VOLCANIC ERUPTION ICELAND 2010
Photography Stephen Toner
VOLCANIC ERUPTION ICELAND 2010
Photography Stephen Toner
EDWARD BURTYNSKY - OIL
Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has travelled the world to chronicle the effect of oil on all our lives, and to reveal the rarely seen mechanics of its production and distribution.
This exhibition shows three sections from Burtynsky’s series OIL: Extraction and Refinement, Transportation and Motor Culture and The End of Oil. The works depict landscapes scarred by the extraction of oil, and the cities and suburban sprawl defined by its use. He also eloquently addresses the coming end of oil, as we face its rising cost and dwindling availability.
Burtynsky's colour photographs render his subjects with a transfixing clarity of detail. From aerial views of oil fields and highways ribboning across the landscape, to derelict oil derricks and mammoth oil-tanker shipbreaking operations, we are confronted with the evidence of our dependence on this finite resource.
Exhibition runs from May 19th to July 1st, 2012
The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies St
London
UK W1F 7LW
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ANJA NIEMI: DO NOT DISTURB
Hotel rooms are impersonal and neutral by their very nature, designed to house visitors, not permanent residents. Any one person may not alter their interiors according to subjective taste; invisible staff will always put the room back in its original form when a guest leaves. A hotel room is always a paradox as it says to its guests: Do feel at home, but please don’t. For a limited time, however, one can lock the door, pretend to own the space and feel at home, albeit in a strange, indifferent place. “I merge myself into the interior of rooms,” Niemi has said in regard to some of her earlier works.
In Do Not Disturb, her latest series of photographs, the artist’s relationships with interiors continues to evolve, this time in hotel rooms. To make these photographs, Niemi fled her safe and predictable existence as a Norwegian woman, mother of two, committed life partner and responsible citizen in one of the world’s safest countries, with a suitcase filled only with borrowed garments and her camera. At undisclosed locations she checked herself into carefully selected hotels and rooms, which through their very neutrality and lack of expectation could offer Niemi a refuge from the repetitiveness that is mundane life.
Exhibition runs from March 27th to April 21st, 2012
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
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PENTAX OPTIO VS20
PENTAX borrows a handy feature from DSLR cameras and applies it to this Optio VS20 point and shoot camera. Features a vertical shutter button, which will aid when it comes to taking steadier vertical photos. Other features include a 16MP sensor and a 20x optical zoom. This camera is set to drop in February of this year.
Posted by Exit 30/01/2011
NORMAN PARKINSON - AN EYE FOR FASHION
A new exhibition of vintage fashion photography by Norman Parkinson, one of Britian's most significant portrait and fashion photographers of the 20th century. The portfolio represents the British fashion designers who laid the foundations for today's fashion industry.
Displaying over 60 rare vintage photographs from the Angela Williams Archive, this unique portfolio evokes a sense of glamour, beauty and timeless elegance.
Original 50s and 60s clothing from the museum's collection will also feature, showcasing high street fashion designs from this period.
Exhibition runs through to April 15th, 2012
M Shed
Princes Wharf
Wapping Road
Bristol
BS1 4RN
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MARK POWER - THE SOUND OF TWO SONGS
Made over a period of five years, The Sound of Two Songs offers an extensive and personal photographic survey of Poland.
When Power spent a month in Poland as part of a project instigated by Magnum Photos to document countries joining the European Union that year. Despite having no familial ties to the country, he soon became fascinated by Poland. Over the next five years he made a further twenty visits, often accompanied by Polish photographer Konrad Pustoła who generously shared his knowledge of his native land. Over time Power’s focus shifted from an investigation into the effects of EU membership into a more subjective, poetic and autobiographical response to a country he grew to love.
Alongside a series of portraits of people he met on his travels, the majority of Power’s large format, meticulously detailed colour photographs depict landscapes often featuring surprising or metaphorical elements.
Opposite - Kraków, 2006
Exhibition runs through to March 24th, 2012
Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square
Bradford
BD1 1SD
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BERTIEN VAN MANEN - LET'S SIT DOWN BEFORE WE GO
Van Manen’s work is a meditation on human existence, revealing the truth of particular lives. Selected from her travels through Uzbekistan, Siberia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Moscow and Tartarstan since 1990, van Manen’s photographs are characterized by the intimacy she achieves with her subjects, with whom she spent countless hours sitting at their tables, lodging in their homes, immersed in their reality.
Van Manen provides a window into Russian lives following years of struggle under the Communist regime. As critic Ryszard Kapuściński notes in his introduction to van Manen’s 1995 book, A hundred summers, a hundred winters, the artist’s lens penetrates the “most inaccessible of places—the homes of ordinary people—in order to show us how millions of Russians live and sleep, what they eat, what they look like in their everyday life, in their flats, at their tables, in their beds.” In the case of the former Soviet empire, people were conditioned to be fearful and suspicious, long forbidden to exhibit whom they really were to the rest of the world.
Opposite - Beach at Lake Baikal, Siberia, 1993
Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2012
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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GUSMANO CESARETTI
The main gallery will feature work from the early period of Cesaretti’s career (1970s) in which he immersed himself in the East Los Angeles culture. His photographs of this era celebrated a sub-culture that had rarely been captured before. The exhibition will include twenty-four vintage, unique prints that have recently been discovered and will be shown for the first time in Los Angeles.
An Italian immigrant who moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s, Cesaretti quickly became fascinated by East Los Angeles. Inspired by the colors, people and graffiti that populated the East Side, he began to capture the vulnerability and uncensored quality of this area. Always honest when shooting his subjects, Cesaretti presents them as they are: violent, loving, confident, scared, full of life. It is this energy and conflict inherent in those who occupy the edges of society that drives his photographic investigations.
In the Project Space at Roberts & Tilton, Cesaretti visits a turbulent section of Colón, Panama. Approached with the same spirit and tenacity reflected in his previous works, these recent intimate photographs of children in an impoverished community offer a fresh perspective into this part of the world. Cesaretti, an outsider himself, became personally connected with the subjects he was shooting. The intimacy existing in the photographs is a result of the relationships that Cesaretti built with his subjects over time. Never forcing a situation, Cesaretti addresses his subjects with great concern and patience, allowing for an essential level of trust to be established. The resulting openness between Cesaretti and his subjects permeates the work, allowing the viewer access to a world that would otherwise be guarded against outsiders.
Exhibition runs through to February 18th, 2012
Roberts & Tilton
5801 Washington Boulevard
Culver City
Los Angeles
CA
90232
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RYAN MCGINLEY - YOU & I
Ryan McGinleys first retrospective monograph. For this beautifully realized volume the artist has selected the best photographs from his first decade of work.
McGinley’s newest work signals a departure from the urban youth culture images for which he is best known; he has been working in natural settings outside New York City, creating specific situations for his subjects to lose themselves in the moment. McGinley embraces nature as a site of freedom and captures a sense of buoyancy and release.
Ryan McGinley makes large-scale color photographs of his friends, a group that forms part of New York’s Lower East Side youth culture. He uses photography to break down barriers between public and private spheres of activity. His subjects are willing collaborators: drawn from skateboard, music, and graffiti subcultures, they perform for the camera and expose themselves with a frank self-awareness that is distinctly contemporary. The results form a portrait of a generation that is savvy about visual culture and acutely aware of how identity can be communicated through photography
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JITKA HANZLOVA - HERE
The residual sense of foreignness to the landscape, language and people is at the heart of the series. As Hanzlová explains, “Otherness is a challenge. It keeps you alert and sharpens your senses.” The images reflect this visual acuity, presenting curious landscapes clearly shaped by human intervention yet resplendent in their poetic sensibility. “The feel of a place is very important to my work, especially the light,” says the artist. Hanzlová’s expert treatment of light and attention to detail lend a sense of the transformative in these landscapes, as seen through the eyes of a poet.
Hanzlová has produced several other bodies of work since beginning HERE in 1998, including: Cotton Rose, a series of portraits in Japan, published as a monograph by Steidl; Leonardo, a series of Renaissance inspired portraits; Female, a portrait series of women the artist encountered on the streets of Europe and America; and Forest , a quiet yet powerful exploration of the forest near the Czech village where she grew up. Void of any trace of civilization, the Forest images possess an out-of-time, enchanted quality.
Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2012
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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LAURA BUCKLEY - FATA MORGANA
The title Fata Morgana refers to a highly complex superior mirage where inverted and erect images are stacked one on top of another causing an object on the horizon to be distorted beyond recognition. The name also refers to Morgan le Fay, mythical figure from the Arthurian legends at once a villain, seductress, witch, healer or goddess, her unquestionable power is dictated by her ability to shape-shift throughout the myths and legends in which she appears.
This personification of a natural phenomenon and anthropomorphic sensibility in humanity gently riffs through Buckley’s work. For the past four years the artist has been producing multifaceted installations incorporating components ranging from motorised plywood structures, Perspex sculptures, sound and projected moving image. Her idiosyncratic use of light both within her installations and films is exacerbated by the sleek surfaces she includes which reflect projections onto the viewer, or are the focus and subject matter of the films themselves.
Where previously mechanical movement of objects has made up an important part of her installations, in Fata Morgana both the film and the sculpture are static. This allows the fast paced edit of the film and surface of the sculpture to interact with the body and perception of the entering viewer, including and absorbing them into the kaleidoscopic installation.
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2012
Cell Project Space
258 Cambridge Heath Road
London
E2 9DA
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PAUL SMITH X LEICA
Paul Smith and Leica collaborate on a new grey mock crocodile leather camera case for Spring 2012. The case comes in a great grey/purple color combination and features an adjustable camera strap. Paul Smith for Leica is embossed on the back of the case.
Posted by Exit 09/01/2011
JAVIER TÉLLEZ - ROTATIONS
Rotations (Prometheus and Zwitter) (2011), a new film installation produced after a year-long DAAD residency in Berlin, focuses on the history of the psychiatric institution and its relation to historical events of the 20th century in the German context. The main protagonists of Téllez ' new films are two sculptures. One is Prometheus (1937) by Arno Breker, a monumental male figure that represents the mythological hero grasping a torch.
The other figure is Weib und Mann oder Adam und Eva, also known as “Zwitter” (1920) by Karl Genzel, a small wooden figure depicting an hermaphrodite that holds a clock in its hand. Rotations (Prometheus and Zwitter) is an installation composed of two 35 mm silent films projections, showing these sculptures rotating at the same speed in different directions. The sculptures' endless rotation is echoed in the installation by the film passing through the projectors in a loop, referring to the cinematic apparatus and its obsolescence as to the theme of repetition and difference in history. The films show the morphological similarities of the sculptures focusing in extreme details that display their materiality, but it is through the very disparity between the figures that meaning is articulated.
Exhibition runs through to February 25th, 2012
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Zahnradstrasse 21
CH-8005 Zurich
Switzerland
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CANON POWERSHOT G1 X
Canon unveiled their all new PowerShot G1 X, a revolutionary new compact camera with a large CMOS sensor, intended to produce DSLR quality images in a much more compact format.
the PowerShot G1 X combines EOS sensor technology with DIGIC 5 processing power, a new precision Canon lens and extensive manual control – creating the finest compact camera Canon has ever produced. Designed to be highly portable, the PowerShot G1 X features a zoom lens which retracts into a discreet, robust metal body, providing photographers with an unimposing camera that delivers high quality images and superior handling.”
Key features of the new camera are:
Large 14.3 MP CMOS, DIGIC 5, HS System
Compact 4x zoom; Intelligent IS
7.5 cm (3.0″) vari-angle LCD; OVF
Full Manual, RAW, DPP
Full HD, HDMI
High-speed Burst HQ
Smart Auto
HDR mode and ND filter
Posted by Exit 02/01/2011
ALEX WEBB - THE SUFFERING OF LIGHT
Recognized as a pioneer of American color photography, since the 1970s, Webb has consistently created photographs characterized by intense color and light. His work, with its richly layered and complex composition, touches on multiple genres, including street photography, photojournalism, and fine art, but as Webb notes, “To me, it all is photography. You have to go out and explore the world with a camera.”
Webb’s ability to distill gesture, color, and contrasting cultural tensions into single, beguiling frames results in evocative images that convey a sense of enigma, irony, and humor. Featuring key works alongside previously unpublished photographs, The Suffering of Light provides the most thorough examination to date of this modern master’s prolific, thirty-year career.
Exhibition runs through to January 19th, 2012
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore
547 West 27th Street
4th floor
New York
NY
10001
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NIKON D4
The new top of the line full frame camera succeeds the D3S DSLR. Nikon packed the camera with a 16.2 megapixel sensor and an extended ISO to 204,800, as well as a brand new full-frame FX-format sensor. The new camera is the capability of capturing 10 fps stills at full resolution with full auto focus and exposure. To make sure that all that great functionality can actually be used, the camera comes with two memory card slots build in.
Posted by Exit 02/01/2011
CINDY SHERMAN
Bringing together more than 180 photographs, this retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present.
Highlighted in the exhibition are in-depth presentations of her key series, including the groundbreaking series "Untitled Film Stills" (1977–80), the black-and-white pictures that feature the artist in stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, and European art-house films; her ornate history portraits (1989–90), in which the artist poses as aristocrats, clergymen, and milkmaids in the manner of old master paintings; and her larger-than-life society portraits (2008) that address the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status.
The exhibition will explore dominant themes throughout Sherman’s career, including artifice and fiction; cinema and performance; horror and the grotesque; myth, carnival, and fairy tale; and gender and class identity. Also included are Sherman’s recent photographic murals (2010), which will have their American premiere at MoMA.
Opposite - Cindy Sherman, Untitled #466, 2008
Exhibition runs from February 26th to June 11th, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
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DAYANITA SINGH - HOUSE OF LOVE
Dayanita Singh’s latest body of work, entitled “House of Love”, is novelistic in its approach yet curiously elliptical in its multiple subject matters. For the first time in a single series, Ms. Singh has combined black-and-white with color photographs, images shot both in India and around the world, yet none are identified and all are allowed to be free-floating, tethered to one another only by the circumstances of “stories” in which they have been grouped (with individual titles such as “Continuous cities, “ “Theft in a cake shop,” “Departure lounge,” and “Being of darkness,” the nine “stories” ranging in groups as small as six and as large as seventeen pictures). Everything and all to be at the service of the book of the same name, Ms. Singh’s primary medium for her images and the unifying structure in which this diversity becomes succinct.
The subjects of Ms. Singh’s pictures range from bucolic landscapes and congested cityscapes; portraits of friends, acquaintances and strangers (both formally posed and spontaneously captured); arrangements of objects found in homes, museums and offices; the interiors of all types of spaces and the exteriors of all manner of constructions. This multiplicity finds cohesion in proscribed themes which run throughout Ms. Singh’s project: the romance of travel, the mysteries of attraction, and the displaced yearnings of desire. “House of Love” is Ms. Singh’s response to the delirious satisfaction she has found within the works of her favourite authors (Italo Calvino, Amitav Ghosh, Orhan Pamuk, W.G. Sebald, Vikram Seth, among others), telling a story of life and how it is lived in the way she knows how to, through photographs collected into a book.
Opposite - Ambulance 4, 2010
Exhibition runs through to January 29th, 2012
Nature Morte
A-1 Neeti Bagh
110 049
New Delhi
India
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THE WEDDING (THE WALKER EVANS POLAROID PROJECT)
The Wedding (The Walker Evans Polaroid Project) ultimately came to include: 83 Walker Evans Polaroids; elements from Bird, a body of work by Roni Horn made between 1998 and 2007; a collotype from Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 Animal Locomotion series; a photograph of c1900 Paris by Eugène Atget; a 19th-century French model of a cooper's shop, with tools to scale; a large, 19th-century English birdhouse; and a selection of early 20th-century American Arts and Craft Movement furniture, including original and custom-replications, designed by Gustav Stickley.
A list of components, however, like a roster of artists, indicates little about the content of any of my shows. My exhibitions are meant to be poetic rather than didactic, amalgamating diverse individual works and objects into a coherent whole. A curatorial composition has its own unity and point of view, like an individual work in any artistic medium. Individual artworks and objects stand in specific relationships to each other, both in terms of their physical placement and their cognitive consonance, dissonance and resonance. Their form and the medium in which each is made, as well as the places in which they are set, provide opportunities for viewers to mine them individually and together for meaning, knowledge and insight.
Opposite - Graveyard Monument, 1973-74
Exhibition runs through to January 14th, 2012
Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 West 24 Street
New York
NY
10011
New York
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SHARON HARPER
“One Month, Weather Permitting” is a series of photographic images of the night sky over Banff, Alberta in Canada. Utilizing multiple extended-exposure photographic techniques over several consecutive nights, Harper records the movement of the stars and allows the randomness of the marks made by the light trails they leave on film to highlight “chance” as an important aspect of the photographic process itself. What results is imagery that is “technological seeing”, so to speak; views of the night sky visible to the human eye only with the aid of the camera and the film media.
“Twelve Hours From Winter To Spring” is a series of landscape images` taken during a flight from Fairbanks, Alaska to Boston, Massachusetts over a period of twelve hours. Although the images record the change of landscape, light and scenery as shifts of location, one can also perceive the shift to be seasonal, from winter to spring; a trick of perception that separates what we see from how we interpret such information in our minds. Further, the imagery is presented in grid-form as a singular large-scale photograph, pushing discourse that could range from documentary to narrative, when in reality, it is wholly neither, as the aesthetic choices of the artist play an equal part in the final presentation of the images.
“Sun/Moon” is Harper’s latest body of work and also draws attention to the act of seeing as a two-part process; on one part, a physical act of reacting to visual stimulus and on another, a cognitive act of recognition and interpretation. By connecting a digital camera to a telescope and capturing multiple images within seconds, she mimics this act of looking and understanding on a subject that we would not be able to see directly (the sun and the surface of the moon) without the aid of the mediating instruments she has employed. Although distortions and reflections also result from this process, the sequential presentation of the images of the sun and the moon trace the experience of looking and analysis; a metaphor to “seeing” as a cumulative act and yet an elusive one, as it is imperfect and subject to chance.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Galerie Stefan Röpke
St. Apern-Strasse 17-21
Cologne
50667
Germany
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LAURA HORELLI - THE TERRACE
In The Terrace, Laura Horelli addresses her childhood experiences in Nairobi, where she lived for four years with her family in a modernist compound in the later 1970s and early 1980s. The work includes video recordings of the compound and its buildings, filmed by the artist during visits to Nairobi in 2010, and also photographs of varying sizes and quality that were taken by her mother and document the everyday life of the family in Nairobi. These various perspectives are accompanied by the artist’s thoughts and ideas in a voice-over. Horelli reflects on the social and physical environment of the gated area and particularly on the relationships between the tenants and the employed staff there.
Horelli continues her conceptual approach, based on addressing reality in a subjective way. Personal stories are used to examine structures in society. The borders between the public and the private become diffuse.
Exhibition runs through to January 7th, 2012
Galerie Barbara Weiss
Kohlfurter Strasse 41/43
D - 10999
Berlin
Germany
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PAOLO ROVERSI - NUDI
For more than 25 years, the nude series by Paolo Roversi called Nudi is one of the most inspiring and aesthetic nude series in contemporary photography. A plain composition and a gentle use of light make the presented women appear like gracile painted nude studies. So, the viewer’s attention is directed to the shape and the pettiness of the female body. Next to photographs of Kate Moss, Tatjana Patitz and Guinevere van Seenus, the exhibition also includes nudes of models like Laetitia Casta, as well as lately produced male Nudi photographs for the first time.
Paolo Roversi was born in Italy in 1947 but has been living and working in Paris for more than 37 years. His photographs have been published in several monographs and also in plenty magazines like Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, Marie Claire, Vogue and the New York Times. The photographic work of Paolo Roversi is affected by the continuous aura of grace and fragility, but also of mystery and aloofness – a result of Roversi’s virtuosic handling of 'painting with light."
Opposite - Jaimee, Paris, 1993
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
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INFINITE BALANCE - ARTISTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Infinite Balance is the first US presentation of artists shortlisted for the Prix Pictet, the world’s top prize for photography and sustainability. The exhibition will showcase noted contemporary photographers from across the globe, including Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Susan Derges, Naoya Hatakeyama, Chris Jordan and Michael Wolf.
The exhibition brings together three years of internationally acclaimed and award-winning photographs, each of which addresses the issues of our changing world and concerns surrounding sustainability. Infinite Balance will display works from the three themes that defined each year of the Prix Pictet; Water, Earth and Growth.
Opposite - David Maisel, Terminal Mirage 5
Exhibition runs through to February 5th, 2012
The Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado
San Diego
CA
92101
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SHARON HARPER
The works continue to investigate and experiment with the phenomenon of “seeing” within the framework and with the aid of the photographic medium. She continues to point her lens towards the sky and outwards towards the landscape, presenting the potentials of the photographic medium from both scientific and aesthetic points of view; on one hand, a tool to document and record visual evidence, and on the other, a palette that taps into the sublime to create imagery that evokes dreamlike fantasy.
“One Month, Weather Permitting” is a series of photographic images of the night sky over Banff, Alberta in Canada. Utilizing multiple extended-exposure photographic techniques over several consecutive nights, Harper records the movement of the stars and allows the randomness of the marks made by the light trails they leave on film to highlight “chance” as an important aspect of the photographic process itself. What results is imagery that is “technological seeing”, so to speak; views of the night sky visible to the human eye only with the aid of the camera and the film media.
Opposite - Night Sky over Banff, Alberta, September 12 - October 10, 2007
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Galerie Stefan Röpke
St.-Apern-Str. 17-21
50667
Köln
Germany
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JOHANNA DIEHL - BORGO
In her photographs the artist deals with the structure of ideal settlements built under Benito Mussolini in the backcountry of Sicily between 1926 and 1943 which articulate an attempt of creating social order. As already in her previous series 'Displace' Johanna Diehl focuses on the memory of places, the media awareness of architecture and its connection to ideology.
Those programmatically designed villages, so-called "Borghi", were intended to colonize and develop the rural Sicily and served as centres for the agrarian communities. The borghi generally consist of buildings with similar types: a central piazza, a church, governmental headquarters, school and other facilities representing the structure and the claim for power of the Fascist Party. Nowadays most of the borghi may be found abandoned within a landscape as unfulfilled Utopias, as places without memory filled with time.
By choosing the singular 'Borgo' as title for the show Johanna Diehl emphasizes that the focal point of this cycle lies not in the enumeration of particular phenomena but in the concept of those places.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
D-60314
Frankfurt
Germany
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TIM FLACH - MORE THAN HUMAN
The new works reflect Tim’s current preoccupation with the contemporary relationship between humans and non-human animals, focussing on how we engage with them within the contexts of history, culture, politics and science. This will all come together in the new book, More than Human, due for publication in October 2012.
Through Tim’s unique vision and ability to challenge the viewer, he has created a series of images which encompass not only his personal beliefs, but the concepts common in modern and historical religious and cultural symbolism, the human obsession with ‘cuteness’, cross-breeding, the blurred line between human and animal genetic modification, conservation, morphology and plasticity.
Opposite - Monkey Eyes, 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Osborne Samuel Gallery
23a Bruton Street
London
W1J 6QG
Posted by Exit 05/12/2011
KEITH PATTISON - NO REDEMPTION
The Strike of 1984–85 shook the foundations of British society, tearing apart traditional mining communities. In August 1984 Keith Pattison was commissioned to photograph the strike at Easington Colliery for one month. He remained there until it ended in March 1985, photographing from behind the lines a community rallying together against implacable opposition. Pattison frames a narrative sequence of images from the optimism of August through the deepening pessimism of winter, to the final vote to return to work.
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
University Gallery
Northumbria University
Sandyford Road
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST
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BORIS SAVELEV - COLOUR CONSTRUCTIONS
Born in Chernovitz in 1947 Boris Savelev moved to Moscowin 1966, a rocket engineer through his working life, Savelev found photography later on and has committed himself to this exciting chapter in photography’s short history wholeheartedly.
Regarded by many now as one of Russia’s most important living photographers, Savelev is an artist at the peak of his career. Working with Factum in Madrid, Savelev has again used this extraordinary and proprietary printing process that allows him to fully realise his photographic vision. This new show is composed solely of colour works. Adam Lowe and Rafa Rachewsky at Factum Arte in Madrid, using their own custom-made flatbed multi-layer pigment printer make the images onto gesso coated aluminum panels, allowing for an extraordinary degree of control within what is a mechanical medium. Each image is finished by hand and then waxed which leaves the surface with a rich and penetrating range of tones and hues. There is absolutely nothing else like this printing process in the world and its permanence is proven.
Opposite - Lopatiuk, Chernowitz, 1996
Exhibition runs through to January 21st, 2012
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
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JULIAN WASSER - LOS ANGELES
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the 1950s as a teenager shooting crime scenes in Washington D.C. which he sold to The Washington Post. As a copy boy at Associated Press, he met Weegee and rode around with the legendary and unflinching press photographer. After university and military service, he settled in Hollywood and worked for many years as a contract photographer for TIME, LIFE and PEOPLE.
The exhibit at Craig Krull Gallery entitled Los Angeles will include night scenes of the Sunset Strip in the 60s, images of key LA figures such as Joan Didion, Ed Ruscha and Jack Nicholson, as well as historic photos of the Watts Riots and Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel.
