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Analogien: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Weller, August Sander

Analogien: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Weller, August Sander

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Remarkable pictures and sources of inspiration for Bernd and Hilla Becher are the focus of the presentation and at the same time enter into a dialogue with selected works by the photographer couple. The photographs of Peter Weller (b.1868 in Hommelsberg, d.1940 in Düsseldorf) and August Sander (b.1876 in Herdorf, d.1964 in Cologne) already inspired Bechers in the 1960s. While…
Michigan’s Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash

Michigan’s Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash

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Photographs of Michigan’s sprawling coastlines are the focus of a new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Michigan’s Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash open from November 16, 2019 through May 3, 2020. In his images of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior as well as Lake St. Clair and the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers, Gaydash’s large,…
Leonard Freed: Police Work

Leonard Freed: Police Work

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Magnum photographer Leonard Freed worked alongside the New York police for several years, documenting the gritty reality of life on the beat at a notorious time of soaring crime and great social unrest, with the city near bankruptcy. Of his near-decade with the police department, Freed observed that “What I saw were average people doing a sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting,…
Ida Wyman: Ida Wyman: Life With A Camera

Ida Wyman: Ida Wyman: Life With A Camera

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Ida Wyman was one of the defining artists of early street photography that helped shape how we look at our world. Wyman’s photographic vignettes of life in urban centers and small towns in the United States, taken during the mid-twentieth century, illuminate the historical moment while providing a deeply humanist perspective on her subjects. The daughter of Jewish immigrants from…
Justyna Badach: Asymmetric Warfare

Justyna Badach: Asymmetric Warfare

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Asymmetric Warfare presents the work of Justyna Badach, who examines how modern-day military propaganda shapes our perceptions of war and conflict. The exhibition presents work from two ongoing projects: Land of Epic Battles and Proxy War, in which Badach uses her computer as a camera to capture screen shots from ISIS recruitment films and the devastation resulting from the “War…
Photographs from the Berlin University of the Arts 1850

Photographs from the Berlin University of the Arts 1850

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Paragons Afterimages, the exhibition title refers to correlations between images, but also their production, referring to the connections between images and a method of using existing images to produce new ones. In the art schools of the 19th and early 20th centuries, photographs served as models or paragons and were employed purely for teaching purposes. Budding artists used photographic templates…
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Le Grand Jeu

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Cartier-Bresson by Cartier-Bresson: the photographer’s “master set” survey of his career, presented for the first time alongside selections by Annie Leibovitz, Wim Wenders and others In the early 1970s, at the request of his friends and collectors John and Dominique Menil, Henri Cartier-Bresson went through the thousands of prints in his archives with the idea of choosing the most important…
Toni Schneiders: Schaut Her!

Toni Schneiders: Schaut Her!

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Toni Schneiders is one of Germany’s defining photographers. Within the context of the group fotoform and the subjective photography movement, he significantly contributed to the renewal and expansion of the post-1945 avant-garde photographers’ visual language. In his immediate surroundings in the foothills of the Alps and on worldwide trips, Toni Schneiders captured striking moments of reality and life in photographs,…
PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet

PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet

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For much of the 20th century, contact sheets (also called proof sheets) were vital to the practice of photography. The rising popularity of roll film encouraged more and more exposures; the best frame would be chosen later. The photographer first saw positive images on the contact sheet, which was marked up for printing and served as a lasting reference. Digital…
Dawoud Bey at Rena Bransten Gallery

Dawoud Bey at Rena Bransten Gallery

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Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of photographer Dawoud Bey, coinciding with the opening of his retrospective Dawoud Bey: An American Project at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on February 15, 2020 and traveling to the High Museum and the Whitney Museum. The gallery exhibition brings together four distinct bodies of work: Harlem, U.S.A, Black-and-White…
Peter Lindbergh: Untold Stories

Peter Lindbergh: Untold Stories

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Untold Stories is the first ever survey exhibition curated by Peter Lindbergh himself. Born in 1944 and raised in Duisburg, the German photographer spent two years working on an uncompromising collection of 140 photographs that will offer a deep insight into his extensive oeuvre, spanning from the early 1980’s to the present day. The exhibition celebrates the legacy of Peter…
Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things

Cecil Beaton’s Bright Young Things

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Cecil Beaton (1904–1980) is one of the most celebrated British Portrait photographers of the twentieth century and is renowned for his images of elegance, glamour and style. His influence on portrait photography was profound and lives on today in the work of many contemporary photographers. Beaton used his camera, his ambition and his larger-than-life personality to mingle with a flamboyant…
Interview with Ricardo Canales

Interview with Ricardo Canales

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Ricardo Canales is a professional psychologist and self-taught photographer. He was born in Chuquicamata, Chile in January 1973. He grew up in a middle class family, whose father worked in the mining world and at the same time was interested in music, literature and photography; these were perhaps the first influences that Ricardo had on art. However, it wasn’t until…
Wright Morris: The Home Place

Wright Morris: The Home Place

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Foam will open 2020 with the first-ever exhibition in the Netherlands of the celebrated American author Wright Morris (1910-1998). As well as being a writer, Morris devoted a short period of his life to photography. In his own distinctive way, he portrayed the poverty and decline that plagued the United States in the 1930s and 40s. He incorporated his photographs…
Senta Simond at Danziger Gallery

Senta Simond at Danziger Gallery

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Danziger Gallery is pleased to announce the first American exhibition of work by the young Swiss photographer Senta Simond. Simond’s work focuses on an intimate approach to the female body and portraiture. Her photographs – distinctive in their slightly off-kilter approach to composition and expression – feature a circle of acquaintances and respond to the connection that can occur between…
Dorothea Lange: Words + Pictures

Dorothea Lange: Words + Pictures

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Towards the end of her life, Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965) remarked that “all photographs―not only those that are so-called ‘documentary,’ and every photograph really is documentary and belongs in some place, has a place in history―can be fortified by words.” Though Lange’s career is widely heralded, this connection between words and pictures has received scant attention. Published in conjunction with…
Steve Geer: Skyscraper Magic

Steve Geer: Skyscraper Magic

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I live in Chicago, a city known for its skyscrapers. Of the forty tallest buildings in the city, half have been constructed since the year 2000. These impressive twenty-first century structures have mirror-like skins of glass. Those of us that have played with two or more mirrors know that certain arrangements can produce an optical illusion. The same is true…
Alexander Rodchenko: From the Still Art Foundation Collection

Alexander Rodchenko: From the Still Art Foundation Collection

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The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of photographs by the outstanding Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Rodchenko from the collection of the Still Art Foundation, established by Elena and Mikhail Karisalov. The exhibition will include Rodchenko’s works of different years, from the first photographic experiments of the 1920s to the end of the 1930s. The exhibition will feature…
Interview with Daniel Castonguay

Interview with Daniel Castonguay

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How and when did you become interested in photography? In 1979, as a member of a youth association, I had to choose an activity for the upcoming session. Naturally interested in science and experimentation, photography seemed a very fascinating activity since I could have access to a dark room and improve my knowledge in that particular field, I then discovered…
Michael Kenna: Beyond Architecture

Michael Kenna: Beyond Architecture

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Patience and a willingness to be open to new visual possibilities are pre-requisites to fully appreciate Michael Kenna’s new book Beyond Architecture. For over forty five years Kenna’s signature photographic works have concentrated primarily on the relationship between nature and the structures that humans have placed on the earth. “Architecture” can be considered a universal word suggesting all types of…