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Walter Bosshard, Robert Capa: The race for China

Walter Bosshard, Robert Capa: The race for China

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Walter Bosshard (1892–1975) was the first Swiss photojournalist to become internationally famous as a result of his reportage. As early as 1930, his photo reports had already reached an audience of millions. From 1931, Bosshard concentrated on China.As a photographer and writer, he followed the devastating war with Japan and the power struggle between nationalists and communists, but also dedicated…
Benita Suchodrev: 48 Hours Blackpool

Benita Suchodrev: 48 Hours Blackpool

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From sunrise to sunset, on the famous promenade and surrounding alleys in the resort town on the Irish Sea, the Russian-American-Berliner Benita Suchodrev lets life unfold before her camera. Relying on her intuition, during a couple of summer days the photographer documents her encounters with strangers. Her manner is daring and swift, always capturing the ‘decisive moment.’ Like all her…
Masao Yamamoto: Microcosm Macrocosm

Masao Yamamoto: Microcosm Macrocosm

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The Japanese artist Yamamoto Masao first studied oil painting, before he discovered photography as his ideal medium due to its particular capacity to evoke memory. Yamamoto is known for his small-format silver gelatin prints, which he reworks through tinting, painting over them, or other manual interventions to the point that they take on the character od objects carrying reminiscences of…
Mouhamed Moustapha: The Existence

Mouhamed Moustapha: The Existence

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My works are instinctive with an interesting mix of grit and finesse. Borne out of the stress of a corporate life that he formerly led, he tries to capture the hidden beauties and joys of quotidian daily life. Different elements and facets in his pictures convey the obvious, reveal the subtle and on other occasions leave the interpretation to the…
Biography: 19th Century daguerreotypist Jules Itier

Biography: 19th Century daguerreotypist Jules Itier

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Jules Alphonse Eugène Itier (1802–1877) French customs inspector and amateur daguerreotypist. Between 1842 and 1843 he traveled to Senegal, Guadeloupe and India, where he took a number of early daguerreotypes. In December 1843, Itier was sent to accompany Théodore de Lagrené on his journey to China, where he been dispatched by Louis Philippe to conclude a commercial treaty. In China,…
Toujours Paris at Peter Fetterman Gallery

Toujours Paris at Peter Fetterman Gallery

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Using the French Humanist movement of the 1930s as its inspiration, Peter Fetterman Gallery is excited to announce its Toujours Paris exhibition featuring a curated collection of artists including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Stettner, and Martine Franck, among others. French humanist photographers produced a new vision of the world that lived between realism and poetry, creating a movement focused on the…
Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler: ESSENCES – Photographs from four decades

Ute Mahler & Werner Mahler: ESSENCES – Photographs from four decades

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As part of EMOP Berlin – European Month of Photography 2018, Galerie Springer Berlin is showing works by the photographers Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler for the first time and in doing so enriching the gallery’s programme. The comprehensive exhibition “Essences – Photography from four decades” includes works by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler from various creative periods. The gallery…
Zhang Hai’er: Les filles

Zhang Hai’er: Les filles

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Since the rise of modern feminism, and with increased urgency in the last half century as women have become familiar in new social roles, ‘the male gaze’ has been the subject of polemic debate. How should women be looked at? How should they be portrayed? How do they want to be seen? Why does the feminine body cleave to an…
Vintage: Portraits of Lucette Desmoulins by Biederer Brothers (1920s)

Vintage: Portraits of Lucette Desmoulins by Biederer Brothers (1920s)

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Lucette Desmoulins was a French actress known for a few movies: Le bossu (1934), Un soir de réveillon (1933) and 77 rue Chalgrin (1931). She also appeared in muscials: Ma Femme (1927), Flossie (1929), Arsène Lupin, banquier (1930), Un soir de réveillon (1932), Loulou et ses boys (1933). Below her photos when she posed for Jacques and Charles Biederer.
Yannig Hedel: Quarter past twelve

