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Larry Fink: Social Graces

Larry Fink: Social Graces

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Larry Fink’s Social Graces series contrasts two social worlds that seem a world apart: those of Manhattan high society and Pennsylvania farm country. In the city, coiffed and bejeweled patrons of the arts dance and drink at gallery openings, benefits, and the famed Studio 54 nightclub; in Martin’s Creek, Pennsylvania, a farming family and their circle celebrate birthdays and graduations,…
Vivian Maier Unseen Work

Vivian Maier Unseen Work

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Fotografiska New York presents the first major retrospective in the United States of invisible artist Vivian Maier’s extraordinary work through September 29, 2024. Born in New York in 1926, Vivian Maier spent her early years in the Bronx. Throughout her time in New York City, Maier began to photograph the world around her and develop a visual language through the…
Foreign Exchange: Photography between Chicago, Japan, and Germany, 1920–1960

Foreign Exchange: Photography between Chicago, Japan, and Germany, 1920–1960

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After World War I, a striking visual language came to prominence in photography, characterized by the use of multiple exposures, unusual vantages, and sharp focus. While this style is often associated with the Bauhaus, an influential German art school of the 1920s and early ‘30s, this exhibition—of nearly 100 works across four decades—explores this modernist aesthetic as it developed through…
Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood

Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood

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This multimedia examination of photographer and cinematographer Karl Struss celebrates his storied career and influence on American filmmaking during Hollywood’s Golden Age. Featuring archival materials, films, and over 100 photographs from the Carter’s extensive Struss Artist Archive, Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood highlights Struss’s innovations in image-making and unique contributions to the film industry in the…
Frida Kahlo Forever Yours…

Frida Kahlo Forever Yours…

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Frida Kahlo, who lived from 1907 to 1954, and who spent nearly her entire life in Mexico City, was a visionaryartist. She remains enigmatic, yet her paintings, and her views of art, continue to inspire and influence all of us. Her art was deeply personal, but she illuminated emotional issues that resonate widely. Frida’s fears, pain,dreams, and surreal trances evoke…
Printer Savant: Lumiere Press and the Art of the Photo Book

Printer Savant: Lumiere Press and the Art of the Photo Book

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An exhibition exploring the relationship between master book maker, Michael Torosian of Lumiere Press and gallerist Howard Greenberg will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery. Printer Savant: Lumiere Press and the Art of the Photo Book celebrates the decades long collaboration of Howard Greenberg Gallery and Lumiere Press. The exhibition will present a selection of fine art books by…
Timurtaş Onan: Hans of Istanbul

Timurtaş Onan: Hans of Istanbul

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Renowned for his photography and documentary films on Istanbul’s urban transformation, Timurtaş Onan dedicates his latest book to the inns and inhabitants of the Historical Peninsula and Sirkeci. “Occasionally, I catch snippets of music on the streets, scenes from films, or lines from poems.Sometimes, I see the characters from novels or movies in the people I photograph. Other times, I…
Rock & Roll by Bob Gruen

Rock & Roll by Bob Gruen

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Bob Gruen is one of the most well-known and respected photographers in rock and roll. From John Lennon to Johnny Rotten; Muddy Waters to the Rolling Stones; Elvis to Madonna; Bob Dylan to Bob Marley; Tina Turner to Debbie Harry, he has captured the music scene for over forty years in photographs that have gained worldwide recognition. Shortly after John…
Chris Killip / Graham Smith

Chris Killip / Graham Smith

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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…