ABOVE ZERO
Following Broken Line, a prizewinning portrait of the coast of Greenland, Olaf Otto Becker turns his attention to the interior of the island in his new series, Above Zero.
Second only to Antarctica, Greenland has the largest inland ice surfaces in the world.
Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2010
Amador Gallery
The Fuller Building
41E 57 ST 6th floor
New York
10022
USA
Posted by Exit 07/12/2009
PORTRAIT PRIZE
The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 presents the very best in contemporary portrait photography, showcasing the work of some of the most talented emerging young photographers, alongside that of established professionals, photography students and gifted amateurs.
Opposite - Rebecca 2008 by Natalie Aye
Exhibition runs through to 14th February, 2010
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 07/12/2009
100 COLORS 100 STYLES
The Pentax K-x SLR offers a good alternative to other entry level SLR cameras. The 12.4 megapixel camera also comes with HD video capabilities.
Pentax have recently launched a new campaign in Japan that lets you customize the camera. You can choose different colors for the body and the handle, resulting in overall 100 different looks.
Posted by Exit 07/12/2009
NEW TOPOGRAPHICS
A restaging of the landmark exhibition first seen in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House. "New Topographics" signaled the emergence of a new photographic approach to landscape: romanticization gave way to cooler appraisal, focused on the everyday built environment and more attuned to conceptual concerns of the broader art field.
Exhibition runs through to January 3rd, 2010
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
California
90036
USA
Posted by Exit 30/11/2009
X-RAY
In a world obsessed with superficial image it is a refreshing contrast to look beyond the surface and appreciate the stuff that surrounds us for what it is made of, not just what it looks like on the outside. English artist Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to peel back the layers and peer inside all manner of subjects; people, objects, natural forms and animals.
Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2010
Young Gallery
75b avenue Louise (Place Wiltcher's - hôtel Conrad)
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Posted by Exit 30/11/2009
IN THE DARKROOM
This exhibition chronicles the major technological developments in photographic processes from the origins of the medium until the advent of digital photography.
Opposite - Harry Callahan, Providence, 1977, dye transfer print
Exhibition runs through to March 14th, 2010
National Gallery of Art
4th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington
DC
20565
USA
Posted by Exit 30/11/2009
TEARS OF EROS
The exhibition takes its name from Les Larmes d'Éros (1961), Georges Bataille's last book before his death and his final contribution on a theme he had researched in depth in Eroticism (1957): the intimate relationship between Eros and Thanatos, between sex drive and death instinct.
To explore the intimate relationship between Eros and Thanatos, the mythological figures are set out in an almost narrative sequence, moving forward from innocence to temptation, from temptation to the torment of passion, and ending in atonement and death.
Exhibition runs through to 31st Janaury, 2009
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
Paseo del Prado
8. 28014 Madrid
Spain
Posted by Exit 23/11/2009
THE MOST TRAVELLED CORRESPONDENT
His now famous images taken during The Blitz gained him a job as a war correspondent for Life magazine and he became the war's most travelled photographer...George Rodger was one of the 20th century's most important photojournalists.
In 1949 he founded Magnum together with Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa and David "Chim" Seymour.
Exhibition runs throught to January 16th, 2009
Diemar/Noble Photography
66/67 Wells street
London
W1T 3PY
www.diemarnoblephotography.com
Posted by Exit 23/11/2009
BODIES OF LIGHT
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present its fifth gallery exhibition by internationally acclaimed American artist Bill Viola. For over 35 years Bill Viola has been instrumental in the establishment of video as a vital form of contemporary art, greatly expanding its scale, creative scope and historical reach.
He has created video films, architectural video installations, flat screen pieces, sound environments, electronic music performances, as well as works for television broadcast, opera, and sacred spaces.
Exhibition runs through to December 19th, 2009
James Cohan Gallery
533 West 26th Street
New York
NY
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 23/11/2009
PHOTO PARIS
From 19th Century photography through Modern to the most contemporary, the 2009 edition of Paris Photo is marked by the exceptional geographic diversity of exhibitors with 23 countries represented. This year also brings 30 new galleries and the return of a strong German presence to the fair.
Runs from the 19th - 22nd November 2009
Carrousel du Louvre
99 rue de Rivoli
75001
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 16/11/2009
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
Spring Projects presents Bermuda Triangle a four-person exhibition of newly commissioned works by some of the UK’s hottest emerging talents; set designer and illustrator Gary Card, artist Bruce Ingram, and a series of collaborative projects between photographer Jacob Sutton and set designer Hana Al-Sayed.
Opposite - Gary Card detail of Untitled Work, 2009
Exhibition runs through to 19th December, 2009
Spring Projects
10 Spring Place
Spring House
London
NW5 3BH
UK
Posted by Exit 16/11/2009
TULSA
Widely regarded as one of the most important and influential American photographers of his generation, Larry Clark is known for both his raw and contentious photographs and his controversial films focusing on teen sexuality, violence and drug use.
Clark burst into public consciousness with his landmark book Tulsa in 1971, which at the time was called “a devastating portrait of an American tragedy.”
Exhibition runs through to February 7th, 2010
Columbia Museum Of Art
1515 Main Street
Columbia
SC 29201
USA
Posted by Exit 16/11/2009
NOLLYWOOD
A South African of Afrikaner origin, Pieter Hugo is one of the most representative photographers of his generation. With great capacity of penetration, his works explore the most striking contradictions of African societies, together with certain peripheral aspects which are nonetheless dense in meaning.
For the production of his Nollywood series, with its large size pictures, the artist frequented in 2008 and 2009 the sets of the Nigerian film industry. With an eye that is at once detached from but in dialogue with the subjects of his portraits - with whom he always builds up relationships of mutual awareness - Hugo is fascinated by the borderline situations he identifies on his trips throughout Africa.
Opposite - Escort Kama. Enugu, Nigeria, 2008
Exhibition runs through to January 11th, 2009
Galleria e x t r a s p a z i o
Via San Francesco di Sales
16/a
I - 00165 Roma
Italy
Posted by Exit 09/11/2009
PROJECTED LANDSCAPES
Projected Landscapes brings together the work of four UK-based photographers: Aaron Schuman, Caroline Molloy, Kate Peters and Corinne Silva. Their work here plays with the idea of contemporary myth-making, based in the real, yet alluding to imaginary landscapes, whether the projections of the photographer’s vision, the aspirations of material structures, or the visual language of particular spaces.
Exhibition runs through to December 12th, 2009
Architectural Association (AA)
School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London
WC1B 3ES
UK
Posted by Exit 09/11/2009
RICOH GXR
GXR is a new camera system that consists of a body and camera units. Each camera unit contains a lens (focal lengths differ between units), an image sensor of optimum type and size for the unit, and an image processing engine.
By changing units, the photographer can handle a diverse range of scenes in a way that satisfies sophisticated requirements for photo expression. The slide mechanism adopted for attaching and removing camera units enables changes to be made quickly and securely.”
Posted by Exit 09/11/2009
PARRWORLD
BALTIC presents the only UK showing of Parrworld by the highly regarded and influential British photographer Martin Parr. The show will be presented over two floors; the first containing Luxury, a collection of over 40 recent works by Parr with the second floor housing more than 150 prints from some of the world’s most famous and significant photographers and photographic books and a range of objects from Parr’s personal collection.
Exhibition runs through to January 17th, 2010
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
UK
Posted by Exit 02/11/2009
THERE'S NO OTHER PLACE LIKE THIS PLACE .....
Thomas Giddings latest show brings together photographs as well as moving image that document a 4,000 mile trip across North America through states including Oklahoma and Arizona, down Route 66 and ending in Los Angeles.
Intimate records of the journey are presented alongside work that explores the American vernacular, its landscapes and inhabitants, reflecting the simultaneous experience of newness and alienation that is inherent in travel.
The Carpet Shop
34A New Inn Yard
London
EC2A 3EY
UK
Posted by Exit 02/11/2009
BOARDING HOUSE
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "Boarding House," a new series of photographs by Roger Ballen taken between 2004 and 2008. The Boarding House is a three-story warehouse hidden among the gold mines of Johannesburg and inhabited by disenfranchised, impoverished families, fugitives and witch doctors.
Lacking walls, many rooms are separated only by rugs, blankets, and metal sheets. In his visually complex tableaux, Ballen forgoes a strictly documentary approach and casts further doubt on their veracity, intervening to alter each room, and collaborating directly with the subject to create the sculptures and drawings that appear in the photographs .
Exhibition runs though to December 23rd, 2009
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
NY
10075
USA
Posted by Exit 02/11/2009
OPEN SEE
Open See will be the first UK solo exhibition for the Magnum photographer Jim Goldberg Goldberg, Begun as a Magnum commission for the Greek Olympiad in the summer of 2004.
It documents the experiences of refugee, immigrant and trafficked populations who travel from war torn, socially and economically devastated countries, to make new lives in Europe.
Exhibition runs through to January 17th, 2010
The Photographers Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1
UK
Posted by Exit 26/10/2009
SERGE LEBLON
Serge Leblon's second personal exhibition at La B.A.N.K is a selection of large-scale photographic prints.
Exhibition runs through to January 2nd, 2010
La Bank
42, rue Volta
Paris 3
France
Posted by Exit 26/10/2009
EUROPEAN FIELDS
Hans van der Meer started photographing lower league football across Europe in 1995. He went out looking for football in its original form, as it had started more than 100 years ago: a patch of land, 22 players, no spectators, maybe a horse in the next meadow.
Exhibition runs through to November 28th, 2009
Host Gallery
1 Honduras Street
London
EC1Y 0TH
Posted by Exit 26/10/2009
HERMES v LEICA
Leica have confirmed the release of a special limited edition of its classic 35mm rangefinder system camera, the Leica M7 Edition Hermès. This represents the second collaboration between Leica and Hermès Paris, after it launched in 2003 a Leica MP Edition Hermès. Limited to 200 units it will be available in 100 orange and 100 green colourways.
Posted by Exit 19/10/2009
ALEX BOX
In the first ever extensive collection and exhibition of her work Alex Box gives full access to images which radically unsettle and deconstruct conventional images of beauty in fashion. Using everything from pigment to post it's to magically transform her models Alex opens up the human form to a fantastical and expressive range of new possibilities.
Exhibition through to December 22nd, 2009
Annroy Gallery
110-114 Grafton Street
Kentish Town
London
NW5 4BA
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 19/10/2009
A VERY BRITISH GLAMOUR
One of the great pioneers of fashion photography, and a decisive influence on subsequent generations of fashion photographers, Norman Parkinson is famous for redefining glamour in fashion as something far more spontaneous and modern than it had ever been before him.
