CLASS PICTURES

Posted on 2009-05-25

Following a successful kick off in New York and subsequent stops in Houston, Indianapolis, Greensboro, and Baltimore, Dawoud Bey’s traveling exhibition Class Pictures, featuring striking, large-scale color portraits of students at high schools across the United States is now showing at the Milwaukee Art Museum. For the past fifteen years, Bey has been photographing teenagers from a wide economic, social, and ethnic spectrum, and—intensely attentive to their poses and gestures—has created a highly diverse generational portrait that challenges stereotypes of teenagers. A brief autobiographical statement by the subject—by turns poignant, funny, or harrowing—accompanies each portrait.

This exhibition runs until the 12th of July, 2009

Milwaukee Art Museum
700 North Art Museum Drive
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
USA

www.mam.org

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WALL TO WALL

Posted on 2009-05-18

The Little Black Gallery, in association with the Bob Carlos Clarke Foundation, is pleased to announce the first retrospective of the work of the legendary photographer Bob Carlos Clarke three years after his death. The exhibition coincides with the publication of the biography ‘Exposure: The Unusual Life and Violent Death of Bob Carlos Clarke’ by the award winning writer Simon Garfield (Ebury Press, 14 May 2009).

The exhibition will feature pictures from Bob’s 30 year career , including pictures which have never been seen or made available for sale before..

Opposite – ‘Adult Females Attack Without Provocation’, 2004

This exhibition runs until the 3rd of July 2009

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

www.thelittleblackgallery.com

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ROBERT FRANK – THE AMERICANS

Posted on 2009-05-18

Robert Frank’s The Americans (first published in France in 1958 and in the United States in 1959) is widely celebrated as the most important photography book to appear since World War II. Featuring 83 photographs made largely in 1955 and 1956 while Frank traveled the United States, the project looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a profound sense of alienation, angst, and loneliness.

Frank’s prescient photographs redefined the icons of America, demonstrating that cars, jukeboxes, gas stations, diners, and even the road itself were telling symbols of contemporary life. Frank’s style, distinguished by seemingly loose, casual compositions, often with rough, blurred, out-of-focus foregrounds and tilted horizons, was just as controversial and influential as his subject matter. The exhibition celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication by presenting all 83 photographs in the order established by the book, accompanied by a detailed examination of the project, its relationship to Frank’s earlier work, and its impact on his later art.

Opposite – Robert Frank, Parade – Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955; gelatin silver print; Private collection, San Francisco; © Robert Frank

This exhibition runs until the 23rd of August 2009

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission + Howard)
San Francisco
CA
USA
94103

www.sfmoma.org

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THE MADONNA NUDES

Posted on 2009-05-18

In 1979 the as yet unknown Madonna posed nude for New York Photographer, Martin Schreiber, for only $30. Years later, when she was a pop icon, the shots appeared in Playboy catapulting him to fame. The original photographs are now available in the UK, exclusively from the Impure Art Gallery, along with copies of the original Playboy magazine, books, postcards and posters of the show.

This exhibition runs until the 28th of June 2009

Impure Art
13 Ship Street Gardens
Brighton
BN1 1AJ
United Kingdom

www.impureart.com

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AVEDON

Posted on 2009-05-11

Richard Avedon (1923–2004) revolutionized fashion photography starting in the post-World War II era and redefined the role of the fashion photographer. Anticipating many of the cultural cross-fertilizations that have occurred between high art, commercial art, fashion, advertising, and pop culture in the last twenty years, he created spirited, imaginative photographs that showed fashion and the modern woman in a new light. He shook up the chilly, static formulas of the fashion photograph and by 1950 was the most imitated American editorial photographer. Injecting a forthright, American energy into a business that had been dominated by Europeans, Avedon’s stylistic innovations continue to influence photographers around the world.

This exhibition will be the most comprehensive exploration to date of Avedon’s fashion photography during his long career at Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, The New Yorker, and beyond. Working closely with The Richard Avedon Foundation, ICP curator Carol Squiers and guest curator Vince Aletti will present new scholarship on the evolution and extraordinary, ongoing impact of his work. The exhibition will feature more than 200 works by Richard Avedon, spanning his entire career, and will include vintage prints, contact sheets, magazine layouts, and archival material.

This exhibition runs until the 6th of September 2009

International Center of Photography

1133 Avenue of the Americas
New York
NY
1003
USA

www.icp.org

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UNSEEN

Posted on 2009-05-11

The exhibition of 32 previously unseen images from the Guy Bourdin archive, includes images from his commercial work for French Vogue and Charles Jourdan shoes. Guy Bourdin launched his career with fashion assignments for Vogue, Paris which employed colour photography to its maximum effect, creating dramatic accents with saturated colour and texture.

While on the one hand employing formal elements of composition, Guy Bourdin sought to transcend the reality of the photographic medium with surreal twists to the apparent subject of his images and his unconventional manipulation of the picture plane. The art of Guy Bourdin communicates an entirely different reality, challenging our perception and provoking our senses with his layered narratives. Clever juxtapositions of objects and body parts contribute to the formal abstraction of the image while at the same time revealing potent sensual details. The surrealist quality of the images is heightened by their unique sense of location—often views in undistinguished bedrooms, the beach, to the side of a road. The unusual dramas that unfold in these seemingly everyday scenes and ordinary encounters pique our subconscious and invite our imagination.

This exhibition runs until the 4th of July 2009

The Wapping Project
Wapping Hydraulic Power Station
Wapping Wall
London
E1W 3SG
UK

www.thewappingproject.com

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