Home › Category Archives › News

News

Subscribe to this category
Chris Killip / Graham Smith

Chris Killip / Graham Smith

0
20/20 brings together work by British photographers Chris Killip (1946-2020) and Graham Smith (1947) for a reconceived telling of their seminal show, Another Country, originally exhibited at the Serpentine Gallery, London, in 1985. Through snapshots and ephemera, the show also recognises their lifelong friendship with one another. Killip and Smith first met in 1975 through Amber, a film and photography…
Hippolyte Bayard A Persistent Pioneer

Hippolyte Bayard A Persistent Pioneer

0
Parisian bureaucrat by day and tireless inventor after hours, Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801-1887) was one of the most important, if lesser-known, pioneers of photography. During his thirty-year career, he invented the direct positive process and several other photographic techniques on paper. This exhibition journeys back to the 19th century to unveil a collection of Bayard’s delicately crafted photographs, offering an…
“To Prove that I Exist”: Melissa Shook’s Daily Self-Portraits, 1972-1973

“To Prove that I Exist”: Melissa Shook’s Daily Self-Portraits, 1972-1973

0
In December of 1972, photographer Melissa Shook (1939–2020) assigned herself a personal, artistic challenge: to take self-portraits every day for a year, in her own words, “to prove that I exist.” Struggling with self-identity and unreliable childhood memories, Shook undertook this conceptual exercise to see if she could remember to take pictures every day. The days she failed to photograph…
Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography

Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography

0
Marilyn Stafford (1925–2023) was born in Northeast Ohio, acted on the stage in New York City, sang for chic clubgoers in Paris, met celebrities and politicians, and traveled the world. Amid this fascinating life, photography became her passion, leading to a career that spanned four decades, from the 1940s until 1980. Opening in February, Marilyn Stafford: A Life in Photography…
David Katzenstein: Distant Journeys

David Katzenstein: Distant Journeys

0
Lifelong chronicler of humanity throughout the furthest reaches of the world, David Katzenstein’s forty-nine-year artistic journey through thirty-seven countries is thoughtfully curated into Distant Journeys (Hirmer Publishers / distributed by University of Chicago Press). Drawn from an exhaustive body of work developed by Katzenstein, the 120 duo-tone images taken between 1974 and 2023 are thoughtfully accompanied by excerpts from The…
(re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946–1965

(re) Framing Conversations: Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1946–1965

0
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open a second complete rotation of 20 extraordinary Richard Avedon portraits spanning two decades and curated from the museum’s extensive photo history collection. In November 1962, the National Museum of American History hosted Avedon’s very first one-man exhibition that included a range of photographic materials, including photographs, proof prints, contact sheets, a…
Paul Hart: FRAGILE

Paul Hart: FRAGILE

0
Paul Hart’s new series is a personal reflection on nature and was made in the landscape close to his home in England. The aesthetic is rooted in the notion of a heightened awareness of the natural world, of both a physical engagement and spiritual connection to the land. Whilst becoming absorbed in this instinctual, visceral approach, Hart has become acutely…
Vivian Maier at Howard Greenberg Gallery

Vivian Maier at Howard Greenberg Gallery

0
Vivian Maier (1926 – 2009) was an American street photographer whose massive, unseen body of work came to light when it was purchased from an auction in Chicago in 2007. Born in New York City, Maier spent some of her youth in France and then worked in Chicago as a nanny and caregiver for most of her life. In her…
Ellen Graham: Unscripted

Ellen Graham: Unscripted

0
For over six decades, Ellen Graham has photographed actors, musicians, models, athletes, and royals at their most vulnerable: unplanned, unposed, and unscripted. Imbuing a sense of immediacy, showing moments of intimacy and humor, and celebrating her remarkable ability to disarm her subjects, Graham’s photographs provide unique insight into a person’s inner dimensions. This exhibition highlights several of Graham’s gifts to…
Michael Kenna: Reverie

Michael Kenna: Reverie

0
Catherine Couturier Gallery is thrilled to announce Reverie, an exhibition of new work by gallery artist Michael Kenna. Renowned for his black-and-white landscape photography, Kenna employs prolonged exposure times, sometimes up to 10 hours, to capture ethereal scenes. Often working at dawn or under the cover of night, he reveals hidden dimensions beyond the ordinary gaze. Inspired by fellow British…
Jeffrey Conley: An Ode to Nature