A lavish portrait of his long career from the 1930s through the 1980s, Louise Baring's Norman Parkinson: A Very British Glamour is being published by Rizzoli in October 2009. To celebrate the publication of the book, a selection of portraits from the Norman Parkinson archive will be displayed at Somerset House.
Opposite - The Art of Travel, Vogue, 1951, Norman Parkinson
Exhibition runs September through to January 31st, 2010
Somerset House
Strand London
WC2R 1LA
UK
Posted by Exit 19/10/2009
PALM SPRINGS MODERN
Palm Springs Modern: Photographs by Julius Shulman offers a tour of the mid-century architecture and elegant lifestyles of Palm Springs , California . The exhibition features almost 100 original photographs by renowned photographer Julius Shulman of iconic designs by Modernist architects.
This exhibition runs until the 31st of January, 2010
Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh
PA
15213-4080
USA
Posted by Exit 12/10/2009
SELECTED PORTRAITS
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to announce Robert Bergman: Selected Portraits, an exhibition of twenty-four large-scale color portraits of everyday people the artist photographed on the streets of various American cities from 1985 to 1997. Using a handheld 35mm camera and precisely integrated natural lighting, Bergman explores both the poignant expressions of each individual and the formal structures of their surroundings.
This exhibition runs until the 4th of January, 2010
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City
NY
1101
USA
Posted by Exit 12/10/2009
OIL
Burtynsky’s obsession with oil began in 1997, when he identified oil as a key building block of the last century—politically, economically and socially—on a global scale. He has tracked this controversial, valuable and increasingly scarce resource from extraction to production to consumption. The far reaching scope of the project has taken him from oil fields to expressways, from Western Canada to Los Angeles to the Middle East.
This exhibition runs until the 28th of November, 2009
Hasted Hunt Kraeutler
537 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
USA
Posted by Exit 05/10/2009
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2009
MoMA's annual survey of significant recent work in photography focuses on six photographers—Walead Beshty, Daniel Gordon, Leslie Hewitt, Carter Mull, Sterling Ruby, and Sara VanDerBeek—who are examining and expanding conventional definitions of the medium.
Opposite - Daniel Gordon. Red Headed Woman. 2008
This exhibition runs until the 11th of January, 2010
The Museum Of Modern Art
1 West 53 Street New York
NY
10019
USA
Posted by Exit 05/10/2009
DRESS CODES
The Triennial is ICP's signature exhibition: a global survey of the most exciting and challenging new work in photography and video. The only recurring U.S. exhibition specializing in international contemporary photography and video, the Third Triennial will mark the closing cycle of ICP's 2009 Year of Fashion, a series of projects that critically examine fashion and its relationship to art and other cultural and social phenomena.
Opposite - Amanda Backstage at Heatherette, from the series Private Pageantry 2005-present, copyright Jeremy Kost
This exhibition runs until the 17th of January, 2010
International Center Of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
USA
Posted by Exit 05/10/2009
SHOWSTUDIO
Our experience of fashion is changing. In these times of instant, digitally-fuelled information, the fashion image is no longer confined to the static world of the printed photograph. Today we are confronted with a dramatic new fashion universe, where photography, film, performance, music, art and technology combine to create an infinitely richer landscape.
Since launching nine years ago, Nick Knight's fashion website SHOWstudio.com has pioneered the most imaginative and exciting forms of fashion for the Internet. These have both informed and inspired the current fashion revolution. In championing the new medium of fashion film in particular, SHOWstudio.com has harnessed the potential of new technology and the Web to completely reinvent the fashion image and the way we experience it.
This exhibition runs until the 20th of December, 2009
Somerset House
Strand London
WC2R 1LA
UK
Posted by Exit 28/09/2009
TOUT VA DISPARAITRE
Hellen van Meene's intimate portraits of the awkward drama of adolescence take the conflicted emotions of her teenage subjects and infuse them with a quiet melancholy. She has staged her models in moody rooms of rich color, often using natural light from a nearby window, and dressed them in 19th century draped gowns of silk and lace. The resulting pictures feel like small angst-filled performances, or odd dress up games, where the girls adopt blank stares and mannequin-like poses that only partially conceal their inner lives.
Opposite - untitled #319, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2008
This exhibition runs until the 31st of October, 2009
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street
3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 28/09/2009
ROBERT FRANK
Representing an outstanding collection of exquisite rare Frank prints, the exhibition will include iconic images from The Americans, as well as earlier poetic photographs taken in Paris and London. In surveying the early years that solidified Frank's style and reputation, we celebrate one of the most singular, original voices in the history of photography.
Opposite - Untitled, Chicago, 1956
This exhibition runs until the 9th of January, 2010
Robert Mann Gallery
210 Eleventh Avenue
Floor 10
New York
NY
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 28/09/2009
PARADIS
For his fifth exhibition at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Juergen Teller presents an exhibition entitled Paradis. Blurring the distinction between his commercial and non-commercial work, Teller takes a story-telling approach to this series, in which he revisits two of his previous subjects – Charlotte Rampling and Raquel Zimmermann. Shot alone one evening at the Musee du Louvre in Paris, this nude study features large-scale photographs of the two women as they move amongst the masterpieces housed in the museum and captures the intimacy between photographer and subject.
This exhibition runs until the 17th of October, 2009
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
540 West 26th Street
New York City
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 21/09/2009
THE M9 & THE X1
When it comes to cameras we have a pretty specific taste, which combines high quality and of course also design. Usually we stick to the Canon G line, Ricoh, Panasonic Lumix and in case money is not an issue you of course go for a Leica who have announced the M9 and the X1. The M9 is the upgrade to the M8, which turned one of their most iconic cameras into a digital one. The X1 will be priced lower and unites lots of features in compact format. The M9 retails for around $7′000 and the X1 will go for $2′000 shipping in January.
Posted by Exit 21/09/2009
FRONT DOOR BOOK
Archivist, artist, and designer (among many other things) Clayton Patterson has documented life on Manhattan’s Lower East Side since the mid-1980s. The Front Door Book presents images and recollections of the people that have, in Patterson’s words, formed “a summation of everything I have learned.” The photographs in the book were taken outside of 161 Essex Street (Patterson’s home and gallery space), through the years 1985-2002
Posted by Exit 21/09/2009
SPECULATIO IN VIS
The exhibition features a selection of large format colour prints of the INSECTS collection as well as a selection of smaller prints from the ORGANS series. An investigation into the beauty, diversity and fragility of the natural world and how this work influences his style and thought.
This exhibition runs until the 5th of October, 2009
The Print Space
74 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8DL
UK
Posted by Exit 14/09/2009
SALLY MANN
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "Proud Flesh", a series of new photographs by Sally Mann. Children, landscape and lovers, these iconic subjects are as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Mann's take on them, rendered through processes both traditional and esoteric, is anything but common. From the outset of her career she has consistently challenged the viewer, rendering everyday experiences at once sublime and deeply disquieting.
This exhibition runs until the 31st of October, 2009
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
NY
10075
Posted by Exit 14/09/2009
LOVE AND LUST
John Stoddart's Love and Lust exhibition is based on the two most powerful human emotions. The first part of the exhibition focuses on the power of female seduction, while the second part of the exhibition, ‘Dirty Little Pictures’, is a series of 68 black and white portraits of porn actors and the technicians behind the camera, taken on the sets of different British movies over a two-year period.
This exhibition runs until the 31st of October, 2009
Coco de Mer Gallery
108 Draycott Avenue
South Kensington
London
SW3 3AE
Posted by Exit 14/09/2009
A SHADOW FALLS
The Air Gallery is delighted to be showing The Atlas Gallery's exhibition of work by contemporary photographer Nick Brandt. A Shadow Falls continues the photographer's ambitious project to memorialize the vanishing natural grandeur of East Africa. Brandt's wide-screen panoramas of animals and landscapes capture an epic vision of a wild Africa which is steadily vanishing.
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of October, 2009
Atlas Gallery
32 Dover Street
London
W1S 4NE
UK
Posted by Exit 07/09/2009
HIGH GLITZ
High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants is a close-up and intimate look at America’s child beauty pageants, and in turn our society’s obsession with youth, beauty, fame, and fortune. Susan Anderson’s vibrant portraits of pageant contestants offer a new perspective on this uniquely American subculture.
Posted by Exit
07/09/2009
JENNY
Aneta's personal beauty and sensuality are translated seamlessly through her photographs and are portrayed in her work with an intoxicating vigour rarely found today. Her models are seen through a phantasmic veil that allows the viewer to capture the sensitivity, sexuality, innocence and a latent strength through the lost art form of Polaroids. The use of modern tools and techniques are her catalyst in creating these haunting works which are reminiscent of the great masters of the Renaissance.
This exhibition runs until the 17th of September, 2009
Artsource International
333 Park Avenue South
Between 24th and 25th street
New York
USA
Posted by Exit 07/09/2009
A ROAD DIVIDED
Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to announce A Road Divided, an extraordinary exhibition of recent large-scale landscape photographs by Todd Hido. Following his earlier debut of previously unseen portraits, Hido has focused his attention once again to the American landscape, a subject explored in his widely acclaimed series Roaming.
Hido masterfully transforms the mundane terrain peripherally sandwiching the myriad of roads typically dotting the outskirts of American cities, into inexplicable poignant images, filled with cinematic gravitas and dream-like sublimity, often “crossing the double lines’ between painting and photography.
This exhibition runs until the 24th of October, 2009
Bruce Silverstein Gallery
535 W.24th Street
New York
10011
USA
Posted by Exit 31/08/2009
SEVEN STORIES
After completing The Americans in 1958, Robert Frank put aside the single image and concentrated throughout the 1960s on film-making. He only returned to still-photographs in the 1970s, using a Polaroid camera with black-and-white positive/negative film. He frequently layered the images with text, which he inscribed by hand onto the Polaroid negative.
In recent years Robert Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. Seven Stories brings together sequences of single images Frank has been compiling to create books of new work.
Posted by Exit 31/08/2009
PANASONIC LUMIX GF1
Though small in size, the LUMIX GF1 does not compromise in advanced features. The LUMIX GF1 thoroughly optimizes the advantages of a system camera to ensure high performance, whether capturing photos or HD video. The LUMIX GF1 also comes fully-equipped with a built-in flash and a large, 3.0-inch Intelligent LCD with a wide viewing angle. The camera will come in a series of colorways from October 2009.
Posted by Exit 31/08/2009
MARC JACOBS ADVERTISING
For over a decade Juergen Teller has worked with Marc Jacobs on the advertising campaigns for each of the Men’s and Woman’s Marc Jacobs collections, Marc by Marc Accessories and perfumes lines. Teller’s idiosyncratic visual style and use of unusual models has been instrumental in establishing what has become one of the pre-eminent fashion brands of our times.
