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Giorgio Bormida: Selected Works

28 November 2017 0

In Giorgio Bormida’s works, the photographic approach fades in favour of an extremely poetic use of the image, which somehow recalls painting, as it leads the viewer’s eye right to the heart of a complex imagination, densely embedded with suggestions…

Marc Hom: Profiles

27 November 2017 0

“My new book, Profiles, is a collection of portraits taken over the last six to eight years, including exceptional profiles of creatives in the arts and cinema, plus meaningful images of family and friends. The images originate from editorial assignments…

Kim Høltermand: Frederiksvej Kindergarten

25 November 2017 0

Frederiksvej Kindergarten, a project by Danish studio COBE, is highly focused on details, giving the viewer a slow peek at the materials it was made of. This simplicity, combined with the rawness of black and white, corresponds with the project’s…

Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel

22 November 2017 0

A selection of some 60 photographs in the Gallery’s collection made possible by Robert B. Menschel are on view in an exhibition that examines how the act of posing for a portrait changed with the invention of the medium. Featured…

East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography

20 November 2017 0

When photography arrived in the United States in 1839, it landed first in a few east coast cities and New Orleans, and then spread north and west into the American interior. The proliferation of photography studios and photographers coincided with…

Wendell MacRae: Rock-Paper-Scissors

19 November 2017 0

These images capture New York City as it emerged from the Depression and experienced an extraordinary building boom, from the completion of the Empire State Building to the massive Rockefeller Center project, completed in 1940. After an exhibition of his…

Cheap Rents… and de Kooning: The downtown art world New York, 1957-63

18 November 2017 0

Cheap rents … and de Kooning revisits the New York downtown art scene between 1957 and 1963, when the 10th Street galleries were the center of the art world and inexpensive lofts were still available. Living in this dynamic neighborhood,…

Olivier Robert: Lakes, from Léman to Biwa

15 November 2017 0

This work started on the shores of the Lake Geneva in Switzerland and in France, as I arrived in this region in 1995 and where I still live. My approach consists in using the ‘unintentional aesthetic’ of the man-made objects…

Saul Leiter: Early Black and White

14 November 2017 0

The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter’s early black-andwhite photographs stems from his profound response to the dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and ’50s. While this technique borrowed aspects of the photo-documentary, Leiter’s imagery was…

Rouge: Michael Kenna

13 November 2017 0

Michael Kenna (born 1953) has long been acclaimed as one of the most important landscape photographers of our time. He is best known for lyrical black and white images made under natural light conditions—often at dawn or dusk, or indeed…

Jakob Tuggener: Maschinenzeit

10 November 2017 0

Jakob Tuggener (1904-1988) is one of those exceptions in Swiss photography. His personal and highly expressive photographs of the boisterous parties in better social circles are legendary, and his book “Fabrik” of 1943 is regarded as a milestone in the…

Serge Ramelli: Paris

9 November 2017 0

Paris is the City of Light, love, and savoir vivre. And this world-class capital is surely one of the planet’s most photographed destinations, whether by tourists snapping a quick souvenir shot or professionals with high-end cameras. The brief preview we…

Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard

8 November 2017 0

Itinerant photographer William Bullard left behind a trove of over 5,400 glass negatives at the time of his death in 1918. Among these negatives are over 230 portraits of African Americans and Native Americans mostly from the Beaver Brook community…

Photographia Erotica Historica

7 November 2017 0

„Photographia Erotica Historica“, a leather-bound miniature book with over 380 pages, gold embossed, and filled with photographic “obscenities” from the turn of the century. A unique, erotic collection of the best book arts. Reminiscent of times when printed nudity still…

Olga Volodina: Metamorphosis. Black Butterfly

5 November 2017 0

This photo series use symbolism to represent: fragile human consciousness influenced by mass media, hypocrisy of the modern society and an average human, who is forced by the system to spend a precious lifetime either on basic survival needs or…

Michael Massaia: Deep in a Dream: New York City

4 November 2017 0

Sometime in his mid-20s, Michael Massaia began experiencing extreme bouts of insomnia. To fill the sleepless nights, the artist would travel into Manhattan to enjoy walks through the city without all of the chaos and cacophony. Carrying his personally retooled…

Jerry Berndt: Beautiful America

3 November 2017 0

Jerry Berndt documented the period between 1968 and 1980 in America like no other photographer. Personally involved in the anti-Vietnam War activities of the 1960s, Berndt’s work combines photojournalism with documentary, conceptual and street photography to create a unique view…