as the desert and the beach helped to separate his work from that of his New York-based peers. Ritts's intimate portraiture, his modern yet classical treatment of the nude, and his innovative approach to fashion brought him international acclaim and placed him securely within an American tradition of portrait and magazine photography that includes Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Irving Penn.
From the late 1970s until Ritts's untimely death from AIDS-related complications in 2002, his ability to create images that successfully bridged the gap between art and commerce was not only a testament to the power of his imagination and technical skill but also marked the synergistic union between art, popular culture, and business that followed in the wake of the Pop Art movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
Opposite - Christy Turlington, Versace 3, Milan, 1991
Exhibition runs through till August 26th, 2012
J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles
CA
90049-1687
Posted by Exit 09/04/2012
PETER RAND
This display focuses on ten key works from this period which are exhibited for the first time, and includes photographs of actors Fenella Fielding, Ian Holm, Anna Massey, Sarah Miles with her brother Christopher, Corin Redgrave, Peter Wyngarde, Mike Sarne; playwright Harold Pinter with the cast of The Caretaker, singer Dusty Springfield, and entrepreneur Richard Branson. Peter Rand continues to specialize in portraiture and fashion photography.
Born in Dorset, Rand attended Ealing Art and Photographic College, before working as an assistant to Peter Peck at Woburn Studios (1958-9). In 1960, he joined the John French Studios, and in 1962 two of his photographs appeared on the cover of the September and December issues of British Vogue. An editorial contract with Vogue followed, and Rand remained with the magazine until 1970, photographing the leading figures of the 1960s.
Opposite - Sir Richard Branson, 1 February 1968
Exhibition runs through till September 16th, 2012
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
Posted by Exit 09/04/2012
WILLIE DOHERTY - PHOTO/TEXT/85/92
Doherty’s ongoing concerns with the complexities and contradictions of contested terrain were firmly established early on. These works probed the tensions and anxieties of what was visible and invisible, of what could be said and what could not. The works in the exhibition reveal something of the social and political conditions of the period that saw the entrance of the Irish Republican movement into the political process and negotiations with the British government over the North of Ireland. They also bear traces of the artistic possibilities and debates at the time of production, which sought to politicise conceptual art practice.
The specific content of these works – of boundary building and the pervasive nature of surveillance, the apparent incommensurability of polarized political factions and the scars these divisions leave on the landscape – remain relevant today.
Opposite - Shifting Ground (The Walls, Derry), 1991
Exhibition runs through till May 27th, 2012
Matt's Gallery
42–44 Copperfield Road
London
E3 4RR
Posted by Exit 09/04/2012
CHRISTER STROMHOLM
From Strömholm’s eminent body of work Les Amies de la Place Blanche, these famous portraits of transvestites depict individuals living on the periphery of society, enduring ‘the roughness of the streets,’ however there is a delicacy and poignancy that emanates from Strömholm’s portraits in contrast to their gritty setting. In his book of the same title, Strömholm describes this intimate collection of pictures as memoires of his daily life, taken whilst living in Pigalle, as he immersed himself in the lifestyle of these ‘night birds’.
Christer Strömholm (1918-2002), born in Stockholm, is a prominent figure in the history of Swedish photography. His pictures from the early fifties consist of sharply focused black and white compositions of walls, shadows and clear-cut interiors. While periodically living in Paris during the 1950s and 1960s he developed a style more in tune with street-photography and it was at this time that he made his famous portraits of transvestites and transsexuals at the Place Blanche. This particular oeuvre of work was massively progressive, documenting a marginalised group of society who did not fit into the social strata of Paris at the time.
Opposite - Cobra and Caprice, 1964
Exhibition runs from April 20th to May 26th, 2012
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
Posted by Exit 02/04/2012
NOEL BOWLER - MAKING SPACE
Bowler reveals the quiet transformation of everyday spaces in urban, residential and rural locations. He records how private homes, warehouses, office spaces, and industrial units are being turned into spaces for prayer. Whilst Catholicism is the majority religion in Ireland, Bowler’s images challenge this monocultural view, providing evidence of a strong and proud Muslim community. Making Space provides a unique record of a major, though not widely acknowledged, change in Irish society.
Devoid of people, Bowler’s photographs draw attention to the material details that reveal the connections, overlaps, and divergences between Western and Islamic cultures. In one image, copies of the Quran are stacked on bookshelves, incongruously accompanied by Quality Street and Roses tins; whilst in another image a prayer space is decorated with Christmas garlands.
Exhibition runs through to July 16th, 2012
Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square
Bradford
BD1 1SD
Posted by Exit 02/04/2012
IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT BLACK LABEL POLAROID SX-70
The Impossible Project introduces their new Black Label Polaroid SX-70 camera. Any folding Polaroid camera will catch peoples attention, but this new Black Label version is especially nice we have to admit. This unique kit contains a carefully refurbished SX70 camera, documentation, two packs of PX600 Silver Shade UV+ Black Frame film and a ND filter for use of the camera with type 600 film such as the included film in this kit. The upper is all black with nice premium black leather coating details.
Posted by Exit 02/04/2012
SIMON ANNAND - THE HALF
For over 25 years Simon Annand has been given unprecedented access to the secret backstage world of London’s West End, shooting everything from Chekhov to Panto.
The Half or ‘final call’ is the half an hour before the curtain rises, when an actor is left in solitude to focus on the
performance ahead of them. This world of preparation is intimate, yet Simon Annand has witnessed these intriguing
moments that the audience never sees. Portraying each actor as a worker, his subtle, engaging and intimate portraits allow the viewer to see the physical and mental preparation that is required as the actor leaves their day behind, in readiness for performing on the stage that evening.
Annand’s eloquent photographic style reveals the private time of some of the worlds best loved entertainers including Anthony Hopkins, Cate Blanchett, Daniel Day Lewis, Judi Dench, John Gielgud, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Jeremy Irons, Glenda Jackson, Jude Law, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Martin Sheen, Felicity Kendal, Kevin Spacey and Ralph Fiennes.
Exhibition runs through to April 8th, 2012
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London
E2 7JB
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THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE 50TH ANNIVERSARY
The exhibition, which following Bristol will go to Cube, Manchester on Wednesday 11 April and Waterhall, Birmingham on Tuesday 22 May, will showcase images from some of the world’s finest photographers who have worked for the Magazine over the years. Photographers featured include Don McCullin, David Bailey, Eve Arnold, Snowdon, Richard Avedon, Eugene Richards, Sam Taylor-Wood, Terry O'Neill, Chris Floyd and Stuart Franklin.
The exhibition will also highlight the contribution made to the Magazine by renowned writers such as Ian Fleming, Martin Amis, Bruce Chatwin, Jilly Cooper, Zoe Heller, James Fox and Nicholas Tomalin.
In February 1962, The Sunday Times launched the Magazine - the UK’s first colour newspaper supplement. “My God, this is going to be a disaster,” groaned Roy Thomson, the then owner of The Sunday Times. Newspapers in those days were dull dogs and the idea of putting a colourful magazine with a paper was seen as barmy.
Opposite - Kylie Minogue, Uli Weber (1995)
Exhibition runs through to April 2nd, 2012
Verve Events
The Airstream
Main Courtyard
Paintworks
Bath Road
Bristo
BS4 3EH
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FUJIFILM X GLOBE-TROTTER X-PRO1 SUITCASE
For their upcoming mirrorless camera system, the Fujifilm X-Pro1, the brand teamed up with Globe-Trotter. Together the two produced a limited edition suitcase, featuring the camera, along with a series of lenses and other accessories. The suitcase launches exclusively at London department store Harrods.
“Global digital camera brand Fujifilm is delighted to announce its partnership with luxury British luggage manufacturer, Globe-Trotter. The two companies have collaborated to create a limited edition, Vulcanised Fibreboard suitcase for the latest in Fujifilm’s coveted X series, the much-anticipated X-Pro1. The 12 cases are launching exclusively at Harrods Technology.
The Vulcanised Fibreboard suitcase is handmade on original Victorian machinery at the Globe-Trotter factory in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. Vulcan Fibre was invented in Britain in the 1850s and is formed from 14 layers of specially bonded paper, coloured to specification. The brass rivets and locks and tan leather trim contribute to its luxury aesthetic. The case is finished with an embossed leather ‘Harrods Exclusively’ tag and brass plaque. Each case has handcrafted compartments to house the X-Pro1, the flash, filter and the camera’s three lenses and lens hoods: 18mm, 35mm and 60mm. The X-Pro1, the latest in X series range of Fujifilm cameras, is receiving phenomenal reviews for its image quality, versatility and cutting edge technology. Its retro styling is perfectly matched to Globe-Trotter’s timeless aesthetic and craftsmanship.”
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THOMAS RUFF - MA.R.S.
Astronomy has fascinated Ruff since childhood. In 1989 he presented Sterne, his first images of the night sky based on archival photographs that he acquired from the European Southern Observatory in Chile that were taken with a specially designed telescopic lens. From these photographs, he selected specific details that were then enlarged to a uniform grand scale. Almost twenty years later, he returned to contemplating the universe and its mysteries via the public Internet archive of NASA.
The cassini series of 2008 was based on photographic captures of Saturn with its candy-colored moons and rings. Ruff enlarged the images to the point where the image resolution meets its limit and the planet starts to crumble, pixel by pixel into the black void of the galaxy. In the new ma.r.s. series, also sourced from the NASA website, Ruff has transformed the raw black and white fragmentary representations of the planet Mars with interjections of saturated color, such as the blood-red atmospheric haze of ma.r.s. 01_III (2011) or the steel-gray striations of ma.r.s. 02_II (2011). In addition to the large C-prints, he has experimented for the first time with 3D image-making to extraordinary effect, and several are presented here that can be viewed with or without viewing glasses.
Opposite - ma.r.s. 04_III, 2012
Exhibition runs through to April 21th, 2012
Gagosian Gallery
Britannia Street
6-24 Britannia Street
London
WC1X 9JD
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JERRY MCMILLAN - THE ARTIST'S IMAGE
This exhibition demonstrates his inventive techniques and collaborative efforts at creating a persona rather than a mere likeness. Through symbolic and whimsically staged role-playing, McMillan produced implied narratives that were often intended for exhibition announcements and magazine advertisements. For example, when he was told that Judy Gerowitz was changing her name to Chicago and needed an image to announce her new name and upcoming exhibition, he put her in a boxing ring.
The tough, confrontational photo of Chicago, wearing boxing gloves with her name emblazoned across her chest, suggested a challenge to the male-dominated art scene in L.A. In fact, during the 60s, artists in L.A would one-up each other with ego-driven exhibition announcements picturing themselves in underwear, surfing, or performing other antics. In this vein, McMillan created a folding exhibition poster/invite for his friend Joe Goode that pictured the artist, but did not include Goode’s name, implying, that his name was not even necessary. The exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery will include McMillan’s vintage photos, contact sheets and examples of his work in exhibition announcements, catalogue design, magazine ads, and even personalized artist stationery. Jerry McMillan’s contributions in these areas were vital to the developing LA art scene, not simply in the presentation of L.A. artists, but in his shaping of how they were perceived.
Exhibition runs through to May 19th, 2012
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3 Santa Monica
California
90404
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DAN HOLDSWORTH - TRANSMISSION
In Transmission: New Remote Earth Views, Holdsworth appropriates topographical data to document the ideologically and politically loaded spaces of the American West in an entirely new way. In his images of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mount Shasta, Mount St. Helens and Salt Lake City (Park City), we see stark, uninterrupted terrains where meaning is made through what it is absent, as much as what is seen. What at first appears to be a pure white snow-capped mountain is in fact a digitally rendered laser scan of the earth interpreted from United States Geological Survey data, a ‘terrain model' used to measure climate and land change - to measure man's effect on the earth.
Belying his empirical methodology is the fact that each of these terrains has a rich and conflicting cultural legacy. Beginning with the idealised aesthetic of the Romantic sublime via the deadpan industrial frames of the New Topographics photographers a century later, each has been subject to the gaze of artistic, political, and sociological categories claiming this territory as their own. Extending ideas of the frontier and seeing anew, Transmission captures the world as if from space, functioning not only as a map of the land but as a mapping of the discourses that these lands have come to represent.
Opposite - Mount Shasta D-2, 2012
Exhibition runs through to May 19th, 2012
Brancolini Grimaldi
43 - 44 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4JJ
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MITCH EPSTEIN
Mitch Epstein’s new work features the idiosyncratic trees that populate New York City, underscoring the importance of trees in urban life and their complex relationship with the city’s human dwellers.
Trees have long been a leitmotiv in Epstein’s projects, especially in his series American Power (2003-2008). After five years of photographing the manifestations of energy production and consumption across the United States, Epstein decided to make pictures that reflect how he, “would like to see the world, not simply how I have inherited it.”
Epstein began this yearlong project in search of designated Great Trees, as deemed by the Parks Department in 1985. Finding these trees was less important to Epstein than the pursuit of them, which led him to discover and photograph numerous unofficial “great” trees with remarkable qualities of their own. From Parsons Boulevard, Flushing to Sprague Avenue, Staten Island to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, Epstein returned to photograph the same trees through changing light and seasons. The resulting photographs invert people’s usual view of their city: trees no longer function as background or landscape, but, instead, become the focus of the image, dominating the human life and architecture around them.
Opposite - White Oak, Raoul Wallenberg Forest, Bronx 2011
Exhibition runs through to April 14th, 2012
Sikkema Jenkins & Co
530 West 22nd Street
New York
NY
10011
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ODED HIRSCH - NOTHING NEW
Hirsch’s unaffected documentary-style and linear narrative structures are sometimes at odds with the questionable nature of the actions performed on film. In “50 Blue,” Hirsch’s brother pushes his father in a wheelchair through a rugged terrain towards a destination the audience only comes to know at the end - a destination that seems anti-climactic at best. After having been hoisted up onto a high structure along the water’s edge, the paraplegic father is left to appreciate a view (obstructed by a horizontal bar) of the shoreline.
In this sense, Hirsch toys with the very idea of accomplishment, interrogating the assumption that whatever was suffered through, despite the effort, was worth it. While something has indeed been achieved, and a certain amount of exertion has resulted from the completion of a particular task (in this case laboring to bring a man in a wheelchair to the top of a lake-side tower), its significance seems unsure.
Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2012
Thierry Goldberg Gallery
103 Norfolk Street
New York
NY
10002
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TROY BRAUNTUCH
Troy Brauntuch cuts up or crops the pictures he has sourced elsewhere. Eerily vague remains of an event are seen against a dark background, his preferred method being to transfer the cropped images to black cotton fabric using white Conté crayons. The works often look like a combination of painting and photography and at first sight one might assume they are dark-toned monochrome pictures. Gradually, on closer study, one can distinguish specific motifs as they emerge out of a spectrum of grays in the almost velvety black picture ground: a woman wearing niqab, her face seen underneath a transparent map of Florida; a window display of variously arranged gloves; soldiers in close combat; or an elegant, black-and-white dotted coat.
Except for works that reference violence or stills from thrillers, most of Brauntuch’s pictures - especially the photographs - are unspectacular and slow to reveal their surprisingly mysterious and at times understated subject matter. Having chosen to devote himself to the visual arts, the artist simultaneously draws attention to what a picture does not contain, thereby destabilizing the relationship between pictures and their alleged meaning. He accentuates that relationship by switching back and forth between personal photographs and found images that have been made public.
Exhibition runs through to April 21th, 2012
Mai 36 Galerie
Rämistrasse 37
CH-8001 Zurich
Switzerland
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W. EUGENE SMITH - THE JAZZ LOFT PROJECT
In 1957, W. Eugene Smith, a former photographer at Life magazine, moved out of the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York and moved into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York City’s wholesale flower district. 821 Sixth Avenue was a late-night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazz—Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among them—and countless fascinating, underground characters.
Between 1957 and 1965 W. Eugene Smith made approximately 40,000 exposures both inside the loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue, of the nocturnal jazz scene, and of the street below as seen through his fourth-floor window. He also wired the building like a surreptitious recording studio and made 1,740 reels (4,000 hours) of stereo and mono audiotapes, capturing more than three hundred musicians.
Exhibition runs from May 19th to October 7th, 2012
MOPA
1649 El Prado
San Diego
CA
92101
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THOMAS RUFF - NUDES
In 2003 Ruff produced the first nudes, culling images from Internet pornography, then digitally processing them, enlarging them as far as possible, so as to cloud the crude clarity of the original images. For this exhibition, Ruff has created a series of unique monumental works, enlarged to an imposing scale while, conversely, the rawness and carnality of the original images is blurred to an innuendo. Images such as nudes dr02 (2011) become painterly illustrations of vague desire in which anonymous women sport and pose, their erotic power modified by a muted palette and hazed resolution, while in nudes ar09 (2011) the fetishistic power of the female subject is all but reduced to lush formal qualities - a cascade of thick blonde hair, the curve of pink thighs, the glossy black of a stiletto heel.
Exhibition runs through to April 21th, 2012
Gagosian Gallery
17-19 Davies Street
London
W1K 3DE
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EVE ARNOLD - ALL ABOUT EVE
Conceived as a retrospective, the exhibition highlights the true diversity of Arnold’s oeuvre. Photographs of actress Marilyn Monroe, many from the set of ‘The Misfits’ (her final film before her death), will sit beside portraits of other Hollywood and West End legends such as Marlene Dietrich, Somerset Maugham, Arthur Miller, Joan Crawford, Peter O’Toole, Isabella Rossellini and Orson Welles.
Arnold captured many political figures throughout her career for a number of high-profile editorial clients such as The Sunday Times Magazine and during her lifetime as a Magnum photographer, with a number of colour shots of the Queen and former prime ministers such as Margaret Thatcher, Edward Heath and John Major. This section includes other documentary photographs depicting political events such as Britain at the time of the 1981 riots and extensive coverage of Malcolm X’s Black Muslim movement in the 1960s.
Opposite - Marilyn Monroe, The Misfits, Nevada 1960
Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2012
Art Sensus
7 Howick Place
London
SW1P 1BB
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MAX SNOW - 100 HEADLESS WOMEN
The walls are covered in rows of nude female torsos with obscured faces: a salon of ghostly mug shots. Church statues of saints have been soaked in diluted muriatic acid to dissolve their features. Snow has then carved and chipped away at them to achieve a more featureless, ghostlike form. In this context the faceless portraits almost become a shrine to the unknown masses of a civilization lost or a fable that was never told.
“When you look at a portrait you look at the eyes and the face,” says Snow. “Everyone says that the face and the eyes tell the story and that grief scars your eyes. So I like in this series to rob the viewer of that intimacy and to make it more mysterious and surreal.”
The faces without eyes, in their multitude, become even more haunting. One also recalls the fact that the blind are more advanced in their other senses and that, when blindfolded, one is more sensitive to touch. This idea folds in seamlessly with Max Snow’s body of work which itself exudes an innate sensuality, a dark eroticism and animal instinct in defiance of rational intellect. Snow’s photograph of himself embracing a statue comes to mind. Snow says of this portrait, “it’s strange because it looks more like I’m clinging to it and I’m not sure if it’s embracing me back.” Sometimes we need to dive into fantasy or the corporeal realm to escape the pain of the emotional or the dullness of the mundane. But as Snow points out, even these realms do not always offer us comfort.
Exhibition runs from March 2nd to April 7th, 2012
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
526 W. 26th Street
605
New York
NY
10001
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CONVERSATIONS
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection comprises more than 100 photographs drawn from the renowned Bank of America Collection. The exhibition documents the evolution of photography since the 1850s and presents some of the most notable photographers of the 19th and 20th-centuries. Hand-picked from thousands of photographs, the works are displayed so as to create “conversations” between images by individual artists and across a wide range of themes, including portraits, landscapes, street photography and abstraction.
The exhibition presents works by some of photography’s most celebrated names, from 19th-century innovators Gustave Le Gray, Julia Margaret Cameron and Carleton Watkins, via 20th-century luminaries: Alfred Stieglitz, Harry Callahan, and Irving Penn, to contemporary image makers: William Eggleston, Thomas Ruff and Cindy Sherman. Modern works are juxtaposed with older works, European with American, and staged subjects with documentary images. These conversations create unique visual groupings, including images of visitors responding to art in museums, such as Thomas Struth’s Audience 4 (2004), which shows people gazing upward at Michelangelo’s statue of David at the Academia Gallery in Florence, and Musée du Louvre 4, Paris (1989), where visitors contemplate Théodore Géricault’s famous Raft of the Medusa in a Louvre gallery.
Exhibition runs through to May 20th, 2012
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital
Kilmainham
Dublin 8
Ireland
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LOMO LC-A+ SILVER LAKE LIMITED EDITION
In an ode to German writers Karl May’s The Treasure of Silver Lake, Lomography introduces the LOMO LC-A+ Silver Lake. Epitomizing luxury and classic elegance, this reedition of the classic Russian camera celebrates the heritage behind our favorite compact snapshot camera. Dressed in chrome and adorned in genuine leather, this limited edition LC-A+ comes with Russian-made Minitar 1 lens and is packaged in a special wooden box. Limited edition of 1,000 pieces.
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DASH SNOW
Snow archived roughly 8,000 of his Polaroids but showed small groupings of the originals only three times during his life (most people are familiar with them by way of 147 scanned and enlarged C-print editions). Proving to be his entrée to the art world, it was fabled that Snow used the Polaroids to document experiences he might not otherwise remember due to intoxication. This sensationalism justly grabs hold of Snow’s most lurid subject matter as well as his nostalgic bent. It also fails to acknowledge the strange and reflexive intimacy Snow imparted by both presiding over and participating in the photographs.
The groupings on view here (totalling over 400 original Polaroids) show the breadth of experience the artist compulsively chose to document. From the banal to the extreme, from the melancholy to the ecstatic, each photograph would seem to buttress a facet of the artist’s uncommon experience. That he began shooting these pictures roughly at the time of 9-11 (when Snow was 20 years old) is not immaterial. Images of Snow and his friends writing graffiti, flashing guns, making out and making art all give us a larger picture of the wiliness and abandon that would propel his circle after the attacks.
Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2012
Contemporary Fine Arts
Am Kupfergraben 10
10117 Berlin
Germany
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ROBERT ADAMS, ROBERT BECHTLE AND EWAN GIBBS
Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs, all three artists create deeply personal, yet iconic images of America.
The exhibition will be Ewan Gibbsʼ third at Timothy Taylor Gallery, and the first time the gallery has presented works by Robert Adams and Robert Bechtle. Gibbs will show new pencil drawings of photographs taken over several years on journeys across the USA, while Bechtle will show drawings in charcoal focused on his home city of San Francisco. The Adams works selected for the show include a series of
black and white photographs from the 1970s of the ever developing urbanisation in the Denver, Colorado areas.
Opposite - Robert Adams, Colorado, CA, 1973
Exhibition runs from February 23rd to March 24th, 2012
Timothy Taylor Gallery
15 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EX
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OLIVO BARBIERI - THE DOLOMITES PROJECT
The Dolomites Project is Barbieri' s latest series to examine monumental landscapes from above. As in the Waterfalls Project (2008), and the expansive, on-going site specific series (2003- 2012), the artist is photographing while hovering overhead in a helicopter. In each of these previous projects Barbieri utilized a tilt-shift lens to deftly render spaces of enormous scale to appear as toy-model versions of themselves.
The Dolomites Project, however, utilizes another facet of the artist's skillful exploitation of photographic folds of perception, bestowing on the images a push/pull play of depth versus flatness through selective coloration of the textured facades of the jagged peaks.
Exhibition runs through to March 31st, 2012
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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PATRICK TREFZ - SURFERS' BLOOD
Surfers’ Blood, the latest monograph from award-winning surf photographer and filmmaker Patrick Trefz, is a survey of decades spent photographing the lifestyles and bloodlines of surf culture across the globe. Surfers’ Blood captures all the diverse elements that make surfing so gripping and that helped it maintain its vitality in the popular consciousness for generations.
A beautiful collection of oceanscapes, portraits, and action shots, Trefz captures the most intense, glamorous, and frightening aspects of surfing along with moments of beauty,
stillness, and serenity. The book juxtaposes world champions and unsung local heroes, monster waves and gentle rollers.
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CHEN MAN
Chen Man is one of the most well known female Chinese photographers of the 21st century and leading fashion photographer in China.
Her images play with the juxtaposition of old and new, real and imaginary, ordinary and ideal. She frequently uses modern city landscapes and historical buildings in China as the backdrop for her images and mixes it with street culture, animation, sci-fi and pop references.
Chen Man's images are often heavily manipulated and involve painstaking and complex layers of post-production. The hyper-real aesthetic of her images alludes to a desire for unobtainable perfection.
Chen Man's rise coincides with emergence of a consumer culture in China and the desire for luxury consumer goods. The power and poignancy of her work lies in her ability to understand people's desires and to visualise them through her striking images. A role model for the post-80s generation, her images capture the personalities and attitudes of a new generation of Chinese.
Exhibition runs through to April 7th, 2012
Chinese Arts Centre
Market Buildings
Thomas Street
Manchester
M4 1EU
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MARCO GLAVIANO - SUPERMODELS
Glaviano has photographed more than 500 magazine covers for American Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Elle and other leading titles. He has shot campaigns for L’Oreal, Valentino, Revlon, Roberto Cavalli, Giorgio Armani, and Calvin Klein. He has published ten books, and had nine solo exhibitions around the world.
He has been the leading pioneer of digital photography becoming the first to publish a digital photograph in American Vogue in 1982. His photographs are highly collectable and hung in some of the world’s leading museums and private collections. He also designed and founded Pier 59 in New York, still recognised as the most important and well-known photo studio in the world.
Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2012
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
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BELLA HOWARD - LOVE BUZZ
The title of the show takes its cue from Howard’s favourite Nirvana track, Love Buzz, and perfectly evokes the attitude and youthful spirit that permeates her work.
The photographs feature images of models, it girls, pop stars, bands and friends at house parties, hangouts, festivals and road trips. Akin to a teen bedroom, the main space displays large format limited edition prints of her eclectic subjects. Lana Del Rey, Jack Donoghue and Anna Brewster all feature prominently in the Front Room, taped up and scattered over the walls the striking images are akin to posters, mimicking the same youthful exuberance that the shots display.
Photocopies of fanzines Howard first started making aged 16 cover the back wall of the exhibition. These are superbly complemented by a large heart collage of Polaroid snapshots taken by Howard on her varied adventures.
Exhibition runs through to February 18th, 2012
The Front Room Gallery
St Martin's Lane Hotel
45 St Martin's Lane
London
WC2N 4HX
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GETTY IMAGES - EXPLORING LONDON'S EAST END
The pop-up gallery on The Street will be devoted to Getty Images’ archival collections of the East End and its residents; the cosmopolitan atmosphere and communities and incredible portraits of locals’ resilience during the Blitz in 1940.
Each piece entices the viewer into the picture, allowing them to appreciate the beauty and history of East Londoners going about their daily life. The exceptional photography of subjects in unconventional or candid settings and brilliant use of black and white photography, keep the audience captivated in every aspect of the shot.
Key works on display, which are also available for purchase, include images from the legendary Picture Post magazine; The Pool of London; Whitechapel’s Jews and Cockneys’ Own Party. An exceptional piece includes a 1912 image of barefoot children waiting in Salmon’s Lane for a free meal, which Getty Images’ Hulton Archive printed from the original glass plate, despite it being damaged, to give a fascinating illustration of East London exactly 100 years ago.
Exhibition runs through to March 18th, 2012
Getty Images Gallery
Unit 1119
The Getty Gallery
The Street
Westfield Stratford City
London
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SIGMA DP1 AND DP2 MERRILL CAMERAS
The Sigma DP1 Merrill and DP2 Merrill each boast exclusively-designed, high-performance telecentric fixed lenses.
The DP1 Merrill features a wide, 19mm F2.8 lens, which is the equivalent to a 28mm lens on a 35mm SLR camera. The DP2 Merrill, however, offers a 30mm F2.8 lens, which is the equivalent to a 45mm lens on a 35mm camera. Both cameras are compact and lightweight, and feature Sigma’s own “F” Low Dispersion (FLD) glass, which performs like fluorite glass and significantly improves lens performance, as well as Super Multi Layer Coating to reduce flare and ghosting.
With the 46-megapixel, full-color Foveon X3 Direct Image Sensor, the new DP cameras capture all primary RGB colors at each pixel location with three layers, which results in incredibly detailed images with a three-dimensional feel.”
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EDWARD BURTYNSKY - OIL
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has travelled the world to chronicle the effect of oil on all our lives, and to reveal the rarely seen mechanics of its production and distribution.
This exhibition shows three sections from Burtynsky’s series OIL: Extraction and Refinement, Transportation and Motor Culture and The End of Oil. The works depict landscapes scarred by the extraction of oil, and the cities and suburban sprawl defined by its use. He also eloquently addresses the coming end of oil, as we face its rising cost and dwindling availability.
Burtynsky's colour photographs render his subjects with a transfixing clarity of detail. From aerial views of oil fields and highways ribboning across the landscape, to derelict oil derricks and mammoth oil-tanker shipbreaking operations, we are confronted with the evidence of our dependence on this finite resource.
Exhibition runs from May 19th to July 1st, 2012
The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies St
London
UK W1F 7LW
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ANJA NIEMI: DO NOT DISTURB
Hotel rooms are impersonal and neutral by their very nature, designed to house visitors, not permanent residents. Any one person may not alter their interiors according to subjective taste; invisible staff will always put the room back in its original form when a guest leaves. A hotel room is always a paradox as it says to its guests: Do feel at home, but please don’t. For a limited time, however, one can lock the door, pretend to own the space and feel at home, albeit in a strange, indifferent place. “I merge myself into the interior of rooms,” Niemi has said in regard to some of her earlier works.
In Do Not Disturb, her latest series of photographs, the artist’s relationships with interiors continues to evolve, this time in hotel rooms. To make these photographs, Niemi fled her safe and predictable existence as a Norwegian woman, mother of two, committed life partner and responsible citizen in one of the world’s safest countries, with a suitcase filled only with borrowed garments and her camera. At undisclosed locations she checked herself into carefully selected hotels and rooms, which through their very neutrality and lack of expectation could offer Niemi a refuge from the repetitiveness that is mundane life.
Exhibition runs from March 27th to April 21st, 2012
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
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PENTAX OPTIO VS20
PENTAX borrows a handy feature from DSLR cameras and applies it to this Optio VS20 point and shoot camera. Features a vertical shutter button, which will aid when it comes to taking steadier vertical photos. Other features include a 16MP sensor and a 20x optical zoom. This camera is set to drop in February of this year.
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NORMAN PARKINSON - AN EYE FOR FASHION
A new exhibition of vintage fashion photography by Norman Parkinson, one of Britian's most significant portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th century. The portfolio represents the British fashion designers who laid the foundations for today's fashion industry.
Displaying over 60 rare vintage photographs from the Angela Williams Archive, this unique portfolio evokes a sense of glamour, beauty and timeless elegance.
Original 50s and 60s clothing from the museum's collection will also feature, showcasing high street fashion designs from this period.
Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2012
M Shed
Princes Wharf
Wapping Road
Bristol
BS1 4RN
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MARK POWER - THE SOUND OF TWO SONGS
Made over a period of five years, The Sound of Two Songs offers an extensive and personal photographic survey of Poland.
When Power spent a month in Poland as part of a project instigated by Magnum Photos to document countries joining the European Union that year. Despite having no familial ties to the country, he soon became fascinated by Poland. Over the next five years he made a further twenty visits, often accompanied by Polish photographer Konrad Pustoła who generously shared his knowledge of his native land. Over time Power’s focus shifted from an investigation into the effects of EU membership into a more subjective, poetic and autobiographical response to a country he grew to love.
Alongside a series of portraits of people he met on his travels, the majority of Power’s large format, meticulously detailed colour photographs depict landscapes often featuring surprising or metaphorical elements.
Opposite - Kraków, 2006
Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2012
Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square
Bradford
BD1 1SD
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BERTIEN VAN MANEN - LET'S SIT DOWN BEFORE WE GO
Van Manen’s work is a meditation on human existence, revealing the truth of particular lives. Selected from her travels through Uzbekistan, Siberia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Moscow and Tartarstan since 1990, van Manen’s photographs are characterized by the intimacy she achieves with her subjects, with whom she spent countless hours sitting at their tables, lodging in their homes, immersed in their reality.
Van Manen provides a window into Russian lives following years of struggle under the Communist regime. As critic Ryszard Kapuściński notes in his introduction to van Manen’s 1995 book, A hundred summers, a hundred winters, the artist’s lens penetrates the “most inaccessible of places—the homes of ordinary people—in order to show us how millions of Russians live and sleep, what they eat, what they look like in their everyday life, in their flats, at their tables, in their beds.” In the case of the former Soviet empire, people were conditioned to be fearful and suspicious, long forbidden to exhibit whom they really were to the rest of the world.
Opposite - Beach at Lake Baikal, Siberia, 1993
Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2012
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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GUSMANO CESARETTI
The main gallery will feature work from the early period of Cesaretti’s career (1970s) in which he immersed himself in the East Los Angeles culture. His photographs of this era celebrated a sub-culture that had rarely been captured before. The exhibition will include twenty-four vintage, unique prints that have recently been discovered and will be shown for the first time in Los Angeles.
An Italian immigrant who moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s, Cesaretti quickly became fascinated by East Los Angeles. Inspired by the colors, people and graffiti that populated the East Side, he began to capture the vulnerability and uncensored quality of this area. Always honest when shooting his subjects, Cesaretti presents them as they are: violent, loving, confident, scared, full of life. It is this energy and conflict inherent in those who occupy the edges of society that drives his photographic investigations.
In the Project Space at Roberts & Tilton, Cesaretti visits a turbulent section of Colón, Panama. Approached with the same spirit and tenacity reflected in his previous works, these recent intimate photographs of children in an impoverished community offer a fresh perspective into this part of the world. Cesaretti, an outsider himself, became personally connected with the subjects he was shooting. The intimacy existing in the photographs is a result of the relationships that Cesaretti built with his subjects over time. Never forcing a situation, Cesaretti addresses his subjects with great concern and patience, allowing for an essential level of trust to be established. The resulting openness between Cesaretti and his subjects permeates the work, allowing the viewer access to a world that would otherwise be guarded against outsiders.
Exhibition runs through to February 18th, 2012
Roberts & Tilton
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City
Los Angeles
CA
90232
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RYAN MCGINLEY - YOU & I
Ryan McGinleys first retrospective monograph. For this beautifully realized volume the artist has selected the best photographs from his first decade of work.
McGinley’s newest work signals a departure from the urban youth culture images for which he is best known; he has been working in natural settings outside New York City, creating specific situations for his subjects to lose themselves in the moment. McGinley embraces nature as a site of freedom and captures a sense of buoyancy and release.
Ryan McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of his friends, a group that forms part of New York’s Lower East Side youth culture. He uses photography to break down barriers between public and private spheres of activity. His subjects are willing collaborators: drawn from skateboard, music, and graffiti subcultures, they perform for the camera and expose themselves with a frank self-awareness that is distinctly contemporary. The results form a portrait of a generation that is savvy about visual culture and acutely aware of how identity can be communicated through photography
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JITKA HANZLOVA - HERE
The residual sense of foreignness to the landscape, language and people is at the heart of the series. As Hanzlová explains, “Otherness is a challenge. It keeps you alert and sharpens your senses.” The images reflect this visual acuity, presenting curious landscapes clearly shaped by human intervention yet resplendent in their poetic sensibility. “The feel of a place is very important to my work, especially the light,” says the artist. Hanzlová’s expert treatment of light and attention to detail lend a sense of the transformative in these landscapes, as seen through the eyes of a poet.
Hanzlová has produced several other bodies of work since beginning HERE in 1998, including: Cotton Rose, a series of portraits in Japan, published as a monograph by Steidl; Leonardo, a series of Renaissance inspired portraits; Female, a portrait series of women the artist encountered on the streets of Europe and America; and Forest , a quiet yet powerful exploration of the forest near the Czech village where she grew up. Void of any trace of civilization, the Forest images possess an out-of-time, enchanted quality.
Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2012
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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LAURA BUCKLEY - FATA MORGANA
The title Fata Morgana refers to a highly complex superior mirage where inverted and erect images are stacked one on top of another causing an object on the horizon to be distorted beyond recognition. The name also refers to Morgan le Fay, mythical figure from the Arthurian legends at once a villain, seductress, witch, healer or goddess, her unquestionable power is dictated by her ability to shape-shift throughout the myths and legends in which she appears.
This personification of a natural phenomenon and anthropomorphic sensibility in humanity gently riffs through Buckley’s work. For the past four years the artist has been producing multifaceted installations incorporating components ranging from motorised plywood structures, Perspex sculptures, sound and projected moving image. Her idiosyncratic use of light both within her installations and films is exacerbated by the sleek surfaces she includes which reflect projections onto the viewer, or are the focus and subject matter of the films themselves.
Where previously mechanical movement of objects has made up an important part of her installations, in Fata Morgana both the film and the sculpture are static. This allows the fast paced edit of the film and surface of the sculpture to interact with the body and perception of the entering viewer, including and absorbing them into the kaleidoscopic installation.
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2012
Cell Project Space
258 Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 9DA
Posted by Exit 09/01/2012
PAUL SMITH X LEICA
Paul Smith and Leica collaborate on a new grey mock crocodile leather camera case for Spring 2012. The case comes in a great grey/purple color combination and features an adjustable camera strap. Paul Smith for Leica is embossed on the back of the case.
Posted by Exit 09/01/2012
JAVIER TÉLLEZ - ROTATIONS
Rotations (Prometheus and Zwitter) (2011), a new film installation produced after a year-long DAAD residency in Berlin, focuses on the history of the psychiatric institution and its relation to historical events of the 20th century in the German context. The main protagonists of Téllez ' new films are two sculptures. One is Prometheus (1937) by Arno Breker, a monumental male figure that represents the mythological hero grasping a torch.
The other figure is Weib und Mann oder Adam und Eva, also known as “Zwitter” (1920) by Karl Genzel, a small wooden figure depicting an hermaphrodite that holds a clock in its hand. Rotations (Prometheus and Zwitter) is an installation composed of two 35 mm silent films projections, showing these sculptures rotating at the same speed in different directions. The sculptures' endless rotation is echoed in the installation by the film passing through the projectors in a loop, referring to the cinematic apparatus and its obsolescence as to the theme of repetition and difference in history. The films show the morphological similarities of the sculptures focusing in extreme details that display their materiality, but it is through the very disparity between the figures that meaning is articulated.