Reflecting the intelligence and individuality of the Marc Jacobs’ brand, the models have included Sofia Coppola, Charlotte Rampling, Cindy Sherman, William Eggleston, Victoria Beckham and Juergen Teller himself among others…
Posted by Exit 24/08/2009
CANON G11
You asked, and Canon not only listened, but delivered big-time. Advanced amateurs who have overwhelmingly embraced the G Series will be delighted with the PowerShot G11, which features RAW mode for unlimited editing options, a 28mm wide-angle lens, and a 2.8-inch Vari-Angle PureColor System LCD.
Add to that Canon's new High Sensitivity System and high-speed ISO for incredible image quality, and Canon's top-range compact digital camera is a truly groundbreaking successor.
Posted by Exit 24/08/2009
DAY AND NIGHT
Nordin Gallery has the privilege to present Ola Rindal’s first solo exhibition in Sweden. Ola Rindal is born in Fåvang, Norway 1971 and is trained at the School of Photography in Gothenburg. He lives and works in Paris.
Ola Rindal’s work is injected with a Nordic sensibility that pays strong attention to the interactions between light, air and water, which lends his work a mysterious and melancholic atmosphere.
This exhibition runs until the 20th of September, 2009
Nordin Gallery
Tulegatan 19
SE-113 53
Stockholm
Posted by Exit 24/08/2009
PISTOL CAMERA
One of the most creative, and yet smooth video cameras to date, its the DORYU 2-16 Pistol Video Camera. The gun used is a Japanese police issued, 16mm, same C mount as the 16mm movie camera, Cine-Nikkor 25mm F1.4 lens, and super rare.
If you can come across one of these, I would be careful using it in public.
Posted by Exit 17/08/2009
DIANA LOMO
Inspired by the Lomography Diana F+, the Lomography Diana Mini Camera is very compact, unlike its counterpart. With the Lomography Diana Mini you can take square format or half frame pictures, while using standard 35mm film. The Lomography Diana Mini Camera also features multiple exposure and long exposure features, tripod mount, and cable release attachment.
Posted by Exit 17/08/2009
FRAGMENT DESIGN TECH WRAP
The new Fragment Design Tech Wrap is one of the best ideas we have seen in a while. It’s simple, yet totally makes sense. The tech wrap let’s you wrap and protect pretty much any technical gadget of yours. Fragment Design offers them in three colorways.
Posted by Exit 17/08/2009
THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT POLAROID KIT
This year, Urban Outfitters proudly presents a limited edition of 700 hand-numbered deadstock Polaroid camera kits. This exclusive Urban Outfitters special edition will include one pack of deadstock Polaroid Instant Film and one of the most sought after analog instant cameras: the Polaroid One600 classic, the last Polaroid camera ever produced. Along with the kits, Urban Outfitters will offer additional deadstock original Polaroid Type 779 Instant Film saved from the last production runs made at the last Polaroid factory in Enschede, Netherlands. The film has been hand-selected, tested, and stored at low temperatures exclusively for Urban Outfitters.
Posted by Exit 10/08/2009
ANSEL ADAMS
Ansel Adams, one of the best-known photographers of the American West, generated some of his most beautiful and enduring imagery in Yosemite National Park. This exhibition presents nine images taken by Adams in Yosemite between 1933 and 1958. Located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, Yosemite captivated Adams with its beauty during his first visit as a teenager in 1916
This exhibition runs until the 20th of September, 2009
Posted by Exit 10/08/2009
CAMERA DOCK
Sony recently announced the Party-shot personal photographer – “an innovative camera dock that pans 360 degrees and tilts 24 degrees, automatically detects faces, adjusts composition and takes photos for you.” Using the camera’s BIONZ image processor with its Face Detection and Smile Shutter, the Party-shot takes photos all by itself. Sounds fun.
The Party-shot is compatible with Sony’s new DSC-WX1 and DSC-TX1 Cyber-shot cameras and is mountable on most tripods. Captures photos for up to 11 hours with two AA batteries. Available September 2009 at Sony dealers worldwide for approximately $150 USD.
Posted by Exit 10/08/2009
SUMO
The Helmut Newton Foundation presents what might just be the most spectacular and expensive photography book project ever. Ten years ago, publisher Benedikt Taschen persuaded Helmut Newton to agree to produce a gigantic book with a print run of 10,000 copies, all signed by the photographer. Accompanied by a custom-made book holder by Philippe Starck, the book found its way into the homes of well-heeled buyers. Now, for the first time, its 394 photographs will go on display to mark the 10th anniversary of a photography publication that today is a much sought-after collector’s item.
Opposite - Helmut Newton, Villa d’Este, Lake Como, Italy 1975
Posted by Exit 03/08/2009
DIANE ARBUS
One of National Museum Cardiff's main art exhibitions in 2009 reveals the work of legendary New York photographer Diane Arbus (1923 -1971), who transformed the art of photography. Diane Arbus, which comprises 69 black and white photographs including the rare and important portfolio of ten vintage prints: Box of Ten, 1971, is one of the best collections of Arbus's work in existence. A large selection of these images will be on display at the Museum until 31 August 2009.
Opposite - Diane Arbus, Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. 1967 Copyright © 1971 The Estate of Diane Arbus
Posted by Exit 03/08/2009
THE GENIUS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
In the most comprehensive look at the most influential art form in the world, the series explores every aspect of photography - from daguerreotype to digital, portraits to photo-journalism, art to advertising - in the UK, America, China, Japan, Africa and beyond. The Genius of Photography explores a multitude of the greatest photographs ever taken, revealing exactly what makes them so very special.
Out now on BBC DVD
www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius
Posted by Exit 03/08/2009
RANKIN LIVE
Rankin's most ambitious exhibition to date takes place from 31st July 2009 for 7 weeks - this will be his first ever UK retrospective, set in the unique environment of the Truman Brewery, Brick Lane. This museum-scale exhibition will cover 22,000 square foot, and will showcase over 600 diverse images taken from his archives.
This exhibition runs until September the 18th, 2009
The Old Trueman Brewery
85 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
UK
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Posted by Exit 27/07/2009
FACES TO FACES
Face to Faces is a show of 100 photographs produced by 12 Greek and 14 international artists, all specialists in portraiture.
It represents the second phase of a two-part exhibition, the first of which, a collection of video installations, was shown earlier this year to critical acclaim at the French Institute in Thessaloniki.
This exhibition runs until September the 15th, 2009
Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
Warehouse A', Port of Thessaloniki
c/o Thessaloniki postoffice 23
54015 Thessaloniki
Greece
Posted by Exit 27/07/2009
CARLOS PEREZ
This exhibition runs until September the 12th, 2009
Posted by Exit 27/07/2009
GOOGLE MOON
For the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, technologically-advanced Google was able to create a digital remake of the Moon, following in the footsteps of the very popular Google Maps application. Google worked very closely with NASA Ames Research Center in order to create this great application. The map does not tell you how to get around the Moon, as Google maps does, but it does feature landmarks of Apollo landings, and historical information and details about the 6 Apollo landings.
Posted by Exit 20/07/2009
LEICA VS ANDRE
The already famous compact digital Leica C-Lux 3 turns into a super collector’s item with this illustrated version by artist André for colette (limited edition of 30). The LEICA C-LUX 3 by Leica Camera AG, Solms, is a new elegant and high-performance digital camera from the Leica C-LUX line. The slimline compact camera offers easy operation and a clearly structured menu for carefree photography. The LEICA C-LUX 3 has a strikingly clear design that concentrates on the essentials: capturing and reproducing images.
Posted by Exit 20/07/2009
LIQUID IMAGE
Keep your hands free as you dive! This is the world's only dive mask that has an integrated waterproof digital video camera plus photographs at 5mp. Operates to a depth of 33 ft/ 10m and eliminates the need to hand carry an underwater camera. Ideal for snorkeling, snuba, spearfishing, freediving, shark cage diving and shallow scuba diving. The goggle lenses are made of tempered glass and have integrated crosshairs that help you to line up shots. Turn the Camera on, and choose a mode with the upper button. Simply press the shutter button to record pictures or videos. An LED inside the mask tells you if you are in still image or video mode.
Posted by Exit 20/07/2009
WHEN YOU'RE A BOY
When You’re a Boy celebrates men in fashion photography, specifically the men who create photographs of men. Focusing on the career of a stylist rather than a photographer, this is the first exhibition devoted to the groundbreaking British menswear stylist Simon Foxton, whose career spans the last three decades, a time of profound change in fashion and style photography.
This exhibition runs until October the 4th, 2009
The Photographers Gallery
16-18 Ramilies Street
London
W1F 7LW
UK
Posted by Exit 13/07/2009
PIERRE ET GILLES
Pierre et Gilles's cosmos is a colorful world between baroque sumptuousness and earthly limbo. The worldwide renowned French artist pair create portraits of pop divas and film icons, sailors and princes, saints and sinners, mythological figures and unknowns in unique hand-painted photographs. Fairy paradises and lowest depths, popular iconography and History of Art - everything is considered in order to achieve an aesthetic perfection and their vision of the world, corresponding to the artists' dreamed reality.
This exhibition runs until October the 4th, 2009
C/O Berlin
Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße 35/36
10117
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 13/07/2009
LEICA DSLR
Leica has announced its S2 autofocus medium format DSLR will be available in October for a recommended selling price of $22,995/£15,996. The camera is built around a 37.5 megapixel 30x45mm sensor (56% larger than 'full frame'), that puts it squarely into the apparently troubled medium format sector.
Posted by Exit 13/07/2009
BORN IN THE STREETS
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents Born in the Streets—Graffiti, on view from July 7 to November 29, 2009. Occupying the entire gallery space of the Fondation Cartier, as well as the building’s façade and surrounding garden, the exhibition brings to light the extraordinary development of an artistic movement that was born in the streets of New York in the early 1970s to rapidly become a worldwide phenomenon.
This exhibition runs until November the 29th, 2009
261, Boulevard Raspail
75014
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 06/07/2009
WOODSTOCK
Four decades on from the festival that shook the world, Idea Generation Gallery celebrates the anniversary of Woodstock with an exhibition of amazing photographs, all taken from the artist-endorsed, limited edition multi media package; Woodstock Experience, published by Genesis Publications. Featuring over 200 photographs by official Woodstock photographer Henry Diltz, and unseen and unpublished images by a star-struck but quick-witted teen photographer Dan Garson, Woodstock Experience provides a visual trip through these legendary days in a field in upstate New York.
