BREA SOUDERS – BLUE WOMEN

Posted on 2025-10-27

Blue Women (2024-2025) centers on storefront beauty posters, sun-bleached over time to varying shades of blue. The images have been eroded by natural forces – time, light, and weather – and reshaped into something ambiguous. Rephotographed in situ across four continents, the work focuses on the women’s expressions and faded natural motifs around them, tracing the visual and material afterlife of commercial imagery across geographies. The work isn’t nostalgic; rather, it embraces what is uncertain, unresolved, and in motion, qualities echoed in today’s political, environmental, and technological volatility. The color blue connects them, shifting between emotional and symbolic registers: from serenity, melancholy, and resilience, to digital coolness, the cosmic, and the uncanny.

Opposite – Blue Woman #05, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2025

EUQINOM Gallery
49 Geary Street, Suite 417
San Francisco
CA 94108

www.euqinomgallery.com

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RINGL + PIT

Posted on 2025-10-27

Ringl + Pit were the childhood nicknames of Grete Stern (ringl) and Ellen Auerbach (pit). Both trained under Walter Peterhans, the pioneering photography instructor at the Bauhaus, who emphasized precision, formal clarity, and graphic design. In 1930, Stern and Auerbach founded their Berlin-based studio, ringl + pit, blending avant-garde experimentation with commercial portraiture and advertising. Their work emerged during a period of increasing independence for women in Germany, both socially and artistically.

Their photographs challenged conventional advertising norms through striking, surreal, and meticulously composed images. Working collaboratively, the women alternated roles behind the camera and on set, constantly refining each shot until it felt just right. The studio quickly gained a reputation as one of Germany’s most innovative, producing crisp, compelling images that merged modernist aesthetics with subversive wit.

Opposite – Ellen + Walter Auerbach, 1930

Exhibition runs through to December 6th, 2025

Robert Mann Gallery
508 West 26th Street
New York
NY 10001

robertmann.com

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BRUCE LANDON DAVIDSON

Posted on 2025-10-20

During military service in Paris, Davidson met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the founders of Magnum Photos, and in 1958 became a full member. He worked as a freelance photographer for Life from 1958 to 1961. Davidson created such seminal bodies of work as Circus, Brooklyn Gang, and Freedom Riders. During this period of professional growth, the late Henry Geldzahler, former Curator of Modern Art at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, said of this work, “The ability to enter so sympathetically into what seems superficially an alien environment remains Bruce Davidson’s sustained triumph; in his investigation he becomes the friendly recorder of tenderness and tragedy.”

Opposite – Two Women at Lunch Counter, New York, 1962. From the series Time of Change

Exhibition runs through to December 6th, 2025

Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford
PA 19041

haverford.edu

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JANE HILTON – COWBOYS & QUEENS

Posted on 2025-10-20

This vibrant series explores the collision and coexistence of two quintessentially American archetypes, the cowboy and the drag queen, each embodying freedom, individuality, and self-expression in their own dazzling way.

Through Hilton’s lens, Cowboys & Queens becomes a portrait of a reimagined American Dream: one that embraces both tradition and transformation. The open skies and rugged landscapes of the West blend seamlessly with the glittering lights of nightclubs and cabarets, revealing unexpected parallels between the stoic cowboy’s endurance and the drag queen’s flamboyant artistry. Both figures challenge conventions, standing proudly as symbols of authenticity and liberation.

Opposite – Alexa, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 15th, 2025

The Hulett Collection
1311 E. 15th St.
Tulsa
OK 74120

thehulettcollection.com

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PAMELA HANSON – IN THE 90S

Posted on 2025-10-20

Pamela Hanson’s photography captures a world where fashion feels natural, personal, and full of life. Unlike the staged glamour often found in glossy magazines, her images reveal genuine emotion and friendship between photographer and model. Laughter, play, and spontaneity define her work, reflecting a time when beauty felt effortless. Beginning her career in Paris during the 1980s, Hanson lived among models and absorbed their world, their ambitions, daily routines, and creative energy. This closeness helped her develop a unique visual language, one that celebrated authenticity at a moment when fashion photography was dominated by carefully constructed ideals.

Opposite – Hot Dog Stand II: Trish Goff, Los Angeles, VOGUE, 1994

Exhibition runs through to November 8th, 2025

Staley-Wise Gallery
100 Crosby Street Suite 305
New York
NY 10012

www.staleywise.com

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