RINGL + PIT

Posted on 2025-10-27

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

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

Opposite – Ellen + Walter Auerbach, 1930

Exhibition runs through to December 6th, 2025

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

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BRUCE LANDON DAVIDSON

Posted on 2025-10-20

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

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

Exhibition runs through to December 6th, 2025

Jane Lutnick Fine Arts Center
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford
PA 19041

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JANE HILTON – COWBOYS & QUEENS

Posted on 2025-10-20

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

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

Opposite – Alexa, 2024

Exhibition runs through to November 15th, 2025

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

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PAMELA HANSON – IN THE 90S

Posted on 2025-10-20

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

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

Exhibition runs through to November 8th, 2025

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

www.staleywise.com

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KENRO IZU – MONO NO AWARE

Posted on 2025-10-13

The term mono no aware (the pathos of things) expresses the Japanese concept of appreciating the transient beauty of life and objects. The project focuses on three subjects: 14th-century Japanese Noh masks; the stones and trees that surround the remains of ancient shrines; and the wildflowers and grasses that bloom briefly near Izu’s home. Izu invites viewers to encounter the depth of his subjects through lustrous images that explore impermanence and refined aesthetic through three ideas: yugen (mystical and profound), sabi (beauty with aging), and wabi (austere beauty).

Opposite – No. 24 Iwakura, 2023

Exhibition runs through to November 22nd, 2025

Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
NY 10022

www.howardgreenberg.com

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PAUL OUTERBRIDGE – PHOTOGRAPHS

Posted on 2025-10-13

Paul Outerbridge – Photographs, is a landmark exhibition celebrating the visionary work of Paul Outerbridge (1896–1958), one of the most resourceful and provocative photographers of the twentieth century. This exhibition brings together a rare selection of Carbro prints, Silver Gelatin Photographs, and Platinum Prints, tracing the evolution of a modernist whose daring vision helped redefine the possibilities of photography through Cubist experimentation and radical abstraction.

Outerbridge emerged in the 1920s as a bold innovator, transforming ordinary objects, such as milk bottles, collars, eggs, into fractured Cubist constructions of light and form. His platinum and silver gelatin prints reduced subjects to intersecting planes and geometric rhythms, revealing a structural beauty aligned with the avant-garde movements of his time. These works positioned him among artists and contemporaries such as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Edward Steichen, and demonstrate his embrace of Cubism’s challenge: to fracture reality and reassemble it as pure abstraction.

Opposite – Nude with Mask and Hat, c. 1936

Exhibition runs through to November 8th, 2025

Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
CA 90036

www.faheykleingallery.com

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