This exhibition runs until August the 30th, 2009
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London
E2 7JB
UK
Posted by Exit 06/07/2009
TWIGGY
A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will celebrate Twiggy's 60th birthday and the publication of a new photographic biography of her life. One of the best-known and most respected models of all time Twiggy has worked with many of the world's leading photographers and a selection of the most iconic and important of these portraits will be on show at the Gallery.
Opposite - Twiggy, 1967 by Ronald Traeger, Cibachrome print from a transparency of a vintage print © Tessa Traege
The National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 06/07/2009
LES RENCONTRES D'ARLES PHOTOGRAPHIE
This year marks the 40th Anniversary of Les Rencontres d’Arles festival of photography, for four decades, this festival has helped to define the best and brightest in photography — and it has generated quite a bit of controversy along the way, often featuring the work of iconoclasts, renegades, and troublemakers, some of whom are regarded as superstars today. So, there is a good deal of heightened anticipation about what we will discover from this year's guest curator, New York photo legend Nan Goldin. Goldin has invited the following photographers as guest exhibitors : David Armstrong, Marina Berio, Jean-Christian Bourcart , Antoine D’Agata , JH Engström, Christine Fenzl, Leigh Ledare, Boris Mikhailov, Anders Petersen, Jack Pierson, Lisa Ross, Annelies Strba.
Opposite - Nan Goldin, Nan and Brian in bed, New york City, 1983
This exhibition runs until August the 13th, 2009
Posted by Exit 29/06/2009
VOIES OFF
Since 1996, the Voies Off festival has been advocating for the role of photography in contemporary art and other various creative practices, providing them with an international stage during the Rencontres d’Arles. As an alternative to the program of the Rencontres, Voies Off invites a general audience to discover the photographic works by young authors. This year, the panel of jurors selected over 60 artists from all horizons among 950 candidates. They will compete for the 2009 Voies Off Prize. Their works will be shown during night projections every night under the starry sky of the courtyard of the Archbishop’s Palace. These night showings are in fact the heart of the Voies Off festival. Other events include daily portfolio reviews, professional “mornings,” and several thematic exhibitions.
Opposite - Joël Tettamanti, untitled image from the studies ilulissat, greenland, 2008
This exhibition runs until August the 13th, 2009
Posted by Exit 29/06/2009
JACK FREAK PICTURES
This is the first Gilbert & George exhibition in London since their monumental retrospective at Tate Modern and is their third with White Cube. Described by the writer and critic Michael Bracewell as “among the most iconic, philosophically astute and visually violent works that Gilbert & George have ever created”, the 'JACK FREAK PICTURES' will be shown in White Cube Mason's Yard and Hoxton Square and comprise the single largest series of work ever made by the artists.
Opposite - Forward
2008 150 x 237 13/16 in. (381 x 604 cm)
This exhibition runs until August the 22nd, 2009
Posted by Exit 29/06/2009
MATT JONES
Set to open on June 25th, 2009, photographer Matt Jones will be presenting a selection of his latest works for an exhibition at colette Paris. The show which will feature intimate pictures, fashion series and portraits.
This exhibition runs until August the 1st, 2009
Colette
213 Rue Saint-Honore
75001
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 22/06/2009
BEATON
A stunning exhibition of nearly 50 portraits by Cecil Beaton, one of the most famous photographers of the 20th century, captures the glamour and excitement of some of the world’s greatest celebrities. Cecil Beaton: Portraits, through 31 August 2009, brilliantly reflects the astonishing talents of the photographer who was also a writer, artist, designer, actor, caricaturist, illustrator and diarist. He photographed a dazzling array of superstars and leading personalities ranging from the Queen to Mick Jagger, Marilyn Monroe to Audrey Hepburn and Winston Churchill to Lucian Freud.
This exhibition runs until August 31st, 2009
Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EL
UK
Posted by Exit 22/06/2009
LOMO LC-A+ 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION CAMERA
The Lomo LC-A+ 25Th Anniversary Edition Camera boasts a textured skin and with a new textured body (LOMO LC-A+ 25th Year Anniversary emblem stamped on the front and back of the camera). Including the legendary Minitar 1 lens, multi-exposure switch and multiple accessory capabilities, and packaged in a commemorative wooden box.
Posted by Exit 22/06/2009
DARK KNIGHT OF THE SOUL
Iconoclastic filmmaker David Lynch and music visionary Danger Mouse are collaborating on their first ever project and installation, Dark Night of the Soul, on view at the Michael Kohn Gallery. For their premiere collaboration, David Lynch and Danger Mouse have designed a two-room installation capitalizing on the interplay between the music from Danger Mouse’s and Sparklehorse’s album Dark Night of the Soul and the artwork David Lynch created for the album.
This exhibition runs until the 11th of July, 2009
Michael Kohn Gallery
8071 Beverly Boulevard
Los Angeles
CA
90048
USA
Posted by Exit 15/06/2009
ON THE BEACH
Since 2001, color photography pioneer Richard Misrach has made a series of large-scale, lushly colored photographs of swimmers and sunbathers in Hawaii. Working from a hotel adjacent to the beach, Misrach adopts a floating viewpoint that eliminates all reference to the horizon or sky to record people wholly immersed in the idyllic environment. The photographs, which are vast in scale and perspective, coax the particularities of nature into ethereal, nearly abstract patterns of color and light.
Opposite - Untitled #696-05, 2005 (detail) Digital chromogenic color print 79 x 96 inches
This exhibition runs until the 23rd August, 2009
High Museum Of Art Atlanta
1280 Peachtree Street
N.E.
Atlanta
GA
30309
USA
Posted by Exit 15/06/2009
PHOTOESPANA
PHotoEspaña 2009 - The Festival of Photography and Visual Arts will offer at this twelfth edition a proposal comprising 74 exhibitions, 31 in the Official Section, 7 in other venues and 35 in the Off Festival, spread in a total of 60 exhibition spaces such as museums, art galleries, art centres and exhibition rooms. 259 artists and creators of 40 nationalities will participate at the Festival.
This exhibition runs until the 26th of July, 2009
Posted by Exit 15/06/2009
SPAWN:BOUND
Enfant terrible son of Dame Vivienne Westwood, Ben Westwood’s latest exhibition Spawn:Bound‚ at the Bodhi Gallery, Brick Lane investigates the modern phenomenon of famous children bound forever by the umbilical cord of their parents fame. Westwood, who is spawn himself, examines Lily Allen, Pixie and Peaches Geldof, Leah Wood, Kimberley Stewart, Theodora Richards, Amber Le Bon, Stella McCartney, Jade and Elizabeth Jagger, to name but a few, who all have fame derived and entangled up and ultimately held back by, the celebrity status bestowed upon them from their famous parents.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of June, 2009
Bodhi Gallery
214 Brick Lane
London
E1 6SA
UK
Posted by Exit 08/06/2009
DEUS
United Visual Artists (UVA), established in 2003 by Chris Bird, Matt Clark and Ash Nehru, are a London-based art and design practice creating large-scale light-based installations. UVA creates more than mere spectacle, their work is about people. Their work aims to create a powerful social experience, turning the audience into active participants. The relationship between space, the performer and the audience is at the very heart of United Visual Artists’ practice. Having worked at the interface between, design and art, UVA present their premiere exhibition of still images at The Smithfield Gallery, London, distilling their live creations into a single moment. These images continue their investigation into the emotional effects of light within a diversity of landscapes and environments. Deus is a photographic exploration of the seductive quality of artificial light in the natural world. This body of work grew from an extended study of form and experiments on how a powerfully illuminated presence affects the surrounding environment.
Opposite - Dungeness #3
This exhibition runs until the 27th of June, 2009
The Smithfield Gallery
16 West Smithfield
London
EC1 9HY
UK
Posted by Exit 08/06/2009
A JOURNEY BACK
The Arts Gallery is proud to present the first Tom Hunter retrospective in the UK. Tom Hunter: A Journey Back spans five significant bodies of work and features four previously unseen works by one of Britain’s most important fine art photographers. The show will encompass twenty seven photographic works, which have never been exhibited together before, alongside three of Hunter’s mixed media sculptures, which have not previously been seen in Britain.
Opposite - Anchor and Hope by Tom Hunter
This exhibition runs until the 18th of September, 2009
The Arts Gallery
65 Davies Street
London
W1K 5DA
UK
Posted by Exit 08/06/2009
FRENCH FIRST LADY NUDE
This year’s spring auctions at Villa Grisebach Auktionen in Berlin kick off on June 4, 2009 with the sale of Modern and Contemporary photography including a copy of only ten numbered prints that exist of the image of the French First Lady - Carla Bruni, taken by U.S. photographer Pamela Hanson,
alongside photographs by artists such as Roger Ballen, Elger Esser, Axel Hütte, Helmut Newton, Bettina Rheims, Sebastiao Salgado, Frank Thiel.
Posted by Exit 01/06/2009
THE WORLD IS YOURS
Lawrence Watson has been photographing musicians for several generations. He’s shot Bowie, Marley, and Run DMC to name but a few and predominantly all wearing adidas. The World Is Yours celebrates 25 years of music photography taken from the book published by adidas and exhibited at LondonNewcastle Project Space.
This exhibition runs until the 21st of June, 2009
LondonNewcastle Project Space
28 Redchurch Street
London
E2 7DP
UK
www.lawrencewatsonphotography.com
Posted by Exit
01/06/2009
WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL
The work of Garry Winogrand (1928-84) helped define a quintessential “American” photography in the late twentieth century. Winogrand’s photographs of street life, the suburbs, and the fractured, postwar, new consumer culture that emerged in the 1950s, remind us how the every day is loaded with anonymous joy and pathos and how each moment in life is filled with happenstance and the unexpected. Women Are Beautiful is a time capsule of the Pop and Mod 1960s. These photographs attest to the ever-changing nature of fashion and the representation of female beauty. “Street” photographs, they raise tricky issues like the “male gaze” and voyeurism, and how they relate to the paparazzi-style reportage that is a mainstay of our contemporary culture
Opposite - Garry Winogrand, New York, 1965 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
This exhibition runs until the 23rd of August, 2009
Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati
Ohio
4520
USA
Posted by Exit 01/06/2009
NATURE NATION
The Nature Nation exhibition is based on diverse aspects of distinctions, positions, beliefs, ideologies, and social, political and economic points of departure that explore the complex encounter between man and the environment and between man and nature. The exhibition is not based on a romantic reading that interprets nature and its expanses as pre-existent to man’s shaping intervention. Rather, it proposes a critical reading, which presumes that the encounter between them is a mirror for broader phenomena. This mirror reflects the crisis in the relations between man and nature, which finds expression in neglect, conquest and deterioration.
