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Steve Fitch: Drive-in Theaters

Steve Fitch: Drive-in Theaters

Drive-In Theaters will showcase a remarkable selection of vintage and modern gelatin silver prints representing the architecture of these distinctly American movie-viewing monuments. For more than forty years, Steve Fitch has been photographing the American West revealing its changing vernacular landscape and vanishing roadside attractions. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree…
Arkadiusz Kubisiak: W-WA

Arkadiusz Kubisiak: W-WA

Arkadiusz Kubisiak photographed Warsaw for three years. He came there to photograph whenever he could find a couple of hours in the day. The trips were many. The city is uncontrollable, enormous. You have control over practically nothing. Yet he is not overwhelmed by that fact. It elicits in him a feeling of freedom, perhaps even impunity. The whole time,…
Roger Mayne: What he saved for his family

Roger Mayne: What he saved for his family

This exhibition features some of the most famous images from Roger Mayne’s seminal body of work on the streets of West London and similar working-class neighborhoods of Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s that made him one of the most important post-war British photographers. The majority of prints in the exhibition comes from Ann’s Box, a selection of prints…
Ernest Cole House of Bondage

Ernest Cole House of Bondage

Foam proudly presents the first overview of the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole. The exhibition includes parts of his archive, which had long been considered lost. The overview was assembled in collaboration with the Ernest Cole Family Trust, which in 2017 secured control of Cole’s archive. Cole is celebrated for his tireless documentation of Black lives in South…
Kanoa Zimmerman: Free Dive + Bodysurfers

Kanoa Zimmerman: Free Dive + Bodysurfers

Casemore Gallery and Small Works present a collaborative exhibition of works by Kanoa Zimmerman from his series Free Dive and Bodysurfers. On view in the main gallery are seven large-scale optical silver gelatin prints from Free Dive; the smaller gallery room presents seven additional images from Bodysurfers. Kanoa Zimmerman’s work explores the underwater ocean environment, our interaction with it, and…
Meg Turner: WET

Meg Turner: WET

This much-anticipated photo book contains a series of 45 tintype portraits created between New Orleans and New York City from 2014-2022. The images convey joy, fierceness, vulnerability, and an uncompromising gaze while exploding the notion that rest and security are deserved only after a lifetime of work. Drawing deeply from traditions of fashion and advertising, Meg Turner invites her colleagues…
Sebastião Salgado: Magnum Opus

Sebastião Salgado: Magnum Opus

MAGNUM OPUS” CONSISTS OF FIFTY SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS REPRESENTING SEBASTIÃO SALGADO’S MAJOR WORKS OVER FIVE DECADES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS AROUND THE WORLD. The images, a selection specially made by Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado, include some from his two most recent series, Amazônia and Genesis, each the result of seven years’ work, as well as from older projects, such as…
D. J. Hinman: The Hole in the Universe

D. J. Hinman: The Hole in the Universe

Photographer D. J. Hinman has created a series of black-and-white photographs that burrows deeply into the subconscious, into places rarely visited during waking hours. The theme originated from a nightmare about discovering a tiny hole at the edge of the universe where bits of reality were escaping in a slow but steady stream, a frightening discovery. In the days following…
Bernd & Hilla Becher at SFMOMA

Bernd & Hilla Becher at SFMOMA

The renowned German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015) changed the course of late twentieth-century photography. Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their seemingly objective style recalled nineteenth- and early twentieth-century precedents but also resonated with the serial…
Klavdij Sluban: EAST TO EAST

Klavdij Sluban: EAST TO EAST

The exhibition “EAST TO EAST” presents a selection from the award-winning series by the Franco-Slovenian photographer Klavdij Sluban. Literature and travel are the basis of his poetic and magical black and white photographs. These journeys, starting in Paris, Klavdij Sluban’s adopted home, take him to the Balkans and along the Trans-Siberian route to China and Japan. For Klavdij Sluban, the…
Harry Benson: Four Stories

Harry Benson: Four Stories

Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson CBE came to America with The Beatles in 1964 and in his words, “never looked back.” In the decades since, the award-winning photographer has demonstrated incredible range. He photographed Civil Rights marches and the Watts Riots, was on the scene when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and covered conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia, and the Gulf War. The…
Michael Kenna: Arbres

Michael Kenna: Arbres

Michael Kenna exhibition featuring selections by his long time assistant Mark Silva. The exhibition will include 20 photographs by Michael Kenna with a selection of images form his new book Arbres. Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his unusual Black and white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with…
Nenad Samuilo Amodaj: Hoop and Ball Photographic Series

Nenad Samuilo Amodaj: Hoop and Ball Photographic Series

Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco. The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation…
Inge Morath: INGE MORATH HOMMAGE

Inge Morath: INGE MORATH HOMMAGE

Kunstfoyer is showing “INGE MORATH HOMAGE” to mark the 100th birthday of the famous Magnum photographer in collaboration with the Inge Morath Estate, curated by Anna-Patricia Kahn and Isabel Siben. Inge Morath (1923–2002) was born in Graz, Austria. Her parents were scientists whose work took them to different laboratories and universities in Europe during her childhood. Educated in French-speaking schools,…
Josef Koudelka: IKONAR. Archival Constellations

Josef Koudelka: IKONAR. Archival Constellations

As a first survey exhibition in Switzerland since 1977 devoted exclusively to the work of Josef Koudelka, the exhibition and accompanying book offer new insights into his career. In particular a part of his personal archive, namely the 30,000 35-mm contact sheets from 1960-2012, has been researched and presented. Ikonar is the nickname Josef Koudelka received from a group of…
Miyuki Okuyama: At Dusk

Miyuki Okuyama: At Dusk

Photobook “At Dusk” (Photo and book design by Miyuki Okuyama, The Netherlands/Japan) is the winner of Fotografia Europea + SK BOOK AWARD FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA, Italy (2022). The book is published from Skinnerboox. “At Dusk” will be presented at Polycopies, a photo-book fair during Paris Photo 2022, and be a collection of TATE Library, London. “Dusk, the transitional hour bridging day…
Tony O’Shea: The Light of Day

Tony O’Shea: The Light of Day

Photo Museum Ireland is delighted to present The Light of Day – the first retrospective exhibition of acclaimed Irish artist Tony O’Shea. A legendary figure in the context of Irish photography, O’Shea’s work occupies a pivotal role in the history of documentary practice in Ireland. Curated and produced by Photo Museum Ireland, this retrospective exhibition brings together for the first…
Monika K. Adler: Nostalgia

Monika K. Adler: Nostalgia

The photography series ‘NOSTALGIA’ tells the story of an immigrant’s remembrance of a life disrupted by war. Cold earth and blackened gun-metal. Taking with you only the most precious and essential. Cast alone amongst thousands; forced, overnight, to leave their home, their family, their animals, and the places they love; fractious, precarious, putting their lives in the hands of strangers.…
Vivian Maier. Street Photographer

Vivian Maier. Street Photographer

The exhibition “Vivian Maier. Street Photographer” at Deutsche Börse’s headquarters, displays more than 140 works and provides a comprehensive insight into the extraordinary photographic work that the artist has created with a visual language that is both individual and timeless. The exhibition is a cooperation between diChroma photography, Madrid, and the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation. For more than four decades,…