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David Rathbone: Big Water

David Rathbone: Big Water

Five years in the making, Big Water is a photographic ode to an often overlooked part of the world. Surrounded by the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean, Virginia’s Eastern Shore is a landscape that has been both changed and unchanged since Captain John Smith visited the area on his first explorations of North America. David writes in his introductory essay,…
Cyrille Druart: Plein Silence

Cyrille Druart: Plein Silence

This new series spans three years, from 2019 to 2022, which has seen global production slow down and our lives become sedentary due to the pandemic. Mainly made during several trips through Europe right before and after the restrictions, this set is inspired by the silence of the global pandemic, our reclusive lives, the birth of a daughter and the…
Patrick Zachman: Memory trips

Patrick Zachman: Memory trips

A member of the prestigious Magnum agency since 1985, he also does numerous reports outside France. His activity thus leads him to South Africa for the release of Nelson Mandela; in Chile in the footsteps of former political prison camps; in Rwanda from where, six years after the genocide of the Tutsis, he brought back portraits of survivors. It was…
Interview with Michael Dorohovich

Interview with Michael Dorohovich

Michael Dorohovich is a portrait and documentary photographer. Born in the small town of Uzhgorod in Transcarpathia, Ukraine. Author of successful photo projects in Ukraine, such as “Famous and interesting personalities of Transcarpathia”, “Cultural ethnos of Transcarpathia”, which were noted and awarded on many world platforms. Laureate and prize-winner of the most prestigious awards in the field of photography. Winner…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of the Isle of Rugen, Germany (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of the Isle of Rugen, Germany (1890s)

After the death of the last Slav prince, Wizlaw III, in 1325, the principality was acquired by Pomerania-Wolgast as a consequence of the 1321 inheritance agreement (Erbverbrüderung), and from 1368/72–1451 was part of the estate of a branch line, the House of Barth. This state of affairs, together with the disputes over the Danish throne that occurred at that time,…
Bruce Davidson: The Way Back

Bruce Davidson: The Way Back

Selected by the acclaimed photographer from his vast archive, this exhibition will present previously unpublished work dating from 1957-1977. The photographs represent the arc of Davidson’s versatile career with individual images that were overlooked at the time. Some are from Davidson’s most well-known series—East 100th Street, a look at one Harlem block in 1966-68; Brooklyn Gang, which followed a group…
Mark Steinmetz: Summertime

Mark Steinmetz: Summertime

Summertime will feature a selection of gelatin silver prints from the artist’s upcoming, revised, and expanded book of the same title to be published later this year by Nazraeli Press. Taken between 1984 and 1991, the images in Summertime capture the light, emotion, and possibility of an endless summer day. In addition, images from the artist’s Summer Camp series will…
Avedon’s West

Avedon’s West

Spring 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Avedon, renowned fashion and portrait photographer. As part of a national celebration led by The Richard Avedon Foundation, the Carter is showcasing 13 works of art from the acclaimed project In the American West, which the Museum commissioned in 1979 and premiered in 1985. Over the course of six…
D. J. Hinman: Invisible Memories

D. J. Hinman: Invisible Memories

Photographer D. J. Hinman has created another series of black-and-white photographs that burrows deeply into the subconscious, into places rarely visited during waking hours, rather like his earlier series, A Hole in the Universe (Monovisions, Jan 27, 2023). This new series probes invisible memories, which when captured on film can evoke a reality that maybe never existed. These primarily are…
Interview with Jonathan Bourla

Interview with Jonathan Bourla

How and when did you become interested in photography? I became interested in photography in my teenage years, intrigued by my elder brother Michael’s photographic hobby. I joined a local camera club in North West London, and produced 35mm colour slides. I remember feeling in awe of the small number of people at the club who did their own darkroom…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Towns in Wales (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Towns in Wales (1890s)