Opposite - Edward Burtynsky - China Recycling #9, Circuit Boards/Guiyu,2000, Guangdong Province, 2004
Museum on the Seam
4 Chel Handasa st
P.O.B. 1649
Jerusalem 91016
Israel
Posted by Exit 25/05/2009
YOU ARE EVERYWHERE
The Gallery's current exhibit, "You Are Everywhere," features the photography of Poppy de Villeneuve. Born in London, de Villeneuve now lives in New York. With photographic work most recently commissioned by Nanette Lepore and a photographic series on the life-serving inmates of 'Angola', the Louisiana State Penitentiary, de Villeneuve’s work is diverse with a signature style shot using a Hasselblad. She has also exhibited in group and solo shows in the UK and US.
"You Are Everywhere" is a specially commissioned series for Soho Grand Hotel which captures awestruck individuals amongst crowds watching live music.
This exhibition runs until the 2nd of September, 2009
Soho Grand
310 West Broadway
New York
10013
USA
Posted by Exit 25/05/2009
CLASS PICTURES
Following a successful kick off in New York and subsequent stops in Houston, Indianapolis, Greensboro, and Baltimore, Dawoud Bey's traveling exhibition Class Pictures, featuring striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States is now showing at the Milwaukee Art Museum. For the past fifteen years, Bey has been photographing teenagers from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum, and—intensely attentive to their poses and gestures—has created a highly diverse generational portrait that challenges stereotypes of teenagers. A brief autobiographical statement by the subject—by turns poignant, funny, or harrowing—accompanies each portrait.
This exhibition runs until the 12th of July, 2009
Milwaukee Art Museum
700 North Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
USA
Posted by Exit 25/05/2009
WALL TO WALL
The Little Black Gallery, in association with the Bob Carlos Clarke Foundation, is pleased to announce the first retrospective of the work of the legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke three years after his death. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the biography ‘Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke’ by the award winning writer Simon Garfield (Ebury Press, 14 May 2009).
The exhibition will feature pictures from Bob’s 30 year career , including pictures which have never been seen or made available for sale before..
Opposite - ‘Adult Females Attack Without Provocation’ by Bob Carlos Clarke, 2004
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of July 2009
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 18/05/2009
THE AMERICANS
Robert Frank's The Americans (first published in France in 1958 and in the United States in 1959) is widely celebrated as the most important photography book to appear since World War II. Featuring 83 photographs made largely in 1955 and 1956 while Frank traveled the United States, the project looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a profound sense of alienation, angst, and loneliness.
Frank's prescient photographs redefined the icons of America, demonstrating that cars, jukeboxes, gas stations, diners, and even the road itself were telling symbols of contemporary life. Frank's style — distinguished by seemingly loose, casual compositions, often with rough, blurred, out-of-focus foregrounds and tilted horizons — was just as controversial and influential as his subject matter. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication by presenting all 83 photographs in the order established by the book, accompanied by a detailed examination of the project, its relationship to Frank's earlier work, and its impact on his later art.
Opposite - Robert Frank, Parade - Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955; gelatin silver print; Private collection, San Francisco; © Robert Frank
This exhibition runs until the 23rd of August 2009
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission + Howard)
San Francisco
CA
USA
94103
Posted by Exit
18/05/2009
THE MADONNA NUDES
In 1979 the as yet unknown Madonna posed nude for New York Photographer, Martin Schreiber, for only $30. Years later, when she was a pop icon, the shots appeared in Playboy catapulting him to fame. The original photographs are now available in the UK, exclusively from the Impure Art Gallery, along with copies of the original Playboy magazine, books, postcards and posters of the show.
This exhibition runs until the 28th of June 2009
Impure Art
13 Ship Street Gardens
Brighton
BN1 1AJ
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 18/05/2009
AVEDON
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post-World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer. Anticipating many of the cultural cross-fertilizations that have occurred between high art, commercial art, fashion, advertising, and pop culture in the last twenty years, he created spirited, imaginative photographs that showed fashion and the modern woman in a new light. He shook up the chilly, static formulas of the fashion photograph and by 1950 was the most imitated American editorial photographer. Injecting a forthright, American energy into a business that had been dominated by Europeans, Avedon's stylistic innovations continue to influence photographers around the world.
This exhibition will be the most comprehensive exploration to date of Avedon's fashion photography during his long career at Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker, and beyond. Working closely with The Richard Avedon Foundation, ICP curator Carol Squiers and guest curator Vince Aletti will present new scholarship on the evolution and extraordinary, ongoing impact of his work. The exhibition will feature more than 200 works by Richard Avedon, spanning his entire career, and will include vintage prints, contact sheets, magazine layouts, and archival material.
This exhibition runs until the 6th of September 2009
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York
NY
1003
USA
Posted by Exit 11/05/2009
UNSEEN
The exhibition of 32 previously unseen images from the Guy Bourdin archive, includes images from his commercial work for French Vogue and Charles Jourdan shoes. Guy Bourdin launched his career with fashion assignments for Vogue, Paris which employed colour photography to its maximum effect, creating dramatic accents with saturated colour and texture.
While on the one hand employing formal elements of composition, Guy Bourdin sought to transcend the reality of the photographic medium with surreal twists to the apparent subject of his images and his unconventional manipulation of the picture plane. The art of Guy Bourdin communicates an entirely different reality, challenging our perception and provoking our senses with his layered narratives. Clever juxtapositions of objects and body parts contribute to the formal abstraction of the image while at the same time revealing potent sensual details. The surrealist quality of the images is heightened by their unique sense of location—often views in undistinguished bedrooms, the beach, to the side of a road. The unusual dramas that unfold in these seemingly everyday scenes and ordinary encounters pique our subconscious and invite our imagination.
This exhibition runs until the 4th of July 2009
The Wapping Project
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
Wapping Wall
London
E1W 3SG
UK
Posted by Exit 11/05/2009
NYPH
The second annual New York Photo Festival, filled with exhibits by up-and-coming and world-class photographers, workshops, discussions and awards ceremonies will run through May 13th - 17th. The event, which takes place in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, New York, includes portfolio reviews, Digital Days Workshops, exhibitioins and much more.
Posted by Exit 11/05/2009
31 YEARS
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce 31 Years; an exhibition of work by Boris Savelev, one of Russia’s most important and renowned photographers. It will be the first time his work will be shown in the UK. 31 Years is a series of photographs created by Savelev from 1976 to 2006. It documents not only his changing sensibilities and aesthetic concerns; light and form, flashes of colour, moments created by the interaction of individuals within their urban landscape, but also his experimentation with both kallitype layered over silver gelatin and meticulously multi layered pigment prints, which feed and inform the resulting images.
This exhibition runs until the 30th of May, 2009
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
England
www.michaelhoppencontemporary.com
Posted by Exit 04/05/2009
TRUE
Haunch of Venison London continues its exhibition programme at its new venue, 6 Burlington Gardens, with 'True', an exhibition of new work by Thomas Joshua Cooper. Charting a two year journey to the polar regions of the Atlantic basin, the exhibition presents new works from the series, 'The World's Edge' - an ongoing work that seeks to map the extremities of the land and islands that surround the Atlantic Ocean.
The 79 works in this exhibition include images made in the North and South poles, at the northern most land points of Norway and Greenland, and the most northerly point of the Antarctic Peninsula, Prime Head, which has had fewer human visitors than the Moon.
This exhibition runs until the 30th of May, 2009
Haunch of Venison
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET
UK
Posted by Exit 04/05/2009
YOU SEE I AM HERE AFTER ALL
One of my favourite exhibition spaces in the world - Dia: Beacon presents You see I am here after all, a new work by American artist Zoe Leonard comprising several thousand vintage postcards of Niagara Falls that the artist collected in flea markets and online auctions., dating from the early 1900s to the 1950s. Rendered stereotypical and generic through repletion over decades, these landscape motifs are emblematic of mass culture’s transformation of natural sites into tourist destinations.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of September, 2010
Dia:Beacon
Riggio Galleries
3 Beekman Street
Beacon
NY
12508
USA
Posted by Exit 04/05/2009
REVELATIONS IN THE DARK
Italian artist Roberto Saletti conjures images from a time and space less defined and more like enigmatic memories with his "partial revelation" darkroom techniques. Saletti's photographic explorations go beyond what is captured through his camera lens and begins with the creative work in the darkroom. Stretching the nature of the photographic image, Saletti uses a process of painting developing solution onto the white photograph paper with a rag after exposing the image onto the paper. This technique pushes his original image and creates greater freedom and expressiveness in Saletti's photographic artwork. Saletti commented, "I have learned to make optimal photos from a technical point of view; then I have realized I was being bored and I pushed to search for greater freedom."
This exhibition runs until the 7th of May, 2009
The Farmani Gallery
111 Front St
Suite 212
Brooklyn
NY
USA
Posted by Exit 27/04/2009
DOLL FACE
Miles Aldridge’s images depict a stupendously glossy and magnetically vibrant world with ultra slick, hyper-lit models and signature acid tones. Standing out among contemporary fashion and figurative photography for its luminous composition and for the mysterious situations he has created, these aspects of his practice both derive and simultaneously depart from the work of artists which Hamiltons has represented over the decades, including Horst, Penn and Avedon. Cinematic expression marks Aldridge’s work and it is not surprising therefore that his dreamlike, erotic style has drawn comparisons with the work of Bergman, Dali, David Lynch, Hitchcock and Godard amongst others.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of May, 2009
Hamiltons Gallery
13 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EU
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 27/04/2009
ONCE UPON A LIE
Meryl Donoghue’s current work is comprised of a collection of large-scale gyclee prints, depicting a series of strikingly lit human/animal hybrids arranged in black space. These images, born from pencil drawings, are digital creations. Transferred from page to screen, constructed from photography and then manipulated. The final images possess a sense of magical reality, underpinned by the suggestion of something more sinister and foreboding.
The new work in ‘Once Upon A lie…’ is inspired by stories that the artist has heard and events in her life that hold sway over her. It is a portrayal of desperate circumstances with unsettling and incalculable outcomes and in part pays homage to past writers, poets and musicians whose work has fuelled her imagination and inspired invention.
Donoghue’s work explores a number of themes such as loneliness, abandonment, loss and punishment.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of May, 2009
Stolen Space Gallery
Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery
91 Brick Lane
London
E1 6QL
Posted by Exit
27/04/2009
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC OBJECT
The Photographic Object will examine photography as an object in its own right and on its own terms. The advent of digital photography and the current saturation of imagery, through print, mobile phones and the internet, has resulted in a renewed interest in the physical and tactile quality of the photograph.
