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Emilio Barrionuevo: THE SOUL OF THE IMMIGRANT

25 February 2019 0

When you are far from your home your life becomes something unknown to you, they remember those happy and sad moments at the same time, bring to light the true essence of what they are. A hard life and sometimes…

Birney Imes: Found these pictures

24 February 2019 0

For more than 20 years in the 1970s and 80s, Birney Imes roamed the countryside of his native Mississippi photographing the people and places he encountered along the way. Working in both black and white and color, Imes’ photographs take…

Santu Mofokeng: Stories

23 February 2019 0

This year marks the 25th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, followed by the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president in 1994. This historic event marked the end of apartheid: a regime of institutionalised racial segregation that was in…

Lee Friedlander: Pickup

22 February 2019 0

In this compendium Lee Friedlander examines the ordinary pickup truck, a quintessentially American mode of transportation. Unadorned in form as well as function, pickups have long been the vehicle of choice for farmers and tradespeople. Their well-worn beds―usually open to…

Wei Tan: Life after being shot by over 100 pellets

20 February 2019 0

In the summer of 2016, after popular Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani was killed by Indian security forces, Kashmir experienced months of violent protests during which Indian officers used pellet guns – a form of a shotgun that indiscriminately shoot…

Mapplethorpe: Photography and Performance

19 February 2019 0

Choreography for an Exhibition organized by the museum of contemporary art Madre, in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation in New York, brings a body of work to Naples in an innovative show and a performative program starring international choreographers.…

Stephan Vanfleteren: Surf Tribe

18 February 2019 0

Kahmann Gallery is proud to present the most recent project of Stephan Vanfleteren: Surf Tribe. This sales exhibition follows the successful showing of the series at the Kunsthal Rotterdam. For Surf Tribe, Vanfleteren travelled the globe for over 18 months…

Ian Pettigrew: Living Heroes

16 February 2019 0

Portrait series of aging veterans from WW2 to Viet Nam. Website: http://www.ianpettigrew.com ‘Living Heroes’ was the Black & White People Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards 2018. ‘Living Heroes’ was the Black & White…

Michael Kenna: Rafu

14 February 2019 0

After decades of traveling the world, exploring wild and natural locations, from Europe to Asia, as well as industrial zones, abandoned buildings and religious shrines, Michael Kenna debuts an unprecedented series of female nudes made in Japan. Robert Mann Gallery…

Alex Majoli: SCENE

13 February 2019 0

Europe, Asia, Brazil, Congo. For eight years, across continents and countries, Alex Majoli has photographed events and non-events. Political demonstrations, humanitarian emergencies and quiet moments of daily life. What holds all these disparate images together, at first glance at least,…

HIROO FUJITANI: THE LYRIC POETRY – A CAT

11 February 2019 0

I think that a cat is a philosopher or poet though I do not know a great occidental philosopher sometimes. Their behavior passes our understanding. I am interested in their saintly, venal, capricious behavior and cuteness. That’s way, I explore…

Michael Kenna at Catherine Edelman Gallery

9 February 2019 0

After 31 years in River North, Catherine Edelman Gallery is relocating to 1637 W. Chicago Avenue in April 2019. CEG opened in 1987, shortly after Catherine Edelman graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA…

Lee Friedlander: Workers: The Human Clay

8 February 2019 0

In the capstone volume of his epic series “The Human Clay,” Lee Friedlander has created an ode to people who work. Drawn from his incomparable archive are photographs of individuals laboring on the street and on stage, as well as…

Don McCullin at Tate Britain

6 February 2019 0

This exhibition showcases some of the most impactful photographs captured over the last 60 years. It includes many of his iconic war photographs – including images from Vietnam, Northern Ireland and more recently Syria. But it also focuses on the…

Stefano Ciol: Rural Graphysms

4 February 2019 0

Lines that cut the landscape of the countryside narrating new perspectives of light and unexpected glimpses. Website: https://www.behance.net/fotociol ‘Grafismi Rurali – Rural Graphysms’ was the Black & White Series of the Year 3rd place Winner in the MonoVisions Photography Awards…

Winter in Swiss Photography

2 February 2019 0

Once again the gallery Bildhalle is hosted at the Forum Paracelsus in St. Moritz this year and presents a group exhibition of important positions in classic and contemporary Swiss photography on the topic of “Winter”. Winter as a photographic subject…