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Marc Erwin Babej: Mask of Perfection

Marc Erwin Babej: Mask of Perfection

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Beauty as product? – What happens when our subjective perceptions of natural beauty are confronted with the plastic surgeon’s scientific, geometry-based standard of beauty? The women portrayed by Marc Erwin Babej are all in their Twenties and conform to perceptions of beauty in our current society. New York Cory plastic surgeon Dr. Maria M. LoTempio was given the assignment to…
Christophe Gin: Colonie

Christophe Gin: Colonie

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The Fondation Carmignac aims to support and promote works of investigative photojournalism documenting areas often underrepresented in mainstream news coverage. This year’s edition of the Award focuses specifically on parts of France that have become so-called ‘lawless areas’ (zones de non-droit): places where political, judicial and socioeconomic structures divert from those idealised by the French Republic, and where its legal…
Elliott Erwitt: Retrospective

Elliott Erwitt: Retrospective

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Elliott Erwitt has been taking pictures since the late forties. This exhibition is a unique and comprehensive survey of his work. Erwitt’s unmistakeable, often witty, style gives us a snapshot of the strange and the mundane over a period of more than half a century, through the lens of one of the era’s finest image-makers. Elliott Erwitt Retrospective Oct 8…
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The man, the Image and the World. A Retrospective

Henri Cartier-Bresson: The man, the Image and the World. A Retrospective

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The autumn season at Ateneum will feature French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), considered the father of photoreportage. Ateneum’s retrospective exhibition will include almost 300 photographs, archive material and films relating the story of this star of international photographic art. The exhibition is presented together with Magnum Photos and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation (Paris). Henri Cartier-Bresson The man, the Image and…
Emil Otto Hoppé: The German Work

Emil Otto Hoppé: The German Work

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Between 1925 and 1938, photographer E.O. Hoppé traveled the length and breadth of Germany, recording people and places at one of the most tumultuous times in the country’s history. He photographed movie stars and captains of industry, workers and peasants, and captured the birth of the Autobahn and UFA film studios in its heyday. He saw the rise of fascism,…
Chien-Chi Chang: Jet Lag

Chien-Chi Chang: Jet Lag

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“Today is Monday, so this must be Zurich.” For those who travel a lot, the world becomes a steel-and-concrete construct of interchangeable flight crews, hotel rooms, and check-in counters. In this jet-setting life, the most important thing is that the power adapter fits. For Jet Lag, award-winning photographer Chien-Chi Chang (born 1961 in Taiwan) has created succinct black-and-white images of…
Fan Ho: Into The Light

Fan Ho: Into The Light

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M97 is pleased to announce Into The Light, a solo exhibition of vintage silver gelatin prints by Fan Ho, one of the great masters of black and white photography. This is Fan Ho’s first solo exhibition at M97 and the first ever exhibition of the artist’s photographs in his native Shanghai, where he started his career at the age of…
Philip Jones Griffiths: A Welsh Focus on War and Peace

Philip Jones Griffiths: A Welsh Focus on War and Peace

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A new exhibition celebrating the life and work of Philip Jones Griffiths, is to be staged at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Philip Jones Griffiths – A Welsh Focus on War and Peace features explores his early work in Britain, his world renowned photographs documenting various wars and their effects, as well as lesser known works in the period…
Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision

Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision

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Galerie Edwynn Houk is pleased to present a selection of rare vintage prints by the photographer Ilse Bing (U.S., born Germany, 1899-1998). The exhibition “Ilse Bing: An Avant-Garde Vision”, which opens in the Zurich gallery on September the 9th, 2015, features some of her most iconic works from a renowned ten year period in Paris. Other important images from her…
René Groebli: Early Works

René Groebli: Early Works

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The exhibition will present a unique selection of vintage prints and a recent edition of these two series, showcased this Fall by the publication of the book René Groebli, Early Works by Sturm & Drang editions. The Galerie Esther Woerdehoff is pleased to present two emblematic series of early works by the Swiss photographer René Groebli, born in 1927: Magie…
Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead

Danny Lyon: Conversations with the Dead

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Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of rare, vintage photographs by Danny Lyon from his groundbreaking series, Conversations with the Dead. In 1967-68 Lyon spent over fourteen months inside Texas prisons, photographing and befriending inmates. Drawn from his own archive, many of the works on view are the first prints made and used to edit and lay…
Paolo Pellegrin: As I was Dying

Paolo Pellegrin: As I was Dying

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“When I do my work and I’m exposed to the suffering of others –their loss or, at times, their death – I feel I am surviving as a witness; my role and responsibility is to create a record for our collective memory. Part of this, I believe, has to do with notions of accountability. Perhaps it is only in their…
Sanne Sannes: The Enduring Legend

Sanne Sannes: The Enduring Legend

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Sannes remains one of the most captivating photographers of the 1960’s, having produced an outstanding body of work in the mere eight years he worked as a photographer, until his untimely death at the age of 30. His oeuvre is mostly built up of countless photographs of female nudes. Women were his favourite subject and an endless source of inspiration.…
Ron Galella 55 Years a Paparazzi

Ron Galella 55 Years a Paparazzi

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Ron Galella brought the work of the paparazzi, that step child of photojournalism, into the public eye, and with it the celebrity culture. With this exhibition “That’s Great!” we enter the world of Andy Warhol and his circle which encompassed the celebrity, fashion, art, and social world of New York in the 1970’s and 80’s. With time, the Warhol circle…
Ave Pildas – Bijou: Photographs of Theater Box Offices

Ave Pildas – Bijou: Photographs of Theater Box Offices

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Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to announce its exhibition, Bijou: Photographs of Theater Box Offices by Ave Pildas. This solo exhibition will be the artist’s first at the gallery. The exhibition will open on September 5th and continue through October 24th, 2015. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, September 5th, from 6 – 8 pm. Bijou…
Michael Kenna: Between Mountains & Lakes

Michael Kenna: Between Mountains & Lakes

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For many years Michael Kenna has been traveling around the world and keeps on revisiting the same places. He understands these places as “friends” and is fostering these relationships to his old “friends” instead of making new, superficial ones. Just as he is revisiting places he repeats certain elements in the images. A moving star sky, wavering clouds or diffuse…
Tim Rudman: ICELAND. An Uneasy Calm

Tim Rudman: ICELAND. An Uneasy Calm

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Iceland has become a hugely popular destination for photographers around the world. Now ‘Iceland. An Uneasy Calm’ presents 98 reproductions of toned silver gelatine prints taken and printed over the last eight years by Tim Rudman, described by Ilford Photo / Harman Technology as “one of the very finest landscape photographers working today, easily identifiable by his supreme gift as one of the leading…
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Landscapes

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Landscapes

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In over 100 landscapes taken throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S., each image represents one of Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moments”. Although some photographs contain people, the focus is on outdoor surroundings, the landscapes of Nature and the landscapes of Man. Henri Cartier-Bresson Landscapes Jun 12 – Sep 30 2015 Abbaye de Jumièges 24, rue Guillaume le Conquérant Jumièges, 76480 France
Madiha Abdo: exhibition in Agora Gallery

Madiha Abdo: exhibition in Agora Gallery

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NEW YORK, NY – Chelsea’s Agora Gallery will feature the original work of juror-selected London photographer Madiha Abdo in The Chelsea International Fine Art Competition Exhibition. The exhibition opens August 25th and will run until September 8th, 2015. The opening reception will take place Thursday, August 27th, from 6-8 PM. Any art lover who enjoys thought-provoking artworks and meeting talented…
Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin: Congo

Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin: Congo

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In this sumptuously printed, large-format publication, distinguished Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer’s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, “from urban scenes to…