This exhibition will bring together a diversity of approaches to the photograph as ‘object’, such as overlaying, stitching, cutting, piercing, punching or moulding the works. The works in the exhibition will explore the material potential of the photographic form that lies somewhere between two and three dimensions. The Photographic Object will display the work of a range of internationally renowned artists including Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol and Wolfgang Tillmans who use photography in this manner.
Opposite - Damage (glass) from the series damage (2005+) Catherine Yass.
This exhibition runs until the 14th of June, 2009
The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Opening times:
Mon: Closed
Tues, Wed, Sat, Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
Thurs & Fri: 11.00 - 20.00
Posted by Exit
20/04/2009
LEICA ALL-WHITE
A while ago we brought you the limited Safari Edition of the M8 model, Now its time for the all white drop, just in time for summer. The white edition of this classic beauty will be hitting exclusive retailers in June and is priced at a very modest $9000.00 The credit crunch clearly isn't affecting the world of Leica.
Posted by Exit 20/04/2009
TECH WIPES
Hiroshi Fujiwara wants to make sure you keep your camera lens, sunglasses, iPhone, iPod etc clean in style and has created these Fragment Design Camera Lens Wipes. They come in three colorways and as a photographer and lover of design...I love these..
Posted by Exit 20/04/2009
CINDY SHERMAN
Sprüth Magers London is delighted to present Cindy Sherman’s exhibition of new work. The fourteen colour photographs assembled develop Sherman’s longstanding investigation into notions of gender, beauty and self-fashioning, and reveal a particular concern to probe experiences and representations of aging.
Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has developed an extraordinary relationship with her camera, and her audience, capturing herself in a range of guises and personas which are by turn alarming and amusing, distasteful and poignant. A remarkable performer, subtle distortions of her face and body are captured on camera, leaving the artist unrecognizable as she deftly alters her features, and brazenly manipulates her surroundings.
This exhibition runs until the 27th of May, 2009
Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ
Posted by Exit 13/04/2009
CAMERA TRUCK
Camera truck is the worlds largest travelling camera, it takes pictures about 3000 times larger than 35mm negative. The camera truck works in exactly the same way as a pinhole camera. Light enters a sealed chamber through a tiny opening, and falls onto the opposite wall inside. Here it produces an inverted image of the world outside.
The first pinhole photograph was taken by Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster but the pinhole effect was observed by the Chinese philospher Mo Ti in 5 BC and also Aristotle in 4 BC. The cameratruck uses this same principle only amplified thousands of times and with a lens added for sharper detail in the final shots. The cargo box of the truck becomes a sealed chamber, and the aperture is a small hole in one side. As light enters the truck, it falls onto giant sheets of photographic paper pinned to the opposite wall. This is how Camera truck creates giant negatives, almost three metres wide.
Posted by Exit 13/04/2009
SUPERHEADZ DEMEKIN FISHEYE 110 CAMERA
Rule 1: Making everyday things extra small also makes them extra cute.
Rule 2: Photos automatically look a thousand times better with a fisheye lens.
Seriously. Take a picture of your bedroom wall with a fisheye lens and boom! Art. Combine a tiny 110 camera design with a capable fisheye lens and you've got this Fisheye camera from Demekin - the smallest camera around, and the first 110 camera with a fisheye lens. Images come out soft, dreamy and slightly antiqued. Includes a hole at the bottom for a tripod; 1/100 shutter speed; f/8.9 wide angle aperture; 1:13.5 lens. Imported.
Posted by Exit 13/04/2009
PARIS
For the last three years, William Eggleston has photographed the city of Paris as part of a commission for the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. After his very first retrospective in 2001, this exhibition marks his second solo show at the Fondation Cartier. The exhibition provides an exceptional occasion to bring together William Eggleston’s distinctive pictures and his recent paintings, an unknown aspect of his work that has never before been presented to the public.
This exhibition runs until the 21st of June, 2009
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail
75014
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 06/04/2009
60 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Christian Dior presents the exhibition Christian Dior: 60 years of Photography that will be held during the 6th International Festival ,Fashion and Style in Photography 2009. This exhibition tells the history of Christian Dior through a selection of 120 pictures from the world’s greatest photographers.
Dior has always fostered a special bond with great photographers. In the 1940s and 1950s Erwin Blumenfeld, Willy Maywald, John Rawlings, Henry Clarke, Robert Randall and Horst P. Horst, amongst others, immortalised Dior’s most beautiful creations. This tradition still lives strong. Nowadays, Dior is proud to work not only with the greatest established photographers but also with young talents — today’s undeniable creative forces.
This exhibition runs until the 10th of May, 2009
Moscow Museum Of Modern Art
9 Tverskoy boulevard
Moscow
Russia
Posted by Exit 06/04/2009
THE WINNER IS...
Paul Graham has been awarded the 2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. At a special ceremony on Wednesday 25 March 2009, Jefferson Hack, co-founder of Dazed & Confused, presented the £30,000 award.
The Prize is awarded to an international photographer for their significant contribution to the medium of photography through either an exhibition or publication, in Europe between1 October 2007 and 30 September 2008. Paul Graham won for his publication a shimmer of possibility (steidlMACK, October 2007).
A shimmer of possibility comprises twelve individual volumes of photographic short stories of life in contemporary America. Graham infuses lyricism into the most mundane of everyday human activities – fetching mail or lighting a cigarette – and creates quiet photographic moments, ‘filmic haikus’, which suggest and hint at a narrative but ultimately remain open-ended. At once poetic and political, his photographs manage to draw out something truly profound from the almost-nothingness of everyday life.
An exclusive portfolio of Paul Grahams work can be seen in the forthcoming Spring/Summer issue of Exit publishing April 2009
This exhibition runs until the 12th of April, 2009
The Photographers Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Posted by Exit 30/03/2009
THE AIR IS ON FIRE
Originally exhibited at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris in 2007, David Lynch, The Air is on Fire is presented at the Ekaterina Foundation in Moscow from April 10 to July 12, 2009.
The largest exhibition devoted to David Lynch as a visual artist, it explores the multiple facets of his work, bringing together paintings, photographs, drawings, lithographs, experimental films, and sound created since 1960. This exhibition offers an exceptional occasion to discover and to revisit his universe and marks the first time that a Fondation Cartier exhibition is on view in Russia.
This exhibition runs until the 12th of July, 2009
Ekaterina Fondation
Moscow
107996, 21/5 Kuznetsky Most
porch 8
entrance from Bolshaya Lubyanka street
Russia
Posted by Exit 30/03/2009
UMFELD
Following her recent exhibiiton in Germany, model and photographer Iekeliene Stange, having documented backstage whilst modeling at fashion shows for several years, now exhibits her work in London for the first time with Dutch artist Victor de Bie. Together they exhibit personal work inclusing photography and painitng Through her photography, Iekeliene gives an insight to her everyday life, a compact referent of her worl
This exhibition runs until the 4th of April, 2009
The Horse Hospital
30 Colonnade
London
WC1N 1JD
Posted by Exit 30/03/2009
IN YOUR PLACE
The Selby is in your Place by Todd Selby started in June 2008 with this simple premise: exploring the ways one's personal space reflects one's personality, documenting creative people in their creative environment.
Todd set out to photograph and document his friends in their respective environment and began posting daily the recording of these sessions on a website, aptly named The Selby . Friends were soon followed by friends of friends —authors, actors, curators, directors, painters, performers and designers, filmed and photographed in their odd, fun, quirky, bohemian, clean, colorful, messy, irreverent, intimate, and always surprising spaces. By mid-summer, the site was garnering up to 30,000 hits a day, its subjects spanning New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Mexico, London and Paris. Now showing at Colette until May 2nd, 2009
Posted by Exit 23/03/2009
DIY CAMERA
We love this DIY build your own working 35mm camera from Plamodel. Its a flash-less camera but you do get to have fun with an art project and a camera all rolled into one! Camera parts come separated, and it's your job to snap them all together to create a sleek, functional 35mm camera. Assembly takes a couple of hours and simple instructions are included. Modifications are easy (to create a completely unique camera!); wide angle 28 mm lens takes rich, perfectly imperfect photos. Takes 35mm film that can be developed just about anywhere!
Posted by Exit 23/03/2009
MIYAKO ISHIUCHI
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is honoured to host the first European retrospective of work by Miyako Ishiuchi, Japan’s foremost female photographer. Taking over both floors of the gallery, it will be the first time images from the series ‘Mother’s’ (2000-2005), ‘1906 To the Skin’ (1991-1993) and ‘Yokosuka Story’ (1976-1977) have been shown in Britain.
Curated by Dutch photographer and Japanese photography specialist Machiel Botman, the exhibition comes to us from Foam Museum Amstedam and La Filature Scène Nationale-Mulhouse before moving to Riga Art Space in Latvia. The exhibition was organized and produced by Langhans Galerie Praha, a non-profit organization for the promotion of photography, and will be accompanied by the limited edition book MIYAKO ISHIUCHI, edited by Machiel Botman and published by Manfred Heiting. Printed in the form of a leporello within a slipcase, the book will be available exclusively from Michael Hoppen Gallery
This exhibition runs until the 16th of April, 2009
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
England
Posted by Exit 23/03/2009
INTO THE SUNSET
A new photography exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art explores the lure of the West for photographers, which began around 1840 when the first American camera patent was issued. Comprised of over 150 images, it presents an up-to-date view, as seen by 75 photographers whose images have made and continue to define the region a place for "discoverers, dreamers, and drifters" featuring the work of approximately seventy photographers, including Robert Adams, John Baldessari, Dorothea Lange, Timothy O'Sullivan, Cindy Sherman, Joel Sternfeld, Edward Weston, and Carleton E. Watkins.
Opposite - South of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Stephen Shore and Nicole, Crissy Field Parking Lot, Katy Grannan.
This exhibition runs until the 8th of June, 2009
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street
New York
NY
USA
Posted by Exit 16/03/2009
MAZE
Following his widely acclaimed 2004 photo essay The Maze, Magnum photographer Donovan Wylie was the only photographer granted official and unlimited access to the Maze prison site during its demolition. Executed over 2 years and counting with the demolition dates being continually changed, Wylie’s new work focuses on the empty landscape that surfaces in the aftermath of the demolition process. The exhibition combines photographs and film footage of the prison complex.
This exhibition runs until the 1st of May, 2009
Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
Belfast
BT1 2FF
Posted by Exit 16/03/2009
IN HIGH FASHION
An exhibition of 175 works by Edward Steichen drawn largely from the Condé Nast archives, this is the first presentation to give serious consideration to the full range of Steichen's fashion images.
