2017

Light Frequencies: Camera Obscura Images of Hong Kong

Light Frequencies: Camera Obscura Images of Hong Kong

Beijing and New York based artist Shi Guorui (b. 1964 Shanxi, China) uses early photographic technologies known as Camera Obscura to create large-scale pinhole photographs and photograms. Shi Guorui began working on this Hong Kong series in 2014, having worked on the project for more than 3 years shooting multiple facets of the city from various locations. The magnificent Hong…
Roger Ballen: The Theatre of Apparitions

Roger Ballen: The Theatre of Apparitions

Hamiltons presents Roger Ballen’s most recent and highly anticipated body of work The Theatre of Apparitions for the first time as a series. In true Ballenesque style, the series takes the reader on a journey into their subconscious. Ballen’s choice of title is to convey the theatrical mechanics in which mental forms of life – dreams, the imagination and memories…
Margaret Bourke-White: Twenty Parachutes

Margaret Bourke-White: Twenty Parachutes

Few careers with a camera have been narrated and celebrated as that of Bourke-White; for as legendary as her pictures were, so was the life and name she made for herself with them. Her success was a public fairy tale and a private labor: hard work, showmanship, and compromise intensified by historically high expectations – especially those she had for…
Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel

Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel

Born in 1962 in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg, Alexey Titarenko has been taking photographs for over thirty years, in four major cities: St. Petersburg, Venice, Havana, and New York. Alexey Titarenko: The City is a Novel brings together, for the first time, prints from every phase of Titarenko’s career, including rarely exhibited photomontages from the his first major series, Nomenclature…
Lee Miller at Galerie Hiltawsky

Lee Miller at Galerie Hiltawsky

Galerie Hiltawsky is pleased to present an extensive retrospective of the American photographer Lee Miller (1907 -1977). The exhibition showcases eighty of her works and has been developed in close collaboration with the Lee Miller Archive in East Sussex, Southern England. The retrospective encompasses all of Lee Miller’s significant subject matter: her Man Ray collaboration; surrealist motifs – found images;…
Fragile Waters: Photographs by Ansel Adams, Ernest H. Brooks II, and Dorothy Kerper Monnelly

Fragile Waters: Photographs by Ansel Adams, Ernest H. Brooks II, and Dorothy Kerper Monnelly

Water is very much on the minds of Californians after six years of drought. Fragile Waters celebrates this precious, essential resource and encourages dialogue about water conservation. One hundred and seventeen black-and-white photographs by three artists whose works span a century create a powerful collective statement. Ansel Adams’s early prints, made from 8-by-10-inch glass plate negatives, are some of the…
Karen Kuehn: Maverick Camera

Karen Kuehn: Maverick Camera

Maverick Camera is a collection of Karen Kuehn’s work primarily centered on her time as a professional photographer in New York City. Previously a Ranger for the US park service in Montana, Kuehn arrived in NYC in the late 1980’s just as The Factory, Interview Magazine, and Punk Rock were exploding on the scene. Maverick Camera is a memoir of…
Michael Kenna: Rouge

Michael Kenna: Rouge

Known for ethereal tone and incredibly nuanced detail of his photographs, Michael Kenna is also a chronicler of environmental degradation. His images of an auto plant outside of Detroit, Michigan, are some of his best-known works. Long out of print, The ROUGE book has been brought back to life with a spectacular new design, an authoritative essay by art historian…
Weegee at Howard Greenberg Gallery

Weegee at Howard Greenberg Gallery

Focusing predominantly on his most prolific decade, the 1940s, the exhibition presents more than 40 images including rare work as well as a number of prints that solidified his extraordinary legacy. An opening exhibition will be held on Thursday, February 16 from 6-8 p.m. As a photographer and photojournalist, Arthur Fellig (Weegee) was in his own words “spellbound by the…
Karl Baden: Thermographs 1976

Karl Baden: Thermographs 1976

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 five group exhibitions with Howard Yezerski Gallery and Miller Yezerski Gallery. In 2016, Baden unearthed a series of photographs dating…
Brian Pearson: New Photographs

Brian Pearson: New Photographs

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 the architects who have designed his subjects as to honor their contribution to Tokyo’s contradictory nature. In his photographs, we…
Ralph Eugene Meatyard: American Mystic

Ralph Eugene Meatyard: American Mystic

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 photographs by Meatyard alongside the artist’s notebooks and annotated volumes from his personal library. The exhibition coincides with the publication…
Alex Timmermans: Storyteller

Alex Timmermans: Storyteller

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 fate coming together for the final scene. Timmermans is a self-taught photographer who has practiced photography his entire life. However,…
Chris McCaw: Time and Tides

Chris McCaw: Time and Tides

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 Lucio Fontana. McCaw has taken this notion of simultaneous creation / destruction and harnessed the resulting tension, working with the…
Jerry N. Uelsmann: Darkroom Surrealist

Jerry N. Uelsmann: Darkroom Surrealist

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 assembled bit by bit in the darkroom to a sum of appropriate picture elements. With this first exhibition of his…
Robin Schwartz: Like Us: Primate Portraits

Robin Schwartz: Like Us: Primate Portraits

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

Three Masters of Erotic Photography

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 controversial exhibition and book Vier Meister der Erotischen Fotografie (Four Masters of Erotic Photography), which debuted at Cologne’s Photokina in…
Alex Majoli: SKĒNĒ

Alex Majoli: SKĒNĒ

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, China, and Brazil between 2010 and 2016, explore the human condition and call into question darker elements of society. The…
Melissa Shook: Daily Self-Portraits

Melissa Shook: Daily Self-Portraits

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 range from the artist performing for the camera, to the camera describing the physicality of her being. These early influential…
Diane Arbus: In the beginning

Diane Arbus: In the beginning

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, the Lower East Side, and Coney Island, she made some of the most powerful portraits of the twentieth century, training…