In 2017 and 2018, Norm Diamond photographed an old downtown gym in Dallas, Texas. It was an urban fixture for many decades until its recent closing.
Opposite – Cutouts 2017-2018
Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2020
Afterimage Gallery
2613B Fairmount Street
Dallas, TX 75201
Gayle Chong Kwan’s photographic series Kew/Pamplemousse, centers on natural elements from the botanical gardens, the concepts of exploration and hierarchies merge, giving birth to very colorful, yet transparent, reflective, and partially blurred, images.
Overlapping forms, lights and synesthetic sensations from two different geographical and cultural realities, Gayle Chong Kwan invites us to a timeless journey where distance is omitted, a topic that seems of particular interest in this time of isolation.
In this series, started in 2001, the artist combines two aspects of the ‘botanical Empire’ in doubleexposed analog photographic prints that connect the botanical gardens of Kew in the UK and Pamplemousse in Mauritius, which was once one of its colonies.
Botanical gardens played an important role in the political economy of the British Empire, with Kew Gardens holding a central role as receptor of seeds, cuttings and dried flowers from the colonies. Moreover, botanical gardens were established in Europe to cultivate the specimens that were brought back from explorations, with a view to marketable profit.
Opposite – Kew/Pamplemousse 2, 2001
Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2020
Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87505
The news stories and famous faces that I photographed number in the thousands. I had a front row seat on life itself. I covered the great and near great, and the homeless eating out of dumpsters. I filmed kings and queens, presidents, and princes of the church. I recorded militants and pacifists, and great revelations in medicine. My camera and I were witness to the wise counsel of the experts of our time. I had a great passion for covering television news during the journalistically exciting period of the 50’s through the 80’s, a time that produced a constant flood of headline stories. You never knew what the next phone call would bring.
However, artists, sculptors, photographers, and other creators of art, can hold their work in their hands or stand back and behold it with their eyes. That’s not the case for a photojournalist or producer of television news. Our work is so fleeting. Unless it is a story of a very unusual news event that gets played over and over, once the film or tape runs on the news-it’s gone forever. Great effort and creativity vanishes, for the most part never to be seen again-only remembered. Knowing this motivated me, if possible, to try and capture the essence of the moment with my still camera.
Exhibition runs through to June 7th, 2020
Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester
MA 01890
This exhibition presents twenty-two photographs, illustrating three elements in his body of work: his signature style, the shift in style in 1941, and his commercial work. His signature style will be shown through later works and national parks pictures made either for the mural project or on his Guggenheim fellowship which exhibit characteristic elements. Pairs and groupings of works that contrast early and later works will track the shift in his style. And finally examples of his commercial photography, a little known but important component of his career, illustrate the development of his artistic language.
Opposite – El Capitan—Yosemite Valley, postcard, undated
Exhibition runs through to May 2nd, 2020
Center for Creative Photography
1030 N. Olive Road
Tucson
AZ 85721
Taken from the forthcoming album, NEHRUVIA: MY DISREGARDED THOUGHTS.
TweetMiles Davis: horn player, bandleader, innovator. Elegant, intellectual, vain. Callous, conflicted, controversial. Magnificent, mercurial. Genius. The very embodiment of cool. The man with a sound so beautiful it could break your heart.
The central theme of Miles Davis’s life was his restless determination to break boundaries and live life on his own terms. It made him a star. For the people who loved him most, it also made him incredibly difficult to live with. Again and again, in music and in life, Miles broke with convention—and when he thought his work came to represent a new convention, he changed it again. Miles’s bold disregard for tradition, his clarity of vision, his relentless drive, and constant thirst for new experiences made him an inspiring collaborator to fellow musicians and a cultural icon to generations of listeners. It made him an innovator in music—from bebop to “cool jazz,” modern quintets, orchestral music, jazz fusion, rock ’n’ roll, and even hip-hop.
Featuring never-before-seen archival footage, studio outtakes, and rare photos, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool tells the story of a truly singular talent and unpacks the man behind the horn.
Released April 14th, 2020, on VOD
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