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Visions of Viktor Kolář. Czech Photo

Visions of Viktor Kolář. Czech Photo

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography along with the Czech center in Moscow are pleased to present an exhibition of Viktor Kolář – one of the most important Czech photographers of the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition includes around 60 silver gelatin prints from his Ostrava and Canada series. Viktor Kolář was born in 1941 in Ostrava.…
Black and White Fifties: Jurden Schadeberg’s South Africa

Black and White Fifties: Jurden Schadeberg’s South Africa

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During apartheid, Jurgen Schadeberg worked for the leading “black” publications of the time. This way he had access to the likes of a young activists, like the lawyer, named Nelson Mandela. Iconic pictures of many future South African leaders followed. Judge Albie Sachs, an ANC operative who lost an arm in an attack by the security police, says of this…
Herb Ritts: The Rock Portraits

Herb Ritts: The Rock Portraits

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Meet the royalty of rock and roll. Photographer Herb Ritts introduces you to David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Janet Jackson, Elton John, Madonna, Prince, Rod Stewart, Justin Timberlake, Tina Turner, and more of the world’s biggest musical stars of the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. His startlingly intimate portraits for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and other leading magazines presented these artists…
Ansel Adams: A Southwest Legacy

Ansel Adams: A Southwest Legacy

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Ansel Adams: A Southwest Legacy highlights 21 photographs Ansel Adams made in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. The exhibition includes dramatic vistas of Big Bend National Park, intimate close-ups of nature in New Mexico, and a variety of portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe and others. Also included are several well-known masterpieces such as Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico and White House Ruin,…
Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas

Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas

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The first edition of Sebastião Salgado: Other Americas was published in 1985 by the French publisher Contrejour, and included photographs from Salgado’s numerous trips through Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Guatemala and Mexico. The Brazil-born, Paris-based photographer traveled extensively in Latin America between 1977 and 1984 to document the shifting religious and political climate in the region, especially as reflected in…
Gregor Törzs: Fragile Worlds

Gregor Törzs: Fragile Worlds

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Bernheimer Fine Art Switzerland is pleased to announce the exhibition Fragile Welten (Fragile Worlds) by German photographer Gregor Törzs. The show is curated by Dr. Martina Kral, curator of world renowned Collection Rosengart in Lucerne since 2002. It is like responding to a reflex, when Gregor Törzs finds something he feels the inner longing to hold it against the light.…
Doug and Mike Starn: Absorption of Light

Doug and Mike Starn: Absorption of Light

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Starn Brothers: Absorption of Light, presented by 516 ARTS, is a series of large elemental photographs from the series Absorption of Light by twin brothers Doug and Mike Starn, who for more than 20 years have been known for working conceptually with photography, and are concerned largely with chaos, interconnection and interdependence. The ill-fated moths of the Attracted to Light…
Jacques-Henri Lartigue: The Blink of an Eye

Jacques-Henri Lartigue: The Blink of an Eye

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The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce a new show exploring the ‘snapshot’ world of Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), as seen through the eyes of author William Boyd – a life long devotee of Lartigue’s luminous views on life. Lartigue took his first photograph in 1900 at the age of six. Born into privilege, Lartigue’s father was a banker, and…
Ken Schles: Invisible City

Ken Schles: Invisible City

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For a decade, Ken Schles watched the passing of time from his Lower East Side neighborhood. His camera fixed the instances of his observations, and these moments became the foundation of his “invisible city.” Friends and architecture come under the scrutiny of his lens and, when sorted and viewed in the pages of this book, a remarkable achievement of personal…
Neil Latham: American Thoroughbred

Neil Latham: American Thoroughbred

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Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present the debut exhibition of Neil Latham: American Thoroughbred. The show will feature over 25 large-scale black and white photographs of America’s greatest race horses including Triple Crown winner American Pharaoh. The show is held in conjunction with the publication of Latham’s monograph American Thoroughbred (Twin Palms, 2016) and on the occasion of the…
Marjorie Salvaterra: Sheila With Red Hair