Steichen's approach to fashion photography was formative and over the course of his career he changed public perceptions of the American woman. An architect of American Modernism and a Pictorialist, Steichen exhibited his fashion images alongside his art photographs. Steichen's crisp, detailed, high-key style revolutionized fashion photography, and his influence is felt in the field to this day—Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Bruce Weber are among his stylistic successors.
Opposite - Model Marion Morehouse and unidentified model wearing dresses by Vionnet, 1930.
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of May, 2009
International Center Of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
USA
Posted by Exit
16/03/2009
REISEBUCH 1-5
Steven Kasher Gallery is proud to present the first American exhibition of Christina Kruse. The exhibition launches the publication of Reisebuch 1-5, Kruse's limited edition artist's book, and will feature other significant recent work by Kruse including photographs, photo collages illuminated in watercolor and other media, and a series of photograms. Although Kruse is perhaps better known as one of European haute couture's top fashion models, her work as an artist and photographer has been recognized for over a decade, shown by well-regarded galleries in Paris and Germany, and featured in Vogue, Interview, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, i-D and Mixte.
This exhibition runs until the 28th of March 2009
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23 St. Second Floor
New York
NY
10011
USA
Posted by Exit 09/03/2009
THE RESIDUAL LANDSCAPES
The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is thrilled to unveil its new feature exhibition, Edward Burtynsky: The Residual Landscapes, showcasing 25 years of the photographer's inspiring and thought-provoking large-scale photographs.
Featured opposite Nickel Tailings #30, Sudbury, Ontario, 1996.
Edward Burtynsky is one of Canada's most respected and celebrated photographers. He's made it his life's work to document humanity's impact on the planet. Burtynsky's riveting images, as beautiful as they are disturbing, capture views of the earth altered by mankind. A mountain of tires, a river of fluorescent orange sludge from a nickel mine and a massive man-made canyon carved deep into the earth to reach its oil riches – these are just some of the many eye-opening images in this moving exhibition.
"These images are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear," said Edward Burtynsky, photographer. "We are drawn by desire – a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times."
Burtynsky's remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are in the collections of several major museums around the world including the National Gallery of Canada, the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
This exhibition runs until the 26th of April 2009
The Whyte Museum
111 Bear Street
Banff
Alberta
Canada
Posted by Exit 09/03/2009
GREGORY CREWDSON TALKS
Famed photographer Gregory Crewdson will present the inaugural discussion in a series sponsored by the Photography Society of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The artist’s talk is scheduled for 6 p.m. March 12 in Atkins Auditorium at the Museum. Crewdson’s work has been widely exhibited and reviewed. He makes large-scale photographs of elaborate and meticulously staged tableaux, which have been described as “micro-epics” that probe the dark corners of the psyche.
Working in the manner of a film director, he leads a production crew, which includes a director of photography, special effects and lighting teams, casting director and actors. He typically makes several exposures that he later digitally combines to produce the final image. “Crewdson is one of the most daring and inventive contemporary artists using photography,” said Keith F. Davis, Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins. “His meticulously crafted works are immensely rich in both narrative and psychological terms. They prod us to rethink our ‘usual’ relationship to photographs as physical objects and as records of worldly fact. Crewdson is a genuinely important figure in today’s art world. He has an international reputation and has influenced an entire generation of younger photographic artists.”
Attendance to the program is free, but tickets can be obtained in advance online at www.nelson-atkins.org
Posted by Exit 09/03/2009
WORKS 80-08
Moderna Museet presents Andreas Gursky: Works 80-08, 2009.
Born in Leipzig in 1955 and living in Düsseldorf, Andreas Gursky has long been considered one of the world’s leading photographers. Works 80-08 presents his entire oeuvre. The artist has selected more than 140 works from nearly three decades, the earliest of which were taken from his immediate surroundings, followed by images from an ever expanding radius, and ending in a global perspective. From distant and elevated vantage points, Andreas Gursky creates photographs that exceed the registering capacity of the eye. By revisiting locations and events repeatedly over an extended period of time, he not only sheds light on various forms of social contexts, such as mass meetings of a Capitalist or Communist nature, but also depicts structures in transformation.
The photographs of large corporations and stock markets from the 1980s and onwards are examples of this. The exhibition Works 80-08, featuring many photographs never previously shown, presents both the side of the artist where an individual image becomes an entire universe – the latest images are in Gursky’s well-known large format – as well as his encyclopaedic side. Offering space for the artist’s entire oeuvre has been made possible by the fact that he has produced small-scale copies of earlier works. This radical approach presents a generous opportunity to follow Gursky’s artistic development while at the same time conveying a whole new perspective on the individual art-works.
This exhibition runs until the 3rd of May 2009
Posted by Exit 02/03/2009
DEMOCRATIC CAMERA
I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around: that nothing was more important or less important. William Eggleston the american artist william eggleston (b1939, memphis, usa) is considered to be one of the most idiosyncratic photographer’s of the 20th century. this comprehensive retrospective follows his artistic development from the early black-and-white images and pioneering transition to colour photography, all the way to the present day. This exhibition is organised by whitney museum of american art, new york in cooperation with haus der kunst munich.
William Eggleston.
Democratic Camera : Photography & video 1961–2008
Runs until the 17th of May 2009
haus der kunst
Prinzregentenstrasse 1
80538 Munich
Germany
Posted by Exit 02/03/2009
A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE
A family album, a comprehensive exhibition, and a personal diary – Annie Leibovitz’s photographs from her private life and professional work merge seamlessly into a chronicle of the events, official commissions, and personal stories of the last fifteen years.
C/O Berlin presents “A Photographer’s Life” as first and only venue in Germany. The exhibition comprises a total of 200 photographs, many of them large-format works and monochrome landscapes, as well as a number of private family photos and small format black and white portraits.
Opposite - My Brother Philip and My Father, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1988, Annie Leibovitz
This exhibition runs until the 24th of May 2009
C/O Berlin
Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Straße
Tucholskystraße
10117 Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 02/03/2009
DEUTSCHE BORSE PHOTOGRAPHY PRIZE 2009
Now in its 13th year, this annual prize of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution to photography in Europe, through either an exhibition or publication, over the past year. The winner will be announced on 25 March 2009. The four shortlisted artists for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2009 are:
Paul Graham (b. 1956, UK) nominated for his publication, A Shimmer of Possibility (steidlMACK, October 2007).
Emily Jacir (b.1970, Palestine) nominated for her installation, Material for a Film, presented at the 2007 Venice Biennale (7 June – 21 November 2007).
Tod Papageorge (b.1940, USA) nominated for the exhibition Passing Through Eden - Photographs of Central Park at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (7 March - 12 April 2008).
Taryn Simon (opposite) (b.1975, USA) nominated for her exhibition An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar at The Photographers' Gallery, London (13 September -11 November 2007).
This exhibition runs until the 12th of April 2009
The Photographers Gallery
16-18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Posted by Exit 23/02/2009
LOCAL STUDIES
Joël Tettamanti, born in Cameroon in 1977 and grew up in Switzerland, is a traveller between cultures. He takes photographs all over the world, traveling without a guide to unknown places where he gains inspiration for quiet, memorable photographs through chance and unforeseen encounters.
He commutes between landscapes in which the presence of man is barely perceptible and cities in which nature has been banned almost entirely. He focuses his analytical and intuitive eye on specific objects with which people have "furnished" their living space: absurd scaffoldings, dense apartment blocks, sprawling settlements and timeless ruins – alien objects, bordering between usefulness and decay, frequently located in a twilit emptiness that reveals their forms and an enigmatic inner relationship. Tettamani's colour photographs, many of them in large format, portray our urban, globalised world in which inconspicuous details and the quality of light subtly evoke meaning in a suggestive way. "Local Studies" is the first comprehensive presentation of Tettamanti's work in Switzerland.
The exhibition runs until the 17th of May 2009
Fotostiftung Schweiz
Grünzenstrasse 45
8400 Winterthur
Zürich
Switzerland
Posted by Exit 23/02/2009
ROOT GINGER
The Idea Generation Gallery is pleased to present selected works from the book Root Ginger: A Study of Red Hair by the photographer Jenny Wicks. An exhibition, book and film
project, Root Ginger is an exploration of a genetic trait that
is most common in Scotland and Ireland but is scattered around the world.... “I was originally inspired by two of my brother’s children who have red hair. The book is a tribute to people with hair this colour but it is also an investigation into the genetic lottery that we all play. Most people are aware the ginger hair gene has a recessive characteristic, which is also true for cystic fibrosis, both genes run through my family”. Jenny Wicks
The exhibition runs until the 8th of March 2009
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
London
E2 7JB
Posted by Exit 23/02/2009
DAVID BURDENY : ICEBERGS
David Burdeny’s photographs play with time and scale. His imagery suggests a formalized landscape where perspective scale and time momentarily become intangible. The viewer sees repeated dualities of stillness and movement, intense detail with blank atmospheric abstraction, man made objects found in ocean horizons, black and white images printed on colored paper, all reduced to present to the viewer a sublime experience.
The exhibition runs until May 9th, 2009
Young Gallery
Avenue Louise 75b
1050 Brussels
Posted by Exit 18/02/2009
GUARDIANS OF SOLITUDE
Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by photographer Laura McPhee. “Guardians of Solitude” is built upon McPhee's work from her 2003-2005 “River of No Return,” series consisting of studies of the landscape and a small rural community in a remote region of central Idaho: Sawtooth Valley. “Guardians of Solitude” celebrates the unsurpassed splendor of a fabled region, while also presenting the environmental complexities of managing a vast landscape in which the needs of ranchers, biologists, miners, tourists, and locals seek a finely delineated balance. In images spanning all seasons, McPhee depicts the magnificence and history of the Sawtooth Valley in central Idaho.
The exhibition runs until April 4, 2009
Bonni Benrubi Gallery
41 East 57th Street
13th Floor
New York
10022
USA
Posted by Exit 18/02/2009
LEICA M8.2 SAFARI
If you happen to be nipping off on safari this year, here's the perfect accessory to go with you - the Leica M8.2 Safari edition. Produced in a limited edition of 500 in a khaki green shade plus matching canvas and leather bag with calfskin strap.
In terms of the M8.2 camera itself, it's an upgraded Leica M8, with 10.3 megapixel sensor, 2.5-inch display, automatic and manual settings, RAW data capture and compatibility with all of Leica's M-range lenses.
All for the credit crunching price of just over £7,000
Posted by Exit 18/02/2009
TRANSFORMATIONS
Transformations is a photographic portrait exploration by photographer Paul Rowland, a regular contributor to Exit. The images reflect the artist’s interest in not who is in front of the camera, but rather what one could imagine there.