Opposite - Sea Witch nightclub, Sunset Strip, 1966
Exhibition runs from December 3rd, 2011 - January 14th, 2012
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3 Santa Monica
California
90404
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JEAN-BAPTISTE HUYNH - MONOCHROME
The photographs of the series Monochrome, created by Jean-Baptise Huynh in 2010/11, are characterized by the strict and uncompromising reduction to the colour black. A spare but elaborate lighting supports this feature, so that the black objects and portraits appear in their deepest shades. The dominant black impressively embraces the colour meaning of sublime elegance and mysteriousness, as well as the complaining subtlety and elusiveness, which imposingly unfold in the photographs – a delightful interaction, encouraged by the compositional clearness, so that the recipient can experience the creation and its distinctiveness of the colour black.
Jean-Baptise Huynh was born in France, as a son of a French mother and a Vietnamese father in 1966. So far, nine publications of his extensive photographic work of landscapes, portraits, nudes and still life have been released, all in sophisticated and high-quality design.
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
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HOLGA IPHONE LENS FILTER KIT
Holga have now decided to cast a little of the photography magic on the iPhone world with this awesome special effect lens kit. Simple to install this kit slips onto an iPhone 4 or 4S just like a case. But a case with a difference! Once fitted you now have access to 9 different and crazy special effects and filters without any software or app installed. Cunningly designed like an old school telephone just dial in your preferred special effect and behold the Holga craziness that follows! This Holga Kit is available in a choice of Red, Blue, White, Black or Silver.
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WOLFGANG BURAT: NO TEARS. PHOTOS 1980 - 1990
In 1980 Burat was a co-founder of the renowned legendary music magazine SPEX, and over the following decade (1980-90), he photographed musicians, bands, artists, concerts, backstage situations and fans for the magazine. NO TEARS presents a selection of unique vintage prints. It comprises intimate portraits of musicians such as Freddy Mercury, Martyn Ware/Heaven 17, David Byrne/Talking Heads, Nikki Sudden, Afrika Bambaataa, Paul Weller, Robert Smith/The Cure, Linton Kwesi Johnson, David Thomas/Pere Ubu, Kraftwerk or Archie Shepp.
Burat's photographic gaze set the visual impact of this important magazine, and his oeuvre depicts a scene that is of utmost importance for many contemporary (visual) artists, for social and music history, pop theory and art history.
Opposite - Linton Kwesi Johnson, 1990
Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2011
Tanja Pol Galerie
Ludwigstrasse 7
80539
Munich
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MASSIMO VITALI: NEW WORK
Vitali has become one of the most celebrated contemporary photographers worldwide, renowned for his large colour prints depicting the crowded beaches and shorelines of the Mediterranean Sea. However, this new series focuses on the natural – rocks, cliffs, waterfalls, caves and quarries. Holidaymakers have been reduced to mere dots, hovering uncomfortably on the shore, or taking shelter in the shadow of monumental natural landmarks. Seen from such a distance, these crowds mimic colonies of mammals – huddles of seals or penguins - washed up on the rocks. The power of nature comes to the fore – in one image people are literally replaced by crashing waves as the tide moves in. Everything is now in flux and the old certainties have been washed away. Our frailty in the face of such power is thrown into focus and we are forced to confront our mortality and our inability to resist the forces of nature.
Vitali started his series of large format photographs at a specific moment in Italian history: 1994, the year in which Berlusconi came to power. He has said of this moment, “I wanted to look into the faces of the people that voted for Berlusconi and see if I could understand why. My photography comes from absolute matter-of-fact situations, but also from a deep curiosity that I possess for people, for what they do and how they think.” For Vitali, the beach was a place where the mundane and everyday merges with natural beauty, and where he could confront Italians in a place of vulnerability.
Opposite - Sarakiniko, Greece, 2011
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
Brancolini Grimaldi
43 - 44 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4JJ
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SHARON CORE: 1606-1907
Exploring the subject of floral still-life painting. Similar to the artist’s earlier work, the seriesexamines the relationship of representational painting to the medium of photography. But rather than focusing on a specific artist or time period, as in the previous Thiebaud and Early American works, the new series references a pictorial convention within painting as a whole. The artist’s sources range from the style of early Flemishpainters, such as Bosschaert and Jan Brueghel, to the Modernists Odilon Redon and Fantin-Latour.
The work engages time in both a sense of history and temporality. Flowers are the most temporal of objects: fragile, changeable, and short-lived, a flower’s bloom opens, bends, fades and falls according to degrees of light, temperature, water, and weather. It assumes its character from its atmosphere. As a subject for art, however, flowers have been portrayed for centuries by artists of all stripes and have an established permanence in the lexicon of art history.
It is between these polarities of transience and permanence that the current work is situated. With an eye towards the flower in its natural state and as well as the styles of representation that attempt to order, organize, celebrate, and lament a fleeting symbol of beauty throughout history, Core hasthoroughly explored the nature of the painted bouquet.
Opposite - 1665, 2011
Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2011
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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MITCH EPSTEIN: AMERICAN POWER
American Power (2003-9) examines how energy is produced and used in the American landscape, questioning the power of nature, government and corporations. Epstein was awarded the prestigious Prix Pictet photographic award in March 2011 for this body of work, which offers a radical reflection on “the American Dream gone awry”.
The project began in 2003 when Epstein photographed a small town in Ohio after compulsory land purchase by the American Electric Power company. He went on to document 25 US States over a period of six years, producing a prolific body of work that depicts the effects of mass consumption.
Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2011
Open Eye Gallery
19 Mann Island
Liverpool Waterfront
Liverpool
L3 1BP
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AFTER THE THAW
After The Thaw presents a unique and stimulating insight into the lives of people living in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia and Tajikistan. When these countries gained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, the attention of the world briefly focused upon this cluster of new nations. The prospect of democracy seemed to offer a genuine opportunity for a future of peace and prosperity. Two decades on, away from the media spotlight, millions of people continue to struggle to build a livelihood in a post-communist world.
After The Thaw offers a stark, moving and contemporary portrayal of some of the remarkable individuals and communities that populate the region today. The exhibition reveals an astonishing richness and variety of cultures, and Oxfam is proud to be able to assist in bringing attention to these inspiring people. Oxfam runs programmes in all of the countries featured, and continues to work to help support people and fight poverty throughout the region.
Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2011
The Strand Gallery
32 John Adam Street
London
WC2N 6BP
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POLAROID Z340 INSTANT DIGITAL CAMERA
The Polaroid Z340 pays homage to its analog predecessors, yet contains an advanced, easy-to-use digital feature set. Designed for portability, the Z340 combines a 14.0 megapixel digital camera with a ZINK-enabled printer using the ink-free Zero Ink Printing Technology from ZINK Imaging to deliver a 3×4” print – the same size as the classic Polaroid photos that captured millions of special memories over the past 63 years. The Polaroid Z340 camera gives you even more options for instant printing: choose the iconic Polaroid Classic Border Logo or full bleed and contemporary 3×4” photos
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NORMAN MAILER, BERT STERN: MARILYN MONROE
"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera." - Norman Mailer
Intimate photographs by the great Bert Stern taken over 3 days at the Bel-Air for Vogue. 6 weeks after they were shot, Marilyn was dead. The accompanying text by the equally legendary Norman Mailer. This edition of 125 numbered copies comes with a pigment print signed by Stern.
Posted by Exit 07/11/2011
PANASONIC LUMIX 3D1
The digital camera employs two newly-developed lens units with folded optics design in a compact body and can capture crisp and clear 3D and 2D photos and videos. The LUMIX 3D1, with a twin-lens design, features 25mm ultra-wide angle lenses with 4x optical zoom to record high resolution 8-megapixel 3D photo and 1920×1080 60i high quality 3D HD video using side-by-side method. The LUMIX 3D1’s optics give users a wider range of composition possibilities with approximately 169% larger viewing space compared to that of 35mm cameras.
Posted by Exit 07/11/2011
RED SCARLET-X
With the innate ability to capture 5K REDCODE RAW stills and 4K motion, resolution sustains itself as a dominant gene in the RED family. Scarlet-X functions as a flexible device, utilizing HDRx and interchangeable lens mounts to provide you with options in a world that’s always changing. 5K burst modes snap up to 12 fps with 4K reaching up to 30 fps. All of the finest qualities of cinema and photography have now aligned, letting you take advantage of the best of both worlds with Scarlet-X.
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NICKY WIRE - DEATH OF THE POLAROID
For more than twenty years and from Blackwood, Wales to Tokyo, Japan, Nicky Wire has kept a personal visual history of the band in their various stages from Generation Terrorists through Holy Bible and right up to last year’s remarkable album, Postcards from a Young Man. Edited down from over 1,000 of Wire’s personal polaroids and with accompanying text by the man himself, Death of The Polaroid promises to be a rich, visual biography of one of the most iconoclastic British bands of the past two decades.
Death of The Polaroid: A Manics Family Album is the first of two books by Nicky Wire and will be published by Faber and Faber in November 2011.
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DIANE ARBUS
In this first major retrospective in France, Jeu de Paume presents a selection of two hundred photographs that affords an opportunity to explore the origins, scope, and aspirations of a wholly original force in photography. It includes all of the artist’s iconic photographs as well as many that have never been publicly exhibited. Even the earliest examples of her work demonstrate Arbus’s distinctive sensibility through the expression on a face, someone’s posture, the character of the light, and the personal implications of objects in a room or landscape. These elements, animated by the singular relationship between the photographer and her subject, conspire to implicate the viewer with the force of a personal encounter.
Exhibition runs through to February 5th, 2012
Jeu de Paume
1, place de la Concorde
75008
Paris
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GILLIAN WEARING
Turner Prize-winning British artist Gillian Wearing’s photographs and films explore the public and private lives of ordinary people. Fascinated by how people present themselves in front of the camera in fly-on-the-wall documentaries and reality TV, she explores ideas of personal identity through often masking her subjects and using theatre’s staging techniques.
This major exhibition surveys Wearing’s work from Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say (1992–3) to her first feature length film, Self Made (2011).
Opposite - Self Portrait at 17 Years Old, 2003
Exhibition runs through to June 17th, 2012
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
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JERUSALEM
Through the eyes of three analytical photographers, John Davies, Charles Jones and Colin Jones, this exhibition documents British life in the twentieth century. The pictures seem to capture the simplicity of a by gone era; however, in doing so they also challenge the changes taking place today,forcing us to interrogate our individual responsibilities towards the country we live in.
The recession of recent years has hit Britain hard; with the riots of this summer being just one example of our social cohesion wearing away. In this increasingly uncertain world, in which the individual is so often governed by forces out of the remit of his or her control we are reminded of life’s basic essentials: food on the table, a roof over our heads and a job that provides an income to support oneself or a family.
Once again, a new world order, a New Jerusalem, has been promised by politicians and economists. But the journey will be a long one. Globalization forces a need for shared responsibility, and yet the rate of change within both the microcosm of individual countries and the larger global community leaves little time for reflection.
Opposite - Unemployment, Liverpool Docks, Colin Jones
Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2012
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
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JOHN CHIARA
John Chiara photographs cityscapes in a process that is part photography, part event and part sculpture, an undertaking in apparatus and patience. Many times this process involves composing pictures from the inside of a large hand-built camera, that is mounted on a flatbed trailer, and produces large scale, one of a kind, positive exposures.
John Chiara received a B.F.A. in Photography from the University of Utah and an M.F.A. in Photography from the California College of the Arts in 2004, and was recently an artist in residence at Crown Point Press (2006). The artist has been reviewed and/or featured in countless publications including Artforum, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, BlackBook Magazine, the Village Voice, Time Out Chicago and Blind Spot magazine.
Opposite - 15th at Noriege, 2009
Exhibition runs from to November 17th to January 7th, 2012
Von Lintel Gallery
520 West 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
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GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE : BLOOD - SEX - MAGIC
New exhibition by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, who was born in Manchester in 1950 and now lives and works in New York. In the 1970s, a British MP described Genesis P-Orridge and his band Throbbing Gristle as “wreckers of Western civilization.” What was intended as an insult became an artistic principle. For 45 years now, Genesis P-Orridge has been at the front of aesthetic extremism. His microcosm includes the atonal noise attacks of Industrial Music granddaddy Throbbing Gristle, the post-psychedelic sound garlands of Psychic TV and performance activities, whose pleasure in breaking taboos is reminiscent of the Vienna Actionism movement.
Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2011
Christine Koenig Galerie
Schleifmuehlgasse 1A
1040 Vienna
Austria
www.christinekoeniggalerie.com
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BRUCE DAVIDSON - SUBWAY
In 1980 Bruce Davidson began photographing the New York subway system, venturing regularly into this intoxicating, sometimes dangerous subterranean world. At first Davidson photographed in black and white, but he soon realised colour was necessary to depict the intensity of this graffiti-covered landscape. Originally published in 1986, this updated Steidl edition of Subway is printed from new scans of Davidson’s Kodachrome slides and features additional images.
“Go back into the subway and look beyond the graffiti. Lift up your heads and look around, see what Bruce has revealed – the beauty in the subway population, the enormous amount of colour below and above ground, the varieties and pleasures to be seen from the subway. The shrill insistence of the noise in our ears and of the graffiti to our eyes does not end the catalogue of effects the subway has on our senses. Bruce Davidson has reopened and rewritten that catalogue with this magnificent series of photographs. Light, colour, humanity, affection, and hope can be added to our impressions of the New York subway system.” Henry Geldzahler
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PAUL GRAHAM - FILMS
Films gather 15 pieces that are a tribute to the physical material of photography: film.
Images show what first appears to be abstract dots, blobs or colour forms, but that are in fact just greatly magnified images of the raw film emulsion. These images are not abstract at all, but extreme close-ups of the film's structure.
Films series is a result of Paul Graham past 30 years of work and reflects a central theme for him during this time: his attention on the photographic nature itself.
Graham is known as one of the first documentary photographers that have better used color in photography. He has been an expert in C-type films. Graham has always printed his own images and at the beginning of his career, printing other's photographes was his first source of income.
Exhibition runs through to November 26th, 2011
La Fábrica Librería
C/ Verónica 13
28014
Madrid
Spain
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GEORGE TICE - SELDOM SEEN
80 Edward Steichen photographs printed by the renowned photographer George Tice have been brought together for this exhibition. Tice was the last person to print for Steichen in his lifetime. These prints not only remind us of Steichen's genius but also highlight the formidable quality of printing that George Tice has been known for throughout his career.
In conjunction with Steichen's work, the gallery is also pleased to present 12 rarely seen George Tice photographs in our new print room along with his classic signature image, "Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1974."
Opposite - First Street, Dixon, IL, 1984
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2011
Danziger Gallery
527 West 23rd Street
New York
New York
10011
USA
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SHARON LOCKHART - LUNCH BREAK
Sharon Lockhart's complex and careful investigations into the mediums of film and photography probe the limits and intersections of both. For Lunch Break (2008), Lockhart spent a year at a naval shipbuilding plant in Maine, observing and engaging with workers during their daily routines. The photographs and film installation presented in this exhibition contemplate workers' activities during their time off from production, bringing into view everyday situations that typically escape our collective attention.
Lockhart's work is completely unsentimental yet deeply humane, focused on mundane details yet grounded in a contemporary political and economic reality: the decline of the American industrial working class in the context of 21st-century global capitalism.
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2012
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission + Howard Streets)
San Francisco
California
94103
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NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2011
New Photography 2011: Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Zhang Dali introduces six artists whose varied techniques and backgrounds represent the diversity of photography today.
Moyra Davey makes pictures with film and mails them to friends, resulting in images whose creases, tears, and stamps bear the traces of physical handling so rare in the digital era.
George Georgiou documents Turkey’s struggle to maintain its traditions in the face of popular culture, while Deana Lawson’s intimate portraits of strangers examine the African American figure and experience from a variety of viewpoints.
Doug Rickard takes a road trip through urban America without leaving his house, photographing Google Street View images on his home computer. Viviane Sassen explores faraway locales as well, re-creating her dreams and memories with the dramatic light and shadow of the African landscape. Zhang Dali joins original archival source materials with their altered counterparts that were used as propaganda in Maoist China.
The artists featured in New Photography 2011 showcase the countless ways that photography can be used and made during an exciting time in the development of the medium.
Opposite - #83.016417, Detroit, MI. 2009, Doug Rickard
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2012
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
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LEICA M9-P SILVER & RED LEATHER LIMITED EDITION
Limited to 30 pieces only. Leica Camera Japan has announced a new limited edition M9-P in silver and red leather. Packaged with a Leica Elmarit M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH lens and red leather trimming, the camera will only be available only through the Futago Tamagawa Leica store in Tokyo.
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AVEDON - PARIS
The photographs in this exhibition were selected by Avedon in 1978 for the portfolio Avedon/Paris, on the eve of a retrospective exhibition of his fashion work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. They depict celebrated beauties in high fashion, including Marlene Dietrich in Dior, Dorian Leigh in Piguet, and Suzy Parker in Lanvin-Castillo. These photographs exemplify Avedon’s innovative style during his earliest creative peak: his models are full of expression, smiling, laughing, and posed in action in the City of Light. Appearing in Harper's Bazaar at the height of its influence, his photographs were instrumental in changing the popular understanding of fashion. Indeed, their influence still resonates in the fashion magazines of today.
Opposite - Renée, The New Look of Dior, Paris, August 1947
Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
19 place de Longemalle
1204 Geneva
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MICHAEL KENNA - VENEZIA
Michael Kenna’s work has often been described as enigmatic, graceful and hauntingly beautiful. The exhibition features 53 black and white images that demonstrate a skilled photographer’s ability to capture on film what we cannot see with our eyes, such as the movement of time and the presence of atmosphere.
Kenna has captured the essence of Venice, its romance, its miraculous existence and its crumbling beauty. Kenna’s long exposures, sometimes lasting several hours during the darkest hours of the night, smooth over the surfaces of the canals, further emphasizing their street-like function in this floating city. With typically meticulous prints, Kenna distills Venice to its iconic, elemental characteristics of water and light.
Opposite - Winged Lion, San Marco, Venice, Italy, 2006
Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2012
Columbia Museum Of Art
1515 Main Street
Columbia
SC 29201
USA
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THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF BRETT WESTON
This exhibition celebrates the career of Brett Weston (1911-1993). The son of famed American photographer Edward Weston (1886-1958), Brett Weston was a "natural" with the camera. After serving as his father's apprentice, Brett was a teenager when he first received high-level, international recognition as an artist.
Over his long and prolific career, Brett Weston exemplified the modernist aesthetic. He used the medium in a resolutely "purist" manner: his preference was always for sharp lenses and beautifully modulated black-and-white prints. He applied this technical precision to a sustained exploration of the idea of abstraction. In recording the details of everyday things, rocks, plants, trees, water, peeled paint, the human figure. Weston sought to balance fact and form, objective reality and the beauty of abstraction. Through the graphic language of form, Weston aimed to suggest the deeper possibilities, and mysteries, of familiar things.
Exhibition runs from November 23rd 2011 to March 25th, 2012
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City
MO
64111
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MOM & DAD - TERRY RICHARDSON
Terry delves deeply and indiscriminately into the world with his camera revealing the all too personal nature of his life... his family life.
Terry’s images don’t desist to shock, be it following his colourful yet frail mother or tracking his father’s life and the decline of his mental health though his last days.... Terry’s camera has no boundaries, no judgement, just the simple truth of the snapshot, an intimate portrait of his family and in turn more or less a self-portrait of Terry Richardson the son.
Created as a double book, each book will be dedicated to one of his parents and feature a number of portraits and candid photos taken throughout their lives.
Published by Morel Books, the book will be limited to 1000 copies.
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JULIUS SHULMAN - 80 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY
This show will include not only his well-known photographs of works by architects such as Neutra, Koenig, Lautner, Frey, and Eames but also early images from Shulman’s personal files.
Julius Shulman is widely regarded as the most important architectural photographer in history. Over a seventy year career Shulman not only documented the work of many of the great architects of the 20th century, but he elevated the genre of commercial architectural photography to a fine art form. It is illuminating to recognize the simple fact that the work of architects such as Neutra, Koenig, and Lautner are virtually known all over the world through the images and perspective of Julius Shulman. As Neutra astutely observed, “His work will survive me. Film is stronger and good glossy prints are easier to ship than brute concrete, stainless steel, or even ideas.”
Opposite - Spencer Residence, Malibu, CA, 1955
Exhibition runs through to October 29th, 2011
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California 90404
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NIKON COOLPIX AW100
The Coolpix AW100’s newly designed rugged chassis is built to withstand harsh environments, yet is compact and lightweight enough to pack for a weekend on the trail. Ready to conquer the rocks, the ice and the waves, the AW100 hosts a myriad of Nikon core technologies aimed at providing stunning images and Full HD 1080p movie recording as well as new GPS technologies for outdoor enthusiasts.
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JULIO BITTENCOURT - RAMOS
Piscinao de Ramos, or "Ramos Swimming Pool" as it is known in Portuguese, is an artificial salt-water lake located in an area called Ramos, amidst a vast area of favelas (shantytowns) in Rio de Janeiro. It is a public park consisting of artificial lake and surrounding beach, as well as a few soccer fields and other sports facilities. It was inaugurated in 2001 by the State Government of Rio de Janeiro and Petrobras (Brazil's national oil company), and to much controversy: many of Rio's inhabitants understood it to be a blatantly political act aimed at winning votes from the outskirts of the city. The immediate vicinity of the park is surrounded by 15 different favelas, run by competing factions of drug-trafficking gangs who operate as de facto governments within those communities. Although violence still plagues many of those favelas, the park itself has been mostly free of such problems, at least in and around the lake.
Ramos is crowded, noisy, and polluted, and known for its eccentric characters and an intense display of the beachside enjoyment for which Brazil is famous worldwide. Here, in this photoshop-free paradise, no social hierarchy exists to define what is cool and what is kitsch, it's all blended together by a common joie de vivre. Here what matters is not looking good for the camera, but rather feeling the sun on one's skin, getting drunk on cachaça (Brazilian rum), and splashing the time away.
Opposite - Ramos 14, 2008
Exhibition runs through to January 28th, 2012
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
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JORN VANHOFEN
Only a few individuals appear in the quiet pictures by photographer Jörn Vanhöfen, or so it seems, at first glance. For behind the aesthetic charm of his visual compositions lies the ambiguity of their aesthetic, as well as the omnipresence of people in the age of globalization.
His landscapes are places man has affected, and then carelessly abandoned, forgotten, but they also depict places of transformation, such as the wildfires in Portugal, droughts, or marble mining in Carrera. With his leftovers, man has created landscapes that ravage, pollute, and supplant: mountains of junk, paper, and old tires; industrial ruins and deserted terrain in mega-metropolises. Vanhöfen creates unique, poetic photographs, which disturb us and question our experience of reality, because they avoid definition. And so his photographs shock us, while confronting “the modern, sentimental feeling about nature,” of which philosopher Georg Lukás has already said that it is “only the projection of experience and the self-made environment is no longer a home for mankind, but a prison.” Nature is no longer comforting, but the “historical, philosophical objectification of the alienation between mankind and his constructs.”
Opposite - Michigan Central # 9865, 2009
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2011
Kuckei + Kuckei
Linienstr. 158
D - 10115
Berlin
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HELLEN VAN MEENE
The intimately scaled female portraits in the exhibition were all shot in Russia and in the artistʼs hometown of Heiloo, The Netherlands. Characteristic of van Meeneʼs style, the portraits reflect an introspective mood, unveiling a moment of acute psychological poignancy. In Untitled, St. Petersburg (above), van Meene has returned to a model she previously photographed, whom the artist met in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2007. Formerly a girl in the midst of awkward adolescence, she appears now both physically and psychologically exposed as a nude young woman, bright red lipstick and black wig her only staged adornment. Directly engaging the viewer, the modelʼs coolly blank expression and brilliant blue eyes offer an intriguing glimpse into her psyche.
Van Meene has elsewhere sought to expand her study of photographic portraiture by turning to dogs as subjects. As with her earliest portraits of teenagers, the artist has created an outdoor studio with a simple background in order to focus on the character of each dog and to highlight their idiosyncrasies. Using a navy or crimson backdrop and an antique Persian carpet, van Meene imbues the dogs with a measure of rank and respect, while drawing out of them the same psychological potential as her human portraits.
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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ROLAND FISCHER - NEW WORK
This exhibition features Fischer’s newest large-scale photographs of modern building facades from locales around the world including Munich, Melbourne and Mexico City.
Born in 1958, Roland Fischer is a key figure in contemporary German photography. Photo Technik International named him one of Germany’s top ten photographers alongside Demand, Gursky, Ruff and Struth. His work has been the subject of many national and international exhibitions including a 2003 retrospective at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich and more recently a 2011 retrospective at the Museo DA2 in Salamanca, Spain. Roland Fischer’s work is in numerous public collections including the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich; Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris (FNAC); Fondation Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y Leon (MUSAC); Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; and the Sammlung Thyssen-Bornemisza, Salzburg. The artist lives and works in Munich and Beijing.
Opposite - Museum Munich, 2010
Exhibition runs through to October 8th, 2011
Von Lintel Gallery
520 W. 23rd Street
Ground Floor
New York
NY
10011
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MADELEINE DE SINETY - PHOTOGRAPHS
During the past 40 years, photographer Madeleine de Sinéty has worked on several continents, quietly documenting the everyday lives and public events of those who reside in obscure rural corners of the world. This selection of 71 black-and-white and color images will be the first to explore the breadth of de Sinéty’s photographic essays, from her multi-year exploration of traditional French farm families in a small region of Brittany, to village life in Uganda, and finally to the work of a single logger in northern Maine who still uses draft horses to pull this precious natural resource from the woods.
