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Mike Mandel: Good 70s

Mike Mandel: Good 70s

Mike Mandel was greatly influenced by his childhood in the San Fernando Valley, which at the time was undergoing a major transformation into a commercial landscape. Living in a place that seemingly produced a new strip mall, billboard or stretch of freeway every week, Mandel was immersed in a society that was bombarded with imagery. Thus, Mandel’s work is largely…
Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed

Black in America: Louis Draper and Leonard Freed

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. observed in 1963 that one hundred years after the abolition of slavery in America “the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. . . . [He] lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.” This…
Herb Ritts: L.A. Style

Herb Ritts: L.A. Style

Herb Ritts: L.A. Style traces the life and career of the iconic photographer through a compelling selection of renowned, as well as previously unpublished, photographs and two insightful essays. Herb Ritts (1952–2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for distinctive images of fashion models, nudes, and celebrity portraits. During the 1980s and 1990s, Ritts was sought…
Sid Kaplan: Deconstruction Of The Third Avenue El

Sid Kaplan: Deconstruction Of The Third Avenue El

In 1955, a 17-year-old Sid Kaplan witnessed the dismantling of New York City’s Third Avenue Elevated line, and launched a 60-year photography career. Featuring over forty of Kaplan’s photographs taken between June 1955 and May 1956, alongside selected artifacts from the Transit Museum’s collections, Deconstruction of the Third Avenue El: Photographs by Sid Kaplan, captures a unique perspective of the…
Rose, c’est Paris: Bettina Rheims & Serge Bramly

Rose, c’est Paris: Bettina Rheims & Serge Bramly

Bettina Rheims and Serge Bramly’s Rose, c’est Paris is both a photographic monograph and a feature-length film on DVD. This extraordinary work of art, in two different but interlocking and complementary formats, defies easy categorization. For in this multi-layered opus of poetic symbolism, photographer Bettina Rheims and writer Serge Bramly evoke the City of Light in a completely novel way:…
Kåre Kivijärvi: PHOTOGRAPHS 1959 – 1966

Kåre Kivijärvi: PHOTOGRAPHS 1959 – 1966

Michael Janssen is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Germany by the Norwegian photographer and artist Kåre Kivijärvi (1938-1991). On view will be a selection of his early iconic black and white vintage prints. Additionally we screen a documentary film about him by the known Norwegian filmmaker Knut Erik Jensen. Photographer Kåre Kivijärvi was at his most productive…
Diane Arbus: In the Park

Diane Arbus: In the Park

“… I remember one summer I worked a lot in Washington Square Park. It must have been about 1966. The park was divided. It has these walks, sort of like a sunburst, and there were these territories staked out. There were young hippie junkies down one row. There were lesbians down another, really tough amazingly hard-core lesbians. And in the…
Magnum Analog Recovery

Magnum Analog Recovery

LE BAL is presenting a range of the cooperative’s treasures with contemporary prints and designs for books and publications dating from the creation of Magnum Photos (1947) till 1977. This year marks both 70 years of Magnum Photos and the completion of an archive making thousands of contemporary prints at last accessible : Magnum Analog Recovery (M.A.R.). This collection, stored…
Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour

Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour

One of the great pioneers of fashion photography, Norman Parkinson is famous for his sense of style and glamour. Heralded as one of the true innovators in his field, he pushed the boundaries of the day by bringing the model out of the studio and onto the street. He set the model against unusual and daring backdrops, such as the…
Frank Hamrick: 2017 HCP Fellowship Recipient

Frank Hamrick: 2017 HCP Fellowship Recipient

“Harder than Writing a Good Haiku” For the steadfast hills of Whites Creek, Tennessee and the fight to save them The phrase “Harder than writing a good haiku” was an analogy I spoke of while guiding my senior photography students as they struggled to edit their BFA portfolios to a slim number of prints that would fit into their allotted…
Susan Meiselas: Prince Street Girls, 1976 – 1979

Susan Meiselas: Prince Street Girls, 1976 – 1979

Meiselas has, in the course of her forty-year career, brought together photographs, interviews, and artifacts to tell stories both intimate and epic. She has documented the public and private lives of carnival dancers (Carnival Strippers, 1972–75), photographed Nicaragua throughout its decade-long revolutionary period beginning in the 1970s, assembled a detailed and rigorous visual history of the Kurdish people (Kurdistan: In…
Nelli Palomäki: Breathing the Same Air

Nelli Palomäki: Breathing the Same Air

Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki (born 1981) is a graduate of Helsinki’s renowned Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture. In her work, she aims to recapture the lost magic that was once inherent in photography. Even 50 years ago, having one’s photograph taken was a special event; people donned their Sunday best and gazed, unmoving and serious, into the…
August Sander at Hauser & Wirth

August Sander at Hauser & Wirth

‘I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest and tell the truth about our age and its people’. — August Sander New York… Beginning 20 April 2017, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘August Sander’, the gallery’s first exhibition devoted to the late German photographer, a forefather of conceptual art and…
Debbie Fleming Caffery and Machiel Botman

Debbie Fleming Caffery and Machiel Botman

This exhibition brings together two artists, Debbie Fleming Caffery and Machiel Botman, both masters of the gelatin silver print as a medium of self expression. The exhibition will open with a reception on Thursday April, 6th from 6 to 8 p.m. and run through Saturday June 3rd. Debbie Fleming Caffery grew up along the Bayou Teche in southwest Louisiana and still lives in the…
Arnold Odermatt: Karambolage

Arnold Odermatt: Karambolage

With thoroughness and a meticulous attention to detail, Arnold Odermatt photographed automobile accidents on the streets of the Swiss canton of Nidwalden between 1939 and 1993. For 40 years, the Swiss police office recorded the wrecked cars left in the wake of excessive speed, drunk driving, right-of-way errors, and plain foolishness, in poignant, sometimes funny, and always strange atmospheric photographs.…
Christine Osinski: Summer Days Staten Island

Christine Osinski: Summer Days Staten Island

Taken in the “forgotten borough” of Staten Island between 1983 and 1984, the photographs in Christine Osinski’s (born 1948) Summer Days Staten Island create a portrait of working-class culture in an often overlooked section of New York City. Captured on Osinski’s large format 4×5 camera as she wandered the island, her candid portraits of strangers, vernacular architecture and quotidian scenes…
Ulrich Wüst: Stadtbilder | Nachlass

Ulrich Wüst: Stadtbilder | Nachlass

Trained as an urban planner, Wüst came to photography in the 1970s as a rhetorical tool for studying the development of cities. This work quickly developed into a critique of the East German approach to city building and led ultimately to a conceptual approach to portraiture of the Socialist state. In the Stadtbilder series, Wüst photographed East German cities that…
Nancy Borowick: A Life In Death

Nancy Borowick: A Life In Death

“As a child, I simply couldn’t imagine life without my parents. I assumed that they would be there for every important milestone in my life, and that they would grow old together. I never thought that I would lose them both by the time I was twenty-nine.” (Nancy Borowick) Nancy Borowick (b. 1985) is a humanitarian photographer currently based on…