Photography : EXIT

MAGNUM CONTACT SHEETS

Posted on 2015-09-07

The exhibition consists of 60 contact sheets and associated single images and offers a chronological overview of outstanding historical moments from the 1930s to 2010. Work can be seen by renowned photographers such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David ‘Chim’ Seymour, Werner Bischof, George Rodger, Elliott Erwitt, Martin Parr, Jim Goldberg, Trent Parke, Paolo Pellegrin and Alec Soth. In Contact Sheets, the legendary agency Magnum Photos (established in 1947) shows for the first time the circumstances in which images by these photographers were created. Not only the moments before and after taking that one iconic photo are on show, but also the photographer’s notes, marking that decisive moment on the sheet, often long after the photo was shot.

Subjects range from reportages of WOII, Prague Spring, icons such as Che Guevara, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King to the Balkan Wars and conflict in the Middle East. In addition to many original contact sheets and vintage prints, part of the exhibition is comprised of documentation, in order to understand the context in which the chosen image ultimately was used. Starting in the 1990s, large-format images have been used more and more often for presentations other than in newspapers and magazines. Since then, documentary work has gained more artistic status, a turning point for the appreciation of journalistic photography.

Exhibition runs from September 11th till December 9th, 2015

Foam
Keizersgracht 609
1017 DS
Amsterdam

www.foam.org

WIM WENDERS – TIME CAPSULES

Posted on 2015-09-07

The exhibition brings together images of Germany and America – the two countries that have most influenced the artist throughout his career.

The title, Time Capsules. By the side of the road, alludes to the relationship between memory and photography, highlighting the ability of photographs to act as a medium that captures an essence of the past and preserves it for the future. Several of the works in the exhibition feature places that have long-since changed, the images themselves therefore becoming portals into lost moments or spaces. Wenders speaks of how: “I see myself as an interpreter, as a translator, a guardian […] of stories that places tell me.”

The exhibition fosters a dialogue between the two countries in which Wenders has spent extensive periods of time living and working: “I think I had wide-open eyes for America, and ‘the American landscape’ in a general sense seemed extremely attractive to me, both as a photographer and filmmaker. Maybe the long absence from Germany of 15 years has enabled me to see places here with the same wide-open eyes. What has remained the same: in those landscapes, German or American, I’m still looking for the traces of civilization, of history, or people.”

Opposite – Drive-in at night, Montréal, Canada, 2013

Exhibition runs from September 17th to November 14th, 2015

Blain|Southern Berlin
Potsdamer Straße 77–87
10785 Berlin

www.blainsouthern.com

GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! PART 2

Posted on 2015-09-07

The show includes more than 50 pictures by some of the world’s greatest photographers of some of the most gorgeous girls – including Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova, Kate Moss, Stephanie Seymour, Irina Shayk, Dita Von Teese, and Rachel Weisz.

Featuring the photographs of, Bruno Bisang, Bob Carlos Clarke, Corinne Day, Mike Figgis, Marco Glaviano, Patrick Lichfield, Roxanne Lowit, Alistair Taylor-Young, Vee Speers.

Exhibition runs from September 17th to October 31st, 2015

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

www.thelittleblackgallery.com

KEITH ARNATT – ABSENCE OF THE ARTIST

Posted on 2015-09-01

Keith Arnatt has occupied a key position in the history of British conceptual art for almost 50 years. Since his death in 2008 he has become an important model for contemporary artists who work at the limits of art’s ‘dematerialisation’: site-specific interventions, time-based gestures, or works of art that are seemingly short-lived and inconspicuous. Absence of the Artist, Arnatt’s second exhibition with Sprüth Magers and his first in the London gallery, brings together a range of important work conceived between 1967-72, key years when Arnatt made Self-Burial (1969), Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self (1969 -72) as well as The Absence of the Artist (1968), exhibited here for the first time.

The Absence of the Artist betrays the artist’s deadpan wit, wholly characteristic of Arnatt’s response to the various conflicts stimulating the art world throughout the late 1960s. The viewer is presented with a paradox: a sign, posted on a brick wall and photographed in black and white, declares the absence of the artist. Yet by denying his absence, he thrusts himself forward, seemingly emphasising the artist’s role. The Absence of the Artist highlights a fierce ambivalence about the artist’s role that was prevalent at the time. As more sceptical, pluralist ideas about art were starting to replace modernism – and its pantheon of great artists – the role of the artist was subjected to constant investigation. What divides the artist from his work or the ideas that it might produce? Do we even need the actions of an artist to declare something an artwork?

Opposite –
Keith Arnatt
Portrait of the Artist as a Shadow of his Former Self, 1969-72
Vintage colour photograph mounted on board
120.6 x 120.6 cm
123.4 x 123.4 cm (framed)
© Keith Arnatt Estate. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2015. Courtesy Sprüth Magers

Exhibition runs through to September 26th, 2015

Sprüth Magers London
7A Grafton Street
London
W1S 4EJ

www.spruethmagers.com

JON TONKS – EMPIRE

Posted on 2015-09-01

Empire is a fascinating journey, six years in the making, exploring life on four remote British overseas territories; Ascension Island, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha and the Falkland Islands.

Perhaps better known as places of conflict, exile and Darwinian experimentation, Jon Tonks has photographed the people and landscapes of each territory, capturing traces of the past and offering a window into the communities and lifestyles that, despite the distance, remain very firmly British.

Empire explores remote lands and unfamiliar routines, where volcanic island evacuation drills are commonplace, important weather data is collected daily via balloon and sent back to the UK, and where one man is the sole police presence for 1,750 miles in any direction. Despite this, life on these distant outposts bears an undeniable mark of ‘Britishness’, Union Jacks fly high, Royal Mail postboxes dot the landscape and nativity plays are a key event on the Christmas calendar.

Award winning photographer Jon Tonks spent up to a month at a time in each territory, travelling 60,000 miles around the South Atlantic via military outposts, low-lit airstrips and a long voyage aboard the last working Royal Mail Ship. In total, he endured 24 flights and 32 days at sea.

Opposite – Port Howard (Terminal One), Falkland Islands

Exhibition runs from September 11th to December 12th, 2015

Impressions Gallery
Centenary Square
Bradford
BD1 1SD

www.impressions-gallery.com

BRYAN ADAMS – EXPOSED

Posted on 2015-09-01

Bryan Adams is best known for his achievements in the music industry, having built his name as one of the most successful contemporary rock singers, writers and producers in the world. However this time around the public will uncover the parallel career he has built in another artistic practice, photography.

Over the past two decades Bryan Adams has been mastering his talent behind the lens, the result of his work is “Bryan Adams Exposed”, a retrospective collection of portrait photography. This exhibition displays a stunning selection of 130 black and white as well as colour photographs of many well-known personalities. The photographer mixes traditional staged studio portraits with highly intimate and unconventional shots, revealing the vulnerabilities of numerous iconic figures within the entertainment industry. Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse, Ben Kingsley, Mickey Rourke, Dustin Hoffman, Kate Moss, Billy Idol and HM The Queen Elizabeth II are among the famous faces that have agreed to pose for Bryan Adams.

Bryan Adams is also the co-publisher of Zoo Magazine, a magazine for photography, which he founded in Berlin in 2004. His work as a fashion photographer has equally received international acknowledgement and has been featured in various magazines such as I-D, Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue as well as in advertising campaigns for many of the worlds leading fashion brands.

Opposite – Sean Penn

Exhibition runs from September 11th to November 28th, 2015

Young Gallery
Avenue Louise 75B
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium

www.younggalleryphoto.com