STEVE SCHAPIRO – HEROIC TIMES

Posted on 2017-12-11

Heroic Times marks the inaugural exhibition of Steve Schapiro’s work at the Gallery. Schapiro has witnessed key moments of American history and culture, from the Selma to Montgomery civil rights march to Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 presidential campaign to Andy Warhol’s Factory to the filming of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.

Steve Schapiro: Heroic Times will survey American milestones from the photographer’s nearly six decade career, with a focus on the 1960s and ‘70s. A number of the photographs are unpublished and on public view for the first time. With assignments from Life, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and many other publications, he captured iconic and humanistic images of politicians, celebrities, artists, and newsmakers in action.

During Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign, Schapiro traveled with and got to know the young U.S. senator from New York, who greatly impressed him. Also during that time, Schapiro documented the civil rights movement, making photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and many others who fought for social justice.

Schapiro’s subjects extended beyond politics into the worlds of film, rock and roll, and art. He documented The Godfather, Taxi Driver, The Way We Were, Midnight Cowboy, and Chinatown. Among the luminaries were David Bowie, Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Barbra Streisand, and Nico, who sang with the Velvet Underground.

Opposite – Robert F. Kennedy Campaign, New York, 1965

Exhibition runs through to January 27th, 2018

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

www.howardgreenberg.com

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JUN AHN – ON THE VERGE

Posted on 2017-12-11

South Korean photographer Jun Ahn’s provocative self-portraits have been exhibited and reviewed internationally; her first solo exhibition on the west coast explores the strength and vulnerability, illusion and reality inherent in this visceral series.

Exhibition runs January 8th through to March 24th, 2018

Photographic Center NW
900 12th Avenue
Seattle
WA 98122

pcnw.org

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WENDY MCMURDO – INDETERMINATE OBJECTS

Posted on 2017-12-04

Indeterminate Objects (Classrooms) is a work by award winning Scottish photographer Wendy McMurdo. The project continues her investigation into the relationship between children and computers, and is inspired by young people’s fascination with immersive digital environments such as Minecraft.

For this project McMurdo photographed a series of Victorian classroom interiors at a school near her home in Edinburgh. The traditional elements – desks, bookshelves, children’s drawings – are overlaid by a series of hypnotic geometric forms. As these 3D objects hover above the desks, they enter the space of the classroom, casting shadows on the floor which mingle with those of the room.

Combining still photography and animation, the project alludes to the co-existence and pervasive nature of these different spaces through which childhood is now experienced.

Exhibition runs through to December 17th, 2017

The Photographers Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW

thephotographersgallery.org.uk

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RAGHUBIR SINGH – BOMBAY

Posted on 2017-12-04

Although he lived in Hong Kong, Paris, London and spent significant time in New York throughout his career, Raghubir Singh (1942-1999) dedicated his career to photographing his native India. Singh worked at the intersection of western modernism and traditional South Asian perspectives. He was influenced by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, whom he met in Jaipur in 1966, befriended William Gedney to whom he dedicated his second book on Calcutta (a small exhibition of Gedney’s work in India will accompany the exhibition), and traveled and photographed with Lee Friedlander. He pioneered color photography at a time when it was unpopular in the west, using it to great advantage to show the vibrant intensity of the country’s culture, traditions, and religion. Today Singh’s portrait of India during pivotal decades of social and political change is considered unique and unmatched.

Singh photographed the city of Bombay at a transitional point for the Indian economy. Bombay, the country’s economic capital stood as the metaphor for the broader changes that had begun across the country. Singh’s use of reflections are a revealing expression of this change.

Opposite – Showroom at Kemp’s Corner, Bombay, Maharashtra, 1990

Exhibition runs through to December 9th, 2017

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

www.howardgreenberg.com

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WIM WENDER’S POLAROIDS

Posted on 2017-12-04

This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see the personal and previously unseen Polaroid work of Oscar-nominated filmmaker, Wim Wenders (b.1945, Germany) and provides a singular insight into the artist’s thought processes, preoccupations and aesthetic inspirations.

Whilst his larger photographic works are well known, this is the first time he has shown a selection of the many thousands of Polaroid photographs taken, both on and off location, between the early 1970s and mid 80s. Wenders’ fascination with the Polaroid stems from his early adoption of the format while he was learning the craft of film-making in the late 60s. Polaroids operated as a visual notebook – a way of testing out frames and ideas – but more than that they offered him a kind of liminal space between the subject and the photograph, the photographer and the act of taking a photo, the intention and the outcome.

Opposite – On the Road to New England, 1972

Exhibition runs through to February 11th, 2018

The Photographers Gallery
16 – 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW

thephotographersgallery.org.uk

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MARGARET REID BOYER – SEAMS

Posted on 2017-11-27

Margaret Reid Boyer describes her work as Narrative Realism. These photographs are not completely narrative and yet there is a feeling of story, a feeling of living. The photographs in Seams contain evidence of a lived in home, however they are not photographs of people. They are, in most cases, images of inanimate objects, although the pictures cannot be categorized as still lifes. The objects in the photographs are evidence of the life within the home. Contradictions exist within these images: beauty in chaos, simplicity in clutter. At first glance the images are unpretty and yet as the viewer spends time with them, they become more familiar and compelling. Reid Boyer is unflinching in her exploration of her own world, and this personal exploration leads to a connection with the modern world outside of this home.

Exhibition runs through to December 1st, 2017

KMR Arts
2 Titus Road
Washington Depot
06794 CT

www.kmrarts.com

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