LATOYA RUBY – THE NOTION OF FAMILY

Posted on 2017-09-11

Frazier’s images explore the painful effects of decades of industrial decline, poverty, and systemic racism in her hometown of Braddock, PA. A working class town situated on the bank of the Monongahela River, Braddock’s economy had been rooted in industry since Andrew Carnegie built the Edgar Thomson Steel Works in 1873. A child of the 80s and 90s, Frazier grew up when most of the steel industry had left the region and the War on Drugs decimated her community. Frazier came to use photography and art as a way to question inequality and reclaim history.

The Notion of Family elegantly shifts from images steeped in the humanist documentary traditions of artists like Gordon Parks and Walker Evans, to the conceptual and activist practices of artists like Martha Rosler and Allan Sekula. Frazier’s photographs artfully chronicle life in Braddock for over a decade, capturing its historic industrial beauty and its deterioration, such as with her elegiac images of the closure and destruction of the UPMC Braddock Hospital, the town’s largest employer at the time.

Exhibition runs from September 21st through to November 18th, 2017

Silver Eye Center for Photography
477 Melwood Avenue
Pittsburgh
15213 PA

www.silvereye.org

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EUGENE RICHARDS – THE RUN-ON OF TIME

Posted on 2017-09-11

For the past several decades, photographer Eugene Richards (American, b. 1944) has explored complicated subjects, including racism, poverty, emergency medicine, drug addiction, cancer, the American family, aging, the effects of war and terrorism, and the depopulation of rural America. His style is unflinching yet poetic, his photographs deeply rooted in the texture of lived experience. In his wide range of photographs, writings, and moving image works, he involves his audience in the lives of people in ways that are challenging, lyrical, melancholy, and beautiful. Ultimately, his works illuminate aspects of humanity that might otherwise be overlooked.

This exhibition—the first museum retrospective devoted to Richards’s work—explores his career from 1968 to the present through 146 photographs and three moving image works, which will screen continuously in the Dryden Theatre during regular museum hours Tuesday through Saturday. These moving image works include:

Exhibition runs through to October 22nd, 2017

George Eastman House
900 East Avenue
Rochester
14607 NY

www.eastmanhouse.org

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BURBERRY PRESENTS HERE WE ARE

Posted on 2017-09-04

‘Here We Are’ is curated by Christopher Bailey, President and Chief Creative Officer, Burberry, and Lucy Kumara Moore, writer, curator and Director of Claire de Rouen, and co-curated by Alasdair McLellan, and will feature over 200 works by photographers including Dafydd Jones, Bill Brandt, Brian Griffin, Shirley Baker, Jane Bown, Martin Parr, Jo Spence, Ken Russell, Charlie Phillips, Karen Knorr, Janette Beckman and Andy Sewell.

Held over three floors in the rooms of Old Sessions House, Burberry’s new show venue in London’s Clerkenwell, ‘Here We Are’ will be divided into themes which reflect different aspects of the British way of life. The exhibition will showcase important bodies of work by individual photographers as discrete, monographic presentations, alongside the thematic displays.

Opposite – Dafydd Jones, Magdalen Commemoration Ball, Oxford, 1988

Exhibition runs from September 18th through to October 1st, 2017

Old Sessions House
22 Clerkenwell Green
London
EC1

theoldsessionshouse.com
burberry.com

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OLIVIA LOCHER – I FOUGHT THE LAW

Posted on 2017-09-04

Steven Kasher Gallery presents Olivia Locher: I Fought the Law, an exhibition of photographs breaking an eccentric law from each of the 50 States of the Union. Locher’s photographs take on the tangle of our pork-belly, dairy-lobby, male-anxiety, sex-obsessed legislation. Her quirky illustrations of America’s most unusual laws will make both Dems and Repubs roll in the aisles. Has Olivia Locher built the bridges that can span our red-blue political chasm?

Opposite – I Fought The Law (Delaware), 2016

Exhibition runs from September 14th through to October 21st, 2017

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23rd Street
New York
10011 NY

www.stevenkasher.com

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LAUREN SEMIVAN – PITCH

Posted on 2017-09-04

Building on the tropes of that previous show, Pitch explores the relationship between the tactile realities of the photographic medium and the conscious and unconscious contributions of the artist to the images she creates when she photographs “hand-built, sculptural environments” of her own making. As with the previous work, all images are made using an early 20th-century 8 x 10 view camera whose large-format negatives are scanned and printed without digital manipulation.

The images in Pitch are rhythmic, moody compositions built around the tension between starkly graphic lines created by pieces of string, folds in fabric and paper, or hand-drawn marks, and the softer slurries of light and shadow. Semivan builds her sets over a period of days using black charcoal, string, wire, paper, fabric, and carefully selected objects, continually monitoring the scene through the lens at it develops. The elaborate constructions last only until they’re photographed, after which they’re discarded as the stage is transformed for the next image.

Opposite – Pinned, 2017

Exhibition runs from September 9th, 2018

Benrubi Gallery
41 East 57th Street
13th Floor
New York
10022 NY

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LEONARD FREED – SIX STORIES

Posted on 2017-08-28

Freed (born 1929, Brooklyn, died 2006, Garrison, New York) was one of the leading photographers of the post-War era. Culled from Freed’s extensive archive, this exhibition presents over 75 vintage black and white prints from six of the photographers most important bodies of work. Freed has been the subject of numerous recent museum exhibitions surveying the six decades of his work, but this is the first exhibition that elucidates in depth Freed’s six earliest and most personal stories. Two examine his Jewish roots, in Brooklyn and in Israel. Two portray blacks in white America, people with whom he identified strongly. Two portray the defeated enemies of the recent World War, as Freed seeks to come to terms with them. The six stories are: the Hasidics of Brooklyn, 1954; Harlem, 1963; Black in White America, 1963-65; Israel, 1962 and 1967; Italy 1956-58; Germany, 1961-66. To each of these stories Freed brought a singular humanist vision, a deep concern for individuals that is both politically sophisticated and morally engaged.

As a young man searching for his mission Freed launched his career in photography in the late 1940s, the era traumatized by a genocidal World War and a planet-threatening Cold War. Freed was at the center of a new photographic ethos developing at the international Magnum photo agency and under the concept of “the concerned photographer.” Freed brought to the collective effort a unique sensibility. His pictures emphasize the particular struggles and triumphs of unique individuals living in traumatized but recovering societies.

Opposite – Summertime in Harlem, NY, 1963

Exhibition runs from September 14th through to October 21st, 2017

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23rd Street
New York
10011 NY

www.stevenkasher.com

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