Exhibition runs through to February 25th, 2012
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse 21
CH-8005 Zurich
Switzerland
Posted by Exit 09/01/2012
CANON POWERSHOT G1 X
Canon unveiled their all new PowerShot G1 X, a revolutionary new compact camera with a large CMOS sensor, intended to produce DSLR quality images in a much more compact format.
the PowerShot G1 X combines EOS sensor technology with DIGIC 5 processing power, a new precision Canon lens and extensive manual control – creating the finest compact camera Canon has ever produced. Designed to be highly portable, the PowerShot G1 X features a zoom lens which retracts into a discreet, robust metal body, providing photographers with an unimposing camera that delivers high quality images and superior handling.”
Key features of the new camera are:
Large 14.3 MP CMOS, DIGIC 5, HS System
Compact 4x zoom; Intelligent IS
7.5 cm (3.0″) vari-angle LCD; OVF
Full Manual, RAW, DPP
Full HD, HDMI
High-speed Burst HQ
Smart Auto
HDR mode and ND filter
Posted by Exit 02/01/2012
ALEX WEBB - THE SUFFERING OF LIGHT
Recognized as a pioneer of American color photography, since the 1970s, Webb has consistently created photographs characterized by intense color and light. His work, with its richly layered and complex composition, touches on multiple genres, including street photography, photojournalism, and fine art, but as Webb notes, “To me, it all is photography. You have to go out and explore the world with a camera.”
Webb’s ability to distill gesture, color, and contrasting cultural tensions into single, beguiling frames results in evocative images that convey a sense of enigma, irony, and humor. Featuring key works alongside previously unpublished photographs, The Suffering of Light provides the most thorough examination to date of this modern master’s prolific, thirty-year career.
Exhibition runs through to January 19th, 2012
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
4th floor
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 02/01/2012
NIKON D4
The new top of the line full frame camera succeeds the D3S DSLR. Nikon packed the camera with a 16.2 megapixel sensor and an extended ISO to 204,800, as well as a brand new full-frame FX-format sensor. The new camera is the capability of capturing 10 fps stills at full resolution with full auto focus and exposure. To make sure that all that great functionality can actually be used, the camera comes with two memory card slots build in.
Posted by Exit 02/01/2012
CINDY SHERMAN
Bringing together more than 180 photographs, this retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present.
Highlighted in the exhibition are in-depth presentations of her key series, including the groundbreaking series "Untitled Film Stills" (1977–80), the black-and-white pictures that feature the artist in stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, and European art-house films; her ornate history portraits (1989–90), in which the artist poses as aristocrats, clergymen, and milkmaids in the manner of old master paintings; and her larger-than-life society portraits (2008) that address the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status.
The exhibition will explore dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity. Also included are Sherman’s recent photographic murals (2010), which will have their American premiere at MoMA.
Opposite - Cindy Sherman, Untitled #466, 2008
Exhibition runs from February 26th to June 11th, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
Posted by Exit 26/12/2011
DAYANITA SINGH - HOUSE OF LOVE
Dayanita Singh’s latest body of work, entitled “House of Love”, is novelistic in its approach yet curiously elliptical in its multiple subject matters. For the first time in a single series, Ms. Singh has combined black-and-white with color photographs, images shot both in India and around the world, yet none are identified and all are allowed to be free-floating, tethered to one another only by the circumstances of “stories” in which they have been grouped (with individual titles such as “Continuous cities, “ “Theft in a cake shop,” “Departure lounge,” and “Being of darkness,” the nine “stories” ranging in groups as small as six and as large as seventeen pictures). Everything and all to be at the service of the book of the same name, Ms. Singh’s primary medium for her images and the unifying structure in which this diversity becomes succinct.
The subjects of Ms. Singh’s pictures range from bucolic landscapes and congested cityscapes; portraits of friends, acquaintances and strangers (both formally posed and spontaneously captured); arrangements of objects found in homes, museums and offices; the interiors of all types of spaces and the exteriors of all manner of constructions. This multiplicity finds cohesion in proscribed themes which run throughout Ms. Singh’s project: the romance of travel, the mysteries of attraction, and the displaced yearnings of desire. “House of Love” is Ms. Singh’s response to the delirious satisfaction she has found within the works of her favourite authors (Italo Calvino, Amitav Ghosh, Orhan Pamuk, W.G. Sebald, Vikram Seth, among others), telling a story of life and how it is lived in the way she knows how to, through photographs collected into a book.
Opposite - Ambulance 4, 2010
Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2012
Nature Morte
A-1 Neeti Bagh
110 049
New Delhi
India
Posted by Exit 26/12/2011
THE WEDDING (THE WALKER EVANS POLAROID PROJECT)
The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project) ultimately came to include: 83 Walker Evans Polaroids; elements from Bird, a body of work by Roni Horn made between 1998 and 2007; a collotype from Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 Animal Locomotion series; a photograph of c1900 Paris by Eugène Atget; a 19th-century French model of a cooper's shop, with tools to scale; a large, 19th-century English birdhouse; and a selection of early 20th-century American Arts and Craft Movement furniture, including original and custom-replications, designed by Gustav Stickley.
A list of components, however, like a roster of artists, indicates little about the content of any of my shows. My exhibitions are meant to be poetic rather than didactic, amalgamating diverse individual works and objects into a coherent whole. A curatorial composition has its own unity and point of view, like an individual work in any artistic medium. Individual artworks and objects stand in specific relationships to each other, both in terms of their physical placement and their cognitive consonance, dissonance and resonance. Their form and the medium in which each is made, as well as the places in which they are set, provide opportunities for viewers to mine them individually and together for meaning, knowledge and insight.
Opposite - Graveyard Monument, 1973-74
Exhibition runs through to January 14th, 2012
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24 Street
New York
NY
10011
New York
Posted by Exit 26/12/2011
SHARON HARPER
“One Month, Weather Permitting” is a series of photographic images of the night sky over Banff, Alberta in Canada. Utilizing multiple extended-exposure photographic techniques over several consecutive nights, Harper records the movement of the stars and allows the randomness of the marks made by the light trails they leave on film to highlight “chance” as an important aspect of the photographic process itself. What results is imagery that is “technological seeing”, so to speak; views of the night sky visible to the human eye only with the aid of the camera and the film media.
“Twelve Hours From Winter To Spring” is a series of landscape images` taken during a flight from Fairbanks, Alaska to Boston, Massachusetts over a period of twelve hours. Although the images record the change of landscape, light and scenery as shifts of location, one can also perceive the shift to be seasonal, from winter to spring; a trick of perception that separates what we see from how we interpret such information in our minds. Further, the imagery is presented in grid-form as a singular large-scale photograph, pushing discourse that could range from documentary to narrative, when in reality, it is wholly neither, as the aesthetic choices of the artist play an equal part in the final presentation of the images.
“Sun/Moon” is Harper’s latest body of work and also draws attention to the act of seeing as a two-part process; on one part, a physical act of reacting to visual stimulus and on another, a cognitive act of recognition and interpretation. By connecting a digital camera to a telescope and capturing multiple images within seconds, she mimics this act of looking and understanding on a subject that we would not be able to see directly (the sun and the surface of the moon) without the aid of the mediating instruments she has employed. Although distortions and reflections also result from this process, the sequential presentation of the images of the sun and the moon trace the experience of looking and analysis; a metaphor to “seeing” as a cumulative act and yet an elusive one, as it is imperfect and subject to chance.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Galerie Stefan Röpke
St. Apern-Strasse 17-21
Cologne
50667
Germany
Posted by Exit 19/12/2011
LAURA HORELLI - THE TERRACE
In The Terrace, Laura Horelli addresses her childhood experiences in Nairobi, where she lived for four years with her family in a modernist compound in the later 1970s and early 1980s. The work includes video recordings of the compound and its buildings, filmed by the artist during visits to Nairobi in 2010, and also photographs of varying sizes and quality that were taken by her mother and document the everyday life of the family in Nairobi. These various perspectives are accompanied by the artist’s thoughts and ideas in a voice-over. Horelli reflects on the social and physical environment of the gated area and particularly on the relationships between the tenants and the employed staff there.
Horelli continues her conceptual approach, based on addressing reality in a subjective way. Personal stories are used to examine structures in society. The borders between the public and the private become diffuse.
Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2012
Galerie Barbara Weiss
Kohlfurter Strasse 41/43
D - 10999
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 19/12/2011
PAOLO ROVERSI - NUDI
For more than 25 years, the nude series by Paolo Roversi called Nudi is one of the most inspiring and aesthetic nude series in contemporary photography. A plain composition and a gentle use of light make the presented women appear like gracile painted nude studies. So, the viewer’s attention is directed to the shape and the pettiness of the female body. Next to photographs of Kate Moss, Tatjana Patitz and Guinevere van Seenus, the exhibition also includes nudes of models like Laetitia Casta, as well as lately produced male Nudi photographs for the first time.
Paolo Roversi was born in Italy in 1947 but has been living and working in Paris for more than 37 years. His photographs have been published in several monographs and also in plenty magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, Marie Claire, Vogue and the New York Times. The photographic work of Paolo Roversi is affected by the continuous aura of grace and fragility, but also of mystery and aloofness – a result of Roversi’s virtuosic handling of 'painting with light."
Opposite - Jaimee, Paris, 1993
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 19/12/2011
INFINITE BALANCE - ARTISTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Infinite Balance is the first US presentation of artists shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, the world’s top prize for photography and sustainability. The exhibition will showcase noted contemporary photographers from across the globe, including Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Susan Derges, Naoya Hatakeyama, Chris Jordan and Michael Wolf.
The exhibition brings together three years of internationally acclaimed and award-winning photographs, each of which addresses the issues of our changing world and concerns surrounding sustainability. Infinite Balance will display works from the three themes that defined each year of the Prix Pictet; Water, Earth and Growth.
Opposite - David Maisel, Terminal Mirage 5
Exhibition runs through to February 5th, 2012
The Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado
San Diego
CA
92101
Posted by Exit 12/12/2011
SHARON HARPER
The works continue to investigate and experiment with the phenomenon of “seeing” within the framework and with the aid of the photographic medium. She continues to point her lens towards the sky and outwards towards the landscape, presenting the potentials of the photographic medium from both scientific and aesthetic points of view; on one hand, a tool to document and record visual evidence, and on the other, a palette that taps into the sublime to create imagery that evokes dreamlike fantasy.
“One Month, Weather Permitting” is a series of photographic images of the night sky over Banff, Alberta in Canada. Utilizing multiple extended-exposure photographic techniques over several consecutive nights, Harper records the movement of the stars and allows the randomness of the marks made by the light trails they leave on film to highlight “chance” as an important aspect of the photographic process itself. What results is imagery that is “technological seeing”, so to speak; views of the night sky visible to the human eye only with the aid of the camera and the film media.
Opposite - Night Sky over Banff, Alberta, September 12 - October 10, 2007
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Galerie Stefan Röpke
St.-Apern-Str. 17-21
50667
Köln
Germany
Posted by Exit 12/12/2011
JOHANNA DIEHL - BORGO
In her photographs the artist deals with the structure of ideal settlements built under Benito Mussolini in the backcountry of Sicily between 1926 and 1943 which articulate an attempt of creating social order. As already in her previous series 'Displace' Johanna Diehl focuses on the memory of places, the media awareness of architecture and its connection to ideology.
Those programmatically designed villages, so-called "Borghi", were intended to colonize and develop the rural Sicily and served as centres for the agrarian communities. The borghi generally consist of buildings with similar types: a central piazza, a church, governmental headquarters, school and other facilities representing the structure and the claim for power of the Fascist Party. Nowadays most of the borghi may be found abandoned within a landscape as unfulfilled Utopias, as places without memory filled with time.
By choosing the singular 'Borgo' as title for the show Johanna Diehl emphasizes that the focal point of this cycle lies not in the enumeration of particular phenomena but in the concept of those places.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
D-60314
Frankfurt
Germany
Posted by Exit 12/12/2011
TIM FLACH - MORE THAN HUMAN
The new works reflect Tim’s current preoccupation with the contemporary relationship between humans and non-human animals, focussing on how we engage with them within the contexts of history, culture, politics and science. This will all come together in the new book, More than Human, due for publication in October 2012.
Through Tim’s unique vision and ability to challenge the viewer, he has created a series of images which encompass not only his personal beliefs, but the concepts common in modern and historical religious and cultural symbolism, the human obsession with ‘cuteness’, cross-breeding, the blurred line between human and animal genetic modification, conservation, morphology and plasticity.
Opposite - Monkey Eyes, 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Osborne Samuel Gallery
23a Bruton Street
London
W1J 6QG
Posted by Exit 05/12/2011
KEITH PATTISON - NO REDEMPTION
The Strike of 1984–85 shook the foundations of British society, tearing apart traditional mining communities. In August 1984 Keith Pattison was commissioned to photograph the strike at Easington Colliery for one month. He remained there until it ended in March 1985, photographing from behind the lines a community rallying together against implacable opposition. Pattison frames a narrative sequence of images from the optimism of August through the deepening pessimism of winter, to the final vote to return to work.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
University Gallery
Northumbria University
Sandyford Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
Posted by Exit 05/12/2011
BORIS SAVELEV - COLOUR CONSTRUCTIONS
Born in Chernovitz in 1947 Boris Savelev moved to Moscowin 1966, a rocket engineer through his working life, Savelev found photography later on and has committed himself to this exciting chapter in photography’s short history wholeheartedly.
Regarded by many now as one of Russia’s most important living photographers, Savelev is an artist at the peak of his career. Working with Factum in Madrid, Savelev has again used this extraordinary and proprietary printing process that allows him to fully realise his photographic vision. This new show is composed solely of colour works. Adam Lowe and Rafa Rachewsky at Factum Arte in Madrid, using their own custom-made flatbed multi-layer pigment printer make the images onto gesso coated aluminum panels, allowing for an extraordinary degree of control within what is a mechanical medium. Each image is finished by hand and then waxed which leaves the surface with a rich and penetrating range of tones and hues. There is absolutely nothing else like this printing process in the world and its permanence is proven.
Opposite - Lopatiuk, Chernowitz, 1996
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
Posted by Exit 05/12/2011
JULIAN WASSER - LOS ANGELES
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the 1950s as a teenager shooting crime scenes in Washington D.C. which he sold to The Washington Post. As a copy boy at Associated Press, he met Weegee and rode around with the legendary and unflinching press photographer. After university and military service, he settled in Hollywood and worked for many years as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE and PEOPLE.
The exhibit at Craig Krull Gallery entitled Los Angeles will include night scenes of the Sunset Strip in the 60s, images of key LA figures such as Joan Didion, Ed Ruscha and Jack Nicholson, as well as historic photos of the Watts Riots and Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel.
Opposite - Sea Witch nightclub, Sunset Strip, 1966
Exhibition runs from December 3rd, 2011 - January 14th, 2012
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3 Santa Monica
California
90404
Posted by Exit 28/11/2011
JEAN-BAPTISTE HUYNH - MONOCHROME
The photographs of the series Monochrome, created by Jean-Baptise Huynh in 2010/11, are characterized by the strict and uncompromising reduction to the colour black. A spare but elaborate lighting supports this feature, so that the black objects and portraits appear in their deepest shades. The dominant black impressively embraces the colour meaning of sublime elegance and mysteriousness, as well as the complaining subtlety and elusiveness, which imposingly unfold in the photographs – a delightful interaction, encouraged by the compositional clearness, so that the recipient can experience the creation and its distinctiveness of the colour black.
Jean-Baptise Huynh was born in France, as a son of a French mother and a Vietnamese father in 1966. So far, nine publications of his extensive photographic work of landscapes, portraits, nudes and still life have been released, all in sophisticated and high-quality design.
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 28/11/2011
HOLGA IPHONE LENS FILTER KIT
Holga have now decided to cast a little of the photography magic on the iPhone world with this awesome special effect lens kit. Simple to install this kit slips onto an iPhone 4 or 4S just like a case. But a case with a difference! Once fitted you now have access to 9 different and crazy special effects and filters without any software or app installed. Cunningly designed like an old school telephone just dial in your preferred special effect and behold the Holga craziness that follows! This Holga Kit is available in a choice of Red, Blue, White, Black or Silver.
Posted by Exit 28/11/2011
WOLFGANG BURAT: NO TEARS. PHOTOS 1980 - 1990
In 1980 Burat was a co-founder of the renowned legendary music magazine SPEX, and over the following decade (1980-90), he photographed musicians, bands, artists, concerts, backstage situations and fans for the magazine. NO TEARS presents a selection of unique vintage prints. It comprises intimate portraits of musicians such as Freddy Mercury, Martyn Ware/Heaven 17, David Byrne/Talking Heads, Nikki Sudden, Afrika Bambaataa, Paul Weller, Robert Smith/The Cure, Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Thomas/Pere Ubu, Kraftwerk or Archie Shepp.
Burat's photographic gaze set the visual impact of this important magazine, and his oeuvre depicts a scene that is of utmost importance for many contemporary (visual) artists, for social and music history, pop theory and art history.
Opposite - Linton Kwesi Johnson, 1990
Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2011
Tanja Pol Galerie
Ludwigstrasse 7
80539
Munich
Posted by Exit 21/11/2011
MASSIMO VITALI: NEW WORK
Vitali has become one of the most celebrated contemporary photographers worldwide, renowned for his large colour prints depicting the crowded beaches and shorelines of the Mediterranean Sea. However, this new series focuses on the natural – rocks, cliffs, waterfalls, caves and quarries. Holidaymakers have been reduced to mere dots, hovering uncomfortably on the shore, or taking shelter in the shadow of monumental natural landmarks. Seen from such a distance, these crowds mimic colonies of mammals – huddles of seals or penguins - washed up on the rocks. The power of nature comes to the fore – in one image people are literally replaced by crashing waves as the tide moves in. Everything is now in flux and the old certainties have been washed away. Our frailty in the face of such power is thrown into focus and we are forced to confront our mortality and our inability to resist the forces of nature.
Vitali started his series of large format photographs at a specific moment in Italian history: 1994, the year in which Berlusconi came to power. He has said of this moment, “I wanted to look into the faces of the people that voted for Berlusconi and see if I could understand why. My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations, but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.” For Vitali, the beach was a place where the mundane and everyday merges with natural beauty, and where he could confront Italians in a place of vulnerability.
Opposite - Sarakiniko, Greece, 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Brancolini Grimaldi
43 - 44 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4JJ
Posted by Exit 21/11/2011
SHARON CORE: 1606-1907
Exploring the subject of floral still-life painting. Similar to the artist’s earlier work, the seriesexamines the relationship of representational painting to the medium of photography. But rather than focusing on a specific artist or time period, as in the previous Thiebaud and Early American works, the new series references a pictorial convention within painting as a whole. The artist’s sources range from the style of early Flemishpainters, such as Bosschaert and Jan Brueghel, to the Modernists Odilon Redon and Fantin-Latour.
The work engages time in both a sense of history and temporality. Flowers are the most temporal of objects: fragile, changeable, and short-lived, a flower’s bloom opens, bends, fades and falls according to degrees of light, temperature, water, and weather. It assumes its character from its atmosphere. As a subject for art, however, flowers have been portrayed for centuries by artists of all stripes and have an established permanence in the lexicon of art history.
It is between these polarities of transience and permanence that the current work is situated. With an eye towards the flower in its natural state and as well as the styles of representation that attempt to order, organize, celebrate, and lament a fleeting symbol of beauty throughout history, Core hasthoroughly explored the nature of the painted bouquet.
Opposite - 1665, 2011
Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2011
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 21/11/2011
MITCH EPSTEIN: AMERICAN POWER
American Power (2003-9) examines how energy is produced and used in the American landscape, questioning the power of nature, government and corporations. Epstein was awarded the prestigious Prix Pictet photographic award in March 2011 for this body of work, which offers a radical reflection on “the American Dream gone awry”.
The project began in 2003 when Epstein photographed a small town in Ohio after compulsory land purchase by the American Electric Power company. He went on to document 25 US States over a period of six years, producing a prolific body of work that depicts the effects of mass consumption.
Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2011
Open Eye Gallery
19 Mann Island
Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 1BP
Posted by Exit 14/11/2011
AFTER THE THAW
After The Thaw presents a unique and stimulating insight into the lives of people living in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia and Tajikistan. When these countries gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the attention of the world briefly focused upon this cluster of new nations. The prospect of democracy seemed to offer a genuine opportunity for a future of peace and prosperity. Two decades on, away from the media spotlight, millions of people continue to struggle to build a livelihood in a post-communist world.
After The Thaw offers a stark, moving and contemporary portrayal of some of the remarkable individuals and communities that populate the region today. The exhibition reveals an astonishing richness and variety of cultures, and Oxfam is proud to be able to assist in bringing attention to these inspiring people. Oxfam runs programmes in all of the countries featured, and continues to work to help support people and fight poverty throughout the region.
Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2011
The Strand Gallery
32 John Adam Street
London
WC2N 6BP
Posted by Exit 14/11/2011
POLAROID Z340 INSTANT DIGITAL CAMERA
The Polaroid Z340 pays homage to its analog predecessors, yet contains an advanced, easy-to-use digital feature set. Designed for portability, the Z340 combines a 14.0 megapixel digital camera with a ZINK-enabled printer using the ink-free Zero Ink Printing Technology from ZINK Imaging to deliver a 3×4” print – the same size as the classic Polaroid photos that captured millions of special memories over the past 63 years. The Polaroid Z340 camera gives you even more options for instant printing: choose the iconic Polaroid Classic Border Logo or full bleed and contemporary 3×4” photos
Posted by Exit 14/11/2011
NORMAN MAILER, BERT STERN: MARILYN MONROE
"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera." - Norman Mailer
Intimate photographs by the great Bert Stern taken over 3 days at the Bel-Air for Vogue. 6 weeks after they were shot, Marilyn was dead. The accompanying text by the equally legendary Norman Mailer. This edition of 125 numbered copies comes with a pigment print signed by Stern.
Posted by Exit 07/11/2011
PANASONIC LUMIX 3D1
The digital camera employs two newly-developed lens units with folded optics design in a compact body and can capture crisp and clear 3D and 2D photos and videos. The LUMIX 3D1, with a twin-lens design, features 25mm ultra-wide angle lenses with 4x optical zoom to record high resolution 8-megapixel 3D photo and 1920×1080 60i high quality 3D HD video using side-by-side method. The LUMIX 3D1’s optics give users a wider range of composition possibilities with approximately 169% larger viewing space compared to that of 35mm cameras.
Posted by Exit 07/11/2011
RED SCARLET-X
With the innate ability to capture 5K REDCODE RAW stills and 4K motion, resolution sustains itself as a dominant gene in the RED family. Scarlet-X functions as a flexible device, utilizing HDRx and interchangeable lens mounts to provide you with options in a world that’s always changing. 5K burst modes snap up to 12 fps with 4K reaching up to 30 fps. All of the finest qualities of cinema and photography have now aligned, letting you take advantage of the best of both worlds with Scarlet-X.
Posted by Exit 07/11/2011
NICKY WIRE - DEATH OF THE POLAROID
For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the band in their various stages from Generation Terrorists through Holy Bible and right up to last year’s remarkable album, Postcards from a Young Man. Edited down from over 1,000 of Wire’s personal polaroids and with accompanying text by the man himself, Death of The Polaroid promises to be a rich, visual biography of one of the most iconoclastic British bands of the past two decades.
Death of The Polaroid: A Manics Family Album is the first of two books by Nicky Wire and will be published by Faber and Faber in November 2011.
Posted by Exit 31/10/2011
DIANE ARBUS
In this first major retrospective in France, Jeu de Paume presents a selection of two hundred photographs that affords an opportunity to explore the origins, scope, and aspirations of a wholly original force in photography. It includes all of the artist’s iconic photographs as well as many that have never been publicly exhibited. Even the earliest examples of her work demonstrate Arbus’s distinctive sensibility through the expression on a face, someone’s posture, the character of the light, and the personal implications of objects in a room or landscape. These elements, animated by the singular relationship between the photographer and her subject, conspire to implicate the viewer with the force of a personal encounter.
Exhibition runs through to February 5th, 2012
Jeu de Paume
1, place de la Concorde
75008
Paris
Posted by Exit 31/10/2011
GILLIAN WEARING
Turner Prize-winning British artist Gillian Wearing’s photographs and films explore the public and private lives of ordinary people. Fascinated by how people present themselves in front of the camera in fly-on-the-wall documentaries and reality TV, she explores ideas of personal identity through often masking her subjects and using theatre’s staging techniques.
This major exhibition surveys Wearing’s work from Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (1992–3) to her first feature length film, Self Made (2011).
Opposite - Self Portrait at 17 Years Old, 2003
Exhibition runs through to June 17th, 2012
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
Posted by Exit 31/10/2011
JERUSALEM
Through the eyes of three analytical photographers, John Davies, Charles Jones and Colin Jones, this exhibition documents British life in the twentieth century. The pictures seem to capture the simplicity of a by gone era; however, in doing so they also challenge the changes taking place today,forcing us to interrogate our individual responsibilities towards the country we live in.
The recession of recent years has hit Britain hard; with the riots of this summer being just one example of our social cohesion wearing away. In this increasingly uncertain world, in which the individual is so often governed by forces out of the remit of his or her control we are reminded of life’s basic essentials: food on the table, a roof over our heads and a job that provides an income to support oneself or a family.
Once again, a new world order, a New Jerusalem, has been promised by politicians and economists. But the journey will be a long one. Globalization forces a need for shared responsibility, and yet the rate of change within both the microcosm of individual countries and the larger global community leaves little time for reflection.
Opposite - Unemployment, Liverpool Docks, Colin Jones
Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2012
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
Posted by Exit 24/10/2011
JOHN CHIARA
John Chiara photographs cityscapes in a process that is part photography, part event and part sculpture, an undertaking in apparatus and patience. Many times this process involves composing pictures from the inside of a large hand-built camera, that is mounted on a flatbed trailer, and produces large scale, one of a kind, positive exposures.
John Chiara received a B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Utah and an M.F.A. in Photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004, and was recently an artist in residence at Crown Point Press (2006). The artist has been reviewed and/or featured in countless publications including Artforum, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, BlackBook Magazine, the Village Voice, Time Out Chicago and Blind Spot magazine.
Opposite - 15th at Noriege, 2009
Exhibition runs from to November 17th to January 7th, 2012
Von Lintel Gallery
520 West 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
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GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE : BLOOD - SEX - MAGIC
New exhibition by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who was born in Manchester in 1950 and now lives and works in New York. In the 1970s, a British MP described Genesis P-Orridge and his band Throbbing Gristle as “wreckers of Western civilization.” What was intended as an insult became an artistic principle. For 45 years now, Genesis P-Orridge has been at the front of aesthetic extremism. His microcosm includes the atonal noise attacks of Industrial Music granddaddy Throbbing Gristle, the post-psychedelic sound garlands of Psychic TV and performance activities, whose pleasure in breaking taboos is reminiscent of the Vienna Actionism movement.
Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2011
Christine Koenig Galerie
Schleifmuehlgasse 1A
1040 Vienna
Austria
www.christinekoeniggalerie.com
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BRUCE DAVIDSON - SUBWAY
In 1980 Bruce Davidson began photographing the New York subway system, venturing regularly into this intoxicating, sometimes dangerous subterranean world. At first Davidson photographed in black and white, but he soon realised colour was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape. Originally published in 1986, this updated Steidl edition of Subway is printed from new scans of Davidson’s Kodachrome slides and features additional images.
“Go back into the subway and look beyond the graffiti. Lift up your heads and look around, see what Bruce has revealed – the beauty in the subway population, the enormous amount of colour below and above ground, the varieties and pleasures to be seen from the subway. The shrill insistence of the noise in our ears and of the graffiti to our eyes does not end the catalogue of effects the subway has on our senses. Bruce Davidson has reopened and rewritten that catalogue with this magnificent series of photographs. Light, colour, humanity, affection, and hope can be added to our impressions of the New York subway system.” Henry Geldzahler
Posted by Exit 17/10/2011
PAUL GRAHAM - FILMS
Films gather 15 pieces that are a tribute to the physical material of photography: film.
Images show what first appears to be abstract dots, blobs or colour forms, but that are in fact just greatly magnified images of the raw film emulsion. These images are not abstract at all, but extreme close-ups of the film's structure.
Films series is a result of Paul Graham past 30 years of work and reflects a central theme for him during this time: his attention on the photographic nature itself.
Graham is known as one of the first documentary photographers that have better used color in photography. He has been an expert in C-type films. Graham has always printed his own images and at the beginning of his career, printing other's photographes was his first source of income.
Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2011
La Fábrica Librería
C/ Verónica 13
28014
Madrid
Spain
Posted by Exit 17/10/2011
GEORGE TICE - SELDOM SEEN
80 Edward Steichen photographs printed by the renowned photographer George Tice have been brought together for this exhibition. Tice was the last person to print for Steichen in his lifetime. These prints not only remind us of Steichen's genius but also highlight the formidable quality of printing that George Tice has been known for throughout his career.
In conjunction with Steichen's work, the gallery is also pleased to present 12 rarely seen George Tice photographs in our new print room along with his classic signature image, "Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1974."
Opposite - First Street, Dixon, IL, 1984
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2011
Danziger Gallery
527 West 23rd Street
New York
New York
10011
USA
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SHARON LOCKHART - LUNCH BREAK
Sharon Lockhart's complex and careful investigations into the mediums of film and photography probe the limits and intersections of both. For Lunch Break (2008), Lockhart spent a year at a naval shipbuilding plant in Maine, observing and engaging with workers during their daily routines. The photographs and film installation presented in this exhibition contemplate workers' activities during their time off from production, bringing into view everyday situations that typically escape our collective attention.
Lockhart's work is completely unsentimental yet deeply humane, focused on mundane details yet grounded in a contemporary political and economic reality: the decline of the American industrial working class in the context of 21st-century global capitalism.
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2012
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission + Howard Streets)
San Francisco
California
94103
Posted by Exit 10/10/2011
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2011
New Photography 2011: Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Zhang Dali introduces six artists whose varied techniques and backgrounds represent the diversity of photography today.
Moyra Davey makes pictures with film and mails them to friends, resulting in images whose creases, tears, and stamps bear the traces of physical handling so rare in the digital era.
George Georgiou documents Turkey’s struggle to maintain its traditions in the face of popular culture, while Deana Lawson’s intimate portraits of strangers examine the African American figure and experience from a variety of viewpoints.
Doug Rickard takes a road trip through urban America without leaving his house, photographing Google Street View images on his home computer. Viviane Sassen explores faraway locales as well, re-creating her dreams and memories with the dramatic light and shadow of the African landscape. Zhang Dali joins original archival source materials with their altered counterparts that were used as propaganda in Maoist China.
The artists featured in New Photography 2011 showcase the countless ways that photography can be used and made during an exciting time in the development of the medium.
Opposite - #83.016417, Detroit, MI. 2009, Doug Rickard
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
Posted by Exit 10/10/2011
LEICA M9-P SILVER & RED LEATHER LIMITED EDITION
Limited to 30 pieces only. Leica Camera Japan has announced a new limited edition M9-P in silver and red leather. Packaged with a Leica Elmarit M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH lens and red leather trimming, the camera will only be available only through the Futago Tamagawa Leica store in Tokyo.
Posted by Exit 10/10/2011
AVEDON - PARIS
The photographs in this exhibition were selected by Avedon in 1978 for the portfolio Avedon/Paris, on the eve of a retrospective exhibition of his fashion work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They depict celebrated beauties in high fashion, including Marlene Dietrich in Dior, Dorian Leigh in Piguet, and Suzy Parker in Lanvin-Castillo. These photographs exemplify Avedon’s innovative style during his earliest creative peak: his models are full of expression, smiling, laughing, and posed in action in the City of Light. Appearing in Harper's Bazaar at the height of its influence, his photographs were instrumental in changing the popular understanding of fashion. Indeed, their influence still resonates in the fashion magazines of today.
Opposite - Renée, The New Look of Dior, Paris, August 1947
Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
19 place de Longemalle
1204 Geneva
Posted by Exit 03/10/2011
MICHAEL KENNA - VENEZIA
Michael Kenna’s work has often been described as enigmatic, graceful and hauntingly beautiful. The exhibition features 53 black and white images that demonstrate a skilled photographer’s ability to capture on film what we cannot see with our eyes, such as the movement of time and the presence of atmosphere.
Kenna has captured the essence of Venice, its romance, its miraculous existence and its crumbling beauty. Kenna’s long exposures, sometimes lasting several hours during the darkest hours of the night, smooth over the surfaces of the canals, further emphasizing their street-like function in this floating city. With typically meticulous prints, Kenna distills Venice to its iconic, elemental characteristics of water and light.
Opposite - Winged Lion, San Marco, Venice, Italy, 2006
Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2012
Columbia Museum Of Art
1515 Main Street
Columbia
SC 29201
USA
Posted by Exit 03/10/2011
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRETT WESTON
This exhibition celebrates the career of Brett Weston (1911-1993). The son of famed American photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), Brett Weston was a "natural" with the camera. After serving as his father's apprentice, Brett was a teenager when he first received high-level, international recognition as an artist.
Over his long and prolific career, Brett Weston exemplified the modernist aesthetic. He used the medium in a resolutely "purist" manner: his preference was always for sharp lenses and beautifully modulated black-and-white prints. He applied this technical precision to a sustained exploration of the idea of abstraction. In recording the details of everyday things, rocks, plants, trees, water, peeled paint, the human figure. Weston sought to balance fact and form, objective reality and the beauty of abstraction. Through the graphic language of form, Weston aimed to suggest the deeper possibilities, and mysteries, of familiar things.
Exhibition runs from November 23rd 2011 to March 25th, 2012
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City
MO
64111
Posted by Exit 03/10/2011
MOM & DAD - TERRY RICHARDSON
Terry delves deeply and indiscriminately into the world with his camera revealing the all too personal nature of his life... his family life.
Terry’s images don’t desist to shock, be it following his colourful yet frail mother or tracking his father’s life and the decline of his mental health though his last days.... Terry’s camera has no boundaries, no judgement, just the simple truth of the snapshot, an intimate portrait of his family and in turn more or less a self-portrait of Terry Richardson the son.
Created as a double book, each book will be dedicated to one of his parents and feature a number of portraits and candid photos taken throughout their lives.
Published by Morel Books, the book will be limited to 1000 copies.
Posted by Exit 26/09/2011
JULIUS SHULMAN - 80 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
This show will include not only his well-known photographs of works by architects such as Neutra, Koenig, Lautner, Frey, and Eames but also early images from Shulman’s personal files.
Julius Shulman is widely regarded as the most important architectural photographer in history. Over a seventy year career Shulman not only documented the work of many of the great architects of the 20th century, but he elevated the genre of commercial architectural photography to a fine art form. It is illuminating to recognize the simple fact that the work of architects such as Neutra, Koenig, and Lautner are virtually known all over the world through the images and perspective of Julius Shulman. As Neutra astutely observed, “His work will survive me. Film is stronger and good glossy prints are easier to ship than brute concrete, stainless steel, or even ideas.”
Opposite - Spencer Residence, Malibu, CA, 1955
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2011
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California 90404
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NIKON COOLPIX AW100
The Coolpix AW100’s newly designed rugged chassis is built to withstand harsh environments, yet is compact and lightweight enough to pack for a weekend on the trail. Ready to conquer the rocks, the ice and the waves, the AW100 hosts a myriad of Nikon core technologies aimed at providing stunning images and Full HD 1080p movie recording as well as new GPS technologies for outdoor enthusiasts.
Posted by Exit 26/09/2011
JULIO BITTENCOURT - RAMOS
Piscinao de Ramos, or "Ramos Swimming Pool" as it is known in Portuguese, is an artificial salt-water lake located in an area called Ramos, amidst a vast area of favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro. It is a public park consisting of artificial lake and surrounding beach, as well as a few soccer fields and other sports facilities. It was inaugurated in 2001 by the State Government of Rio de Janeiro and Petrobras (Brazil's national oil company), and to much controversy: many of Rio's inhabitants understood it to be a blatantly political act aimed at winning votes from the outskirts of the city. The immediate vicinity of the park is surrounded by 15 different favelas, run by competing factions of drug-trafficking gangs who operate as de facto governments within those communities. Although violence still plagues many of those favelas, the park itself has been mostly free of such problems, at least in and around the lake.
Ramos is crowded, noisy, and polluted, and known for its eccentric characters and an intense display of the beachside enjoyment for which Brazil is famous worldwide. Here, in this photoshop-free paradise, no social hierarchy exists to define what is cool and what is kitsch, it's all blended together by a common joie de vivre. Here what matters is not looking good for the camera, but rather feeling the sun on one's skin, getting drunk on cachaça (Brazilian rum), and splashing the time away.
Opposite - Ramos 14, 2008
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 19/09/2011
JORN VANHOFEN
Only a few individuals appear in the quiet pictures by photographer Jörn Vanhöfen, or so it seems, at first glance. For behind the aesthetic charm of his visual compositions lies the ambiguity of their aesthetic, as well as the omnipresence of people in the age of globalization.
His landscapes are places man has affected, and then carelessly abandoned, forgotten, but they also depict places of transformation, such as the wildfires in Portugal, droughts, or marble mining in Carrera. With his leftovers, man has created landscapes that ravage, pollute, and supplant: mountains of junk, paper, and old tires; industrial ruins and deserted terrain in mega-metropolises. Vanhöfen creates unique, poetic photographs, which disturb us and question our experience of reality, because they avoid definition. And so his photographs shock us, while confronting “the modern, sentimental feeling about nature,” of which philosopher Georg Lukás has already said that it is “only the projection of experience and the self-made environment is no longer a home for mankind, but a prison.” Nature is no longer comforting, but the “historical, philosophical objectification of the alienation between mankind and his constructs.”
Opposite - Michigan Central # 9865, 2009
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2011
Kuckei + Kuckei
Linienstr. 158
D - 10115
Berlin
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HELLEN VAN MEENE
The intimately scaled female portraits in the exhibition were all shot in Russia and in the artistʼs hometown of Heiloo, The Netherlands. Characteristic of van Meeneʼs style, the portraits reflect an introspective mood, unveiling a moment of acute psychological poignancy. In Untitled, St. Petersburg (above), van Meene has returned to a model she previously photographed, whom the artist met in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2007. Formerly a girl in the midst of awkward adolescence, she appears now both physically and psychologically exposed as a nude young woman, bright red lipstick and black wig her only staged adornment. Directly engaging the viewer, the modelʼs coolly blank expression and brilliant blue eyes offer an intriguing glimpse into her psyche.
