Home › Post Tagged with: "Featured"

Featured

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Valais, Switzerland (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Valais, Switzerland (1890s)

0
In the early 17th century, the aristocratic governors of the districts in the Upper Valais pressured the prince-bishop of Sion to abdicate secular power, which was achieved temporarily in 1613 and then permanently in 1634, when the country became the federal Republic of the Seven Tithings under the rule of a Landeshauptmann. The republic in its original form existed until…
Dave Heath: Alone, together

Dave Heath: Alone, together

0
For its spring 2023 programme, Galerie Miranda is delighted to present an exhibition of vintage photographs by Dave Heath (1931-2016, US/Canada), the first European gallery exhibition of Dave Heath’s work. Entitled Alone, together, the exhibition at Galerie Miranda presents emblematic works that express Heath’s central themes of loneliness and alienation in modern society. Influenced by W. Eugene Smith, in whose…
Steve Fitch: Drive-in Theaters

Steve Fitch: Drive-in Theaters

0
Drive-In Theaters will showcase a remarkable selection of vintage and modern gelatin silver prints representing the architecture of these distinctly American movie-viewing monuments. For more than forty years, Steve Fitch has been photographing the American West revealing its changing vernacular landscape and vanishing roadside attractions. After graduating from the University of California at Berkeley in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree…
Arkadiusz Kubisiak: W-WA

Arkadiusz Kubisiak: W-WA

0
Arkadiusz Kubisiak photographed Warsaw for three years. He came there to photograph whenever he could find a couple of hours in the day. The trips were many. The city is uncontrollable, enormous. You have control over practically nothing. Yet he is not overwhelmed by that fact. It elicits in him a feeling of freedom, perhaps even impunity. The whole time,…
Roger Mayne: What he saved for his family

Roger Mayne: What he saved for his family

0
This exhibition features some of the most famous images from Roger Mayne’s seminal body of work on the streets of West London and similar working-class neighborhoods of Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s that made him one of the most important post-war British photographers. The majority of prints in the exhibition comes from Ann’s Box, a selection of prints…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Hartz, Germany (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Hartz, Germany (1890s)

0
As a young man, the famous German poet, Goethe visited the Harz several times and had a number of important lifetime experiences. These included his walks on the Brocken and his visit to the mines in Rammelsberg. Later, his observations of the rocks on the Brocken led to his geological research. His first visit to the Harz awakened in him…
Ernest Cole House of Bondage

Ernest Cole House of Bondage

0
Foam proudly presents the first overview of the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole. The exhibition includes parts of his archive, which had long been considered lost. The overview was assembled in collaboration with the Ernest Cole Family Trust, which in 2017 secured control of Cole’s archive. Cole is celebrated for his tireless documentation of Black lives in South…
Kanoa Zimmerman: Free Dive + Bodysurfers

Kanoa Zimmerman: Free Dive + Bodysurfers

0
Casemore Gallery and Small Works present a collaborative exhibition of works by Kanoa Zimmerman from his series Free Dive and Bodysurfers. On view in the main gallery are seven large-scale optical silver gelatin prints from Free Dive; the smaller gallery room presents seven additional images from Bodysurfers. Kanoa Zimmerman’s work explores the underwater ocean environment, our interaction with it, and…
Meg Turner: WET

Meg Turner: WET

0
This much-anticipated photo book contains a series of 45 tintype portraits created between New Orleans and New York City from 2014-2022. The images convey joy, fierceness, vulnerability, and an uncompromising gaze while exploding the notion that rest and security are deserved only after a lifetime of work. Drawing deeply from traditions of fashion and advertising, Meg Turner invites her colleagues…
Sebastião Salgado: Magnum Opus

Sebastião Salgado: Magnum Opus

0
MAGNUM OPUS” CONSISTS OF FIFTY SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHS REPRESENTING SEBASTIÃO SALGADO’S MAJOR WORKS OVER FIVE DECADES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPEDITIONS AROUND THE WORLD. The images, a selection specially made by Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado, include some from his two most recent series, Amazônia and Genesis, each the result of seven years’ work, as well as from older projects, such as…
D. J. Hinman: The Hole in the Universe

D. J. Hinman: The Hole in the Universe

0
Photographer D. J. Hinman has created a series of black-and-white photographs that burrows deeply into the subconscious, into places rarely visited during waking hours. The theme originated from a nightmare about discovering a tiny hole at the edge of the universe where bits of reality were escaping in a slow but steady stream, a frightening discovery. In the days following…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of County Donegal, Ireland (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of County Donegal, Ireland (1890s)

0
The modern County Donegal was shired by order of the English Crown in 1585. The English authorities at Dublin Castle formed the new county by amalgamating the old Kingdom of Tír Chonaill with the old Lordship of Inishowen. However, although detachments of the Royal Irish Army were stationed there, the Dublin authorities were unable to establish control over Tír Chonaill…
Bernd & Hilla Becher at SFMOMA

Bernd & Hilla Becher at SFMOMA

0
The renowned German artists Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015) changed the course of late twentieth-century photography. Working as a rare artist couple, they focused on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Their seemingly objective style recalled nineteenth- and early twentieth-century precedents but also resonated with the serial…
Klavdij Sluban: EAST TO EAST

Klavdij Sluban: EAST TO EAST

0
The exhibition “EAST TO EAST” presents a selection from the award-winning series by the Franco-Slovenian photographer Klavdij Sluban. Literature and travel are the basis of his poetic and magical black and white photographs. These journeys, starting in Paris, Klavdij Sluban’s adopted home, take him to the Balkans and along the Trans-Siberian route to China and Japan. For Klavdij Sluban, the…
Harry Benson: Four Stories

Harry Benson: Four Stories

0
Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson CBE came to America with The Beatles in 1964 and in his words, “never looked back.” In the decades since, the award-winning photographer has demonstrated incredible range. He photographed Civil Rights marches and the Watts Riots, was on the scene when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, and covered conflicts in Kosovo, Bosnia, and the Gulf War. The…
Michael Kenna: Arbres

Michael Kenna: Arbres

0
Michael Kenna exhibition featuring selections by his long time assistant Mark Silva. The exhibition will include 20 photographs by Michael Kenna with a selection of images form his new book Arbres. Michael Kenna (born 1953) is an English photographer best known for his unusual Black and white landscapes featuring ethereal light achieved by photographing at dawn or at night with…
Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Wernigerode, Germany (1890s)

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Wernigerode, Germany (1890s)

0
Wernigerode was the capital of the medieval County of Wernigerode and Stolberg-Wernigerode. In 1815, after the Napoleonic Wars, it became part of the Prussian Province of Saxony. The Hasseröder brewery was founded in Wernigerode in 1872. After World War II, Wernigerode was included in the new state Saxony-Anhalt within the Soviet occupation zone (relaunched in October 1949 as the German…
Nenad Samuilo Amodaj: Hoop and Ball Photographic Series

Nenad Samuilo Amodaj: Hoop and Ball Photographic Series

0
Amodaj created the Hoop and Ball series of photographs in June 2010 with dancer and author Shawnrey Notto. The photographs were based on an earlier series of drawings Nenad made of Notto wearing parts of the deconstructed wedding dress during his figure drawing study in Michael Markowitz’s 23rd Street studio in San Francisco. The hoop skirt serves as an augmentation…