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The Marubi Dynasty: A hundred years of Albanian studio photography

The Marubi Dynasty: A hundred years of Albanian studio photography

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In the exhibition The Marubi Dynasty – A hundred years of Albanian studio photography, Foam is showing a selection of photos from the archive of the Albanian photographic studio Marubi (1856-1959). Three generations of photographers made studio portraits of a wide variety of people, ranging from the urban bourgeoisie, shepherds, the Ottoman emperor and King Zog, to criminals and famous…
Robert Kalman: Dogs Among Us

Robert Kalman: Dogs Among Us

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These photographs aren’t really about dogs. They’re really about relationships. Deep ones. So deep that a man inked his deceased dog’s likeness onto his chest. So deep, another man admitted his dog feels closer to him at times than his wife and kids. So deep that one woman responded to my question, ‘What would your life be like without her?’…
The Intimate World of Josef Sudek

The Intimate World of Josef Sudek

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Entitled “The Intimate World of Josef Sudek”, this exhibition is the first of this scale to revisit the life and work of Josef Sudek (Kolin, 1896 – Prague, 1976) within its sociogeographical and historical context: Prague during the first half of the twentieth century, at a time when the Czech capital was a veritable hub of artistic activity. The exhibition…
Hamidou Maiga: Maestros de la Fotografía

Hamidou Maiga: Maestros de la Fotografía

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Maiga’s career as a photographer was launched in the early 1950s. In 1958 he opened his first studio in N’Gouma. For two years he traced the route of the River Niger developing a clientele for his distinctive outdoor studio portraits. All sorts of people frequented Maiga’s studio, from villagers in their finery, to dignitaries, artists, musicians, sportsmen and religious leaders.…
Xavier Guardans: Self-Portraits

Xavier Guardans: Self-Portraits

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An avid traveler and explorer, Xavier Guardans is a photographer who captures the beauty of his surroundings and models with a total mastery of medium and a gifted skill for composition. The subject of our new exhibition of ‘Self-Portraits’ is the product of a decade’s work and travel to numerous countries. Surrounded and inspired by a group of powerful female…
Mitch Epstein: Rocks and Clouds

Mitch Epstein: Rocks and Clouds

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The Yancey Richardson Gallery is pleased to present Rocks and Clouds, an exhibition of new photographs by Mitch Epstein that explore the significance of time through ancient rocks and fleeting clouds. As with his acclaimed tree portraits (New York Arbor), these large-format black and white pictures were made in the five boroughs of New York City, and deepen Epstein’s investigation…
George Tice: Urban Landscapes

George Tice: Urban Landscapes

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The exhibition will present a remarkable selection of forty exceptionally rare vintage 8 x 10 inch gelatin silver contact prints from the early period (1973-74), of Tice’s ongoing epic visual poem of his native state of New Jersey. These unique vintage prints will be punctuated with larger photographs of some of artist’s most revered and significant images, as well as…
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Remains To Be Seen

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Remains To Be Seen

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Fraenkel Gallery is pleased to present the first exhibition of new, large-format photographs of abandoned theaters by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sugimoto began his artistic exploration of movie theaters in the late 1970s and continued throughout the 1990s, creating each photograph in a working theater while a film was being projected on a screen. In Remains to be Seen, on view at…
Vanessa Marsh: Everything All at Once

Vanessa Marsh: Everything All at Once

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Foley Gallery is very pleased to present Everywhere All at Once, an exhibition of photographs featuring the drawing/photogram hybrid process of Vanessa Marsh. Her practice explores the dialogue between man-made and natural landscapes; the world as we have made it and the natural cosmological power of the universe. Marsh combines layers of drawings on acetate with varying depths of opacity,…
Jock Sturges: Absence of Shame

Jock Sturges: Absence of Shame

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“One of the most important elements in my work is an absence: the absence of shame”. Jock Sturges The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of one of the more celebrated and controversial photographers of the last decades, Jock Sturges. Jock Sturges is famous for his series of families taken at communes in Northern California and in naturist…
Jerry Uelsmann: Undiscovered Self