Van Meene has elsewhere sought to expand her study of photographic portraiture by turning to dogs as subjects. As with her earliest portraits of teenagers, the artist has created an outdoor studio with a simple background in order to focus on the character of each dog and to highlight their idiosyncrasies. Using a navy or crimson backdrop and an antique Persian carpet, van Meene imbues the dogs with a measure of rank and respect, while drawing out of them the same psychological potential as her human portraits.
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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ROLAND FISCHER - NEW WORK
This exhibition features Fischer’s newest large-scale photographs of modern building facades from locales around the world including Munich, Melbourne and Mexico City.
Born in 1958, Roland Fischer is a key figure in contemporary German photography. Photo Technik International named him one of Germany’s top ten photographers alongside Demand, Gursky, Ruff and Struth. His work has been the subject of many national and international exhibitions including a 2003 retrospective at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and more recently a 2011 retrospective at the Museo DA2 in Salamanca, Spain. Roland Fischer’s work is in numerous public collections including the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich; Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris (FNAC); Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC); Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; and the Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza, Salzburg. The artist lives and works in Munich and Beijing.
Opposite - Museum Munich, 2010
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2011
Von Lintel Gallery
520 W. 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
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MADELEINE DE SINETY - PHOTOGRAPHS
During the past 40 years, photographer Madeleine de Sinéty has worked on several continents, quietly documenting the everyday lives and public events of those who reside in obscure rural corners of the world. This selection of 71 black-and-white and color images will be the first to explore the breadth of de Sinéty’s photographic essays, from her multi-year exploration of traditional French farm families in a small region of Brittany, to village life in Uganda, and finally to the work of a single logger in northern Maine who still uses draft horses to pull this precious natural resource from the woods.
On the lighter side of life in Maine, de Sinéty has also documented the famed photographer and conceptual artist William Wegman, at work in Rangeley making large Polaroid portraits of his dogs. De Sinéty has been a resident of Rangeley, Maine for the past 30 years. This exhibition is the fourth in a series of exhibitions called Circa that explores compelling aspects of contemporary art in the state of Maine and beyond.
Exhibition runs from September 24th to December 18th, 2011
Portland Museum of Art
Seven Congress Square
Portland
Maine
04101
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DAVID LEVINTHAL: ATTACK OF THE BRICKS: STAR WARS
Familiar Star Wars characters are the subjects of Levinthal’s most recent series. However, these epic visages are composed of Legos, as Levinthal has in his signature fashion transformed these miniature action figures into powerful action heroes. These photos mimic the cinematic style of the Lucas films, transforming tiny bricks into legendary, larger-than-life Sci Fi stars.
Contrast is central to this series, as the figures are placed in front of monochromatic black backgrounds. The lighting is sharp, resulting in even more intimidating intergalactic machines, weapons, and their famed operators. The black and white walls of the exhibition’s installation further emphasize this contrast. Levinthal's standard use of a narrow depth of field, soft focus, and the photographic trope of enlargement seen in his close-up shots bring a sense of life to the objects in the foreground. However, he does not attempt to completely remove all traces of the Lego aesthetic, allowing his viewers to see what is at play in his creation and representation of “outer space.” The photos showcase the humanized drama such toys have to offer to the imaginative.
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
Gering & López Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue
Between 56th and 57th Streets
New York
NY 10019
Posted by Exit 12/09/2011
ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF - OVERHAUL
The exhibition consists of photographic documents of houses and places left behind. Abandoned by the people who once inhabited them, urban explorers and graffiti artists are now the only ones who enter these buildings through closed doors and windows. In spite of the lack of legitimate activity in these places, the photographs provide a narrative of man’s symbiosis with the buildings she erects. These are temporary abodes which like train stations accompany our journey through life. In this context the title OVERHAUL becomes both a statement and a question. Is our world in urgent need of renovation or is an improvement already in progress?
The documentary imagery has been von Hausswolff’s principal characteristic but her photographs have until now always been carefully staged with a clear conceptual approach. Her new body of work is both clearly rooted in her early fascination for documentary photography inspired by photographers like Anders Petersen and Christer Strömholm but they are also leaving the last decades of staged imagery behind. Still though, many elements in von Hausswolff’s new works refer to her early works.
Opposite - Untitled (Kingdom of Heaven), 2011
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
Stockholm
Sweden
Posted by Exit 05/09/2011
LAUREL NAKADATE
In these works, ritualized exorcisms are performed by Nakadate and her cast of amateur actors. Locations shift from dingy, claustrophobic motel rooms to the majestic open spaces of the American West. There are ecstatic dances, woodland walks, train travels, and reluctant stripteases. Unwanted feelings and bad memories are cast away.
The show also includes a variety of photographs: the FEVER DREAMS series, large images that Nakadate shot while making her videos and the LUCKY TIGER series, small snapshots in which she appears in suggestive poses inspired by 1950s-style cheesecake and camera-club photos. These snapshots were completed during a performance in which the artist and anonymous middle-aged men, enlisted via Craigslist.com, covered their hands with fingerprinting ink and touched the photographs together. Sitting in a circle, on the floor of one man’s living room, they passed the snapshots around, like trading cards.
Opposite - Exorcism in January, 2009
Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2011
Galerie Anita Beckers
Frankenallee 74
60327
Frankfurt
Germany
Posted by Exit 05/09/2011
LUIGI GHIRRI - PROJECT PRINTS
Luigi Ghirri Project Prints will be both a journey through Ghirri’s work and through Italy. During the 1980s the concept of landscape became increasingly important for Ghirri. He sought to create a new iconography of the Italian landscape, one that could incorporate both tradition and modernity. In the important series Paesaggio Italiano, many images from which are included in this exhibition, Ghirri looked to evoke a particular sense of place. He wrote, “I would like this work on the Italian landscape to seem more about the perception of a place than its cataloguing or description.”
In the early 1980s Ghirri started to use a medium format camera producing larger negatives, clearly not for the sake of technique itself, but as if to “get inside” the subject more intensely. The centrality of thought and the sense of the project continued to be the necessary conditions for his work during those years, to such an extent that these negatives actually turned out to be another project tool he could resort to. Thanks to these matrices Ghirri was able to produce excellent contact prints, small photographs that he could cut out, file and line up in order to see each image, plan his series, organize his own view, even leaving them loose and then bringing them together again in endless combinations. These small photographs that enabled Luigi Ghirri to organize his own view from the early 1980s until 1992 were the Project Prints.
Opposite - Bari,1982
Exhibition runs September 14th to October 29th, 2011
Mummery + Schnelle
83 Great Titchfield Street
London
W1W 6RH
Posted by Exit 05/09/2011
SANTU MOFOKENG - CHASING SHADOWS
The exhibition and the accompanying book bring together a unique selection of the photographic essays made by Santu Mofokeng over the last thirty years.
Well-known from his projects Black Photo Album/Look at me: 1890-1900s, Township Billboards: Beauty, sex and cell phones, Trauma Landscapes and Chasing Shadows, the South African artist took the opportunity of the invitation for this show and the production of his first comprehensive monograph, to delve deep into his artistic archive.
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays, presents a selection of more than 200 images (photographs and a slideshow), texts and documents. The photographic essays he composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes, including his most current project Radiant Landscapes, commissioned specially for this retrospective.
Opposite - Winter In Tembisa, 1989
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
Jeu de Paume
1 place de la Concorde
75008
Paris
Posted by Exit 29/08/2011
BORDERS - A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
In this exhibit Noah Kalina, Emily Shur, and Noe Montes all deal with the ideas of borders in the photography.
Noah Kalina deals with the border between still and video, performance art and photography. He uses the traditional border of a still photo with the camera on a tripod and incorporates a story with movement inside that frame. Each video is 1 shot and no editing; a friend lying on a couch as another friends rides around her in circles; Noah doing pushups in his new studio; a young couple holding hands, knee deep in the ocean staring straight at the camera, still for 1 minute.
Emily Shur is showing pieces from her “Nature Calls” series, which are photos of cellphone tower trees in their environment. These scenes blur the line between nature, business, the need for communication, and the need to feel as if we are surrounded by nature in the built environment.
Noe Montes photographed objects around his parents home in Yuma Arizona and scenes in El Paso Texas while visiting these areas which he grew up in and around. These objects represent the border between the hopes and dreams of a new object and the reality of it being discarded or sat on a shelf unnoticed for years. Seemingly mundane, an old boom box on a couch, a broken touchtone telephone, and a statue of a horse head on a shelf, these are the same things he returns to each time he visits, which bring back the memories of home and family for better or for worse before he moved away.
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
THIS Los Angeles.com
5906 N. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles
CA
90042.
Posted by Exit 29/08/2011
ANGELS RIBE - IN THE LABYRINTH
This exhibition by Àngels Ribé covers a period of her production from the late 1960s to the mid-eighties.
It is centred on relatively unknown works that are nevertheless significant for the artist's body of work as a whole and for the development of contemporary art in our country. At the end of the sixties, a new aesthetic model appeared that had a fundamental influence on the creation of new ways of conceiving the artistic practice. The associative and symbolic functions of art are renegotiated: the artwork ceases to be an autonomous entity, as was the norm in the modernist tradition, and its meaning becomes dependent on an interchange with the spectator. In this way, the ambiguity and the multiplicity of references and readings that are an intrinsic part of the work of art are revealed.
Opposite - Invisible Geometry 2, 1973
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
MACBA
Plaça dels Angels, 1
08001
Barcelona
Posted by Exit 29/08/2011
ALAN ABOUD - ABOVE ALL ELSE
This summer exhibit at Paul Smith Globe, displays a series of photographs taken by Aboud from 2002-2011 on board flights travelling to cities including New York, Beirut, Nice, Milan and Tokyo.
From his seat Aboud captures a moment of open calmness and clarity in the airborne images, which is somewhat at odds with the drone and clatter of the closed atmosphere you would expect within the cabin. The variations of the content and composition; the sky, a presence of sun or cloud, a flash of engine or wing, strengthens the power of the repeated image with a subject matter most apt for the location of this project.
Alan Aboud was born in Dublin in 1966. He graduated from Saint Martin’s School of Art in 1989 and started his own creative agency shortly afterward; Paul Smith was one of his first clients.
Based in London, he has worked extensively in Europe, Japan and the USA, producing award-winning advertising, graphic & product design, commercials and motion imagery for a variety of clients in the fashion, beauty and music industries.
Paul Smith Globe at Heathrow's Terminal 5 reflects Paul’s eclectic taste and houses a collection of items he has gathered on his travels around the world alongside all the Paul Smith collections. A unique art wall is in place where people can view antique art, modern prints designed by illustrators and photography, some taken by Paul himself.
Exhibition runs through to September 20th, 2011
Paul Smith Globe
Departure Lounge
Terminal 5
Heathrow Airport
London
Posted by Exit 22/08/2011
JAMES CASEBERE: CREDIT, FAITH, TRUST
Working at the forefront of constructed photography since the late seventies, Casebere is associated with The Pictures Generation, a group of artists who combined a Pop obsession with media culture with the critical framework of Conceptual Art to redefine photography as a Postmodern medium in the 70s and 80s. Based upon his understanding of architectural, anthropological, art historical and cinematic sources, Casebere’s detailed photographs address contemporary and historical social concerns. His work challenges the boundaries between reality and imagination, whether dealing with alienation in sixties America; addressing slavery and colonialism through black and white visions of cotton mills and covered wagons peppered with native American arrows; or questioning incarceration and the significance of state buildings.
In the Landscape with Houses series, the artist expresses a fascination with the vernacular notion of home. The images are carefully constructed compositions based on a recreation of the suburban area of Dutchess County in Upstate New York as a model in the artist’s studio. As one might reconstruct an experience of landscape from memory, the model houses were created one by one and only later placed on a set, reassembled in different configurations. Colours, architectural features and details, and the relative scale of parts were revisited several times, resulting in a pastiche of the ideal suburban neighbourhood.
Exhibition runs from September 7th to October 1st, 2011
Lisson Gallery
52-54 Bell Street
London
NW1 5DA
Posted by Exit 22/08/2011
CHRIS LEVINE: SELECTED WORKS
On show will be a selection of works from Levine's career including the extraordinary installation Light is Love in the window of the gallery, works from his Grace Jones series, abstract lightform giclees, holograms, plus a new lightbox of Lightness of Being of the Queen.
All of Levine's work is in the pursuit of sensory experience through image and form. All objects and imagery are interacted with through the sensorial input of light energy and physical sensation.
He is currently working on a collaboration with Antony and the Johnsons culminating in a show and installation at MOMA in New York.
Exhibition runs from October 26th to November 26th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 22/08/2011
LEE FRIEDLANDER: AMERICA BY CAR
This will be Friedlanderʼs first solo exhibition in London since his 1976 show at the Photographersʼ Gallery.
This exhibition charts numerous journeys made by the photographer during the last decade across most of the fifty US states. Shot entirely from the interiors of rental cars, typically from the driver’s seat, Friedlander makes use of side and rearview mirrors, windscreens, and side windows as framing devices for a total of 192 images.
Elements from car interiors such as steering wheels and dashboards, as well as leather or wood panel trim, provide an index of their own; these differing qualities of finish and contemporaneity often appear strikingly at odds with the terrains in which they are located. Presented in the square-crop format that characterizes Friedlander’s more recent work, these images complicate and invigorate the most bereft of rural scenes. His desire to collapse and flatten out the three dimensional world parallels the means of cubist painting and recalls the collaging techniques of pop art.
Exhibition runs from September 1st to October 1st, 2011
Timothy Taylor Gallery
15 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EX
Posted by Exit 15/08/2011
WELL HUNG - TYLER SHIELDS & MAXIMILIAN WIEDEMANN
Tyler Shields is coming to Central London to join forces with Maximilian Wiedemann in an exhibition which will release never before seen controversial images of Lindsay Lohan by Tyler and the pair's collaboration with those images.
Tyler Shields is famous for his blood bath and porn star images of Lindsay Lohan, taken while she was appearing in court, which she was forced to defend as art. The latest images, to be displayed for the first time at Imitate Modern in London, W1, will stir up as much of a publicity storm which Maximilian will add his own brand of wry humour and subversion to.
Maximilian is famous for turning culturally iconic images or brands on their heads, thus revealing information which is often more truthful than the original image. Max and Tyler's collaboration on images of Lindsay Lohan reveal a cutting insight into society's harmful manipulation of celebrity for money and the human cost of such.
Exhibition runs from October 13th to November 20th, 2011
Imitate Modern
27 a Devonshire Street
London
W1G 6PN
Posted by Exit 15/08/2011
IAN BERRY - THIS IS WHITECHAPEL
In 1972 the Whitechapel Gallery commissioned British photographer Ian Berry, renowned for his coverage of conflict, to turn his lens to everyday life in east London. He captured the last members of a dwindling Jewish community and the arrival of new faces from the Caribbean and South Asia; slum clearances heralding brutal high-rise towers; pineapples appearing in a greengrocer’s window; and a cobbler meeting the demands of a growing youth culture with star-spangled platform heels.
This is Whitechapel presents photographs and archive material from Berry’s momentous commission revealing the poverty, the acts of kindness and community and the political tensions that are still evident today.
Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2011
The Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
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KEN GRIFFITHS - PATAGONIA
In 2001 and 2002 photographer Ken Griffiths set out on three expeditions to the Argentine province of Chubut, the heartland of Welsh Patagonia. Ken visited Chubut in different seasons of the year to follow the trails blazed south and west by intrepid young Welsh pioneers. Between 1870 and 1900 they travelled the interior of the country and reached the Andes along what is now the Chilean frontier.
Ken decided that he wanted to avoid all the clichés of photo-journalists who travel to Gaiman for a day or two, visit a Welsh tea-room, and come back. Instead he was determined to set out to record, in image, the entire scope of the Welsh achievement in that part of the New World. Ken’s family left Wales for New Zealand and he has now made England his home for several decades. As an immigrant himself, Ken was moved from the outset by the quest of the Welsh for a home where they could preserve their culture and their language.
Opposite - Charging Horses, Dolavon, 30th April 2002
Exhibition runs through to August 27th, 2011
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
Posted by Exit 08/08/2011
JEFFREY STOCKBRIDGE - PHOTOGRAPHS 2005-2008
28-year-old photographer Jeffrey Stockbridge is currently exhibiting work from three projects at the Wapping Project Bankside in London. The images present a bleak vision of life in Stockbridge’s hometown of Philadelphia.
Opposite - Dauphin and Camac, 2005-06
Exhibition runs through to September 3rd,2011
The Wapping Project Bankside
65a Hopton Street
London
SE1 9LR
www.thewappingprojectbankside.com
Posted by Exit 08/08/2011
MARGATE PHOTO FESTIVAL
The exhibition looks to collect and display the everyday snap shots we take which inspire, intrigue or are simply taken because it feels right. Capturing these configurations, formations or simple moments on our cameras work as an addition to our visual sketchbooks that are so often referenced to develop new ideas and form new bodies of work.
Exhibition runs from August 13th -14th, 2011
Margate Photo Festival
Harbour Arm Gallery
Margate
Kent
CT9 1JD
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 08/08/2011
ERNST HAAS - COLOR CORRECTION
Ernst Haas is unquestionably one of the best-known, most prolific and most published photographers of the twentieth century. He is most associated with a vibrant colour photography which, for decades, was much in demand by the illustrated press. His colour work, published in the most influential magazines in Europe and America, also fed a constant stream of books, and these too enjoyed great popularity. But although his colour work earned him fame around the world, in recent decades it has often been derided by critics and curators as “overly commercial”, and too easily accessible – or in the language of curators, not sufficiently “serious”. As a result, his reputation has suffered in comparison with a younger generation of colour photographers, notably Eggleston, Shore and Meyerowitz.
Paradoxically, however, there was also a side of his work that was almost entirely hidden from view. Parallel to his commissioned work Haas constantly made images for his own interest, and these pictures show an entirely different aspect of Haas’s sensibility: they are far more edgy, loose, complex and ambiguous – in short, far more radical than the work which earned him fame.
Opposite - Traffic, New York, 1963
Exhibition runs from September 14th to October 22nd, 2011
Atlas Gallery
49 Dorset Street
London
W1U 7NF
United-Kingdom
Posted by Exit 01/08/2011
ABOUT FACE
About Face, is a group show featuring twenty-five contemporary photographers: Steven Alvarez, Tina Barney, Rita Bernstein, Donald E. Camp, Paul Cava, Kelli Connell, Edward Dimsdale, Jen Davis, Martine Fougeron, David Graham, Yuichi Hibi, Henry Horenstein, George Krause, Serge J-F. Levy, Andrea Modica, Caitlin Teal Price, Richard Renaldi, Liz Rideal, Jason Robinette, Nadine Rovner, Manjari Sharma, Rafael Soldi, Phillip Toledano, Neil Winokur, and Davin Youngs.
This exhibition concentrates on recent portraiture concerned with the face. There are few things more varied and interesting than the face. It embodies our individuality and projects it to the world in a way that nothing else does. Yet at the same time, there are few things more ubiquitous than a face. We are confronted with other faces (and occasionally our own) on such a routine basis that we stop examining them with any great amount of care. Like buildings in a city, only the most striking ones stand out, and the rest blend together as part of the context of daily life.
Opposite - Manjari Sharma, Anastasia, The Shower Series, 2009
Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2011
Gallery 339 - Fine Art Photography
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia
PA
19103
Posted by Exit 01/08/2011
COLORWARE - LEICA D-LUX 5
Minnesota-base customization specialist ColorWare is offering custom colored Leica D-LUX 5 cameras for a $1200 USD. Overall there are 48 options to choose from (including metallic and pearl options) over 8 different parts of the camera.
Posted by Exit 01/08/2011
VALERIE PHILLIPS - I ATE A GRASSHOPPER
New exhibition by Valerie Phillips whose biggest influences remain the things she loved as a kid outer space, gymnastics, skateboarding and the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
She grew up in pre-disneyfied New York City, cut school to compete with her skateboard team, snuck into clubs to see bands, and eventually left for London to take pictures.
Her work has appeared on numerous cd sleeves including PJ Harvey, Manic Street Preachers, Amy Winehouse, Amy Macdonald and Tracey Thorn. Her commercial clients include Nike, Doc Martens, Billabong, Puma, Reebok, Paul Smith, Virgin Atlantic, PF Flyers, Urban Outfitters, Goodyear, JC Penney, Sony Playstation, PC World, New Look, Selfridges.
Valerie has published six books so far. Each documenting the life of a different girl. From a Polish high school student in Brooklyn to a young teen gymnast training in Oklahoma. The latest, 'Amber Is For Caution' , follows an ex-model studying to become a surgical technician in Kentucky. Her books convey an un-precious, realistic and spirited account of someone's life.
Exhibition runs from July 26th, 2011
Claire de rouen books
1st Floor, 121 – 125 Charing Cross Road
London
WC2H 0EW
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CHRISTIAN GIERATHS - SALAAM BOMBAY
The exhibition´s title Salaam Bombay derives from a film title of the 1980s which reflects Gieraths´ interest in locations for the Hindi film industry, located in Mumbai.
Christian Gieraths is a flaneur who is interested in the hustle and bustle of a society which develops itself in the pulse of technological progress and which, therefore, is in an ongoing condition of change. He is continuously searching for places where he can find these changes manifested in its historical, political or aesthetic forms. Sotchi, Havanna, Tokyo, Hollywood and Las Vegas have been previous settings of earlier series´ which show a similar picture language: They show deserted places, streets and interiors as well as facades. His focal point of the compositions is always identical. Hence, the viewpoint of the observer as well as the restricted image section remains Gieraths´ criteria for composition. His photographies are comprised by a certain silence that derives from his composition and reminds of film stills.
Colour and atmosphere as well as the artist´s viewpoint are most significant. By depicting his compositions in a short span of time he enables the past to become present. Through dealing with these locations and its surroundings, as well as thoughtful observations of the sensual reality and the atmospheric moods, Gieraths transforms his visual experience into photography.
Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2011
Baukunst Galerie
Theodor-Heuss-Ring 7
D - 50668
Cologne
Germany
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ALLAN SEKULA - POLONIA AND OTHER FABLES
Both Polonia and Other Fables and Walking on Water by US photographer Allan Sekula, explore personal themes rooted in the artist’s Polish ancestry, placed amidst wider considerations of national identity, migration and global economics.
The exhibition is made up of a series of large, square-format analogue photographs; a text booklet and wall-mounted quotations, alongside an installation of slide projection. The artist uses a range of photographic tropes, from clandestine snapshots to formal portraiture, from ethnography to street photography, from serial to aerial views in an attempt to understand Poland, the place, and the Poland that lives in the minds of those who have left.
Exhibition runs through to August 19th, 2011
Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
BT1 2FF
Belfast
Northen Ireland
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LEICA M9-P
The M9-P rangefinder camera, is an ultra-discreet version of their popular M9. Featuring the same compact size, full-frame, 18 megapixel sensor, sophisticated image processing and robust construction of the Leica M9, the M9-P adds a touch of minimalist styling. The red dot logo and M9 lettering on the front have been omitted and replaced with the Leica name in classic script form engraved on the top plate. The body is finished with vulcanite leatherette, while the LCD screen includes a scratch-resistant, sapphire crystal covering.
The M9-P is compatible with nearly every Leica M lens produced since the line’s introduction in 1954 and will be available in two different finishes, black paint or traditional silver chrome.
Posted by Exit 18/07/2011
DUFFY: A VISUAL RECORD OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC GENIUS
During the ‘60s and ’70s, Brian Duffy (1933-2010) was, along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, a member of the fashion photography elite. His docu-style shoots for Vogue and Queen magazines were aimed at dispelling the gloom of the post-war period and provided a self-consciously youthful, visually literate generation with a new sense of self, and of London. Duffy gave up photography in 1979, at the height of his career, and set fire to most of his work in his back garden.
His son, Chris, spent years searching through archives and publications all over the world to produce ‘Duffy: In His Own Words’, published this month by ACC Editions. Among Duffy’s most iconic images were those used in campaigns for Benson & Hedges and Smirnoff, a series of studio images of Michael Caine shot in 1964 and the covers for David Bowie’s ‘Aladdin Sane’, ‘Lodger’ and ‘Scary Monsters’ albums.
To coincide with the book’s release, ‘Duffy: A Visual Record of a Photographic Genius’, the first and only book of the photographer's work.
Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2011
Idea Store
321 Whitechapel Road
City of London
E1 1BU
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JANE AND LOUISE WILSON
This exhibition of large-scale photographs is from their ongoing investigation into the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The exhibition also features a number of other works, many previously unseen in the UK.
Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum), 2010 is a suite of eight photographic prints depicting deserted interiors from the abandoned town of Pripyat, situated within the 30km wide Exclusion Zone around the site of the disaster. Books remain on shelves and desks, bed frames remain intact and once-exquisite parquet flooring lies on the ground like rubble. A yardstick appears within each image and is a recurring motif throughout the exhibition. These objects of measurement – functional yet obsolete – act as a marker of scale and order, alluding to the tensions between association and analysis, memory and material fact.
Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2011
John Hansard Gallery
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
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THOMAS STRUTH: PHOTOGRAPHS 1978-2010
Picturing subjects as diverse as places of worship, jungles and research laboratories, Struth once compared the space shuttle programme to the construction of the medieval cathedrals. His photographs reveal the cultural, psychological and historical undercurrents beneath the surface of modernity.
Tracing the architectural history of ordinary city streets Struth also charts the increasing uniformity of global development. While people are absent from his street scenes of Düsseldorf, Naples or New York, they take centre stage in his family portraits and his iconic museum photographs showing spectators lost in devotional gaze before works of art and architecture. In sharp contrast, his Paradise series captures impenetrable forests void of any trace of human intervention.
This exhibition spans early black and white prints to recent colour photographs that are up to 4 metres long. These include images of sites at the cutting edge of technology such as the Space Centre on Cape Canaveral. Their overwhelming scale evokes an industrial sublime; built by us, yet chillingly inhuman, these structures encapsulate the great contradictions of progress.
Opposite - Tokamak Asdex Upgrade, Interior 1, Max Planck IPP, Garching, 2010
Exhibition runs through to September 16th, 2011
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
Posted by Exit 11/07/2011
MALCOLM LUBLINER - PACIFIC PARTY TIME
During the 1960s and 70s photographer Malcolm Lubliner documented his experiences and friendships in the Los Angeles art scene with images of Larry Bell, Wallace Berman, Sam Francis and others in their studios and at gallery openings. Lublinerʼs photographs have been collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C..
The exhibition “Pacific Party Time” consists of candid photographs of artists such as John Baldessari, Robert Irwin and John Altoon attending the soirees of Betty Asher, Louise Bernstein, Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, and Ken Tyler. It was at these gatherings that LA artists were first introduced to important artists from around the world.
Opposite - Joe Goode, Dewain Valentine and Patty Oldenburg at the Grinsteins', 1968
Exhibition runs from September 10th - October 15th, 2011
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California 90404
Posted by Exit 11/07/2011
DAIDO MORIYAMA: ON THE ROAD
This exhibition traces the trajectory of Moriyama Daido's career as a photographer from his debut in photography magazines in 1965 to the present, based primarily on developments over about a dozen of his photobooks.
While the subject of Moriyama's photographs is almost always fragments of daily life that he discovers on the street, his works violently jolt the viewer, and have helped expand the concept of photography. They are also imbued with a power that inspires us to reexamine the essence of photography.
Among the over 400 works on display will be some new, and for Moriyama, rare color photographs that deal with the theme of Tokyo.
Opposite - Stray Dog, 1971
Exhibition runs through to September 19th, 2011
National Museum of Art, Osaka
4-2-55 Nakanoshima
kita-ku
Osaka
530-0005
Japan
Posted by Exit 11/07/2011
EYEWITNESS: HUNGARIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they brought about in photojournalism, as well as abstract, fashion and art photography.
Others, such as Károly Escher, Rudolf Balogh and Jószef Pécsi remained in Hungary producing high-quality and innovatory photography. A display of approximately two hundred photographs ranging in date from c.1914–c.1989 will explore stylistic developments in photography and chart key historical events. These striking images will reveal the achievements of Hungarian photographers who left such an enduring legacy to international photography.
Opposite - Wedding, Budapest, László Fejes, 1965
Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2011
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BD
Posted by Exit 04/07/2011
JOSEF KOUDELKA - INVASION 68 : PRAGUE
In 1968 Josef Koudelka was thirty years old. He had committed himself to photography as a full-time career only recently, and had been chronicling the theater and the lives of gypsies, but he had never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political freedom in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring.
In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, Koudelka took to the streets to document this critical moment.
Koudelka’s photographs of the invasion were miraculously smuggled out of the country. A year after they reached New York, Magnum Photos distributed the images, but credited them to an unknown Czech photographer to avoid reprisals. The intensity and significance of the images earned the still-anonymous photographer the Robert Capa Award.
Sixteen years would pass before Koudelka could safely acknowledge authorship.
Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2011
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Yebisu Garden Place
1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku
Tokyo 1530062
Japan
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BEATE GÜTSCHOW
Her photography addresses the construction of imagery, both within the medium itself, through the use of digital and analogue technologies, and the cultural conditions that influence the creation of imagery. Gütschow's compositions reference 17th Century landscape painting as well as the architectural and documen- tary photography of the1950s and '60s.
She draws from her archive of mostly analogue images of buildings, trees, landscapes and people to assemble digital composites. At first glance the final works appear convincing as real scenes, but on closer inspection the spaces and scenes are not quite genuine, causing the constructed nature of imagery to become apparent.
Exhibition runs through to July 15th, 2011
St Paul St Gallery
40 St Paul Street,
Auckland
CBD
Posted by Exit 04/07/2011
LAURIE SIMMONS - THE LOVE DOLL: DAYS 1 – 30
This will also be the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. Over the last 30 years Simmons has garnered a significant reputation internationally as one of the leading artists to emerge from the New York ‘Pictures Generation’ during the 1970’s and 80’s.
Laurie Simmons moved to New York in 1973, with her close friend and photographer Jimmy De Sana. The two artists converted an old sweatshop in Soho into their studio and living space. Together the pair set up Laurie’s first darkroom, and under De Sana’s tutelage, Simmons came to understand, with a far greater awareness, the intricacies of the camera and the complexities of production techniques. From 1975, Laurie began to photograph her dolls in these evocative nourish black-and-white scenarios. Whilst the resultant images were beautifully intricate alter-realities, the artist was amazed by their apparent realism – ‘I actually believed that the rooms I was shooting could be mistaken for real places’. Simmons was immediately struck by the camera’s propensity to lie – and indeed the role images constitute in our own construction as subjects – whether it be as sons, daughters, family members or citizens.
Opposite - The Love Doll / Day 27 / Day 1 (New in Box)
Exhibition runs through to July 10th, 2011
Wilkinson Gallery
50-58 Vyner Street
London
E2 9DQ
Posted by Exit 27/06/2011
AXEL HÜTTE - FRANKFURT 2011 // EMETH
In the show Frankfurt 2011 // Emeth (in Hebrew Emeth stands for "truth" - Meth means "death"), the works as a whole focus on the rapid changes of environmental reality, the alteration of urban and natural landscapes and the reception of the visible reality. In "Tableau Frankfurt am Main", 2011 Axel Hütte brings together postcards picturing the city before the 2nd World War with his own photographs of the present views of the city. By opposing images from different decades the artist hints us towards the diverse modes of representational images and the changes within the visual perception. Consequently and in an ironic way, Hütte chooses the format of an overdimensioned postcard - an out-dated medium of mass communication in today's society.
The perfectly composed photographs of nighttime cityscapes integrated by Axel Hütte feature the particular skyline of Frankfurt. Like all nighttime photographs of Axel Hütte those pictures were taken with extremely long exposure time - also in details one can find the examination of the notion of time which reveals the hidden and focuses the perception.The artificial lights illuminating the darkness in "Ratskeller", 2011 create a shifting moment in the perception and constitute an irritating, magical atmosphere. Although the scene is deserted, or precisely because of the absence of people strong energy emanates from the image.
Opposite - Frankfurt, (Night), 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 23rd, 2011
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
60314
Frankfurt
Posted by Exit 27/06/2011
BRYAN GRAF - FIELD RECORDINGS
The title of the show refers to a term for audio recordings made outside of the studio, sometimes involving the ambient sounds of nature. In this instance it refers to the onsite interactions of photographic materials with a particular place.
The body of work, Wildlife Analysis, was made in the woods and swamps around New Jersey. While photographing these places with black and white film, Graf used unexposed color film to record the direct contact of ambient light flooding onto the film without the use of a lens. Graf then uses the exposed color film as a composite layer in the darkroom. Using these tools he take us on a hallucinatory trip through his native landscape. The images themselves are obstructed by a river of intoxicating hues, blending and shifting as they wash across the prints.
Additionally, a selection of Polaroids, from The Sun Room: Interchanges, B-Sides & Remixes series gives us a glimpse into Graf's studio practice. He refers to these images as "sketches” made in and around his studio, which doubles as a sun room for plants in the spring and summer months. These images are small-scale experiments made over the past four years while he was working on various projects.
Exhibition runs through to July 15th, 2011
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 27/06/2011
ARNOLD CRANE
Over a period of more than two decades, Crane created a body of artistic work of immeasurable value and historic importance. Whether sitting in a car with Paul Strand, catching Imogen Cunningham in her kitchen or accompanying Ansel Adams on a Point Lobos shoot, Crane always managed to produce sensitive photographs that both revealed and revered his subjects.
Crane has worked as a photographer since his youth and documented incidents such as major crime scenes, earthquakes, fires and political events and was published in various U.S. magazines. After receiving his Doctor of Juris prudence, he temporarily stopped working as a photographer, but started again in 1983, inspired by a friendship with the photographer Man Ray. His monograph On the Other Side of the Camera, already out of print, offers a complete collection of all the artists’ portraits Crane has created over the years. The book won the renowned KODAK Photo Book Award in 1995, the year of its publication.
Opposite - Arnold Crane with mirrors
Exhibition runs through to September 3rd, 2010
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 20/06/2011
NAN GOLDIN - FIRE LEAP
Fireleap is a major new slideshow with images of children from 1972 until today, most of which have never been shown. Children fascinate Goldin because of their freedom. They follow no rules, living in a free zone before being socialized by society’s boundaries. Fireleap captures this consciousness while it is still untethered by awkwardness and social restraint.
Nan Goldin is known as an artist whose output is inextricably bound up with her own biography, and for breaking down the traditional barrier between the camera and what is being photographed. Her naturally lit images document her surrogate family of friends and lovers, and more often than not are frank confrontations with personal experience, and explorations of both intimacy and the alienation that can be wound up within it.
Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2011
Sprovieri Gallery
27 Heddon Street
London
W1B 4BJ
Posted by Exit 20/06/2011
MIKE FIGGIS: KATE & OTHER WOMEN
Mike Figgis is the renowned director and writer, most famous for his 1996 film ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ which was nominated for four Academy Awards. He has since worked on the cutting edge of creative digital filmmaking and photography, where he pushes the boundaries by experimenting with different textures and formats.
The sensually charged images of Kate Moss, Eva Green and ‘other women’ have been enchanced by Mike using techniques which he has developed himself, making them ‘unique’ in the true sense of the word.
The photographs of Kate Moss were shot as part of a campaign for Agent Provocateur in 2007, which included a series of films and a book ‘The 4 Dreams of Miss X’.
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 20/06/2011
RICHARD AVEDON - WRITERS
This exhibition focuses on Richard Avedon’s portraits of writers, first executed in between the 1950’s and the 1970’s During a career that spanned nearly sixty years, Richard Avedon defined and expanded concepts of art and culture in twentieth century photography while producing an extended meditation on life, death, beauty, class, race, and identity. His reportage, portrait and commercial work dissolved the lines between photography’s many perceived genres, as it ranged across a breadth of subject matter including fashion, the American Civil Rights movement, war protestors, the fall of the Berlin wall, and portraits of the famous and the anonymous.
Opposite - William Burroughs, New York, July 9, 1975
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
4 rue de Ponthieu
75008
Paris
Posted by Exit 13/06/2011
BORIS MIKHAILOV - CASE HISTORY
Ukrainian-born Boris Mikhailov is one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. For over 30 years, he has explored the position of the individual within the historical mechanisms of public ideology, touching on such subjects as Ukraine under Soviet rule, the living conditions in post-communist Eastern Europe, and the fallen ideals of the Soviet Union. Although deeply rooted in a historical context, Mikhailov’s work also incorporates profoundly engaging and personal narratives of humor, lust, vulnerability, aging, and death.
This exhibition is the first in-depth presentation of Mikhailov’s seminal Case History series (1997–98) in an American museum. This body of work explores the deeply troubling circumstances of people who have been left homeless by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Set against the bleak backdrop of the industrial city of Kharkov, Mikhailov’s life-size color photographs document the oppression, devastating poverty, and everyday reality of a disenfranchised community living on the margins of Russia’s new economic regime.
Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019-5497
Posted by Exit 13/06/2011
PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-GF3
The latest camera from panasonic is the new Lumix DMC-GF3. The 12 megapixel ultra compact camera comes with a built in flash, multiple lens options including a 3D lens, touch enabled screen. The camera comes in 5 colors.
Posted by Exit 13/06/2011
HERB RITTS
Herb Ritts attained the legendary status of a fashion, celebrity, portrait- and nude photographer. In the 1980s and the 1990s, the autodidact worked together with nearly every superstar. Among the exhibited portraits one can find names such as Madonna, Mick Jagger, Dustin Hoffman, David Bowie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Cindy Crawford.
His great sensitivity and his stylistic confidence with regard to the usage of strict forms, creating a monumental sensuality, enabled Herb Ritts to create timeless icons and to influence a whole generation of photographers with his innovative picture language.
More than 50 photographs will give a comprehensive insight into the work of Herb Ritts. All of the exhibited photographs were developed during the artist’s lifetime.
Opposite - Jack Nicholson II, 1988
Exhibition runs through to July 9th, 2011
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Posted by Exit 06/06/2010
ALL THAT FITS: THE AESTHETICS OF JOURNALISM
The exhibition presents the provocative idea that art and journalism are two sides of a unique activity; the production and distribution of images and information. The exhibition brings to surface how images and information are communicated, and the aesthetic principles used in the act of transmission. Whereas journalism provides a view on the world, as it ‘really’ is; art often presents a view on the view, truth posited as acts of reflection. All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism will examine both as systems of information that define truth in terms of the visible but also what can be imagined.
