RICHARD AVEDON – MURALS

Posted on 2023-09-04

In 1969, Richard Avedon was at a crossroads. After a five-year hiatus, the photographer started making portraits again, this time with a new camera and a new sense of scale. Trading his handheld Rolleiflex for a larger, tripod-mounted device, he reinvented his studio dynamic. Instead of dancing around his subjects from behind a viewfinder, as he had in his lively fashion pictures, he could now stand beside a stationary camera and meet them head-on. Facing down groups of the era’s preeminent artists, activists, and politicians, he made huge photomural portraits, befitting their outsized cultural influence. On the centennial of the photographer’s birth, Richard Avedon: MURALS will bring together three of these monumental works, some as wide as 35 feet. For Avedon, the murals expanded the artistic possibilities of photography, radically reorienting viewers and subjects in a subsuming, larger-than-life view.

Opposite – The Chicago Seven, Chicago

Exhibition runs through to October 1st, 2023

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)
New York
NY 10028

www.metmuseum.org

  

JAMES BARNOR – ACCRA/LONDON

Posted on 2023-08-28

This exhibition of Ginsberg’s personal photographs balances our understanding of the public, outspoken poet and most prominent figure of the Beat Generation. At his core, Allen Ginsberg was a witness and chronicler of the world; his profound admiration for the beauty of the vernacular, intense observation, and celebration of the present moment guided his photography and poetry. The photographs included in this exhibition are joyful, often tender, sometimes profound while at other times humorous – and capture Ginsberg’s numerous meaningful relationships.

Opposite – Studio Ever Young, Accra, c. 1950s

Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2023

Detroit Institute of Arts
5200 Woodward Avenue
Detroit
MI 48202

dia.org

  

TEBANI SLADE – BANGLA ROAD, LIFE AFTER DARK

Posted on 2023-08-21

Bangla Road on the island of Phuket in Thailand is a place of two worlds. During the day it is like any other street but after sunset, this 400-meter stretch of road transforms into a lively almost forbidden world. During the day, the girls remain hidden, but at night they come out to work.

Initially, you might feel uneasy or offended, but as you spend more time there, you start to realise that this is a normal way of life for them. Performing and showcasing themselves to attract tourists to buy drinks or pay for them to perform. They are self-assured and confident, and take pride in their identity and work. Many people would shun this type of place, but it gave me a feeling of resilience and strength. It’s almost like their confidence had a contagious effect on me.

Opposite – Bangla Road, Life After Dark 1

Exhibition runs through to September 30th, 2023

Online exhibition.

www.all-about-photo.com

  

REYNIER LEYVA NOVO – THE FLOWERS OF MY EXILE

Posted on 2023-08-14

Reynier Leyva Novo, a prominent participant and documentarian of what has become known as the 27N movement – a demand among Cuba’s younger generation of artists for freedom of expression and identity – is also an internationally recognized conceptual artist whose elegant minimalist works expose the hidden machinations of power in Cuba and the USA. Novo has been represented by Lisa Sette Gallery since 2014 and his works are in the public collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Perez Art Museum, Walker Art Center, Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, and Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, among others; he was featured at the 2017 Venice Biennale and was recently awarded the Pommery Prize at the 2022 Armory Show. Opening this May, Lisa Sette Gallery will exhibit The Flowers of My Exile, a selection of new and recent projects that trace Novo’s journey as a dissident artist in Cuba to his current status as an artist in exile in the USA.

Exhibition runs through to September 30th, 2023

Lisa Sette Gallery
210 East Catalina Drive
Phoenix
AZ 85012

lisasettegallery.com

  

MUSES & SELF: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALLEN GINSBERG

Posted on 2023-08-07

This exhibition of Ginsberg’s personal photographs balances our understanding of the public, outspoken poet and most prominent figure of the Beat Generation. At his core, Allen Ginsberg was a witness and chronicler of the world; his profound admiration for the beauty of the vernacular, intense observation, and celebration of the present moment guided his photography and poetry. The photographs included in this exhibition are joyful, often tender, sometimes profound while at other times humorous – and capture Ginsberg’s numerous meaningful relationships.

Opposite – Ai Weiwei, St. Mark’s Place, September 3, 1988

Exhibition runs through to September 23rd, 2023

Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
CA 90036

www.faheykleingallery.com

  

NANCY BARON – THE GOOD LIFE

Posted on 2023-07-31

Nancy Baron’s photographs of Palm Springs residents, architecture and style illustrate the land where time stood still. Palm Springs has become one of the most popular resorts in the big Grizzly Bear state of California.

Her photographs document a stranger-than-fiction reality. It is an enigma. Residents and visitors love to dress up and live the leisurely lifestyle of this stylish California resort town. Cocktails, kidney shaped swimming pools, golf, modernist architecture and 50’s fashion are all a part of this nostalgic experience.

Opposite – The Lush Vegetation, 2013

Exhibition runs through to August 12th, 2023

PDNB
150 Manufacturing St., Ste 203
Dallas
TX 75207

www.pdnbgallery.com