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Isa Leshko: Allowed to Grow Old

Isa Leshko: Allowed to Grow Old

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For nearly a decade, photographer Isa Leshko traveled to farm sanctuaries across the United States to create intimate portraits of elderly rescued farm animals. She began the project soon after caring for her mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease. Leshko writes: “The experience had a profound effect on me and forced me to confront my own mortality. I am terrified of…
August Sander: 16 Portraits

August Sander: 16 Portraits

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When people speak about masterpieces of modern photography, when the question is which one is the pioneering incunabulum among them, and when talks is of singling out the most famous photographic project in history, then many would readily agree that August Sander’s “Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts” (“People of the 20th Century”) merits that honor. Grisebach has the pleasure to announce…
Lynn Davis: Landmark

Lynn Davis: Landmark

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Davis made her first voyage to Greenland in 1986, and has since traversed the continents seeking out majestic forms in landmarks of both natural and human achievement, from the Arctic Circle’s monumental ice formations and the world’s largest waterfalls in Brazil and Argentina, to the ancient pyramids of Giza and the architectural relics of Palmyra. Davis has a singular ability…
Peter Bush: MANA, 60 Years of All Blacks Photography

Peter Bush: MANA, 60 Years of All Blacks Photography

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In Māori culture, mana is honor. For the All Blacks and many New Zealanders, to have mana is to have one of the highest honors bestowed upon a person. Drawing upon the Māori concept of mana, the exhibition surveys the All Blacks, New Zealand’s male rugby union team and the most successful international sporting team of all time, maintaining a…
Harry Benson: The Beatles and more

Harry Benson: The Beatles and more

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents the first exhibition in Russia by the photojournalist Harry Benson, who created the iconic photographs of The Beatles and the portraits of all the American presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Donald Trump. The main part of the exhibition are photographs of The Beatles, with whom Benson worked from 1964 to 1966. It was…
Sam Haskins: Cowboy Kate & Other Stories

Sam Haskins: Cowboy Kate & Other Stories

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‘Once upon a time was Kate. She was white as flowers, warm as sun-shine, wild as whiskey and swinging like a lamp.’ – Desmond Skirrow Atlas Gallery is pleased to present a selection of cinematic black and white prints from the historic photobook Cowboy Kate & Other Stories (1964) shot by South African-British photographer Sam Haskins and exhibited for the…
Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park

Kohei Yoshiyuki: The Park

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For his notorious Park photos, taken at night in Tokyo’s Shinjuku, Yoyogi and Aoyama parks during the 1970s, Kohei Yoshiyuki used a 35mm camera, infrared film and flash to capture a secret community of lovers and voyeurs. His pictures document the people who gathered in these parks at night for clandestine trysts, as well as the many spectators lurking in…
A Lasting Memento: John Thomson’s Photographs Along the River Min

A Lasting Memento: John Thomson’s Photographs Along the River Min

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Voyage into 19th-century China through one of PEM’s photographic treasures, John Thomson’s album Foochow and the River Min. This intimate exhibition features more than 40 striking landscapes, city views and portrait studies that Thomson captured as he traveled in the southeastern Fujian province. Photographs by contemporary artist Luo Dan, who was inspired by Thomson to undertake a similar journey in…
Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood): Girls, Girls, Girls!!!

Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood): Girls, Girls, Girls!!!