Prior to the industrial revolution in Wales there were small-scale industries scattered throughout Wales. These ranged from those connected to agriculture, such as milling and the manufacture of woollen textiles, through to mining and quarrying. Agriculture remained the dominant source of wealth. The emerging industrial period saw the development of copper smelting in the Swansea area. With access to local…
Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen

Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen

Luhring Augustine is pleased to announce Lee Friedlander Framed by Joel Coen, opening in our Chelsea location. Curated by the widely acclaimed filmmaker Joel Coen, the exhibition showcases approximately 45 of Friedlander’s photographs that span the range of his 60+ year career, bringing into the equation many lesser-known images. Rather than focusing on a single subject or period, Coen’s selection…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Edinburgh, Scotland (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Edinburgh, Scotland (1890s)

Despite an enduring myth to the contrary, Edinburgh became an industrial centre with its traditional industries of printing, brewing and distilling continuing to grow in the 19th century and joined by new industries such as rubber works, engineering works and others. By 1821, Edinburgh had been overtaken by Glasgow as Scotland’s largest city. The city centre between Princes Street and…
Eric Manigaud: Congo Océan

Eric Manigaud: Congo Océan

In his third solo exhibition at Gallery FIFTY ONE, French artist Éric Manigaud (°1971) presents the final piece of his intensive research into European colonial history. This show runs simultaneously with an exhibition at Galerie Sator in Paris. Belgian Congo being the subject in Paris and French Congo in Antwerp. Manigaud is interested in archival sources that often bear witness…
Jason Langer: Friends and Lovers

Jason Langer: Friends and Lovers

CLAMP is proud to present “Jason Langer | Friends and Lovers”—an exhibition of the artist’s photographs on view on the gallery’s mezzanine. Included in the exhibition are two photographs from his most recent monograph, Berlin, published by Kerber Verlag, as well as several photographs that were deemed too provocative for the book’s publication. The creation of “Friends and Lovers” and…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Germany (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Germany (1890s)

In 1772, in the First Partition of Poland, the town was acquired by the Kingdom of Prussia as Bromberg and incorporated into the Netze District in the newly established province of West Prussia. At the time, the town was seriously depressed and semi-derelict. Under Frederick the Great the town revived, notably with the construction of a canal from Bromberg to…
Alice Springs (June Newton): Retrospective

Alice Springs (June Newton): Retrospective

While major Alice Springs exhibitions were already hosted at HNF in 2010 and 2016, many of the photographs in this new retrospective have never been seen by the public. Extensive research into the foundation’s archives, particularly the holdings recently transferred to Berlin from the Newtons’ apartment in Monaco, has provided new insight into the work of Alice Springs. Now, some…
Ara Güler A Play of Light and Shadow

Ara Güler A Play of Light and Shadow

This summer, Foam is thrilled to unveil the exhibition A Play of Light and Shadow, a tribute to Ara Güler, one of Turkey’s most legendary photographers. His profound love for Istanbul and Turkey is evident from his evocative black and white photographs. The exhibition is a close collaboration between Foam, co-curator Ahmet Polat and the Ara Güler Museum. The exhibition…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of the Riesengebirge, Germany (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of the Riesengebirge, Germany (1890s)

The modern names of Krkonoše (Czech), Riesengebirge (German) and Karkonosze (Polish) became widely accepted only in the 19th century. The range is also often referred to in English as the “Giant Mountains”. The Czech name “Krkonoše” is first mentioned (in the singular, as “Krkonoš”) in a 1492 record of the division of the Manor of Štěpanice into two parts. The…
Gösta Peterson: Fashion Photographs 1960s-1980s

Gösta Peterson: Fashion Photographs 1960s-1980s

For the first time since his death, an exhibition of fashion photographs from the 1960s and 1970s by the trailblazing photographer Gösta (Gus) Peterson will be presented. One of the most innovative and progressive fashion photographers of the 20th century, Peterson (Swedish-American, 1923-2017) is known for breaking barriers and challenging conventional approaches to fashion photography of the time. His playful,…