Opposite - Eric Baudelaire, The Dreadful Details, diptych
Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2011
Quad
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby
DE1 3AS
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 06/06/2011
SONY NEX-C3
Sony has updated its line of digital cameras with a new model called the NEX-C3.
This camera uses the same format APS-C image sensor as its predecessor, but with a resolution of 16.2 megapixels in a camera body smaller than the NEX-5. According to Sony, the new entry-level cam is designed to fill the gap between point-and-shoot and DSLR cameras.
Available late July or August, and will be offered with 18-55mm and 16mm lenses.
Posted by Exit 06/06/2011
HONG KONG BY TERRY RICHARDSON
Known for his extensive work with fashion brands, magazines and books, including “Hysteric Glamour” (1998), “Terryworld” (2004), “Kibosh” (2006) and “Rio Cidade Maravilhosa” (2007) and now Hong Kong.
In 2007, American photographer Terry Richardson visited in Hong Kong for a week to capture images of the city’s celebrities and socialites. Among his subjects were actress Maggie Cheung, actress and singer Josie Ho, actors Sam Lee and Shawn Yue, and Cantopop duo Twins.
Posted by Exit 30/05/2011
YANNIS ROGER - APRES. PHOTOGRAPHS, 2004-2010
Taken on artist’s wanderings, Yannis Roger’s pictures, often miniature and always beautifully printed on Ilfochrome paper, witness with a rare poetry a silent and personal world at the border of commonplace, intimate and strangeness. The photographer is a musician as well, but music informs his pictures much less than cinema. However, no will to impose a story through a juxtaposition of images. On the contrary, each photograph is a kind of photogram inviting the viewer to solve an enigma.
Opposite - Sans titre, Rue de Sofia, Paris, Printemps 2007
Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2011
Galerie VU
Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint Lazare
75009 Paris
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LEICA V-LUX 30
Leica have announced the V-Lux 30, a 15.1 megapixel compact digital camera. In comparison to the V-Lux 20, the new camera has a 16x zoom Leica DC Vario-Elmar lens with an extended range of focal lengths, a new LCD touch screen display, integrated GPS function and video recording in 1080i-AVCHD Full HD. The Leica V-Lux 30 will be available from Leica dealers beginning June 2011.
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ORI GERSHT - FALLING PETALS
In his most recent series comprised of images taken from April to May 2010 in Japan, Gersht traveled between cities that were affected by World War II as well as ancient locations in remote western Japan, examining the shifting symbolism of the cherry blossom. While initially associated with Buddhist concepts of renewal, the celebration of life, and good fortune, the cherry blossom was re-appropriated during Japan's 19th century militarization and colonial expansion. Once celebrated as a healthy and abundant flower, the falling of the petals from the tree became the symbol of Kamikaze soldiers. Gersht furthers this discussion of life and death symbolism in his exploration of trees planted before the war in unaffected remote areas, contrasting them against trees in Hiroshima that were planted in nuclear soil.
The artist made use of digital cameras that allowed for images to be taken under extreme light conditions, further questioning the ability of photography as a medium to convey a singular truth or story. Presenting documentation of what is assumed to be an exact location, Gersht’s digital process allows for the absolute light and color veracity of these landscapes to be questioned and by extension the viewer’s interpretation of this location’s history. Unlike previous series which focused on geographic journeys (Walter Benjamin following the Lister Route in Gersht’s Evaders (2009) or The Forest (2006), in which the artist’s family found refuge from Nazi persecution during WWII in the Ukraine), Falling Petals offers imagery that conveys past and present without a specified linear narrative; Gersht’s photographic process implies the passage of time without providing an exacting start or finish to the life of the depicted.
Opposite - Against the Tide: Isolated, 2010
Exhibition runs through to June 25th, 2011
CRG Gallery
548 W 22nd Street
New York
NY
10011
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ELLEN KOOI - OUT OF SIGHT
This new body of work continues Kooi's exploration of the Dutch landscape as well as her ability to create hyper realities. Kooi situates people in natural settings and through distinct technical feats creates narratives that recall fairytales, movies and dreams.
These large scale photographs, which are always shot in the daytime, allude to various tales that are hinted at but never revealed. Kooi's background in theatre is evident by the way she stages her photographs. Using a large format camera, she sets up elaborate lighting to create a set within the natural landscape. She stages the character(s) to dramatize and bring into focus the moods and stories of the scenes being created. The natural elements are transformed, becoming more than mere backdrops. Kooi's intense method of producing and processing her images exaggerates the unnerving realness of the situations being depicted.
Opposite - Velsen-lampen, 2008
Exhibition runs through to June 18th, 2011
P.P.O.W
535 West 22nd Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY
10001
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ANTTI LAITINEN - BARK BOAT
Antti Laitinen latest performance entitled "Bark Boat", is documented through a series of photographs and video.
On the 7th of August 2010 at 4am, a rudimentary and yet authentic sailboat was launched for the first time in the Finnish peninsula of Porkkala and was about to embark on its inaugural journey across the Gulf of Finland. At its command was a young and resilient journeyman who has made a name for himself through his adventurous-spirit and his ritualistic quests for achievement, and known by the name of Antti Laitinen.
This is the latest in a series of performances where Antti Laitinen embarks on a personal journey, pushing the boundaries of his physical endurance and braving the natural elements, to engage with the world in a collective mission to stage mythologies and erase the boundary between success and failure. As in most of his previous projects, "Bark Boat" originates from classical Finnish tales and cultural imagery - in this instance, the title is taken from a Finnish childhood game whereby pieces of tree bark are used as rafts and are set sailing onto the vast sea until they disappear out of sight. The children would imagine their miniature boats sailing all the way to faraway lands.
Opposite - Bark Boat V, 2010
Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2011
Nettie Horn
25b Vyner St
London
E2 9DG
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ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN - ALIAS
Photomonth is one of Poland's largest visual arts events and one of the leading European festivals of photography. Comprising over fifty exhibitions and accompanying events. For the 2011 edition, Broomberg and Chanarin have invited artists and writers to collaborate in pairs to create a fictive third persona.
Broomberg and Chanarin have invited artists and writers to collaborate in pairs to create a fictive third persona. Participating artists include Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili and Andro Wekua, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Lisa Brice, Polly Braden, Michael Chanarin, Celine Condorelli, Jeremy Deller, Godfried Donkor, Roe Etheridge, Beatrice Gibson, David Gill, Johan Grimonprez, David Goldblatt, Marine Hugonnier, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Elizabeth McAlpine, Gabriel Orozco, Max Pinckers, Janek Simon, Alec Soth, Clare Strand and Gordon MacDonald. Writers include Brown & Bri, David Campany, Clare Carolin, Brian Dillon, Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Ekow Eshun, Łukasz Gorczyca i Łukasz Ronduda, Avery Gordon, John Haskell, Jennifer Higgie, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Chris Mullen, Fernando Pessoa, Ella Saltmarshe, Gemma Sieff, Karolina Sulej, Lynne Tillman, Sean O'Toole, Helen deWitt, Ivan Vladislavic, Brad Zellar
Exhibition runs through to June 12th, 2011
Visual Arts Foundation
ul. Piekarska 11/12
31-067 Krakow
Poland
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PAUL TREVOR - LIKE YOU'RE NEVER BEEN AWAY
This exhibition features 58 photographs of children playing on the streets of 1970s Liverpool. In 1975 Paul Trevor came to Liverpool to document inner city deprivation for the 'Survival Programmes' project. His remarkable photographs tell a different story however. Their backdrop may be the dereliction of post-war Liverpool. But these images go beyond this bleak cityscape and get close to his real subject: families and children.
Paul's direct and honest street photography shows life as it was lived in a community defiant in the face of poverty, unemployment and the state of their surroundings. He depicts a place where the streets and wastelands became playgrounds, the family was a constant, and where children seem fun-loving and free.
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EL
England
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PANASONIC MICRO LUMIX G3
The all new Panasonic Micro Lumix G3 finally arrives. The new 16 megapixel camera comes with an interchangeable lense system, comes with a 3-inch free angle LCD screen, records HD video and can with the corresponding lense can take high quality 3D pictures. The camera is touch screen controlled, making it even easier to use.
Posted by Exit 16/05/2011
PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA : ROID
‘Roid’ by American artist Philip-Lorca diCorcia, reveals a series of over 100 never-before-seen Polaroids. Displayed along a rail that traces the contours of the gallery walls, the Polaroids span the 30-year career of one of the most influential photographers of his generation.
DiCorcia first came to prominence in the 1970s with photographs that defied definition, existing in the space between documentary fact and movie-style fiction. The meticulous staging of quotidian scenes of family and friends lent the images an unparalleled sense of heightened drama and ambiguity. In the 1990s diCorcia turned his focus from scenes of domesticity to the American tradition of street photography exemplified by photographers such as Robert Frank and Gary Winogrand. In a seminal series that was retrospectively entitled 'Hustlers', diCorcia photographed men who had moved to Hollywood seeking their fortune, only to find themselves working the Sunset Strip as male prostitutes.
Exhibition runs from May 19th to June 18th, 2011
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
LONDON
W1S 4EJ
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GILES PRICE : MACROSCOPIC OLYMPIAD
"Macroscopic Olympiad" is a selection of photographs from a documentary project by Giles Price, which portrays a large scale and minutely detailed aerial vision of the Olympic Park during a period of rapid construction.
This visual language is only available through flight, reiterating the smallness not only of the physical being, but of the interior perspective on navigating a landscape." Merging the landscape with group portraiture, mini-scenes with human workers intersperse amidst the machines and structures. Unlike computer models made up of composite images, the images capture the breadth of the mega-project on several compositional levels in moments of real time, by offering an alternate vision of the Olympic construction process.
Exhibition runs from May 19th to June 18th, 2011
See Studio Exhibition Space
13 Prince Edward Road
London
E3 5LX
Posted by Exit 09/05/2011
WISH YOU WERE HERE
The Little Black Gallery's annual summer show highlights new rising stars in the world of art photography. This year it features....
Jon Compson is one of the leading creatives of his craft, jumping between beauty and fashion with his own very visual and unique take on the subject.
Elisabeth Molin is a Danish photographer who has exhibited widely, including The Royal Academy 'Summer Show', with her provocative and striking images.
Alistair Taylor-Young is a leading British fashion and beauty photographer. He is fast becoming a collectable name in the world of art photography with his first solo show at The Little Black Gallery in January 2011 selling out.
Kurt Tong is an award winning photographer, born in Hong Kong, who won the last prestigious Jerwood Photography Award. He has exhibited widely including The Royal Academy and a solo show at Compton Verney.
Opposite - Orchid Girl 2, Jon Compson
Exhibition runs from May 18th to June 18th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
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MICHAEL KENNA - RETROSPECTIVE
Michael Kenna`s retrospective covers the most significant periods of his creative work and shows famous landscape photos, made during his travels. Pictures of French provinces and Japanese gardens, American power plants and sculptures in St. Petersburg are among them.
The photographer’s style can be called metaphysical photography, with time and memory as basic concepts. Black-and-white high contrast photos take viewers from the real world to the abstract university of the photographer. Therefore, Kenna’s works can be easily regarded as an ancient painting and a 3D image. They embody the skilful synthesis of the eternal and the momentary. The photographer’s approach to the viewer is also specific. All photos by Kenna have small size. Such format forces one person to watch it from the distance of no more than 30 cm. Kenna intentionally brings us closer to the picture, demanding maximum involvement and frankness in the dialogue with the audience.
Opposite - Perspective of Trees, Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, 1999
Exhibition runs from May 22nd, 2011
Moscow Museum Of Modern Art
9 Tverskoy Boulevard
Moscow
Russia
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SASCHA WEIDNER - SINCE TOMORROW
With this exhibition, Sascha Weidner offers a deep, personal glimpse into his life, reaching from childhood photographs up to current pictures from diverse contexts. The method of plumbing the depths of his personal archive defines his artistic practice. Again and again, he draws anew from his pool of images, changing the arrangements and, in so doing, shifting the point of view.
Whether in photographs of rumpled white sheets, in macro shots of veined skin, or in images of mysteriously overturned cars or of the tender intimacy of lovers, every passing nuance is critical.
Opposite - Unfold II, 2006
Exhibition runs from May 7th to June 26th, 2011
Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Str. 35-36
10117 Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 02/05/2011
LEICA X UNIFORM EXPERIMENT D-LUX 5
Hiroshi Fujiwara and his brand Uniform Experiment and Leica the German high end camera maker come together over the D-Lux 5. The special uniform experiment edition, featuring a logo placements on the upper, as well as a matching leather camera case, also featuring embossed logo placements.
The camera is to released in Japan on May 11th, and limited to 200 pieces.
www.uniformexperiment.jp
www.leica.com
Posted by Exit 02/05/2011
ANNI LEPPALA
Leppala's images belong to a space that lies in between the visually perceptible world and a kind of mythical zone behind it. Her scenarios allow us a mere glimpse of events. By focusing on a single detail or gesture, she opens up her pictures to the viewer’s own interpretation.
Figures are shown in undefined interiors, their faces turned away and hidden behind their own hands or masks, mysterious in their inwardly directed, reserved aura. At times, they can hardly be discerned behind dense fields of wheat or bushes, while at other times they are lost in the light and shadow of infinite forests. The stillness and melancholy unique to the north is articulated in many of Leppälä’s nature photographs.
Opposite - Garden, 2007
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2011
Barbara Gross Galerie
Theresienstrasse 56 Hof 1
80333
München
Germany
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ALMAGUL MENLIBAYEVA - TRANSOXIANA DREAMS
In Transoxiana Dreams, Menlibayeva, a pictorial sorceress herself, breeds an eccentric storyline and fantastical imagery extracted deeply from her own atavistic repertoire, and leading visionally through an existing, yet unimaginable landscape in a distant and hypnagogic world.
Menlibayeva tells the tale of a young fisherman’s daughter who observes the dramatic changes to the landscape of the Aral region and its population through a child’s eyes in a dreamlike mélange of documentary and fantasy. Drawing on the image of the Greek mythological figure of the Centaur, Menlibayeva creates alluring hybrid beings, both sexually charged and bizarre alike. According to the legend, when the ancient Greeks first encountered the nomads of the Transoxianian Steppes on their horses, they initially believed them to be mythological quadruped, part person part animal, fearing their savage and magical powers.
Opposite - Centaur, 2011
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2011
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
547 West 27th Street
2nd Floor
New York
NY
10001
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TUCA VIEIRA - BERLINSCAPES
Drawing on the formal rigor and architectural inspiration of the Düsseldorf School, Vieira creates his own distinctive style. The photographs depict functional architecture but in a nocturnal setting, with sensual lighting. One could describe it as a "tropicalization" of German photography’s rigidity and formality, “Germany meets Brazil”.
Made during Vieira’s 2009 artist’s residency in Berlin, this body of work highlights the contrasts and juxtapositions of “old Berlin” and “new Berlin”, revealing traces of not only divergent prosperity, but also the great battles for territorial and ideological conquest that caused it.
Opposite - Berlinscapes #1, Digital C-Print
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
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WIM WENDERS - PLACES, STRANGE AND QUIET
Places, strange and quiet, brings together almost 40 images, taken by Wenders from 1983 to 2011, it will feature many photographs not yet exhibited in London.
Wenders has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken in countries around the world from Salvador, Brazil; Palermo, Italy; Onomichi, Japan to Berlin, Germany; Brisbane, Australia, Armenia and the United States. From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, the exhibition will present the full range of his work, exploring how he created and honed remarkable images that continue to resonate powerfully
Opposite - Street Corner Butte, Montana, 2003
Exhibition runs through to May 17th, 2011
Haunch of Venison
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET
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JOHN HUMBLE - OTHER PLACES / VENICE BEACH
With Other Places, Humble decided to broaden his scope and "drive around the United States and photograph the American Landscape." Previously, his work was created with a large view camera, but advancements in digital photography enabled him to make his new photos with a hand-held camera, allowing more freedom and mobility. Humble made a series of extensive trips, staying primarily on smaller country roads. It is, of course, significant that his explorations were made in a car, and that his discoveries have become part of a great tradition in American photographic road trips.
Like his observations in Los Angeles, these American pictures are about insights in juxtaposition; aged and vacant storefronts sit beside gaudy drive-thrus, hand-painted religious billboards stand in empty fields, as do newly constructed, box-like churches that look more like concrete-slab industrial parks.
As a counterpoint to Humble's photographs of Middle America, he will concurrently present a series of photographs of Venice Beach. As the artist describes it, "there is no place in the world like the tawdry three-ring circus of Venice...electric guitar players on rollerblades, marijuana doctors, tarot readers, muscle builders, tattoo shops, drug addicts, entertainers, and people speaking every language under the sun."
Opposite - Closed, Enoch, Utah, 2010
Exhibition runs through to May 7th, 2011
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California
90404
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TARA DARBY - LITERARY JOURNEY
Darby's Literary Journey series recounts her travels through towns and cities used as settings in great books of American 20th century literature. Her first journey followed Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and was recounted episodically on the Another magazine website. The second journey features in this show at Transition and takes her to the Deep South to follow the plot and locations of Carson McCullers' 1940 novel The Night is a Lonely Hunter.
The story centres on the experiences of a deaf man, John Singer, and the people he meets in a 1930s mill town and was the first in a string of works by McCullers to give voice to the rejected, forgotten, mistreated and oppressed.
Exhibition runs from May 6th to May 22nd, 2011
Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London
E8 4QN
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MALERIE MARDER - CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
On discussing ‘Carnal Knowledge,’ a series of previously of unexhibited photographs, Marder says: “I used to have anxiety about my pictures exposing things too private, but the real intimacies are censored out. I still get pangs of self-consciousness, but it’s too late for regret. What was I thinking when I made the pictures? This is in no particular order: fate, kink, performance, a secret, nostalgia, sensual memory, voyeurism, nighttime settings, barren rooms, stark lighting, romantic trysts, foreign environments, intimacy, lack of intimacy, connection, lack of connection, self-reflection, lack of self-reflection, awkwardness, isolation, random, purpose, shadow, vulnerability, immaturity, innocence, amorous bodies, ambiguity, cocoons of emotion, modernist architecture, transience, lurid smells, a patient’s sickbed, love, eroticism, clarity, blushing, bruised, family, boyfriends, conflict, loyalty, disapproval, neuroticism, narcissism, truculence, numbness, sexual discomfort, subconscious, and the past. None of it is relevant now.”
Opposite - Past Present, 2007
Exhibition runs through to April 21th, 2011
Blain|Southern
21 Dering Street
London
W1S 1AL
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TYLER SHIELDS - LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE
Tyler has been known to almost kill his celebrity clients and was recently arrested for dangeling 3 pop stars off a bridge for a photo! His clients include My Chemical Romance, Perez Hilton, Carmen Electra and just about every bright young Hollywood star and starlet you'd wish to meet in the Hills. As well as that he has shot Lindsay Lohan, literally, before his exhibition in downtown LA.
Opposite - Lindsay Lohan, First Person Shooter, 2011
Exhibition runs from May 7th to May 8th, 2011
2476 Hunter Street
Los Angeles
CA
90021
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BRUNO BISANG - POLAWORLD
Bruno Bisang was born in 1952 and spent much of his youth in Ascona, a picturesque little town in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. When he was 19 he attended the School of Applied Arts for Photography in Zurich, which was followed by a photographic apprenticeship. Since 1979 Bruno Bisang has worked as a freelance photographer, first in Zurich, and then for a time in Milan and Munich. Now he works between Milan, New York, Paris and Zurich for a renowned clientele.
Opposite - Christina, Paris 1993
Exhibition runs from May 6th to July 20th, 2011
Young Gallery Brussels
75 b avenue Louise
1050
Brussels
Posted by Exit 11/04/2011
ROBERT GUMPERT - INSIDE SAN FRANCISCO'S JAILS
Robert Gumpert has been documenting the criminal justice system in San Francisco since 1994.
Gumpert’s project began with an idea to photograph a homicide detective, but quickly expanded to cover numerous other aspects of the criminal justice system. After he exhibited the work in San Francisco in 2000, he thought that was the end of it, until he received a call from the sheriff’s office. California’s oldest jail was about to close, and for Gumpert, whose photographic roots were planted in the social activism of the 70s, this was a piece of history he felt compelled to document.
Exhibition runs from April 7th to May 7th, 2011
HOST Gallery
1-5 Honduras Street
London
EC1Y 0TH
Posted by Exit 04/04/2011
WHO SHOT ROCK AND ROLL - 1955 TO THE PRESENT
The first major exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative & collaborative role in the history of rock music.
The exhibition includes 175 works by more than 100 photographers and covers the rock and roll era from the 1950s to the present including some of the world's most iconic images.
Opposite - Jagger/Leopard, 1992, Albert Watson,
Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2011
Columbia Museum Of Art
1515 Main Street
Columbia
SC 29201
USA
Posted by Exit 04/04/2011
RON GALELLA - SMASH HIS CAMERA
Ron Galella is an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo. Dubbed "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" by Newsweek and "the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture" by Time Magazine and Vanity Fair, he is regarded as the most controversial celebrity photographer in the world.
Galella's photographs can be seen in hundreds of publications including Time, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, People, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, the New York Times and Life. He is widely-known for his obsessive treatment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the subsequent legal battles associated with it. The New York Post called them "the most co-dependent celeb-paparazzi relationships ever." In the famous 1972 free-speech trial "Galella v. Onassis", she obtained a restraining order to keep Galella 150 feet away from her and her children.
Galella is the subject of a 2010 documentary film directed by Leon Gast entitled Smash His Camera.
Opposite - Jackie Onassis, Oct 7, 1971, Madison Avenue
Exhibition runs from April 9th to June 5th, 2011
Young Gallery Knokke
811 Zeedijk
8300 Knokke
Belgium
Posted by Exit 04/04/2011
MUHAMMAD ALI - DAVID KING
David King's photographs of Muhammad Ali, taken at his training camp in the Pennsylvania Mountains in 1974 when the "Greatest Of All Time" was preparing for his legendary world heavyweight title fight against George Foreman, held later that year in Kinshasa, Zaire.
The photographs document Ali's sixteen-week training programme for the fight (memorably named by him as "The Rumble in the Jungle") and are of considerable historical importance. David King first started shooting photographs when he was Art Editor of the Sunday Times Colour Magazine (1965-75). His photographic biography of Ali was published by Penguin in 1975 and sold 175,000 copies.
Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2011
Lucy Bell
46 Norman Road
St Leonards on Sea
TN38 0EJ
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LEONIE HAMPTON - IN THE SHADOWS OF THINGS
In the shadow of things, gathers intimate shots taken inside the household. This time around though, the family unit portrayed is that of the author herself.
Piles, almost layers of things, objects are the manifest and intrusive trace of the presence of her mother’s Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The illness pushes her to accumulate, tidy up and destroy what she had just organised. A tacit agreement bonds the entire family – Leonie, her brothers, her partner and her mother’s husband – in the sincere and loving effort to assist healing, with the awareness that the eccentric relationship the mother has established with the family, and with the rest of the world, is loaded with awkward and pathological aspects, but that are also tender, funny and in the end, full of love.
For some years Leonie, established photographer, decided to document the different moments of this delicate family relation. A house full of unusable rooms, lives marked by incomprehensible rituals, loud laughters and desperate crying. Leonie does not want to or can afford to be a silent witness: she herself is part of these images that portray affection, warmth, surreal atmospheres hovering between fable and nightmare.
Opposite - The Greenhouse, 2007
Exhibition runs through to May 1st, 2011
Forma
Piazza Tito Lucrezio
Caro 1
20136
Milano
Posted by Exit 28/03/2011
PHOTOGRAPHERS A-Z
A comprehensive overview of the most influential photographers of the last century and their finest monographs: Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century, from the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to the present day.
Richly illustrated with facsimiles from books and magazines, this book includes all the major photographers of the last one hundred years.
Available from Taschen.
Posted by Exit 28/03/2011
RUSSELL JAMES
Never before seen nude photographs of the most beautiful women in the world from the serien "V2" will be complemented by pictures from his art project "Nomad - Two Worlds".
Russell James' photographs of the eight beautiful women Brooklyn Decker, Mirander Kerr, Candice Swanepoel, Erin Heatherton, Emanuela de Paula, Jarah Mariano, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Lindsay Ellingson, entittled "V2", were taken on the picturesque island "Necker Island" and were combined in a book accompanying the exhibition.
Exhibition runs from April 2nd to May 7th, 2011
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
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DIETER ROTH - REYKJAVIK SLIDES
Featuring 31,035 slides shown simultaneously on multiple projectors, ‘Reykjavik Slides’ was inspired by the distinctive character of Icelandic architecture and documents every building in the capital. Made with the assistance of Pál Magnússon and the artist’s two sons, Björn and Karl, the work is a comprehensive survey, drawing one’s attention to the subject matter of the project, rather than the role of the artist.
The work’s numerous images present an act of dedication to the singularity of Reykjavik, Roth’s home since 1957 and, in seeing every building as worthy of admiration, Roth allowed life itself to communicate as art.
Exhibition runs from March 17th to April 30th, 2011
Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
London
W1S 2ET
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DAN HOLDSWORTH - BLACKOUT
Dan Holdsworth is renowned for landscape photographs in which nature, architecture and technology merge with light and space to produce powerful visions of the contemporary world. In Blackout, Holdsworth presents photographs taken in Iceland, a volcanic otherworld where day is night and ice is sooty pitch, Holdsworth’s negative images are literal double inversions; their black and white clarity negates all natural logic.
Exhibition runs from March 17th to May 8th, 2011
Nordin Gallery
Tulegatan 19
SE-113 53
Stockholm
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CALIFORNIA DREAMIN CURATED BY HEDI SLIMANE
Hedi Slimane is curating an exhibition ‘California Dreamin: Myths & Legends of Los Angeles’ which examines his adopted home and current obsession: LA. The show will include works from LA art stars like Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden, John Baldessari or Dennis Hopper, aswell as Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon.
A new book ‘Anthology of a Decade’ will be released soon also: the selection of 175 color photographs traverse the music scene, the New York art scene, street fashion and haute couture and record Slimane’s early years in the fashion industry, before, during and after his tenures at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior.
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2011
Almine Rech Gallery
19 Rue de Saintonge
Paris
France
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IDA KAR : BOHEMIAN PHOTOGRAPHER 1908-1974
This exhibition of over seventy of Kar’s portraits highlights the significant role played by this woman photographer at the heart of the creative avant-garde.
Russian-born, of Armenian heritage, Ida Kar (1908–74) was instrumental in encouraging the acceptance of photography as a fine art. Her subjects were the most celebrated figures from the literary and artistic spheres of 1950s and 1960s Europe and Russia. They include artists such as Henry Moore, George Braque, Gino Severini and Bridget Riley and writers such as Iris Murdoch and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Opposite - Yves Klein, 1957
Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2011
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 14/03/2011
CHEMA MADOZ
Madoz combines daily objects in different ways and takes photographs of this creations, without manipulating the photographs afterwards. This way he creates images that are placed outside their original context and create a new reality together. His photographs are not only taken to be seen, they are made to think about, reflect on and therefore, in all ways, to be contemplated. That is exactly why his pictures are so extraordinary; his visual paradoxes need our reasoning, our consideration; they are created to be completed and accomplished in our thoughts.
His work has been the object of many exhibitions and publications, all over the World. It is part of several international collections, for example the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo Marugame, Hirai, Japan en Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires.
Exhibition runs through to April 3rd, 2011
Nederlands Fotomuseum
(Las Palmas Building)
Wilhelminakade 332
NL-3072
AR
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
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JEANLOUP SIEFF
This exhibition features a selection from Sieff’s photographic oeuvre, with a special focus on his images portraying dance. It features 53 photographs taken from 1959 to 1996. In the course of his long career he engaged in reportage, landscape, fashion, commercial and portrait photography, working for magazines such as Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Paris-Match, Esquire, Glamour and Jardin des Modes.
Opposite - Alfred Hitchcock, Harper’s Bazaar, Hollywood, 1962
Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2011
Moderna Museet
Exercisplan 4
111 49 Stockholm
Sweden
Posted by Exit 07/03/2011
BILL CUNNINGHAM - NEW YORK
For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours." Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair.
In theaters March 16th, 2011
www.zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork
Posted by Exit 07/03/2011
YOSSI BREGER
The exhibition presents 159 photos, all new, in various formats, taken since 2007 in various places around the world, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Cologne, Havana, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Beijing, Stockholm—in the course of daily life.
The photos of landscapes, buildings, spaces, objects, people tell a story of being in front of a thing, the fundamental things that form the infrastructure of human environment.
They are precise and thoughtful, articulated in pictorial, emotional and classical formal language; their accumulation creates a general conceptual model of a life story and a world, time–space relations constructed by light and revealing a personal and sensual touch with elements of nature and culture
Opposite - Black Foxes, Beijing Zoo, 2009
Exhibition runs through to June 4th, 2011
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center
8 Dubnov Street
Tel Aviv
Israel
Posted by Exit 07/03/2011
MICHAEL HESS - BINGO & SOCIAL CLUB
In Bingo & Social Club, London-based photographer Michael Hess opens the doors on this much-loved pastime providing an intimate insight into its gamers and often nostalgic-looking interiors. Candidly capturing the energy and vibrancy inside the often crumbling exterior walls of bingo halls across the country on old classic 35mm black and white film, Hess’ images – taken over four years and in nearly 70 different venues.
Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2011
The Book Club
100 -106 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4RH
Posted by Exit 28/02/2011
DAVID LACHAPELLE - EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS
The series Earth Laughs in Flowers, which was created this year, refers to art-historical visual traditions but never loses sight of LaChapelle’s own artistic language.
The large-format still lifes in this series, with titles such as The Lovers, Concerning the Soul, Risk or America, seamlessly take up the principle of exaggeration that characterized the portraits of celebrities like Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson, Björk or David Bowie through which LaChapelle himself has become famous since the 1990s. The portraits always contained art-historical references, along with a fear of emptiness, a love of bad taste, an ugly beauty, but David LaChapelle’s recent works now show an explicit compositional affinity to Baroque floral still lifes. Plants, fruits and objects, in place of human bodies, now bear witness to human pride, to the finiteness of life with its obsessions and compulsions, to pleasure and suffering.
Opposite - The House at the End of the World, 2005
Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2011
Kestnergesellschaft
Goseriede 11
30159
Hanover
Germany
Posted by Exit 28/02/2011
DAVID MALJKOVIC - RECALLING FRAMES
David Maljkovic's latest works, Recalling Frames, are photomontages that interweave still images from Orson Welles' film The Trial, shot in Zagreb in 1962, with the artist's own contemporary photographs of the filming locations. Welles' haunting exploration of the terror of faceless bureaucracy was set against the city's Cold War-era Modernist buildings, to which Maljkovic returned to carefully photograph the sites from the same dramatic angles shown in the film. Spliced together from black-and-white negative prints, the resulting unique prints conflate five decades of aesthetic and ideological change.
Exhibition runs through to April 2nd, 2011
Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 28/02/2011
POLLY BORLAND - SMUDGE
This selection of photographs from Polly Borland’s most recent series ‘Smudge’ shows a combination of exuberant playfulness and dark, masqueraded sexuality. Created in a setting of spontaneity and constant experimentation, these works are distinctly raw and wildly imaginative. A total of 20 prints will be for sale.
Exhibition runs from March 17th to April 7th, 2011
Other Criteria
36 New Bond Street
London
W1S 2RP
Posted by Exit 21/02/2011
PHOTOGRAPHY OF SCULPTURE 1839 TO TODAY
'The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture 1839 to Today' offers a critical assessment of the aesthetic and theoretical intersections of photography and sculpture, with special attention paid to how the one medium is implicated in the creative interpretation of the other.
Presented are prints of famous photographers and groundbreaking artists who used this medium in a creative and original way for their three-dimensional works: Eugène Atget, Hans Bellmer, Herbert Bayer, Constantin Brancusi, Brassaï, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Robert Frank, David Goldblatt, Hannah Höch, André Kertész, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Gillian Wearing, Hannah Wilke, Iwao Yamawaki and many others.
Opposite - Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969, Lee Friedlander
Exhibition runs through to March 15th, 2011
Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz 1
CH–8001
Zurich
Posted by Exit 2102/2011
FACTRON METAL GEAR IPHONE CASE
Japanese brand Factron presents a series of metal cases for the iPhone. The Quattro iPhone 4 case allows you to add custom lenses, which include fish eye, wide-angle, and close-up lenses to the iPhone camera.
Posted by Exit 21/02/2011
FORMAT 11 - RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW
Established in 2004 in Derby UK, FORMAT is one of the UK's leading international contemporary festivals of photography. This year's programme is curated around the theme of street photography. It consists of exhibitions, portfolio reviews, workshops, commissions, screenings, mass participation, talks, photo collectives, publications, a summer school, conference and much more, all focusing on showing new work premiering in the UK, alongside the best established practitioners in the world, Joel Meyerowitz, Jeff Mermelstein and Will Sanders are just some of the photographers work that will be on show.
Opposite - New York City, 1963, Joel Meyerowitz
Festival runs from March the 3rd to March the 6th, 2011
FORMAT Festival
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby
DE1 3AS
Posted by Exit 14/02/2011
LARRY CLARK - WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN?
This exhibition will present a number of works from this period, including the monumental 1992 - comprising of 209 staged photographs, and a number of collages made in the 1990s. There will also be new and recent work including the collage I want a baby before u die (2010). This exhibition comes off the back of Clark’s record breaking retrospective Kiss the Past Hello at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2010, which has received worldwide controversy and critical acclaim.
Opposite - Chloe and Rosario, 2010, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition of 3
Exhibition runs from February 25th to March 26th, 2011
Simon Lee Gallery
12 Berkeley Street
London
W1J 8DT
Posted by Exit 14/02/2011
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN : SAVAGE BEAUTY
THE book examines McQueen’s inimitable technical virtuosity and its subversion of traditional tailoring and dressmaking practices. The book also focuses on the highly sophisticated narrative structures found in McQueen’s collections and in his astonishing and extravagant runway presentations. Intended as an assessment of Alexander McQueen’s entire career, the book includes in-depth studies of six collections that illustrate and encapsulate thematic chapters as well as an interview with Sarah Burton, the new creative director of Alexander McQueen who had been the designer’s right-hand design aide since 1996.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty will be released on April 30th, 2011.
Posted by Exit 14/02/2011
SASHA GREY - NEU SEX
Sasha Grey, rising adult film and pop-culture star, takes control in her new monograph neü sex, moving out from in front of the camera to behind it, turning the lens on the wild world she inhabits. “There are so many photos of me, taken by other people, that aesthetically I have no control over. Documenting myself allows me to reflect on the day, on the feelings I am having at that second. When you work in the entertainment industry, there are always surprises; there certainly isn’t one day that is similar to the last. Personally, it’s important to embrace this and appreciate it every day." Sasha Grey.
Nue Sex will be released on March 29th, 2011.
Posted by Exit 07/02/2011
ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground continues Broomberg & Chanarin's ongoing exploration of the limits and possibilities of photography in a historical moment when both ubiquity and technology have rendered the production and use of documentary images intensely problematic, a vector of enquiry pursued and manifest in their earlier, seminal series; The Red House, The Day Nobody Died and American Landscapes.
The new work is the result of an engagement by the artists with Belfast Exposed, a photographic archive founded in 1983. The archive houses images taken by both professional photo-journalists and 'civilian' photographers. Accordingly the archive spans the political, the social and the private, the didactic and the playful.
Opposite - Culture 3 sheet 72, 2010
Exhibition runs from February 25th to March 26th, 2011
Paradise Row Gallery
74 Newman Street
London
W1T 3EL
Posted by Exit 07/02/2011
KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER - INTIMATE STRANGER
The first institutional exhibition of vintage prints by the late Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006). An unsung pioneer of vernacular photography since the Fifties, Weinberger captured a young generation of rebels, who were greatly influenced by American culture.
In 1958, Weinberger met members of a small band of teenagers and began photographing them both at his home, as well as at the public parks and fairgrounds where the group gathered. In post-war Switzerland, these self-named “rebels” (referred to by the Swiss as “Halbstark” or “half strong”) were comprised of working class boys and girls dissatisfied by the conservative climate of the day. They adopted a powerful gang identity expressed in their self styled and homemade clothing--embellished jeans, motorcycle jackets, enlarged belt buckles, which referenced and emulated American icons Marlon Brando (in The Wild One), James Dean (in Rebel Without a Cause), Elvis Presley (in the film and album Jailhouse Rock).
Exhibition runs from February 9th to March 26th, 2011
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway 3rd Floor
New York
NY
10012
Posted by Exit 07/02/2011
MARK SELIGER - LISTEN
The exhibition includes 30 large-scale platinum palladium prints depicting nudes, still lifes, portraits, and New York cityscapes. Along with the exhibition, Seliger released his new book with the same title, Listen (Rizzoli New York, 2010), featuring 90 tritone photographs and an interview with the artist by leading American magazine designer Fred Woodward. Many of the photographs are on exhibition for the first time.
Mark Seliger: Listen is in a sense a memento mori, a tribute to his late father. It follows in the tradition of photographers and painters such as Weston, Stieglitz, and Cézanne who, at a certain age, focus on elegiac studies of the nude, the landscape, and the still life. The pictures are Seliger’s meditations through slow looking. These photographs speak to us metaphorically of the eternal themes of love and death. They pay homage to Seliger’s forebears Brandt, Kertesz, Hosoe, and Penn.
Opposite - Nude, New York, April 18, 2002
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2011
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23 Street
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 31/01/2011
TURTLEBACK JACKET JACKET FOR IPHONE 4
The Turtle Jacket aluminium ‘iPhone camera case’ contains UV filter, and is compatible with any 37mm lenses. The company also offers 60mm (for close up), 21mm (for long shot) and 8mm (for fish-eye-view). The two holes in the bottom are for tripod. The case is also compatible with other brands such as Manfrotto Modo.
Posted by Exit 31/01/2011
WTAPS CAMERA BAG
After releasing the camera straps last year, Japanese label WTAPS have the released a camera bag as well. Like the camera straps, clean with minimal branding.
