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Lucien Clergue: Poésie en noir et blanc

Lucien Clergue: Poésie en noir et blanc

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The exhibition shows a selection of photographs from 50 years work.Born in Arles in 1934, Lucien Clergue referred to himself throughout his entire life as an artist in photography, unlike his photo reporter colleagues. From his early twenties on he adamantly insisted on keeping his artistic liberty, declining repeated offers of the media, however tempting they might have been. His…
Window Dressing

Window Dressing

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A window is a clear, flat encased plane dividing inside from outside. An object of many features; it is transparent yet offers protection, it reveals and obscures, brightens, separates, collapses, and reflects. When paired with other objects or ornamentation, a transformation takes place. For the delicate still lifes by Josef Sudek and Karl Struss it functions as a rectangular illuminated…
The Artist Proof: Silver Gelatin Collection by Mairi-Luise Tabbakh

The Artist Proof: Silver Gelatin Collection by Mairi-Luise Tabbakh

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Mairi-Luise Tabbakh’s erotic photographic works capture the raw essence of woman as a subject and explore the sensuality of human relationships. The objectification of her subject is all the more intriguing given her own femininity and adds a layer of mystery to her work. The Artist Proof Silver Gelatin Collection by Mairi-Luise Tabbakh April 1st – July 1st, 2017 Imitate…
Irving Penn: 1950

Irving Penn: 1950

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Featuring both editorial and personal work from just a single year of Penn’s legendary seven-decade career, the exhibition explores the breadth of artistic vision and technical mastery of arguably the most prolific and respected photographer of the 20th century. 1950 was a landmark year in the life and oeuvre of Irving Penn (1917-2009), of which he often spoke fondly. In…
PHOTO-EYE FRITZ BLOCK. New Photography – Modern Color Slides

PHOTO-EYE FRITZ BLOCK. New Photography – Modern Color Slides

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The German-Jewish photographer Fritz Block (1889–1955) was a highly versatile figure in modern photography. His work spans the period from the so-called “Neue Fotografie” (New Photography) of the late 1920s in Germany to the color photography of the 1940s in the US. Having fallen into a long period of oblivion due to his biography of exile, he is currently being…
Helen Levitt: Pairs and Apples

Helen Levitt: Pairs and Apples

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The show highlights Levitt’s unique gift for capturing the way people communicate through body language, with special emphasis on one of her perennial interests: pairs of people sharing a moment in the streets and on the stoops of her native New York City. Helen had a singularly lyrical eye and, whether it’s two children dancing in the street or two…
Neil Libbert at Michael Hoppen Gallery

Neil Libbert at Michael Hoppen Gallery

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Libbert has been working as a street photographer and photojournalist for nearly 60 years and the exhibition will focus on key works made during his earlier career. This will be the first recent opportunity to explore the full range of Libbert’s talents and will include a number of previously unseen prints such as West Indian Arrivals, Waterloo Station, 1961 or…
Grey Villet: 1960’s America

Grey Villet: 1960’s America

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Born in South Africa, Grey Villet traveled America and the world for LIFE magazine like an observant explorer, mapping its emotional contours in the faces and lives of its people. His in-depth, personal studies of the American scene of the 1950s through the 1970’s illuminated the complex reality of those years with a truth that, in his own words, were…
Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama

Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama

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Zanele Muholi sees her artistic practice as “visual activism”, thereby ascribing to her images explicit and causal power to effect change. She has become known worldwide with Faces and Phases, her portrait photography of South Africa’s LGBTI scene. Faces and Phases has been prominently featured in venues such as the last documenta (2012). WNTRP now shows Muholi’s current series Somnyama…
Eric Overton: Wild America | Process & Preservation

Eric Overton: Wild America | Process & Preservation

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Modern West Fine Art will premier Wild America : Process & Preservation by Eric Overton for May gallery stroll. Overton aims to capture the West while forming a deeper appreciation for his ancestry and the complexity surrounding myth of the Great American Frontier. This important body of work presents a historical photographic process in a contemporary way. The original ambroytype…
Jean Pigozzi: Pool Party