On the lighter side of life in Maine, de Sinéty has also documented the famed photographer and conceptual artist William Wegman, at work in Rangeley making large Polaroid portraits of his dogs. De Sinéty has been a resident of Rangeley, Maine for the past 30 years. This exhibition is the fourth in a series of exhibitions called Circa that explores compelling aspects of contemporary art in the state of Maine and beyond.
Exhibition runs from September 24th to December 18th, 2011
Portland Museum of Art
Seven Congress Square
Portland
Maine
04101
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DAVID LEVINTHAL: ATTACK OF THE BRICKS: STAR WARS
Familiar Star Wars characters are the subjects of Levinthal’s most recent series. However, these epic visages are composed of Legos, as Levinthal has in his signature fashion transformed these miniature action figures into powerful action heroes. These photos mimic the cinematic style of the Lucas films, transforming tiny bricks into legendary, larger-than-life Sci Fi stars.
Contrast is central to this series, as the figures are placed in front of monochromatic black backgrounds. The lighting is sharp, resulting in even more intimidating intergalactic machines, weapons, and their famed operators. The black and white walls of the exhibition’s installation further emphasize this contrast. Levinthal's standard use of a narrow depth of field, soft focus, and the photographic trope of enlargement seen in his close-up shots bring a sense of life to the objects in the foreground. However, he does not attempt to completely remove all traces of the Lego aesthetic, allowing his viewers to see what is at play in his creation and representation of “outer space.” The photos showcase the humanized drama such toys have to offer to the imaginative.
Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2011
Gering & López Gallery
730 Fifth Avenue
Between 56th and 57th Streets
New York
NY 10019
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ANNIKA VON HAUSSWOLFF - OVERHAUL
The exhibition consists of photographic documents of houses and places left behind. Abandoned by the people who once inhabited them, urban explorers and graffiti artists are now the only ones who enter these buildings through closed doors and windows. In spite of the lack of legitimate activity in these places, the photographs provide a narrative of man’s symbiosis with the buildings she erects. These are temporary abodes which like train stations accompany our journey through life. In this context the title OVERHAUL becomes both a statement and a question. Is our world in urgent need of renovation or is an improvement already in progress?
The documentary imagery has been von Hausswolff’s principal characteristic but her photographs have until now always been carefully staged with a clear conceptual approach. Her new body of work is both clearly rooted in her early fascination for documentary photography inspired by photographers like Anders Petersen and Christer Strömholm but they are also leaving the last decades of staged imagery behind. Still though, many elements in von Hausswolff’s new works refer to her early works.
Opposite - Untitled (Kingdom of Heaven), 2011
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
Andréhn-Schiptjenko
Hudiksvallsgatan 8
Stockholm
Sweden
Posted by Exit 05/09/2011
LAUREL NAKADATE
In these works, ritualized exorcisms are performed by Nakadate and her cast of amateur actors. Locations shift from dingy, claustrophobic motel rooms to the majestic open spaces of the American West. There are ecstatic dances, woodland walks, train travels, and reluctant stripteases. Unwanted feelings and bad memories are cast away.
The show also includes a variety of photographs: the FEVER DREAMS series, large images that Nakadate shot while making her videos and the LUCKY TIGER series, small snapshots in which she appears in suggestive poses inspired by 1950s-style cheesecake and camera-club photos. These snapshots were completed during a performance in which the artist and anonymous middle-aged men, enlisted via Craigslist.com, covered their hands with fingerprinting ink and touched the photographs together. Sitting in a circle, on the floor of one man’s living room, they passed the snapshots around, like trading cards.
Opposite - Exorcism in January, 2009
Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2011
Galerie Anita Beckers
Frankenallee 74
60327
Frankfurt
Germany
Posted by Exit 05/09/2011
LUIGI GHIRRI - PROJECT PRINTS
Luigi Ghirri Project Prints will be both a journey through Ghirri’s work and through Italy. During the 1980s the concept of landscape became increasingly important for Ghirri. He sought to create a new iconography of the Italian landscape, one that could incorporate both tradition and modernity. In the important series Paesaggio Italiano, many images from which are included in this exhibition, Ghirri looked to evoke a particular sense of place. He wrote, “I would like this work on the Italian landscape to seem more about the perception of a place than its cataloguing or description.”
In the early 1980s Ghirri started to use a medium format camera producing larger negatives, clearly not for the sake of technique itself, but as if to “get inside” the subject more intensely. The centrality of thought and the sense of the project continued to be the necessary conditions for his work during those years, to such an extent that these negatives actually turned out to be another project tool he could resort to. Thanks to these matrices Ghirri was able to produce excellent contact prints, small photographs that he could cut out, file and line up in order to see each image, plan his series, organize his own view, even leaving them loose and then bringing them together again in endless combinations. These small photographs that enabled Luigi Ghirri to organize his own view from the early 1980s until 1992 were the Project Prints.
Opposite - Bari,1982
Exhibition runs September 14th to October 29th, 2011
Mummery + Schnelle
83 Great Titchfield Street
London
W1W 6RH
Posted by Exit 05/09/2011
SANTU MOFOKENG - CHASING SHADOWS
The exhibition and the accompanying book bring together a unique selection of the photographic essays made by Santu Mofokeng over the last thirty years.
Well-known from his projects Black Photo Album/Look at me: 1890-1900s, Township Billboards: Beauty, sex and cell phones, Trauma Landscapes and Chasing Shadows, the South African artist took the opportunity of the invitation for this show and the production of his first comprehensive monograph, to delve deep into his artistic archive.
Santu Mofokeng, Chasing Shadows - 30 years of photographic essays, presents a selection of more than 200 images (photographs and a slideshow), texts and documents. The photographic essays he composed over the years, some of which are a life-long work in progress, range from the Soweto of his youth, from his investigations of life on the farms, the everyday life of the township and in particular, representations of the self and family histories of black South Africans, to images from the artist’s ongoing exploration of religious rituals and of typologies of landscapes, including his most current project Radiant Landscapes, commissioned specially for this retrospective.
Opposite - Winter In Tembisa, 1989
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
Jeu de Paume
1 place de la Concorde
75008
Paris
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BORDERS - A PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT
In this exhibit Noah Kalina, Emily Shur, and Noe Montes all deal with the ideas of borders in the photography.
Noah Kalina deals with the border between still and video, performance art and photography. He uses the traditional border of a still photo with the camera on a tripod and incorporates a story with movement inside that frame. Each video is 1 shot and no editing; a friend lying on a couch as another friends rides around her in circles; Noah doing pushups in his new studio; a young couple holding hands, knee deep in the ocean staring straight at the camera, still for 1 minute.
Emily Shur is showing pieces from her “Nature Calls” series, which are photos of cellphone tower trees in their environment. These scenes blur the line between nature, business, the need for communication, and the need to feel as if we are surrounded by nature in the built environment.
Noe Montes photographed objects around his parents home in Yuma Arizona and scenes in El Paso Texas while visiting these areas which he grew up in and around. These objects represent the border between the hopes and dreams of a new object and the reality of it being discarded or sat on a shelf unnoticed for years. Seemingly mundane, an old boom box on a couch, a broken touchtone telephone, and a statue of a horse head on a shelf, these are the same things he returns to each time he visits, which bring back the memories of home and family for better or for worse before he moved away.
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
THIS Los Angeles.com
5906 N. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles
CA
90042.
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ANGELS RIBE - IN THE LABYRINTH
This exhibition by Àngels Ribé covers a period of her production from the late 1960s to the mid-eighties.
It is centred on relatively unknown works that are nevertheless significant for the artist's body of work as a whole and for the development of contemporary art in our country. At the end of the sixties, a new aesthetic model appeared that had a fundamental influence on the creation of new ways of conceiving the artistic practice. The associative and symbolic functions of art are renegotiated: the artwork ceases to be an autonomous entity, as was the norm in the modernist tradition, and its meaning becomes dependent on an interchange with the spectator. In this way, the ambiguity and the multiplicity of references and readings that are an intrinsic part of the work of art are revealed.
Opposite - Invisible Geometry 2, 1973
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
MACBA
Plaça dels Angels, 1
08001
Barcelona
Posted by Exit 29/08/2011
ALAN ABOUD - ABOVE ALL ELSE
This summer exhibit at Paul Smith Globe, displays a series of photographs taken by Aboud from 2002-2011 on board flights travelling to cities including New York, Beirut, Nice, Milan and Tokyo.
From his seat Aboud captures a moment of open calmness and clarity in the airborne images, which is somewhat at odds with the drone and clatter of the closed atmosphere you would expect within the cabin. The variations of the content and composition; the sky, a presence of sun or cloud, a flash of engine or wing, strengthens the power of the repeated image with a subject matter most apt for the location of this project.
Alan Aboud was born in Dublin in 1966. He graduated from Saint Martin’s School of Art in 1989 and started his own creative agency shortly afterward; Paul Smith was one of his first clients.
Based in London, he has worked extensively in Europe, Japan and the USA, producing award-winning advertising, graphic & product design, commercials and motion imagery for a variety of clients in the fashion, beauty and music industries.
Paul Smith Globe at Heathrow's Terminal 5 reflects Paul’s eclectic taste and houses a collection of items he has gathered on his travels around the world alongside all the Paul Smith collections. A unique art wall is in place where people can view antique art, modern prints designed by illustrators and photography, some taken by Paul himself.
Exhibition runs through to September 20th, 2011
Paul Smith Globe
Departure Lounge
Terminal 5
Heathrow Airport
London
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JAMES CASEBERE: CREDIT, FAITH, TRUST
Working at the forefront of constructed photography since the late seventies, Casebere is associated with The Pictures Generation, a group of artists who combined a Pop obsession with media culture with the critical framework of Conceptual Art to redefine photography as a Postmodern medium in the 70s and 80s. Based upon his understanding of architectural, anthropological, art historical and cinematic sources, Casebere’s detailed photographs address contemporary and historical social concerns. His work challenges the boundaries between reality and imagination, whether dealing with alienation in sixties America; addressing slavery and colonialism through black and white visions of cotton mills and covered wagons peppered with native American arrows; or questioning incarceration and the significance of state buildings.
In the Landscape with Houses series, the artist expresses a fascination with the vernacular notion of home. The images are carefully constructed compositions based on a recreation of the suburban area of Dutchess County in Upstate New York as a model in the artist’s studio. As one might reconstruct an experience of landscape from memory, the model houses were created one by one and only later placed on a set, reassembled in different configurations. Colours, architectural features and details, and the relative scale of parts were revisited several times, resulting in a pastiche of the ideal suburban neighbourhood.
Exhibition runs from September 7th to October 1st, 2011
Lisson Gallery
52-54 Bell Street
London
NW1 5DA
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CHRIS LEVINE: SELECTED WORKS
On show will be a selection of works from Levine's career including the extraordinary installation Light is Love in the window of the gallery, works from his Grace Jones series, abstract lightform giclees, holograms, plus a new lightbox of Lightness of Being of the Queen.
All of Levine's work is in the pursuit of sensory experience through image and form. All objects and imagery are interacted with through the sensorial input of light energy and physical sensation.
He is currently working on a collaboration with Antony and the Johnsons culminating in a show and installation at MOMA in New York.
Exhibition runs from October 26th to November 26th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
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LEE FRIEDLANDER: AMERICA BY CAR
This will be Friedlanderʼs first solo exhibition in London since his 1976 show at the Photographersʼ Gallery.
This exhibition charts numerous journeys made by the photographer during the last decade across most of the fifty US states. Shot entirely from the interiors of rental cars, typically from the driver’s seat, Friedlander makes use of side and rearview mirrors, windscreens, and side windows as framing devices for a total of 192 images.
Elements from car interiors such as steering wheels and dashboards, as well as leather or wood panel trim, provide an index of their own; these differing qualities of finish and contemporaneity often appear strikingly at odds with the terrains in which they are located. Presented in the square-crop format that characterizes Friedlander’s more recent work, these images complicate and invigorate the most bereft of rural scenes. His desire to collapse and flatten out the three dimensional world parallels the means of cubist painting and recalls the collaging techniques of pop art.
Exhibition runs from September 1st to October 1st, 2011
Timothy Taylor Gallery
15 Carlos Place
London
W1K 2EX
Posted by Exit 15/08/2011
WELL HUNG - TYLER SHIELDS & MAXIMILIAN WIEDEMANN
Tyler Shields is coming to Central London to join forces with Maximilian Wiedemann in an exhibition which will release never before seen controversial images of Lindsay Lohan by Tyler and the pair's collaboration with those images.
Tyler Shields is famous for his blood bath and porn star images of Lindsay Lohan, taken while she was appearing in court, which she was forced to defend as art. The latest images, to be displayed for the first time at Imitate Modern in London, W1, will stir up as much of a publicity storm which Maximilian will add his own brand of wry humour and subversion to.
Maximilian is famous for turning culturally iconic images or brands on their heads, thus revealing information which is often more truthful than the original image. Max and Tyler's collaboration on images of Lindsay Lohan reveal a cutting insight into society's harmful manipulation of celebrity for money and the human cost of such.
Exhibition runs from October 13th to November 20th, 2011
Imitate Modern
27 a Devonshire Street
London
W1G 6PN
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IAN BERRY - THIS IS WHITECHAPEL
In 1972 the Whitechapel Gallery commissioned British photographer Ian Berry, renowned for his coverage of conflict, to turn his lens to everyday life in east London. He captured the last members of a dwindling Jewish community and the arrival of new faces from the Caribbean and South Asia; slum clearances heralding brutal high-rise towers; pineapples appearing in a greengrocer’s window; and a cobbler meeting the demands of a growing youth culture with star-spangled platform heels.
This is Whitechapel presents photographs and archive material from Berry’s momentous commission revealing the poverty, the acts of kindness and community and the political tensions that are still evident today.
Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2011
The Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
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KEN GRIFFITHS - PATAGONIA
In 2001 and 2002 photographer Ken Griffiths set out on three expeditions to the Argentine province of Chubut, the heartland of Welsh Patagonia. Ken visited Chubut in different seasons of the year to follow the trails blazed south and west by intrepid young Welsh pioneers. Between 1870 and 1900 they travelled the interior of the country and reached the Andes along what is now the Chilean frontier.
Ken decided that he wanted to avoid all the clichés of photo-journalists who travel to Gaiman for a day or two, visit a Welsh tea-room, and come back. Instead he was determined to set out to record, in image, the entire scope of the Welsh achievement in that part of the New World. Ken’s family left Wales for New Zealand and he has now made England his home for several decades. As an immigrant himself, Ken was moved from the outset by the quest of the Welsh for a home where they could preserve their culture and their language.
Opposite - Charging Horses, Dolavon, 30th April 2002
Exhibition runs through to August 27th, 2011
Michael Hoppen Gallery
3 Jubilee Place
London
SW3 3TD
Posted by Exit 08/08/2011
JEFFREY STOCKBRIDGE - PHOTOGRAPHS 2005-2008
28-year-old photographer Jeffrey Stockbridge is currently exhibiting work from three projects at the Wapping Project Bankside in London. The images present a bleak vision of life in Stockbridge’s hometown of Philadelphia.
Opposite - Dauphin and Camac, 2005-06
Exhibition runs through to September 3rd,2011
The Wapping Project Bankside
65a Hopton Street
London
SE1 9LR
www.thewappingprojectbankside.com
Posted by Exit 08/08/2011
MARGATE PHOTO FESTIVAL
The exhibition looks to collect and display the everyday snap shots we take which inspire, intrigue or are simply taken because it feels right. Capturing these configurations, formations or simple moments on our cameras work as an addition to our visual sketchbooks that are so often referenced to develop new ideas and form new bodies of work.
Exhibition runs from August 13th -14th, 2011
Margate Photo Festival
Harbour Arm Gallery
Margate
Kent
CT9 1JD
United Kingdom
Posted by Exit 08/08/2011
ERNST HAAS - COLOR CORRECTION
Ernst Haas is unquestionably one of the best-known, most prolific and most published photographers of the twentieth century. He is most associated with a vibrant colour photography which, for decades, was much in demand by the illustrated press. His colour work, published in the most influential magazines in Europe and America, also fed a constant stream of books, and these too enjoyed great popularity. But although his colour work earned him fame around the world, in recent decades it has often been derided by critics and curators as “overly commercial”, and too easily accessible – or in the language of curators, not sufficiently “serious”. As a result, his reputation has suffered in comparison with a younger generation of colour photographers, notably Eggleston, Shore and Meyerowitz.
Paradoxically, however, there was also a side of his work that was almost entirely hidden from view. Parallel to his commissioned work Haas constantly made images for his own interest, and these pictures show an entirely different aspect of Haas’s sensibility: they are far more edgy, loose, complex and ambiguous – in short, far more radical than the work which earned him fame.
Opposite - Traffic, New York, 1963
Exhibition runs from September 14th to October 22nd, 2011
Atlas Gallery
49 Dorset Street
London
W1U 7NF
United-Kingdom
Posted by Exit 01/08/2011
ABOUT FACE
About Face, is a group show featuring twenty-five contemporary photographers: Steven Alvarez, Tina Barney, Rita Bernstein, Donald E. Camp, Paul Cava, Kelli Connell, Edward Dimsdale, Jen Davis, Martine Fougeron, David Graham, Yuichi Hibi, Henry Horenstein, George Krause, Serge J-F. Levy, Andrea Modica, Caitlin Teal Price, Richard Renaldi, Liz Rideal, Jason Robinette, Nadine Rovner, Manjari Sharma, Rafael Soldi, Phillip Toledano, Neil Winokur, and Davin Youngs.
This exhibition concentrates on recent portraiture concerned with the face. There are few things more varied and interesting than the face. It embodies our individuality and projects it to the world in a way that nothing else does. Yet at the same time, there are few things more ubiquitous than a face. We are confronted with other faces (and occasionally our own) on such a routine basis that we stop examining them with any great amount of care. Like buildings in a city, only the most striking ones stand out, and the rest blend together as part of the context of daily life.
Opposite - Manjari Sharma, Anastasia, The Shower Series, 2009
Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2011
Gallery 339 - Fine Art Photography
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia
PA
19103
Posted by Exit 01/08/2011
COLORWARE - LEICA D-LUX 5
Minnesota-base customization specialist ColorWare is offering custom colored Leica D-LUX 5 cameras for a $1200 USD. Overall there are 48 options to choose from (including metallic and pearl options) over 8 different parts of the camera.
Posted by Exit 01/08/2011
VALERIE PHILLIPS - I ATE A GRASSHOPPER
New exhibition by Valerie Phillips whose biggest influences remain the things she loved as a kid outer space, gymnastics, skateboarding and the paintings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
She grew up in pre-disneyfied New York City, cut school to compete with her skateboard team, snuck into clubs to see bands, and eventually left for London to take pictures.
Her work has appeared on numerous cd sleeves including PJ Harvey, Manic Street Preachers, Amy Winehouse, Amy Macdonald and Tracey Thorn. Her commercial clients include Nike, Doc Martens, Billabong, Puma, Reebok, Paul Smith, Virgin Atlantic, PF Flyers, Urban Outfitters, Goodyear, JC Penney, Sony Playstation, PC World, New Look, Selfridges.
Valerie has published six books so far. Each documenting the life of a different girl. From a Polish high school student in Brooklyn to a young teen gymnast training in Oklahoma. The latest, 'Amber Is For Caution' , follows an ex-model studying to become a surgical technician in Kentucky. Her books convey an un-precious, realistic and spirited account of someone's life.
Exhibition runs from July 26th, 2011
Claire de rouen books
1st Floor, 121 – 125 Charing Cross Road
London
WC2H 0EW
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CHRISTIAN GIERATHS - SALAAM BOMBAY
The exhibition´s title Salaam Bombay derives from a film title of the 1980s which reflects Gieraths´ interest in locations for the Hindi film industry, located in Mumbai.
Christian Gieraths is a flaneur who is interested in the hustle and bustle of a society which develops itself in the pulse of technological progress and which, therefore, is in an ongoing condition of change. He is continuously searching for places where he can find these changes manifested in its historical, political or aesthetic forms. Sotchi, Havanna, Tokyo, Hollywood and Las Vegas have been previous settings of earlier series´ which show a similar picture language: They show deserted places, streets and interiors as well as facades. His focal point of the compositions is always identical. Hence, the viewpoint of the observer as well as the restricted image section remains Gieraths´ criteria for composition. His photographies are comprised by a certain silence that derives from his composition and reminds of film stills.
Colour and atmosphere as well as the artist´s viewpoint are most significant. By depicting his compositions in a short span of time he enables the past to become present. Through dealing with these locations and its surroundings, as well as thoughtful observations of the sensual reality and the atmospheric moods, Gieraths transforms his visual experience into photography.
Exhibition runs through to September 2nd, 2011
Baukunst Galerie
Theodor-Heuss-Ring 7
D - 50668
Cologne
Germany
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ALLAN SEKULA - POLONIA AND OTHER FABLES
Both Polonia and Other Fables and Walking on Water by US photographer Allan Sekula, explore personal themes rooted in the artist’s Polish ancestry, placed amidst wider considerations of national identity, migration and global economics.
The exhibition is made up of a series of large, square-format analogue photographs; a text booklet and wall-mounted quotations, alongside an installation of slide projection. The artist uses a range of photographic tropes, from clandestine snapshots to formal portraiture, from ethnography to street photography, from serial to aerial views in an attempt to understand Poland, the place, and the Poland that lives in the minds of those who have left.
Exhibition runs through to August 19th, 2011
Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
BT1 2FF
Belfast
Northen Ireland
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LEICA M9-P
The M9-P rangefinder camera, is an ultra-discreet version of their popular M9. Featuring the same compact size, full-frame, 18 megapixel sensor, sophisticated image processing and robust construction of the Leica M9, the M9-P adds a touch of minimalist styling. The red dot logo and M9 lettering on the front have been omitted and replaced with the Leica name in classic script form engraved on the top plate. The body is finished with vulcanite leatherette, while the LCD screen includes a scratch-resistant, sapphire crystal covering.
The M9-P is compatible with nearly every Leica M lens produced since the line’s introduction in 1954 and will be available in two different finishes, black paint or traditional silver chrome.
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DUFFY: A VISUAL RECORD OF A PHOTOGRAPHIC GENIUS
During the ‘60s and ’70s, Brian Duffy (1933-2010) was, along with David Bailey and Terence Donovan, a member of the fashion photography elite. His docu-style shoots for Vogue and Queen magazines were aimed at dispelling the gloom of the post-war period and provided a self-consciously youthful, visually literate generation with a new sense of self, and of London. Duffy gave up photography in 1979, at the height of his career, and set fire to most of his work in his back garden.
His son, Chris, spent years searching through archives and publications all over the world to produce ‘Duffy: In His Own Words’, published this month by ACC Editions. Among Duffy’s most iconic images were those used in campaigns for Benson & Hedges and Smirnoff, a series of studio images of Michael Caine shot in 1964 and the covers for David Bowie’s ‘Aladdin Sane’, ‘Lodger’ and ‘Scary Monsters’ albums.
To coincide with the book’s release, ‘Duffy: A Visual Record of a Photographic Genius’, the first and only book of the photographer's work.
Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2011
Idea Store
321 Whitechapel Road
City of London
E1 1BU
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JANE AND LOUISE WILSON
This exhibition of large-scale photographs is from their ongoing investigation into the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The exhibition also features a number of other works, many previously unseen in the UK.
Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum), 2010 is a suite of eight photographic prints depicting deserted interiors from the abandoned town of Pripyat, situated within the 30km wide Exclusion Zone around the site of the disaster. Books remain on shelves and desks, bed frames remain intact and once-exquisite parquet flooring lies on the ground like rubble. A yardstick appears within each image and is a recurring motif throughout the exhibition. These objects of measurement – functional yet obsolete – act as a marker of scale and order, alluding to the tensions between association and analysis, memory and material fact.
Exhibition runs through to September 10th, 2011
John Hansard Gallery
University of Southampton
Highfield
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
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THOMAS STRUTH: PHOTOGRAPHS 1978-2010
Picturing subjects as diverse as places of worship, jungles and research laboratories, Struth once compared the space shuttle programme to the construction of the medieval cathedrals. His photographs reveal the cultural, psychological and historical undercurrents beneath the surface of modernity.
Tracing the architectural history of ordinary city streets Struth also charts the increasing uniformity of global development. While people are absent from his street scenes of Düsseldorf, Naples or New York, they take centre stage in his family portraits and his iconic museum photographs showing spectators lost in devotional gaze before works of art and architecture. In sharp contrast, his Paradise series captures impenetrable forests void of any trace of human intervention.
This exhibition spans early black and white prints to recent colour photographs that are up to 4 metres long. These include images of sites at the cutting edge of technology such as the Space Centre on Cape Canaveral. Their overwhelming scale evokes an industrial sublime; built by us, yet chillingly inhuman, these structures encapsulate the great contradictions of progress.
Opposite - Tokamak Asdex Upgrade, Interior 1, Max Planck IPP, Garching, 2010
Exhibition runs through to September 16th, 2011
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London
E1 7QX
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MALCOLM LUBLINER - PACIFIC PARTY TIME
During the 1960s and 70s photographer Malcolm Lubliner documented his experiences and friendships in the Los Angeles art scene with images of Larry Bell, Wallace Berman, Sam Francis and others in their studios and at gallery openings. Lublinerʼs photographs have been collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C..
The exhibition “Pacific Party Time” consists of candid photographs of artists such as John Baldessari, Robert Irwin and John Altoon attending the soirees of Betty Asher, Louise Bernstein, Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, and Ken Tyler. It was at these gatherings that LA artists were first introduced to important artists from around the world.