Posted by Exit 31/01/2011
ED VAN DER ELSKEN - LOVE ON THE LEFT BANK
Originally published in 1956, the book has been reprinted by the small British publisher, Dewi Lewis. It focuses on the Left Bank of Paris at the time when the area was a centre of creative ferment and the home of the artists, writers and aesthetes who would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. With its unconventional, gritty, snapshot-like technique the work was widely acclaimed as expanding the boundaries of documentary photography.
Born 1925, in Amsterdam, Ed van der Elsken is recognised as one of the great photographers of the 20th century. During his lifetime he published over 20 books. In recent years his work has been exhibited widely throughout the world.
Posted by Exit 24/01/2011
VANESSA WINSHIP - NOT ONLY RARE BIRDS SING
The British photographer Vanessa Winship's new exhibition features portraits of teenagers and schoolchildren taken over the last 10 years mainly in rural areas of the Balkans, Turkey and Caucasia. Gentle, intriguing, elusive portraits that touch on notions of identity, experience and belonging in a fragmenting world.
Exhibition runs from February 4th to March 19th, 2011
Galerie VU
17 boulevard Henri 4
75004 Paris
France
Posted by Exit 24/01/2011
NIKON COOLPIX P300
The Coolpix P300 offers full manual control alongside aperture and shutter speed priority modes. Like the P500, it's able to shoot Full HD video at 1080p resolution. It can also shoot in slow motion, but instead of being able to achieve the 240fps of the P500, its maximum rate is 120fps. This will allow users to shoot VGA clips and play them back at a quarter of their usual speed. Available early February.
Posted by Exit 24/01/2011
PEEP SHOW - BOB CARLOS CLARKE
The exhibition will show a selection of images from Bob’s 30 year career. And following the successful release of the first series of estate editions in 2010, the Estate of Bob Carlos Clarke are proud to release a second series of nine prints of some of Bob’s most famous images, as 16” x 20” digital bromide prints in an edition of 25, including ‘Faithful Unto Death’, ‘Masked Blonde’ and ‘Cry Baby’.
The exhibition coincides with the announcement of the production of a film on the life and work of Bob Carlos Clarke by directors Bert & Bertie.
Opposite - Crybaby
Exhibition runs from March 30th to April 30th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 17/01/2011
E.O. HOPPE
E.O. Hoppé is one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century.
The exhibition brings together Hoppé's strikingly modernist portraits of important personalities including George Bernard Shaw, Margot Fonteyn and Vita Sackville-West and his fascinating photojournalist studies,which capture the realities of day-to-day life in Britain between the wars.
Opposite - Mona Maris, Berlin, 1929
Exhibition runs through to May 30th, 2011
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 17/01/2011
CINDY SHERMAN
For this series Sherman has assembled a cast of uniquely individual characters on large photographic murals, marking a departure within Cindy Sherman’s artistic practice from the format of the framed photograph.
The various personas animating this new body of work were created as shrines to nondescript, eccentric characters who
might also be seen to denote sentries, guarding the entrance to some fabled land, casting ambiguous and disconcerting
glances at the viewer.
Opposite - Untitled, 2010
Exhibition runs through to February 19th, 2011
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ
Posted by Exit 17/01/2011
CHRISTOPHER THOMAS - NEW YORK SLEEPS
New York Sleeps is a series of black and white images shot using a custom-made large format camera, Polaroid film and long exposures. The resulting exhibition of 30 large-scale cityscapes, devoid of people, offers an elusive glimpse of 19th century tranquility while hinting at a cryptic, apocalyptic ending. From views of a snow bound Guggenheim to a boarded up Katz Deli.
Opposite - The James Watson House, 2008
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2011
Wapping Project Bankside
65a Hopton Street
SE1 9LR
London
Posted by Exit 10/01/2011
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF RAY K. METZKER
Approaching 80 years of age, Ray Metzker is one of the most dedicated, innovative, and influential American photographers of the last half century, his ability to turn ordinary subjects, including the urban experience and nature, into the visual poetry of the finely crafted black-and-white print.
This show will survey the key aspects of Metzker’s long career: Chicago (1956-59); Europe (1960-61); Philadelphia cityscapes (1962-63); double-image “couplets” and multi-image composites (1964-69); optical abstractions (“Pictus Interruptus” series of 1977-80); later Chicago and Philadelphia cityscapes (1981-84); landscapes (1985-95); and his recent city pictures (1996-2009).
Opposite - Man in Canoe, Frankfurt, 1964
Exhibition runs from January 15th to June 5th, 2011
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City
MO
64111
Posted by Exit 10/01/2011
ANDY WARHOL - BEHIND THE CAMERA
The exhibition, Andy Warhol: Behind the Camera includes 60 works, It is the first time these photographs have been publicly shown. Prime examples of Warhol’s obsessive camerawork, they illustrate the artist’s largely unknown achievements in photography, which are as distinctive as his celebrated paintings, prints, and films.
The work of some photographers is forever identified with the particular cameras they used; Henri Cartier-Bresson and his state-of-the art Leica come to mind. This is true also of Warhol, who loved certain cameras to the point of obsession. But unlike fine-art photographers who typically master complicated equipment, Warhol invariably opted for devices marketed to the home consumer with as few controls as possible. Whether expensive Japanese miniature cameras or cheap Polaroid models, what mattered for Warhol was the lack of photographic “knowledge” required to operate them.
Opposite - Lorna Luft, 1982
Exhibition runs from January 15th to June 5th, 2011
University of Delaware
Newark
DE
19716
USA
Posted by Exit 10/01/2011
NAN GOLDIN. BERLIN WORK. PHOTOGRAPHS 1984 TO 2009
The American artist Nan Goldin is a leading exponent of ‘subjective photography’. Her own life forms the focus of her artistic work. Goldin has repeatedly spent extended periods in Berlin since the 1980s. In 1991 she was able to spend an entire year in Berlin as part of the DAAD artist programme. With around 100 photographs, the Berlinische Galerie is presenting a comprehensive insight into her work created in Berlin, whereby it is also drawing on previously unpublished material from the artist’s archive, which has never before been presented.
Opposite - Self-Portrait in my Blue Bathroom, Berlin 1991
Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2011
Berlinische Galerie
State Museum of Modern Art, Photography, and Architecture
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128
10969
Berlin
Posted by Exit 03/01/2011
PENELOPE UMBRICO
Penelope Umbrico offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. As Umbrico describes, she works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”
Umbrico finds these moments in the printed pages of consumer product mail-order catalogs, travel and leisure brochures, and online sites such as Craigslist, EBay, and Flickr. By identifying and isolating image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—the farcical and surreal nature of the lingua franca of consumerism and recreation is brought to new light.
She presents a unique and challenging approach to quintessential issues of representation in contemporary culture, including how images
are used to construct and communicate consumer desire, and whether or not the
growing volume of images we view online fosters a critical visual literacy.
Her first monograph Penelope Umbrico (Photographs) released in June 2011.
Posted by Exit 03/01/2011
LEICA M9 - CHROME AND OSTRICH
The Leica M9 has been released with a new limited edition silver chrome and brown ostrich leather body, with Scratch-resistant sapphire glass and a Leica 35mm f/2 Summicron lens. The kit is now available select Leica Boutiques in a limited, numbered run of 50 cameras.
Posted by Exit 03/01/2011
KEEGAN GIBBS - OPEN SPACE
The first solo photo exhibition by Keegan Gibbs. Open Space is a collection of images, collages, and installations which are inspired by his life in surfing
Open Space is my expression of the state one falls into while floating weightless off shore, looking out to sea, hoping and waiting for the next set. Troubles are isolated far away on the unreality of land, while you are free in the truest reality of water. It is a timeless unspoilable state that cannot be ruined, not even by the angry local that may be slashing your tires and waxing your windows simply because he doesn’t want to share some waves. To a surfer it's an understandable act of necessary evil to keep an ungoverned subculture in form, and from it breaking into full bore beach-blanket-bingo havoc.
Exhibition runs from January 15th to February 5th, 2011
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90036
Posted by Exit 27/12/2010
LEICA X RED BULL ILLUME D-LUX 5 CAMERA
The “Red Bull Illume Limited Edition” is the first ever camera made by Leica to be dedicated to a photography award.
These specially handcrafted, meticulously manufactured special editions are only made by Leica to mark historical occasions and are always produced in very limited numbers. Only 250 cameras have been produced, a number specially selected to honor the 250 photographs featured in the Red Bull Illume Photobook.
leica-camera.com
www.redbull.com
Posted by Exit 27/12/2010
POLAROID IPHONE DECAL
Photojojo have produced a new Polaroid iPhone Decal, which makes your iPhone 4 look like the old Rainbow OneStep Polaroid Land Camera.
Posted by Exit 27/12/2010
HELMUT NEWTON AT KUNSTHAUS APOLDA AVANTGARDE
The exhibition includes 75 images from the 1973 to 2002. Among the works are large-format black-and-white and color photographs, featuring such stars as model Naomi Campbell. The exhibition also shows Polaroid series from the collection of fashion designer Yves St. Laurent. Newton fetish performances and images of women in glamorous surroundings are also part of the show.
Opposite - Belucci, Monte Carlo, 2001
Exhibition runs from January 9th to March 27th, 2011
Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde
Bahnhofstr. 44
99510
Apolda
Germany
Posted by Exit 20/12/2010
ALISTAIR TAYLOR-YOUNG
The first UK solo show by photographer Alistair Taylor-Young, to coincide with the launch of his book The Phone Book.
British born Taylor-Young is a photographer, specialising in
fashion, beauty, travel and luxury, living between New York and Paris. His enthusiasm
for experimenting with light and lenses give his work a poetic feel.
Opposite - Pink Lips, 2008
Exhibition runs from January 12th to February 12th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 20/12/2010
OLYMPUS PEN E-PL2 CAMERA
The fifth model in the Olympus Pen series is a much simplified version of last year's model. The E-PL2 is a 12.3 megapixel camera, with a new display and the accessories that can be used with the camera, including wireless file sharing and a macro spotlight. Comes in four different colours.
Posted by Exit 20/12/2010
LONDON CALLING : THE CLASH BY ADRIAN BOOT
This exhibition is a photographic portrait of the band and will include a number of never before seen images. Photographs include them rehearsing rehearsing in the Gin House at the Stables Market in Camden which was also the site of the original Proud Galleries in Camden.
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2011
Proud Camden
The Horse Hospital
Chalk Farm Road
NW1 8AH
Posted by Exit 13/12/2010
SALLY MANN: THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT
Sally Mann's most recent work represents an intriguing new direction. She is tackling expansive themes of mortality and vulnerability, while for the first time using herself and her husband as subjects. In addition, she has taken her bold experiments with the medium to new heights, pushing photography to its limits by making painterly and nearly abstract images—many as unique pieces on glass plates. Altogether the exhibition and accompanying catalog will present an unexpected picture of Mann's work, encouraging a fresh perspective on one of today's preeminent photographers and, it is hoped, an opportunity to extend her visibility well beyond the realm of photography.
The Book,
Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit, co-published by Aperture and VFMA
Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2011
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Altria Group and Center Gallery
200 North Boulevard
Richmond
Virginia
Posted by Exit 13/12/2010
OLYMPUS XZ-1
Olympus presents their new XZ-1 compact camera. Featuring a 6-24mm Zuiko zoom lens (28-112mm equivalent) with f/1.8-2.8 aperture range, the camera competes directly with the likes of the Canon G12. The camera also includes 720p HD video, a 10MP sensor and a 3-inch OLED display.
Posted by Exit 13/12/2010
LOCALS ONLY - HUGH HOLLAND
Locals only - California Skateboarding: 1975 – 1978 is a new book of color photographs by Hugh Holland that capture the Los Angeles skateboard revolution during the mid-Seventies from an insider’s perspective.
Unlike most photographers capturing the craze, Holland’s photographs were never about the sport. Holland shot with old color negative movie film, rendering his images in warm, soft tones that were in complete contrast to the sharp, crisp chromes that the majority of skate photographers were using at the time. Beyond the bodies in motion, Holland captures beautifully intimate portraits of the young boys sitting under the trees waiting their turn, resting by the chain link fence at Kenter or in peaceful contemplation after a long day of riding. Holland primarily shot his subjects in the late afternoon, bathing his models and settings with an effervescent, glistening quality. They are, in essence, photographs of a generation of boys discovering their identity amidst the backdrop of cultural phenomena that shaped a generation.
Posted by Exit 06/12/2010
2011 PIRELLI CALENDAR
After Patrick Demarchelier immortalised China in the 2008 edition, Peter Beard drew a portrait of Botswana in 2009, and Terry Richardson covered Brazil in 2010, for the 2011 edition, Pirelli has teamed up with Karl Lagerfeld from his Paris studio and a host of models, both male and female, including actress Julianne Moore. The theme for this year's calendar is Greek and Roman mythology, with Moore playing the part of Hera and Brad Kroenig portraying Zeus.
Opposite - Daria Werbowy as Artemis
Posted by Exit 06/12/2010
LOMO LC-A+ WHITE SPECIAL EDITION
The graceful beauty of a traditional Japanese stone garden is the prime inspiration for the new Lomo LC-A+ White Japan Edition. Features include a Multiple exposure switch for easy, real-time double-exposure. Only 1000 of these cameras are available worldwide.
Posted by Exit 06/12/2010
GLEN E. FRIEDMAN : FUCK YOU ALL
Fuck You All, is an international traveling collection of photographs that span the prolific and influential career of artist, Glen E. Friedman. Now in its 13th year, this exhibition makes its way to San Francisco for the first time, bringing with it the work that presented some of the world’s most significant photographic contributions to the punk and hip hop subcultures and not only documented the genesis of skate culture, but helped shape it for generations to come.
Opposite - Ice T, Hollywood, CA, April 1986
Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2010
941 Geary
941 Geary Street
San Francisco,
CA
94109
Posted by Exit 29/11/2010
DAVID DREBIN - THE MORNING AFTER
David Drebin’s photographs are epic, dramatic and, above all, cinematic. His work combines voyeuristic and psychological viewpoints in a unique manner.
The photographer offers to the beholder an exciting insight into the emotions and experiences of the protagonists of his illustrative worlds. It is predominantly the night shots of glittering metropolises such as New York, Hong Kong, and San Francisco which serve as gigantic backdrops for his photographs. With their impressive skyscrapers, they provide the beholder with a nearly infinite surface for the imagination. Thus, it is only consistent that Drebin gives the viewer a voyeuristic insight into the apartments, where he mystically stages attractive women in a glamorous and sexy manner.
In conjunction with the exihibition, Drebin releases his new book "The Morning After," published by teNeues.
Opposite - Me and Me, 2008
Exhibition runs through to January 15th, 2011
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Posted by Exit 29/11/2010
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE 1990 – 2005
The exhibition brings together almost 200 iconic images of famous public figures together with personal photographs of her family and close friends. Arranged chronologically, they project a unified narrative of the artist’s private life against the backdrop of her public image. “I don’t have two lives,” Leibovitz says. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.”
At the heart of the exhibition, Leibovitz’s personal photography documents scenes from her life, including the birth and childhood of her three daughters, and vacations, reunions, and rites of passage with her parents, her extended family and close friends.
The exhibition features Leibovitz’s portraits of well-known figures, including actors such as Jamie Foxx, Daniel Day Lewis, Demi Moore, Scarlett Johansson, Al Pacino, Nicole Kidman and Brad Pitt as well as artists and architects such as Richard Avedon, Brice Marden, Philip Johnson, Chuck Close and Cindy Sherman.
Featured assignment work includes searing reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s and the election of Hillary Clinton to the US Senate. There are also landscapes taken in Monument Valley in the American West and in Wadi Rum in the Jordanian desert.
Opposite - Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rob Besserer, Cumberland Island, Georgia, 1990
Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2011
The Museum of Contemporary Art
140 George Street
The Rocks
Sydney
Australia
Posted by Exit 29/11/2010
GRETA ILIEVA - APPLEBY
Debut solo exhibition for fashion, portrait and fine art photographer, Greta Ilieva.
Ilieva’s personal work for the last 3 years has focused on Gypsies in Bulgaria and the United Kingdom and
how they interface with society. For this exhibition she has selected photographs taken at the Appleby Horse
Fair in Cumbria from 2010 where Romany families travel to meet up with friends and conduct business. The
fair is the largest gypsy gathering of its kind and has existed since 1685.
Exhibition runs from November 23rd to Demcenber 5th, 2010
37 Camden High Street
London
NW1 7JE
Posted by Exit 22/11/2010
RYAN MCGINLEY - LIFE ADJUSTMENT CENTER
Two themes are presented in this book, firstly a collection of b&w studio nudes many with wild animals, an extension of the studio series "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere". The second features one of McGinley's core elements as a photographer, “capturing his subjects in dreamlike compositions, rich in motion and color, during recent adventures on the road”. The book is bound in a blue cloth with red text on cover and spine and a red stain to the page edges. Limited to 3,000 copies
Posted by Exit 22/11/2010
BRUCE WEBER: HAITI / LITTLE HAITI
In 2003, The Miami Herald published a magazine supplement of Bruce Weber's photographs of Miami's Haitian community. The photographs were Weber’s response to an unjust U.S. immigration system in which Haitian men, women and children were detained indefinitely unlike refugees from other countries who were typically released to family or friends while awaiting asylum hearings.
The documentary film, The Agronomist, by Jonathan Demme, had been Weber’s call to arms. In it, Demme chronicled the life of Haiti’s most famous journalist, Jean Dominique, the founder of Radio Haiti Internationale, and his murder by unknown assailants in 2000. Incensed by the violence, political strife, and poverty depicted in the film, Weber asked Demme what he could do, and Demme suggested turning his attention to what was happening to Haitians in Miami, where Weber had a home. Compelled to tell the story of the struggle of Haitian immigrants, Weber immersed himself in the Haitian community, which he has continued to chronicle through the present.
Weber chose primarily to work in black-and-white for the project, but switched to color film when photographing Haitian Flag Day celebrations. Over the years he has built up a large archive of photographs of Haitian celebrations, church congregations, Little Haiti stores and boulevards, as well as portraits of individuals, groups, and families.
Opposite - Keren Love Francois, Miami, FL, 2010, Bruce Weber
Exhibition runs through to Februrary 13th, 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Joan Lehman Building
770 NE 125th Street
North Miami
Florida
33161
Posted by Exit 22/11/2010
4 SALE
4 Sale debuts the culmination of the year
long creative union between Aneta Bartos, Elle Muliarchyk, Yana
Toyber and Martynka Wawrzyniak. The imagery delves into universal
mores and ideals all the while producing beautiful, conceptually strong
and visually stimulating works. 4 Sale captures the essence of the
dynamic nature within this collaboration curated by Anne Huntington.
The works appropriate, suggest and formalize the collaboration within
the full photographic body.
Each artist conceptualizes unique realities within her framed vignettes, thus illustrating how each artist proclaims
her unique voice, idea and story.
The process evolves through openness, risk-taking, exploration and the incorporation of artistic and cultural influences. The fundamental nature of the works materializes organic and potentially controversial issues; issues that the artists keenly acknowledge and own. This acute awareness underscores the complexity of the project that liberates, provokes and creates a sense of union between these four talented artists of Eastern European descent.
Opposite - Yana Toyber
Exhibition runs from November 19th to November 22th, 2010
8 Bond Studio
8 Bond Street
New York
NYC
10012
USA
Posted by Exit 15/11/2010
STEFAN RUIZ - THE FACTORY OF DREAMS
Televisa Studios, in the San Angel neighborhood of Mexico City, is called ‘The Factory of Dreams’ and is best-known for its telenovelas (soap operas). These fantasies of love, wealth and betrayal are one of Mexico’s largest exports. They are popular throughout Latin America but also in Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA. No one produces more telenovelas than Mexico’s Televisa studios. The telenovela and its protagonists are a powerful vehicle through which contemporary Latin American culture and its society can be understood and interpreted.
Stefan first photographed Televisa studios in 2003 for COLORS magazine as their creative director. He returned to the studios after the issue published and continued to work on the project over a period of six years. Stefan's behind-thescenes photographs in ‘The factory of dreams’ reveal this secret world with humor and affection.
Opposite - Haydee Navarra, Corazones al Límite
Exhibition runs from November 19th to December 13th, 2010
F.L.O.A.T. Gallery
539 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
NY
11217
USA
Posted by Exit 15/11/2010
MICK ROCK - ROCK MUSIC
Launching a career in 1972 with a portrait of then-unknown David Bowie, Mick Rock's images began to define the era leading him to become known as 'The Man Who Shot the 70s'.
An exhibition to coincide with the publication of Rock's new book Exposed: the Faces of Rock n' Roll, which includes previously unseen and unpublished images, as well as rare and unexpected portraits, has gone on display in London.
The retrospective exhibition is a journey through his career and music history. Rock became Bowie's official photographer on tour and was able to document the creation of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust persona. Other iconic stars feature in the exhibition are Kate Moss, Debbie Harry, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol.
Opposite - Kate Moss, 2002, Mick Rock
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2010
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
Shoreditch
E2 7JB
London
Posted by Exit 15/11/2010
DAN HOLDSWORTH - BLACKOUT
Blackout brings together a remarkable new sequence of images taken in Iceland by British photographer Dan Holdsworth. Occupying a space between documentary and the make-believe, Holdsworth’s photographs combine traditional analogue methods with digital processing to transform the elemental terrain of a giant glacier as it melts away. The result is an other-worldly vision of the future. Reproduced at a grand scale, the blue of sky becomes the deep black of space, while the earth appears in negative, beyond imaginable human time and space.
Exhibition runs from November 12th to February 20th, 2011
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
UK
Posted by Exit 08/11/2010
TIM BARBER - UNTITLED PHOTOGRAPHS
In his first major U.S. show titled Untitled Photographs, Barber presents a collection of images spanning his fifteen years behind the lens. Known for elegantly composed observations that locate complex beauty in the seemingly mundane, Barber’s Untitled Photographs offers a selection of over forty of his images.
From portraits to landscapes to narrative scenes, Barber approaches all of his subject matter with a palpable delicacy. Expanding on amateur aesthetics, these images can feel as much like spontaneous documentation of the artist’s adventures as careful compositions. The line between autobiography and fiction is as ethereal as the overall tone of the work. In the case of Barber’s photography, ambiguity is seductive, and the lure of fantasy eclipses the security of literality.
Exhibition runs from November 13th to November 27th, 2010
OHWOW
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami
FL
33127
Posted by Exit 08/11/2010
PAUL GRAHAM - WORKS
The first retrospective in Germany of British photographer Paul Graham with about 145 images, the exhibition shows a representative selection of his work. Graham’s work belongs to the tradition of social documentary photography, which was founded by Bill Brandt in England after the second world war and continued by photographers such as Chris Killip and John David. In dealing with it and with American photography from the 60s and 70s, Graham developed an innovate artistic work whose view is directed uncompromisingly at social reality.
Opposite - From the series "End of an Age", 1996-98
Exhibition runs through to January 11th, 2011
Deichtorhallen Hamburg GmbH
Angelika Leu-Barthel
Deichtorstr. 1-2
D-20095 Hamburg
Posted by Exit 08/11/2010
ALBERT WATSON - STRIP SEARCH
Five years in the making, Strip Search, made up of two large format books, is Watson’s spectacular personal portrait of Las Vegas as seen through the lens of a legendary photographic artist. Approximately 400 remarkable landscapes, still lifes and portraits, together with dramatic reportage-style images, Strip Search is a unique and visually stunning portrayal of one of the world’s most enigmatic cities. A limited edition is available, this includes 1 of 5 different prints, limited to an edition of 100 each. Each archival pigment print is 10” x 13”, and is personally initialed by Albert Watson, stamped and numbered.
Opposite - Breaunna in Cat Mask, Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas
Posted by Exit 01/11/2010
WILLIAM EGGLESTON : DEMOCRATIC CAMERA
This exhibition includes more than two hundred photographs, the artist's little-known video work Stranded in Canton, his early black-and-white photographs of the sixties, and the vivid dye-transfer work of the early seventies, as seen in the Museum of Modern Art's landmark catalogue of 1976, William Eggleston's Guide. Highlights from the last twenty years includes selections from the Graceland series and The Democratic Forest, Eggleston's great, dense anthology of the quotidian. The exhibition includes a special selection of recent work taken in Los Angeles.
Opposite - Algiers, Louisiana, 1972
Exhibition runs from October 31st to January 16th, 2011
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90036
Posted by Exit 01/11/2010
PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-GF2
The GF2 is powered by a 12.1-megapixel Live MOS sensor, shoots HD video capture in 1080i at 60 fps or 720p at 60fps, and lenses are interchangeable. Another added feature it a touch screen LCD display with spans the whole backside of the body. It will be released in January 2011.
Posted by Exit 01/11/2010
JULIAN SCHNABEL POLAROIDS
The exhibition will present a selection of large-scale Polaroids, mostly previously unpublished, which offer an insight into the enigmatic character of the artist and a glimpse into his working environment.
Works on view include images of Schnabel’s family and friends, such as Lou Reed, Placido Domingo and Mickey Rourke, alongside Polaroids of the artist's private spaces within the Palazzo Chupi on New York's Lower West Side and the interiors and surroundings of his studios in Brooklyn, Montauk and Manhattan.
Schnabel took these extraordinary large-format Polaroids, both in brilliant colour and black-and-white, using a dolly-mounted 20 x 24 in. 1970s camera, and in some cases the artist has painted on the surfaces of the photographs.
Opposite - Untitled (Julian and Mickey), 26 x 22 ", Julian Schnabel
Exhibition runs through to the 12th of November, 2010
Colnaghi
15 Old Bond Street
London
W1S 4AX
UK
Posted by Exit 25/10/2010
PORTRAITS OF KEITH RICHARDS 1963-1972
As one of the world's most beloved guitarists, Keith Richards is celebrated as much for his lifestyle as his musical genius. "Before They Make me Run - Portraits of Keith Richards 1963 - 1972," explores the various sides of this quintessential rock star's life.
Curated by Raj Prem and produced in association with SFAE, the exhibition features the work of some of the world's greatest rock photographers.
Included are images from iconic sessions such as Philip Townsend's first ever photographs of the Stones in Chelsea in the early '60s, Gered Mankowitz's moody black-and-white portraits, Michael Cooper's exotic images from Morocco and Joshua Tree, Michael Joseph's "Beggars Banquet" photos, official Stones photographer Ethan Russell's poetic images of the group's infamous 1969 and 1972 US tours, and Dominique Tarle's photos taken during the recording of "Exile on Main St." in the South of France. Additional photographers included are Peter Webb and David Montgomery with their memorable "Sticky Fingers" images, legendary producer Eddie Kramer's intimate recording studio shots with Keith, and Jerrold Schatzberg's photos of Keith dressed in drag.
Opposite - Keith Richards, Piano, Dominique Tarlé
San Francisco Art Exchange
458 Geary Street
San Francisco
CA
94102
USA
Posted by Exit 25/10/2010
WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL
Often regarded as the founder of ‘street photography’, the American Garry Winogrand took countless photographs of women in New York between 1960 and 1975. A final collection of 85 photos was put together by John Szarkowski, the legendary curator of the Museum of Modern Art, for a work published in 1975 under the title ‘WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL’. For the most part taken on the street, Winogrand’s snapshots document the life of young and emancipated women of the period in a unique way.
The photographer has created valuable documents illustrating the changes in women’s understanding of their own role – with self-confident female figures either enjoying themselves at parties or making their voices heard at political demonstrations. As a result of the wide time span, the viewer is able to experience the development of fashion and pop culture over two of the most lively decades of the past century.
Exhibition runs from November 6th to November 27th, 2010
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 25/10/2010
LEICA X L'ECLAIREUR X GILLES OUAKI
The Parisian boutique and concept store L’Eclaireur is celebrating its 30th anniversary next month. For this occasion they teamed up with Gilles Ouaki and Leica, to produce a limited edition of their X1 digital camera. The camera is signed by Ouaki and the store, and features red leather detailing. Only limited to 30 pieces.
Posted by Exit 18/10/2010
PENTAX OPTIO NB1000 X NANOBLOCK
Pentax’s Optio NB1000 Point and Shoot camera has a front panel which is covered in a Lego-like piece compatible with nanoblocks (a construction block system similar to lego) from Japan’s Diablock. Different sizes of these blocks can be attached to the face of the camera so that you can personalize it with patterns, mini sculptures. The blocks also have more than just an aesthetic appeal. they can be used to help capture your images – arrangement around the lens can form frames for your pictures
Posted by Exit 18/10/2010
NIKON D7000
Nikon introduces the new D7000, a 16.2MP DX-format CMOS digital-SLR packed into a compact body. Good news for those looking to shoot both stills and video – the D7000 includes Full HD 1080p recording. A solid successor to the popular D90.
Posted by Exit 18/10/2010
STEPHEN SHORE - UNCOMMON PLACES
Stephen Shore's first solo show in Berlin for over 15 years. The exhibition will feature 80 previously unseen works from the series Uncommon Places, in addition to a number of pages from his seminal Road Trip Journal.
Stephen Shore embarked on his first road trip in the summer of 1972 which resulted in the series American Surfaces. With a Rollei 35 mm camera, the forerunner of the point-and-shoot, Shore was able to immediately capture the people, places and objects he encountered, producing a series of consciously casual and intimate snapshots.
While Shore continued to document his travels, he wanted to explore a greater visual intentionality and, therefore, began his next series of work in 1973 entitled Uncommon Places. Here the artist focuses on the minutiae of modern life in America, capturing anonymous intersections, residential architecture, uniform drive-by diners, generic motel rooms and monotonous gas stations, all of which were shot using colour film and a view camera, a combination that had rarely been put to use in recording America’s social landscape.
Opposite - Granite, Oklahoma, July 1972
Exhibition runs from November 12th to January 8th, 2011.
Sprüth Magers Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178 Berlin
Posted by Exit 11/10/2010
BEST OF BRITISH
Best of British, is an exhibition of photographs by some of the best British photographers of the past and present. These include Miles Aldridge, Bob Carlos Clarke, Terence Donovan, Brian Duffy, Mike Figgis, Chris Levine, Patrick Lichfield, Gered Mankowitz, Terry O’Neill, Norman Parkinson, and Alistair Taylor-Young.
As part of Best of British, the photographic work of Mike Figgis is included. Figgis is a renowned director and writer most famous for his 1996 film ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ which was nominated for four Academy Awards. He has since worked on the cutting edge of creative digital filmmaking and photography, where he pushes the boundaries
by experimenting with different textures and formats.
Opposite - Kate Moss, 2007, Mike Figgs
Exhibition runs from November 3rd to December 18th, 2010
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 11/10/2010
STICKERS: STUCK UP PIECE OF CRAP
Stickers: Stuck Up Piece of Crap – From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art” is a new book by DB Burkeman.
The publication is a massive chronicling of the history of sticker culture, with more than 4,000 images and 30 contributing writers including Martha Cooper, Stanley Donwood, Shepard Fairey, Carlo McCormick, Clayton Patterson, Stephen Powers (ESPO) and Swoon.
Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art is out now via Rizzoli in paperback or as a limited, numbered hardcover deluxe boxed edition, including a folder pack of 23 exclusive die-cut stickers, many signed by the artists. Contributors include Kenny Scharf, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Jose Parla, Mark Dean Veca, Rostarr, and Space Invader.”
Posted by Exit 11/10/2010
THREE'S A CROWD - EWEN SPENCER
Three's a Crowd is the title of a new photographic book by NME/The Face lens man Ewen Spencer chronicling the White Stripes' rise from 2001 to 2005. The book contains outtakes and never-before-seen shots.
Posted by Exit 04/10/2010
MARY MCCARTNEY - FROM WHERE I STAND
From Where I Stand is the first solo display of work by photographer Mary McCartney at the National Portrait Gallery. The display celebrates the publication of McCartney's first book, From Where I Stand, selected from her complete archive from the 1990s to the present.
The display of 12 portraits will include portraits of well-known British figures from the worlds of art, film, fashion and music alongside portraits of McCartney's family. Photographs of PJ Harvey and British film directors from the Gallery's Collection will be on show besides portraits of Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow as Madonna, Sam Taylor-Wood and the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin as Frida Kahlo, Vivienne Westwood and Lily Cole amongst others. In an insight to Mary's world, both public and private, intimate portraits of Stella and Linda McCartney will also be exhibited.
Opposite - Helen Mirren, Mary McCartney, 1998
Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2010
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 04/10/2010
MATTHEW WILLIAMSON
Somerset House will host a display of Matthew Williamson's work, to coincide with the publication of his new book. The display will animate aspects of the book and will feature photographs and key quotes from contributors. The exhibition will offer a unique insight into the life of one of the most original and exciting fashion designers working today.
The book celebrates Williamson’s colour-drenched creations embellished with exquisite embroidery and beading. Photographs of Williamson’s textile designs, celebrity fashion shoots, and mood boards, sketches and scrapbooks reveal his influences and inspirations. Key players such as Sir Paul Smith, Diane Von Furstenburg, Zandra Rhodes and Anna Wintour.
Exhibition runs from October 13th to January 30th, 2011
Somerset House Trust
South Building
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
Posted by Exit 04/10/2010
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2010
New Photography 2010 presents four artists, Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho, whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema. Ethridge takes his pictures in “editorial mode,” directly borrowing from commercial images already in circulation, including outtakes from his own illustrational magazine work. Lassry defines his practice as one consumed with pictures, meaning with generic images lifted from consumer society, such as Hollywood publicity stills and design illustrations.
Ross-Ho’s hand-drilled sheetrock panels lined up with found pictures and mural-scale images of studio residues renegotiate the various stages of the creative process. Prager takes her cues from pulp fiction and the fashion images of Guy Bourdin to construct filmic narratives starring women disguised under synthetic wigs, dramatic makeup, and retro polyester attire.
Opposite - Susie and Friends. 2008, Alex Prager
Exhibition runs through till January 10th, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
Posted by Exit 27/09/2010
NIKON P7000
Need an alternative to the Canon G-Series, Nikon has released the Nikon P7000. 10.1 megapixels and a 7.1 optical zoom, the camera also lets you record 720p high-def video.
Posted by Exit 27/09/2010
TARYN SIMON - CONTRABAND
Contraband is Taryn Simon’s new series of portraits depicting various items confiscated at Terminal 4 at JFK Airport. It provides an in-depth and curious look at what happens when one culture encounters another.
Simon spent five mostly sleepless days at the airport, photographing over 1,000 contraband objects ranging from the relatively unsurprising (counterfeit designer bags, bongs) to the flat-out strange (cow-dung toothpaste, insect larvae). While many of the photographs’ subjects are shocking, they open a discussion about the material values of different cultures and what happens when one set of cultural beliefs is dominated by another. Though the series portrays contrasting cultural values, the repetition of some items demonstrates the universality of certain societal norms, such as the mass-market appeal of cheap, knockoff material goods.
Opposite - DVDs (Lost, Season 4. pirated), Taryn Simon
Exhibition runs through till December 31st, 2010
Lever House Art Collection
390 Park Avenue
New York
10022
USA
www.leverhouseartcollection.com
Posted by Exit 27/09/2010
LEICA M9 - TITANIUM EDITION
Leica have unveiled a limited, titanium version of their popular M9 camera. The edition, which is limited to 500 cameras worldwide, was designed by Walter de'Silva, chief designer for Volkswagen. The M9 is offered as a set together with a LEICA SUMMILUX-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH lens, also manufactured from solid titanium.
Priced around £19,800!!!
Posted by Exit 20/09/2010
NOT IN FASHION - FASHION AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 90'S
Not In Fashion - Fashion and Photography in the 90s, focuses in particular on presenting wide-ranging historical documentation on the fashion scene of the 1990s, in this way offering a strong impression of the creative output of the period.
The exhibits will include reproductions of famous photo spreads and innovative ad campaigns, devised among others by Jürgen Teller, Helmut Lang, Inez van Lamsweerde and Yohji Yamamoto.
In the 1990s, the fashion scene fundamentally reinvented specifically the medium of photography. That decade gave rise to a new generation for whom personal identity, individualism and a self-defined style were of crucial importance. Back then, the joie de vivre of the generation of 20-30 year-old creative minds thrived on music, subculture, intimacy and fashion.
A new notion of corporeality was being celebrated in the major capitals of the world, such as London, New York, Tokyo, Berlin and Paris. The protagonists of this era sought to distinguish themselves from the established art and fashion scenes, and develop an alternative, lived counter-culture. They felt that the overly artificial images of prêt-à-porter, haute couture and glossy fashion magazines needed to be overcome and replaced with “real life” pictures instead Youth-Culture. They thus collectively dismissed the notion of the beautiful, and tried to elide gender differences and other social conventions.
Opposite - Helen, Purple, 1993
Exhibition runs from September 25th till January 9th, 2011
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstraße 10
60311
Frankfurt
Germany
Posted by Exit 20/09/2010
TALES OF RESISTANCE AND CHANGE
The exhibition "Tales of Resistance and Change. Artists from Argentina” presents works by twelve contemporary Argentine artists and artist groups that conceive their socio-political environments as a field for reflection and action. Starting from a diversity of contexts, their works are to be understood as processes of research in which the present, traditions and recent history are combined. The geopolitical complexity of the country influences these productions in which urban and rural rhythms, immigrant and native heritage, transformations and political conflicts are perceived.
“After the economic crisis of 2001–the curator, Rodrigo Alonso, points out–Argentine artists started to question and examine their reality reactivating critical practices that had been inactive during the previous neoliberal period. Some of them interacted with the new political militancy, others approached several communities and others created social inclusion projects with sectors of the population that had been particularly affected by the financial conflict”.
Opposite - Gian Paolo Minelli, 2003 From the series - Zona Sur - Barrio Piedrabuena
Exhibition runs through till October 31st, 2010
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Steinernes Haus am Römerberg
Markt 44
60311
Frankfurt
Germany
Posted by Exit 20/09/2010
KARL LAGERFELD - PARCOURS DE TRAVAIL
Karl Lagerfeld's work as a photographer is now on display at la Maison Europeenne de Photographie de Paris. This exhibition is titled "Parcours de Travail" meaning "course work" in English.
The exhibition showcases the gamut of Lagerfeld's photography, from his commercial work for Chanel to celebrity portraits for magazines to more experimental landscapes and architectural pieces, some pieces go back to 1987 when Lagerfeld picked up a camera.