Jean Pigozzi: Pool Party

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Upon establishing his foundation in Berlin in 2003, Helmut Newton expressed his wish to provide a forum not only for his own works, but for that of other photographers as well. His wish continues to be fulfilled posthumously, now with two unique projects by two of Helmut Newton’s friends and colleagues. “Undressed” by Mario Testino is a site-specific installation comprising…
Sid Kaplan: Deconstruction Of The Third Avenue El

Sid Kaplan: Deconstruction Of The Third Avenue El

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In 1955, a 17-year-old Sid Kaplan witnessed the dismantling of New York City’s Third Avenue Elevated line, and launched a 60-year photography career. Featuring over forty of Kaplan’s photographs taken between June 1955 and May 1956, alongside selected artifacts from the Transit Museum’s collections, Deconstruction of the Third Avenue El: Photographs by Sid Kaplan, captures a unique perspective of the…
Kåre Kivijärvi: PHOTOGRAPHS 1959 – 1966

Kåre Kivijärvi: PHOTOGRAPHS 1959 – 1966

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Michael Janssen is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Germany by the Norwegian photographer and artist Kåre Kivijärvi (1938-1991). On view will be a selection of his early iconic black and white vintage prints. Additionally we screen a documentary film about him by the known Norwegian filmmaker Knut Erik Jensen. Photographer Kåre Kivijärvi was at his most productive…
Diane Arbus: In the Park

Diane Arbus: In the Park

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“… I remember one summer I worked a lot in Washington Square Park. It must have been about 1966. The park was divided. It has these walks, sort of like a sunburst, and there were these territories staked out. There were young hippie junkies down one row. There were lesbians down another, really tough amazingly hard-core lesbians. And in the…
Frank Hamrick: 2017 HCP Fellowship Recipient

Frank Hamrick: 2017 HCP Fellowship Recipient

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“Harder than Writing a Good Haiku” For the steadfast hills of Whites Creek, Tennessee and the fight to save them The phrase “Harder than writing a good haiku” was an analogy I spoke of while guiding my senior photography students as they struggled to edit their BFA portfolios to a slim number of prints that would fit into their allotted…
Pentti Sammallahti: Warm Regards

Pentti Sammallahti: Warm Regards

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photo-eye Gallery is delighted to announce Warm Regards, an exhibition of small-scale traditional black-and white gelatin silver prints by preeminent Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti. A traveler and a visual poet, Sammallahti has travelled widely from his native Scandinavia, photographing across Russia to Japan, India, Nepal, Morocco, Turkey, throughout Europe, and South Africa. Meticulously composed, the artist’s photographs are imbued with…
Sage Sohier: Americans Seen

Sage Sohier: Americans Seen

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Americans Seen will present a key selection of Sage Sohier’s black and white photographs of people in their environments. Taken in the late 1970’s to the early 1980s her portraits reveal a particular time and place. Distinctly American, yet collectively grounded in their expression of the human condition, her exceptional photographs show our often-strange expression of the daily rituals that…
Mark Steinmetz: South

Mark Steinmetz: South

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Yancey Richardson Gallery is pleased to present South, an exhibition of photographs by Mark Steinmetz. The exhibition is comprised of black-and-white photographs drawn from the artistʼs decades-long career photographing the southeastern United States, primarily in Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. Steinmetzʼs images are imbued with an intrinsically Southern tenderness, melancholy and longing that is universally resonant. With his lens, Steinmetz…
Emil Otto Hoppé: Unveiling a Secret

Emil Otto Hoppé: Unveiling a Secret

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The focus of the two new exhibitions at Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur is industrial photography with its various contexts of origin, its formal-aesthetic positing, and its content-related implications. Emil Otto Hoppé (*1878 in Munich) – his name is often abbreviated as “E. O. Hoppé” – was a prominent portrait photographer of the early 20th century. He also gained a…
Ryuji Taira: Vicissitudes

Ryuji Taira: Vicissitudes

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A true treat for the eyes is currently on view at the Clairefontaine gallery in Luxembourg: still life photographs from concentration and inner peace, which are printed with precious platinum palladium on a high quality Gampi paper. Ryuji Taira is a quiet observer, he loves nature and loneliness. He explains that, during hikes, faded plants or dead insects often fascinate…