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Karl Baden: Thermographs 1976

11 March 2017 0

Over the past forty-four years, Baden has produced dozens of bodies of work, both manipulated and documentary, from self-portraits to cliché-verre to street photography. Since 1984, he has been the subject of 16 solo exhibitions and has had work in…

Brian Pearson: New Photographs

10 March 2017 0

The primary subject of Brian Pearson’s second solo exhibition is the vast metropolis of Tokyo, Japan. Pearson’s images slip alluringly beneath the city’s luminous neon skin, seeking out restraint over chaos, contemplation over frenzy. Pearson, in his image titles, credits…

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: American Mystic

9 March 2017 0

Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present Ralph Eugene Meatyard: American Mystic from March 9 through May 6, 2017, featuring some 30 works by this enigmatic and legendary photographer. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to view both iconic and lesser-known…

Alex Timmermans: Storyteller

7 March 2017 0

Dutch photographer Alex Timmermans is a storyteller. Known for his use of the collodion wet plate photography process, Timmermans creates enchanting images and like his fairy tale images, the process he employs is the antithesis to predictability; little twists of…

Chris McCaw: Time and Tides

6 March 2017 0

Chris McCaw’s artistic practice is firmly rooted in the history of photography while simultaneously pushing the medium in new directions. His experimental process recalls the work of photography pioneer, Henry Fox Talbot, combined with the slash and burn paintings of…

Jerry N. Uelsmann: Darkroom Surrealist

5 March 2017 0

The photographs of the 82-year-old American photographer Jerry Uelsmann take us into a fantastic world, which clearly has never existed as such in front of a camera rather than foremost in the imagination of the artist. Only then, they were…

Robin Schwartz: Like Us: Primate Portraits

4 March 2017 0

Early work by photographer Robin Schwartz documenting the close relationship between primates and their caretakers. Robin Schwartz Like Us: Primate Portraits March 1 – May 28, 2017 Alice Austen House Museum 2 Hylan Boulevard Staten Island, NY 10305 aliceausten.org

Three Masters of Erotic Photography

2 March 2017 0

Steven Kasher Gallery is pleased to present Three Masters of Erotic Photography, a survey of black and white nudes from the 1960s, by celebrated photographers Sam Haskins, Francis Giacobetti, and Kishin Shinoyama. The show reunites three artists featured in the…

Alex Majoli: SKĒNĒ

1 March 2017 0

Alex Majoli documents the thin line between reality and theatre in a series of photographs, which will be on view from February 16 – April 1, 2017 at Howard Greenberg Gallery. The photographs, made in Congo, Egypt, Greece, Germany, India,…

Melissa Shook: Daily Self-Portraits

27 February 2017 0

In 1972, curious about the problem of identity, Melissa Shook began an ambitious project of photographing herself everyday for a year. The sum of this impressive undertaking resulted in a compelling set of intimately scaled black and white photographs that…

Diane Arbus: In the beginning

25 February 2017 0

Diane Arbus: In the beginning considers the first seven years of the photographer’s career, from 1956 to 1962. A lifelong New Yorker, Arbus found the city and its citizens an endlessly rich subject for her art. Working in Times Square,…

An-My Lê: 29 Palms

23 February 2017 0

Photographer An-My Lê’s 29 Palms is a series of black-and-white photographs made in the California desert where US marines train for battle prior to deployment. Evoking familiar images of war-afflicted sites in Iraq and Afghanistan, Lê’s photographs instead depict American…

Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie

21 February 2017 0

David Attie studied with Alexey Brodovitch, who also trained Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, and who first acquainted the artist with Truman Capote. Introducing this lost work to the public now, reveals an intriguing set of relationships and illuminates a…

Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath

20 February 2017 0

The photographs of Dave Heath (1931-2016) evoke an intense, bittersweet vision of modern life. Abandoned by his parents at the age of four, he grew up in Philadelphia foster homes and an orphanage. This sense of physical and emotional homelessness…

NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN: Carlo Mollino & Helmut Newton

19 February 2017 0

What connects the lascivious intimacy in the pictures made during the 1940’s by Carlo Mollino, baroque genius and free spirit, and the modern amazons glorified by Helmut Newton in their provocative eroticism during the 1980’s? The woman, muse in all…

Henri Cartier-Bresson at Leica Gallery San Francisco

18 February 2017 0

The Gallery at Leica Store San Francisco, in collaboration with Peter Fetterman Gallery, is excited to announce its upcoming exhibition, Henri Cartier-Bresson from January 18, 2017 through March 31, 2017. The exhibition will feature over fifty gelatin silver hand signed…

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.…