Opposite - Joe Goode, Dewain Valentine and Patty Oldenburg at the Grinsteins', 1968
Exhibition runs from September 10th - October 15th, 2011
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California 90404
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DAIDO MORIYAMA: ON THE ROAD
This exhibition traces the trajectory of Moriyama Daido's career as a photographer from his debut in photography magazines in 1965 to the present, based primarily on developments over about a dozen of his photobooks.
While the subject of Moriyama's photographs is almost always fragments of daily life that he discovers on the street, his works violently jolt the viewer, and have helped expand the concept of photography. They are also imbued with a power that inspires us to reexamine the essence of photography.
Among the over 400 works on display will be some new, and for Moriyama, rare color photographs that deal with the theme of Tokyo.
Opposite - Stray Dog, 1971
Exhibition runs through to September 19th, 2011
National Museum of Art, Osaka
4-2-55 Nakanoshima
kita-ku
Osaka
530-0005
Japan
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EYEWITNESS: HUNGARIAN PHOTOGRAPHY
Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they brought about in photojournalism, as well as abstract, fashion and art photography.
Others, such as Károly Escher, Rudolf Balogh and Jószef Pécsi remained in Hungary producing high-quality and innovatory photography. A display of approximately two hundred photographs ranging in date from c.1914–c.1989 will explore stylistic developments in photography and chart key historical events. These striking images will reveal the achievements of Hungarian photographers who left such an enduring legacy to international photography.
Opposite - Wedding, Budapest, László Fejes, 1965
Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2011
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London
W1J 0BD
Posted by Exit 04/07/2011
JOSEF KOUDELKA - INVASION 68 : PRAGUE
In 1968 Josef Koudelka was thirty years old. He had committed himself to photography as a full-time career only recently, and had been chronicling the theater and the lives of gypsies, but he had never photographed a news event. That all changed on the night of August 21, when Warsaw Pact tanks invaded the city of Prague, ending the short-lived political freedom in Czechoslovakia that came to be known as the Prague Spring.
In the midst of the turmoil of the Soviet-led invasion, Koudelka took to the streets to document this critical moment.
Koudelka’s photographs of the invasion were miraculously smuggled out of the country. A year after they reached New York, Magnum Photos distributed the images, but credited them to an unknown Czech photographer to avoid reprisals. The intensity and significance of the images earned the still-anonymous photographer the Robert Capa Award.
Sixteen years would pass before Koudelka could safely acknowledge authorship.
Exhibition runs through to July 18th, 2011
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Yebisu Garden Place
1-13-3 Mita Meguro-ku
Tokyo 1530062
Japan
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BEATE GÜTSCHOW
Her photography addresses the construction of imagery, both within the medium itself, through the use of digital and analogue technologies, and the cultural conditions that influence the creation of imagery. Gütschow's compositions reference 17th Century landscape painting as well as the architectural and documen- tary photography of the1950s and '60s.
She draws from her archive of mostly analogue images of buildings, trees, landscapes and people to assemble digital composites. At first glance the final works appear convincing as real scenes, but on closer inspection the spaces and scenes are not quite genuine, causing the constructed nature of imagery to become apparent.
Exhibition runs through to July 15th, 2011
St Paul St Gallery
40 St Paul Street,
Auckland
CBD
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LAURIE SIMMONS - THE LOVE DOLL: DAYS 1 – 30
This will also be the artist’s first solo exhibition in London. Over the last 30 years Simmons has garnered a significant reputation internationally as one of the leading artists to emerge from the New York ‘Pictures Generation’ during the 1970’s and 80’s.
Laurie Simmons moved to New York in 1973, with her close friend and photographer Jimmy De Sana. The two artists converted an old sweatshop in Soho into their studio and living space. Together the pair set up Laurie’s first darkroom, and under De Sana’s tutelage, Simmons came to understand, with a far greater awareness, the intricacies of the camera and the complexities of production techniques. From 1975, Laurie began to photograph her dolls in these evocative nourish black-and-white scenarios. Whilst the resultant images were beautifully intricate alter-realities, the artist was amazed by their apparent realism – ‘I actually believed that the rooms I was shooting could be mistaken for real places’. Simmons was immediately struck by the camera’s propensity to lie – and indeed the role images constitute in our own construction as subjects – whether it be as sons, daughters, family members or citizens.
Opposite - The Love Doll / Day 27 / Day 1 (New in Box)
Exhibition runs through to July 10th, 2011
Wilkinson Gallery
50-58 Vyner Street
London
E2 9DQ
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AXEL HÜTTE - FRANKFURT 2011 // EMETH
In the show Frankfurt 2011 // Emeth (in Hebrew Emeth stands for "truth" - Meth means "death"), the works as a whole focus on the rapid changes of environmental reality, the alteration of urban and natural landscapes and the reception of the visible reality. In "Tableau Frankfurt am Main", 2011 Axel Hütte brings together postcards picturing the city before the 2nd World War with his own photographs of the present views of the city. By opposing images from different decades the artist hints us towards the diverse modes of representational images and the changes within the visual perception. Consequently and in an ironic way, Hütte chooses the format of an overdimensioned postcard - an out-dated medium of mass communication in today's society.
The perfectly composed photographs of nighttime cityscapes integrated by Axel Hütte feature the particular skyline of Frankfurt. Like all nighttime photographs of Axel Hütte those pictures were taken with extremely long exposure time - also in details one can find the examination of the notion of time which reveals the hidden and focuses the perception.The artificial lights illuminating the darkness in "Ratskeller", 2011 create a shifting moment in the perception and constitute an irritating, magical atmosphere. Although the scene is deserted, or precisely because of the absence of people strong energy emanates from the image.
Opposite - Frankfurt, (Night), 2011
Exhibition runs through to July 23rd, 2011
Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt
Hanauer Landstrasse 136
60314
Frankfurt
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BRYAN GRAF - FIELD RECORDINGS
The title of the show refers to a term for audio recordings made outside of the studio, sometimes involving the ambient sounds of nature. In this instance it refers to the onsite interactions of photographic materials with a particular place.
The body of work, Wildlife Analysis, was made in the woods and swamps around New Jersey. While photographing these places with black and white film, Graf used unexposed color film to record the direct contact of ambient light flooding onto the film without the use of a lens. Graf then uses the exposed color film as a composite layer in the darkroom. Using these tools he take us on a hallucinatory trip through his native landscape. The images themselves are obstructed by a river of intoxicating hues, blending and shifting as they wash across the prints.
Additionally, a selection of Polaroids, from The Sun Room: Interchanges, B-Sides & Remixes series gives us a glimpse into Graf's studio practice. He refers to these images as "sketches” made in and around his studio, which doubles as a sun room for plants in the spring and summer months. These images are small-scale experiments made over the past four years while he was working on various projects.
Exhibition runs through to July 15th, 2011
Yancey Richardson Gallery
535 West 22nd Street 3rd floor
New York
NY
10011
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ARNOLD CRANE
Over a period of more than two decades, Crane created a body of artistic work of immeasurable value and historic importance. Whether sitting in a car with Paul Strand, catching Imogen Cunningham in her kitchen or accompanying Ansel Adams on a Point Lobos shoot, Crane always managed to produce sensitive photographs that both revealed and revered his subjects.
Crane has worked as a photographer since his youth and documented incidents such as major crime scenes, earthquakes, fires and political events and was published in various U.S. magazines. After receiving his Doctor of Juris prudence, he temporarily stopped working as a photographer, but started again in 1983, inspired by a friendship with the photographer Man Ray. His monograph On the Other Side of the Camera, already out of print, offers a complete collection of all the artists’ portraits Crane has created over the years. The book won the renowned KODAK Photo Book Award in 1995, the year of its publication.
Opposite - Arnold Crane with mirrors
Exhibition runs through to September 3rd, 2010
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
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NAN GOLDIN - FIRE LEAP
Fireleap is a major new slideshow with images of children from 1972 until today, most of which have never been shown. Children fascinate Goldin because of their freedom. They follow no rules, living in a free zone before being socialized by society’s boundaries. Fireleap captures this consciousness while it is still untethered by awkwardness and social restraint.
Nan Goldin is known as an artist whose output is inextricably bound up with her own biography, and for breaking down the traditional barrier between the camera and what is being photographed. Her naturally lit images document her surrogate family of friends and lovers, and more often than not are frank confrontations with personal experience, and explorations of both intimacy and the alienation that can be wound up within it.
Exhibition runs through to August 8th, 2011
Sprovieri Gallery
27 Heddon Street
London
W1B 4BJ
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MIKE FIGGIS: KATE & OTHER WOMEN
Mike Figgis is the renowned director and writer, most famous for his 1996 film ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ which was nominated for four Academy Awards. He has since worked on the cutting edge of creative digital filmmaking and photography, where he pushes the boundaries by experimenting with different textures and formats.
The sensually charged images of Kate Moss, Eva Green and ‘other women’ have been enchanced by Mike using techniques which he has developed himself, making them ‘unique’ in the true sense of the word.
The photographs of Kate Moss were shot as part of a campaign for Agent Provocateur in 2007, which included a series of films and a book ‘The 4 Dreams of Miss X’.
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
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RICHARD AVEDON - WRITERS
This exhibition focuses on Richard Avedon’s portraits of writers, first executed in between the 1950’s and the 1970’s During a career that spanned nearly sixty years, Richard Avedon defined and expanded concepts of art and culture in twentieth century photography while producing an extended meditation on life, death, beauty, class, race, and identity. His reportage, portrait and commercial work dissolved the lines between photography’s many perceived genres, as it ranged across a breadth of subject matter including fashion, the American Civil Rights movement, war protestors, the fall of the Berlin wall, and portraits of the famous and the anonymous.
Opposite - William Burroughs, New York, July 9, 1975
Exhibition runs through to July 28th, 2011
Gagosian Gallery
4 rue de Ponthieu
75008
Paris
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BORIS MIKHAILOV - CASE HISTORY
Ukrainian-born Boris Mikhailov is one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. For over 30 years, he has explored the position of the individual within the historical mechanisms of public ideology, touching on such subjects as Ukraine under Soviet rule, the living conditions in post-communist Eastern Europe, and the fallen ideals of the Soviet Union. Although deeply rooted in a historical context, Mikhailov’s work also incorporates profoundly engaging and personal narratives of humor, lust, vulnerability, aging, and death.
This exhibition is the first in-depth presentation of Mikhailov’s seminal Case History series (1997–98) in an American museum. This body of work explores the deeply troubling circumstances of people who have been left homeless by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Set against the bleak backdrop of the industrial city of Kharkov, Mikhailov’s life-size color photographs document the oppression, devastating poverty, and everyday reality of a disenfranchised community living on the margins of Russia’s new economic regime.
Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019-5497
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PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-GF3
The latest camera from panasonic is the new Lumix DMC-GF3. The 12 megapixel ultra compact camera comes with a built in flash, multiple lens options including a 3D lens, touch enabled screen. The camera comes in 5 colors.
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HERB RITTS
Herb Ritts attained the legendary status of a fashion, celebrity, portrait- and nude photographer. In the 1980s and the 1990s, the autodidact worked together with nearly every superstar. Among the exhibited portraits one can find names such as Madonna, Mick Jagger, Dustin Hoffman, David Bowie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, and Cindy Crawford.
His great sensitivity and his stylistic confidence with regard to the usage of strict forms, creating a monumental sensuality, enabled Herb Ritts to create timeless icons and to influence a whole generation of photographers with his innovative picture language.
More than 50 photographs will give a comprehensive insight into the work of Herb Ritts. All of the exhibited photographs were developed during the artist’s lifetime.
Opposite - Jack Nicholson II, 1988
Exhibition runs through to July 9th, 2011
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Posted by Exit 06/06/2010
ALL THAT FITS: THE AESTHETICS OF JOURNALISM
The exhibition presents the provocative idea that art and journalism are two sides of a unique activity; the production and distribution of images and information. The exhibition brings to surface how images and information are communicated, and the aesthetic principles used in the act of transmission. Whereas journalism provides a view on the world, as it ‘really’ is; art often presents a view on the view, truth posited as acts of reflection. All that Fits: The Aesthetics of Journalism will examine both as systems of information that define truth in terms of the visible but also what can be imagined.
Opposite - Eric Baudelaire, The Dreadful Details, diptych
Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2011
Quad
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby
DE1 3AS
United Kingdom
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SONY NEX-C3
Sony has updated its line of digital cameras with a new model called the NEX-C3.
This camera uses the same format APS-C image sensor as its predecessor, but with a resolution of 16.2 megapixels in a camera body smaller than the NEX-5. According to Sony, the new entry-level cam is designed to fill the gap between point-and-shoot and DSLR cameras.
Available late July or August, and will be offered with 18-55mm and 16mm lenses.
Posted by Exit 06/06/2011
HONG KONG BY TERRY RICHARDSON
Known for his extensive work with fashion brands, magazines and books, including “Hysteric Glamour” (1998), “Terryworld” (2004), “Kibosh” (2006) and “Rio Cidade Maravilhosa” (2007) and now Hong Kong.
In 2007, American photographer Terry Richardson visited in Hong Kong for a week to capture images of the city’s celebrities and socialites. Among his subjects were actress Maggie Cheung, actress and singer Josie Ho, actors Sam Lee and Shawn Yue, and Cantopop duo Twins.
Posted by Exit 30/05/2011
YANNIS ROGER - APRES. PHOTOGRAPHS, 2004-2010
Taken on artist’s wanderings, Yannis Roger’s pictures, often miniature and always beautifully printed on Ilfochrome paper, witness with a rare poetry a silent and personal world at the border of commonplace, intimate and strangeness. The photographer is a musician as well, but music informs his pictures much less than cinema. However, no will to impose a story through a juxtaposition of images. On the contrary, each photograph is a kind of photogram inviting the viewer to solve an enigma.
Opposite - Sans titre, Rue de Sofia, Paris, Printemps 2007
Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2011
Galerie VU
Hôtel Paul Delaroche
58 rue Saint Lazare
75009 Paris
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LEICA V-LUX 30
Leica have announced the V-Lux 30, a 15.1 megapixel compact digital camera. In comparison to the V-Lux 20, the new camera has a 16x zoom Leica DC Vario-Elmar lens with an extended range of focal lengths, a new LCD touch screen display, integrated GPS function and video recording in 1080i-AVCHD Full HD. The Leica V-Lux 30 will be available from Leica dealers beginning June 2011.
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ORI GERSHT - FALLING PETALS
In his most recent series comprised of images taken from April to May 2010 in Japan, Gersht traveled between cities that were affected by World War II as well as ancient locations in remote western Japan, examining the shifting symbolism of the cherry blossom. While initially associated with Buddhist concepts of renewal, the celebration of life, and good fortune, the cherry blossom was re-appropriated during Japan's 19th century militarization and colonial expansion. Once celebrated as a healthy and abundant flower, the falling of the petals from the tree became the symbol of Kamikaze soldiers. Gersht furthers this discussion of life and death symbolism in his exploration of trees planted before the war in unaffected remote areas, contrasting them against trees in Hiroshima that were planted in nuclear soil.
The artist made use of digital cameras that allowed for images to be taken under extreme light conditions, further questioning the ability of photography as a medium to convey a singular truth or story. Presenting documentation of what is assumed to be an exact location, Gersht’s digital process allows for the absolute light and color veracity of these landscapes to be questioned and by extension the viewer’s interpretation of this location’s history. Unlike previous series which focused on geographic journeys (Walter Benjamin following the Lister Route in Gersht’s Evaders (2009) or The Forest (2006), in which the artist’s family found refuge from Nazi persecution during WWII in the Ukraine), Falling Petals offers imagery that conveys past and present without a specified linear narrative; Gersht’s photographic process implies the passage of time without providing an exacting start or finish to the life of the depicted.
Opposite - Against the Tide: Isolated, 2010
Exhibition runs through to June 25th, 2011
CRG Gallery
548 W 22nd Street
New York
NY
10011
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ELLEN KOOI - OUT OF SIGHT
This new body of work continues Kooi's exploration of the Dutch landscape as well as her ability to create hyper realities. Kooi situates people in natural settings and through distinct technical feats creates narratives that recall fairytales, movies and dreams.
These large scale photographs, which are always shot in the daytime, allude to various tales that are hinted at but never revealed. Kooi's background in theatre is evident by the way she stages her photographs. Using a large format camera, she sets up elaborate lighting to create a set within the natural landscape. She stages the character(s) to dramatize and bring into focus the moods and stories of the scenes being created. The natural elements are transformed, becoming more than mere backdrops. Kooi's intense method of producing and processing her images exaggerates the unnerving realness of the situations being depicted.
Opposite - Velsen-lampen, 2008
Exhibition runs through to June 18th, 2011
P.P.O.W
535 West 22nd Street
3rd Floor
New York
NY
10001
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ANTTI LAITINEN - BARK BOAT
Antti Laitinen latest performance entitled "Bark Boat", is documented through a series of photographs and video.
On the 7th of August 2010 at 4am, a rudimentary and yet authentic sailboat was launched for the first time in the Finnish peninsula of Porkkala and was about to embark on its inaugural journey across the Gulf of Finland. At its command was a young and resilient journeyman who has made a name for himself through his adventurous-spirit and his ritualistic quests for achievement, and known by the name of Antti Laitinen.
This is the latest in a series of performances where Antti Laitinen embarks on a personal journey, pushing the boundaries of his physical endurance and braving the natural elements, to engage with the world in a collective mission to stage mythologies and erase the boundary between success and failure. As in most of his previous projects, "Bark Boat" originates from classical Finnish tales and cultural imagery - in this instance, the title is taken from a Finnish childhood game whereby pieces of tree bark are used as rafts and are set sailing onto the vast sea until they disappear out of sight. The children would imagine their miniature boats sailing all the way to faraway lands.
Opposite - Bark Boat V, 2010
Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2011
Nettie Horn
25b Vyner St
London
E2 9DG
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ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN - ALIAS
Photomonth is one of Poland's largest visual arts events and one of the leading European festivals of photography. Comprising over fifty exhibitions and accompanying events. For the 2011 edition, Broomberg and Chanarin have invited artists and writers to collaborate in pairs to create a fictive third persona.
Broomberg and Chanarin have invited artists and writers to collaborate in pairs to create a fictive third persona. Participating artists include Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili and Andro Wekua, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Lisa Brice, Polly Braden, Michael Chanarin, Celine Condorelli, Jeremy Deller, Godfried Donkor, Roe Etheridge, Beatrice Gibson, David Gill, Johan Grimonprez, David Goldblatt, Marine Hugonnier, Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Elizabeth McAlpine, Gabriel Orozco, Max Pinckers, Janek Simon, Alec Soth, Clare Strand and Gordon MacDonald. Writers include Brown & Bri, David Campany, Clare Carolin, Brian Dillon, Alexander Garcia Düttmann, Ekow Eshun, Łukasz Gorczyca i Łukasz Ronduda, Avery Gordon, John Haskell, Jennifer Higgie, Siddhartha Mukherjee, Chris Mullen, Fernando Pessoa, Ella Saltmarshe, Gemma Sieff, Karolina Sulej, Lynne Tillman, Sean O'Toole, Helen deWitt, Ivan Vladislavic, Brad Zellar
Exhibition runs through to June 12th, 2011
Visual Arts Foundation
ul. Piekarska 11/12
31-067 Krakow
Poland
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PAUL TREVOR - LIKE YOU'RE NEVER BEEN AWAY
This exhibition features 58 photographs of children playing on the streets of 1970s Liverpool. In 1975 Paul Trevor came to Liverpool to document inner city deprivation for the 'Survival Programmes' project. His remarkable photographs tell a different story however. Their backdrop may be the dereliction of post-war Liverpool. But these images go beyond this bleak cityscape and get close to his real subject: families and children.
Paul's direct and honest street photography shows life as it was lived in a community defiant in the face of poverty, unemployment and the state of their surroundings. He depicts a place where the streets and wastelands became playgrounds, the family was a constant, and where children seem fun-loving and free.
Exhibition runs through to September 25th, 2011
Walker Art Gallery
William Brown Street
Liverpool
L3 8EL
England
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PANASONIC MICRO LUMIX G3
The all new Panasonic Micro Lumix G3 finally arrives. The new 16 megapixel camera comes with an interchangeable lense system, comes with a 3-inch free angle LCD screen, records HD video and can with the corresponding lense can take high quality 3D pictures. The camera is touch screen controlled, making it even easier to use.
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PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA : ROID
‘Roid’ by American artist Philip-Lorca diCorcia, reveals a series of over 100 never-before-seen Polaroids. Displayed along a rail that traces the contours of the gallery walls, the Polaroids span the 30-year career of one of the most influential photographers of his generation.
DiCorcia first came to prominence in the 1970s with photographs that defied definition, existing in the space between documentary fact and movie-style fiction. The meticulous staging of quotidian scenes of family and friends lent the images an unparalleled sense of heightened drama and ambiguity. In the 1990s diCorcia turned his focus from scenes of domesticity to the American tradition of street photography exemplified by photographers such as Robert Frank and Gary Winogrand. In a seminal series that was retrospectively entitled 'Hustlers', diCorcia photographed men who had moved to Hollywood seeking their fortune, only to find themselves working the Sunset Strip as male prostitutes.
Exhibition runs from May 19th to June 18th, 2011
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
LONDON
W1S 4EJ
Posted by Exit 09/05/2011
GILES PRICE : MACROSCOPIC OLYMPIAD
"Macroscopic Olympiad" is a selection of photographs from a documentary project by Giles Price, which portrays a large scale and minutely detailed aerial vision of the Olympic Park during a period of rapid construction.
This visual language is only available through flight, reiterating the smallness not only of the physical being, but of the interior perspective on navigating a landscape." Merging the landscape with group portraiture, mini-scenes with human workers intersperse amidst the machines and structures. Unlike computer models made up of composite images, the images capture the breadth of the mega-project on several compositional levels in moments of real time, by offering an alternate vision of the Olympic construction process.
Exhibition runs from May 19th to June 18th, 2011
See Studio Exhibition Space
13 Prince Edward Road
London
E3 5LX
Posted by Exit 09/05/2011
WISH YOU WERE HERE
The Little Black Gallery's annual summer show highlights new rising stars in the world of art photography. This year it features....
Jon Compson is one of the leading creatives of his craft, jumping between beauty and fashion with his own very visual and unique take on the subject.
Elisabeth Molin is a Danish photographer who has exhibited widely, including The Royal Academy 'Summer Show', with her provocative and striking images.
Alistair Taylor-Young is a leading British fashion and beauty photographer. He is fast becoming a collectable name in the world of art photography with his first solo show at The Little Black Gallery in January 2011 selling out.
Kurt Tong is an award winning photographer, born in Hong Kong, who won the last prestigious Jerwood Photography Award. He has exhibited widely including The Royal Academy and a solo show at Compton Verney.
Opposite - Orchid Girl 2, Jon Compson
Exhibition runs from May 18th to June 18th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 09/05/2011
MICHAEL KENNA - RETROSPECTIVE
Michael Kenna`s retrospective covers the most significant periods of his creative work and shows famous landscape photos, made during his travels. Pictures of French provinces and Japanese gardens, American power plants and sculptures in St. Petersburg are among them.
The photographer’s style can be called metaphysical photography, with time and memory as basic concepts. Black-and-white high contrast photos take viewers from the real world to the abstract university of the photographer. Therefore, Kenna’s works can be easily regarded as an ancient painting and a 3D image. They embody the skilful synthesis of the eternal and the momentary. The photographer’s approach to the viewer is also specific. All photos by Kenna have small size. Such format forces one person to watch it from the distance of no more than 30 cm. Kenna intentionally brings us closer to the picture, demanding maximum involvement and frankness in the dialogue with the audience.
Opposite - Perspective of Trees, Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, 1999
Exhibition runs from May 22nd, 2011
Moscow Museum Of Modern Art
9 Tverskoy Boulevard
Moscow
Russia
Posted by Exit 02/05/2011
SASCHA WEIDNER - SINCE TOMORROW
With this exhibition, Sascha Weidner offers a deep, personal glimpse into his life, reaching from childhood photographs up to current pictures from diverse contexts. The method of plumbing the depths of his personal archive defines his artistic practice. Again and again, he draws anew from his pool of images, changing the arrangements and, in so doing, shifting the point of view.
Whether in photographs of rumpled white sheets, in macro shots of veined skin, or in images of mysteriously overturned cars or of the tender intimacy of lovers, every passing nuance is critical.
Opposite - Unfold II, 2006
Exhibition runs from May 7th to June 26th, 2011
Postfuhramt
Oranienburger Str. 35-36
10117 Berlin
Germany
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LEICA X UNIFORM EXPERIMENT D-LUX 5
Hiroshi Fujiwara and his brand Uniform Experiment and Leica the German high end camera maker come together over the D-Lux 5. The special uniform experiment edition, featuring a logo placements on the upper, as well as a matching leather camera case, also featuring embossed logo placements.
The camera is to released in Japan on May 11th, and limited to 200 pieces.
www.uniformexperiment.jp
www.leica.com
Posted by Exit 02/05/2011
ANNI LEPPALA
Leppala's images belong to a space that lies in between the visually perceptible world and a kind of mythical zone behind it. Her scenarios allow us a mere glimpse of events. By focusing on a single detail or gesture, she opens up her pictures to the viewer’s own interpretation.
Figures are shown in undefined interiors, their faces turned away and hidden behind their own hands or masks, mysterious in their inwardly directed, reserved aura. At times, they can hardly be discerned behind dense fields of wheat or bushes, while at other times they are lost in the light and shadow of infinite forests. The stillness and melancholy unique to the north is articulated in many of Leppälä’s nature photographs.
