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Al Satterwhite: A Retrospective

Al Satterwhite: A Retrospective

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For the first exhibition of the fall art gallery season, PDNB Gallery presents a solo show of photographs by Al Satterwhite (b. 1944, Biloxi, Mississippi), who has worked professionally in photography since he was a high school intern taking photographs for the St. Petersburg Times. The passion of capturing the decisive moment has never left him. His talent for photography…
In the Footsteps of Ara Güler: Exploring the Photographer’s Legacy

In the Footsteps of Ara Güler: Exploring the Photographer’s Legacy

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A special collaboration between the Ara Güler Museum in Istanbul and Qatar Museums, In the Footsteps of Ara Güler offers a glimpse into the life of the globally acclaimed photographer. Structured as an expansive journey into his career spanning over 70 years, the exhibition introduces Ara Güler’s life, segueing into ‘Eternal Tapestry,’ followed by ‘Echoes from the Past,’ spotlighting his…
Bevan Davies: New York Typologies

Bevan Davies: New York Typologies

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Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to open the fall season with the work of Bevan Davies. Bevan Davies: New York Typologies will feature vintage black and white photographs of lower Manhattan made in the mid-1970s. Davies utilized a large-format view camera to generate images of great depth and clarity, pursuing an approach to documenting the urban landscape of the Empire…
Karla Guerrero: Blanco Universo

Karla Guerrero: Blanco Universo

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Fine art photogapher Karla Guerrero presents her latest project, “Blanco Universo,” a visual diary that explores the complex psychological condition of “mental emptiness” and the therapeutic method of “grounding.” Through her intimate and poetic vision, Guerrero uses photography to reflect on the alterations in visual perception and mental health. Through a series of black and white polaroids, Blanco Universo invites…
Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

Akinbode Akinbiyi: Being, Seeing, Wandering

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Akinbode Akinbiyi (*1946 Oxford, England) will receive the Hannah Höch Prize 2024. For his street photographs, the internationally renowned photographer and author, who has lived and worked in Berlin since 1991, wanders through the world’s metropolises. Lagos, Bamako, Berlin or Durban – the urban space is his workplace. A place that he perceives as a “boundless labyrinth”, “a maze of…
Street Walker by Meryl Meisler

Street Walker by Meryl Meisler

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Street Walker is a captivating limited edition book taking us on a journey through the vibrant streets of America in the 1970s and 1980s with the evocative, candid, and eclectic photographs of renowned photographer Meryl Meisler. Known for her ability to blend street photography with documentary, Meisler’s work in Street Walker provides an intimate glimpse into the dynamic cultural landscape…
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…
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…