Jeffrey Conley: An Ode to Nature

0
Peter Fetterman Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, “Jeffrey Conley: An Ode to Nature” featuring the remarkable works of photographer Jeffrey Conley. The exhibition, opening on January 27th, 2024, promises to transport viewers to a world where nature’s beauty takes center stage. “Jeffrey Conley: An Ode to Nature” is a retrospective showcase of Jeffrey Conley’s exceptional career up…
Conzo: A Look Back at the Bronx, 1977-84

Conzo: A Look Back at the Bronx, 1977-84

0
Born in 1963 in the South Bronx, Joe Conzo Jr. acquired a passion for photography as a young boy. By some combination of luck and circumstance, as a teenager Joe found himself at the very center of cultural and activist movements changing the Bronx. His father was the personal confidant of Tito Puente, promoting some of the biggest salsa shows…
Nick Brandt: The Day May Break

Nick Brandt: The Day May Break

0
Nick Brandt’s “The Day May Break” is an ongoing global series portraying people and animals that have been impacted by environmental degradation and destruction. “Chapter One” was photographed in Zimbabwe and Kenya in 2020, “Chapter Two” in Bolivia in 2022. The people in the photos have all been badly affected by climate change, from extreme droughts to floods that destroyed…
CHRONORAMA Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century

CHRONORAMA Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century

0
The Helmut Newton Foundation and Pinault Collection proudly present CHRONORAMA. Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century. Following its highly successful premiere at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the collaborative project will be shown at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin starting 15 February 2024. CHRONORAMA marks the latest partnership between the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin and leading international collections. In…
D. J. Hinman: Japan Is Calling

D. J. Hinman: Japan Is Calling

0
Photographer D. J. Hinman will hold an exhibit entitled “Japan Is Calling; the 47 Prefectures” at Roonee 247 Fine Arts in Tokyo on April 16-21, 2024. The exhibit features black-and-white film photographs from the backyards of Japan. D. J. Hinman spent several years wandering through the 47 prefectures of Japan, mostly by local train, to explore the diversity of the…
Steve Geer: The Metropolitan Tower Collection

Steve Geer: The Metropolitan Tower Collection

0
A series of fifty-two 22” x 14” black and white Chicago-based photographs by photographer Steve Geer have been acquired for permanent display in The Metropolitan Tower, an iconic residential building in the heart of the city. Steve describes the series as follows: Chicago is one of the most photographed cities in North America, and the challenge was to select a…
ONE YEAR! Photographs from the miners’ strike 1984 – 85

ONE YEAR! Photographs from the miners’ strike 1984 – 85

0
To coincide with the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike this exhibition looks at the vital role photographs played during the year-long struggle against pit closures, including many materials drawn from the Martin Parr Foundation collection. The miners’ strike was one of Britain’s longest and most bitter disputes, the repercussions of which continue to be felt throughout the country today.…
Sage Sohier: Passing Time

Sage Sohier: Passing Time

0
Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, Sage Sohier: Passing Time. This solo exhibition will feature a remarkable selection of black and white photographs from Sohier’s recently published Nazraeli Press monograph of the same title. The images that comprise the exhibition are drawn from the photographer’s compelling and kindhearted portraits made between 1979-85 of people living in…
1964: Eyes of the Storm: Paul McCartney

1964: Eyes of the Storm: Paul McCartney

0
In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963 and beginning of 1964 when Beatlemania erupted in the UK and, after the band’s first visit to the USA, they became the most famous people on the…
Koichiro Kurita: Terrasphere Hydrosphere Atmosphere

Koichiro Kurita: Terrasphere Hydrosphere Atmosphere

0
Japanese photographer Koichiro Kurita graduated from Kanseigakuin University in Kobe, where he studied perceptual psychology, using a camera extensively to simulate the function of the eye in his research that examined how people view moving objects under changing circumstances. He worked as a young man for a Tokyo advertising agency before becoming a successful independent photographer and director of commercials.…