Opposite - Garden, 2007
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2011
Barbara Gross Galerie
Theresienstrasse 56 Hof 1
80333
München
Germany
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ALMAGUL MENLIBAYEVA - TRANSOXIANA DREAMS
In Transoxiana Dreams, Menlibayeva, a pictorial sorceress herself, breeds an eccentric storyline and fantastical imagery extracted deeply from her own atavistic repertoire, and leading visionally through an existing, yet unimaginable landscape in a distant and hypnagogic world.
Menlibayeva tells the tale of a young fisherman’s daughter who observes the dramatic changes to the landscape of the Aral region and its population through a child’s eyes in a dreamlike mélange of documentary and fantasy. Drawing on the image of the Greek mythological figure of the Centaur, Menlibayeva creates alluring hybrid beings, both sexually charged and bizarre alike. According to the legend, when the ancient Greeks first encountered the nomads of the Transoxianian Steppes on their horses, they initially believed them to be mythological quadruped, part person part animal, fearing their savage and magical powers.
Opposite - Centaur, 2011
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2011
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art
547 West 27th Street
2nd Floor
New York
NY
10001
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TUCA VIEIRA - BERLINSCAPES
Drawing on the formal rigor and architectural inspiration of the Düsseldorf School, Vieira creates his own distinctive style. The photographs depict functional architecture but in a nocturnal setting, with sensual lighting. One could describe it as a "tropicalization" of German photography’s rigidity and formality, “Germany meets Brazil”.
Made during Vieira’s 2009 artist’s residency in Berlin, this body of work highlights the contrasts and juxtapositions of “old Berlin” and “new Berlin”, revealing traces of not only divergent prosperity, but also the great battles for territorial and ideological conquest that caused it.
Opposite - Berlinscapes #1, Digital C-Print
Exhibition runs through to July 30th, 2011
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 25/04/2011
WIM WENDERS - PLACES, STRANGE AND QUIET
Places, strange and quiet, brings together almost 40 images, taken by Wenders from 1983 to 2011, it will feature many photographs not yet exhibited in London.
Wenders has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken in countries around the world from Salvador, Brazil; Palermo, Italy; Onomichi, Japan to Berlin, Germany; Brisbane, Australia, Armenia and the United States. From his iconic images of exteriors and buildings to his panoramic depictions of towns and landscapes, the exhibition will present the full range of his work, exploring how he created and honed remarkable images that continue to resonate powerfully
Opposite - Street Corner Butte, Montana, 2003
Exhibition runs through to May 17th, 2011
Haunch of Venison
6 Burlington Gardens
London
W1S 3ET
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JOHN HUMBLE - OTHER PLACES / VENICE BEACH
With Other Places, Humble decided to broaden his scope and "drive around the United States and photograph the American Landscape." Previously, his work was created with a large view camera, but advancements in digital photography enabled him to make his new photos with a hand-held camera, allowing more freedom and mobility. Humble made a series of extensive trips, staying primarily on smaller country roads. It is, of course, significant that his explorations were made in a car, and that his discoveries have become part of a great tradition in American photographic road trips.
Like his observations in Los Angeles, these American pictures are about insights in juxtaposition; aged and vacant storefronts sit beside gaudy drive-thrus, hand-painted religious billboards stand in empty fields, as do newly constructed, box-like churches that look more like concrete-slab industrial parks.
As a counterpoint to Humble's photographs of Middle America, he will concurrently present a series of photographs of Venice Beach. As the artist describes it, "there is no place in the world like the tawdry three-ring circus of Venice...electric guitar players on rollerblades, marijuana doctors, tarot readers, muscle builders, tattoo shops, drug addicts, entertainers, and people speaking every language under the sun."
Opposite - Closed, Enoch, Utah, 2010
Exhibition runs through to May 7th, 2011
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California
90404
Posted by Exit 18/04/2011
TARA DARBY - LITERARY JOURNEY
Darby's Literary Journey series recounts her travels through towns and cities used as settings in great books of American 20th century literature. Her first journey followed Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and was recounted episodically on the Another magazine website. The second journey features in this show at Transition and takes her to the Deep South to follow the plot and locations of Carson McCullers' 1940 novel The Night is a Lonely Hunter.
The story centres on the experiences of a deaf man, John Singer, and the people he meets in a 1930s mill town and was the first in a string of works by McCullers to give voice to the rejected, forgotten, mistreated and oppressed.
Exhibition runs from May 6th to May 22nd, 2011
Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios
8 Andrews Road
London
E8 4QN
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MALERIE MARDER - CARNAL KNOWLEDGE
On discussing ‘Carnal Knowledge,’ a series of previously of unexhibited photographs, Marder says: “I used to have anxiety about my pictures exposing things too private, but the real intimacies are censored out. I still get pangs of self-consciousness, but it’s too late for regret. What was I thinking when I made the pictures? This is in no particular order: fate, kink, performance, a secret, nostalgia, sensual memory, voyeurism, nighttime settings, barren rooms, stark lighting, romantic trysts, foreign environments, intimacy, lack of intimacy, connection, lack of connection, self-reflection, lack of self-reflection, awkwardness, isolation, random, purpose, shadow, vulnerability, immaturity, innocence, amorous bodies, ambiguity, cocoons of emotion, modernist architecture, transience, lurid smells, a patient’s sickbed, love, eroticism, clarity, blushing, bruised, family, boyfriends, conflict, loyalty, disapproval, neuroticism, narcissism, truculence, numbness, sexual discomfort, subconscious, and the past. None of it is relevant now.”
Opposite - Past Present, 2007
Exhibition runs through to April 21th, 2011
Blain|Southern
21 Dering Street
London
W1S 1AL
Posted by Exit 11/04/2011
TYLER SHIELDS - LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE
Tyler has been known to almost kill his celebrity clients and was recently arrested for dangeling 3 pop stars off a bridge for a photo! His clients include My Chemical Romance, Perez Hilton, Carmen Electra and just about every bright young Hollywood star and starlet you'd wish to meet in the Hills. As well as that he has shot Lindsay Lohan, literally, before his exhibition in downtown LA.
Opposite - Lindsay Lohan, First Person Shooter, 2011
Exhibition runs from May 7th to May 8th, 2011
2476 Hunter Street
Los Angeles
CA
90021
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BRUNO BISANG - POLAWORLD
Bruno Bisang was born in 1952 and spent much of his youth in Ascona, a picturesque little town in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. When he was 19 he attended the School of Applied Arts for Photography in Zurich, which was followed by a photographic apprenticeship. Since 1979 Bruno Bisang has worked as a freelance photographer, first in Zurich, and then for a time in Milan and Munich. Now he works between Milan, New York, Paris and Zurich for a renowned clientele.
Opposite - Christina, Paris 1993
Exhibition runs from May 6th to July 20th, 2011
Young Gallery Brussels
75 b avenue Louise
1050
Brussels
Posted by Exit 11/04/2011
ROBERT GUMPERT - INSIDE SAN FRANCISCO'S JAILS
Robert Gumpert has been documenting the criminal justice system in San Francisco since 1994.
Gumpert’s project began with an idea to photograph a homicide detective, but quickly expanded to cover numerous other aspects of the criminal justice system. After he exhibited the work in San Francisco in 2000, he thought that was the end of it, until he received a call from the sheriff’s office. California’s oldest jail was about to close, and for Gumpert, whose photographic roots were planted in the social activism of the 70s, this was a piece of history he felt compelled to document.
Exhibition runs from April 7th to May 7th, 2011
HOST Gallery
1-5 Honduras Street
London
EC1Y 0TH
Posted by Exit 04/04/2011
WHO SHOT ROCK AND ROLL - 1955 TO THE PRESENT
The first major exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative & collaborative role in the history of rock music.
The exhibition includes 175 works by more than 100 photographers and covers the rock and roll era from the 1950s to the present including some of the world's most iconic images.
Opposite - Jagger/Leopard, 1992, Albert Watson,
Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2011
Columbia Museum Of Art
1515 Main Street
Columbia
SC 29201
USA
Posted by Exit 04/04/2011
RON GALELLA - SMASH HIS CAMERA
Ron Galella is an American photographer, known as a pioneer paparazzo. Dubbed "Paparazzo Extraordinaire" by Newsweek and "the Godfather of the U.S. paparazzi culture" by Time Magazine and Vanity Fair, he is regarded as the most controversial celebrity photographer in the world.
Galella's photographs can be seen in hundreds of publications including Time, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Vanity Fair, People, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, the New York Times and Life. He is widely-known for his obsessive treatment of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and the subsequent legal battles associated with it. The New York Post called them "the most co-dependent celeb-paparazzi relationships ever." In the famous 1972 free-speech trial "Galella v. Onassis", she obtained a restraining order to keep Galella 150 feet away from her and her children.
Galella is the subject of a 2010 documentary film directed by Leon Gast entitled Smash His Camera.
Opposite - Jackie Onassis, Oct 7, 1971, Madison Avenue
Exhibition runs from April 9th to June 5th, 2011
Young Gallery Knokke
811 Zeedijk
8300 Knokke
Belgium
Posted by Exit 04/04/2011
MUHAMMAD ALI - DAVID KING
David King's photographs of Muhammad Ali, taken at his training camp in the Pennsylvania Mountains in 1974 when the "Greatest Of All Time" was preparing for his legendary world heavyweight title fight against George Foreman, held later that year in Kinshasa, Zaire.
The photographs document Ali's sixteen-week training programme for the fight (memorably named by him as "The Rumble in the Jungle") and are of considerable historical importance. David King first started shooting photographs when he was Art Editor of the Sunday Times Colour Magazine (1965-75). His photographic biography of Ali was published by Penguin in 1975 and sold 175,000 copies.
Exhibition runs through to April 29th, 2011
Lucy Bell
46 Norman Road
St Leonards on Sea
TN38 0EJ
Posted by Exit 28/03/2010
LEONIE HAMPTON - IN THE SHADOWS OF THINGS
In the shadow of things, gathers intimate shots taken inside the household. This time around though, the family unit portrayed is that of the author herself.
Piles, almost layers of things, objects are the manifest and intrusive trace of the presence of her mother’s Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The illness pushes her to accumulate, tidy up and destroy what she had just organised. A tacit agreement bonds the entire family – Leonie, her brothers, her partner and her mother’s husband – in the sincere and loving effort to assist healing, with the awareness that the eccentric relationship the mother has established with the family, and with the rest of the world, is loaded with awkward and pathological aspects, but that are also tender, funny and in the end, full of love.
For some years Leonie, established photographer, decided to document the different moments of this delicate family relation. A house full of unusable rooms, lives marked by incomprehensible rituals, loud laughters and desperate crying. Leonie does not want to or can afford to be a silent witness: she herself is part of these images that portray affection, warmth, surreal atmospheres hovering between fable and nightmare.
Opposite - The Greenhouse, 2007
Exhibition runs through to May 1st, 2011
Forma
Piazza Tito Lucrezio
Caro 1
20136
Milano
Posted by Exit 28/03/2011
PHOTOGRAPHERS A-Z
A comprehensive overview of the most influential photographers of the last century and their finest monographs: Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century, from the earliest representatives of classical Modernism right up to the present day.
Richly illustrated with facsimiles from books and magazines, this book includes all the major photographers of the last one hundred years.
Available from Taschen.
Posted by Exit 28/03/2011
RUSSELL JAMES
Never before seen nude photographs of the most beautiful women in the world from the serien "V2" will be complemented by pictures from his art project "Nomad - Two Worlds".
Russell James' photographs of the eight beautiful women Brooklyn Decker, Mirander Kerr, Candice Swanepoel, Erin Heatherton, Emanuela de Paula, Jarah Mariano, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Lindsay Ellingson, entittled "V2", were taken on the picturesque island "Necker Island" and were combined in a book accompanying the exhibition.
Exhibition runs from April 2nd to May 7th, 2011
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Posted by Exit 21/03/2011
DIETER ROTH - REYKJAVIK SLIDES
Featuring 31,035 slides shown simultaneously on multiple projectors, ‘Reykjavik Slides’ was inspired by the distinctive character of Icelandic architecture and documents every building in the capital. Made with the assistance of Pál Magnússon and the artist’s two sons, Björn and Karl, the work is a comprehensive survey, drawing one’s attention to the subject matter of the project, rather than the role of the artist.
The work’s numerous images present an act of dedication to the singularity of Reykjavik, Roth’s home since 1957 and, in seeing every building as worthy of admiration, Roth allowed life itself to communicate as art.
Exhibition runs from March 17th to April 30th, 2011
Hauser & Wirth
23 Savile Row
London
W1S 2ET
Posted by Exit 21/03/2011
DAN HOLDSWORTH - BLACKOUT
Dan Holdsworth is renowned for landscape photographs in which nature, architecture and technology merge with light and space to produce powerful visions of the contemporary world. In Blackout, Holdsworth presents photographs taken in Iceland, a volcanic otherworld where day is night and ice is sooty pitch, Holdsworth’s negative images are literal double inversions; their black and white clarity negates all natural logic.
Exhibition runs from March 17th to May 8th, 2011
Nordin Gallery
Tulegatan 19
SE-113 53
Stockholm
Posted by Exit 21/03/2011
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN CURATED BY HEDI SLIMANE
Hedi Slimane is curating an exhibition ‘California Dreamin: Myths & Legends of Los Angeles’ which examines his adopted home and current obsession: LA. The show will include works from LA art stars like Ed Ruscha, Chris Burden, John Baldessari or Dennis Hopper, aswell as Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon.
A new book ‘Anthology of a Decade’ will be released soon also: the selection of 175 color photographs traverse the music scene, the New York art scene, street fashion and haute couture and record Slimane’s early years in the fashion industry, before, during and after his tenures at Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior.
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2011
Almine Rech Gallery
19 Rue de Saintonge
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 14/03/2011
IDA KAR : BOHEMIAN PHOTOGRAPHER 1908-1974
This exhibition of over seventy of Kar’s portraits highlights the significant role played by this woman photographer at the heart of the creative avant-garde.
Russian-born, of Armenian heritage, Ida Kar (1908–74) was instrumental in encouraging the acceptance of photography as a fine art. Her subjects were the most celebrated figures from the literary and artistic spheres of 1950s and 1960s Europe and Russia. They include artists such as Henry Moore, George Braque, Gino Severini and Bridget Riley and writers such as Iris Murdoch and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Opposite - Yves Klein, 1957
Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2011
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 14/03/2011
CHEMA MADOZ
Madoz combines daily objects in different ways and takes photographs of this creations, without manipulating the photographs afterwards. This way he creates images that are placed outside their original context and create a new reality together. His photographs are not only taken to be seen, they are made to think about, reflect on and therefore, in all ways, to be contemplated. That is exactly why his pictures are so extraordinary; his visual paradoxes need our reasoning, our consideration; they are created to be completed and accomplished in our thoughts.
His work has been the object of many exhibitions and publications, all over the World. It is part of several international collections, for example the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo Marugame, Hirai, Japan en Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires.
Exhibition runs through to April 3rd, 2011
Nederlands Fotomuseum
(Las Palmas Building)
Wilhelminakade 332
NL-3072
AR
Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Posted by Exit 14/03/2011
JEANLOUP SIEFF
This exhibition features a selection from Sieff’s photographic oeuvre, with a special focus on his images portraying dance. It features 53 photographs taken from 1959 to 1996. In the course of his long career he engaged in reportage, landscape, fashion, commercial and portrait photography, working for magazines such as Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Paris-Match, Esquire, Glamour and Jardin des Modes.
Opposite - Alfred Hitchcock, Harper’s Bazaar, Hollywood, 1962
Exhibition runs through to May 22nd, 2011
Moderna Museet
Exercisplan 4
111 49 Stockholm
Sweden
Posted by Exit 07/03/2011
BILL CUNNINGHAM - NEW YORK
For decades, this Schwinn-riding cultural anthropologist has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirées for the Times Style section in his columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours." Documenting uptown fixtures (Wintour, Tom Wolfe, Brooke Astor, David Rockefeller—who all appear in the film out of their love for Bill), downtown eccentrics and everyone in between, Cunningham's enormous body of work is more reliable than any catwalk as an expression of time, place and individual flair.
In theaters March 16th, 2011
www.zeitgeistfilms.com/billcunninghamnewyork
Posted by Exit 07/03/2011
YOSSI BREGER
The exhibition presents 159 photos, all new, in various formats, taken since 2007 in various places around the world, Tel Aviv, Berlin, Cologne, Havana, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Beijing, Stockholm—in the course of daily life.
The photos of landscapes, buildings, spaces, objects, people tell a story of being in front of a thing, the fundamental things that form the infrastructure of human environment.
They are precise and thoughtful, articulated in pictorial, emotional and classical formal language; their accumulation creates a general conceptual model of a life story and a world, time–space relations constructed by light and revealing a personal and sensual touch with elements of nature and culture
Opposite - Black Foxes, Beijing Zoo, 2009
Exhibition runs through to June 4th, 2011
The Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Art Education Center
8 Dubnov Street
Tel Aviv
Israel
Posted by Exit 07/03/2011
MICHAEL HESS - BINGO & SOCIAL CLUB
In Bingo & Social Club, London-based photographer Michael Hess opens the doors on this much-loved pastime providing an intimate insight into its gamers and often nostalgic-looking interiors. Candidly capturing the energy and vibrancy inside the often crumbling exterior walls of bingo halls across the country on old classic 35mm black and white film, Hess’ images – taken over four years and in nearly 70 different venues.
Exhibition runs through to March 30th, 2011
The Book Club
100 -106 Leonard Street
London
EC2A 4RH
Posted by Exit 28/02/2011
DAVID LACHAPELLE - EARTH LAUGHS IN FLOWERS
The series Earth Laughs in Flowers, which was created this year, refers to art-historical visual traditions but never loses sight of LaChapelle’s own artistic language.
The large-format still lifes in this series, with titles such as The Lovers, Concerning the Soul, Risk or America, seamlessly take up the principle of exaggeration that characterized the portraits of celebrities like Madonna, Pamela Anderson, Michael Jackson, Björk or David Bowie through which LaChapelle himself has become famous since the 1990s. The portraits always contained art-historical references, along with a fear of emptiness, a love of bad taste, an ugly beauty, but David LaChapelle’s recent works now show an explicit compositional affinity to Baroque floral still lifes. Plants, fruits and objects, in place of human bodies, now bear witness to human pride, to the finiteness of life with its obsessions and compulsions, to pleasure and suffering.
Opposite - The House at the End of the World, 2005
Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2011
Kestnergesellschaft
Goseriede 11
30159
Hanover
Germany
Posted by Exit 28/02/2011
DAVID MALJKOVIC - RECALLING FRAMES
David Maljkovic's latest works, Recalling Frames, are photomontages that interweave still images from Orson Welles' film The Trial, shot in Zagreb in 1962, with the artist's own contemporary photographs of the filming locations. Welles' haunting exploration of the terror of faceless bureaucracy was set against the city's Cold War-era Modernist buildings, to which Maljkovic returned to carefully photograph the sites from the same dramatic angles shown in the film. Spliced together from black-and-white negative prints, the resulting unique prints conflate five decades of aesthetic and ideological change.
Exhibition runs through to April 2nd, 2011
Metro Pictures
519 West 24th Street
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 28/02/2011
POLLY BORLAND - SMUDGE
This selection of photographs from Polly Borland’s most recent series ‘Smudge’ shows a combination of exuberant playfulness and dark, masqueraded sexuality. Created in a setting of spontaneity and constant experimentation, these works are distinctly raw and wildly imaginative. A total of 20 prints will be for sale.
Exhibition runs from March 17th to April 7th, 2011
Other Criteria
36 New Bond Street
London
W1S 2RP
Posted by Exit 21/02/2011
PHOTOGRAPHY OF SCULPTURE 1839 TO TODAY
'The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture 1839 to Today' offers a critical assessment of the aesthetic and theoretical intersections of photography and sculpture, with special attention paid to how the one medium is implicated in the creative interpretation of the other.
Presented are prints of famous photographers and groundbreaking artists who used this medium in a creative and original way for their three-dimensional works: Eugène Atget, Hans Bellmer, Herbert Bayer, Constantin Brancusi, Brassaï, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Robert Frank, David Goldblatt, Hannah Höch, André Kertész, Man Ray, Bruce Nauman, Gillian Wearing, Hannah Wilke, Iwao Yamawaki and many others.
Opposite - Mount Rushmore, South Dakota, 1969, Lee Friedlander
Exhibition runs through to March 15th, 2011
Kunsthaus Zürich
Heimplatz 1
CH–8001
Zurich
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FACTRON METAL GEAR IPHONE CASE
Japanese brand Factron presents a series of metal cases for the iPhone. The Quattro iPhone 4 case allows you to add custom lenses, which include fish eye, wide-angle, and close-up lenses to the iPhone camera.
Posted by Exit 21/02/2011
FORMAT 11 - RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW
Established in 2004 in Derby UK, FORMAT is one of the UK's leading international contemporary festivals of photography. This year's programme is curated around the theme of street photography. It consists of exhibitions, portfolio reviews, workshops, commissions, screenings, mass participation, talks, photo collectives, publications, a summer school, conference and much more, all focusing on showing new work premiering in the UK, alongside the best established practitioners in the world, Joel Meyerowitz, Jeff Mermelstein and Will Sanders are just some of the photographers work that will be on show.
Opposite - New York City, 1963, Joel Meyerowitz
Festival runs from March the 3rd to March the 6th, 2011
FORMAT Festival
Market Place
Cathedral Quarter
Derby
DE1 3AS
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LARRY CLARK - WHAT DO YOU DO FOR FUN?
This exhibition will present a number of works from this period, including the monumental 1992 - comprising of 209 staged photographs, and a number of collages made in the 1990s. There will also be new and recent work including the collage I want a baby before u die (2010). This exhibition comes off the back of Clark’s record breaking retrospective Kiss the Past Hello at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2010, which has received worldwide controversy and critical acclaim.
Opposite - Chloe and Rosario, 2010, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition of 3
Exhibition runs from February 25th to March 26th, 2011
Simon Lee Gallery
12 Berkeley Street
London
W1J 8DT
Posted by Exit 14/02/2011
ALEXANDER MCQUEEN : SAVAGE BEAUTY
THE book examines McQueen’s inimitable technical virtuosity and its subversion of traditional tailoring and dressmaking practices. The book also focuses on the highly sophisticated narrative structures found in McQueen’s collections and in his astonishing and extravagant runway presentations. Intended as an assessment of Alexander McQueen’s entire career, the book includes in-depth studies of six collections that illustrate and encapsulate thematic chapters as well as an interview with Sarah Burton, the new creative director of Alexander McQueen who had been the designer’s right-hand design aide since 1996.
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty will be released on April 30th, 2011.
Posted by Exit 14/02/2011
SASHA GREY - NEU SEX
Sasha Grey, rising adult film and pop-culture star, takes control in her new monograph neü sex, moving out from in front of the camera to behind it, turning the lens on the wild world she inhabits. “There are so many photos of me, taken by other people, that aesthetically I have no control over. Documenting myself allows me to reflect on the day, on the feelings I am having at that second. When you work in the entertainment industry, there are always surprises; there certainly isn’t one day that is similar to the last. Personally, it’s important to embrace this and appreciate it every day." Sasha Grey.
Nue Sex will be released on March 29th, 2011.
Posted by Exit 07/02/2011
ADAM BROOMBERG & OLIVER CHANARIN
People in Trouble Laughing Pushed to the Ground continues Broomberg & Chanarin's ongoing exploration of the limits and possibilities of photography in a historical moment when both ubiquity and technology have rendered the production and use of documentary images intensely problematic, a vector of enquiry pursued and manifest in their earlier, seminal series; The Red House, The Day Nobody Died and American Landscapes.
The new work is the result of an engagement by the artists with Belfast Exposed, a photographic archive founded in 1983. The archive houses images taken by both professional photo-journalists and 'civilian' photographers. Accordingly the archive spans the political, the social and the private, the didactic and the playful.
Opposite - Culture 3 sheet 72, 2010
Exhibition runs from February 25th to March 26th, 2011
Paradise Row Gallery
74 Newman Street
London
W1T 3EL
Posted by Exit 07/02/2011
KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER - INTIMATE STRANGER
The first institutional exhibition of vintage prints by the late Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006). An unsung pioneer of vernacular photography since the Fifties, Weinberger captured a young generation of rebels, who were greatly influenced by American culture.
In 1958, Weinberger met members of a small band of teenagers and began photographing them both at his home, as well as at the public parks and fairgrounds where the group gathered. In post-war Switzerland, these self-named “rebels” (referred to by the Swiss as “Halbstark” or “half strong”) were comprised of working class boys and girls dissatisfied by the conservative climate of the day. They adopted a powerful gang identity expressed in their self styled and homemade clothing--embellished jeans, motorcycle jackets, enlarged belt buckles, which referenced and emulated American icons Marlon Brando (in The Wild One), James Dean (in Rebel Without a Cause), Elvis Presley (in the film and album Jailhouse Rock).
Exhibition runs from February 9th to March 26th, 2011
Swiss Institute
495 Broadway 3rd Floor
New York
NY
10012
Posted by Exit 07/02/2011
MARK SELIGER - LISTEN
The exhibition includes 30 large-scale platinum palladium prints depicting nudes, still lifes, portraits, and New York cityscapes. Along with the exhibition, Seliger released his new book with the same title, Listen (Rizzoli New York, 2010), featuring 90 tritone photographs and an interview with the artist by leading American magazine designer Fred Woodward. Many of the photographs are on exhibition for the first time.
