News | MONOVISIONS - Black & White Photography Magazine

Fred Mayer: ZURICH PANOPTIKUM

30 March 2019 0

Fred Mayer shows vintage prints from his three-part series «Zürcher Panoptikum», originally published in the weekend edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1972, accompanied by a text by Hugo Loetscher. Whether publishers, artists, street sweepers or loiterers, they all…

Nofar Horovitz: Ties of perception

29 March 2019 0

I decided to express in this project my view of humans and their desires, the glass walls that we erect in our way when we are prevented from achieving our dreams and ambitions. Compromising on the mediocre, the norm, the…

Taca Sui: Grotto Heavens

28 March 2019 0

In the five years since his first exhibition, Odes (2013), Taca has traveled extensively throughout China in search of remote locations that resonate in Chinese history through their association with important religious and philosophical traditions. In Odes, he presented a…

George Digalakis: Silent Waters

26 March 2019 0

Minimalism, both as a philosophy of art and life, has deeply influenced my work. I draw inspiration from various objects, like the sea and the sky and from my emotional response to them. It is in the simple feelings that…

André Kertész: Window Views

25 March 2019 0

Following his move in 1952 to a 12th story apartment overlooking Washington Square Park, the 56-year-old Hungarian emigrant André Kertész would begin a series of modernist masterworks shot from his window that he would continue until his death in 1985.…

Albert Watson: INK

24 March 2019 0

Kahmann Gallery is proud to present works from Albert Watson’s newest project, ‘INK’. Watson has reimagined his own work, by incorporating and superimposing textured ink patterns on top of work he created separately. Watson delved into his own archive to…

Patrick Desgraupes: Voodoo Spirit

23 March 2019 0

It was in Togo and Benin that Voodoo was born, but from the 17th century, black people enslaved spread Voodoo in America and in the Caribbean. For historians, the immense suffering of slaves deported to America is undoubtedly at the…

Karl Blossfeldt and Jim Dine: Poetry of Plants

21 March 2019 0

Nature continually beguiles us with its wonders – the proliferating vegetation with myriad plant species and forms, their spatial disposition, the light that plays across them and the overall effect – and capturing them photographically is at the heart of…

Vahid Babaei: The wind will carry us

20 March 2019 0

Wind is fertilizer. Wind is offspring of many legends and historical stories. Wind sometimes covers, sometimes naked. Involving human feelings with natural phenomena is full of enjoy for me. Concealing human feelings behind a mask and compelling contact thought, and…

Oscar Rejlander: Artist Photographer

19 March 2019 0

Often referred to as the “father of art photography,” Oscar G. Rejlander has been praised for his early experiments with combination printing, his collaboration with Charles Darwin, and his influence on the work of Julia Margaret Cameron and Lewis Carroll.…

Bruce Davidson: Retrospective

17 March 2019 0

Bruce Davidson became a member of Magnum Photos in 1959, when the American was just 26-years-old. Davidson’s work focused on subcultures and lifestyles on the margins of society. His most well-known works include Circus, Brooklyn Gang and Subway. Today, Davidson…

Oscar Alcantara: Conceptual Photocompositions

16 March 2019 0

Photocompositions based on author’s photos, each one taking care of the quality, the composition and especially the speech, addressing topics of human and daily interest, as well as magical and full of contrast. Website: http://www.oscaralcantara.com.mx/ ‘Conceptual Photocompositions’ was the Black…

Worldview: Photographing World Disorder

14 March 2019 0

Since the early 1950s, documentary photographer Leonard Freed had been chronicling life in the Western world with a profoundly humanist vision. Worldview is the most ambitious exhibition of Freed’s work ever produced. It spans his full fifty-year career, including his…

Sabine Weiss: la vie

13 March 2019 0

The great French photographer Sabine Weiss is considered the grande dame of humanistic photography and has been compiling a life’s work in over seven decades, centering on photographs from Paris. She lives there since 1946. As a trained portraitist, she…

‘In Our Lifetime’ a Magnum Photos Exhibition

12 March 2019 0

Stories of political and religious intolerance aren’t found only in history. Persecution, sometimes on a devastating scale, continues in our own lifetime. This new exhibition at Lyveden features three stories of religious persecution, each told through a Magnum photographer’s lens…