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Fan Ho: Into The Light

Fan Ho: Into The Light

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M97 is pleased to announce Into The Light, a solo exhibition of vintage silver gelatin prints by Fan Ho, one of the great masters of black and white photography. This is Fan Ho’s first solo exhibition at M97 and the first ever exhibition of the artist’s photographs in his native Shanghai, where he started his career at the age of…
Tomasz Gudzowaty: Urban golf in India

Tomasz Gudzowaty: Urban golf in India

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Golf is often considered a game of the wealthy (which it normally is), but its modern, elitist form evolved from a simple farm game. The essential equipment consists of a crooked stick and balls, and virtually any area can be used as a course. In this way, golf can be played by people from all walks of life. A group of boys living in…
Philip Jones Griffiths: A Welsh Focus on War and Peace

Philip Jones Griffiths: A Welsh Focus on War and Peace

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A new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Philip Jones Griffiths, is to be staged at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Philip Jones Griffiths – A Welsh Focus on War and Peace features explores his early work in Britain, his world renowned photographs documenting various wars and their effects, as well as lesser known works in the period…
Great Landscape Photos Awarded in Monochrome Awards 2014

Great Landscape Photos Awarded in Monochrome Awards 2014

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Monochrome Photography Awards conducts an annual competition for Professional and Amateur photographers. Their mission is to celebrate monochrome visions and discover most amazing photographers from around the world. The 2014 Monochrome Awards received nearly 7000 submissions from 86 countries around the world. Check our selection of landscape black and white images awarded in 2014 edition of Mono Awards. Monochrome Photography Awards 2015…
Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision

Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision

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Galerie Edwynn Houk is pleased to present a selection of rare vintage prints by the photographer Ilse Bing (U.S., born Germany, 1899-1998). The exhibition “Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision”, which opens in the Zurich gallery on September the 9th, 2015, features some of her most iconic works from a renowned ten year period in Paris. Other important images from her…
John Leuba: Welles Garage

John Leuba: Welles Garage

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I was five years old when I first encountered Peter and Welles garage. My grandfather brought his lawn mower there to be fixed. This was an old lawn mower. The kind which arguably should have been laid to rest and there were no longer parts readily available for it. Welles garage was one of few the places you could take…
René Groebli: Early Works

René Groebli: Early Works

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The exhibition will present a unique selection of vintage prints and a recent edition of these two series, showcased this Fall by the publication of the book René Groebli, Early Works by Sturm & Drang editions. The Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is pleased to present two emblematic series of early works by the Swiss photographer René Groebli, born in 1927: Magie…
Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead

Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead

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Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of rare, vintage photographs by Danny Lyon from his groundbreaking series, Conversations with the Dead. In 1967-68 Lyon spent over fourteen months inside Texas prisons, photographing and befriending inmates. Drawn from his own archive, many of the works on view are the first prints made and used to edit and lay…
Claudio Menna: There’s no place like home

Claudio Menna: There’s no place like home

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Naples, Montesanto district. In the heart of inner city, (actually heritage of UNESCO ) cohabit many different realities. Montesanto is a popular district in the center of the city full of life and activities: there’s a metro station, an Hospital, a college of architecture and a big open air popular market. Walking through it you can smell all the passion…
Paolo Pellegrin: As I was Dying

Paolo Pellegrin: As I was Dying

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“When I do my work and I’m exposed to the suffering of others –their loss or, at times, their death – I feel I am surviving as a witness; my role and responsibility is to create a record for our collective memory. Part of this, I believe, has to do with notions of accountability. Perhaps it is only in their…
Sanne Sannes: The Enduring Legend

Sanne Sannes: The Enduring Legend

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Sannes remains one of the most captivating photographers of the 1960’s, having produced an outstanding body of work in the mere eight years he worked as a photographer, until his untimely death at the age of 30. His oeuvre is mostly built up of countless photographs of female nudes. Women were his favourite subject and an endless source of inspiration.…
Ron Galella 55 Years a Paparazzi

Ron Galella 55 Years a Paparazzi

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Ron Galella brought the work of the paparazzi, that step child of photojournalism, into the public eye, and with it the celebrity culture. With this exhibition “That’s Great!” we enter the world of Andy Warhol and his circle which encompassed the celebrity, fashion, art, and social world of New York in the 1970’s and 80’s. With time, the Warhol circle…
Ave Pildas – Bijou: Photographs of Theater Box Offices

Ave Pildas – Bijou: Photographs of Theater Box Offices

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Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its exhibition, Bijou: Photographs of Theater Box Offices by Ave Pildas. This solo exhibition will be the artist’s first at the gallery. The exhibition will open on September 5th and continue through October 24th, 2015. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, September 5th, from 6 – 8 pm. Bijou…
Lee Friedlander: America by Car

Lee Friedlander: America by Car

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Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country’s vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual “form” for making photographs. Driving across most of the country’s 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander…
Black and White Underwater Nudes by Harry Fayt

Black and White Underwater Nudes by Harry Fayt

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Harry Fayt is a young Belgian photographer whose work focuses primarily on aesthetic research related to the theme of water. Like many artists both past and present, the female figure, epitome of beauty, fascinates, influences and guides him in his artistic evolution. He has chosen to photograph the female figure in water, a natural and vital component of life, pure…
Michael Kenna: Between Mountains & Lakes

Michael Kenna: Between Mountains & Lakes

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For many years Michael Kenna has been traveling around the world and keeps on revisiting the same places. He understands these places as “friends” and is fostering these relationships to his old “friends” instead of making new, superficial ones. Just as he is revisiting places he repeats certain elements in the images. A moving star sky, wavering clouds or diffuse…
Neringa Rekasiute: WE.WOMEN

Neringa Rekasiute: WE.WOMEN

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What is a beautiful woman? Our media is full of images, attempting to construct what a perfect woman should look like. Sexualisation and standartisation of a female body in the media have direct negative consequences in the society. Objectivisation of body encourages the society to focus on physical appearance of women instead of embracing their personality and inner feelings. As…