Taken from the past five years of image-making, this show attempts to distill an underlying current of the artist’s process. Often this results in moments of clarity, which can be haunting while retaining a humor that brings a sense of reality to the image where the moments have often been more heavily constructed.
The exhibition runs from February 13th till March 20th, 2009.
136
10th Avenue
between 18th &19th street
ground floor
New York
10011
USA
Posted by Exit 09/02/2009
A SHIMMER OF POSSIBILITY
In August of 2004 Paul Graham, who had moved from London to New York in 2002, set out on the first of many trips around the United States to see and photograph the country for himself. This exhibition has been selected from the resulting series of photographic works, which Graham published in twelve volumes as, a shimmer of possibility. Each simple but structurally inventive series includes varying numbers of pictures, from one to more than ten, and provides a vivid glimpse into unheralded moments in the lives of individuals Graham encountered on his travels.
A series showing a woman eating a take-out meal or a man waiting at a bus stop transcends its nominal subjects and describes aspects of life that, while ordinary, are imbued by the photographer with affection and curiosity. a shimmer of possibility is a call for attention to the brief, indefinite intervals of life. As Graham has said, "Perhaps instead of standing at the river’s edge scooping out water, it’s better to be in the current itself, to watch how the river comes up to you, flows smoothly around your presence, and reforms on the other side like you were never there."
The exhibition runs until March 18th, 2009.
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
between Fifth and Sixth avenues
New York
10019
Posted by Exit 09/02/2009
THE LAST DAYS OF W
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "The Last Days of W" color photographs taken by Alec Soth between 2000 and 2008. Although originally conceived without explicit political intent, in retrospect Soth considers this selected body of work, which spans both terms of George W. Bush's presidency, to represent "a panoramic look at a country exhausted by its catastrophic leadership."
Soth's earlier series such as "Sleeping by the Mississippi," "NIAGARA," and "Dog Days, Bogotá" – all subjective narratives containing disenfranchised figures and decaying landscapes - laid the conceptual groundwork for "The Last Days of W." It provides a wry commentary on the adverse effects of the national administration, perhaps best exemplified by an unwittingly ironic remark that Bush made in 2000: "I think we can agree, the past is over."
The exhibition runs till March 7th, 2009.
Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York
10075
Posted by Exit 09/02/2009
TIBERIUS : CHADWICK TYLER
Honey Space Gallery New York, has announced Tiberius, a solo exhibition of new photography by Exit contributor Chadwick Tyler.
For his first gallery exhibition, the artist has created a series of original black & white photographic portraits depicting an array of expressive & sullenly beautiful female characters.
In Tiberius, Tyler juxtaposes the mystery and obscurity of the antiquated image with the clarity of deep emotion: transcendence, rage, ecstasy, hysteria, confusion, lethargy, exhaustion, lament, abjection, resignation, etc. The series is a sort of lexicon of unexplained broken beauty.
The exhibition runs from February 10th till March 12th, 2009.
Honey Space Gallery
148 11th Avenue
Between 21st and 22nd Street
Chelsea
New York
USA
Posted by Exit 02/02/2009
MADE FOR SKATE
In the skateboard universe the evolution of riding technique, skateboard decks, graphics and art are well documented. Until now, however, skateboard shoes have received little attention. Made for Skate tells the story of skateboard footwear as seen through the eyes of those who lived it.
Along with the classics by companies such as Vans, Airwalk, Etnies, and Duffs, it features hard-to-find and one-of-a-kind shoes that emerged throughout almost five decades of skate history - all photographed superlatively.
This book provides an exhaustive overview of the history and styles of skate shoes and is based on the collection of the Museum of Skateboard History in Stuttgart, Germany.
Posted by Exit 02/02/2009
MICHEL COMTE RETROSPECTIVE
Michel Comte was born in Zurich in 1954. He trained as an art restorer and then taught himself photography. In 1979, he received his first advertising commission from Karl Lagerfeld for the fashion label Chloé and moved to Paris. In 1981 he moved to New York and later to Los Angeles for his work on American Vogue. Within the space of a few years, Comte went from being an unknown photographer to being the most wanted man in the business and had established himself as one of the world’s busiest fashion and magazine photographers. He has worked for Vanity Fair and Vogue, and shot portraits of celebrities from the world of art, music, and entertainment including Julian Schnabel, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore, Mike Tyson, Carla Bruni, and Michael Schumacher, creating icons of portrait photography in the process. But in addition to portrait and fashion photography, Comte is increasingly branching out into journalistic and documentary photography. He has worked for the Red Cross and for his own Water Foundation and has travelled through war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, or the Sudan. He is currently working on a film about the atrocities committed during the rule of the Khmer Rouge.
The exhibtion runs until the 10th of May 2009
NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft
Ehrenhof 2
40479
Düsseldorf
Germany
Posted by Exit 02/02/2009
MADONNA NUDE
The opposite nude photograph of Madonna taken during a 1979 modeling session with legendary photographer Lee Friedlander is set to be auctioned on February 12 at Christie's auctioneers in New York. The photo originally appeared in Playboy magazine in 1985, with Fox News reporting that Madonna may have been paid as little as $25 for the session. The full-frontal image, (we cropped the image above as an act in taste and decency) is expected to sell for up to $15,000 and is available to view at Christies.com.
Lot Description.
Lee Friedlander (B. 1934)
Nude (Madonna), 1979
gelatin silver print
signed, titled 'Nude', dated and copyright credit reproduction limitation stamp (on the verso)
13 x 8 5/8in. (33 x 21.9cm)
Posted by Exit 26/01/2009
ALL GONE
Now on sale at Colette, one of my favorite 'best of' books, LaMJC presents the latest edition of ALL GONE, the book that gives us the special product and collaborations of 2008.
Limited as the product is and running at 1000 copies you better get yours before they've all go.
Posted by Exit 26/01/2009
SILLY THING
Silly Thing has just released the first pieces of their Spring/Summer 2009 collection. The drop includes this canvas tote bags which has a camera print and we like it a lot. As with most items this week...its on sale now at colette.
Posted by Exit 26/01/2009
SUPERMODEL SKATEBOARDS
Doodah have recently come out with a Supermodel Skateboard series in collaboration with fashion photographers Claudia Knoepfel and Stefan Indlekofer, who contribute regularly to French Vogue. Each deck is in a limited edition of 150 and feature uber models Isabeli Fontana, Lara Stone, Toni Garrn and Edita all in various states of undress and who wouldn't want to ride these four beauties.
Posted by Exit 19/01/2009
MIHARA YASUHIRO CAMERA CASE FOR CANON G SERIES
Canon have called upon Japanese fashion designer, Mihara Yasuhiro a regular collaborator with Puma to design this limited edition camera case for the new Canon G10 camera. Available exclusively in Hong Kong and retailing for around £85.00 the case will house all G Series camera's including the G10’s famous older brother, the G9.
Posted by Exit
19/01/2009
EXIT LOVES LOUISE ENHORNING
Photographer Louise Enhörning was born in Stockholm, Sweden and currently lives in Paris. She is a regular contributor to Another, Dazed & Confused and Vice Magazine and we at Exit are big fans of her aesthetic.
Posted by Exit
19/01/2009
PORTRAITURE NOW: FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Portraiture Now, at the Washington National Portrait Gallery, focuses on the work of six artists working on feature photography for publications ranging from the New Yorker to Esquire. Each has a unique take on contemporary portraiture, and are chosen because their work reaches such a broad audience. Included are Alec Soth (whose work is opposite), Katy Grannan, Jocelyn Lee, Ryan McGinley, Steve Pyke and Martin Schoeller. Runs until September 27, 2009.
Washington National Portrait Gallery
Eighth and F Streets NW
D.C.
20001
USA
Museum Hours:
11:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. daily
Admission: Free
Posted by Exit 12/01/2009
EXIT LOVES BRUNA KAZINOTI
Bruna Kazinoti was born in Croatia and studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp. She has published photos in various magazines including Exit and Dazed & Confused. She lives and works between Croatia and Antwerp, Belgium.
Bruna Kazinoti MySpace profile
Posted by Exit
12/01/2009
LOMO DIANA F GETS GLOW IN THE DARK TREATMENT!
Lomo has released a new special edition of their iconic Lomo Diana F+ camera - a glow-in-the-dark-version. You get all the functionality that the regular Diana F+ offers, but this time, you can be sure that people will see you in the dark. The Lomo Diana F+ Glow In The Dark is exclusively available online.
Posted by Exit 12/01/2009
THE PHOTOGRAPHERS' NEW GALLERY
American artist, Katy Grannan’s series, The Westerns will be the launch exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery’s new location at 16 – 18 Ramillies Street, London, W1. Featuring over 30 large format colour portraits, the series depicts subjects the artist describes as ‘new pioneers,’ individuals living on the west coast of America who endeavour to define themselves under the scrutiny of an unforgiving Pacific sunlight. The Photographers' Gallery is the largest public gallery in London dedicated to photography. From the latest emerging talent, to historical archives and established artists.
The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Opening times:
Mon: Closed
Tues, Wed, Sat, Sun: 11.00 - 18.00
Thurs & Fri: 11.00 - 20.00
Posted by Exit 05/01/2009
CUSTOMIZED BY SATOSHI MINAKAWA
In contrast to the usual minimalism that we see from Japanese designers and artists, Satoshi Minakawa presents photos of excentric customizations of Japanese vehicles.
“In shot after shot, Minakawa presents vehicles that look as if they came straight off some deranged kabuki set. Nothing looks as if it was ever meant for anything so mundane as road transportation. Gaudy gold fins are welded to the boot of two-wheeler carts. Trucks are festooned with blinding neon signs, their every surface plastered with kanji script and strobe lights. Meanwhile, the fleet of motorbikes and scooters are painted in a resplendent rainbow of glossy blues, reds and blacks; some are even adorned with stylized eyes on the fender. The overall effect is one of manga Transformers, a split second before they unfold, unclip and spring into life.”
The photographers work is on show at The Printspace in East London, until January 14th.
The Printspace
74 Kingsland Road
London
E2 8DL
Posted by Exit 05/01/2009
LEICA D-LUX 4 TITAN LIMITED EDITION
It has just been confirmed that Leica will be releasing a limited edition version of their popular D-Lux 4 model. The camera will come in a titanium casing with matching Leica leather pouch. The technical specs are the same as for the regular D-Lux 4 It comes in a limited editon of 500 pieces of this precious machinery so you might be bidding on ebay for this little gem.
Posted by Exit 05/01/2009
