BOWIE, BEYONCE AND BEYOND BY MARKUS KLINKO

Posted on 2023-06-12

Markus Klinko is an internationally acclaimed fashion/celebrity photographer for many reasons, perhaps because he shot Beyonce’s first solo album cover ‘Dangerously in Love’ and Bowie’s ‘Heathen’ album cover and then the Bowie with wolves photo shoot where there were in fact wolves or maybe because he captures the essence of artists like no other. Vogue. GQ. Vanity Fair. Harper’s. Where there is fashion there is Klinko.

Walking into this solo exhibit is like walking into a photo shoot. Beyonce and Bowie of course but for the beyond, well, Lady Gaga is sure to make an appearance but as to who else, you are just going to have to make your own appearance to find out.

Opposite – Ice Spice, The Bath

Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2023

The White Room Gallery
2415 Main Street
Bridgehampton
NY 11932

www.thewhiteroom.gallery

  

JUDITH JOY ROSS

Posted on 2023-06-05

The work of Judith Joy Ross marks a watershed in the lineage of the photographic portrait. Her pictures—unpretentious, quietly penetrating, startling in their transparency—consistently achieve the capacity to glimpse the past, present, and perhaps even the future of the individuals who stand before her lens. Since the early 1980s, Ross has used a large-format, 8×10-inch view camera as a tool to capture the distilled essence of her brief encounters with a cross-section of the American people, with a focus on those in eastern Pennsylvania, where she was born and raised.

Opposite – Untitled, Eurana Park, Weatherly, Pennsylvania, 1982

Exhibition runs through to August 6th, 2023

Philadelphia Museum Of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia
PA 19130

www.philamuseum.org

  

HEJI SHIN – THE BIG NUDES

Posted on 2023-05-29

Throughout her photographic practice, Shin has skirted the boundaries of convention, creating images that challenge judgments of taste vis-à-vis fashion, celebrity, and sexuality. This will be her first solo exhibition in New York since 2020.

Shin’s practice oscillates fluidly between the commercial and fine-art realms, and the work she exhibits in gallery and museum contexts is strongly influenced by the editorial work she produces. Shin often shoots her varied subjects at close range and employs the vernacular of fashion photography, in which lighting and display are paramount in drawing attention to covetable merchandise. Revealing our scopophilic tendencies while refusing to essentialize or pass moral judgment on her subjects, Shin’s eye mines the prohibited and the liminal to deconstruct notions of propriety. Her photographs intimately peer into the unseen spaces between photographer and subject, self and other, as well as public and private.

Opposite – Eat Me, 2023

Exhibition runs through to October 7th, 2023

David Zwirner
52 Walker Street
NY 10013
New York

www.52walker.com

  

MARÍA ŠVARBOVÁ: SWIMMING POOLS

Posted on 2023-05-22

A selection of works by Slovakian photographer María Švarbová, whose bright and playful images of nearly-identical bathers bely a deeper commentary on the controlled simplicity of her childhood in the Eastern Bloc. Her Swimming Pools series has been published in two monographs and earned her a 2018 Hasselblad Masters Award in Fine Art Photography.

Opposite – ​Wheel, The Tribune, 2016

Exhibition runs through to August 5th, 2023

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

  

JONI STERNBACH – THE SURFING LANDSCAPE

Posted on 2023-05-15

Joni Sternbach is an American artist, photographer, and filmmaker. Over the course of her career, her work has explored a variety of themes, including domesticity and the family, and sexuality and the body. Issues of gender, identity and feminism are the most critical themes in her work from the 1980s-1990s, where the female figure is the central voice.

Sternbach has experimented with a variety of photographic media and is best known for her series Surfland, a collection of wet plate collodion, tintype portraits of surfers, made around the globe. A tintype is a wet plate process that dates back to the 1850s. A plate of iron is coated with dark bitumen, sensitized with a silver salt solution and exposed in a large-format camera. It’s a one-of-a-kind, nearly instant photograph—in effect, a Polaroid. Sternbach develops the image right there on the sands of Australia, England, France and both coasts of the United States. The hand-poured technique drenches the work in tactile details, rich tones and a weathered nostalgia. Echoing traditions of anthropological photography, the work is a celebration and chronicle of modern surf culture.

Opposite – 11.03.17 #3 The Mers

Exhibition runs through to August 5th, 2023

Von Lintel Gallery
1206 Maple Ave #212
Los Angeles
CA 90015

www.vonlintel.com

  

MONA KUHN – KINGS ROAD

Posted on 2023-05-08

Mona Kuhn’s multidisciplinary Kings Road combines the artist’s characteristic study of form — both human and architectural — with her emerging use of video installation and solarized silver gelatin to create a wholly immersive and partially imagined investigation of Rudolph Schindler’s groundbreaking 1922 residence. Icons pairs influential early fashion photographer George Hoyningen-Huene with one of the most celebrated contemporary photographers within this tradition, Bastiaan Woudt. The influence of Surrealism — direct for George Hoyningen-Huene, who worked with Man Ray and photographed for Elsa Schiaparelli; material for Kuhn, whose solarized prints borrow their method from Ray, Lee Miller, André Breton, and others; and referential for Woudt, in his experimental blending of elements of Surrealist and mid-century fashion photography with 21st century technique — haunts each of the exhibition spaces.

Opposite – ​Dream, 2022

Exhibition runs through to August 5th, 2023

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com