Mark Seliger: Listen is in a sense a memento mori, a tribute to his late father. It follows in the tradition of photographers and painters such as Weston, Stieglitz, and Cézanne who, at a certain age, focus on elegiac studies of the nude, the landscape, and the still life. The pictures are Seliger’s meditations through slow looking. These photographs speak to us metaphorically of the eternal themes of love and death. They pay homage to Seliger’s forebears Brandt, Kertesz, Hosoe, and Penn.
Opposite - Nude, New York, April 18, 2002
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2011
Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23 Street
New York
NY
10011
Posted by Exit 31/01/2011
TURTLEBACK JACKET JACKET FOR IPHONE 4
The Turtle Jacket aluminium ‘iPhone camera case’ contains UV filter, and is compatible with any 37mm lenses. The company also offers 60mm (for close up), 21mm (for long shot) and 8mm (for fish-eye-view). The two holes in the bottom are for tripod. The case is also compatible with other brands such as Manfrotto Modo.
Posted by Exit 31/01/2011
WTAPS CAMERA BAG
After releasing the camera straps last year, Japanese label WTAPS have the released a camera bag as well. Like the camera straps, clean with minimal branding.
Posted by Exit 31/01/2011
ED VAN DER ELSKEN - LOVE ON THE LEFT BANK
Originally published in 1956, the book has been reprinted by the small British publisher, Dewi Lewis. It focuses on the Left Bank of Paris at the time when the area was a centre of creative ferment and the home of the artists, writers and aesthetes who would determine the cultural agenda of a generation. With its unconventional, gritty, snapshot-like technique the work was widely acclaimed as expanding the boundaries of documentary photography.
Born 1925, in Amsterdam, Ed van der Elsken is recognised as one of the great photographers of the 20th century. During his lifetime he published over 20 books. In recent years his work has been exhibited widely throughout the world.
Posted by Exit 24/01/2011
VANESSA WINSHIP - NOT ONLY RARE BIRDS SING
The British photographer Vanessa Winship's new exhibition features portraits of teenagers and schoolchildren taken over the last 10 years mainly in rural areas of the Balkans, Turkey and Caucasia. Gentle, intriguing, elusive portraits that touch on notions of identity, experience and belonging in a fragmenting world.
Exhibition runs from February 4th to March 19th, 2011
Galerie VU
17 boulevard Henri 4
75004 Paris
France
Posted by Exit 24/01/2011
NIKON COOLPIX P300
The Coolpix P300 offers full manual control alongside aperture and shutter speed priority modes. Like the P500, it's able to shoot Full HD video at 1080p resolution. It can also shoot in slow motion, but instead of being able to achieve the 240fps of the P500, its maximum rate is 120fps. This will allow users to shoot VGA clips and play them back at a quarter of their usual speed. Available early February.
Posted by Exit 24/01/2011
PEEP SHOW - BOB CARLOS CLARKE
The exhibition will show a selection of images from Bob’s 30 year career. And following the successful release of the first series of estate editions in 2010, the Estate of Bob Carlos Clarke are proud to release a second series of nine prints of some of Bob’s most famous images, as 16” x 20” digital bromide prints in an edition of 25, including ‘Faithful Unto Death’, ‘Masked Blonde’ and ‘Cry Baby’.
The exhibition coincides with the announcement of the production of a film on the life and work of Bob Carlos Clarke by directors Bert & Bertie.
Opposite - Crybaby
Exhibition runs from March 30th to April 30th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 17/01/2011
E.O. HOPPE
E.O. Hoppé is one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century.
The exhibition brings together Hoppé's strikingly modernist portraits of important personalities including George Bernard Shaw, Margot Fonteyn and Vita Sackville-West and his fascinating photojournalist studies,which capture the realities of day-to-day life in Britain between the wars.
Opposite - Mona Maris, Berlin, 1929
Exhibition runs through to May 30th, 2011
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 17/01/2011
CINDY SHERMAN
For this series Sherman has assembled a cast of uniquely individual characters on large photographic murals, marking a departure within Cindy Sherman’s artistic practice from the format of the framed photograph.
The various personas animating this new body of work were created as shrines to nondescript, eccentric characters who
might also be seen to denote sentries, guarding the entrance to some fabled land, casting ambiguous and disconcerting
glances at the viewer.
Opposite - Untitled, 2010
Exhibition runs through to February 19th, 2011
Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ
Posted by Exit 17/01/2011
CHRISTOPHER THOMAS - NEW YORK SLEEPS
New York Sleeps is a series of black and white images shot using a custom-made large format camera, Polaroid film and long exposures. The resulting exhibition of 30 large-scale cityscapes, devoid of people, offers an elusive glimpse of 19th century tranquility while hinting at a cryptic, apocalyptic ending. From views of a snow bound Guggenheim to a boarded up Katz Deli.
Opposite - The James Watson House, 2008
Exhibition runs through to February 26th, 2011
Wapping Project Bankside
65a Hopton Street
SE1 9LR
London
Posted by Exit 10/01/2011
THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF RAY K. METZKER
Approaching 80 years of age, Ray Metzker is one of the most dedicated, innovative, and influential American photographers of the last half century, his ability to turn ordinary subjects, including the urban experience and nature, into the visual poetry of the finely crafted black-and-white print.
This show will survey the key aspects of Metzker’s long career: Chicago (1956-59); Europe (1960-61); Philadelphia cityscapes (1962-63); double-image “couplets” and multi-image composites (1964-69); optical abstractions (“Pictus Interruptus” series of 1977-80); later Chicago and Philadelphia cityscapes (1981-84); landscapes (1985-95); and his recent city pictures (1996-2009).
Opposite - Man in Canoe, Frankfurt, 1964
Exhibition runs from January 15th to June 5th, 2011
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City
MO
64111
Posted by Exit 10/01/2011
ANDY WARHOL - BEHIND THE CAMERA
The exhibition, Andy Warhol: Behind the Camera includes 60 works, It is the first time these photographs have been publicly shown. Prime examples of Warhol’s obsessive camerawork, they illustrate the artist’s largely unknown achievements in photography, which are as distinctive as his celebrated paintings, prints, and films.
The work of some photographers is forever identified with the particular cameras they used; Henri Cartier-Bresson and his state-of-the art Leica come to mind. This is true also of Warhol, who loved certain cameras to the point of obsession. But unlike fine-art photographers who typically master complicated equipment, Warhol invariably opted for devices marketed to the home consumer with as few controls as possible. Whether expensive Japanese miniature cameras or cheap Polaroid models, what mattered for Warhol was the lack of photographic “knowledge” required to operate them.
Opposite - Lorna Luft, 1982
Exhibition runs from January 15th to June 5th, 2011
University of Delaware
Newark
DE
19716
USA
Posted by Exit 10/01/2011
NAN GOLDIN. BERLIN WORK. PHOTOGRAPHS 1984 TO 2009
The American artist Nan Goldin is a leading exponent of ‘subjective photography’. Her own life forms the focus of her artistic work. Goldin has repeatedly spent extended periods in Berlin since the 1980s. In 1991 she was able to spend an entire year in Berlin as part of the DAAD artist programme. With around 100 photographs, the Berlinische Galerie is presenting a comprehensive insight into her work created in Berlin, whereby it is also drawing on previously unpublished material from the artist’s archive, which has never before been presented.
Opposite - Self-Portrait in my Blue Bathroom, Berlin 1991
Exhibition runs through to March 28th, 2011
Berlinische Galerie
State Museum of Modern Art, Photography, and Architecture
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128
10969
Berlin
Posted by Exit 03/01/2011
PENELOPE UMBRICO
Penelope Umbrico offers a radical reinterpretation of everyday consumer and vernacular images. As Umbrico describes, she works “within the virtual world of consumer marketing and social media, traveling through the relentless flow of seductive images, objects, and information that surrounds us, searching for decisive moments—but in these worlds, decisive moments are cultural absurdities.”
Umbrico finds these moments in the printed pages of consumer product mail-order catalogs, travel and leisure brochures, and online sites such as Craigslist, EBay, and Flickr. By identifying and isolating image typologies—candy-colored horizons and sunsets, books used as props—the farcical and surreal nature of the lingua franca of consumerism and recreation is brought to new light.
She presents a unique and challenging approach to quintessential issues of representation in contemporary culture, including how images
are used to construct and communicate consumer desire, and whether or not the
growing volume of images we view online fosters a critical visual literacy.
Her first monograph Penelope Umbrico (Photographs) released in June 2011.
Posted by Exit 03/01/2011
LEICA M9 - CHROME AND OSTRICH
The Leica M9 has been released with a new limited edition silver chrome and brown ostrich leather body, with Scratch-resistant sapphire glass and a Leica 35mm f/2 Summicron lens. The kit is now available select Leica Boutiques in a limited, numbered run of 50 cameras.
Posted by Exit 03/01/2011
KEEGAN GIBBS - OPEN SPACE
The first solo photo exhibition by Keegan Gibbs. Open Space is a collection of images, collages, and installations which are inspired by his life in surfing
Open Space is my expression of the state one falls into while floating weightless off shore, looking out to sea, hoping and waiting for the next set. Troubles are isolated far away on the unreality of land, while you are free in the truest reality of water. It is a timeless unspoilable state that cannot be ruined, not even by the angry local that may be slashing your tires and waxing your windows simply because he doesn’t want to share some waves. To a surfer it's an understandable act of necessary evil to keep an ungoverned subculture in form, and from it breaking into full bore beach-blanket-bingo havoc.
Exhibition runs from January 15th to February 5th, 2011
Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90036
Posted by Exit 27/12/2010
LEICA X RED BULL ILLUME D-LUX 5 CAMERA
The “Red Bull Illume Limited Edition” is the first ever camera made by Leica to be dedicated to a photography award.
These specially handcrafted, meticulously manufactured special editions are only made by Leica to mark historical occasions and are always produced in very limited numbers. Only 250 cameras have been produced, a number specially selected to honor the 250 photographs featured in the Red Bull Illume Photobook.
leica-camera.com
www.redbull.com
Posted by Exit 27/12/2010
POLAROID IPHONE DECAL
Photojojo have produced a new Polaroid iPhone Decal, which makes your iPhone 4 look like the old Rainbow OneStep Polaroid Land Camera.
Posted by Exit 27/12/2010
HELMUT NEWTON AT KUNSTHAUS APOLDA AVANTGARDE
The exhibition includes 75 images from the 1973 to 2002. Among the works are large-format black-and-white and color photographs, featuring such stars as model Naomi Campbell. The exhibition also shows Polaroid series from the collection of fashion designer Yves St. Laurent. Newton fetish performances and images of women in glamorous surroundings are also part of the show.
Opposite - Belucci, Monte Carlo, 2001
Exhibition runs from January 9th to March 27th, 2011
Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde
Bahnhofstr. 44
99510
Apolda
Germany
Posted by Exit 20/12/2010
ALISTAIR TAYLOR-YOUNG
The first UK solo show by photographer Alistair Taylor-Young, to coincide with the launch of his book The Phone Book.
British born Taylor-Young is a photographer, specialising in
fashion, beauty, travel and luxury, living between New York and Paris. His enthusiasm
for experimenting with light and lenses give his work a poetic feel.
Opposite - Pink Lips, 2008
Exhibition runs from January 12th to February 12th, 2011
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 20/12/2010
OLYMPUS PEN E-PL2 CAMERA
The fifth model in the Olympus Pen series is a much simplified version of last year's model. The E-PL2 is a 12.3 megapixel camera, with a new display and the accessories that can be used with the camera, including wireless file sharing and a macro spotlight. Comes in four different colours.
Posted by Exit 20/12/2010
LONDON CALLING : THE CLASH BY ADRIAN BOOT
This exhibition is a photographic portrait of the band and will include a number of never before seen images. Photographs include them rehearsing rehearsing in the Gin House at the Stables Market in Camden which was also the site of the original Proud Galleries in Camden.
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2011
Proud Camden
The Horse Hospital
Chalk Farm Road
NW1 8AH
Posted by Exit 13/12/2010
SALLY MANN: THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT
Sally Mann's most recent work represents an intriguing new direction. She is tackling expansive themes of mortality and vulnerability, while for the first time using herself and her husband as subjects. In addition, she has taken her bold experiments with the medium to new heights, pushing photography to its limits by making painterly and nearly abstract images—many as unique pieces on glass plates. Altogether the exhibition and accompanying catalog will present an unexpected picture of Mann's work, encouraging a fresh perspective on one of today's preeminent photographers and, it is hoped, an opportunity to extend her visibility well beyond the realm of photography.
The Book,
Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit, co-published by Aperture and VFMA
Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2011
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Altria Group and Center Gallery
200 North Boulevard
Richmond
Virginia
Posted by Exit 13/12/2010
OLYMPUS XZ-1
Olympus presents their new XZ-1 compact camera. Featuring a 6-24mm Zuiko zoom lens (28-112mm equivalent) with f/1.8-2.8 aperture range, the camera competes directly with the likes of the Canon G12. The camera also includes 720p HD video, a 10MP sensor and a 3-inch OLED display.
Posted by Exit 13/12/2010
LOCALS ONLY - HUGH HOLLAND
Locals only - California Skateboarding: 1975 – 1978 is a new book of color photographs by Hugh Holland that capture the Los Angeles skateboard revolution during the mid-Seventies from an insider’s perspective.
Unlike most photographers capturing the craze, Holland’s photographs were never about the sport. Holland shot with old color negative movie film, rendering his images in warm, soft tones that were in complete contrast to the sharp, crisp chromes that the majority of skate photographers were using at the time. Beyond the bodies in motion, Holland captures beautifully intimate portraits of the young boys sitting under the trees waiting their turn, resting by the chain link fence at Kenter or in peaceful contemplation after a long day of riding. Holland primarily shot his subjects in the late afternoon, bathing his models and settings with an effervescent, glistening quality. They are, in essence, photographs of a generation of boys discovering their identity amidst the backdrop of cultural phenomena that shaped a generation.
Posted by Exit 06/12/2010
2011 PIRELLI CALENDAR
After Patrick Demarchelier immortalised China in the 2008 edition, Peter Beard drew a portrait of Botswana in 2009, and Terry Richardson covered Brazil in 2010, for the 2011 edition, Pirelli has teamed up with Karl Lagerfeld from his Paris studio and a host of models, both male and female, including actress Julianne Moore. The theme for this year's calendar is Greek and Roman mythology, with Moore playing the part of Hera and Brad Kroenig portraying Zeus.
Opposite - Daria Werbowy as Artemis
Posted by Exit 06/12/2010
LOMO LC-A+ WHITE SPECIAL EDITION
The graceful beauty of a traditional Japanese stone garden is the prime inspiration for the new Lomo LC-A+ White Japan Edition. Features include a Multiple exposure switch for easy, real-time double-exposure. Only 1000 of these cameras are available worldwide.
Posted by Exit 06/12/2010
GLEN E. FRIEDMAN : FUCK YOU ALL
Fuck You All, is an international traveling collection of photographs that span the prolific and influential career of artist, Glen E. Friedman. Now in its 13th year, this exhibition makes its way to San Francisco for the first time, bringing with it the work that presented some of the world’s most significant photographic contributions to the punk and hip hop subcultures and not only documented the genesis of skate culture, but helped shape it for generations to come.
Opposite - Ice T, Hollywood, CA, April 1986
Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2010
941 Geary
941 Geary Street
San Francisco,
CA
94109
Posted by Exit 29/11/2010
DAVID DREBIN - THE MORNING AFTER
David Drebin’s photographs are epic, dramatic and, above all, cinematic. His work combines voyeuristic and psychological viewpoints in a unique manner.
The photographer offers to the beholder an exciting insight into the emotions and experiences of the protagonists of his illustrative worlds. It is predominantly the night shots of glittering metropolises such as New York, Hong Kong, and San Francisco which serve as gigantic backdrops for his photographs. With their impressive skyscrapers, they provide the beholder with a nearly infinite surface for the imagination. Thus, it is only consistent that Drebin gives the viewer a voyeuristic insight into the apartments, where he mystically stages attractive women in a glamorous and sexy manner.
In conjunction with the exihibition, Drebin releases his new book "The Morning After," published by teNeues.
Opposite - Me and Me, 2008
Exhibition runs through to January 15th, 2011
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Posted by Exit 29/11/2010
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ: A PHOTOGRAPHER’S LIFE 1990 – 2005
The exhibition brings together almost 200 iconic images of famous public figures together with personal photographs of her family and close friends. Arranged chronologically, they project a unified narrative of the artist’s private life against the backdrop of her public image. “I don’t have two lives,” Leibovitz says. “This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it.”
At the heart of the exhibition, Leibovitz’s personal photography documents scenes from her life, including the birth and childhood of her three daughters, and vacations, reunions, and rites of passage with her parents, her extended family and close friends.
The exhibition features Leibovitz’s portraits of well-known figures, including actors such as Jamie Foxx, Daniel Day Lewis, Demi Moore, Scarlett Johansson, Al Pacino, Nicole Kidman and Brad Pitt as well as artists and architects such as Richard Avedon, Brice Marden, Philip Johnson, Chuck Close and Cindy Sherman.
Featured assignment work includes searing reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s and the election of Hillary Clinton to the US Senate. There are also landscapes taken in Monument Valley in the American West and in Wadi Rum in the Jordanian desert.
Opposite - Mikhail Baryshnikov and Rob Besserer, Cumberland Island, Georgia, 1990
Exhibition runs through to March 27th, 2011
The Museum of Contemporary Art
140 George Street
The Rocks
Sydney
Australia
Posted by Exit 29/11/2010
GRETA ILIEVA - APPLEBY
Debut solo exhibition for fashion, portrait and fine art photographer, Greta Ilieva.
Ilieva’s personal work for the last 3 years has focused on Gypsies in Bulgaria and the United Kingdom and
how they interface with society. For this exhibition she has selected photographs taken at the Appleby Horse
Fair in Cumbria from 2010 where Romany families travel to meet up with friends and conduct business. The
fair is the largest gypsy gathering of its kind and has existed since 1685.
Exhibition runs from November 23rd to Demcenber 5th, 2010
37 Camden High Street
London
NW1 7JE
Posted by Exit 22/11/2010
RYAN MCGINLEY - LIFE ADJUSTMENT CENTER
Two themes are presented in this book, firstly a collection of b&w studio nudes many with wild animals, an extension of the studio series "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere". The second features one of McGinley's core elements as a photographer, “capturing his subjects in dreamlike compositions, rich in motion and color, during recent adventures on the road”. The book is bound in a blue cloth with red text on cover and spine and a red stain to the page edges. Limited to 3,000 copies
Posted by Exit 22/11/2010
BRUCE WEBER: HAITI / LITTLE HAITI
In 2003, The Miami Herald published a magazine supplement of Bruce Weber's photographs of Miami's Haitian community. The photographs were Weber’s response to an unjust U.S. immigration system in which Haitian men, women and children were detained indefinitely unlike refugees from other countries who were typically released to family or friends while awaiting asylum hearings.
The documentary film, The Agronomist, by Jonathan Demme, had been Weber’s call to arms. In it, Demme chronicled the life of Haiti’s most famous journalist, Jean Dominique, the founder of Radio Haiti Internationale, and his murder by unknown assailants in 2000. Incensed by the violence, political strife, and poverty depicted in the film, Weber asked Demme what he could do, and Demme suggested turning his attention to what was happening to Haitians in Miami, where Weber had a home. Compelled to tell the story of the struggle of Haitian immigrants, Weber immersed himself in the Haitian community, which he has continued to chronicle through the present.
Weber chose primarily to work in black-and-white for the project, but switched to color film when photographing Haitian Flag Day celebrations. Over the years he has built up a large archive of photographs of Haitian celebrations, church congregations, Little Haiti stores and boulevards, as well as portraits of individuals, groups, and families.
Opposite - Keren Love Francois, Miami, FL, 2010, Bruce Weber
Exhibition runs through to Februrary 13th, 2011
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Joan Lehman Building
770 NE 125th Street
North Miami
Florida
33161
Posted by Exit 22/11/2010
4 SALE
4 Sale debuts the culmination of the year
long creative union between Aneta Bartos, Elle Muliarchyk, Yana
Toyber and Martynka Wawrzyniak. The imagery delves into universal
mores and ideals all the while producing beautiful, conceptually strong
and visually stimulating works. 4 Sale captures the essence of the
dynamic nature within this collaboration curated by Anne Huntington.
The works appropriate, suggest and formalize the collaboration within
the full photographic body.
Each artist conceptualizes unique realities within her framed vignettes, thus illustrating how each artist proclaims
her unique voice, idea and story.
The process evolves through openness, risk-taking, exploration and the incorporation of artistic and cultural influences. The fundamental nature of the works materializes organic and potentially controversial issues; issues that the artists keenly acknowledge and own. This acute awareness underscores the complexity of the project that liberates, provokes and creates a sense of union between these four talented artists of Eastern European descent.
Opposite - Yana Toyber
Exhibition runs from November 19th to November 22th, 2010
8 Bond Studio
8 Bond Street
New York
NYC
10012
USA
Posted by Exit 15/11/2010
STEFAN RUIZ - THE FACTORY OF DREAMS
Televisa Studios, in the San Angel neighborhood of Mexico City, is called ‘The Factory of Dreams’ and is best-known for its telenovelas (soap operas). These fantasies of love, wealth and betrayal are one of Mexico’s largest exports. They are popular throughout Latin America but also in Africa, Asia, Europe and the USA. No one produces more telenovelas than Mexico’s Televisa studios. The telenovela and its protagonists are a powerful vehicle through which contemporary Latin American culture and its society can be understood and interpreted.
Stefan first photographed Televisa studios in 2003 for COLORS magazine as their creative director. He returned to the studios after the issue published and continued to work on the project over a period of six years. Stefan's behind-thescenes photographs in ‘The factory of dreams’ reveal this secret world with humor and affection.
Opposite - Haydee Navarra, Corazones al Límite
Exhibition runs from November 19th to December 13th, 2010
F.L.O.A.T. Gallery
539 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
NY
11217
USA
Posted by Exit 15/11/2010
MICK ROCK - ROCK MUSIC
Launching a career in 1972 with a portrait of then-unknown David Bowie, Mick Rock's images began to define the era leading him to become known as 'The Man Who Shot the 70s'.
An exhibition to coincide with the publication of Rock's new book Exposed: the Faces of Rock n' Roll, which includes previously unseen and unpublished images, as well as rare and unexpected portraits, has gone on display in London.
The retrospective exhibition is a journey through his career and music history. Rock became Bowie's official photographer on tour and was able to document the creation of Bowie's Ziggy Stardust persona. Other iconic stars feature in the exhibition are Kate Moss, Debbie Harry, Lou Reed and Andy Warhol.
Opposite - Kate Moss, 2002, Mick Rock
Exhibition runs through to January 16th, 2010
Idea Generation Gallery
11 Chance Street
Shoreditch
E2 7JB
London
Posted by Exit 15/11/2010
DAN HOLDSWORTH - BLACKOUT
Blackout brings together a remarkable new sequence of images taken in Iceland by British photographer Dan Holdsworth. Occupying a space between documentary and the make-believe, Holdsworth’s photographs combine traditional analogue methods with digital processing to transform the elemental terrain of a giant glacier as it melts away. The result is an other-worldly vision of the future. Reproduced at a grand scale, the blue of sky becomes the deep black of space, while the earth appears in negative, beyond imaginable human time and space.
Exhibition runs from November 12th to February 20th, 2011
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
Gateshead Quays
South Shore Road
Gateshead
NE8 3BA
UK
Posted by Exit 08/11/2010
TIM BARBER - UNTITLED PHOTOGRAPHS
In his first major U.S. show titled Untitled Photographs, Barber presents a collection of images spanning his fifteen years behind the lens. Known for elegantly composed observations that locate complex beauty in the seemingly mundane, Barber’s Untitled Photographs offers a selection of over forty of his images.
From portraits to landscapes to narrative scenes, Barber approaches all of his subject matter with a palpable delicacy. Expanding on amateur aesthetics, these images can feel as much like spontaneous documentation of the artist’s adventures as careful compositions. The line between autobiography and fiction is as ethereal as the overall tone of the work. In the case of Barber’s photography, ambiguity is seductive, and the lure of fantasy eclipses the security of literality.
Exhibition runs from November 13th to November 27th, 2010
OHWOW
3100 NW 7 Avenue
Miami
FL
33127
Posted by Exit 08/11/2010
PAUL GRAHAM - WORKS
The first retrospective in Germany of British photographer Paul Graham with about 145 images, the exhibition shows a representative selection of his work. Graham’s work belongs to the tradition of social documentary photography, which was founded by Bill Brandt in England after the second world war and continued by photographers such as Chris Killip and John David. In dealing with it and with American photography from the 60s and 70s, Graham developed an innovate artistic work whose view is directed uncompromisingly at social reality.
Opposite - From the series "End of an Age", 1996-98
Exhibition runs through to January 11th, 2011
Deichtorhallen Hamburg GmbH
Angelika Leu-Barthel
Deichtorstr. 1-2
D-20095 Hamburg
Posted by Exit 08/11/2010
ALBERT WATSON - STRIP SEARCH
Five years in the making, Strip Search, made up of two large format books, is Watson’s spectacular personal portrait of Las Vegas as seen through the lens of a legendary photographic artist. Approximately 400 remarkable landscapes, still lifes and portraits, together with dramatic reportage-style images, Strip Search is a unique and visually stunning portrayal of one of the world’s most enigmatic cities. A limited edition is available, this includes 1 of 5 different prints, limited to an edition of 100 each. Each archival pigment print is 10” x 13”, and is personally initialed by Albert Watson, stamped and numbered.
