MARTHA COOPER – LIFE WORK

Posted on 2016-01-11

Martha Cooper is a legendary photographer who has shot around the globe, beginning with USA to Asia. She worked both for papers and magazines like New York Post and National Geographic and independently, making contributions into her personal archive.
Stories and captures that appeared in her lens were different and timely: travels, people and of course art. She has been documenting graffiti and street art for 40 years and her iconic book “Subway Art” influenced on graffiti culture and opened a new world to those whose countries came to urban art much later than in USA.
Martha Cooper is still working with graffiti and street artists, documenting artworks of US and international artists around the world, and continues to make an important contribution to the urban art movement.
Graffiti and street art are ephemeral but pieces and murals can be preserved through photography. Since the late ’70’s, Martha Cooper has documented urban art with a view towards historic preservation. Her work will help make this art form immortal, providing future generations of artists and historians with images of what has been called the biggest art movement in the history of the world.

Exhibition runs through till January 30th, 2016

StolenSpace Gallery
17 Osborn Street
London
E1 6TD

www.stolenspace.com

  

PATRICK DEMARCHELIER – DESIRE

Posted on 2016-01-11

Patrick Demarchelier (born 1943 in Le Havre) is a French fashion and advertising photographer. He is most famous for his works of contemporary fashion photography.
In the early 1960s Patrick Demarchelier moved to Paris where he worked as an assistant in several photo labs to improve his technique and skills. During this period he met the Swiss photographer Hans Feurer, another important man in the world of fashion photography.

A few years later, he started to climb the career ladder. Some of his photos had already been published in well-known women’s magazines like Marie Claire or Elle. In 1975 he decided to go to New York where he soon achieved international fame.

By the end of the 1970s, fashion magazines all over the world, including the French, British and American editions of Vogue, had used Demarchelier’s photos for their covers. He also worked as a photographer for news and culture magazines like Newsweek and Rolling Stone. Since 1992 his photos could also be seen for a period of 12 years in the American women’s fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar.

Opposite – Shalom Harlow, Monaco, 1992

Exhibition runs through till January 30th, 2016

A.galerie
4 rue Leonce Reynaud
75116 Paris

www.a-galerie.fr

  

SONY 2016 WORLD PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

Posted on 2016-01-11

Following its sell-out run in 2015, the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition returns to Somerset House, London, this April.

Bringing vibrancy and colour to the spring arts calendar, the exhibition will feature over 500 of the winning and shortlisted images from the world’s biggest photography competition – the Sony World Photography Awards.

The very best contemporary photography of the past year – from fashion to travel, portraiture to sport, photojournalism to architecture – will fill the East and West Wings of Somerset House.

The exhibition will also include a special dedication to the recipients of the awards’ Outstanding Contribution to Photography prize, including the new works and images never before seen in Europe.

Opposite – Ahmed Ginawi, Sudan

Exhibition runs from April 22nd to May 8th, 2016

Somerset House
Strand
London
WC2R 1LA

worldphoto.org

  

BAFTA: FOR THE LOVE OF FILM

Posted on 2016-01-04

‘BAFTA: For the Love of Film’ is a special commission for photographer Phil Fisk to produce a new series of portraits of skilled experts working in the craft of filmmaking. The exhibit will shine a light on the industry and will enable visitors to learn about the many different roles involved in making a film from famous casting agents, cinematographers, costume designers and performers.

Portrait subjects range from actors including David Oyelowo (Selma, Interstellar) and Andy Serkis (The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) to a wide array of behind-the-camera talent including directors Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Tideland) and Stephen Frears (The Queen, The Program), cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema (Interstellar, Spectre), casting director Nina Gold (The King’s Speech, The Imitation Game) and producer Alison Owen (Elizabeth, Suffragette).

As with much of Fisk’s previous work, the images play with the notions of reality and dreams, creating a uniquely surreal perspective providing an insight into excellence in film.

Opposite – David Oyelowo, 2015

Exhibition runs from Saturday 3th0 and Sunday 31st January, 2016.

BAFTA
195 Piccadilly
London
​W1J 9LN

www.bafta.org

  

DAIDO MORIYAMA

Posted on 2016-01-04

Twelve years after his first exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in 2003, the eminent Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama will return to the foundation for a new exhibition that focuses on his recent work. Featuring a large selection of color photographs, Daido Tokyo will shed light on this lesser-known yet ubiquitous aspect of his photographic practice over the last two decades. The Fondation Cartier has also commissioned a new work from Moriyama in conjunction with the exhibition. Entitled Dog and Mesh Tights, this immersive multiscreenprojection of black and white photographs will plunge viewers into the commotion of the contemporary city, capturing fragments of daily life from its unrelenting urban hustle and bustle.

Exhibition runs from February 6th to June 5th, 2016

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
261, boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris

fondation.cartier.com

  

MARILYN MONROE – MILTON GREENE/DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

Posted on 2016-01-04

Greene’s most noted work is with Marilyn Monroe. They first met in 1953 on assignmentfor Look Magazine. In 1956, they formed Marilyn Monroe Productions together, which produced “Bus Stop” and “The Prince and the Showgirl.” By the end of their four year relationship, he had photographed her in 52 different sittings producing over 5,000 images, some of which have never been published. Many advocates of Monroe consider Greene’s collaboration with her to be the best and most genuine. In recent years his photographs have been exhibited in major galleries, museums and private collections around the world. Greene’s work continues to represent an era in time,

Douglas Kirkland (b.1934) was born in Toronto, Canada. He joined Look Magazine in his early twenties, and later Life Magazine during the golden age of 60’s/70’s photojournalism. Through the years, Kirkland has worked on the sets of over one hundred motion pictures. Among them, “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid”, “2001 A SpaceOdyssey”, “Sound of Music”, “Out of Africa”, “Titanic” “Moulin Rouge”, “Australia” and “The Great Gatsby”.
In 1961, Marilyn Monroe told the 27 year old photographer Kirkland to come into bed with her. The evening he spent with Monroe 51 years ago was sensual, intimate, and spontaneous, and it produced the famous series “An Evening With Marilyn Monroe.” The series consists of Marilyn posing sensually in bed, with only a silk sheet between her and the camera. Kirkland was a novice photographer at the time, nothing compared to his prolific career today, but according to Kirkland, the two of them shared a tension-filled shoot that helped create the stunning photographs. Thinking back on the evening today, he describes their time together as though they “were in a beautiful dance,” with Marilyn leading of course.

Opposite – The Rock Sitting, LA, Milton Green, 1953

Exhibition runs through till February 27th, 2016

The Little Black Gallery
13A Park Walk
London
SW10 0AJ

www.thelittleblackgallery.com