Sylvie Blum: Naked Beauty

10 December 2016 0

As a woman and an artist, Sylvie Blum offers a unique perspective on the female form. As an ex-model, she understands how important the subject is to the creative process. Steeped in photographic tradition, Sylvie Blum has worked with such iconic artists as Helmut Newton, Andreas H. Bitesnich, and Günter Blum. With exacting attention to lighting she bathes the studio…

Richard Renaldi: Manhattan Sunday

9 December 2016 0

Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present Manhattan Sunday, the gallery’s second solo exhibition by Richard Renaldi. Manhattan Sunday is a photographic diary from 2010 to the present. As the name suggests, the pictures were all taken in Manhattan, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, usually after a night out on the town. If hedonism informs these images, from the…

Bernd & Hilla Becher: Framework Houses in Siegen’s Industrial Region

8 December 2016 0

Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007, 1934–2015) began taking photographs of framework houses in Siegen’s industrial region early on in their artistic career. Produced between 1958 and 1974, this body of work proved the value of the consistent depiction of a type of object in so-called typologies. Analysis and synthesis were not to be accomplished solely in a precise individual image…

Jady Bates: You As Angel

6 December 2016 0

This series depicts the process we all go through in learning to love oneself. It is an awkward, joyful, illuminating, exhausting, humorous and messy affair. Rapprochement is a word I believe approaches this state. We each live with conflict inside due to a lifetime of internal struggle, even with the softening of the intensity. Through the journey to love oneself,…

Peter Lindbergh: Images of Women II: 2005-2014

6 December 2016 0

Internationally-revered German fashion photographer Peter Lindbergh revolutionized his metier with iconic images of the 1980s supermodels. From his beginnings, he has sought to capture the personality, character, and identity of fashion models, not just the glitter and glamour. In 1997 he presented his seminal book Images of Women comprising his work of the 1980s and 1990s. As a sequel, Lindbergh…

Best Black & White photos from the ND Awards 2016

5 December 2016 0

ND Awards (Neutral Density Awards) has announced the winners of their international photography contest! The judges reviewed 6422 entires submitted from 85 countries. Brooke Shaden (United States) has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: ND Photographer Of The Year 2016 and $2500 prize money. In Non-Professional category Rosario Civello (Italy) won the title ND…

Francesca Woodman at Andréhn-Schiptjenko

4 December 2016 0

Francesca Woodman was an American photographer known for her large and singular œuvre. Her photography exhibits many influences, ranging from symbolism to surrealism to fashion photography and to a great extent explores issues of gender and self. Using herself as the prime subject of her photographs these are not self-portraits in a conventional sense but rather dialogues with the self…

Michael Zagaris: Total Excess

3 December 2016 0

Michael Zagaris’ photographic oeuvre is the one of the last great unseen rock archives. After a short career working under Senator Robert Kennedy, Zagaris dove into the rock music scene of 1970’s San Francisco, where he was responsible for shooting the most influential musicians of the decade including The Clash, Grateful Dead, Blondie, The Sex Pistols, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton,…

Russell James: Angels

2 December 2016 0

Russell James’s photographs of the female form have become iconic representations of beauty and sensuality that are unparalleled in popular culture. The list of his subjects includes many of the world’s most beautiful woman, such as headline names Gisele Bündchen, Adriana Lima, Rihanna, and Alessandra Ambrosio, to name a few. This ample volume offers an unprecedented and personal view into…

Bernard Larsson: Leaving is Entering

1 December 2016 0

The photographer Bernard Larsson (born in Hamburg, 1939) was working from 1959 to 1961 as William Klein’s assistant in a France marked by its recent defeats in Indochina and Algeria. It was from here that he embarked on travels through Fascist Spain and Morocco. Moved by the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961, he left Paris so that…

Susan Burnstine: Absence of Being

30 November 2016 0

Los Angeles–based photographer Susan Burnstine’s (born 1966) Absence of Being is a haunting, intensely personal and yet extremely universal exploration of the subconscious world, which began with her highly praised first monograph, Within Shadows. Burnstine captures images that purge her dreams. Finding no existing camera that could create what her mind envisioned, she began to experiment with building her own…

American Classics

29 November 2016 0

Pace London is pleased to announce American Classics, an exhibition of key works by photographers who emerged in postwar America. On a continuum between artistic vision and documentary investigation, these artists photographed North American people, culture and landscape. Works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Irving Penn, Henry Wessel and Garry Winogrand will be on…

Billy Name: The Silver Age: Black and White Photographs from Andy Warhol’s Factory

25 November 2016 0

This breathtaking tome is the definitive and comprehensive collection of Billy Name’s black-and-white photographs from Warhol’s Factory. Name’s photographs from this period (1964–68) are one of the most important photographic documents of any single artist in history. Name lived in a tiny closet at the Factory. He was responsible for the legendary “silverizing” of the space using aluminum paint and…

Alfredo Srur: Heridas

23 November 2016 0

Latin America is often described as one of the most violent regions in the world. Reasons for criminality and violence are complex, yet the urban areas characterized by their lack of law and order are specifically prone to eruptions of violence — from the bottom up and top down. The same is true for San Fernando, a district on the…

Mario García Joya: A la plaza con Fidel

22 November 2016 0

A la plaza con Fidel (To the plaza with Fidel) is doubly rare among Cuban photobooks: relatively few photobooks were produced in Cuba after the Revolution, and A la plaza con Fidel is also notable for its unique subject matter. Photographed between 1959 and 1966 and published in 1970 by leading Cuban photographer and cinematographer “Mayito” (Mario García Joya, born…

Stephen Dupont: White Sheet

19 November 2016 0

Stills Gallery is delighted to present White Sheet Series by celebrated Australian photographer Stephen Dupont. Over the past two decades, Dupont has produced a remarkable body of work that captures his subjects with great dignity and intimacy, often in some of the world’s most dangerous regions. His images have received international acclaim for their invaluable insight into traditional cultures and…

Kenro Izu: Eternal Light

16 November 2016 0

Kenro Izu’s (born 1949) Eternal Light is a record of Indian spirituality. In Varanasi, known as the Indian “City of Light,” Izu photographed festivals, rituals and cremations as well as portraying individual experiences of joy and suffering related to death and the afterlife. In Allahabad, where the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers meet, Izu attended the festival of Kumbh Mela, and…

Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes

14 November 2016 0

Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes focuses on the photographs the artist made during a series of road trips through the 1990s and 2000s. Working with a large negative, a wide-angle lens, and photographing from unconventional vantage points, Friedlander’s square-format photographs draw the viewer into idiosyncratic qualities of the terrain while skewing expectations of beatific grandeur. Though Friedlander’s subjects include some of…

Martino Di Silvestro: Behind Somebody’s shoulders

12 November 2016 0

Behind Somebody’s shoulders perhaps is the most ancient body of work from Martino Di Silvestro’s portfolios. He believe that in photography human face gives precise connotations to the pictures because of the immediate interaction with the subject, even if his eyes are turned elsewhere. A person seen from behind enables various interpretations and multiplies the perspectives: his presence in the…

Robert Adams: From the Missouri West

11 November 2016 0

The views of the American West collected in Robert Adams: From the Missouri West evoke a wide range of memories, myths and regrets associated with America’s frontier. In the 19th century, that frontier began at the Missouri River, beyond which lay a landscape of natural grandeur and purity. When Robert Adams (born 1937) shot that landscape, between 1975 and 1983,…

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