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Oscar Rejlander: Artist Photographer

Oscar Rejlander: Artist Photographer

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Often referred to as the “father of art photography,” Oscar G. Rejlander has been praised for his early experiments with combination printing, his collaboration with Charles Darwin, and his influence on the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll. This exhibition is the first major retrospective on Rejlander, highlighting new research and a selection of works brought together for…
Bruce Davidson: Retrospective

Bruce Davidson: Retrospective

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Bruce Davidson became a member of Magnum Photos in 1959, when the American was just 26-years-old. Davidson’s work focused on subcultures and lifestyles on the margins of society. His most well-known works include Circus, Brooklyn Gang and Subway. Today, Davidson is considered a pioneer of social documentary photography. In the 1960s, he photographed the Civil Rights Movement (Time of Change)…
Oscar Alcantara: Conceptual Photocompositions

Oscar Alcantara: Conceptual Photocompositions

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Photocompositions based on author’s photos, each one taking care of the quality, the composition and especially the speech, addressing topics of human and daily interest, as well as magical and full of contrast. Website: http://www.oscaralcantara.com.mx/ ‘Conceptual Photocompositions’ was the Black & White Series of the Year Honourable Mention Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018. ‘Conceptual Photocompositions’ was the Black…
Worldview: Photographing World Disorder

Worldview: Photographing World Disorder

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Since the early 1950s, documentary photographer Leonard Freed had been chronicling life in the Western world with a profoundly humanist vision. Worldview is the most ambitious exhibition of Freed’s work ever produced. It spans his full fifty-year career, including his coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the American civil rights movement, the period of post-war German reconstruction, and the Romanian revolution.…
Sabine Weiss: la vie

Sabine Weiss: la vie

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The great French photographer Sabine Weiss is considered the grande dame of humanistic photography and has been compiling a life’s work in over seven decades, centering on photographs from Paris. She lives there since 1946. As a trained portraitist, she has not only created timeless character studies of celebrities, but she has also repeatedly photographed people on the street in…
‘In Our Lifetime’ a Magnum Photos Exhibition

‘In Our Lifetime’ a Magnum Photos Exhibition

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Stories of political and religious intolerance aren’t found only in history. Persecution, sometimes on a devastating scale, continues in our own lifetime. This new exhibition at Lyveden features three stories of religious persecution, each told through a Magnum photographer’s lens How do they help us understand what it means to stand up for your faith and beliefs at any cost?…
Elliott Erwitt’s New York

Elliott Erwitt’s New York

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Elliott Erwitt’s masterpiece is now available in a handy format and an unbeatable price – an ideal gift for lovers of New York and its spirit. Elliott Erwitt s glimpses of New York City are sometimes gritty, sometimes elegant, yet always true to life. His monochromatic tribute to the Big Apple contains all the shadings of this vital metropolis. Capturing…
John Eaton: A Game of Buzkashi

John Eaton: A Game of Buzkashi

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Buzkashi is a favorite game of the Tajik people living on the high, dry Pamir plateau, between the Pamir and Karakoram mountains in the Himalayas. It is played on horseback on a vast, ill-defined plain, “the pitch”, to celebrate an important village event — in this case a wedding. The objective is for one of the riders, “the players”, to…
Florence Henri: Reflecting Bauhaus: Photographs & Paintings

Florence Henri: Reflecting Bauhaus: Photographs & Paintings

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Atlas Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Bauhaus artist Florence Henri (1893-1982). Having featured in major exhibitions worldwide, this will be the first time in many years that such a large body of her work is available for sale. Although originally trained as a painter under Fernand Léger, Henri turned to photography after enrolling at the…
Marco Sadori: A Face Without a Name

Marco Sadori: A Face Without a Name

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Telling the story of the Caucasus means telling a rich and at the same time cruel story. A story that has carved the face of the people and has painted their horizons with strong hues with ineffable shades. As I walk through these mountains, I lose myself in the face of an old lady who goes to light a candle…
Elliott Erwitt’s Scotland