Yannig Hedel: Quarter past twelve

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Relentless street walker, Yannig Hedel (born in fRance, 1948) has been tracking the race of time on the urban architecture for 50 years, day after day, season after seasons, and offers us an extensive and coherent lifetime body of work. While everything around him is accelerating, Yannig Hedel takes his time. And more precisely, he takes photographs of time itself!…
Arun Nangla: The elephant in the room

Arun Nangla: The elephant in the room

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Asian Elephant is endangered. There are 350.000 African Elephants in the wild. Asian elephants in the wild is less than 50.000. The deadly threat for Asian Elephants is habitat loss. Forests are shrinking due to human activities like intensive plantation, logging and overgrowing human population. This conflict between human and elephant is a no-win situation. Let’s talk about the elephant…
Biography: 19th Century photographer Lai Afong

Biography: 19th Century photographer Lai Afong

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Lai Afong (1839 – 1890) was a Chinese photographer who established Afong Studio, one of the early photographic studios in Hong Kong. His studio was active from 1859 to around the 1940s. The business was probably taken over by his son in the 1890s. Subject matters ranged from portraits and social life pictures to cityscapes and landscapes. Lai’s work and…
Elliott Erwitt: Icons

Elliott Erwitt: Icons

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On the occasion of Elliott Erwitt’s 90th birthday, the Scuderie del Castello Visconteo in Pavia, Italy, will stage an exhibition of the Magnum photographer’s most iconic photographs. Seventy of Erwitt’s images will be displayed, charting a trajectory through the photographer’s practice and allowing the viewer a glimpse of his humanist eye and trademark dry wit. The exhibition includes his celebrity…
Resonance of Exile / Resonanz von Exil

Resonance of Exile / Resonanz von Exil

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After the successful launch in 2017, the Museum der Moderne Salzburg’s exhibition series exploring the history of artists who experienced life in exile now continues with Resonance of Exile. Last year, the first presentation in the series shed light on the sharp discontinuities in the biographies and oeuvres of four women artists who were forced to leave their native countries.…
Michael Köster: Monochrome City

Michael Köster: Monochrome City

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Architecture and lines are the key elements of Michael Koester´s photography. The artist was born in Berlin, as a photographer he takes his time focussing on details putting them in the centre of his works. He creates new perception through unusual perspectives. It is a challenge to see what is special within the urban every day life and catching these…
Vintage: Portraits of Rudolph Valentino (1920s)

Vintage: Portraits of Rudolph Valentino (1920s)

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Rudolph Valentino, byname of Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla, Alfonso also spelled Alfonzo, Raffaello also spelled Raffaelo, Pierre also spelled Pietro, and Filibert also spelled Filiberto (1895 – 1926), Italian-born American actor who was idolized as the “Great Lover” of the 1920s. When Guglielmi was 11, his father, a veterinarian, died from malaria. After being rejected…
Susan Ressler – Executive Order: Images of 1970s Corporate America

Susan Ressler – Executive Order: Images of 1970s Corporate America

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The photographs that form the exhibition depict corporate America between 1977-80, mostly in Los Angeles and the Mountain West. Unlike many of the other photographers of the 1970s who primarily photographed outdoors, Ressler brought the “New Topographics” aesthetic inside, to survey the environments that lay within. There, she found signifiers of the new American economy at every turn – symbols…
Olivier Robert : Snow Fences

Olivier Robert : Snow Fences

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This series of photographs is part of my ongoing project about the winter in Japan. These snow fences are very typical elements of the Japanese landscapes in the snowy regions. I’ve always been attracted to their presence on the pristine snow and the way they organize the landscapes, playing elegantly with trees like notes on a musical score. Although these…
Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Alexander Hesler

Biography: 19th Century Portrait photographer Alexander Hesler

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Alexander Hesler (1823–1895) was an American photographer active in the U.S. state of Illinois. He is best known for photographing, in 1858 and 1860, definitive iconic images of the beardless Abraham Lincoln. He was active in the 1850s and early 1860s, learned daguerrotype and ambrotype photography; however, in company with many of his fellow craftspeople, he was trained in glass…