Opposite - Karl Lagerfeld, Schwarzkopf, Freja Beha, 2009
Exhibition runs through till October 31st, 2010
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5 Rue de Fourcy
75004
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 13/09/2010
YUL - YUL BRYNNER : A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY
YUL is an exhibition comprised of 70 works celebrating the release of the book by the same title, which presents Brynner's photographic oeuvre for the first time. Brynner's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most charismatic and versatile actors is irrefutable, but his talent as a photographer has been relatively unknown and unacknowledged, until now.
The four-volume book, published by Edition 7L and edited by Brynner's daughter Victoria Brynner, comprises a selection made from 8,000 images and press cuttings.
Lehmann Maupin's exhibition will feature photographs chosen from each of the four volumes: "Lifestyle", "Life on Set", "1956", and "Man of Style."
Opposite - Yul Brynner, The King and I, Self Portrait, 1956
Exhibition runs through till September 25th, 2010
Lehmann Maupin
201 Chrystie St
New York
NY
10002
USA
Posted by Exit 13/09/2010
3+1
“3+1″ is a new art and photography exhibit opening at agnes b’s Galerie du Jour. Featuring works from the late Dash Snow, Harmony Korine and Ryan McGinley
Opposite - Dash Snow, Untitled (Metallic trees), God Spoiled, 2007
Exhibition runs through till November 6th, 2010
Galerie du Jour
44 Rue Quincampoix
75004
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 13/09/2010
TRIBBLE & MANCENIDO - HURRY UP & WAIT
At the height of one of the worst financial crises in American history, photographers James Frank Tribble and Tracey Mancenido-Tribble went to truck-driving school, earned their commercial driver's licenses and hit the highway.
Tribble & Mancenido set out on a journey across America to explore and illuminate the trucking subculture that drives our economy. Spending a full year on the road, the couple drove their 18-wheeler over one hundred thousand miles and spent over two thousand hours delivering loads. "Hurry Up & Wait" is a personal and poetic meditation of an industry and a way of life.
Opposite - Moto Mart, Perryville, MO, 2008
Exhibition runs from September 9th to October 23rd, 2010
Sasha Wolf Gallery
548 West 28th Street
2nd Floor
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 06/09/2010
THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF BRASILIA
Brasilia, a group exhibition of vintage photographs celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the capital of Brazil is to be curated by Brazilian photographer Murillo Meirelles, the exhibition will include images that show Brasilia being planned, constructed and inaugurated from 1958-1960.
A city planned and built from scratch in the very center of the country, Brasilia replaced Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil in 1960. The architectural, figurative and photojournalistic images in the Brasilia exhibition highlight the idealism of Juscelino Kubitschek's socialist government and its team of visionary urban planners, architects and landscape designers including Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx.
Opposite - Untitled 5, Gervasio Batista, Digital C-Print
Exhibition runs from September 9th to November 27th, 2010
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 06/09/2010
ALEC SOTH
The Walker Art Center presents the first U.S. survey of the work of Alec Soth whose offbeat images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes.
Featuring more than 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, this exhibition includse examples from Soth’s well-known series Sleeping by the Mississippi and Niagara, a selection of rarely seen early black-and-white work, and a broad range of portraits. Also on view is the Minneapolis-based artist’s newest series, Broken Manual.
Exhibition runs from September 12th to January 2nd, 2011
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis
MN
55403
Posted by Exit 06/09/2010
TERRY O'NEILL - GUYS & DOLLS
Terry O’Neill is one of the most famous British photographers of the twentieth century. He has achieved worldwide success documenting the fashion, style, and celebrities from the 1960s until the present day. He has photographed showbusiness icons during his 60 year career with his distinct style of photographing his subjects in
unconventional or candid settings.
The Guys & Dolls show features some of his most famous and memorable shots including Brigitte Bardot, Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Audrey Hepburn, Mick Jagger, Dolly Parton, Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch and more.
Opposite - Raquel Welch, 1968, Terry O'Neill
Exhibition runs through to October 30th, 2010.
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 30/08/2010
BRIGHTON PHOTO BIENNIAL
Brighton Photo Biennial 2010, entitled, New Documents, is guest curated by the internationally renowned photographer, editor and curator Martin Parr.
Brighton Photo Biennial 2010: New Documents will reflect the immediacy and vibrancy of contemporary photographic practice by a new generation of practitioners, the eclectic passions found in collections of historic and vernacular photography produced by commercial and amateur photographers, and present new commissions by internationally celebrated photographers informed and inspired by the diverse communities and contexts of Brighton & Hove.
The curated programme will be exhibited in numerous, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Fabrica, Lighthouse, the University of Brighton Gallery and an unusual, alternative exhibition space, and working with Design Council Archives and Photoworks all in the centre of Brighton & Hove. Visitors can view the entire Biennial programme by foot. All the images will be pinned onto the wall, making BPB 2010 the first frame-free photography festival in the world.
Opposite - Zoe Strauss, Vanessa, Philadelphia, PA. 2008
Exhibition runs from October 2nd to November 14th, 2010.
Posted by Exit 30/08/2010
APARTMENTS, PARKING LOTS, PALM TREES AND OTHERS
Ed Ruscha, Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and Others: Films, Photographs and Drawings from 1961 to 1975 is the full title of Ruscha's new exhibition of works. Inspired by the American photography of the nineteen-forties and -fifties, Ruscha broke with the traditions of the genre and simultaneously distanced himself from the subjectivist, analytical photo-books of such author-photographers as Robert Frank and Walker Evans.
Coming to the fore here, instead of pictorial sequences ordered according to formal and contentual critiera, was a serial arrangement in which the disregard of classical conventions of photography, namely the requirements of perspective and composition, became a characteristic of his photographic aesthetic.
Opposite - Doheny Towers, 1965, Ed Ruscha
Exhibition runs through to October 23rd, 2010.
Sprüth Magers Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178 Berlin
Posted by Exit 30/08/2010
CANON POWERSHOT G12
The soon to be released G12 beholds a hive of features, a 10-megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom, 2.8-inch tilt and swivel screen, manual exposure control, HD video (720p) video recording and optical image stabilization skills.
Posted by Exit 23/08/2010
RUINS OF DETROIT - YVES MARCHAND & ROMAIN MEFFRE
Stockholm’s Gun Gallery presents a series of photographs detailing the decline of the Motor City’s once great downtown.
The story line isn’t new, of course, but the images are nonetheless stirring. Crumbling ball rooms and wasted apartments open a window to the sad realities of urban devolution.
The works of Marchand and Meffre can focus only on degradation. Poignant, but ultimately more documents of time than anything else.
Exhibition runs from August 26th to September 19th 2010.
GunGallery
Runebergsgatan 3
114 29 Sthlm
Sweden
www.gungallery.se
Posted by Exit 23/08/2010
CANON POWERSHOT S95
Canon is to release a updated version of our favourite pocket sized S90, the S95.
“The S95 update to last year’s S90 combines Canon’s DIGIC 4 image processing, a 10-megapixel high-sensitivity CCD sensor, and wide f/2.0 lens to enhance image quality and reduce noise at high ISO levels without resorting to a flash. It features a new high dynamic range (HDR) mode, 720p video recording, and mini HDMI for throwing that video up to the living room flat screen. the S95 is also the first PowerShot to feature Hybrid IS image stabilisation to help with macro shots.”
Released late August
Posted by Exit 23/08/2010
BLACK BRITANNIA - JOHN FERGUSON
Black Britannia features striking photograph portraits by photographer John Ferguson, Fleet Streets first black photographer in the 1980’s, of some of the most well known – and less familiar – black men and women who have risen to the top of their chosen fields.
Under the title Black Britannia, the full exhibition comprises of 55 portraits of inspirational black Britons who inspired personnaly the artist in the past or who are currently making great strides in public life. Of the 55 black Britons, some well know names such as Sir Trevor McDonald, Lenny Henry, Naomi Campbell, Paul Ince, Lewis Hamilton, and others from various occupations such as head teachers to supermodels, boxers to lawyers - these are people from all walks of life.
Opposite - Comedian Gina Yashere
Exhibition runs from October 1st to October 22th, 2010
Open The Gate
33-35 Stoke Newington Rd
London
N16 8BJ
Posted by Exit 26/07/2010
POSTIONS OF NUDE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
This new exhibition mainly curated Camera Works own collection, displays more than 40 photographers and their perspectives on mostly female nude art. Selected classics are supplemented with, in some cases, never before exhibited contemporary works of Blaise Reutersward, Nadav Kander, or Ralph Mecke.
The kaleidoscopic exhibition stretches from classical, nearly sculptural studio-stagings, as in the works of Horst P. Horst, Frantisek Drtikol, or Rudolf Koppitz, to the erotic and provocative images of Helmut Newton or Bettina Rheims, and extending to the series of documentary pictures by recently-deceased Larry Sultan, which originated off-set during pornographic shootings.
Opposite - Spiegel der Venus, Wingate Paine.
Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2010
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 19/07/2010
WILDFIRES - YOUNGSUK SUH
Suh’s photographs depict sweeping landscapes blanketed in smoke from nearby fires, while his human subjects engage in pursuits of both labor and leisure, despite the smoky conditions. Often shot from a high vantage point, these individuals are often dwarfed by the majestic landscapes surrounding them.
Suh notes that the luminous tones and colors of the photographs reference these earlier masters – but with a hint of irony, for these picturesque sunsets are enhanced by the haze of smoke from nearby fires, and these heroes are simply tourists, more oblivious than brave.
Exhibition runs from July 15th to August 20th, 2010
49 Geary Street
Fifth Floor
San Francisco
CA
94108
Posted by Exit 12/07/2010
STARBURST : COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA 1970-1980
Starburst, the first-ever museum survey of the “New Color Photography” in the 1970s, stars 18 artists who fast-forwarded their medium out of its black-and-white past and put it at the center of contemporary art.
The exhibition features generous bodies of work by eighteen artists, from the still-prominent, such as Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Jan Groover, and Joel Sternfeld, to key figures of the period, including Eve Sonneman, Neal Slavin, John Pfahl, and Barbara Kasten.”
Exhibition runs through to September 26, 2010
Posted by Exit 12/07/2010
PAINTING PRETTY PICTURES
Painting Pretty Pictures, a collection of painterly studies of feminine beauty. Using digital retouching as a tool for artistic effect, nudes of some of the world’s top models, including Yasmin Le Bon, Heidi Klum and Lily Cole, are transformed into apparent oil paintings.
Annroy Gallery
110-114 Grafton Street
Kentish Town
London
NW5 4BA
Posted by Exit 12/07/2010
DENNIS HOPPER DOUBLE STANDARD
“Dennis Hopper Double Standard," curated by Julian Schnabel, will include artwork by Hopper from the last six decades, from an abstract 1955 painting to his 1960s photographs of soon-to-be-famous friends like Andy Warhol to so-called graffiti paintings of the 1980s. Incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch singles out as “especially fascinating" more recent “wall constructions that relate to film sets" and installations using films such as “Easy Rider."
Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2010
The Museum of Contemporary Art
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90012-3021
USA
Posted by Exit 05/07/2010
YVONNE VENEGAS - MARIA ELVIA DE HANK SERIES
In her series on Maria Elvia de Hank, photographer Yvonne Venegas offers a view into the life, family, and environment surrounding the wife of eccentric millionaire and former Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rohn. Venegas focuses on Mexican privilege and gender, exploring how her subject---the wife of one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in Mexico---submits, with a perfectionist touch, social and aesthetic ideals portrayed through a scrim of light and dust in Northern Mexico.
Opposite - Ana y Amigas, 2008, digital print, 40" x 50"
Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2010
Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue B1
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
CA
90404
Posted by Exit 05/07/2010
HELEN LEVITT
A full review of her work since her death last year, through 120 images and the documentary film In the Street Helen Levitt is one of the great North American photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Her work is notable for her unique outlook and her documentary style, focusing on urban life, mainly in the street of New York. Her images capture tiny moments of daily life, apparently banal instants yet which have great metaphoric meaning for the social conditions of our time.
This exhibition, produced by the ICO Foundation, is the first anthology organised since her death in 2009 aged 96. It presents close to 120 images taken between 1936 and the 1990s, and the documentary In the Street, a precursor to independent American film which she made with the writer James Agee and the painter Janice Loeb in 1945. The exhibition underlines how Levitt’s work set out the aesthetics of instantaneity in street photography, with her ability to suspend movement, to capture tiny moments, to break the flow of reality with endless visual potential.
Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2010.
Oficinas Fundacion ICO
Paseo del Prado
4 - 28014
Madrid
Spain
Posted by Exit 28/06/2010
HELMUT NEWTON FOUNDATION PRESENTS ALICE SPRINGS
Starting in 1970, June Newton created own photographic works under the pseudonym Alice Springs. These have been exhibited regularly at the Helmut Newton Foundation since 2005, namely in "June's Room." The current retrospective in Berlin provides for the first time a comprehensive look at the four decades that span her work, presenting photographs from advertising and fashion as well as nudes and portraits.
Opposite - Yves Saint Laurent, Alice Springs, Paris 1978
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2011.
Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstrasse 2
10623
Berlin
Posted by Exit 28/06/2010
ALL MY LOVIN'
All My Lovin' is a group exhibition with works by Elinor Carucci, Lydia Panas, Phillip Toledano and Edith Maybin.
The exhibition shows photographic works concerned exclusively with "You and I".
It is an exhibition about love, loving and being loved; about loved ones at home, by our side, or separated from us, those with whom we feel the deepest bonds of the soul, but with whom our everyday relations are often filled with conflict, so that we experience alternating emotional security and insecurity.
All my lovin' speaks of human relationships in powerful and moving individual images and picture series. We see couples young and old, fathers, mothers, parents with their children, happy and unhappy people, strangers who approach strangers, and others who emerge from the prison of restricted thinking in order to show spontaneous sympathy and experience love.
Opposite - Tatiana, Lydia Panas.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 28/06/2010
EIZO 2010 CALENDAR - X-RAY PIN-UPS
If you’re still in need of a calendar for 2010, EIZO has come up with a provocative pin-up calendar which shows that female beauty is indeed more than skin deep.
EIZO is a brand of medical suppliers that creates high precision displays for the examination and diagnosis of radiographs.
Posted by Exit 21/06/2010
ON THE ROAD
On the Road investigates the mythology of American motorcar led adventure. Talking its title from Jack Kerouac’s much loved book, the exhibition is split in two parts. The first presents a number of artists whose work explores the American West. These are Robert Adams, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Walker Evans, Robbert Flick, Mary Heilmann, Roger Kuntz, Danny Lyon, Catherine Opie, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Alexis Smith, Kon Trubkovich, and Andy Warhol.
Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2010.
Artpace San Antonio
445 North Main Avenue
San Antonio
TX
78205 1441
Posted by Exit 21/06/2010
RIP CURL X LOMOGRAPHY
Rip Curl and The Lomographic Society have linked up on new camera, the Fisheye 2 x Rip Curl Special Edition. The cam features Japanese fisheye optics and can capture a full 180° with a clear depth of field.
The camera also features a multiple exposure switch for unlimited shots on 1 frame, a bulb function enabling long exposures, on-camera flash for day and night, and a hot shoe mount for external flash. Limited to 2000 pieces worldwide!
Posted by Exit 21/06/2010
ARI MARCOPOULOS X MARK GONZALES
The exhibition includes Marcopolous’s adventurous photographs of model Diana Dondoe and Mark Gonzales. Post-production Gonzales has drawn and etched upon the surfaces of these photographs. The twelfth issue of HoBO magazine will feature these collaborative photographs and an interview with Gonzales by Glenn O’Brien. The proceeds of works sold from this exhibition will be given to a cancer research foundation.
Franklin Parrasch Gallery
20 w 57th street (between 5th and 6th ave)
new york
10019
Exhibition runs through to the 26th of June, 2010.
Posted by Exit 14/06/2010
LOMOGRAPHY SPINNER 360
This week Lomography will introduce their new Spinner 360 panoramic camera. The fully mechanic camera captures infinite panoramic shots on 35mm film. You just have to pull the trigger cord and the camera does all the rest for you and exposes the full width of a film role.
Posted by Exit 14/06/2010
WE LIKE HOLGA BACKS AND WE CANNOT LIE
There's nothin' like rockin' a Holgaroid and you'll be knocked out by this new Holga PolaroidBack. This upgraded version supports the square Type 80 packfilm cartridges as well as the classic Type 100 packfilm. No more limits. Analog photography at its best.
www.the-impossible-project.com
Posted by Exit 14/06/2010
SMALL VICTORIES
The “Small Victories” exhibition opens at Hong Kong’s Above Second Gallery. The show is curated by Jeff Hamada in association with his creative platform Booooooom featured 101 different submitted works of photography in a 6 x 4 format. The focus of each photo was on the sometimes seemingly inconsequential but ultimately important parts of life that come together and illicit that quick smile and make life worth living.
Posted by Exit 07/06/2010
CANON X TOM SACHS "LIKE A LEICA"
In an interesting new project, artist Tom Sachs has gone ahead and customized 12 Canon SD780 IS Digital ELPH’s. Entitled “Like a Leica” the artist has given the Canon camera the Leica look.
“Handmade at the artist’s studio in New York City.
This 12.1 megapixel Canon PowerShot SD780 IS Digital ELPH pocket-camera has been rebranded into a Leica. Shoots HD movie (and is the preferred camera of the Neistat Brothers). Engravings, paint and customized stickers ensure the experience is better than genuine.”
The camera is now available, limited to 12 pieces, from colette and from the artist direct.
www.colette.fr
www.tomsachs.org
Posted by Exit 07/06/2010
THE ALPA 12 TC CAMERA
The cameras of Alpa are professional tools used by photographers such as Walter Niedermayr or Andreas Gursky.
A camera from Alpa puts nothing in between the creativity of the photographer and his picture. The focus remains entirely on feeling for the moment and the skill of the user. The reduction to the bare essential renders the the objectives of the photographer visible.
“Such a uncompromising object like the ALPA 12TC is, this camera will become one with the user. Only when the photographer will forget the camera in his hands he will be able to absolutely focus on his activity: The Photography.”
Posted by Exit 07/06/2010
ELLEN STAGG - MELTING FLESH
Ellen Stagg shares her multi-exposed mix of bodies at Fuse Gallery.
A phantasmagoric mix of bodies, light, sex, and ether reside in Ellen Stagg’s multi-exposed photographs. Stagg embraces the unexpected and opts for a toy Holga camera using film and Polaroid over the manufactured guise of digital. The multiple exposures cause the women's nude bodies to melt into one another as well as their surroundings.
The fluid nature of the images –
produced through the manipulation of light leaks, finger prints and film type – offers the viewer a surreal visual that is simultaneously in flux and static.
Each piece is presented in a unique steel
frame constructed by metalsmith Sullivan Walsh.
Opposite - "Darenzia Storm Roof", C-Print, Edition of 5, 9.5" x 18"
Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2010.
Fuse Gallery
93 2nd Avenue (between 5th & 6th Streets)
NYC
NY
10003
Posted by Exit 31/05/2010
SALLY MANN - THE FAMILY AND THE LAND
Sally Mann’s first solo exhibition in the UK combines several series from her long photographic career, The Family and the Land: reflects Mann’s artistic impulse to draw on the world around her as subject matter.
The ‘family’ element of the title will comprise Mann’s early series Immediate Family and the newer series Faces, both of which depict her children at various ages. The series Deep South represents the landscape, portraying images made across the south of the United States. The more recent body of work, What Remains brings together both strands of the exhibition, through its examination of how bodies, as they decompose, merge into the land itself.
Opposite - Virginia # 42, 2004
Exhibition runs from June 18th to September 19th, 2010.
The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Posted by Exit 31/05/2010
VENETIA DEARDEN - GLASTONBURY PHOTOGRAPHS
London’s National Portrait Gallery opened its latest display, Glastonbury Photographs by Venetia Dearde. Dearden grew up next to the festival site and has been involved with Glastonbury since a young age.
Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2010.
Posted by Exit 31/05/2010
LEICA V-LUX 20
Leica announces the V-Lux 20, a 12.1 megapixel compact camera with superzoom, integrated GPS and 720p HD video recording. The matte black finish and leather carrying case look damn good too!
Posted by Exit 24/05/2010
SONY NEX-5 AND NEX-3 CAMERAS
The idea of having a high quality camera packed into a rather small case is very appealing and has definitely worked in the market. Sony will soon release their new NEX system, first consisting of the Sony NEX-5 and NEX-3. Both come with a mirror-less system, lenses can be exchanged and the NEX-5 will be the lightest camera in the market of its kind. Both come with a 14.2 Megapixel chip and record video in HD. The cameras will be released in several colorways.
Posted by Exit 24/05/2010
MICHAEL SCHMIDT - GREY AS COLOUR
Michael Schmidt takes only black-and-white photographs since, in his view, this neutralises our colourful world reducing it to a wide spectrum of greys. therefore, schmidt could be considered a photographer of greys rather than black-and-white: 'grey is my colour. there are thousands of grey gradations. black and white are always the darkest and the lightest grey'.
His images thereby lack any kind of superficiality; they avoid any sort of event and are far removed from the photographic concept of the 'decisive moment'. up until the 1990s, Schmidt concentrated almost exclusively on his home town berlin.
Exhibition runs through to September 22nd, 2010.
Haus Der Kunst
Prinzregentenstrasse 1
80538
Munich
Germany
Posted by Exit 17/05/2010
FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s. This exhibition of 230 photographs, objects, and clips from television and film looks at the extent to which the rise of the modern civil rights movement paralleled the birth of television and the popularity of picture magazines and other forms of visual mass media.
Guest curator Maurice Berger examines the role that visual culture played in the civil rights movement in changing prevailing ideas about race in America.
Opposite - Sanitation Workers Assemble for a Solidarity March, Memphis, Tennessee, March 28, 1968, Ernest C. Withers
Exhibition runs from May 21st to September 12, 2010
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
USA
Posted by Exit 10/05/2010
BRUNO CALS - HORIZONS
The photographs in the Horizons series by Brazilian photographer Bruno Cals are suggestive of something beyond the record presented. The images of the buildings in São Paulo, Tokyo and Buenos Aires explore the limits of two-dimensionality, and articulate a radically different perspective on a commonplace visual scenario. In expressing this fresh point of view, Cals has invoked contrasting themes of possibility versus impossibility, presence versus emptiness, and search versus satisfaction.
Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2010
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 03/05/2010
IRVING PENN
Focusing specifically on his portraits of major cultural figures of the last seven decades. The exhibition is brought together from major international collections and includes over 120 silver and platinum prints, many vintage, ranging from his portraits for Vogue magazine in the 1940s to some of his last work. Penn photographed an extraordinary range of sitters from the worlds of literature, music and the visual and performing arts. Among those featured in the exhibition are Truman Capote, Salvador Dali, Christian Dior, T.S. Eliot, Duke Ellington, Grace Kelly, Rudolf Nureyev, Al Pacino, Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso and Harold Pinter.
Opposite - Alfred Hitchcock, New York, 1947
Exhibition runs through to June 6th, 2010
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 22/03/2010
THE BURIAL OF HAILE SELASSIE
The twenty-one photographs in this exhibition document a remarkable event in recent Ethiopian history, one that provoked fresh debate about both Haile Selassie and Ethiopia’s troubled political history. The photographs shown here explore the tensions between royal, state and religious hierarchies surrounding the ceremony, as well as more personal expressions of loyalty by some of the participants.
Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of Abyssinia in 1930, but shortly afterwards fled into exile when Mussolini invaded the country in 1935. Despite his appeal to the League of Nations for intervention, the European powers wished to avoid conflict with Italy. Haile Selassie returned triumphantly in 1941 after a military campaign ousted the Italian forces, and the country was renamed Ethiopia.
Exhibition runs through to November 21st, 2010
Pitt Rivers Museum
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PP
England
Posted by Exit 15/03/2010
ESTEVAN ORIOL - LA WOMEN
Footage shot from January 17th to the 30th, during the Estevan Oriol “L.A. Woman” book promo tour.
Posted by Exit 08/03/2010
FASTER THAN THE EYE CAN SEE - HAROLD EDGERTON
Delaware Art Museum’s houses an exhibition of ultra-high-speed photography pioneer Dr. Harold Edgerton. Faster than the Eye highlights some delightfully lush color prints – all of which catch moments impossible to view with the naked eye.
Exhibition runs through to April 25, 2010.
Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington
Delaware
19806
Posted by Exit 01/03/2010
VALERIE PHILLIPS - AMBER IS FOR CAUTION
“Amber is for caution” is a new project from photographer Valerie Phillips which attempts to bring streetstyle photography into the world of fine art.
Centred around former model Amber, whom Phillips first met when she came to a casting four years ago and quickly captivated the photographer.
“I met Amber when she was 15. She came to my studio for a casting. She was quiet and feisty at the same time, and kind of bratty and fascinating. I loved her slow-paced, drawn out Kentucky sentences, so perfectly out of place in East London. And I really liked how she didn’t seem to give a shit.
She was just Amber and that was good enough…...”
Exhibition runs through to April 8th, 2010.
Lazarides
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG
Posted by Exit 22/02/2010
ED TEMPLETON: DRINKING THE KOOL-AID
In Drinking the Kool-Aid, Ed Templeton presents a selection of photographs taken over a fifteen year span. The exhibition is presented by Emerica and Slam City Skates, and hosted by Elms Lesters Paintings Rooms. As to be expected, Templeton’s focus has been on youth culture, primarily skate, and his photographs offer distinct views into subculture.
Exhibition runs through to April 17th, 2010.
Elms Lesters Paintings Rooms
1-3-5 Flitcroft Street
London
WC2H
Posted by Exit 22/02/2010
GOOD RATS
Good Rats draws together photographs from Niall O’Brien’s candid documentation of South West London punks. Three years of material make up the exhibition, and the photographs are filled with “the spontaneity of youth.” O’Brien, also a filmmaker, finds regular inspiration in youth culture. A native of Dublin, he specializes in intimate portraits of desire through unusual subject.
Exhibition runs through to March 11th, 2010.
Art Work Space
Lower Ground Floor
The Hempel Hotel
31-35 Craven Hill Gardens
London
W2 3EA
Posted by Exit 22/02/2010
HENRY HORENSTEIN “SHOW”
Henry Horenstein frequently documents American subcultures. In “Show” he gets to the heart of some of the seedier sides of entertainment. Burlesque, carnival, and more intimate portraits through images of tattooed bodies. The photographs were made from 2001 to 2009, and serve as an homage to the neo‐burlesque resurgence of the last several years.
Opposite - Melody Sweets, This is Burlesque, Corio, New York, New York (2008).
Exhibition runs through to April 3, 2010.
Gallery 339 - Fine Art Photography
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia
PA
19103
Posted by Exit 15/02/2010
RYAN MCGINLEY - “EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE”
Ryan McGinley’s exhibition of new nudes, “Everyone Knows This is Nowhere,” is based on his desire to capture candid portraits in a studio setting will open at Team Gallery next month.
Exhibition runs through from March 18th - April 17th 2010
Team Gallery
83 Grand Street
New York
NY
10013
Posted by Exit 15/02/2010
YANGTZE, THE LONG RIVER
In the Yangtze River, photographer Nadav Kander found a subject that captured China’s unease, a point that at once highlights the future and the remnants of the past. His eagerly awaited Yangtze, The Long River, Monograph will be published later in the year.
Posted by Exit 15/02/2010
THE MARK OF ABEL
Foley Gallery is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of photographer Lydia Panas. Lydia Panas is an observer of the family dynamic. In her photographs, she manages to capture subtle hints of those complex relationships that tend to exist within the extended family or circles of friends.
Opposite - A Suspended Moment, 2009, 32 x 40 inches, chromogenic print, edition of 5
Exhibition runs through to April 20th, 2010
Foley Gallery
47 W 27th Street
5th floor between 10th and 11th Avenue
New York
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 08/02/2010
BRUNO BISANG
Bruno Bisang was born in 1952 and spent much of his youth in Ascona, a picturesque little town in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. When he was 19 he attended the School of Applied Arts for Photography in Zurich, which was followed by a photographic apprenticeship.
Since 1979 Bruno Bisang has worked as a freelance photographer, first in Zurich, and then for a time in Milan and Munich. Now he works between Milan, New York, Paris and Zurich for a renowned clientele.
Opposite - Cathy, Milan, 1999
Exhibition runs through to April 3rd, 2010
Young Gallery Knokke
811 Zeedijk
8300 Knokke
Belgium
Posted by Exit 08/02/2010
21ST CENTURY
William Eggleston's most recent photographs, exhibited here at Cheim & Read, give themselves over almost entirely to problems of composition, color, and texture; and yet they do so, only within the confines of what could have been seen by the casual observer, whose distracted glance would normally pass-over the surfaces of the world and retain virtually nothing of it.
Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2010
Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 01/02/2010
“UFO - UNIFIED FASHION OBJECTIVES"
In “ufo (unified fashion objectives),” Albert Watson unveils a collection of his best fashion photographs from 40 years as one of the world’s leading artists in the field. selected from his massive archives, Watson presents some of his most well-known fashion work alongside images that have never been presented to the public before.
Opposite - Albert Watson, “Kate Moss in torn veil", Marrakech, 1993
Exhibition runs from 23 February to 30 April 2010.
Young Gallery
75b avenue Louise (Place Wiltcher's - hôtel Conrad)
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Posted by Exit 01/02/2010
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Select works by Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, Tracey Emin, Banksy, Tracy Nakayama, Thomas Ruff and others.
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2010.
Ikon Ltd
2525 Michigan Ave
Suite G4
Santa Monica
CA
90404
Posted by Exit 01/02/2010
ZED NELSON - LOVE ME
Love Me reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. The project explores how a new form of globalization is taking place, where an increasingly narrow Western beauty ideal is being exported around the world like a crude universal brand.
Over a period of five years Zed Nelson visited seventeen countries across five continents, reflecting on a world we have created in which there are enormous social, psychological and economic rewards and penalties attached to the way we look.
Opposite - Zed Nelson, Miss Essex, Loser, Miss England Competition, Leicester, UK
Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2010.
Øksnehallen
Halmtorvet 11
DK-1700
København V
www.zednelson.com
www.dgi-byen.com/oeksnehallen
Posted by Exit 25/01/2010
NOCTURNAL LANDSCAPES - ROBERT ADAMS
Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking". The exhibition consists of 50 photographs of nocturnal landscapes Robert Adams made between 1976 and 1982 near his home in Longmont, Colorado, on the eastern ridge of the Rocky Mountains.
Robert Adams leads the viewer outwards in these photographs from the populated center of the suburban town towards the rustic plain and distant Rocky Mountains. During his evening perambulations the photographer captured trees and houses, mountains and streets, fields and sidewalks between dusk and approaching dark. Lit by the setting sun, street lamps, and moonlight, his compositions are never conventionally beautiful. They vacillate between quiet foreboding and tranquil domesticity and, as the photographer has expressed
Exhibition runs through to April 13th, 2010.
Matthew Marks Gallery
523 W 24 Street
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 25/01/2010
ELLIOTT ERWITT - PARIS
Elliott Erwitt born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948 he moved to New York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research.
Erwitt traveled in France and Italy in 1949 with his trusty Rolleiflex camera. In 1951 he was drafted for military service and undertook various photographic duties while serving in a unit of the Army Signal Corps in Germany and France.
While in New York, Erwitt met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, the former head of the Farm Security Administration. Stryker initially hired Erwitt to work for the Standard Oil Company, where he was building up a photographic library for the company, and subsequently commissioned him to undertake a project documenting the city of Pittsburgh.
Exhibition runs through to March 13th, 2010.
Magnum Paris
19 Rue Hegesippe Moreau
75018 Paris
France
Posted by Exit 25/01/2010
RICHARD AVEDON - FAMED FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Richard Avedon’s fashion work, it will feature over 150 objects, including photographs from throughout his productive career, as well as original magazines showing his work in context and materials demonstrating his creative process.
Opposite - Nadja Auermann and A Person Unknown, New York, August 1995
Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2010
Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach
FL
33401
Posted by Exit 18/01/2010
TWILIGHT VISIONS: SURREALISM, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND PARIS
"Twilight Visions" offers a unique insight into the impact of the Surrealist aesthetic on those photographers working in Paris in the 1920’s and ‘30s. Presenting over 150 photographs, magazines, films, and ephemera of the period, the exhibition highlights the visionary role that photographers played in both the avant-garde art world of Paris and in the rise of the new.
Opposite - Andre Kertesz, ‘Eiffel Tower, Summer Storm’, 1927
Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2010.
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas
at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
Posted by Exit 18/01/2010
TODD HIDO - HOUSE HUNTING / NUDES
The exhibition House Hunting / Nudes the US-American artist Todd Hido presents the first solo show of the artist in Western Europe. The exhibited photographs are a selected body of works out of his monographs 'House Hunting' and 'Between the Two'. Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay-Area based photo artist. Since 2001, when he published his first monograph, entitled 'House Hunting' he became a rising star of the American art scene.
Kaune & Sudendorf
Albertusstrasse 26
(Kreishausgalerie)
50667
Cologne
Germany
www.toddhido.com
www.ks-contemporary.com
Posted by Exit 18/01/2010
GLEN E. FRIEDMAN “IDEALIST PROPAGANDA” RETROSPECTIVE
“Idealist Propaganda will feature a rare selection of Friedman’s oeuvre, including twenty-five never-before exhibited photographs of his celebrated iconic photos of the pioneering skate, punk and hip-hop subcultures to his equally political and polarized subject matter of the natural world. Having shot Jay Adams and Tony Alva to Run DMC, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys to Minor Threat and Black Flag, Idealist Propaganda will prove to be a transcendent exhibition and ultimately Friedman’s most definitive creative and philosophical statement”.
Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2010
Subliminal Projects Gallery
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
USA
Posted by Exit 14/12/2009
ABOVE ZERO
Following Broken Line, a prizewinning portrait of the coast of Greenland, Olaf Otto Becker turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, Above Zero.
Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world.
Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2010
Amador Gallery
The Fuller Building
41E 57 ST 6th floor
New York
10022
USA
Posted by Exit 07/12/2009
PORTRAIT PRIZE
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 presents the very best in contemporary portrait photography, showcasing the work of some of the most talented emerging young photographers, alongside that of established professionals, photography students and gifted amateurs.
Opposite - Rebecca 2008 by Natalie Aye
Exhibition runs through to 14th February, 2010
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 07/12/2009
100 COLORS 100 STYLES
The Pentax K-x SLR offers a good alternative to other entry level SLR cameras. The 12.4 megapixel camera also comes with HD video capabilities.
Pentax have recently launched a new campaign in Japan that lets you customize the camera. You can choose different colors for the body and the handle, resulting in overall 100 different looks.
Posted by Exit 07/12/2009
NEW TOPOGRAPHICS
A restaging of the landmark exhibition first seen in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House. "New Topographics" signaled the emergence of a new photographic approach to landscape: romanticization gave way to cooler appraisal, focused on the everyday built environment and more attuned to conceptual concerns of the broader art field.
Exhibition runs through to January 3rd, 2010
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
California
90036
USA
Posted by Exit 30/11/2009
X-RAY
In a world obsessed with superficial image it is a refreshing contrast to look beyond the surface and appreciate the stuff that surrounds us for what it is made of, not just what it looks like on the outside. English artist Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to peel back the layers and peer inside all manner of subjects; people, objects, natural forms and animals.
Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2010
Young Gallery
75b avenue Louise (Place Wiltcher's - hôtel Conrad)
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Posted by Exit 30/11/2009
IN THE DARKROOM
This exhibition chronicles the major technological developments in photographic processes from the origins of the medium until the advent of digital photography.
Opposite - Harry Callahan, Providence, 1977, dye transfer print
Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2010
National Gallery of Art
4th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington
DC
20565
USA
Posted by Exit 30/11/2009
TEARS OF EROS
The exhibition takes its name from Les Larmes d'Éros (1961), Georges Bataille's last book before his death and his final contribution on a theme he had researched in depth in Eroticism (1957): the intimate relationship between Eros and Thanatos, between sex drive and death instinct.
To explore the intimate relationship between Eros and Thanatos, the mythological figures are set out in an almost narrative sequence, moving forward from innocence to temptation, from temptation to the torment of passion, and ending in atonement and death.
Exhibition runs through to 31st Janaury, 2009
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado
8. 28014 Madrid
Spain
Posted by Exit 23/11/2009
THE MOST TRAVELLED CORRESPONDENT
His now famous images taken during The Blitz gained him a job as a war correspondent for Life magazine and he became the war's most travelled photographer...George Rodger was one of the 20th century's most important photojournalists.
In 1949 he founded Magnum together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and David "Chim" Seymour.
Exhibition runs throught to January 16th, 2009
Diemar/Noble Photography
66/67 Wells street
London
W1T 3PY
www.diemarnoblephotography.com
Posted by Exit 23/11/2009
BODIES OF LIGHT
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present its fifth gallery exhibition by internationally acclaimed American artist Bill Viola. For over 35 years Bill Viola has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, greatly expanding its scale, creative scope and historical reach.
He has created video films, architectural video installations, flat screen pieces, sound environments, electronic music performances, as well as works for television broadcast, opera, and sacred spaces.
Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2009
James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 23/11/2009
PHOTO PARIS
From 19th Century photography through Modern to the most contemporary, the 2009 edition of Paris Photo is marked by the exceptional geographic diversity of exhibitors with 23 countries represented. This year also brings 30 new galleries and the return of a strong German presence to the fair.
Runs from the 19th - 22nd November 2009
Carrousel du Louvre
99 rue de Rivoli
75001
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 16/11/2009
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Spring Projects presents Bermuda Triangle a four-person exhibition of newly commissioned works by some of the UK’s hottest emerging talents; set designer and illustrator Gary Card, artist Bruce Ingram, and a series of collaborative projects between photographer Jacob Sutton and set designer Hana Al-Sayed.
Opposite - Gary Card detail of Untitled Work, 2009
Exhibition runs through to 19th December, 2009
Spring Projects
10 Spring Place
Spring House
London
NW5 3BH
UK
Posted by Exit 16/11/2009
TULSA
Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American photographers of his generation, Larry Clark is known for both his raw and contentious photographs and his controversial films focusing on teen sexuality, violence and drug use.
Clark burst into public consciousness with his landmark book Tulsa in 1971, which at the time was called “a devastating portrait of an American tragedy.”
Exhibition runs through to February 7th, 2010
Columbia Museum Of Art
1515 Main Street
Columbia
SC 29201
USA
Posted by Exit 16/11/2009
NOLLYWOOD
A South African of Afrikaner origin, Pieter Hugo is one of the most representative photographers of his generation. With great capacity of penetration, his works explore the most striking contradictions of African societies, together with certain peripheral aspects which are nonetheless dense in meaning.
