LAURIE SIMMONS – BIG CAMERA/LITTLE CAMERA

Posted on 2019-04-29

Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera presents nearly all of the artist’s major series, including Cowboys (1979), Family Collision (1981), Color Coordinated Interiors (1982–83), Tourism (1983–84), and Clothes Make the Man (1990–92). In one of the artist’s most well-known series, Walking & Lying Objects (1987–91), Simmons used oversized props as opposed to miniatures. Posing wearing giant props, her subjects hide their faces while showing their legs. The personified objects probe the question of the importance of “props” with respect to humanity by representing the items we rely on to help define who we are.

Opposite – Brothers/Horizon, 1979

Exhibition runs through to May 5th, 2019

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave
Chicago
60611 IL

mcachicago.org

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ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ – WINDOW VIEWS

Posted on 2019-04-29

Following his move in 1952 to a 12th story apartment overlooking Washington Square Park, the 56-year-old Hungarian emigrant André Kertész would begin a series of modernist masterworks shot from his window that he would continue until his death in 1985. From the privacy of his home, Kertész honed his lens on anonymous city dwellers, capturing fragments of passersby on the streets below or reveling in the park, in an attempt to engage with his newfound community. Many of the photographs made by Kertész during this period expressed a voyeuristic quality that reflected the artist’s sense of isolation in his adopted homeland. Later in life, following the loss of his beloved wife Elizabeth, Kertész found himself in the same surroundings, amongst all their collective memories, voraciously experimenting with a Polaroid camera as a means of working through his overwhelming grief.

Opposite – Weather Vane and New York Skyline, September 19, 1952

Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2019

Bruce Silverstein Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York
10011 NY

www.brucesilverstein.com

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MATTHEW PORTER – SKYLINE VISTA

Posted on 2019-04-29

Skyline Vista, is an exhibition by Matthew Porter of his celebrated flying muscle car series. This is the first time these works have been presented together in an exhibition and coincides with the release of Porter’s new monograph, The Heights, published by Aperture.

“I was inspired by the way a car can steal the show. Think of iconic car chases in films—it’s often about spectacle, and has little to do with advancing a narrative. And that’s the way I think of these cars, as dead-end technologies, but also as high-performance machines which, for their audience, sought to reflect the spirit and attitudes of their time.” — Matthew Porter

Opposite – Ridge Road, 2019

Exhibition runs through to May 11th, 2019

M+B
612 North Almont Drive
Los Angeles
California 90069

www.mbart.com

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KAZUYOSHI NOMACHI

Posted on 2019-04-22

One of Japan’s preeiminent photojournalists, Nomachi was born 1946 in Kochi Prefecture, he studied under the photographer Takashi Kijima, launching his career as a freelance photographer in 1971. A journey to the Sahara Desert in 1972 led to extensive photojournalistic coverage of Africa including the Nile River region, Ethiopia, and the Great Rift Valley. From the late 1980s, he turned his attention to the Middle East and Asia and undertook long-term coverage of places such as China, Tibet and Saudi Arabia, honing in on the lifestyles and faith of people living in harsh climates. Since 2000 he has focused mainly on the Andes, India, and Iran.

Opposite – Lake Magadi, Kenya

Exhibition runs through to April 30th, 2019

Anastasia Photo
143 Ludlow Street
New York
10002 NY

www.anastasia-photo.com

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VALERIO SPADA – I AM NOTHING

Posted on 2019-04-22

I Am Nothing explores the Sicilian Mafia, telling the stories of some of its bosses and members who are fugitives from justice, together with the signs of its inexorable penetration into the fabric of society.

In 2011, he produced a photo series called Gomorrah Girl, where the story of the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, is told through the lives of young women.



Since this success, Valerio Spada has continued researching organized crime, focusing on the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra. The result is a project based on a narrative approach that differs from the traditional canons of reportages, combining different subject matter and media. As a result, in this exhibition you will find:scenes of everyday life, which convey how deeply this phenomenon is involved in everyday behaviors; carefully posed portraits, which allow us to come close to the leading figures in this universe in a moment of dialogue; a video of the capture of long time fugitive Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, filmed by the police; a large image of Giovanni Brusca giving evidence in a high-security courtroom at the Milan courthouse; the photographic documentation of the Bible found in Provenzano’s hideout, full of codes which the FBI and eminent theologians believe could conceal the last secrets of the mafia.

Opposite – Mondello, 2011

Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2019

Benrubi Gallery
521 West 26th Street
New York
10001 NY

www.benrubigallery.com

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KEITH CARTER – FIFTY YEARS

Posted on 2019-04-22

Keith Carter is celebrating 50 years as an image maker with the release of a large tome of a book, published by University of Texas Press, Keith Carter: Fifty Years, designed by D.J. Stout, with Pentagram.

Keith’s exhibition will highlight works from his prolific career, starting with photographs from his first photo essay, From Uncertain to Blue. The decades in between will include some iconic images, Meagan’s New Shoes (1993), Sleeping Swan (1995), Bird and Ribbon (2007), and Bog Dog (2014).

Opposite – Lovelady, Houston County, TX, 1985

Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2019

PDNB
154 Glass St. #104
Dallas
75207 TX

pdnbgallery.com

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