Jerry Uelsmann: Undiscovered Self

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Undiscovered Self serves as a retrospective exhibition of Jerry Uelsmann’s work spanning over the last 50 years. He remains the forerunner of photomontage in America for the 20th century as he employs multiple negatives to create intricate darkroom works of art. The process involves the combination of his ever growing negatives collection and numerous enlargers to produce the final, dream-like…
Wendel White: Schools for the Colored

Wendel White: Schools for the Colored

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Fordham University is pleased to present Wendel White’s Schools for the Colored, a series of black-and- white photographs depicting structures—extant, transformed, demolished, or replaced—that once housed segregated schools along the northern border of the Mason-Dixon Line. Segregated schools served as symbols of exclusion by the white community—but they also were places where black self-determination and agency were nurtured. Although desegregation…
David Yarrow: Wild Encounters

David Yarrow: Wild Encounters

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La Photographie Galerie is pleased to announce the new show of internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer David Yarrow. “Wild Encounters” features iconic as well as previously unseen photographs taken during David Yarrow’s recent trips to Africa, China and Antarctica. Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1966, David Yarrow has built an unrivalled reputation for capturing the beauty of the planet’s remote landscapes,…
Christophe Gin: Carmignac photojournalism Award

Christophe Gin: Carmignac photojournalism Award

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Fondation Carmignac and Collection Lambert are delighted to announce the exhibition of Christophe Gin, 6th laureate of the Carmignac photojournalism Award, at the Montfaucon Hotel, Avignon. Fondation Carmignac launched the Carmignac photojournalism Award in 2009 with the purpose to support a photographer to question areas of the world at the centre of geostrategic conflicts, where human rights and freedom of…
Ernesto Bazan: Cuban Trilogy

Ernesto Bazan: Cuban Trilogy

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The exhibition will feature the three bodies of work that Ernesto Bazan has taken during his fourteen years living in Cuba, between 1992 and 2006, during the unique historical time referred to as “The Special Period”. All the images have been self-published in three books by BazanPhotos Publishing. “Bazan Cuba” was launched in 2008; “Al Campo” in 2011 and “Isla”…
Lucía Peluffo: Somos uno. Somos dos.

Lucía Peluffo: Somos uno. Somos dos.

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The book explores the relationship between two people. One of them, the author. It shows us different aspects of a “love story”. How the way we perceive things does not always reflect the truth. We do not always know where we are standing, so we need to explore. How loneliness appears after a choice we make, why not a journey,…
Milton Rogovin: Life and Labor

Milton Rogovin: Life and Labor

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Milton Rogovin (1901–2011) was proud to call himself a “social-documentary photographer.” For more than four decades, he photographed those whom he referred to as “the forgotten ones.” He was working as an optometrist in Manhattan in the early 1930s when he became increasingly involved in leftist causes. Distressed by the rampant social upheaval and widespread poverty caused by the Great…
Koichiro Kurita: From The Smallest Leaf

Koichiro Kurita: From The Smallest Leaf

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Born in Manchuria in 1943 and educated in Japan, Koichiro Kurita worked as a young man for a Tokyo advertising agency before becoming an independent commercial photographer. At forty years old, moved by his reading of Thoreau’s Walden, Koichiro Kurita directed his photography away from commercial work and toward meditative expressions of his connection to nature. Kurita now focuses upon…
Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World

Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World

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Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928) has created some of the most celebrated photographs of the past century. Erwitt’s photographs have been published in countless international magazines and newspapers, and, more recently, in delightful books presenting his persistent interests and recurring subjects, such as museums and beaches, women and children, and, of course, dogs. Elliott Erwitt: Home Around the World presents more…
Teenie Harris Photographs: Elections

Teenie Harris Photographs: Elections

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Charles “Teenie” Harris’s work brought him into frequent contact with the political process. As a photographer for the Pittsburgh Courier, Harris shot candidates and rallies, activists and polling places. He documented those organizing around the Voting Rights Act, which went into effect August 6, 1965, prohibiting racial discrimination in the nation’s voting process. Opening August 13, Teenie Harris Photographs: Elections brings…