For the production of his Nollywood series, with its large size pictures, the artist frequented in 2008 and 2009 the sets of the Nigerian film industry. With an eye that is at once detached from but in dialogue with the subjects of his portraits - with whom he always builds up relationships of mutual awareness - Hugo is fascinated by the borderline situations he identifies on his trips throughout Africa.
Opposite - Escort Kama. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008
Exhibition runs through to January 11th, 2009
Galleria e x t r a s p a z i o
Via San Francesco di Sales
16/a
I - 00165 Roma
Italy
Posted by Exit 09/11/2009
PROJECTED LANDSCAPES
Projected Landscapes brings together the work of four UK-based photographers: Aaron Schuman, Caroline Molloy, Kate Peters and Corinne Silva. Their work here plays with the idea of contemporary myth-making, based in the real, yet alluding to imaginary landscapes, whether the projections of the photographer’s vision, the aspirations of material structures, or the visual language of particular spaces.
Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2009
Architectural Association (AA)
School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3ES
UK
Posted by Exit 09/11/2009
RICOH GXR
GXR is a new camera system that consists of a body and camera units. Each camera unit contains a lens (focal lengths differ between units), an image sensor of optimum type and size for the unit, and an image processing engine.
By changing units, the photographer can handle a diverse range of scenes in a way that satisfies sophisticated requirements for photo expression. The slide mechanism adopted for attaching and removing camera units enables changes to be made quickly and securely.”
Posted by Exit 09/11/2009
PARRWORLD
BALTIC presents the only UK showing of Parrworld by the highly regarded and influential British photographer Martin Parr. The show will be presented over two floors; the first containing Luxury, a collection of over 40 recent works by Parr with the second floor housing more than 150 prints from some of the world’s most famous and significant photographers and photographic books and a range of objects from Parr’s personal collection.
Exhibition runs through to January 17th, 2010
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
UK
Posted by Exit 02/11/2009
THERE'S NO OTHER PLACE LIKE THIS PLACE .....
Thomas Giddings latest show brings together photographs as well as moving image that document a 4,000 mile trip across North America through states including Oklahoma and Arizona, down Route 66 and ending in Los Angeles.
Intimate records of the journey are presented alongside work that explores the American vernacular, its landscapes and inhabitants, reflecting the simultaneous experience of newness and alienation that is inherent in travel.
The Carpet Shop
34A New Inn Yard
London
EC2A 3EY
UK
Posted by Exit 02/11/2009
BOARDING HOUSE
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "Boarding House," a new series of photographs by Roger Ballen taken between 2004 and 2008. The Boarding House is a three-story warehouse hidden among the gold mines of Johannesburg and inhabited by disenfranchised, impoverished families, fugitives and witch doctors.
Lacking walls, many rooms are separated only by rugs, blankets, and metal sheets. In his visually complex tableaux, Ballen forgoes a strictly documentary approach and casts further doubt on their veracity, intervening to alter each room, and collaborating directly with the subject to create the sculptures and drawings that appear in the photographs .
Exhibition runs though to December 23rd, 2009
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
NY
10075
USA
Posted by Exit 02/11/2009
OPEN SEE
Open See will be the first UK solo exhibition for the Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg Goldberg, Begun as a Magnum commission for the Greek Olympiad in the summer of 2004.
It documents the experiences of refugee, immigrant and trafficked populations who travel from war torn, socially and economically devastated countries, to make new lives in Europe.
Exhibition runs through to January 17th, 2010
The Photographers Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1
UK
Posted by Exit 26/10/2009
SERGE LEBLON
Serge Leblon's second personal exhibition at La B.A.N.K is a selection of large-scale photographic prints.
Exhibition runs through to January 2nd, 2010
La Bank
42, rue Volta
Paris 3
France
Posted by Exit 26/10/2009
EUROPEAN FIELDS
Hans van der Meer started photographing lower league football across Europe in 1995. He went out looking for football in its original form, as it had started more than 100 years ago: a patch of land, 22 players, no spectators, maybe a horse in the next meadow.
Exhibition runs through to November 28th, 2009
Host Gallery
1 Honduras Street
London
EC1Y 0TH
Posted by Exit 26/10/2009
HERMES v LEICA
Leica have confirmed the release of a special limited edition of its classic 35mm rangefinder system camera, the Leica M7 Edition Hermès. This represents the second collaboration between Leica and Hermès Paris, after it launched in 2003 a Leica MP Edition Hermès. Limited to 200 units it will be available in 100 orange and 100 green colourways.
Posted by Exit 19/10/2009
ALEX BOX
In the first ever extensive collection and exhibition of her work Alex Box gives full access to images which radically unsettle and deconstruct conventional images of beauty in fashion. Using everything from pigment to post it's to magically transform her models Alex opens up the human form to a fantastical and expressive range of new possibilities.
Exhibition through to December 22nd, 2009
Annroy Gallery
110-114 Grafton Street
Kentish Town
London
NW5 4BA
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 19/10/2009
A VERY BRITISH GLAMOUR
One of the great pioneers of fashion photography, and a decisive influence on subsequent generations of fashion photographers, Norman Parkinson is famous for redefining glamour in fashion as something far more spontaneous and modern than it had ever been before him.
A lavish portrait of his long career from the 1930s through the 1980s, Louise Baring's Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour is being published by Rizzoli in October 2009. To celebrate the publication of the book, a selection of portraits from the Norman Parkinson archive will be displayed at Somerset House.
Opposite - The Art of Travel, Vogue, 1951, Norman Parkinson
Exhibition runs September through to January 31st, 2010
Somerset House
Strand London
WC2R 1LA
UK
Posted by Exit 19/10/2009
PALM SPRINGS MODERN
Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman offers a tour of the mid-century architecture and elegant lifestyles of Palm Springs , California . The exhibition features almost 100 original photographs by renowned photographer Julius Shulman of iconic designs by Modernist architects.
This exhibition runs until the 31st of January, 2010
Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh
PA
15213-4080
USA
Posted by Exit 12/10/2009
SELECTED PORTRAITS
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to announce Robert Bergman: Selected Portraits, an exhibition of twenty-four large-scale color portraits of everyday people the artist photographed on the streets of various American cities from 1985 to 1997. Using a handheld 35mm camera and precisely integrated natural lighting, Bergman explores both the poignant expressions of each individual and the formal structures of their surroundings.
This exhibition runs until the 4th of January, 2010
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City
NY
1101
USA
Posted by Exit 12/10/2009
OIL
Burtynsky’s obsession with oil began in 1997, when he identified oil as a key building block of the last century—politically, economically and socially—on a global scale. He has tracked this controversial, valuable and increasingly scarce resource from extraction to production to consumption. The far reaching scope of the project has taken him from oil fields to expressways, from Western Canada to Los Angeles to the Middle East.
This exhibition runs until the 28th of November, 2009
Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
537 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
USA
Posted by Exit 05/10/2009
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2009
MoMA's annual survey of significant recent work in photography focuses on six photographers - Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDerBeek - who are examining and expanding conventional definitions of the medium.
Opposite - Daniel Gordon. Red Headed Woman. 2008
This exhibition runs until the 11th of January, 2010
The Museum Of Modern Art
1 West 53 Street New York
NY
10019
USA
Posted by Exit 05/10/2009
DRESS CODES
The Triennial is ICP's signature exhibition: a global survey of the most exciting and challenging new work in photography and video. The only recurring U.S. exhibition specializing in international contemporary photography and video, the Third Triennial will mark the closing cycle of ICP's 2009 Year of Fashion, a series of projects that critically examine fashion and its relationship to art and other cultural and social phenomena.
Opposite - Amanda Backstage at Heatherette, from the series Private Pageantry 2005-present, copyright Jeremy Kost
This exhibition runs until the 17th of January, 2010
International Center Of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
USA
Posted by Exit 05/10/2009
SHOWSTUDIO
Our experience of fashion is changing. In these times of instant, digitally-fuelled information, the fashion image is no longer confined to the static world of the printed photograph. Today we are confronted with a dramatic new fashion universe, where photography, film, performance, music, art and technology combine to create an infinitely richer landscape.
Since launching nine years ago, Nick Knight's fashion website SHOWstudio.com has pioneered the most imaginative and exciting forms of fashion for the Internet. These have both informed and inspired the current fashion revolution. In championing the new medium of fashion film in particular, SHOWstudio.com has harnessed the potential of new technology and the Web to completely reinvent the fashion image and the way we experience it.
This exhibition runs until the 20th of December, 2009
Somerset House
Strand London
WC2R 1LA
UK
Posted by Exit 28/09/2009
TOUT VA DISPARAITRE
Hellen van Meene's intimate portraits of the awkward drama of adolescence take the conflicted emotions of her teenage subjects and infuse them with a quiet melancholy. She has staged her models in moody rooms of rich color, often using natural light from a nearby window, and dressed them in 19th century draped gowns of silk and lace. The resulting pictures feel like small angst-filled performances, or odd dress up games, where the girls adopt blank stares and mannequin-like poses that only partially conceal their inner lives.
Opposite - untitled #319, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008
This exhibition runs until the 31st of October, 2009
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 28/09/2009
ROBERT FRANK
Representing an outstanding collection of exquisite rare Frank prints, the exhibition will include iconic images from The Americans, as well as earlier poetic photographs taken in Paris and London. In surveying the early years that solidified Frank's style and reputation, we celebrate one of the most singular, original voices in the history of photography.
Opposite - Untitled, Chicago, 1956
This exhibition runs until the 9th of January, 2010
Robert Mann Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue
Floor 10
New York
NY
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 28/09/2009
PARADIS
For his fifth exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Juergen Teller presents an exhibition entitled Paradis. Blurring the distinction between his commercial and non-commercial work, Teller takes a story-telling approach to this series, in which he revisits two of his previous subjects – Charlotte Rampling and Raquel Zimmermann. Shot alone one evening at the Musee du Louvre in Paris, this nude study features large-scale photographs of the two women as they move amongst the masterpieces housed in the museum and captures the intimacy between photographer and subject.
This exhibition runs until the 17th of October, 2009
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
540 West 26th Street
New York City
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 21/09/2009
THE M9 & THE X1
When it comes to cameras we have a pretty specific taste, which combines high quality and of course also design. Usually we stick to the Canon G line, Ricoh, Panasonic Lumix and in case money is not an issue you of course go for a Leica who have announced the M9 and the X1. The M9 is the upgrade to the M8, which turned one of their most iconic cameras into a digital one. The X1 will be priced lower and unites lots of features in compact format. The M9 retails for around $7′000 and the X1 will go for $2′000 shipping in January.
Posted by Exit 21/09/2009
FRONT DOOR BOOK
Archivist, artist, and designer (among many other things) Clayton Patterson has documented life on Manhattan’s Lower East Side since the mid-1980s. The Front Door Book presents images and recollections of the people that have, in Patterson’s words, formed “a summation of everything I have learned.” The photographs in the book were taken outside of 161 Essex Street (Patterson’s home and gallery space), through the years 1985-2002
Posted by Exit 21/09/2009
SPECULATIO IN VIS
The exhibition features a selection of large format colour prints of the INSECTS collection as well as a selection of smaller prints from the ORGANS series. An investigation into the beauty, diversity and fragility of the natural world and how this work influences his style and thought.
This exhibition runs until the 5th of October, 2009
The Print Space
74 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8DL
UK
Posted by Exit 14/09/2009
SALLY MANN
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "Proud Flesh", a series of new photographs by Sally Mann. Children, landscape and lovers, these iconic subjects are as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Mann's take on them, rendered through processes both traditional and esoteric, is anything but common. From the outset of her career she has consistently challenged the viewer, rendering everyday experiences at once sublime and deeply disquieting.
This exhibition runs until the 31st of October, 2009
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
NY
10075
Posted by Exit 14/09/2009
LOVE AND LUST
John Stoddart's Love and Lust exhibition is based on the two most powerful human emotions. The first part of the exhibition focuses on the power of female seduction, while the second part of the exhibition, ‘Dirty Little Pictures’, is a series of 68 black and white portraits of porn actors and the technicians behind the camera, taken on the sets of different British movies over a two-year period.
This exhibition runs until the 31st of October, 2009
Coco de Mer Gallery
108 Draycott Avenue
South Kensington
London
SW3 3AE
Posted by Exit 14/09/2009
A SHADOW FALLS
The Air Gallery is delighted to be showing The Atlas Gallery's exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Nick Brandt. A Shadow Falls continues the photographer's ambitious project to memorialize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. Brandt's wide-screen panoramas of animals and landscapes capture an epic vision of a wild Africa which is steadily vanishing.
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of October, 2009
Atlas Gallery
32 Dover Street
London
W1S 4NE
UK
Posted by Exit 07/09/2009
HIGH GLITZ
High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants is a close-up and intimate look at America’s child beauty pageants, and in turn our society’s obsession with youth, beauty, fame, and fortune. Susan Anderson’s vibrant portraits of pageant contestants offer a new perspective on this uniquely American subculture.
Posted by Exit 07/09/2009
JENNY
Aneta's personal beauty and sensuality are translated seamlessly through her photographs and are portrayed in her work with an intoxicating vigour rarely found today. Her models are seen through a phantasmic veil that allows the viewer to capture the sensitivity, sexuality, innocence and a latent strength through the lost art form of Polaroids. The use of modern tools and techniques are her catalyst in creating these haunting works which are reminiscent of the great masters of the Renaissance.
This exhibition runs until the 17th of September, 2009
Artsource International
333 Park Avenue South
Between 24th and 25th street
New York
USA
Posted by Exit 07/09/2009
A ROAD DIVIDED
Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce A Road Divided, an extraordinary exhibition of recent large-scale landscape photographs by Todd Hido. Following his earlier debut of previously unseen portraits, Hido has focused his attention once again to the American landscape, a subject explored in his widely acclaimed series Roaming.
Hido masterfully transforms the mundane terrain peripherally sandwiching the myriad of roads typically dotting the outskirts of American cities, into inexplicable poignant images, filled with cinematic gravitas and dream-like sublimity, often “crossing the double lines’ between painting and photography.
This exhibition runs until the 24th of October, 2009
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
535 W.24th Street
New York
10011
USA
Posted by Exit 31/08/2009
SEVEN STORIES
After completing The Americans in 1958, Robert Frank put aside the single image and concentrated throughout the 1960s on film-making. He only returned to still-photographs in the 1970s, using a Polaroid camera with black-and-white positive/negative film. He frequently layered the images with text, which he inscribed by hand onto the Polaroid negative.
In recent years Robert Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. Seven Stories brings together sequences of single images Frank has been compiling to create books of new work.
Posted by Exit 31/08/2009
PANASONIC LUMIX GF1
Though small in size, the LUMIX GF1 does not compromise in advanced features. The LUMIX GF1 thoroughly optimizes the advantages of a system camera to ensure high performance, whether capturing photos or HD video. The LUMIX GF1 also comes fully-equipped with a built-in flash and a large, 3.0-inch Intelligent LCD with a wide viewing angle. The camera will come in a series of colorways from October 2009.
Posted by Exit 31/08/2009
MARC JACOBS ADVERTISING
For over a decade Juergen Teller has worked with Marc Jacobs on the advertising campaigns for each of the Men’s and Woman’s Marc Jacobs collections, Marc by Marc Accessories and perfumes lines. Teller’s idiosyncratic visual style and use of unusual models has been instrumental in establishing what has become one of the pre-eminent fashion brands of our times.
Reflecting the intelligence and individuality of the Marc Jacobs’ brand, the models have included Sofia Coppola, Charlotte Rampling, Cindy Sherman, William Eggleston, Victoria Beckham and Juergen Teller himself among others…
Posted by Exit 24/08/2009
CANON G11
You asked, and Canon not only listened, but delivered big-time. Advanced amateurs who have overwhelmingly embraced the G Series will be delighted with the PowerShot G11, which features RAW mode for unlimited editing options, a 28mm wide-angle lens, and a 2.8-inch Vari-Angle PureColor System LCD.
Add to that Canon's new High Sensitivity System and high-speed ISO for incredible image quality, and Canon's top-range compact digital camera is a truly groundbreaking successor.
Posted by Exit 24/08/2009
DAY AND NIGHT
Nordin Gallery has the privilege to present Ola Rindal’s first solo exhibition in Sweden. Ola Rindal is born in Fåvang, Norway 1971 and is trained at the School of Photography in Gothenburg. He lives and works in Paris.
Ola Rindal’s work is injected with a Nordic sensibility that pays strong attention to the interactions between light, air and water, which lends his work a mysterious and melancholic atmosphere.
This exhibition runs until the 20th of September, 2009
Nordin Gallery
Tulegatan 19
SE-113 53
Stockholm
Posted by Exit 24/08/2009
PISTOL CAMERA
One of the most creative, and yet smooth video cameras to date, its the DORYU 2-16 Pistol Video Camera. The gun used is a Japanese police issued, 16mm, same C mount as the 16mm movie camera, Cine-Nikkor 25mm F1.4 lens, and super rare.
If you can come across one of these, I would be careful using it in public.
Posted by Exit 17/08/2009
DIANA LOMO
Inspired by the Lomography Diana F+, the Lomography Diana Mini Camera is very compact, unlike its counterpart. With the Lomography Diana Mini you can take square format or half frame pictures, while using standard 35mm film. The Lomography Diana Mini Camera also features multiple exposure and long exposure features, tripod mount, and cable release attachment.
Posted by Exit 17/08/2009
FRAGMENT DESIGN TECH WRAP
The new Fragment Design Tech Wrap is one of the best ideas we have seen in a while. It’s simple, yet totally makes sense. The tech wrap let’s you wrap and protect pretty much any technical gadget of yours. Fragment Design offers them in three colorways.
Posted by Exit 17/08/2009
THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT POLAROID KIT
This year, Urban Outfitters proudly presents a limited edition of 700 hand-numbered deadstock Polaroid camera kits. This exclusive Urban Outfitters special edition will include one pack of deadstock Polaroid Instant Film and one of the most sought after analog instant cameras: the Polaroid One600 classic, the last Polaroid camera ever produced. Along with the kits, Urban Outfitters will offer additional deadstock original Polaroid Type 779 Instant Film saved from the last production runs made at the last Polaroid factory in Enschede, Netherlands. The film has been hand-selected, tested, and stored at low temperatures exclusively for Urban Outfitters.
Posted by Exit 10/08/2009
ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Adams, one of the best-known photographers of the American West, generated some of his most beautiful and enduring imagery in Yosemite National Park. This exhibition presents nine images taken by Adams in Yosemite between 1933 and 1958. Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Yosemite captivated Adams with its beauty during his first visit as a teenager in 1916
This exhibition runs until the 20th of September, 2009
Posted by Exit 10/08/2009
CAMERA DOCK
Sony recently announced the Party-shot personal photographer – “an innovative camera dock that pans 360 degrees and tilts 24 degrees, automatically detects faces, adjusts composition and takes photos for you.” Using the camera’s BIONZ image processor with its Face Detection and Smile Shutter, the Party-shot takes photos all by itself. Sounds fun.
The Party-shot is compatible with Sony’s new DSC-WX1 and DSC-TX1 Cyber-shot cameras and is mountable on most tripods. Captures photos for up to 11 hours with two AA batteries. Available September 2009 at Sony dealers worldwide for approximately $150 USD.
Posted by Exit 10/08/2009
SUMO
The Helmut Newton Foundation presents what might just be the most spectacular and expensive photography book project ever. Ten years ago, publisher Benedikt Taschen persuaded Helmut Newton to agree to produce a gigantic book with a print run of 10,000 copies, all signed by the photographer. Accompanied by a custom-made book holder by Philippe Starck, the book found its way into the homes of well-heeled buyers. Now, for the first time, its 394 photographs will go on display to mark the 10th anniversary of a photography publication that today is a much sought-after collector’s item.
Opposite - Helmut Newton, Villa d’Este, Lake Como, Italy 1975
Posted by Exit 03/08/2009
DIANE ARBUS
One of National Museum Cardiff's main art exhibitions in 2009 reveals the work of legendary New York photographer Diane Arbus (1923 -1971), who transformed the art of photography. Diane Arbus, which comprises 69 black and white photographs including the rare and important portfolio of ten vintage prints: Box of Ten, 1971, is one of the best collections of Arbus's work in existence. A large selection of these images will be on display at the Museum until 31 August 2009.
Opposite - Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967 Copyright © 1971 The Estate of Diane Arbus
Posted by Exit 03/08/2009
THE GENIUS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
In the most comprehensive look at the most influential art form in the world, the series explores every aspect of photography - from daguerreotype to digital, portraits to photo-journalism, art to advertising - in the UK, America, China, Japan, Africa and beyond. The Genius of Photography explores a multitude of the greatest photographs ever taken, revealing exactly what makes them so very special.
Out now on BBC DVD
www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius
Posted by Exit 03/08/2009
RANKIN LIVE
Rankin's most ambitious exhibition to date takes place from 31st July 2009 for 7 weeks - this will be his first ever UK retrospective, set in the unique environment of the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane. This museum-scale exhibition will cover 22,000 square foot, and will showcase over 600 diverse images taken from his archives.
This exhibition runs until September the 18th, 2009
The Old Trueman Brewery
85 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
UK
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Posted by Exit 27/07/2009
FACES TO FACES
Face to Faces is a show of 100 photographs produced by 12 Greek and 14 international artists, all specialists in portraiture.
It represents the second phase of a two-part exhibition, the first of which, a collection of video installations, was shown earlier this year to critical acclaim at the French Institute in Thessaloniki.
This exhibition runs until September the 15th, 2009
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
Warehouse A', Port of Thessaloniki
c/o Thessaloniki postoffice 23
54015 Thessaloniki
Greece
Posted by Exit 27/07/2009
CARLOS PEREZ
This exhibition runs until September the 12th, 2009
Posted by Exit 27/07/2009
GOOGLE MOON
For the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, technologically-advanced Google was able to create a digital remake of the Moon, following in the footsteps of the very popular Google Maps application. Google worked very closely with NASA Ames Research Center in order to create this great application. The map does not tell you how to get around the Moon, as Google maps does, but it does feature landmarks of Apollo landings, and historical information and details about the 6 Apollo landings.
Posted by Exit 20/07/2009
LEICA VS ANDRE
The already famous compact digital Leica C-Lux 3 turns into a super collector’s item with this illustrated version by artist André for colette (limited edition of 30). The LEICA C-LUX 3 by Leica Camera AG, Solms, is a new elegant and high-performance digital camera from the Leica C-LUX line. The slimline compact camera offers easy operation and a clearly structured menu for carefree photography. The LEICA C-LUX 3 has a strikingly clear design that concentrates on the essentials: capturing and reproducing images.
Posted by Exit 20/07/2009
LIQUID IMAGE
Keep your hands free as you dive! This is the world's only dive mask that has an integrated waterproof digital video camera plus photographs at 5mp. Operates to a depth of 33 ft/ 10m and eliminates the need to hand carry an underwater camera. Ideal for snorkeling, snuba, spearfishing, freediving, shark cage diving and shallow scuba diving. The goggle lenses are made of tempered glass and have integrated crosshairs that help you to line up shots. Turn the Camera on, and choose a mode with the upper button. Simply press the shutter button to record pictures or videos. An LED inside the mask tells you if you are in still image or video mode.
Posted by Exit 20/07/2009
WHEN YOU'RE A BOY
When You’re a Boy celebrates men in fashion photography, specifically the men who create photographs of men. Focusing on the career of a stylist rather than a photographer, this is the first exhibition devoted to the groundbreaking British menswear stylist Simon Foxton, whose career spans the last three decades, a time of profound change in fashion and style photography.
This exhibition runs until October the 4th, 2009
The Photographers Gallery
16-18 Ramilies Street
London
W1F 7LW
UK
Posted by Exit 13/07/2009
PIERRE ET GILLES
Pierre et Gilles's cosmos is a colorful world between baroque sumptuousness and earthly limbo. The worldwide renowned French artist pair create portraits of pop divas and film icons, sailors and princes, saints and sinners, mythological figures and unknowns in unique hand-painted photographs. Fairy paradises and lowest depths, popular iconography and History of Art - everything is considered in order to achieve an aesthetic perfection and their vision of the world, corresponding to the artists' dreamed reality.
This exhibition runs until October the 4th, 2009
C/O Berlin
Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße 35/36
10117
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 13/07/2009
LEICA DSLR
Leica has announced its S2 autofocus medium format DSLR will be available in October for a recommended selling price of $22,995/£15,996. The camera is built around a 37.5 megapixel 30x45mm sensor (56% larger than 'full frame'), that puts it squarely into the apparently troubled medium format sector.
Posted by Exit 13/07/2009
BORN IN THE STREETS
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents Born in the Streets—Graffiti, on view from July 7 to November 29, 2009. Occupying the entire gallery space of the Fondation Cartier, as well as the building’s façade and surrounding garden, the exhibition brings to light the extraordinary development of an artistic movement that was born in the streets of New York in the early 1970s to rapidly become a worldwide phenomenon.
This exhibition runs until November the 29th, 2009
261, Boulevard Raspail
75014
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 06/07/2009
WOODSTOCK
Four decades on from the festival that shook the world, Idea Generation Gallery celebrates the anniversary of Woodstock with an exhibition of amazing photographs, all taken from the artist-endorsed, limited edition multi media package; Woodstock Experience, published by Genesis Publications. Featuring over 200 photographs by official Woodstock photographer Henry Diltz, and unseen and unpublished images by a star-struck but quick-witted teen photographer Dan Garson, Woodstock Experience provides a visual trip through these legendary days in a field in upstate New York.
This exhibition runs until August the 30th, 2009
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London
E2 7JB
UK
Posted by Exit 06/07/2009
TWIGGY
A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will celebrate Twiggy's 60th birthday and the publication of a new photographic biography of her life. One of the best-known and most respected models of all time Twiggy has worked with many of the world's leading photographers and a selection of the most iconic and important of these portraits will be on show at the Gallery.
Opposite - Twiggy, 1967 by Ronald Traeger, Cibachrome print from a transparency of a vintage print © Tessa Traege
The National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 06/07/2009
LES RENCONTRES D'ARLES PHOTOGRAPHIE
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of Les Rencontres d’Arles festival of photography, for four decades, this festival has helped to define the best and brightest in photography — and it has generated quite a bit of controversy along the way, often featuring the work of iconoclasts, renegades, and troublemakers, some of whom are regarded as superstars today. So, there is a good deal of heightened anticipation about what we will discover from this year's guest curator, New York photo legend Nan Goldin. Goldin has invited the following photographers as guest exhibitors : David Armstrong, Marina Berio, Jean-Christian Bourcart , Antoine D’Agata , JH Engström, Christine Fenzl, Leigh Ledare, Boris Mikhailov, Anders Petersen, Jack Pierson, Lisa Ross, Annelies Strba.
Opposite - Nan Goldin, Nan and Brian in bed, New york City, 1983
This exhibition runs until August the 13th, 2009
Posted by Exit 29/06/2009
VOIES OFF
Since 1996, the Voies Off festival has been advocating for the role of photography in contemporary art and other various creative practices, providing them with an international stage during the Rencontres d’Arles. As an alternative to the program of the Rencontres, Voies Off invites a general audience to discover the photographic works by young authors. This year, the panel of jurors selected over 60 artists from all horizons among 950 candidates. They will compete for the 2009 Voies Off Prize. Their works will be shown during night projections every night under the starry sky of the courtyard of the Archbishop’s Palace. These night showings are in fact the heart of the Voies Off festival. Other events include daily portfolio reviews, professional “mornings,” and several thematic exhibitions.
Opposite - Joël Tettamanti, untitled image from the studies ilulissat, greenland, 2008
This exhibition runs until August the 13th, 2009
Posted by Exit 29/06/2009
JACK FREAK PICTURES
This is the first Gilbert & George exhibition in London since their monumental retrospective at Tate Modern and is their third with White Cube. Described by the writer and critic Michael Bracewell as “among the most iconic, philosophically astute and visually violent works that Gilbert & George have ever created”, the 'JACK FREAK PICTURES' will be shown in White Cube Mason's Yard and Hoxton Square and comprise the single largest series of work ever made by the artists.
Opposite - Forward
2008 150 x 237 13/16 in. (381 x 604 cm)
This exhibition runs until August the 22nd, 2009
Posted by Exit 29/06/2009
MATT JONES
Set to open on June 25th, 2009, photographer Matt Jones will be presenting a selection of his latest works for an exhibition at colette Paris. The show which will feature intimate pictures, fashion series and portraits.
This exhibition runs until August the 1st, 2009
Colette
213 Rue Saint-Honore
75001
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 22/06/2009
BEATON
A stunning exhibition of nearly 50 portraits by Cecil Beaton, one of the most famous photographers of the 20th century, captures the glamour and excitement of some of the world’s greatest celebrities. Cecil Beaton: Portraits, through 31 August 2009, brilliantly reflects the astonishing talents of the photographer who was also a writer, artist, designer, actor, caricaturist, illustrator and diarist. He photographed a dazzling array of superstars and leading personalities ranging from the Queen to Mick Jagger, Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn and Winston Churchill to Lucian Freud.
This exhibition runs until August 31st, 2009
Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EL
UK
Posted by Exit 22/06/2009
LOMO LC-A+ 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION CAMERA
The Lomo LC-A+ 25Th Anniversary Edition Camera boasts a textured skin and with a new textured body (LOMO LC-A+ 25th Year Anniversary emblem stamped on the front and back of the camera). Including the legendary Minitar 1 lens, multi-exposure switch and multiple accessory capabilities, and packaged in a commemorative wooden box.
Posted by Exit 22/06/2009
DARK KNIGHT OF THE SOUL
Iconoclastic filmmaker David Lynch and music visionary Danger Mouse are collaborating on their first ever project and installation, Dark Night of the Soul, on view at the Michael Kohn Gallery. For their premiere collaboration, David Lynch and Danger Mouse have designed a two-room installation capitalizing on the interplay between the music from Danger Mouse’s and Sparklehorse’s album Dark Night of the Soul and the artwork David Lynch created for the album.
This exhibition runs until the 11th of July, 2009
Michael Kohn Gallery
8071 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90048
USA
Posted by Exit 15/06/2009
ON THE BEACH
Since 2001, color photography pioneer Richard Misrach has made a series of large-scale, lushly colored photographs of swimmers and sunbathers in Hawaii. Working from a hotel adjacent to the beach, Misrach adopts a floating viewpoint that eliminates all reference to the horizon or sky to record people wholly immersed in the idyllic environment. The photographs, which are vast in scale and perspective, coax the particularities of nature into ethereal, nearly abstract patterns of color and light.
Opposite - Untitled #696-05, 2005 (detail) Digital chromogenic color print 79 x 96 inches
This exhibition runs until the 23rd August, 2009
High Museum Of Art Atlanta
1280 Peachtree Street
N.E.
Atlanta
GA
30309
USA
Posted by Exit 15/06/2009
PHOTOESPANA
PHotoEspaña 2009 - The Festival of Photography and Visual Arts will offer at this twelfth edition a proposal comprising 74 exhibitions, 31 in the Official Section, 7 in other venues and 35 in the Off Festival, spread in a total of 60 exhibition spaces such as museums, art galleries, art centres and exhibition rooms. 259 artists and creators of 40 nationalities will participate at the Festival.
This exhibition runs until the 26th of July, 2009
Posted by Exit 15/06/2009
SPAWN:BOUND
Enfant terrible son of Dame Vivienne Westwood, Ben Westwood’s latest exhibition Spawn:Bound‚ at the Bodhi Gallery, Brick Lane investigates the modern phenomenon of famous children bound forever by the umbilical cord of their parents fame. Westwood, who is spawn himself, examines Lily Allen, Pixie and Peaches Geldof, Leah Wood, Kimberley Stewart, Theodora Richards, Amber Le Bon, Stella McCartney, Jade and Elizabeth Jagger, to name but a few, who all have fame derived and entangled up and ultimately held back by, the celebrity status bestowed upon them from their famous parents.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of June, 2009
Bodhi Gallery
214 Brick Lane
London
E1 6SA
UK
Posted by Exit 08/06/2009
DEUS
United Visual Artists (UVA), established in 2003 by Chris Bird, Matt Clark and Ash Nehru, are a London-based art and design practice creating large-scale light-based installations. UVA creates more than mere spectacle, their work is about people. Their work aims to create a powerful social experience, turning the audience into active participants. The relationship between space, the performer and the audience is at the very heart of United Visual Artists’ practice. Having worked at the interface between, design and art, UVA present their premiere exhibition of still images at The Smithfield Gallery, London, distilling their live creations into a single moment. These images continue their investigation into the emotional effects of light within a diversity of landscapes and environments. Deus is a photographic exploration of the seductive quality of artificial light in the natural world. This body of work grew from an extended study of form and experiments on how a powerfully illuminated presence affects the surrounding environment.
Opposite - Dungeness #3
This exhibition runs until the 27th of June, 2009
The Smithfield Gallery
16 West Smithfield
London
EC1 9HY
UK
Posted by Exit 08/06/2009
A JOURNEY BACK
The Arts Gallery is proud to present the first Tom Hunter retrospective in the UK. Tom Hunter: A Journey Back spans five significant bodies of work and features four previously unseen works by one of Britain’s most important fine art photographers. The show will encompass twenty seven photographic works, which have never been exhibited together before, alongside three of Hunter’s mixed media sculptures, which have not previously been seen in Britain.
Opposite - Anchor and Hope by Tom Hunter
This exhibition runs until the 18th of September, 2009
The Arts Gallery
65 Davies Street
London
W1K 5DA
UK
Posted by Exit 08/06/2009
FRENCH FIRST LADY NUDE
This year’s spring auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin kick off on June 4, 2009 with the sale of Modern and Contemporary photography including a copy of only ten numbered prints that exist of the image of the French First Lady - Carla Bruni, taken by U.S. photographer Pamela Hanson,
alongside photographs by artists such as Roger Ballen, Elger Esser, Axel Hütte, Helmut Newton, Bettina Rheims, Sebastiao Salgado, Frank Thiel.
Posted by Exit 01/06/2009
THE WORLD IS YOURS
Lawrence Watson has been photographing musicians for several generations. He’s shot Bowie, Marley, and Run DMC to name but a few and predominantly all wearing adidas. The World Is Yours celebrates 25 years of music photography taken from the book published by adidas and exhibited at LondonNewcastle Project Space.
This exhibition runs until the 21st of June, 2009
LondonNewcastle Project Space
28 Redchurch Street
London
E2 7DP
UK
www.lawrencewatsonphotography.com
Posted by Exit
01/06/2009
WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL
The work of Garry Winogrand (1928-84) helped define a quintessential “American” photography in the late twentieth century. Winogrand’s photographs of street life, the suburbs, and the fractured, postwar, new consumer culture that emerged in the 1950s, remind us how the every day is loaded with anonymous joy and pathos and how each moment in life is filled with happenstance and the unexpected. Women Are Beautiful is a time capsule of the Pop and Mod 1960s. These photographs attest to the ever-changing nature of fashion and the representation of female beauty. “Street” photographs, they raise tricky issues like the “male gaze” and voyeurism, and how they relate to the paparazzi-style reportage that is a mainstay of our contemporary culture
Opposite - Garry Winogrand, New York, 1965 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
This exhibition runs until the 23rd of August, 2009
Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati
Ohio
4520
USA
Posted by Exit 01/06/2009
NATURE NATION
The Nature Nation exhibition is based on diverse aspects of distinctions, positions, beliefs, ideologies, and social, political and economic points of departure that explore the complex encounter between man and the environment and between man and nature. The exhibition is not based on a romantic reading that interprets nature and its expanses as pre-existent to man’s shaping intervention. Rather, it proposes a critical reading, which presumes that the encounter between them is a mirror for broader phenomena. This mirror reflects the crisis in the relations between man and nature, which finds expression in neglect, conquest and deterioration.
Opposite - Edward Burtynsky - China Recycling #9, Circuit Boards/Guiyu,2000, Guangdong Province, 2004
Museum on the Seam
4 Chel Handasa st
P.O.B. 1649
Jerusalem 91016
Israel
Posted by Exit 25/05/2009
YOU ARE EVERYWHERE
The Gallery's current exhibit, "You Are Everywhere," features the photography of Poppy de Villeneuve. Born in London, de Villeneuve now lives in New York. With photographic work most recently commissioned by Nanette Lepore and a photographic series on the life-serving inmates of 'Angola', the Louisiana State Penitentiary, de Villeneuve’s work is diverse with a signature style shot using a Hasselblad. She has also exhibited in group and solo shows in the UK and US.
"You Are Everywhere" is a specially commissioned series for Soho Grand Hotel which captures awestruck individuals amongst crowds watching live music.
This exhibition runs until the 2nd of September, 2009
Soho Grand
310 West Broadway
New York
10013
USA
Posted by Exit 25/05/2009
CLASS PICTURES
Following a successful kick off in New York and subsequent stops in Houston, Indianapolis, Greensboro, and Baltimore, Dawoud Bey's traveling exhibition Class Pictures, featuring striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States is now showing at the Milwaukee Art Museum. For the past fifteen years, Bey has been photographing teenagers from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum, and—intensely attentive to their poses and gestures—has created a highly diverse generational portrait that challenges stereotypes of teenagers. A brief autobiographical statement by the subject—by turns poignant, funny, or harrowing—accompanies each portrait.
This exhibition runs until the 12th of July, 2009
Milwaukee Art Museum
700 North Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
USA
Posted by Exit 25/05/2009
WALL TO WALL
The Little Black Gallery, in association with the Bob Carlos Clarke Foundation, is pleased to announce the first retrospective of the work of the legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke three years after his death. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the biography ‘Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke’ by the award winning writer Simon Garfield (Ebury Press, 14 May 2009).
The exhibition will feature pictures from Bob’s 30 year career , including pictures which have never been seen or made available for sale before..
Opposite - ‘Adult Females Attack Without Provocation’ by Bob Carlos Clarke, 2004
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of July 2009
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 18/05/2009
THE AMERICANS
Robert Frank's The Americans (first published in France in 1958 and in the United States in 1959) is widely celebrated as the most important photography book to appear since World War II. Featuring 83 photographs made largely in 1955 and 1956 while Frank traveled the United States, the project looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a profound sense of alienation, angst, and loneliness.
