AN ODE TO NATURE – JEFFREY CONLEY

Posted on 2024-04-15

“Jeffrey Conley: An Ode to Nature” is a retrospective showcase of Jeffrey Conley’s exceptional career up to the present. Currently residing in the Willamette Valley, Oregon, Conley’s ability to capture the essence of nature is unparalleled..

Conley is also a master printer, with each photographic print a testament to his meticulous craftsmanship and exacting standards. He works in multiple processes which include traditional gelatin silver darkroom processes, platinum palladium prints and archival pigment prints on Japanese Kozo paper.

Opposite – First Light, Oregon, 2020

Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2024

Peter Fetterman Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue Gallery A1
Los Angeles
CA 90404

www.peterfetterman.com

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STEVE MCCURRY – THE ENDLESS TRAVELER

Posted on 2024-04-15

Steve McCurry is universally recognized as one of today’s finest image-makers and has won many of photography’s top awards. Best known for his evocative color photography, McCurry captures the essence of human struggle and joy. As a member of Magnum Photos since 1986, he has sought and found the unforgettable; many of his images have become modern icons, his most popular photograph of the unidentified Afghan refugee girl with the striking green eyes. Born in Philadelphia, McCurry graduated cum laude from the College of Arts and Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. After working at a newspaper for two years, he left for India to freelance.

It was in India that McCurry learned to watch and wait on life. “If you wait,” he realized, “people will forget your camera and the soul will drift up into view.” His career was launched when he disguised in native garb and crossed the Pakistan border into rebel-controlled Afghanistan just before the Russian invasion. When he emerged, he had rolls of film sewn into his clothes and images that would be published around the world which were among the first to show the conflict there. His coverage won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad, an award dedicated to photographers exhibiting exceptional courage and enterprise.

Opposite – Taj and Train (Horizontal), India, 1983

Exhibition runs through to April 21st, 2024

Peter Fetterman Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue Gallery A1
Los Angeles
CA 90404

www.peterfetterman.com

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CONZO – A LOOK BACK AT THE BRONX, 1977-84

Posted on 2024-04-15

Born in 1963 in the South Bronx, Joe Conzo Jr. acquired a passion for photography as a young boy. By some combination of luck and circumstance, as a teenager Joe found himself at the very center of cultural and activist movements changing the Bronx. His father was the personal confidant of Tito Puente, promoting some of the biggest salsa shows of that time; his grandmother, Evelina López Antonetty, was a community activist known as the Hell Lady of the Bronx; and Joe’s classmates at South Bronx High School were literally birthing the culture of Hip Hop.

Starting at the age of 10, Joe began to carry his camera daily, photographing everything from school walkouts, to the infamous fires ravaging the Bronx, to rap battles between the Cold Crush Brothers and other foundational Hip Hop groups. Forty-five years later, Joe’s images provide an unmatched and intimate document of the complex forces that created today’s Bronx.

Exhibition runs through to April 21st, 2024

Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Avenue
New York
NY 10451

www.bronxdoc.org

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DOROTHEA LANGE – 1935-1942

Posted on 2024-04-08

As one of America’s most notable documentary photographers, Dorothea Lange offers a compelling glimpse into a pivotal period in American history. Marked by the Great Depression (1929-1939) and the tumultuous years leading up to World War II (1939-1945), this exhibition displays Lange’s seamless ability to capture the essence of human experience in times of profound hardship. The photographs in this exhibition – selected from the Oakland Museum of California’s Dorothea Lange Archive and the United States Library of Congress – showcase Lange’s unwavering commitment to documenting history. Focused on the impacts of life in California, these photographs reveal Dust Bowl migrants, braceros (Mexican laborers brought to the U.S. as seasonal agricultural workers), and life within the migrant labor camps.

Opposite – Filipinos cutting lettuce. Salinas, California, 1935

Exhibition runs through to April 21st, 2024

Monterey Museum of Art
559 Pacific Street
Monterey
CA 93940

www.montereyart.org

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GORDON PARKS – BORN BLACK

Posted on 2024-04-08

This presentation is inspired by the 1971 book Gordon Parks: Born Black, A Personal Report on the Decade of Black Revolt 1960-1970, which brought together a collection of essays and photographs by Parks that were originally created for Life magazine. Translating the essential themes of the text into an exhibition, Jack Shainman explains, “We seek to commemorate Parks’s ground-breaking 1971 anthology, and the enduring impact of his photographs and writing today. This exhibition is an act of expansion—presenting both seminal and lesser-known works from his renowned photographic series, offering contemporary meditations on his incisive eye and insightful prose.”

Opposite – Untitled, Watts, California

Exhibition runs through to April 20th, 2024

Jack Shainman Gallery
513 W 20th Street
New York
NY 10011

jackshainman.com

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NIGHTLIFE

Posted on 2024-04-08

Marlborough New York is pleased to present Nightlife, a group exhibition featuring iconic images by six of the most prominent photographers of the twentieth century whose images all celebrate the nocturnal hours of city life. Featuring works by Berenice Abbott, Brassaï, Bill Brandt, Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, and Weegee, this exhibition unites photographs which capture underground subcultures, illicit activities, subversive fashions, and those otherwise existing on the fringes of society searching for hedonistic escapism. Ultimately, Nightlife will pay homage to the joyous freedoms experienced from dusk to dawn.

Opposite – Brassaï, La toilette dans un hôtel de passe, rue Quincampoix, 1932

Exhibition runs through to April 20th, 2024

Marlborough New York
545 West 25th Street
New York
NY 10001

www.marlboroughnewyork.com

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