Marjorie Salvaterra: Sheila With Red Hair

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Marjorie Salvaterra’s work is surreal. It is humorous; it is dark, and it unfolds like stills in a series on women under the stress of “supposed to be.” The work is about the pressure women put on their selves and each other; it is about the emotional toll of maintaining the straight-seamed, buttoned-up life in a “traditional American household.” More…
Walker Evans: Depth of Field

Walker Evans: Depth of Field

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The High Museum of Art in Atlanta will present a major touring retrospective of the work of Walker Evans, one of the most pioneering and influential documentary photographers of the twentieth century. The show is among the most thorough examinations ever presented of the full arc of Evans’s career and the most comprehensive Evans retrospective to be mounted in Europe,…
Michael Jackson: The Self Representation of Light

Michael Jackson: The Self Representation of Light

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MMX Gallery is pleased to present a solo show by British artist and photographer Michael Jackson. The exhibition will showcase a selection of unique luminograms from his recent project The Self Representation of Light. Alongside the luminogram prints, there will be a short film exploring the thought processes and methodology behind his work. The Luminograms are made from the most…
André de Dienes: Marilyn and California Girls

André de Dienes: Marilyn and California Girls

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Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to announce Andre de Dienes: Marilyn and California Girls, the first solo show of photographer Andre de Dienes in New York in over ten years. The exhibition features more than fifty lifetime prints from de Dienes’ (1913-1985) two most famous series, Marilyn Monroe and California nudes. In 1945, De Dienes was the first professional photographer…
Keliy Anderson-Staley: [Hyphen] Americans

Keliy Anderson-Staley: [Hyphen] Americans

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[Hyphen] Americans features tintype portraits by artist Keliy Anderson-Staley. Her work raises questions about our place as individuals in history, and effectively redefines assumptions we may hold due to perceived identity politics. Anderson-Staley is well known for her work with the 19th century wet-plate collodion tintype process. Her portraits have been collected and exhibited internationally. Keliy Anderson-Staley grew up off…
Wynn Bullock: Revelations

Wynn Bullock: Revelations

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Wynn Bullock was one of the most significant photographers of the mid-twentieth century. A close friend of influential West Coast artists Ansel Adams and Edward Weston and a contemporary of Minor White and Frederick Sommer, Bullock created work marked by a distinct interest in experimentation, abstraction, and philosophical exploration. Bullock’s photography received early recognition in 1941, when the Los Angeles…
Samantha Geballe: 2016 HCP Fellowship Recipient

Samantha Geballe: 2016 HCP Fellowship Recipient

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Phase 1 (2012-2014)- This is not another fat kid’s story. There are times when I do assume that role but it does not define me. I don’t have the body I have for no reason but it would be all too easy to extend blame. What people don’t often see are the functions of obesity. I hide behind my size,…
Lillian Bassman (Edwynn Houk Gallery)

Lillian Bassman (Edwynn Houk Gallery)

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Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce its exclusive representation of the Estate of Lillian Bassman and its first exhibition of the artist’s photographs. On view 12 May – 8 July, the show will feature more than 30 photographs tracing the legendary fashion photographer’s stylistic development from early vintage prints to her reinterpreted prints made in the 1990s. A seminal…
Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine

Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine

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The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is pleased to announce Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine, a new exhibition that explores the artistic mastery of photographer Lewis Hine’s images of children working in mills and factories in the early 20th century. His works are among the most haunting photographs of children ever made. In this exhibition, a beautiful selection…
Nobuyoshi Araki: Eros Diary

Nobuyoshi Araki: Eros Diary

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Nobuyoshi Araki’s (born 1940) Eros Diary is comprised of a series of 77 new black-and-white photographs that break from his traditional ruminations on eroticism and death to reflect more inwardly on the artist’s own life and mortality. These photographs highlight an unusual softness and somber introspection as Araki internalizes recent personal traumatic events, including the loss of his beloved cat,…