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Beuford Smith: Black Lives

16 February 2017 0

Beuford Smith (American, b. 1941) is one of the great social documentary photographers that emerged from the 1960s. Founder of Cesaire Photo Agency and cofounder of the Black Photographer’s Annual, Smith has enjoyed a diverse and celebrated career in image-making.…

Richard Gordon: Loved Photography Too Much

15 February 2017 0

With the ubiquity of the photographic medium today, Richard Gordon’s work reminds us just how compelling an informed and creative perspective can be. Often his images are witty and quirky and evoke his dry sense of humor. The work in…

Richard Mosse: Heat Maps

14 February 2017 0

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Heat Maps, a new body of work by Richard Mosse. In the chaotic and polarizing new era of Brexit, Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump and other signs of a radical shift to the…

Lillian Bassman at CAMERA WORK

13 February 2017 0

Gallery CAMERA WORK is pleased to present an exhibition with works of Lillian Bassman from January 21, 2017. The show will include more than 50 main works and will be the first gallery exhibition held in Berlin after Lillian Bassman…

Werner Bischof: Point of View

12 February 2017 0

Swiss Magnum photographer Werner Bischof (1916-1954) worked as a photojournalist for legendary magazines like Life and Picture Post. Over the two decades prior to his premature death in 1954, he produced a memorable and multifaceted oeuvre. To mark the centenary…

Harold Feinstein – The early years (1940’s – 1950’s): contagious optimism

11 February 2017 0

When he died in June 2015 at the age of 84, the New York Times declared Harold Feinstein “one of the most accomplished recorders of the American experience.” His work is owned by prestigious museums, corporations and private collectors, yet…

Herb Ritts: Super

10 February 2017 0

Ritts was largely self-taught with no formal training in photography, yet by the late 1980s he had become a celebrity, just like the people he photographed, “a testament to his natural talents and likeability… Some people are born visually sophisticated…

Enrique Metinides: Exhibition

9 February 2017 0

From 1948 until his forced retirement in 1979, the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides took thousands of images and followed hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City. And what images and stories they were: car wrecks and train derailments, a…

Miklós Vörös: Lost and Found

8 February 2017 0

Though at first glance they seem like random junk stacked next to each other, in reality, the compositions of lost and found objects are well-thought, revealing us fascinating stories. The photos of Miklós Vörös are exhibited at the Faur Zsófi…

Forgotten Cincinnati: Photographs from the 1880s

7 February 2017 0

In 2013, a private collector rediscovered a trove of large glass-plate negatives. These fragile documents by unidentified photographers constitute a time capsule of late-19th-century Cincinnati. Group portraits reveal the faces of former residents. Street scenes show life in a bustling…

Anton Corbijn at Zeno X Gallery

6 February 2017 0

Zeno X Gallery is pleased to present #5, the new exhibition by Anton Corbijn (1955). It is the third time that work of this renowned photographer is presented in the gallery. The exhibition is a continuation of sorts of his…

Lisa Elmaleh: Everglades

6 February 2017 0

In the 1800s, the Everglades were viewed as a landscape to develop and conquer, to alter permanently. To date, more than half of the Everglades have been repurposed for urban and agricultural use. “Freshwater flowing into the park is engineered,”…

The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel

5 February 2017 0

The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel presents an engaging survey of The Museum of Modern Art’s multifaceted collection of photography. Borrowing its title from the eponymous work by Carrie Mae Weems, the exhibition is drawn entirely from…

Sy Kattelson at Howard Greenberg Gallery

4 February 2017 0

The first solo exhibition in nearly 20 years of work by Sy Kattelson will be on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from January 12 – February 11, 2017. The show of 45 photographs focuses on street photography made in New…

Real American Places: Edward Weston and Leaves of Grass

3 February 2017 0

The 25 photographs included in the exhibition illuminate an understudied chapter of Weston’s career. In 1941, the Limited Editions Book Club approached Weston to collaborate on a deluxe edition of Whitman’s poetry collection, Leaves of Grass. The publisher’s ambitious plan…

Viktor Kolar: Canada, 1968-1973

1 February 2017 0

Born in 1941 and raised in Ostrava, Kolář fled to Austria soon after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Shortly after relocating, he discovered that Canada was seeking “young and healthy people” to immigrate, so he and a friend…

Josef Koudelka: Gypsies

31 January 2017 0

As the very last panel of ‘The official program of the Korea-France Year 2015-2016’, The Museum of Photography, Seoul organizes a solo exhibition of Czech-born French photographer, Josef Koudelka to celebrate the program’s closing. He is known best in both…

Calder & Nevelson, In Their Studios

30 January 2017 0

Best known for his images of the life and work of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, this exhibition highlights for the first-time, Pedro E. Guerrero’s intimate documentation of renowned sculptors Alexander Calder and Louise Nevelson in their homes and studios.…

Harlem Heroes: Photographs by Carl Van Vechten

29 January 2017 0

At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) picked up a camera and discovered the power the photographic portrait has over the photographer himself. Over the decades, his fascination with the medium remained strong and he asked…

Ulrich Wüst: Public and Private

28 January 2017 0

Peer behind the Iron Curtain to see how creativity resists conformity. Ulrich Wüst‘s photos capture the depersonalization of urban life in cities beset by standardized prefab housing blocks and looming Soviet monuments. At the same time, he reveals the creative…

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