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The exhibition is dedicated to the exiting Pin Ups and girls’ pictures of the german-american photographer Bruno Bernard, better known as Bernard of Hollywood (1911-1987). In 1934 Bernard promoted in criminal psychology in Germany and emigrated 1936 to the USA because of hisJewish ancestry. There he photographed in Los Angeles since 1938 and opened his studio two years later in…
Marianne Strobl: 1865-1917

Marianne Strobl: 1865-1917

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The legacy left behind by the Viennese photographer Marianne Strobl (1865-1917) proved to be a windfall for historians of photography. Strobl did not want to earn her money in a portrait studio like most of her female colleagues. Instead, between 1894 and 1917, she took her camera out to major construction sites and industrial facilities, and today she ranks as…
Vladimir Lagrange: LAGRANGE’S STREETS

Vladimir Lagrange: LAGRANGE’S STREETS

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography opens a new exhibition season with a jubilee retrospective of Vladimir Lagrange, whose work has become the very image of the “thaw” of the 1960s. The photographer’s overwhelming desire to observe the world, his attention towards people, and the amazing sense of the spirit of the era have provided us with an extensive archive.…
Constructing the Frame: Composition Among the Early Soviet Avant-Garde

Constructing the Frame: Composition Among the Early Soviet Avant-Garde

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Constructing the Frame showcases exciting experiments with framing and composition among the leading avant-garde artists of the 1920s and 1930s, including Aleksandr Rodchenko, Boris Ignatovich, Petr Galadzhev, Gustav Klutsis, Arkady Shaikhet, Georgy Petrusov, and Yakov Khalip. By the mid-1920s, photography and cinema were at the forefront of the arts in the Soviet Union. In 1924, Aleksandr Rodchenko had abandoned painting…
Carleton Watkins

Carleton Watkins

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Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of twelve rare, mammoth-plate photographs by Carleton Watkins, considered by many to be the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century. Watkins was the focus of the gallery’s first exhibition in September 1979, and the present project marks the beginning of a season-long celebration of Fraenkel Gallery’s fortieth year. Though made within…
Beth Moon: Literary Chickens

Beth Moon: Literary Chickens

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Fierce, funny, and flamboyant, fifty-two heritage-breed chickens assess the camera with a keen gaze. By focusing on the faces of her avian subjects, Beth Moon reveals them to us not just as beautiful and exotic creatures, but as individuals in their own right. Moon’s intimate portraits capture a startling range of emotions and personalities, underscored by excerpts from literature. A…
2nd Kyiv Photo Book International Festival

2nd Kyiv Photo Book International Festival

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The goals of festival are creating a place of intercultural exchange and developing photography art market in the country. The central event of the festival is a fair of photo books from photographers, publishing houses, art galleries, book distributors. Along with the fair, the festival will have an exhibition of private collections of photo books. The educational hall will host…
Letizia Battaglia: Anthology

Letizia Battaglia: Anthology

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A large selection of Letizia Battaglia’s iconic black and white images are presented in this catalogue, guiding the reader along a journey into one of post-war Italy’s darkest periods. Drawing from Battaglia’s personal archive, the book also includes some of the photographer’s more recent projects. It offers a unique approach to her genre-defining work (often likened to that of American…
Dennis Hopper: In Dreams: Scenes from the Archive

Dennis Hopper: In Dreams: Scenes from the Archive

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In Dreams. Scenes from the Archive adds to our understanding of Dennis Hopper’s personal vision as an artist by tracing the threads of Hopper’s life through photography, and connecting his roles as an actor, husband, father, and photographer. In Dreams eschews Hopper’s iconic stand-alone images and instead looks to distill the archive into a connected set of photographs that offer…
Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River

Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River

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In the spirit of nineteenth-century photographers such as Louis Daguerre, Henry Fox Talbot, and Timothy O’Sullivan, the photographs on view are ambrotypes, unique glass-plate positives, made with the wet-plate collodion process in a portable darkroom Kolster sets up along the banks and overlooks of these rivers. The chemical slurries that develop and fix the image on the glass plate actually…
Gavin Watson: Oh! What Fun We Had

Gavin Watson: Oh! What Fun We Had

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Not just an ambitious restoration of a fascinating unseen archive, but a book that takes on the gargantuan task of shifting the collective memory around key moments in British youth culture history, with a mesmerizing force of honesty and humanity. By the man who’s previous books Skins (1994), and Skins & Punks (2008), have been hailed as modern classics, Damiani…