ELIOT PORTER’S BIRDS

Posted on 2020-05-04

Eliot Porter (1901-1990) set the model for today’s nature photography. While he is internationally celebrated for his colorful renderings of the natural world, Eliot Porter’s Birds highlights his equal, career-long focus on photographing birds. More than thirty photographs and archival objects are presented alongside excerpts from the artist’s extensive writings about his activities, giving visitors an opportunity to feel a direct connection with the artist.

Porter photographed birds almost every spring for more than fifty years, deeply appreciating their colors, variety, and ability to fly. He sought from the start to set a new artistic model for bird photography that aligned with the great lithographs of the nineteenth-century artist-naturalist John James Audubon.

Opposite – Eastern Flicker, Seney, Michigan, June 28, 1973

Exhibition runs through to May 10th, 2020

The Amon Carter Museum of American Art
3501 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth
TX 76107

www.cartermuseum.org

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DOUG HALL – IN SILENCE

Posted on 2020-05-04

In Silence brings together excerpts from four different bodies of Doug Hall’s work spanning over twenty years that explore the theme of archives through its quintessential medium—photography. The earliest work is from The Archive Project (1995-96), created while Hall was a fellow at the American Academy in Rome. These photographs of ancient archives in Naples and Rome reveal a humanist need to order that is being replaced and made widely available through the internet, furthering a process of democratization Hall characterizes as “devour[ing] epistemological palpability, its aura as well as its vain will to order.

Opposite – State Archive at Sant’ lvo alla Sapienza, Rome II, 1997/2017

Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2020

Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street
New York, NY 10001

benrubigallery.com

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D’ANGELO LOVELL WILLIAMS – PAPA DON’T PREACH

Posted on 2020-05-04

Janice Guy and Higher Pictures present Papa Don’t Preach by D’Angelo Lovell Williams. This is the artist’s first exhibition with Janice Guy and fourth solo presentation with Higher Pictures.

January 7th, 2020, I was diagnosed with HIV. Only a handful of chosen family knew up until now. I’m on Biktarvy, taken once a day to suppress the virus. Soon I’ll be undetectable. Discovery is one of the driving forces behind the work. Drawing from moments of love, intimacy and kinship, I use my body in the home and the landscape to reconcile with our history. In the images, I aim to puncture the realm of self-awareness, creating a space where the spirits of Black bodies can live freely in their encounters with one another. My father and my mama’s mama, both reborn and never to sin again, provoke a renewed existence. The earth engulfs me as I pull the love of my life into the unknown. Confident, tender hands cradle the flesh of loved ones, immediate family, and the self, embodying gestures of both defiance and care. The demanding scenes mimic portals, delivering us to the parts of our own history that still linger in the every day.

D’Angelo Lovell Williams

Opposite – Daddy Issues, 2019

Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2020

Higher Pictures
980 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10075

higherpictures.com

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