Elliott Erwitt’s Scotland

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Elliott Erwitt turns his trained eye on Scotland, going well beyond its picturesque glens and lochs to reveal a unique culture and national heritage. In 2013, Elliott Erwitt was asked to be a part of the distinguished Macallan Masters of Photography series. Armed with his trusty Leica camera, he embarked on an exploration of Scotland in hope of capturing its…
Emilio Barrionuevo: THE SOUL OF THE IMMIGRANT

Emilio Barrionuevo: THE SOUL OF THE IMMIGRANT

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When you are far from your home your life becomes something unknown to you, they remember those happy and sad moments at the same time, bring to light the true essence of what they are. A hard life and sometimes not so easy to follow. In these portraits they give you their love and how they really are. Website: www.emiliobarrionuevo.com…
Birney Imes: Found these pictures

Birney Imes: Found these pictures

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For more than 20 years in the 1970s and 80s, Birney Imes roamed the countryside of his native Mississippi photographing the people and places he encountered along the way. Working in both black and white and color, Imes’ photographs take viewers inside juke joints and dilapidated restaurants scattered across that landscape. There he introduces the viewer, as one writer put…
Santu Mofokeng: Stories

Santu Mofokeng: Stories

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This year marks the 25th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, followed by the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in 1994. This historic event marked the end of apartheid: a regime of institutionalised racial segregation that was in effect from 1948 to 1991. South African photographer Santu Mofokeng (b. 1956) documented the everyday lives of rural sharecroppers and…
Lee Friedlander: Pickup

Lee Friedlander: Pickup

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In this compendium Lee Friedlander examines the ordinary pickup truck, a quintessentially American mode of transportation. Unadorned in form as well as function, pickups have long been the vehicle of choice for farmers and tradespeople. Their well-worn beds―usually open to the elements, laid bare for all to see―have held and hauled all manner of things, from spare tires and jumbles…
Wei Tan: Life after being shot by over 100 pellets

Wei Tan: Life after being shot by over 100 pellets

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In the summer of 2016, after popular Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani was killed by Indian security forces, Kashmir experienced months of violent protests during which Indian officers used pellet guns – a form of a shotgun that indiscriminately shoot up to 500 small, round iron pellets – to subdue protestors. The guns were first issued in 2010 to the…
Mapplethorpe: Photography and Performance

Mapplethorpe: Photography and Performance

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Choreography for an Exhibition organized by the museum of contemporary art Madre, in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York, brings a body of work to Naples in an innovative show and a performative program starring international choreographers. The exhibition features over 160 works, displayed alongside archaeological, ancient and modern pieces, in addition to a site-specific dance program…
Stephan Vanfleteren: Surf Tribe

Stephan Vanfleteren: Surf Tribe

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Kahmann Gallery is proud to present the most recent project of Stephan Vanfleteren: Surf Tribe. This sales exhibition follows the successful showing of the series at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. For Surf Tribe, Vanfleteren travelled the globe for over 18 months to document various troops of surfers, immersing himself in the international surf community. Instead of the stereotypical shots of boards…
Ian Pettigrew: Living Heroes

Ian Pettigrew: Living Heroes

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Portrait series of aging veterans from WW2 to Viet Nam. Website: http://www.ianpettigrew.com ‘Living Heroes’ was the Black & White People Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018. ‘Living Heroes’ was the Black & White People Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018.
Michael Kenna: Rafu

Michael Kenna: Rafu

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After decades of traveling the world, exploring wild and natural locations, from Europe to Asia, as well as industrial zones, abandoned buildings and religious shrines, Michael Kenna debuts an unprecedented series of female nudes made in Japan. Robert Mann Gallery presents, Rafu (裸婦), the Japanese word for unclothed female, a woman in the nude. ”I approach photographing the female nude,…