Frank's prescient photographs redefined the icons of America, demonstrating that cars, jukeboxes, gas stations, diners, and even the road itself were telling symbols of contemporary life. Frank's style — distinguished by seemingly loose, casual compositions, often with rough, blurred, out-of-focus foregrounds and tilted horizons — was just as controversial and influential as his subject matter. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication by presenting all 83 photographs in the order established by the book, accompanied by a detailed examination of the project, its relationship to Frank's earlier work, and its impact on his later art.
Opposite - Robert Frank, Parade - Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955; gelatin silver print; Private collection, San Francisco; © Robert Frank
This exhibition runs until the 23rd of August 2009
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission + Howard)
San Francisco
CA
USA
94103
Posted by Exit
18/05/2009
THE MADONNA NUDES
In 1979 the as yet unknown Madonna posed nude for New York Photographer, Martin Schreiber, for only $30. Years later, when she was a pop icon, the shots appeared in Playboy catapulting him to fame. The original photographs are now available in the UK, exclusively from the Impure Art Gallery, along with copies of the original Playboy magazine, books, postcards and posters of the show.
This exhibition runs until the 28th of June 2009
Impure Art
13 Ship Street Gardens
Brighton
BN1 1AJ
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 18/05/2009
AVEDON
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post-World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer. Anticipating many of the cultural cross-fertilizations that have occurred between high art, commercial art, fashion, advertising, and pop culture in the last twenty years, he created spirited, imaginative photographs that showed fashion and the modern woman in a new light. He shook up the chilly, static formulas of the fashion photograph and by 1950 was the most imitated American editorial photographer. Injecting a forthright, American energy into a business that had been dominated by Europeans, Avedon's stylistic innovations continue to influence photographers around the world.
This exhibition will be the most comprehensive exploration to date of Avedon's fashion photography during his long career at Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker, and beyond. Working closely with The Richard Avedon Foundation, ICP curator Carol Squiers and guest curator Vince Aletti will present new scholarship on the evolution and extraordinary, ongoing impact of his work. The exhibition will feature more than 200 works by Richard Avedon, spanning his entire career, and will include vintage prints, contact sheets, magazine layouts, and archival material.
This exhibition runs until the 6th of September 2009
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York
NY
1003
USA
Posted by Exit
11/05/2009
UNSEEN
The exhibition of 32 previously unseen images from the Guy Bourdin archive, includes images from his commercial work for French Vogue and Charles Jourdan shoes. Guy Bourdin launched his career with fashion assignments for Vogue, Paris which employed colour photography to its maximum effect, creating dramatic accents with saturated colour and texture.
While on the one hand employing formal elements of composition, Guy Bourdin sought to transcend the reality of the photographic medium with surreal twists to the apparent subject of his images and his unconventional manipulation of the picture plane. The art of Guy Bourdin communicates an entirely different reality, challenging our perception and provoking our senses with his layered narratives. Clever juxtapositions of objects and body parts contribute to the formal abstraction of the image while at the same time revealing potent sensual details. The surrealist quality of the images is heightened by their unique sense of location—often views in undistinguished bedrooms, the beach, to the side of a road. The unusual dramas that unfold in these seemingly everyday scenes and ordinary encounters pique our subconscious and invite our imagination.
This exhibition runs until the 4th of July 2009
The Wapping Project
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
Wapping Wall
London
E1W 3SG
UK
Posted by Exit 11/05/2009
NYPH
The second annual New York Photo Festival, filled with exhibits by up-and-coming and world-class photographers, workshops, discussions and awards ceremonies will run through May 13th - 17th. The event, which takes place in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York, includes portfolio reviews, Digital Days Workshops, exhibitioins and much more.
Posted by Exit 11/05/2009
31 YEARS
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce 31 Years; an exhibition of work by Boris Savelev, one of Russia’s most important and renowned photographers. It will be the first time his work will be shown in the UK. 31 Years is a series of photographs created by Savelev from 1976 to 2006. It documents not only his changing sensibilities and aesthetic concerns; light and form, flashes of colour, moments created by the interaction of individuals within their urban landscape, but also his experimentation with both kallitype layered over silver gelatin and meticulously multi layered pigment prints, which feed and inform the resulting images.
This exhibition runs until the 30th of May, 2009
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
England
www.michaelhoppencontemporary.com
Posted by Exit 04/05/2009
TRUE
Haunch of Venison London continues its exhibition programme at its new venue, 6 Burlington Gardens, with 'True', an exhibition of new work by Thomas Joshua Cooper. Charting a two year journey to the polar regions of the Atlantic basin, the exhibition presents new works from the series, 'The World's Edge' - an ongoing work that seeks to map the extremities of the land and islands that surround the Atlantic Ocean.
The 79 works in this exhibition include images made in the North and South poles, at the northern most land points of Norway and Greenland, and the most northerly point of the Antarctic Peninsula, Prime Head, which has had fewer human visitors than the Moon.
This exhibition runs until the 30th of May, 2009
Haunch of Venison
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET
UK
Posted by Exit 04/05/2009
YOU SEE I AM HERE AFTER ALL
One of my favourite exhibition spaces in the world - Dia: Beacon presents You see I am here after all, a new work by American artist Zoe Leonard comprising several thousand vintage postcards of Niagara Falls that the artist collected in flea markets and online auctions., dating from the early 1900s to the 1950s. Rendered stereotypical and generic through repletion over decades, these landscape motifs are emblematic of mass culture’s transformation of natural sites into tourist destinations.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of September, 2010
Dia:Beacon
Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street
Beacon
NY
12508
USA
Posted by Exit 04/05/2009
REVELATIONS IN THE DARK
Italian artist Roberto Saletti conjures images from a time and space less defined and more like enigmatic memories with his "partial revelation" darkroom techniques. Saletti's photographic explorations go beyond what is captured through his camera lens and begins with the creative work in the darkroom. Stretching the nature of the photographic image, Saletti uses a process of painting developing solution onto the white photograph paper with a rag after exposing the image onto the paper. This technique pushes his original image and creates greater freedom and expressiveness in Saletti's photographic artwork. Saletti commented, "I have learned to make optimal photos from a technical point of view; then I have realized I was being bored and I pushed to search for greater freedom."
This exhibition runs until the 7th of May, 2009
The Farmani Gallery
111 Front St
Suite 212
Brooklyn
NY
USA
Posted by Exit 27/04/2009
DOLL FACE
Miles Aldridge’s images depict a stupendously glossy and magnetically vibrant world with ultra slick, hyper-lit models and signature acid tones. Standing out among contemporary fashion and figurative photography for its luminous composition and for the mysterious situations he has created, these aspects of his practice both derive and simultaneously depart from the work of artists which Hamiltons has represented over the decades, including Horst, Penn and Avedon. Cinematic expression marks Aldridge’s work and it is not surprising therefore that his dreamlike, erotic style has drawn comparisons with the work of Bergman, Dali, David Lynch, Hitchcock and Godard amongst others.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of May, 2009
Hamiltons Gallery
13 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EU
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 27/04/2009
ONCE UPON A LIE
Meryl Donoghue’s current work is comprised of a collection of large-scale gyclee prints, depicting a series of strikingly lit human/animal hybrids arranged in black space. These images, born from pencil drawings, are digital creations. Transferred from page to screen, constructed from photography and then manipulated. The final images possess a sense of magical reality, underpinned by the suggestion of something more sinister and foreboding.
The new work in ‘Once Upon A lie…’ is inspired by stories that the artist has heard and events in her life that hold sway over her. It is a portrayal of desperate circumstances with unsettling and incalculable outcomes and in part pays homage to past writers, poets and musicians whose work has fuelled her imagination and inspired invention.
Donoghue’s work explores a number of themes such as loneliness, abandonment, loss and punishment.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of May, 2009
Stolen Space Gallery
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
Posted by Exit
27/04/2009
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC OBJECT
The Photographic Object will examine photography as an object in its own right and on its own terms. The advent of digital photography and the current saturation of imagery, through print, mobile phones and the internet, has resulted in a renewed interest in the physical and tactile quality of the photograph.
This exhibition will bring together a diversity of approaches to the photograph as ‘object’, such as overlaying, stitching, cutting, piercing, punching or moulding the works. The works in the exhibition will explore the material potential of the photographic form that lies somewhere between two and three dimensions. The Photographic Object will display the work of a range of internationally renowned artists including Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Wolfgang Tillmans who use photography in this manner.
Opposite - Damage (glass) from the series damage (2005+) Catherine Yass.
This exhibition runs until the 14th of June, 2009
The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Opening times:
Mon: Closed
Tues, Wed, Sat, Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
Thurs & Fri: 11.00 - 20.00
Posted by Exit
20/04/2009
LEICA ALL-WHITE
A while ago we brought you the limited Safari Edition of the M8 model, Now its time for the all white drop, just in time for summer. The white edition of this classic beauty will be hitting exclusive retailers in June and is priced at a very modest $9000.00 The credit crunch clearly isn't affecting the world of Leica.
Posted by Exit 20/04/2009
TECH WIPES
Hiroshi Fujiwara wants to make sure you keep your camera lens, sunglasses, iPhone, iPod etc clean in style and has created these Fragment Design Camera Lens Wipes. They come in three colorways and as a photographer and lover of design...I love these..
Posted by Exit 20/04/2009
CINDY SHERMAN
Sprüth Magers London is delighted to present Cindy Sherman’s exhibition of new work. The fourteen colour photographs assembled develop Sherman’s longstanding investigation into notions of gender, beauty and self-fashioning, and reveal a particular concern to probe experiences and representations of aging.
Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has developed an extraordinary relationship with her camera, and her audience, capturing herself in a range of guises and personas which are by turn alarming and amusing, distasteful and poignant. A remarkable performer, subtle distortions of her face and body are captured on camera, leaving the artist unrecognizable as she deftly alters her features, and brazenly manipulates her surroundings.
This exhibition runs until the 27th of May, 2009
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ
Posted by Exit 13/04/2009
CAMERA TRUCK
Camera truck is the worlds largest travelling camera, it takes pictures about 3000 times larger than 35mm negative. The camera truck works in exactly the same way as a pinhole camera. Light enters a sealed chamber through a tiny opening, and falls onto the opposite wall inside. Here it produces an inverted image of the world outside.
The first pinhole photograph was taken by Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster but the pinhole effect was observed by the Chinese philospher Mo Ti in 5 BC and also Aristotle in 4 BC. The cameratruck uses this same principle only amplified thousands of times and with a lens added for sharper detail in the final shots. The cargo box of the truck becomes a sealed chamber, and the aperture is a small hole in one side. As light enters the truck, it falls onto giant sheets of photographic paper pinned to the opposite wall. This is how Camera truck creates giant negatives, almost three metres wide.
Posted by Exit 13/04/2009
SUPERHEADZ DEMEKIN FISHEYE 110 CAMERA
Rule 1: Making everyday things extra small also makes them extra cute.
Rule 2: Photos automatically look a thousand times better with a fisheye lens.
Seriously. Take a picture of your bedroom wall with a fisheye lens and boom! Art. Combine a tiny 110 camera design with a capable fisheye lens and you've got this Fisheye camera from Demekin - the smallest camera around, and the first 110 camera with a fisheye lens. Images come out soft, dreamy and slightly antiqued. Includes a hole at the bottom for a tripod; 1/100 shutter speed; f/8.9 wide angle aperture; 1:13.5 lens. Imported.
Posted by Exit 13/04/2009
PARIS
For the last three years, William Eggleston has photographed the city of Paris as part of a commission for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. After his very first retrospective in 2001, this exhibition marks his second solo show at the Fondation Cartier. The exhibition provides an exceptional occasion to bring together William Eggleston’s distinctive pictures and his recent paintings, an unknown aspect of his work that has never before been presented to the public.
This exhibition runs until the 21st of June, 2009
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail
75014
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 06/04/2009
60 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Christian Dior presents the exhibition Christian Dior: 60 years of Photography that will be held during the 6th International Festival ,Fashion and Style in Photography 2009. This exhibition tells the history of Christian Dior through a selection of 120 pictures from the world’s greatest photographers.
Dior has always fostered a special bond with great photographers. In the 1940s and 1950s Erwin Blumenfeld, Willy Maywald, John Rawlings, Henry Clarke, Robert Randall and Horst P. Horst, amongst others, immortalised Dior’s most beautiful creations. This tradition still lives strong. Nowadays, Dior is proud to work not only with the greatest established photographers but also with young talents — today’s undeniable creative forces.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of May, 2009
Moscow Museum Of Modern Art
9 Tverskoy boulevard
Moscow
Russia
Posted by Exit 06/04/2009
THE WINNER IS...
Paul Graham has been awarded the 2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. At a special ceremony on Wednesday 25 March 2009, Jefferson Hack, co-founder of Dazed & Confused, presented the £30,000 award.
The Prize is awarded to an international photographer for their significant contribution to the medium of photography through either an exhibition or publication, in Europe between1 October 2007 and 30 September 2008. Paul Graham won for his publication a shimmer of possibility (steidlMACK, October 2007).
A shimmer of possibility comprises twelve individual volumes of photographic short stories of life in contemporary America. Graham infuses lyricism into the most mundane of everyday human activities – fetching mail or lighting a cigarette – and creates quiet photographic moments, ‘filmic haikus’, which suggest and hint at a narrative but ultimately remain open-ended. At once poetic and political, his photographs manage to draw out something truly profound from the almost-nothingness of everyday life.
An exclusive portfolio of Paul Grahams work can be seen in the forthcoming Spring/Summer issue of Exit publishing April 2009
This exhibition runs until the 12th of April, 2009
The Photographers Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Posted by Exit 30/03/2009
THE AIR IS ON FIRE
Originally exhibited at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris in 2007, David Lynch, The Air is on Fire is presented at the Ekaterina Foundation in Moscow from April 10 to July 12, 2009.
The largest exhibition devoted to David Lynch as a visual artist, it explores the multiple facets of his work, bringing together paintings, photographs, drawings, lithographs, experimental films, and sound created since 1960. This exhibition offers an exceptional occasion to discover and to revisit his universe and marks the first time that a Fondation Cartier exhibition is on view in Russia.
This exhibition runs until the 12th of July, 2009
Ekaterina Fondation
Moscow
107996, 21/5 Kuznetsky Most
porch 8
entrance from Bolshaya Lubyanka street
Russia
Posted by Exit 30/03/2009
UMFELD
Following her recent exhibiiton in Germany, model and photographer Iekeliene Stange, having documented backstage whilst modeling at fashion shows for several years, now exhibits her work in London for the first time with Dutch artist Victor de Bie. Together they exhibit personal work inclusing photography and painitng Through her photography, Iekeliene gives an insight to her everyday life, a compact referent of her worl
This exhibition runs until the 4th of April, 2009
The Horse Hospital
30 Colonnade
London
WC1N 1JD
Posted by Exit 30/03/2009
IN YOUR PLACE
The Selby is in your Place by Todd Selby started in June 2008 with this simple premise: exploring the ways one's personal space reflects one's personality, documenting creative people in their creative environment.
Todd set out to photograph and document his friends in their respective environment and began posting daily the recording of these sessions on a website, aptly named The Selby . Friends were soon followed by friends of friends —authors, actors, curators, directors, painters, performers and designers, filmed and photographed in their odd, fun, quirky, bohemian, clean, colorful, messy, irreverent, intimate, and always surprising spaces. By mid-summer, the site was garnering up to 30,000 hits a day, its subjects spanning New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Mexico, London and Paris. Now showing at Colette until May 2nd, 2009
Posted by Exit 23/03/2009
DIY CAMERA
We love this DIY build your own working 35mm camera from Plamodel. Its a flash-less camera but you do get to have fun with an art project and a camera all rolled into one! Camera parts come separated, and it's your job to snap them all together to create a sleek, functional 35mm camera. Assembly takes a couple of hours and simple instructions are included. Modifications are easy (to create a completely unique camera!); wide angle 28 mm lens takes rich, perfectly imperfect photos. Takes 35mm film that can be developed just about anywhere!
Posted by Exit 23/03/2009
MIYAKO ISHIUCHI
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is honoured to host the first European retrospective of work by Miyako Ishiuchi, Japan’s foremost female photographer. Taking over both floors of the gallery, it will be the first time images from the series ‘Mother’s’ (2000-2005), ‘1906 To the Skin’ (1991-1993) and ‘Yokosuka Story’ (1976-1977) have been shown in Britain.
Curated by Dutch photographer and Japanese photography specialist Machiel Botman, the exhibition comes to us from Foam Museum Amstedam and La Filature Scène Nationale-Mulhouse before moving to Riga Art Space in Latvia. The exhibition was organized and produced by Langhans Galerie Praha, a non-profit organization for the promotion of photography, and will be accompanied by the limited edition book MIYAKO ISHIUCHI, edited by Machiel Botman and published by Manfred Heiting. Printed in the form of a leporello within a slipcase, the book will be available exclusively from Michael Hoppen Gallery
This exhibition runs until the 16th of April, 2009
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
England
Posted by Exit 23/03/2009
INTO THE SUNSET
A new photography exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art explores the lure of the West for photographers, which began around 1840 when the first American camera patent was issued. Comprised of over 150 images, it presents an up-to-date view, as seen by 75 photographers whose images have made and continue to define the region a place for "discoverers, dreamers, and drifters" featuring the work of approximately seventy photographers, including Robert Adams, John Baldessari, Dorothea Lange, Timothy O'Sullivan, Cindy Sherman, Joel Sternfeld, Edward Weston, and Carleton E. Watkins.
Opposite - South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Stephen Shore and Nicole, Crissy Field Parking Lot, Katy Grannan.
This exhibition runs until the 8th of June, 2009
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York
NY
USA
Posted by Exit 16/03/2009
MAZE
Following his widely acclaimed 2004 photo essay The Maze, Magnum photographer Donovan Wylie was the only photographer granted official and unlimited access to the Maze prison site during its demolition. Executed over 2 years and counting with the demolition dates being continually changed, Wylie’s new work focuses on the empty landscape that surfaces in the aftermath of the demolition process. The exhibition combines photographs and film footage of the prison complex.
This exhibition runs until the 1st of May, 2009
Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
Belfast
BT1 2FF
Posted by Exit 16/03/2009
IN HIGH FASHION
An exhibition of 175 works by Edward Steichen drawn largely from the Condé Nast archives, this is the first presentation to give serious consideration to the full range of Steichen's fashion images.
Steichen's approach to fashion photography was formative and over the course of his career he changed public perceptions of the American woman. An architect of American Modernism and a Pictorialist, Steichen exhibited his fashion images alongside his art photographs. Steichen's crisp, detailed, high-key style revolutionized fashion photography, and his influence is felt in the field to this day—Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Bruce Weber are among his stylistic successors.
Opposite - Model Marion Morehouse and unidentified model wearing dresses by Vionnet, 1930.
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of May, 2009
International Center Of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
USA
Posted by Exit
16/03/2009
REISEBUCH 1-5
Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to present the first American exhibition of Christina Kruse. The exhibition launches the publication of Reisebuch 1-5, Kruse's limited edition artist's book, and will feature other significant recent work by Kruse including photographs, photo collages illuminated in watercolor and other media, and a series of photograms. Although Kruse is perhaps better known as one of European haute couture's top fashion models, her work as an artist and photographer has been recognized for over a decade, shown by well-regarded galleries in Paris and Germany, and featured in Vogue, Interview, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, i-D and Mixte.
This exhibition runs until the 28th of March 2009
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23 St. Second Floor
New York
NY
10011
USA
Posted by Exit 09/03/2009
THE RESIDUAL LANDSCAPES
The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is thrilled to unveil its new feature exhibition, Edward Burtynsky: The Residual Landscapes, showcasing 25 years of the photographer's inspiring and thought-provoking large-scale photographs.
Featured opposite Nickel Tailings #30, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996.
Edward Burtynsky is one of Canada's most respected and celebrated photographers. He's made it his life's work to document humanity's impact on the planet. Burtynsky's riveting images, as beautiful as they are disturbing, capture views of the earth altered by mankind. A mountain of tires, a river of fluorescent orange sludge from a nickel mine and a massive man-made canyon carved deep into the earth to reach its oil riches – these are just some of the many eye-opening images in this moving exhibition.
"These images are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear," said Edward Burtynsky, photographer. "We are drawn by desire – a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times."
Burtynsky's remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are in the collections of several major museums around the world including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
This exhibition runs until the 26th of April 2009
The Whyte Museum
111 Bear Street
Banff
Alberta
Canada
Posted by Exit 09/03/2009
GREGORY CREWDSON TALKS
Famed photographer Gregory Crewdson will present the inaugural discussion in a series sponsored by the Photography Society of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The artist’s talk is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 12 in Atkins Auditorium at the Museum. Crewdson’s work has been widely exhibited and reviewed. He makes large-scale photographs of elaborate and meticulously staged tableaux, which have been described as “micro-epics” that probe the dark corners of the psyche.
Working in the manner of a film director, he leads a production crew, which includes a director of photography, special effects and lighting teams, casting director and actors. He typically makes several exposures that he later digitally combines to produce the final image. “Crewdson is one of the most daring and inventive contemporary artists using photography,” said Keith F. Davis, Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins. “His meticulously crafted works are immensely rich in both narrative and psychological terms. They prod us to rethink our ‘usual’ relationship to photographs as physical objects and as records of worldly fact. Crewdson is a genuinely important figure in today’s art world. He has an international reputation and has influenced an entire generation of younger photographic artists.”
Attendance to the program is free, but tickets can be obtained in advance online at www.nelson-atkins.org
Posted by Exit 09/03/2009
WORKS 80-08
Moderna Museet presents Andreas Gursky: Works 80-08, 2009.
Born in Leipzig in 1955 and living in Düsseldorf, Andreas Gursky has long been considered one of the world’s leading photographers. Works 80-08 presents his entire oeuvre. The artist has selected more than 140 works from nearly three decades, the earliest of which were taken from his immediate surroundings, followed by images from an ever expanding radius, and ending in a global perspective. From distant and elevated vantage points, Andreas Gursky creates photographs that exceed the registering capacity of the eye. By revisiting locations and events repeatedly over an extended period of time, he not only sheds light on various forms of social contexts, such as mass meetings of a Capitalist or Communist nature, but also depicts structures in transformation.
The photographs of large corporations and stock markets from the 1980s and onwards are examples of this. The exhibition Works 80-08, featuring many photographs never previously shown, presents both the side of the artist where an individual image becomes an entire universe – the latest images are in Gursky’s well-known large format – as well as his encyclopaedic side. Offering space for the artist’s entire oeuvre has been made possible by the fact that he has produced small-scale copies of earlier works. This radical approach presents a generous opportunity to follow Gursky’s artistic development while at the same time conveying a whole new perspective on the individual art-works.
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of May 2009
Posted by Exit 02/03/2009
WILLIAM EGGLESTON - DEMOCRATIC CAMERA
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around: that nothing was more important or less important. William Eggleston the american artist william eggleston (b1939, memphis, usa) is considered to be one of the most idiosyncratic photographer’s of the 20th century. this comprehensive retrospective follows his artistic development from the early black-and-white images and pioneering transition to colour photography, all the way to the present day. This exhibition is organised by whitney museum of american art, new york in cooperation with haus der kunst munich.
This exhibition runs until the 17th of May 2009
Haus der kunst
Prinzregentenstrasse 1
80538 Munich
Germany
Posted by Exit 02/03/2009
A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE
A family album, a comprehensive exhibition, and a personal diary – Annie Leibovitz’s photographs from her private life and professional work merge seamlessly into a chronicle of the events, official commissions, and personal stories of the last fifteen years.
C/O Berlin presents “A Photographer’s Life” as first and only venue in Germany. The exhibition comprises a total of 200 photographs, many of them large-format works and monochrome landscapes, as well as a number of private family photos and small format black and white portraits.
Opposite - My Brother Philip and My Father, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1988, Annie Leibovitz
This exhibition runs until the 24th of May 2009
C/O Berlin
Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße
Tucholskystraße
10117 Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 02/03/2009
DEUTSCHE BORSE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2009
Now in its 13th year, this annual prize of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution to photography in Europe, through either an exhibition or publication, over the past year. The winner will be announced on 25 March 2009. The four shortlisted artists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009 are:
Paul Graham (b. 1956, UK) nominated for his publication, A Shimmer of Possibility (steidlMACK, October 2007).
Emily Jacir (b.1970, Palestine) nominated for her installation, Material for a Film, presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale (7 June – 21 November 2007).
Tod Papageorge (b.1940, USA) nominated for the exhibition Passing Through Eden - Photographs of Central Park at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (7 March - 12 April 2008).
Taryn Simon (opposite) (b.1975, USA) nominated for her exhibition An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at The Photographers' Gallery, London (13 September -11 November 2007).
This exhibition runs until the 12th of April 2009
The Photographers Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Posted by Exit 23/02/2009
LOCAL STUDIES
Joël Tettamanti, born in Cameroon in 1977 and grew up in Switzerland, is a traveller between cultures. He takes photographs all over the world, traveling without a guide to unknown places where he gains inspiration for quiet, memorable photographs through chance and unforeseen encounters.
He commutes between landscapes in which the presence of man is barely perceptible and cities in which nature has been banned almost entirely. He focuses his analytical and intuitive eye on specific objects with which people have "furnished" their living space: absurd scaffoldings, dense apartment blocks, sprawling settlements and timeless ruins – alien objects, bordering between usefulness and decay, frequently located in a twilit emptiness that reveals their forms and an enigmatic inner relationship. Tettamani's colour photographs, many of them in large format, portray our urban, globalised world in which inconspicuous details and the quality of light subtly evoke meaning in a suggestive way. "Local Studies" is the first comprehensive presentation of Tettamanti's work in Switzerland.
The exhibition runs until the 17th of May 2009
Fotostiftung Schweiz
Grünzenstrasse 45
8400 Winterthur
Zürich
Switzerland
Posted by Exit 23/02/2009
ROOT GINGER
The Idea Generation Gallery is pleased to present selected works from the book Root Ginger: A Study of Red Hair by the photographer Jenny Wicks. An exhibition, book and film project, Root Ginger is an exploration of a genetic trait that is most common in Scotland and Ireland but is scattered around the world.... “I was originally inspired by two of my brother’s children who have red hair. The book is a tribute to people with hair this colour but it is also an investigation into the genetic lottery that we all play. Most people are aware the ginger hair gene has a recessive characteristic, which is also true for cystic fibrosis, both genes run through my family”. Jenny Wicks
The exhibition runs until the 8th of March 2009
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London
E2 7JB
Posted by Exit 23/02/2009
DAVID BURDENY : ICEBERGS
David Burdeny’s photographs play with time and scale. His imagery suggests a formalized landscape where perspective scale and time momentarily become intangible. The viewer sees repeated dualities of stillness and movement, intense detail with blank atmospheric abstraction, man made objects found in ocean horizons, black and white images printed on colored paper, all reduced to present to the viewer a sublime experience.
The exhibition runs until May 9th, 2009
Young Gallery
Avenue Louise 75b
1050 Brussels
Posted by Exit 18/02/2009
GUARDIANS OF SOLITUDE
Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by photographer Laura McPhee. “Guardians of Solitude” is built upon McPhee's work from her 2003-2005 “River of No Return,” series consisting of studies of the landscape and a small rural community in a remote region of central Idaho: Sawtooth Valley. “Guardians of Solitude” celebrates the unsurpassed splendor of a fabled region, while also presenting the environmental complexities of managing a vast landscape in which the needs of ranchers, biologists, miners, tourists, and locals seek a finely delineated balance. In images spanning all seasons, McPhee depicts the magnificence and history of the Sawtooth Valley in central Idaho.
The exhibition runs until April 4, 2009
Bonni Benrubi Gallery
41 East 57th Street
13th Floor
New York
10022
USA
Posted by Exit 18/02/2009
LEICA M8.2 SAFARI
If you happen to be nipping off on safari this year, here's the perfect accessory to go with you - the Leica M8.2 Safari edition. Produced in a limited edition of 500 in a khaki green shade plus matching canvas and leather bag with calfskin strap.
In terms of the M8.2 camera itself, it's an upgraded Leica M8, with 10.3 megapixel sensor, 2.5-inch display, automatic and manual settings, RAW data capture and compatibility with all of Leica's M-range lenses.
All for the credit crunching price of just over £7,000
Posted by Exit 18/02/2009
TRANSFORMATIONS
Transformations is a photographic portrait exploration by photographer Paul Rowland, a regular contributor to Exit. The images reflect the artist’s interest in not who is in front of the camera, but rather what one could imagine there.
Taken from the past five years of image-making, this show attempts to distill an underlying current of the artist’s process. Often this results in moments of clarity, which can be haunting while retaining a humor that brings a sense of reality to the image where the moments have often been more heavily constructed.
The exhibition runs from February 13th till March 20th, 2009.
136
10th Avenue between 18th &19th street
ground floor
New York
10011
USA
Posted by Exit 09/02/2009
A SHIMMER OF POSSIBILITY
In August of 2004 Paul Graham, who had moved from London to New York in 2002, set out on the first of many trips around the United States to see and photograph the country for himself. This exhibition has been selected from the resulting series of photographic works, which Graham published in twelve volumes as, a shimmer of possibility. Each simple but structurally inventive series includes varying numbers of pictures, from one to more than ten, and provides a vivid glimpse into unheralded moments in the lives of individuals Graham encountered on his travels.
A series showing a woman eating a take-out meal or a man waiting at a bus stop transcends its nominal subjects and describes aspects of life that, while ordinary, are imbued by the photographer with affection and curiosity. a shimmer of possibility is a call for attention to the brief, indefinite intervals of life. As Graham has said, "Perhaps instead of standing at the river’s edge scooping out water, it’s better to be in the current itself, to watch how the river comes up to you, flows smoothly around your presence, and reforms on the other side like you were never there."
The exhibition runs until March 18th, 2009.
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York
10019
Posted by Exit 09/02/2009
THE LAST DAYS OF W
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "The Last Days of W" color photographs taken by Alec Soth between 2000 and 2008. Although originally conceived without explicit political intent, in retrospect Soth considers this selected body of work, which spans both terms of George W. Bush's presidency, to represent "a panoramic look at a country exhausted by its catastrophic leadership."
Soth's earlier series such as "Sleeping by the Mississippi," "NIAGARA," and "Dog Days, Bogotá" – all subjective narratives containing disenfranchised figures and decaying landscapes - laid the conceptual groundwork for "The Last Days of W." It provides a wry commentary on the adverse effects of the national administration, perhaps best exemplified by an unwittingly ironic remark that Bush made in 2000: "I think we can agree, the past is over."
The exhibition runs till March 7th, 2009.
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
10075
Posted by Exit 09/02/2009
TIBERIUS : CHADWICK TYLER
Honey Space Gallery New York, has announced Tiberius, a solo exhibition of new photography by Exit contributor Chadwick Tyler.
For his first gallery exhibition, the artist has created a series of original black & white photographic portraits depicting an array of expressive & sullenly beautiful female characters. In Tiberius, Tyler juxtaposes the mystery and obscurity of the antiquated image with the clarity of deep emotion: transcendence, rage, ecstasy, hysteria, confusion, lethargy, exhaustion, lament, abjection, resignation, etc. The series is a sort of lexicon of unexplained broken beauty.
The exhibition runs from February 10th till March 12th, 2009.
Honey Space Gallery
148 11th Avenue
Between 21st and 22nd Street
Chelsea
New York
USA
Posted by Exit 02/02/2009
MADE FOR SKATE
In the skateboard universe the evolution of riding technique, skateboard decks, graphics and art are well documented. Until now, however, skateboard shoes have received little attention. Made for Skate tells the story of skateboard footwear as seen through the eyes of those who lived it.
Along with the classics by companies such as Vans, Airwalk, Etnies, and Duffs, it features hard-to-find and one-of-a-kind shoes that emerged throughout almost five decades of skate history - all photographed superlatively.
This book provides an exhaustive overview of the history and styles of skate shoes and is based on the collection of the Museum of Skateboard History in Stuttgart, Germany.
Posted by Exit 02/02/2009
MICHEL COMTE RETROSPECTIVE
Michel Comte was born in Zurich in 1954. He trained as an art restorer and then taught himself photography. In 1979, he received his first advertising commission from Karl Lagerfeld for the fashion label Chloé and moved to Paris. In 1981 he moved to New York and later to Los Angeles for his work on American Vogue. Within the space of a few years, Comte went from being an unknown photographer to being the most wanted man in the business and had established himself as one of the world’s busiest fashion and magazine photographers. He has worked for Vanity Fair and Vogue, and shot portraits of celebrities from the world of art, music, and entertainment including Julian Schnabel, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore, Mike Tyson, Carla Bruni, and Michael Schumacher, creating icons of portrait photography in the process. But in addition to portrait and fashion photography, Comte is increasingly branching out into journalistic and documentary photography. He has worked for the Red Cross and for his own Water Foundation and has travelled through war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, or the Sudan. He is currently working on a film about the atrocities committed during the rule of the Khmer Rouge.
The exhibtion runs until the 10th of May 2009
NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft
Ehrenhof 2
40479
Düsseldorf
Germany
Posted by Exit 02/02/2009
MADONNA NUDE
The opposite nude photograph of Madonna taken during a 1979 modeling session with legendary photographer Lee Friedlander is set to be auctioned on February 12 at Christie's auctioneers in New York. The photo originally appeared in Playboy magazine in 1985, with Fox News reporting that Madonna may have been paid as little as $25 for the session. The full-frontal image, (we cropped the image above as an act in taste and decency) is expected to sell for up to $15,000 and is available to view at Christies.com.
Lot Description.
Lee Friedlander (B. 1934)
Nude (Madonna), 1979
gelatin silver print
signed, titled 'Nude', dated and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the verso)
13 x 8 5/8in. (33 x 21.9cm)
Posted by Exit 26/01/2009
ALL GONE
Now on sale at Colette, one of my favorite 'best of' books, LaMJC presents the latest edition of ALL GONE, the book that gives us the special product and collaborations of 2008.
Limited as the product is and running at 1000 copies you better get yours before they've all go.
Posted by Exit 26/01/2009
SILLY THING
Silly Thing has just released the first pieces of their Spring/Summer 2009 collection. The drop includes this canvas tote bags which has a camera print and we like it a lot. As with most items this week...its on sale now at colette.
Posted by Exit 26/01/2009
SUPERMODEL SKATEBOARDS
Doodah have recently come out with a Supermodel Skateboard series in collaboration with fashion photographers Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer, who contribute regularly to French Vogue. Each deck is in a limited edition of 150 and feature uber models Isabeli Fontana, Lara Stone, Toni Garrn and Edita all in various states of undress and who wouldn't want to ride these four beauties.
Posted by Exit
19/01/2009
MIHARA YASUHIRO CAMERA CASE FOR CANON G SERIES
Canon have called upon Japanese fashion designer, Mihara Yasuhiro a regular collaborator with Puma to design this limited edition camera case for the new Canon G10 camera. Available exclusively in Hong Kong and retailing for around £85.00 the case will house all G Series camera's including the G10’s famous older brother, the G9.
Posted by Exit
19/01/2009
EXIT LOVES LOUISE ENHORNING
Photographer Louise Enhörning was born in Stockholm, Sweden and currently lives in Paris. She is a regular contributor to Another, Dazed & Confused and Vice Magazine and we at Exit are big fans of her aesthetic.
Posted by Exit
19/01/2009
PORTRAITURE NOW: FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Portraiture Now, at the Washington National Portrait Gallery, focuses on the work of six artists working on feature photography for publications ranging from the New Yorker to Esquire. Each has a unique take on contemporary portraiture, and are chosen because their work reaches such a broad audience. Included are Alec Soth (whose work is opposite), Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke and Martin Schoeller. Runs until September 27, 2009.
Washington National Portrait Gallery
Eighth and F Streets NW
D.C.
20001
USA
Museum Hours:
11:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. daily
Admission: Free
Posted by Exit 12/01/2009
EXIT LOVES BRUNA KAZINOTI
Bruna Kazinoti was born in Croatia and studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. She has published photos in various magazines including Exit and Dazed & Confused. She lives and works between Croatia and Antwerp, Belgium.
Bruna Kazinoti MySpace profile
Posted by Exit
12/01/2009
LOMO DIANA F GETS GLOW IN THE DARK TREATMENT!
Lomo has released a new special edition of their iconic Lomo Diana F+ camera - a glow-in-the-dark-version. You get all the functionality that the regular Diana F+ offers, but this time, you can be sure that people will see you in the dark. The Lomo Diana F+ Glow In The Dark is exclusively available online.
Posted by Exit 12/01/2009
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' NEW GALLERY
American artist, Katy Grannan’s series, The Westerns will be the launch exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery’s new location at 16 - 18 Ramillies Street, London, W1. Featuring over 30 large format colour portraits, the series depicts subjects the artist describes as ‘new pioneers,’ individuals living on the west coast of America who endeavour to define themselves under the scrutiny of an unforgiving Pacific sunlight. The Photographers' Gallery is the largest public gallery in London dedicated to photography. From the latest emerging talent, to historical archives and established artists.
The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Opening times:
Mon: Closed
Tues, Wed, Sat, Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
Thurs & Fri: 11.00 - 20.00
Posted by Exit 05/01/2009
CUSTOMIZED BY SATOSHI MINAKAWA
In contrast to the usual minimalism that we see from Japanese designers and artists, Satoshi Minakawa presents photos of excentric customizations of Japanese vehicles.
“In shot after shot, Minakawa presents vehicles that look as if they came straight off some deranged kabuki set. Nothing looks as if it was ever meant for anything so mundane as road transportation. Gaudy gold fins are welded to the boot of two-wheeler carts. Trucks are festooned with blinding neon signs, their every surface plastered with kanji script and strobe lights. Meanwhile, the fleet of motorbikes and scooters are painted in a resplendent rainbow of glossy blues, reds and blacks; some are even adorned with stylized eyes on the fender. The overall effect is one of manga Transformers, a split second before they unfold, unclip and spring into life.”
The photographers work is on show at The Printspace in East London, until January 14th.
The Printspace
74 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8DL
Posted by Exit 05/01/2009
LEICA D-LUX 4 TITAN LIMITED EDITION
It has just been confirmed that Leica will be releasing a limited edition version of their popular D-Lux 4 model. The camera will come in a titanium casing with matching Leica leather pouch. The technical specs are the same as for the regular D-Lux 4 It comes in a limited editon of 500 pieces of this precious machinery so you might be bidding on ebay for this little gem.
Posted by Exit 05/01/2009
