STEVE KAHN – STASIS, CORRIDORS 1969-1980

Posted on 2018-05-14

The exhibition acts as a timeline, covering a critical point of evolution for Kahn as a photographer, a time when he transitioned from documentary photography to the more conceptual constructs of modern photography. Notable transitions from this time period appear in Early Work, Stasis, The Hollywood Suites, Triptychs/Quadrants, and Door/Window Constructions, concluding with Corridors in 1980.

Kahn was part of a generation of photographers coming out of Los Angeles in the 1970s that included Robert Heinecken, Ilene Segalove and Jerry McMillan, among others. They brought a conceptual and collage approach to photography, breaking away from the pure documentary impulse toward an interest in how photographs create meaning. As part of a pivotal moment in the history of contemporary photography, Kahn’s transition from the role of observer into the conceptual realm of abstraction is apparent through the directional concerns of the work hand-selected by Kahn for this exhibition. For Kahn, the process quickly became the entrance to a void with “no exit,” one in which a picture could function as a conceptual surrogate for an object well beyond the immediate act of looking. The found constructs determined the suggestive field of perception, and ultimately a deeper interpretation of space, form, and content.

Opposite – Stasis #1 (1973)

Exhibition runs through to May 26th, 2018

Casemore Kirkeby
1275 Minnesota Street #102
San Francisco
94107 CA

casemorekirkeby.com

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WILLIAM KLEIN – FASHION + LIGHT

Posted on 2018-05-07

This stunning studio work was originally created for Vogue Magazine in 1962 and has only recently been fully rediscovered.

Klein started making abstract light images from 1952. On the strength of this work, Alexander Liberman invited him to join Condé Nast in 1954. With an assured income from Condé Nast, Klein was able to embark on a personal project of street photography which he published in 1956 as Life is Good and Good for You in New York. That same year, Vogue Magazine printed several of his most iconic fashion images. In 1962 Klein combined his fashion photography with the light abstraction techniques he had pioneered a decade earlier.

Exhibition runs through to June 2nd, 2018

HackelBury Fine Art
4 Launceston Place
London
W8 5RL

hackelbury.co.uk

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TAKESHI SHIKAMA – TIMELESS

Posted on 2018-05-07

Takeshi’s work is the result of a journey. From long walks in remote Japanese or American woodlands and Europe, to urban forests such as Central Park in New York or the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris, Takeshi Shikama trained his lens to capture fleeting moments of living things : plants and flowers about to wither, flowing streams or shadows cast by trees.

Exhibition runs through to June 10th, 2018

Shed Gallery
8 Lee Street
London
E8 4DY

www.shedlondon.com

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JOHN BULMER – THE NORTH

Posted on 2018-05-07

THE NORTH brings together for the first time the pioneering photojournalism of John Bulmer’s northern magazine commissions from the 1960’s and 70’s.

As a budding photographer one of Bulmer’s earliest assignments was to photograph Nelson in Lancashire for Town Magazine in 1960. It was also his first ever trip to the North of England, which at the time felt to him as ‘exotic as darkest Africa’. He spent only three days in Nelson but came back with some pictures that he still considers to be amongst his favourites after fifty years of travelling the world. The success of these black and white images led to a number of similar commissions over the next few years – to The Black Country, Warrington, The Potteries and Hartlepool. Bulmer felt welcomed everywhere he went with his camera; to pubs and working men’s clubs, and in the cobbled streets. He developed a strong affection for the people he encountered – the bond evident in his work.

The launch of The Sunday Times Colour Magazine was to propel Bulmer’s photography in a new direction. The sudden switch to colour caught out some photographers but Bulmer made the adjustment seamlessly and became one of the magazine’s key contributors. In 1965 he was sent North again, this time with colour film in his camera.

“Photography is a form of abstraction in a way – you reduce everything until you have something that’s simple enough to give you an emotional kick. And when you add colour it creates an extra dimension that can be a distraction. I decided to shoot in winter. This way I could soften the images with rain and fog.”

Opposite – Ford Capri, Manchester, 1977

Exhibition runs through to May 31st, 2018

The Observatory
64 Marchmont Street
London
WC1N 1AB

theobservatory.org

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GUILLERMO CERVERA – FLOW

Posted on 2018-04-30

Best known for his conflict photography throughout his 25-year career, Cervera’s time photographing the waves equally comprises his professional life. Between stints photographing in conflict zones, Cervera has always taken to the sea as a way of understanding and coping with the stress and trauma of photographing armed conflict. In 2008, Cervera witnessed the attack that killed his colleagues, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, in Libya. The trauma of their deaths, having just followed his mother’s passing, further connected him to surfing. The quest for the perfect wave offers him healing and spiritual cleansing. Guillermo Cervera is a freelance photojournalist who has documented armed conflict and social issues for the international press for more than 25 years. Cervera’s photographs are regularly published in The New York Times, Newsweek, Marie Claire, The Guardian, Paris Match, Rolling Stone, ABC, El Pais, La Vanguardia, MSNBC and The Wall Street Journal and have been exhibited in galleries in Madrid and Barcelona, Spain.

Exhibition runs through to May 31st, 2018

Anastasia Photo
143 Ludlow Street
New York
10002 NY

www.anastasia-photo.com

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PETER BROWN – HOMETOWN TEXAS

Posted on 2018-04-30

When Texas was admitted to the Union, as journalist Joe Holley recounts, Congress authorized it to form “new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number and in addition to the said State of Texas.” PDNB Gallery artist, Peter Brown, and Joe Holley, a journalist known for his column, Native Texan, in the Houston Chronicle, recently collaborated on a book released last fall, Hometown Texas.
Texas is perfect subject matter for both photographer and journalist. The book explores the land and people of this vast state of Texas: East, West, North, South and Central. They illustrate through stories and pictures, the place that shapes a person that defines them as Texans.

Peter Brown has spent his career photographing the Great Plains that encompass Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Utah, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Although he was born in the East, his home state has been Texas for thirty-five years. Brown’s success with his earlier book collaboration with author Kent Haruf, West of Last Chance, precipitated the idea to pair with Joe Holley’s writings of small town Texas. The writer and artist collaboration is not a novel idea, but innately offers unique viewpoints between the two disciplines.

Opposite – Central Texas: Christmastime, Edna, 2015

Exhibition runs through to May 12th, 2018

PDNB
154 Glass St
Ste. 104 Dallas
75207 TX

pdnbgallery.com

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