Opposite - Breaunna in Cat Mask, Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas
Posted by Exit 01/11/2010
WILLIAM EGGLESTON : DEMOCRATIC CAMERA
This exhibition includes more than two hundred photographs, the artist's little-known video work Stranded in Canton, his early black-and-white photographs of the sixties, and the vivid dye-transfer work of the early seventies, as seen in the Museum of Modern Art's landmark catalogue of 1976, William Eggleston's Guide. Highlights from the last twenty years includes selections from the Graceland series and The Democratic Forest, Eggleston's great, dense anthology of the quotidian. The exhibition includes a special selection of recent work taken in Los Angeles.
Opposite - Algiers, Louisiana, 1972
Exhibition runs from October 31st to January 16th, 2011
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90036
Posted by Exit 01/11/2010
PANASONIC LUMIX DMC-GF2
The GF2 is powered by a 12.1-megapixel Live MOS sensor, shoots HD video capture in 1080i at 60 fps or 720p at 60fps, and lenses are interchangeable. Another added feature it a touch screen LCD display with spans the whole backside of the body. It will be released in January 2011.
Posted by Exit 01/11/2010
JULIAN SCHNABEL POLAROIDS
The exhibition will present a selection of large-scale Polaroids, mostly previously unpublished, which offer an insight into the enigmatic character of the artist and a glimpse into his working environment.
Works on view include images of Schnabel’s family and friends, such as Lou Reed, Placido Domingo and Mickey Rourke, alongside Polaroids of the artist's private spaces within the Palazzo Chupi on New York's Lower West Side and the interiors and surroundings of his studios in Brooklyn, Montauk and Manhattan.
Schnabel took these extraordinary large-format Polaroids, both in brilliant colour and black-and-white, using a dolly-mounted 20 x 24 in. 1970s camera, and in some cases the artist has painted on the surfaces of the photographs.
Opposite - Untitled (Julian and Mickey), 26 x 22 ", Julian Schnabel
Exhibition runs through to the 12th of November, 2010
Colnaghi
15 Old Bond Street
London
W1S 4AX
UK
Posted by Exit 25/10/2010
PORTRAITS OF KEITH RICHARDS 1963-1972
As one of the world's most beloved guitarists, Keith Richards is celebrated as much for his lifestyle as his musical genius. "Before They Make me Run - Portraits of Keith Richards 1963 - 1972," explores the various sides of this quintessential rock star's life.
Curated by Raj Prem and produced in association with SFAE, the exhibition features the work of some of the world's greatest rock photographers.
Included are images from iconic sessions such as Philip Townsend's first ever photographs of the Stones in Chelsea in the early '60s, Gered Mankowitz's moody black-and-white portraits, Michael Cooper's exotic images from Morocco and Joshua Tree, Michael Joseph's "Beggars Banquet" photos, official Stones photographer Ethan Russell's poetic images of the group's infamous 1969 and 1972 US tours, and Dominique Tarle's photos taken during the recording of "Exile on Main St." in the South of France. Additional photographers included are Peter Webb and David Montgomery with their memorable "Sticky Fingers" images, legendary producer Eddie Kramer's intimate recording studio shots with Keith, and Jerrold Schatzberg's photos of Keith dressed in drag.
Opposite - Keith Richards, Piano, Dominique Tarlé
San Francisco Art Exchange
458 Geary Street
San Francisco
CA
94102
USA
Posted by Exit 25/10/2010
WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL
Often regarded as the founder of ‘street photography’, the American Garry Winogrand took countless photographs of women in New York between 1960 and 1975. A final collection of 85 photos was put together by John Szarkowski, the legendary curator of the Museum of Modern Art, for a work published in 1975 under the title ‘WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL’. For the most part taken on the street, Winogrand’s snapshots document the life of young and emancipated women of the period in a unique way.
The photographer has created valuable documents illustrating the changes in women’s understanding of their own role – with self-confident female figures either enjoying themselves at parties or making their voices heard at political demonstrations. As a result of the wide time span, the viewer is able to experience the development of fashion and pop culture over two of the most lively decades of the past century.
Exhibition runs from November 6th to November 27th, 2010
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 25/10/2010
LEICA X L'ECLAIREUR X GILLES OUAKI
The Parisian boutique and concept store L’Eclaireur is celebrating its 30th anniversary next month. For this occasion they teamed up with Gilles Ouaki and Leica, to produce a limited edition of their X1 digital camera. The camera is signed by Ouaki and the store, and features red leather detailing. Only limited to 30 pieces.
Posted by Exit 18/10/2010
PENTAX OPTIO NB1000 X NANOBLOCK
Pentax’s Optio NB1000 Point and Shoot camera has a front panel which is covered in a Lego-like piece compatible with nanoblocks (a construction block system similar to lego) from Japan’s Diablock. Different sizes of these blocks can be attached to the face of the camera so that you can personalize it with patterns, mini sculptures. The blocks also have more than just an aesthetic appeal. they can be used to help capture your images – arrangement around the lens can form frames for your pictures
Posted by Exit 18/10/2010
NIKON D7000
Nikon introduces the new D7000, a 16.2MP DX-format CMOS digital-SLR packed into a compact body. Good news for those looking to shoot both stills and video – the D7000 includes Full HD 1080p recording. A solid successor to the popular D90.
Posted by Exit 18/10/2010
STEPHEN SHORE - UNCOMMON PLACES
Stephen Shore's first solo show in Berlin for over 15 years. The exhibition will feature 80 previously unseen works from the series Uncommon Places, in addition to a number of pages from his seminal Road Trip Journal.
Stephen Shore embarked on his first road trip in the summer of 1972 which resulted in the series American Surfaces. With a Rollei 35 mm camera, the forerunner of the point-and-shoot, Shore was able to immediately capture the people, places and objects he encountered, producing a series of consciously casual and intimate snapshots.
While Shore continued to document his travels, he wanted to explore a greater visual intentionality and, therefore, began his next series of work in 1973 entitled Uncommon Places. Here the artist focuses on the minutiae of modern life in America, capturing anonymous intersections, residential architecture, uniform drive-by diners, generic motel rooms and monotonous gas stations, all of which were shot using colour film and a view camera, a combination that had rarely been put to use in recording America’s social landscape.
Opposite - Granite, Oklahoma, July 1972
Exhibition runs from November 12th to January 8th, 2011.
Sprüth Magers Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178 Berlin
Posted by Exit 11/10/2010
BEST OF BRITISH
Best of British, is an exhibition of photographs by some of the best British photographers of the past and present. These include Miles Aldridge, Bob Carlos Clarke, Terence Donovan, Brian Duffy, Mike Figgis, Chris Levine, Patrick Lichfield, Gered Mankowitz, Terry O’Neill, Norman Parkinson, and Alistair Taylor-Young.
As part of Best of British, the photographic work of Mike Figgis is included. Figgis is a renowned director and writer most famous for his 1996 film ‘Leaving Las Vegas’ which was nominated for four Academy Awards. He has since worked on the cutting edge of creative digital filmmaking and photography, where he pushes the boundaries
by experimenting with different textures and formats.
Opposite - Kate Moss, 2007, Mike Figgs
Exhibition runs from November 3rd to December 18th, 2010
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 11/10/2010
STICKERS: STUCK UP PIECE OF CRAP
Stickers: Stuck Up Piece of Crap – From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art” is a new book by DB Burkeman.
The publication is a massive chronicling of the history of sticker culture, with more than 4,000 images and 30 contributing writers including Martha Cooper, Stanley Donwood, Shepard Fairey, Carlo McCormick, Clayton Patterson, Stephen Powers (ESPO) and Swoon.
Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art is out now via Rizzoli in paperback or as a limited, numbered hardcover deluxe boxed edition, including a folder pack of 23 exclusive die-cut stickers, many signed by the artists. Contributors include Kenny Scharf, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness, Jose Parla, Mark Dean Veca, Rostarr, and Space Invader.”
Posted by Exit 11/10/2010
THREE'S A CROWD - EWEN SPENCER
Three's a Crowd is the title of a new photographic book by NME/The Face lens man Ewen Spencer chronicling the White Stripes' rise from 2001 to 2005. The book contains outtakes and never-before-seen shots.
Posted by Exit 04/10/2010
MARY MCCARTNEY - FROM WHERE I STAND
From Where I Stand is the first solo display of work by photographer Mary McCartney at the National Portrait Gallery. The display celebrates the publication of McCartney's first book, From Where I Stand, selected from her complete archive from the 1990s to the present.
The display of 12 portraits will include portraits of well-known British figures from the worlds of art, film, fashion and music alongside portraits of McCartney's family. Photographs of PJ Harvey and British film directors from the Gallery's Collection will be on show besides portraits of Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow as Madonna, Sam Taylor-Wood and the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin as Frida Kahlo, Vivienne Westwood and Lily Cole amongst others. In an insight to Mary's world, both public and private, intimate portraits of Stella and Linda McCartney will also be exhibited.
Opposite - Helen Mirren, Mary McCartney, 1998
Exhibition runs through to October 31st, 2010
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 04/10/2010
MATTHEW WILLIAMSON
Somerset House will host a display of Matthew Williamson's work, to coincide with the publication of his new book. The display will animate aspects of the book and will feature photographs and key quotes from contributors. The exhibition will offer a unique insight into the life of one of the most original and exciting fashion designers working today.
The book celebrates Williamson’s colour-drenched creations embellished with exquisite embroidery and beading. Photographs of Williamson’s textile designs, celebrity fashion shoots, and mood boards, sketches and scrapbooks reveal his influences and inspirations. Key players such as Sir Paul Smith, Diane Von Furstenburg, Zandra Rhodes and Anna Wintour.
Exhibition runs from October 13th to January 30th, 2011
Somerset House Trust
South Building
Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA
Posted by Exit 04/10/2010
NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2010
New Photography 2010 presents four artists, Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho, whose photographs mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media and cinema. Ethridge takes his pictures in “editorial mode,” directly borrowing from commercial images already in circulation, including outtakes from his own illustrational magazine work. Lassry defines his practice as one consumed with pictures, meaning with generic images lifted from consumer society, such as Hollywood publicity stills and design illustrations.
Ross-Ho’s hand-drilled sheetrock panels lined up with found pictures and mural-scale images of studio residues renegotiate the various stages of the creative process. Prager takes her cues from pulp fiction and the fashion images of Guy Bourdin to construct filmic narratives starring women disguised under synthetic wigs, dramatic makeup, and retro polyester attire.
Opposite - Susie and Friends. 2008, Alex Prager
Exhibition runs through till January 10th, 2011
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street
New York
NY
10019
Posted by Exit 27/09/2010
NIKON P7000
Need an alternative to the Canon G-Series, Nikon has released the Nikon P7000. 10.1 megapixels and a 7.1 optical zoom, the camera also lets you record 720p high-def video.
Posted by Exit 27/09/2010
TARYN SIMON - CONTRABAND
Contraband is Taryn Simon’s new series of portraits depicting various items confiscated at Terminal 4 at JFK Airport. It provides an in-depth and curious look at what happens when one culture encounters another.
Simon spent five mostly sleepless days at the airport, photographing over 1,000 contraband objects ranging from the relatively unsurprising (counterfeit designer bags, bongs) to the flat-out strange (cow-dung toothpaste, insect larvae). While many of the photographs’ subjects are shocking, they open a discussion about the material values of different cultures and what happens when one set of cultural beliefs is dominated by another. Though the series portrays contrasting cultural values, the repetition of some items demonstrates the universality of certain societal norms, such as the mass-market appeal of cheap, knockoff material goods.
Opposite - DVDs (Lost, Season 4. pirated), Taryn Simon
Exhibition runs through till December 31st, 2010
Lever House Art Collection
390 Park Avenue
New York
10022
USA
www.leverhouseartcollection.com
Posted by Exit 27/09/2010
LEICA M9 - TITANIUM EDITION
Leica have unveiled a limited, titanium version of their popular M9 camera. The edition, which is limited to 500 cameras worldwide, was designed by Walter de'Silva, chief designer for Volkswagen. The M9 is offered as a set together with a LEICA SUMMILUX-M 35mm f/1.4 ASPH lens, also manufactured from solid titanium.
Priced around £19,800!!!
Posted by Exit 20/09/2010
NOT IN FASHION - FASHION AND PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 90'S
Not In Fashion - Fashion and Photography in the 90s, focuses in particular on presenting wide-ranging historical documentation on the fashion scene of the 1990s, in this way offering a strong impression of the creative output of the period.
The exhibits will include reproductions of famous photo spreads and innovative ad campaigns, devised among others by Jürgen Teller, Helmut Lang, Inez van Lamsweerde and Yohji Yamamoto.
In the 1990s, the fashion scene fundamentally reinvented specifically the medium of photography. That decade gave rise to a new generation for whom personal identity, individualism and a self-defined style were of crucial importance. Back then, the joie de vivre of the generation of 20-30 year-old creative minds thrived on music, subculture, intimacy and fashion.
A new notion of corporeality was being celebrated in the major capitals of the world, such as London, New York, Tokyo, Berlin and Paris. The protagonists of this era sought to distinguish themselves from the established art and fashion scenes, and develop an alternative, lived counter-culture. They felt that the overly artificial images of prêt-à-porter, haute couture and glossy fashion magazines needed to be overcome and replaced with “real life” pictures instead Youth-Culture. They thus collectively dismissed the notion of the beautiful, and tried to elide gender differences and other social conventions.
Opposite - Helen, Purple, 1993
Exhibition runs from September 25th till January 9th, 2011
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst
Domstraße 10
60311
Frankfurt
Germany
Posted by Exit 20/09/2010
TALES OF RESISTANCE AND CHANGE
The exhibition "Tales of Resistance and Change. Artists from Argentina” presents works by twelve contemporary Argentine artists and artist groups that conceive their socio-political environments as a field for reflection and action. Starting from a diversity of contexts, their works are to be understood as processes of research in which the present, traditions and recent history are combined. The geopolitical complexity of the country influences these productions in which urban and rural rhythms, immigrant and native heritage, transformations and political conflicts are perceived.
“After the economic crisis of 2001–the curator, Rodrigo Alonso, points out–Argentine artists started to question and examine their reality reactivating critical practices that had been inactive during the previous neoliberal period. Some of them interacted with the new political militancy, others approached several communities and others created social inclusion projects with sectors of the population that had been particularly affected by the financial conflict”.
Opposite - Gian Paolo Minelli, 2003 From the series - Zona Sur - Barrio Piedrabuena
Exhibition runs through till October 31st, 2010
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Steinernes Haus am Römerberg
Markt 44
60311
Frankfurt
Germany
Posted by Exit 20/09/2010
KARL LAGERFELD - PARCOURS DE TRAVAIL
Karl Lagerfeld's work as a photographer is now on display at la Maison Europeenne de Photographie de Paris. This exhibition is titled "Parcours de Travail" meaning "course work" in English.
The exhibition showcases the gamut of Lagerfeld's photography, from his commercial work for Chanel to celebrity portraits for magazines to more experimental landscapes and architectural pieces, some pieces go back to 1987 when Lagerfeld picked up a camera.
Opposite - Karl Lagerfeld, Schwarzkopf, Freja Beha, 2009
Exhibition runs through till October 31st, 2010
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5 Rue de Fourcy
75004
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 13/09/2010
YUL - YUL BRYNNER : A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY
YUL is an exhibition comprised of 70 works celebrating the release of the book by the same title, which presents Brynner's photographic oeuvre for the first time. Brynner's reputation as one of the twentieth century's most charismatic and versatile actors is irrefutable, but his talent as a photographer has been relatively unknown and unacknowledged, until now.
The four-volume book, published by Edition 7L and edited by Brynner's daughter Victoria Brynner, comprises a selection made from 8,000 images and press cuttings.
Lehmann Maupin's exhibition will feature photographs chosen from each of the four volumes: "Lifestyle", "Life on Set", "1956", and "Man of Style."
Opposite - Yul Brynner, The King and I, Self Portrait, 1956
Exhibition runs through till September 25th, 2010
Lehmann Maupin
201 Chrystie St
New York
NY
10002
USA
Posted by Exit 13/09/2010
3+1
“3+1″ is a new art and photography exhibit opening at agnes b’s Galerie du Jour. Featuring works from the late Dash Snow, Harmony Korine and Ryan McGinley
Opposite - Dash Snow, Untitled (Metallic trees), God Spoiled, 2007
Exhibition runs through till November 6th, 2010
Galerie du Jour
44 Rue Quincampoix
75004
Paris
France
Posted by Exit 13/09/2010
TRIBBLE & MANCENIDO - HURRY UP & WAIT
At the height of one of the worst financial crises in American history, photographers James Frank Tribble and Tracey Mancenido-Tribble went to truck-driving school, earned their commercial driver's licenses and hit the highway.
Tribble & Mancenido set out on a journey across America to explore and illuminate the trucking subculture that drives our economy. Spending a full year on the road, the couple drove their 18-wheeler over one hundred thousand miles and spent over two thousand hours delivering loads. "Hurry Up & Wait" is a personal and poetic meditation of an industry and a way of life.
Opposite - Moto Mart, Perryville, MO, 2008
Exhibition runs from September 9th to October 23rd, 2010
Sasha Wolf Gallery
548 West 28th Street
2nd Floor
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 06/09/2010
THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF BRASILIA
Brasilia, a group exhibition of vintage photographs celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the capital of Brazil is to be curated by Brazilian photographer Murillo Meirelles, the exhibition will include images that show Brasilia being planned, constructed and inaugurated from 1958-1960.
A city planned and built from scratch in the very center of the country, Brasilia replaced Rio de Janeiro as the capital of Brazil in 1960. The architectural, figurative and photojournalistic images in the Brasilia exhibition highlight the idealism of Juscelino Kubitschek's socialist government and its team of visionary urban planners, architects and landscape designers including Lucio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx.
Opposite - Untitled 5, Gervasio Batista, Digital C-Print
Exhibition runs from September 9th to November 27th, 2010
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 06/09/2010
ALEC SOTH
The Walker Art Center presents the first U.S. survey of the work of Alec Soth whose offbeat images of everyday America form powerful narrative vignettes.
Featuring more than 100 photographs made between 1994 and the present, this exhibition includse examples from Soth’s well-known series Sleeping by the Mississippi and Niagara, a selection of rarely seen early black-and-white work, and a broad range of portraits. Also on view is the Minneapolis-based artist’s newest series, Broken Manual.
Exhibition runs from September 12th to January 2nd, 2011
Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Ave
Minneapolis
MN
55403
Posted by Exit 06/09/2010
TERRY O'NEILL - GUYS & DOLLS
Terry O’Neill is one of the most famous British photographers of the twentieth century. He has achieved worldwide success documenting the fashion, style, and celebrities from the 1960s until the present day. He has photographed showbusiness icons during his 60 year career with his distinct style of photographing his subjects in
unconventional or candid settings.
The Guys & Dolls show features some of his most famous and memorable shots including Brigitte Bardot, Michael Caine, Clint Eastwood, Audrey Hepburn, Mick Jagger, Dolly Parton, Frank Sinatra, Raquel Welch and more.
Opposite - Raquel Welch, 1968, Terry O'Neill
Exhibition runs through to October 30th, 2010.
The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ
Posted by Exit 30/08/2010
BRIGHTON PHOTO BIENNIAL
Brighton Photo Biennial 2010, entitled, New Documents, is guest curated by the internationally renowned photographer, editor and curator Martin Parr.
Brighton Photo Biennial 2010: New Documents will reflect the immediacy and vibrancy of contemporary photographic practice by a new generation of practitioners, the eclectic passions found in collections of historic and vernacular photography produced by commercial and amateur photographers, and present new commissions by internationally celebrated photographers informed and inspired by the diverse communities and contexts of Brighton & Hove.
The curated programme will be exhibited in numerous, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Fabrica, Lighthouse, the University of Brighton Gallery and an unusual, alternative exhibition space, and working with Design Council Archives and Photoworks all in the centre of Brighton & Hove. Visitors can view the entire Biennial programme by foot. All the images will be pinned onto the wall, making BPB 2010 the first frame-free photography festival in the world.
Opposite - Zoe Strauss, Vanessa, Philadelphia, PA. 2008
Exhibition runs from October 2nd to November 14th, 2010.
Posted by Exit 30/08/2010
APARTMENTS, PARKING LOTS, PALM TREES AND OTHERS
Ed Ruscha, Apartments, Parking Lots, Palm Trees and Others: Films, Photographs and Drawings from 1961 to 1975 is the full title of Ruscha's new exhibition of works. Inspired by the American photography of the nineteen-forties and -fifties, Ruscha broke with the traditions of the genre and simultaneously distanced himself from the subjectivist, analytical photo-books of such author-photographers as Robert Frank and Walker Evans.
Coming to the fore here, instead of pictorial sequences ordered according to formal and contentual critiera, was a serial arrangement in which the disregard of classical conventions of photography, namely the requirements of perspective and composition, became a characteristic of his photographic aesthetic.
Opposite - Doheny Towers, 1965, Ed Ruscha
Exhibition runs through to October 23rd, 2010.
Sprüth Magers Berlin
Oranienburger Straße 18
D-10178 Berlin
Posted by Exit 30/08/2010
CANON POWERSHOT G12
The soon to be released G12 beholds a hive of features, a 10-megapixel sensor, 5x optical zoom, 2.8-inch tilt and swivel screen, manual exposure control, HD video (720p) video recording and optical image stabilization skills.
Posted by Exit 23/08/2010
RUINS OF DETROIT - YVES MARCHAND & ROMAIN MEFFRE
Stockholm’s Gun Gallery presents a series of photographs detailing the decline of the Motor City’s once great downtown.
The story line isn’t new, of course, but the images are nonetheless stirring. Crumbling ball rooms and wasted apartments open a window to the sad realities of urban devolution.
The works of Marchand and Meffre can focus only on degradation. Poignant, but ultimately more documents of time than anything else.
Exhibition runs from August 26th to September 19th 2010.
GunGallery
Runebergsgatan 3
114 29 Sthlm
Sweden
www.gungallery.se
Posted by Exit 23/08/2010
CANON POWERSHOT S95
Canon is to release a updated version of our favourite pocket sized S90, the S95.
“The S95 update to last year’s S90 combines Canon’s DIGIC 4 image processing, a 10-megapixel high-sensitivity CCD sensor, and wide f/2.0 lens to enhance image quality and reduce noise at high ISO levels without resorting to a flash. It features a new high dynamic range (HDR) mode, 720p video recording, and mini HDMI for throwing that video up to the living room flat screen. the S95 is also the first PowerShot to feature Hybrid IS image stabilisation to help with macro shots.”
Released late August
Posted by Exit 23/08/2010
BLACK BRITANNIA - JOHN FERGUSON
Black Britannia features striking photograph portraits by photographer John Ferguson, Fleet Streets first black photographer in the 1980’s, of some of the most well known – and less familiar – black men and women who have risen to the top of their chosen fields.
Under the title Black Britannia, the full exhibition comprises of 55 portraits of inspirational black Britons who inspired personnaly the artist in the past or who are currently making great strides in public life. Of the 55 black Britons, some well know names such as Sir Trevor McDonald, Lenny Henry, Naomi Campbell, Paul Ince, Lewis Hamilton, and others from various occupations such as head teachers to supermodels, boxers to lawyers - these are people from all walks of life.
Opposite - Comedian Gina Yashere
Exhibition runs from October 1st to October 22th, 2010
Open The Gate
33-35 Stoke Newington Rd
London
N16 8BJ
Posted by Exit 26/07/2010
POSTIONS OF NUDE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
This new exhibition mainly curated Camera Works own collection, displays more than 40 photographers and their perspectives on mostly female nude art. Selected classics are supplemented with, in some cases, never before exhibited contemporary works of Blaise Reutersward, Nadav Kander, or Ralph Mecke.
The kaleidoscopic exhibition stretches from classical, nearly sculptural studio-stagings, as in the works of Horst P. Horst, Frantisek Drtikol, or Rudolf Koppitz, to the erotic and provocative images of Helmut Newton or Bettina Rheims, and extending to the series of documentary pictures by recently-deceased Larry Sultan, which originated off-set during pornographic shootings.
Opposite - Spiegel der Venus, Wingate Paine.
Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2010
Galerie Camera Work
Kantstraße 149
10623
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 19/07/2010
WILDFIRES - YOUNGSUK SUH
Suh’s photographs depict sweeping landscapes blanketed in smoke from nearby fires, while his human subjects engage in pursuits of both labor and leisure, despite the smoky conditions. Often shot from a high vantage point, these individuals are often dwarfed by the majestic landscapes surrounding them.
Suh notes that the luminous tones and colors of the photographs reference these earlier masters – but with a hint of irony, for these picturesque sunsets are enhanced by the haze of smoke from nearby fires, and these heroes are simply tourists, more oblivious than brave.
Exhibition runs from July 15th to August 20th, 2010
49 Geary Street
Fifth Floor
San Francisco
CA
94108
Posted by Exit 12/07/2010
STARBURST : COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA 1970-1980
Starburst, the first-ever museum survey of the “New Color Photography” in the 1970s, stars 18 artists who fast-forwarded their medium out of its black-and-white past and put it at the center of contemporary art.
