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Bernard Larsson: Leaving is Entering

Bernard Larsson: Leaving is Entering

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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…
American Classics

American Classics

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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…
Alfredo Srur: Heridas

Alfredo Srur: Heridas

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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…
Stephen Dupont: White Sheet

Stephen Dupont: White Sheet

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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…
Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes

Lee Friedlander: Western Landscapes

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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…
Robert Mapplethorpe: Icon

Robert Mapplethorpe: Icon

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Robert Mapplethorpe is a cultural icon. He began his career taking Polaroids in the 1970s and went on to become one of the twentieth century’s most important artists. Well known for his provocative nudes, Mapplethorpe also took sensual photographs of artists, celebrities, friends, lovers, and flowers. The artist’s first commercial exhibition in Sweden features a diverse selection of portraits, landscapes,…
Juan Manuel Castro Prieto – The inner voice

Juan Manuel Castro Prieto – The inner voice

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Blanca Berlín opens its season introducing Luz de cuarto oscuro (Dark room light) by Juan Manuel Castro Prieto in the context of Apertura Madrid Gallery Weekend. As the 2016 National Award of Photography, Castro Prieto displays a selection of silver gelatin prints personally developed in his own dark room from the original negatives of his first years as a photographer.…
Joni Sternbach: Her Wave

Joni Sternbach: Her Wave

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Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to announce a solo show of unique tintype photographs by Joni Sternbach culled from the artist’s ongoing series: Surfland. The exhibition, the artist’s first with the gallery, focuses on portraits of female wave-riders on the coasts of the United States, France, Australia and the UK. Sternbach is a self-described “water woman” and meets her subjects…
Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!

Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!

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“Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!” is a collection of spectacular snapshots of a turbulent and legendary age in the history of art, music, fashion and film – the 1960s and ’70s. These decades were known for upheaval, provocation and creative energy. The Nicola Erni Collection, based in Zug, Switzerland, of which some 200 photographs are displayed here, takes visitors right into the…
Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue

Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue

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Osborne Samuel Gallery is delighted to announce Erwin Blumenfeld: From Dada to Vogue, highlighting rare works from one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century, Erwin Blumenfeld. This exhibition, curated by Lou Proud, brings together a collection of Blumenfeld’s early photographs, some of which have never been exhibited in the UK before. Shedding light on his seldom explored…
Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century

Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century

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Cheating Death presents more than 50 portraits from the medium’s first 50 years, almost all drawn from the museum’s extraordinarily rich holdings of 19th-century photography. In our selfie-besotted age, it is hard to believe that until 1839 only the upper-class could own a likeness of themselves or of their families or friends. That year brought the announcement of the invention…
Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer

Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer

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DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is pleased to present the upcoming exhibition Edward Steichen: Twentieth-Century Photographer. Edward Steichen (1879-1973) is known for his role in expanding the breadth of twentieth-century photography through his memorable images and his work as a gallery director and museum curator. Steichen was a painter, horticulturalist, museum curator, graphic designer, publisher, and film director. He also…
Eugene Richards: Below the Line: Living Poor in America

Eugene Richards: Below the Line: Living Poor in America

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It’s been almost thirty years since the publication of Eugene Richards’ landmark book, Below the Line: Living Poor in America. The book, though acclaimed at the time, was also controversial. Critics applauded the revealing nature of the stories, but often added, as if in the same breath, that what was being shown was a negative view of the country, one…
Diane Arbus: In The Beginning

Diane Arbus: In The Beginning

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As part of the inaugural season at The Met Breuer, diane arbus: in the beginning will open on July 12, featuring more than 100 photographs that together will redefine one of the most influential and provocative artists of the 20th century. This landmark exhibition highlights never- before-seen early work of Diane Arbus (1923–71), focusing on the first seven years of…
Magnum On Set exhibition

Magnum On Set exhibition

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In times where it is no longer fiction meddling into reality but digital truth invading the territories of fiction, the exhibition of the snapshots that some great photographers dedicated to the cinema makes us reflect on the relationship between reality and fiction, between truth and illusion and between real life and reverie. The work done by the Magnum photographers has…
PLATINUM – Master prints by master printers

PLATINUM – Master prints by master printers

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A new exhibition at Atlas Gallery will showcase the beauty of the platinum print through the work of diverse international photographers and artists from the early 20th century to the present day. Platinum-palladium is a traditional printing technique, dating from the 19th century, favoured by photographers and collectors due to the tonal range of the prints. Platinum prints are amongst…
Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints

Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints

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Disfarmer: The Vintage Prints is the first exhibition in Switzerland of the vintage prints of Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959), one of America’s greatest portraitists. Posthumous prints, created from a cache of glass-plate negatives salvaged from his studio after his death, have been the subject of several books and numerous museum and gallery exhibitions since 1976, but original prints have been unknown…
Valentin Khukhlaev: IN MOTION

Valentin Khukhlaev: IN MOTION

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of a famous Soviet photographer Valentin Khukhlaev IN MOTION. The exhibition is based on the family archive, collection of The Lumiere Center and marks the centenary of the photographer’s birth. Valentin Khukhlaev (1916-2010) was a photo correspondent of the major Soviet news agency TASS for over 50 years. He made around…
Robert Mapplethorpe – On the Edge

Robert Mapplethorpe – On the Edge

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Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs have provoked debate. They have been the target of criticism and censorship. They have also been praised around the world with celebrated exhibitions in some of the most prestigious art institutions. ARoS Aarhus Art Museum now presents more than 180 photographs by one of the greatest masters of the art of photography. The exhibition ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE –…
Jon Savage – Uninhabited London

Jon Savage – Uninhabited London

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In the late 1970s, the streets that gave birth to Punk were a bleak and desolate playground for the imagination. These photos were taken on an old Pentax during January 1977. Their purpose was to serve as an image bank for the second issue of the fanzine London’s Outrage. The location was the square of North Kensington that lies between…