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Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Alsace Lorraine, Germany (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Alsace Lorraine, Germany (1890s)

In 1871, the newly created German Empire’s demand for Alsace from France after its victory in the Franco-Prussian War was not simply a punitive measure. The transfer was controversial even among the Germans: The German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, was initially opposed to it, as he thought (correctly) it would engender permanent French enmity toward Germany. Some German industrialists did…
New York Subways 1977: Alen MacWeeney

New York Subways 1977: Alen MacWeeney

Alen MacWeeney (b. 1939, Dublin) began his photography career in Ireland working as a press photographer and freelancing for fashion magazines, before moving to New York City in 1961 to be an assistant for the celebrated photographer Richard Avedon. Despite his early work in the worlds of fashion and studio photography, MacWeeney’s eye has always been drawn more to the…
August Kotzsch: Nature, Landscape, Genre

August Kotzsch: Nature, Landscape, Genre

August Kotzsch (1836–1910), one of the early masters of German photography, offers a historical counterpart to Simone Nieweg. He takes us with him on his rambles through nature in his home region of Loschwitz near Dresden. Landscape scenes, garden corners, still lifes, and the fruits of his own harvest, but also houses and farms, were his preferred motifs. Depicting in…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Nuremberg, Germany (1890s)

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

After the Thirty Years’ War, Nuremberg attempted to remain detached from external affairs, but contributions were demanded for the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years’ War and restrictions of imports and exports deprived the city of many markets for its manufactures. The Bavarian elector, Charles Theodore, appropriated part of the land obtained by the city during the…
Yamamoto Masao: Ambrotypes

Yamamoto Masao: Ambrotypes

The emotional power of photography – and the ability of an image to evoke memories – will be illustrated in an exhibition of new photographic work by Japanese artist Yamamoto Masao. The artist’s exhibition, Ambrotypes, titled after a 19th century process that produces a one-of-a-kind image on glass, will be on view at Yancey Richardson. In his seventh exhibition with…
Interview with Vera Saldivar de Lira

Interview with Vera Saldivar de Lira

Vera Saldivar de Lira (Aguascalientes, Mexico 1993) is a visual artist and photographer living and working in Southern California and New York City. She employs different mediums to explore the material realities and social relationships that define the perception and use of space, as well as the production process and materiality of the image. She was named one of the…
Tina Modotti: Artist and Activist

Tina Modotti: Artist and Activist

Foam is delighted to announce a large overview and tribute to the work of the remarkable photographer Tina Modotti (1896-1942), an iconic figure in the world of photography, known for her unique blend of artistry and activism. She played an active role in the major political events of the 1920s and 1930s. Her portraits of iconic figures and artists like…
Michael Kenna: Trees

Michael Kenna: Trees

Michael Kenna has been photographing trees for some fifty years. To celebrate this milestone in his career as a photographer, he put together select works in his book Arbres/Trees, just now published by Skira in Paris. We take this publication as an occasion to show some of his best photographs from this book in the gallery; at the exhibition’s opening,…
Monika K. Adler – Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive

Monika K. Adler – Sick Bacchus: Luxury and the death-drive

“Capital is an abstract parasite, an insatiable vampire and zombie-maker; but the living flesh it converts into dead labor is ours, and the zombies it makes are us.” Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism Our wounds are invisible. They devour and lay waste to us. Consumerism’s death-drive creates a deadening of affect; there’s no room for human feelings in its ideology of…
Bill Yates: Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink

Bill Yates: Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink

Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming Bill Yates: Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink exhibition. The solo show will run from September 23rd – November 4th in the gallery’s Atrium space. Sweetheart Roller Skating Rink features a selection of rare, vintage, and modern gelatin silver prints from the artist’s archive. The exhibition is the first solo showing of Yates’…
BAILEY: Photographs

BAILEY: Photographs

The Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present selected photographs by David Bailey. This exhibition includes some of Bailey’s signature images of luminaries of fashion, music, and fine art. In portraits and little-known “torn” prints, he captures subjects including Jane Birkin, Michael Caine, David Hockney, Helmut Newton, Jean Shrimpton, and Mick Jagger. Bailey’s bold and iconoclastic style has made him one…
Vintage: SS Normandie

Vintage: SS Normandie

The SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship afloat, crossing the Atlantic in a record 4.14 days, and remains the most powerful steam turbo-electric-propelled passenger ship ever built. At 14:30 on 9 February 1942, sparks from a…
Jungjin Lee | Howard Greenberg Gallery

Jungjin Lee | Howard Greenberg Gallery

Sublime views of the American West by Korean artist Jungjin Lee will be presented at Howard Greenberg Gallery from September 23 through November 21, 2023. The exhibition, entitled Voice, features large and monumental photographs of deserts, mountains, oceans, forests, and plains from 2018 and 2019. With an approach that combines the aesthetics of her heritage with 21st-century techniques, Lee’s lush…
Rodney Smith at Staley-Wise Gallery

Rodney Smith at Staley-Wise Gallery

his exhibition is Rodney Smith’s first in New York, and reflects a marriage of precise order and geometry with surrealism and eccentricity. Paul Martineau, Curator of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum, describes Smith’s work “Like Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’, his photographs lead us down the rabbit hole to a fantastical place that is just beyond our reach.”…
Wojciech Karliński: Between Seasons

Wojciech Karliński: Between Seasons

The Puppet and Actor Theater “Kubuś” in Kielce was founded in 1955. The theater was without a permanent venue for a long time and operated as a traveling theater. In 1965, it became a state institution, but it still didn’t have its own stage. In 1992, a neglected building at 9 Duża Street was adapted for the needs of the…
Eugène Atget: Highlights from the Mary & Dan Solomon Collection

Eugène Atget: Highlights from the Mary & Dan Solomon Collection

Around the turn of the 20th century, photographer Eugène Atget broke new artistic ground in his obsessive chronicling of Paris and its environs. Walking at dawn with his heavy camera, he captured the soul of the city by focusing on its old alleyways, picturesque shop fronts, architectural details, staircases, and street vendors. This focused exhibition features highlights from the Getty’s…
The Fashion Show

The Fashion Show

Peter Fetterman Gallery is proud to present The Fashion Show. The Fashion Show, curated from the gallery’s permanent collection, will feature an exciting display of fashions history, its elegance and its importance to the photographic medium. This exhibition is designed to explore how fashion photography transcends its commercial aspects and is a reflection of creative expression and societal aspirations. The…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Lucerne, Switzerland (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Lucerne, Switzerland (1890s)

It was during the latter part of the 19th century that Lucerne became a popular destination for artists, royalty and others to escape to. The German composer Richard Wagner established a residence at Tribschen in 1866 from which he lived and worked. The city was then boosted by a visit by Queen Victoria to the city in 1868, during which…
Dan Budnik: Telling a Story Truthfully

Dan Budnik: Telling a Story Truthfully

Etherton Gallery is excited to announce the opening of its summer exhibition, Dan Budnik: Telling a Story Truthfully, which features a selection of photographs by renowned photojournalist, Dan Budnik (1933-2020), with mixed media works and photography by Caleb Gutierrez in the gallery pop-up, In the Cases. “After Dan Budnik passed away in 2020, I wanted to celebrate his life with…
Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed

Ed Templeton: Wires Crossed

Get a glimpse into the lives of skateboarders at a time just before mobile phones and social media changed society forever. You get behind-the-scenes access of this fascinating subculture through EdTempleton’s unique position. From triumphs, disasters, boredom, self-medication and toxic masculinity, to sacrifice. Ed Templeton (1972, Garden Grove, California), one of the most influential skateboarders of all time, captured his…