EDWARD BARBER

Posted on 2016-05-16

‘I see this as preventative photography. The photographs here are both a celebration and a warning.’
Edward Barber

Taken originally to gain publicity for the movement, Barber’s collected body of work, Peace Signs today represents an important social document of these major protests against the presence of American nuclear cruise missiles in Britain between 1980 and 1984.

Barber’s images will appear alongside a newly commissioned graphic installation entitled Mind Map of Anti-Nuclear Protest to create a social record of both individual and collective responses to war. Barber illuminates the activists’ humour and creativity by capturing the signs, make-up and costumes, illustrating the often overlooked role of performance theatre, folk art and fashion at peace camps and demonstrations.

Opposite – A picket mounted by the Women’s Peace Camp at RAF/USAF Greenham Common, Berkshire, 1982

Exhibition runs through to September 4th, 2016

IWM London
Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ

www.iwm.org.uk

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DOROTHY BOHM – SIXTIES LONDON

Posted on 2016-05-16

Step back in time and discover the diversity of life in London in the 1960s with photographs focusing on its inhabitants from all walks of life, from schoolchildren to fashion-conscious young adults to market traders.

Born in East Prussia in 1924, Dorothy Bohm moved to Lithuania in 1932 with her family to escape the threat of Nazism. Bohm was sent by her parents to safety in Britain in 1939, armed with a Leica camera handed to her by her father at the very last moment. London has been her home since the 1950s.

Dorothy Bohm has worked as a photographer all around the world, capturing ordinary lives from Europe to the Americas to the Far East. She was closely involved with the founding of the Photographers’ Gallery in London in 1971 and was its Associate Director for fifteen years. She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2009.

Opposite – Notting Hill, 1960s

Exhibition runs through to August 29th, 2016

Jewish Museum
Raymond Burton House
129-131 Albert Street
London
NW1 7NB

www.jewishmuseum.org.uk

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YOSUKE TAKEDA – ARISE

Posted on 2016-05-16

Centering on the theme of “photography” as the basis of his practice, Yosuke Takeda has continued to exhibit and present works that examine its trajectory from multiple perspectives. Takeda explores the fundamental materials comprising the photograph such as the camera and photographic paper as well as the light as a medium that serves to connect them, at times further engaging in an investigation of various means of photographic reproduction from data to photobooks that in turn influence the very conditions of photography. For Takeda, the photograph is a “complex entity that is brought into existence through the combining of and a mutual intervention between the image and the support medium;” a notion essentially cultivated through his physical memories of working in the darkroom.

Opposite – “014716”, 2016

Exhibition runs through to June 11th, 2016

Taka Ishii Gallery
AXIS Building 2F, 5-17-1
Roppongi, Minato-ku
106-0032
Tokyo

www.takaishiigallery.com

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SANDRO MILLER

Posted on 2016-05-09

Homage: Malkovich and the Masters, is an exhibition of photographs by Sandro Miller that explores concepts of mimesis and iconicity through the restaging of some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century and the interpretive abilities of one of the most brilliant actors of our time. Longtime friends and collaborators, Sandro Miller and John Malkovich first met in the late 1990s on a project for Chicago’s famed Steppenwolf Theater Company. In 2013 Miller proposed to Malkovich the concept of revisualizing forty-one images by legendary masters of photographic portraiture including Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Yousuf Karsh, Dorothea Lange, and Andy Warhol. As Malkovich commented in a Chicago Tribune article, “I come from a family of journalists and I had always heard the camera doesn’t lie. I looked at this as a chance to explore that.”

Prior to initiating the project, Miller spent a year intensively researching the original production of each iconic photograph. In addition to researching the lighting, setting, and dress, Miller interviewed the photographers whenever possible and scrutinized their contact sheets. Once thoroughly prepared, Miller and Malkovich sequestered themselves in a studio with a highly coordinated team of a set builder, a lighting designer, and a makeup artist. With individual sets pre-lit and staged, Malkovich studied the original image for each upcoming photograph while in makeup. Then, under the direction of Miller, Malkovich morphed from male to female, child to adult assuming with eerie exactitude the personas of Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Mick Jagger, Dorothea Lange’s Dust Bowl mother, Richard Avedon’s beekeeper and Diane Arbus’s famous twins.

Opposite – Diane Arbus / Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey (1967), 2014

Exhibition runs through to July 1st, 2016

Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Street
New York
NY 10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

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ANDREW RANKIN – CLOSE TO YOU

Posted on 2016-05-09

Andrew Rankin has a long term interest in escapist fantasies and the role they play in contemporary society. In previous projects he has sought out individuals who choose to live at the threshold between real and fantasy life, creating for themselves an augmented, more preferable reality. In this new work Rankin examines his own engagement with the media; considering it as a mechanism and catalyst for creating fantasies and shaping idealised expectations of love and happiness. In Close to You, the artist has made a series of screen portraits of famous Hollywood actresses from popular films. He has written letters to each of these actresses to ask them to participate in his latest project and visited the locations of key scenes from these films, presenting these sites as projections of his own desire.

Exhibition runs through to July 23rd, 2016

Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place
23 Donegall Street
Belfast BT1 2FF
Northern Ireland

www.takaishiigallery.com

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SYLVÈ COLLESS – AURELIA

Posted on 2016-05-09

Building on her earlier exhibitions this collection continues a line of inquiry into the ways that the dual influences of harmony and chaos profoundly shape our psyche and sense of individuality. Aurelia is synonymous with the butterfly chrysalis and also conjures ideas associated to gold. Process and change are the core of existence, with this comes renewal.

This series looks into shared and solitary transformational human experience. Each image represents the flow of energy in the process of personal change: waves that permeate and ricochet, the body itself becomes a reflective surface. The language of light is central and the enduring impression carries the suggestion of enlightenment.

Exhibition runs through till June 4th, 2016

SLOW CULTURE
943 N. Hill St
Los Angeles
CA 90012

www.slowculture.com

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