The exhibition features generous bodies of work by eighteen artists, from the still-prominent, such as Stephen Shore, William Eggleston, Jan Groover, and Joel Sternfeld, to key figures of the period, including Eve Sonneman, Neal Slavin, John Pfahl, and Barbara Kasten.”
Exhibition runs through to September 26, 2010
Posted by Exit 12/07/2010
PAINTING PRETTY PICTURES
Painting Pretty Pictures, a collection of painterly studies of feminine beauty. Using digital retouching as a tool for artistic effect, nudes of some of the world’s top models, including Yasmin Le Bon, Heidi Klum and Lily Cole, are transformed into apparent oil paintings.
Annroy Gallery
110-114 Grafton Street
Kentish Town
London
NW5 4BA
Posted by Exit 12/07/2010
DENNIS HOPPER DOUBLE STANDARD
“Dennis Hopper Double Standard," curated by Julian Schnabel, will include artwork by Hopper from the last six decades, from an abstract 1955 painting to his 1960s photographs of soon-to-be-famous friends like Andy Warhol to so-called graffiti paintings of the 1980s. Incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch singles out as “especially fascinating" more recent “wall constructions that relate to film sets" and installations using films such as “Easy Rider."
Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2010
The Museum of Contemporary Art
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles
CA
90012-3021
USA
Posted by Exit 05/07/2010
YVONNE VENEGAS - MARIA ELVIA DE HANK SERIES
In her series on Maria Elvia de Hank, photographer Yvonne Venegas offers a view into the life, family, and environment surrounding the wife of eccentric millionaire and former Tijuana Mayor Jorge Hank Rohn. Venegas focuses on Mexican privilege and gender, exploring how her subject---the wife of one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs in Mexico---submits, with a perfectionist touch, social and aesthetic ideals portrayed through a scrim of light and dust in Northern Mexico.
Opposite - Ana y Amigas, 2008, digital print, 40" x 50"
Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2010
Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue B1
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
CA
90404
Posted by Exit 05/07/2010
HELEN LEVITT
A full review of her work since her death last year, through 120 images and the documentary film In the Street Helen Levitt is one of the great North American photographers of the second half of the 20th century. Her work is notable for her unique outlook and her documentary style, focusing on urban life, mainly in the street of New York. Her images capture tiny moments of daily life, apparently banal instants yet which have great metaphoric meaning for the social conditions of our time.
This exhibition, produced by the ICO Foundation, is the first anthology organised since her death in 2009 aged 96. It presents close to 120 images taken between 1936 and the 1990s, and the documentary In the Street, a precursor to independent American film which she made with the writer James Agee and the painter Janice Loeb in 1945. The exhibition underlines how Levitt’s work set out the aesthetics of instantaneity in street photography, with her ability to suspend movement, to capture tiny moments, to break the flow of reality with endless visual potential.
Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2010.
Oficinas Fundacion ICO
Paseo del Prado
4 - 28014
Madrid
Spain
Posted by Exit 28/06/2010
HELMUT NEWTON FOUNDATION PRESENTS ALICE SPRINGS
Starting in 1970, June Newton created own photographic works under the pseudonym Alice Springs. These have been exhibited regularly at the Helmut Newton Foundation since 2005, namely in "June's Room." The current retrospective in Berlin provides for the first time a comprehensive look at the four decades that span her work, presenting photographs from advertising and fashion as well as nudes and portraits.
Opposite - Yves Saint Laurent, Alice Springs, Paris 1978
Exhibition runs through to January 30th, 2011.
Helmut Newton Foundation
Jebensstrasse 2
10623
Berlin
Posted by Exit 28/06/2010
ALL MY LOVIN'
All My Lovin' is a group exhibition with works by Elinor Carucci, Lydia Panas, Phillip Toledano and Edith Maybin.
The exhibition shows photographic works concerned exclusively with "You and I".
It is an exhibition about love, loving and being loved; about loved ones at home, by our side, or separated from us, those with whom we feel the deepest bonds of the soul, but with whom our everyday relations are often filled with conflict, so that we experience alternating emotional security and insecurity.
All my lovin' speaks of human relationships in powerful and moving individual images and picture series. We see couples young and old, fathers, mothers, parents with their children, happy and unhappy people, strangers who approach strangers, and others who emerge from the prison of restricted thinking in order to show spontaneous sympathy and experience love.
Opposite - Tatiana, Lydia Panas.
Künstlerhaus Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997
Berlin
Germany
Posted by Exit 28/06/2010
EIZO 2010 CALENDAR - X-RAY PIN-UPS
If you’re still in need of a calendar for 2010, EIZO has come up with a provocative pin-up calendar which shows that female beauty is indeed more than skin deep.
EIZO is a brand of medical suppliers that creates high precision displays for the examination and diagnosis of radiographs.
Posted by Exit 21/06/2010
ON THE ROAD
On the Road investigates the mythology of American motorcar led adventure. Talking its title from Jack Kerouac’s much loved book, the exhibition is split in two parts. The first presents a number of artists whose work explores the American West. These are Robert Adams, Ant Farm, John Baldessari, Walker Evans, Robbert Flick, Mary Heilmann, Roger Kuntz, Danny Lyon, Catherine Opie, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Stephen Shore, Alexis Smith, Kon Trubkovich, and Andy Warhol.
Exhibition runs through to September 5th, 2010.
Artpace San Antonio
445 North Main Avenue
San Antonio
TX
78205 1441
Posted by Exit 21/06/2010
RIP CURL X LOMOGRAPHY
Rip Curl and The Lomographic Society have linked up on new camera, the Fisheye 2 x Rip Curl Special Edition. The cam features Japanese fisheye optics and can capture a full 180° with a clear depth of field.
The camera also features a multiple exposure switch for unlimited shots on 1 frame, a bulb function enabling long exposures, on-camera flash for day and night, and a hot shoe mount for external flash. Limited to 2000 pieces worldwide!
Posted by Exit 21/06/2010
ARI MARCOPOULOS X MARK GONZALES
The exhibition includes Marcopolous’s adventurous photographs of model Diana Dondoe and Mark Gonzales. Post-production Gonzales has drawn and etched upon the surfaces of these photographs. The twelfth issue of HoBO magazine will feature these collaborative photographs and an interview with Gonzales by Glenn O’Brien. The proceeds of works sold from this exhibition will be given to a cancer research foundation.
Franklin Parrasch Gallery
20 w 57th street (between 5th and 6th ave)
new york
10019
Exhibition runs through to the 26th of June, 2010.
Posted by Exit 14/06/2010
LOMOGRAPHY SPINNER 360
This week Lomography will introduce their new Spinner 360 panoramic camera. The fully mechanic camera captures infinite panoramic shots on 35mm film. You just have to pull the trigger cord and the camera does all the rest for you and exposes the full width of a film role.
Posted by Exit 14/06/2010
WE LIKE HOLGA BACKS AND WE CANNOT LIE
There's nothin' like rockin' a Holgaroid and you'll be knocked out by this new Holga PolaroidBack. This upgraded version supports the square Type 80 packfilm cartridges as well as the classic Type 100 packfilm. No more limits. Analog photography at its best.
www.the-impossible-project.com
Posted by Exit 14/06/2010
SMALL VICTORIES
The “Small Victories” exhibition opens at Hong Kong’s Above Second Gallery. The show is curated by Jeff Hamada in association with his creative platform Booooooom featured 101 different submitted works of photography in a 6 x 4 format. The focus of each photo was on the sometimes seemingly inconsequential but ultimately important parts of life that come together and illicit that quick smile and make life worth living.
Posted by Exit 07/06/2010
CANON X TOM SACHS "LIKE A LEICA"
In an interesting new project, artist Tom Sachs has gone ahead and customized 12 Canon SD780 IS Digital ELPH’s. Entitled “Like a Leica” the artist has given the Canon camera the Leica look.
“Handmade at the artist’s studio in New York City.
This 12.1 megapixel Canon PowerShot SD780 IS Digital ELPH pocket-camera has been rebranded into a Leica. Shoots HD movie (and is the preferred camera of the Neistat Brothers). Engravings, paint and customized stickers ensure the experience is better than genuine.”
The camera is now available, limited to 12 pieces, from colette and from the artist direct.
www.colette.fr
www.tomsachs.org
Posted by Exit 07/06/2010
THE ALPA 12 TC CAMERA
The cameras of Alpa are professional tools used by photographers such as Walter Niedermayr or Andreas Gursky.
A camera from Alpa puts nothing in between the creativity of the photographer and his picture. The focus remains entirely on feeling for the moment and the skill of the user. The reduction to the bare essential renders the the objectives of the photographer visible.
“Such a uncompromising object like the ALPA 12TC is, this camera will become one with the user. Only when the photographer will forget the camera in his hands he will be able to absolutely focus on his activity: The Photography.”
Posted by Exit 07/06/2010
ELLEN STAGG - MELTING FLESH
Ellen Stagg shares her multi-exposed mix of bodies at Fuse Gallery.
A phantasmagoric mix of bodies, light, sex, and ether reside in Ellen Stagg’s multi-exposed photographs. Stagg embraces the unexpected and opts for a toy Holga camera using film and Polaroid over the manufactured guise of digital. The multiple exposures cause the women's nude bodies to melt into one another as well as their surroundings.
The fluid nature of the images –
produced through the manipulation of light leaks, finger prints and film type – offers the viewer a surreal visual that is simultaneously in flux and static.
Each piece is presented in a unique steel
frame constructed by metalsmith Sullivan Walsh.
Opposite - "Darenzia Storm Roof", C-Print, Edition of 5, 9.5" x 18"
Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2010.
Fuse Gallery
93 2nd Avenue (between 5th & 6th Streets)
NYC
NY
10003
Posted by Exit 31/05/2010
SALLY MANN - THE FAMILY AND THE LAND
Sally Mann’s first solo exhibition in the UK combines several series from her long photographic career, The Family and the Land: reflects Mann’s artistic impulse to draw on the world around her as subject matter.
The ‘family’ element of the title will comprise Mann’s early series Immediate Family and the newer series Faces, both of which depict her children at various ages. The series Deep South represents the landscape, portraying images made across the south of the United States. The more recent body of work, What Remains brings together both strands of the exhibition, through its examination of how bodies, as they decompose, merge into the land itself.
Opposite - Virginia # 42, 2004
Exhibition runs from June 18th to September 19th, 2010.
The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW
Posted by Exit 31/05/2010
VENETIA DEARDEN - GLASTONBURY PHOTOGRAPHS
London’s National Portrait Gallery opened its latest display, Glastonbury Photographs by Venetia Dearde. Dearden grew up next to the festival site and has been involved with Glastonbury since a young age.
Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2010.
Posted by Exit 31/05/2010
LEICA V-LUX 20
Leica announces the V-Lux 20, a 12.1 megapixel compact camera with superzoom, integrated GPS and 720p HD video recording. The matte black finish and leather carrying case look damn good too!
Posted by Exit 24/05/2010
SONY NEX-5 AND NEX-3 CAMERAS
The idea of having a high quality camera packed into a rather small case is very appealing and has definitely worked in the market. Sony will soon release their new NEX system, first consisting of the Sony NEX-5 and NEX-3. Both come with a mirror-less system, lenses can be exchanged and the NEX-5 will be the lightest camera in the market of its kind. Both come with a 14.2 Megapixel chip and record video in HD. The cameras will be released in several colorways.
Posted by Exit 24/05/2010
MICHAEL SCHMIDT - GREY AS COLOUR
Michael Schmidt takes only black-and-white photographs since, in his view, this neutralises our colourful world reducing it to a wide spectrum of greys. therefore, schmidt could be considered a photographer of greys rather than black-and-white: 'grey is my colour. there are thousands of grey gradations. black and white are always the darkest and the lightest grey'.
His images thereby lack any kind of superficiality; they avoid any sort of event and are far removed from the photographic concept of the 'decisive moment'. up until the 1990s, Schmidt concentrated almost exclusively on his home town berlin.
Exhibition runs through to September 22nd, 2010.
Haus Der Kunst
Prinzregentenstrasse 1
80538
Munich
Germany
Posted by Exit 17/05/2010
FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid 1970s. This exhibition of 230 photographs, objects, and clips from television and film looks at the extent to which the rise of the modern civil rights movement paralleled the birth of television and the popularity of picture magazines and other forms of visual mass media.
Guest curator Maurice Berger examines the role that visual culture played in the civil rights movement in changing prevailing ideas about race in America.
Opposite - Sanitation Workers Assemble for a Solidarity March, Memphis, Tennessee, March 28, 1968, Ernest C. Withers
Exhibition runs from May 21st to September 12, 2010
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
USA
Posted by Exit 10/05/2010
BRUNO CALS - HORIZONS
The photographs in the Horizons series by Brazilian photographer Bruno Cals are suggestive of something beyond the record presented. The images of the buildings in São Paulo, Tokyo and Buenos Aires explore the limits of two-dimensionality, and articulate a radically different perspective on a commonplace visual scenario. In expressing this fresh point of view, Cals has invoked contrasting themes of possibility versus impossibility, presence versus emptiness, and search versus satisfaction.
Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2010
1500 Gallery
511 West 25th Street #607
New York
NY
10001
Posted by Exit 03/05/2010
IRVING PENN
Focusing specifically on his portraits of major cultural figures of the last seven decades. The exhibition is brought together from major international collections and includes over 120 silver and platinum prints, many vintage, ranging from his portraits for Vogue magazine in the 1940s to some of his last work. Penn photographed an extraordinary range of sitters from the worlds of literature, music and the visual and performing arts. Among those featured in the exhibition are Truman Capote, Salvador Dali, Christian Dior, T.S. Eliot, Duke Ellington, Grace Kelly, Rudolf Nureyev, Al Pacino, Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso and Harold Pinter.
Opposite - Alfred Hitchcock, New York, 1947
Exhibition runs through to June 6th, 2010
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London
WC2H 0HE
UK
Posted by Exit 22/03/2010
THE BURIAL OF HAILE SELASSIE
The twenty-one photographs in this exhibition document a remarkable event in recent Ethiopian history, one that provoked fresh debate about both Haile Selassie and Ethiopia’s troubled political history. The photographs shown here explore the tensions between royal, state and religious hierarchies surrounding the ceremony, as well as more personal expressions of loyalty by some of the participants.
Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of Abyssinia in 1930, but shortly afterwards fled into exile when Mussolini invaded the country in 1935. Despite his appeal to the League of Nations for intervention, the European powers wished to avoid conflict with Italy. Haile Selassie returned triumphantly in 1941 after a military campaign ousted the Italian forces, and the country was renamed Ethiopia.
Exhibition runs through to November 21st, 2010
Pitt Rivers Museum
South Parks Road
Oxford
OX1 3PP
England
Posted by Exit 15/03/2010
ESTEVAN ORIOL - LA WOMEN
Footage shot from January 17th to the 30th, during the Estevan Oriol “L.A. Woman” book promo tour.
Posted by Exit 08/03/2010
FASTER THAN THE EYE CAN SEE - HAROLD EDGERTON
Delaware Art Museum’s houses an exhibition of ultra-high-speed photography pioneer Dr. Harold Edgerton. Faster than the Eye highlights some delightfully lush color prints – all of which catch moments impossible to view with the naked eye.
Exhibition runs through to April 25, 2010.
Delaware Art Museum
2301 Kentmere Parkway
Wilmington
Delaware
19806
Posted by Exit 01/03/2010
VALERIE PHILLIPS - AMBER IS FOR CAUTION
“Amber is for caution” is a new project from photographer Valerie Phillips which attempts to bring streetstyle photography into the world of fine art.
Centred around former model Amber, whom Phillips first met when she came to a casting four years ago and quickly captivated the photographer.
“I met Amber when she was 15. She came to my studio for a casting. She was quiet and feisty at the same time, and kind of bratty and fascinating. I loved her slow-paced, drawn out Kentucky sentences, so perfectly out of place in East London. And I really liked how she didn’t seem to give a shit.
She was just Amber and that was good enough…...”
Exhibition runs through to April 8th, 2010.
Lazarides
8 Greek Street
Soho
London
W1D 4DG
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ED TEMPLETON: DRINKING THE KOOL-AID
In Drinking the Kool-Aid, Ed Templeton presents a selection of photographs taken over a fifteen year span. The exhibition is presented by Emerica and Slam City Skates, and hosted by Elms Lesters Paintings Rooms. As to be expected, Templeton’s focus has been on youth culture, primarily skate, and his photographs offer distinct views into subculture.
Exhibition runs through to April 17th, 2010.
Elms Lesters Paintings Rooms
1-3-5 Flitcroft Street
London
WC2H
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GOOD RATS
Good Rats draws together photographs from Niall O’Brien’s candid documentation of South West London punks. Three years of material make up the exhibition, and the photographs are filled with “the spontaneity of youth.” O’Brien, also a filmmaker, finds regular inspiration in youth culture. A native of Dublin, he specializes in intimate portraits of desire through unusual subject.
Exhibition runs through to March 11th, 2010.
Art Work Space
Lower Ground Floor
The Hempel Hotel
31-35 Craven Hill Gardens
London
W2 3EA
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HENRY HORENSTEIN “SHOW”
Henry Horenstein frequently documents American subcultures. In “Show” he gets to the heart of some of the seedier sides of entertainment. Burlesque, carnival, and more intimate portraits through images of tattooed bodies. The photographs were made from 2001 to 2009, and serve as an homage to the neo‐burlesque resurgence of the last several years.
Opposite - Melody Sweets, This is Burlesque, Corio, New York, New York (2008).
Exhibition runs through to April 3, 2010.
Gallery 339 - Fine Art Photography
339 South 21st Street
Philadelphia
PA
19103
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RYAN MCGINLEY - “EVERYONE KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE”
Ryan McGinley’s exhibition of new nudes, “Everyone Knows This is Nowhere,” is based on his desire to capture candid portraits in a studio setting will open at Team Gallery next month.
Exhibition runs through from March 18th - April 17th 2010
Team Gallery
83 Grand Street
New York
NY
10013
Posted by Exit 15/02/2010
YANGTZE, THE LONG RIVER
In the Yangtze River, photographer Nadav Kander found a subject that captured China’s unease, a point that at once highlights the future and the remnants of the past. His eagerly awaited Yangtze, The Long River, Monograph will be published later in the year.
Posted by Exit 15/02/2010
THE MARK OF ABEL
Foley Gallery is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of photographer Lydia Panas. Lydia Panas is an observer of the family dynamic. In her photographs, she manages to capture subtle hints of those complex relationships that tend to exist within the extended family or circles of friends.
Opposite - A Suspended Moment, 2009, 32 x 40 inches, chromogenic print, edition of 5
Exhibition runs through to April 20th, 2010
Foley Gallery
47 W 27th Street
5th floor between 10th and 11th Avenue
New York
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 08/02/2010
BRUNO BISANG
Bruno Bisang was born in 1952 and spent much of his youth in Ascona, a picturesque little town in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. When he was 19 he attended the School of Applied Arts for Photography in Zurich, which was followed by a photographic apprenticeship.
Since 1979 Bruno Bisang has worked as a freelance photographer, first in Zurich, and then for a time in Milan and Munich. Now he works between Milan, New York, Paris and Zurich for a renowned clientele.
Opposite - Cathy, Milan, 1999
Exhibition runs through to April 3rd, 2010
Young Gallery Knokke
811 Zeedijk
8300 Knokke
Belgium
Posted by Exit 08/02/2010
21ST CENTURY
William Eggleston's most recent photographs, exhibited here at Cheim & Read, give themselves over almost entirely to problems of composition, color, and texture; and yet they do so, only within the confines of what could have been seen by the casual observer, whose distracted glance would normally pass-over the surfaces of the world and retain virtually nothing of it.
Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2010
Cheim & Read
547 West 25th Street
New York
NY
10001
USA
Posted by Exit 01/02/2010
“UFO - UNIFIED FASHION OBJECTIVES"
In “ufo (unified fashion objectives),” Albert Watson unveils a collection of his best fashion photographs from 40 years as one of the world’s leading artists in the field. selected from his massive archives, Watson presents some of his most well-known fashion work alongside images that have never been presented to the public before.
Opposite - Albert Watson, “Kate Moss in torn veil", Marrakech, 1993
Exhibition runs from 23 February to 30 April 2010.
Young Gallery
75b avenue Louise (Place Wiltcher's - hôtel Conrad)
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium
Posted by Exit 01/02/2010
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Select works by Barbara Kruger, Ed Ruscha, Tracey Emin, Banksy, Tracy Nakayama, Thomas Ruff and others.
Exhibition runs through to March 26th, 2010.
Ikon Ltd
2525 Michigan Ave
Suite G4
Santa Monica
CA
90404
Posted by Exit 01/02/2010
ZED NELSON - LOVE ME
Love Me reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. The project explores how a new form of globalization is taking place, where an increasingly narrow Western beauty ideal is being exported around the world like a crude universal brand.
Over a period of five years Zed Nelson visited seventeen countries across five continents, reflecting on a world we have created in which there are enormous social, psychological and economic rewards and penalties attached to the way we look.
Opposite - Zed Nelson, Miss Essex, Loser, Miss England Competition, Leicester, UK
Exhibition runs through to February 2nd, 2010.
Øksnehallen
Halmtorvet 11
DK-1700
København V
www.zednelson.com
www.dgi-byen.com/oeksnehallen
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NOCTURNAL LANDSCAPES - ROBERT ADAMS
Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking". The exhibition consists of 50 photographs of nocturnal landscapes Robert Adams made between 1976 and 1982 near his home in Longmont, Colorado, on the eastern ridge of the Rocky Mountains.
Robert Adams leads the viewer outwards in these photographs from the populated center of the suburban town towards the rustic plain and distant Rocky Mountains. During his evening perambulations the photographer captured trees and houses, mountains and streets, fields and sidewalks between dusk and approaching dark. Lit by the setting sun, street lamps, and moonlight, his compositions are never conventionally beautiful. They vacillate between quiet foreboding and tranquil domesticity and, as the photographer has expressed
Exhibition runs through to April 13th, 2010.
Matthew Marks Gallery
523 W 24 Street
New York
NY
10011
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ELLIOTT ERWITT - PARIS
Elliott Erwitt born in Paris in 1928 to Russian parents, Erwitt spent his childhood in Milan, then emigrated to the US, via France, with his family in 1939. As a teenager living in Hollywood, he developed an interest in photography and worked in a commercial darkroom before experimenting with photography at Los Angeles City College. In 1948 he moved to New York and exchanged janitorial work for film classes at the New School for Social Research.
Erwitt traveled in France and Italy in 1949 with his trusty Rolleiflex camera. In 1951 he was drafted for military service and undertook various photographic duties while serving in a unit of the Army Signal Corps in Germany and France.
While in New York, Erwitt met Edward Steichen, Robert Capa and Roy Stryker, the former head of the Farm Security Administration. Stryker initially hired Erwitt to work for the Standard Oil Company, where he was building up a photographic library for the company, and subsequently commissioned him to undertake a project documenting the city of Pittsburgh.
Exhibition runs through to March 13th, 2010.
Magnum Paris
19 Rue Hegesippe Moreau
75018 Paris
France
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RICHARD AVEDON - FAMED FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY
The first exhibition devoted exclusively to Richard Avedon’s fashion work, it will feature over 150 objects, including photographs from throughout his productive career, as well as original magazines showing his work in context and materials demonstrating his creative process.
Opposite - Nadja Auermann and A Person Unknown, New York, August 1995
Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2010
Norton Museum of Art
1451 S. Olive Avenue
West Palm Beach
FL
33401
Posted by Exit 18/01/2010
TWILIGHT VISIONS: SURREALISM, PHOTOGRAPHY, AND PARIS
"Twilight Visions" offers a unique insight into the impact of the Surrealist aesthetic on those photographers working in Paris in the 1920’s and ‘30s. Presenting over 150 photographs, magazines, films, and ephemera of the period, the exhibition highlights the visionary role that photographers played in both the avant-garde art world of Paris and in the rise of the new.
Opposite - Andre Kertesz, ‘Eiffel Tower, Summer Storm’, 1927
Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2010.
International Center of Photography
1133 Avenue of the Americas
at 43rd Street
New York
NY
10036
Posted by Exit 18/01/2010
TODD HIDO - HOUSE HUNTING / NUDES
The exhibition House Hunting / Nudes the US-American artist Todd Hido presents the first solo show of the artist in Western Europe. The exhibited photographs are a selected body of works out of his monographs 'House Hunting' and 'Between the Two'. Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay-Area based photo artist. Since 2001, when he published his first monograph, entitled 'House Hunting' he became a rising star of the American art scene.
Kaune & Sudendorf
Albertusstrasse 26
(Kreishausgalerie)
50667
Cologne
Germany
www.toddhido.com
www.ks-contemporary.com
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GLEN E. FRIEDMAN “IDEALIST PROPAGANDA” RETROSPECTIVE
“Idealist Propaganda will feature a rare selection of Friedman’s oeuvre, including twenty-five never-before exhibited photographs of his celebrated iconic photos of the pioneering skate, punk and hip-hop subcultures to his equally political and polarized subject matter of the natural world. Having shot Jay Adams and Tony Alva to Run DMC, Public Enemy and the Beastie Boys to Minor Threat and Black Flag, Idealist Propaganda will prove to be a transcendent exhibition and ultimately Friedman’s most definitive creative and philosophical statement”.
Exhibition runs through to January 9th, 2010
Subliminal Projects Gallery
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles
CA
90026
USA
Posted by Exit 14/12/2009
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
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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
[www.rankinlive.com](http://www.rankinlive.com/
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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
WILLIAM EGGLESTON - 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.
This exhibition 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
