BRETT WESTON – CA / NY

Posted on 2022-05-30

The eminent curator Van Deren Coke described Brett Weston as the “child genius of American photography.” Born in Los Angeles in 1911, the second son of photographer Edward Weston, he had perhaps the closest artistic relationship with his famous father of all four of the Weston sons. In 1925, Edward removed Brett from school and took him to Mexico, where the thirteen year old became his father’s apprentice. Surrounded by revolutionary artists of the day, such as Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, and influenced as well by the striking contrast of life in Mexico, it was there that Brett first began making photographs with a small Graflex 3 1/4″ x 4 1/4″ camera.

Opposite – Dune, 1967

Exhibition runs through to June 30th, 2022

Danziger Gallery Los Angeles
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Avenue
Los Angeles
CA 90404

www.danzigergallery.com

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GEORGES ROUSSE

Posted on 2022-05-30

This selection masters one more time the way Georges Rousse enjoys, embraces, and achieves his intervention on abandoned spaces and locations, founding a kind of counter space.

Using space as his raw material, Rousse converts abandoned locations into almost spiritual visions of color and shape, translating his intuitive, instinctual readings of space into masterful images of several “realities”: that of the actual space, abandoned or soon-to-be demolished; the artist’s imagined mise-en-scène; and the final photograph, or the reality flattened.

Opposite – Montauban, 2021

Exhibition runs through to June 23rd, 2022

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery
16 East 71st Street
New York
NY 10021

www.souslesetoilesgallery.net

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LOOK AT THE USA BY PETER VA AGTMAEL

Posted on 2022-05-30

Look at the USA, an exhibition of the work of noted documentary photographer Peter van Agtmael, will focus on the fault lines of the post-9/11 United States, at home and abroad. The 128 photographs span the period 2006-2021; they examine the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their domestic consequences–wounded soldiers and the families of the fallen. This work also explores crucial social and political issues such as nationalism, militarism, refugees, race and class, as well as the tumultuous events that led up to the January 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol. Texts accompanying each photograph address van Agtmael’s complex motivations as he took these photographs, while providing broader political and historical context. The title of the show comes from a library book van Agtmael found at Baghdad College, a prestigious high school for boys founded by American Jesuits in Iraq. The school was “an emblem of a time when the United States was known in the Middle East not for military action, but for culture and education.”

Opposite – A sign outside of “Battlefield Vegas,” a shooting range in Las Vegas.

Exhibition runs through to June 26th, 2022

Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Avenue
New York
NY 10451

www.bronxdoc.org

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NADEZDA NIKOLOVA – ELEMENTAL FORMS

Posted on 2022-05-23

Nadezda Nikolova is a photographic artist whose work is informed by her interest in the photographic object and her connection to the natural world. She works in the darkroom using the historic wet plate collodion process creating experimental camera-less works on metal. The immediacy, fluidity, and materiality of the process allows her to explore photography’s relationship to painting, collage, graphic arts, and sculpture.

Exhibition runs through to June 19th, 2022

The Center For Photographic Art (CFPA)
San Carlos and 9th
Carmel
CA 93921

photography.org

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