AMERICAN SILENCE – THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF ROBERT ADAMS

Posted on 2022-08-29

This exhibition explores the reverential way he looks at the world around him and the almost palpable silence of his work.

Many of these photographs of the American West capture the sense of peace and harmony that the beauty of nature can instill in us—“the silence of light,” as he calls it, that he sees on the prairie, in the woods, and by the ocean. Other pictures question our silent complicity in the desecration of that beauty by consumerism, industrialization, and lack of environmental stewardship. Divided into three sections—The Gift, Our Response, and Tenancy—the exhibition features some 175 works from the artist’s most important projects and includes pictures of suburban sprawl, strip malls, highways, homes, and stores, as well as rivers, skies, the prairie, and the ocean.

Opposite – Kerstin enjoying the wind, East of Keota, Colorado, 1969

Exhibition runs through to October 2nd, 2022

National Gallery of Art
4th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington
DC 20565

www.nga.gov

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A GIFT OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM JOHN HAGEFSTRATION

Posted on 2022-08-29

Birmingham-based collector John Hagefstration’s gift of close to 300 photographs is an example of one such transformative offering, vastly expanding the Museum’s collection representing the history of photography in the United States and beyond.

In this collection focus installation, you see a selection of the works given to the BMA by Hagefstration in 2020. In 2020 he gave 201 works, building on a group of nearly 100 other photographs he had donated over the previous sixteen years. Hagefstration purchased many of these photographs with the goal of strengthening the Museum’s photography collection. These photographs were made from the early twentieth century to the present. They capture significant episodes in the development of the medium, allowing us to better represent the history of movements, schools of photography, and the work of individual artists in new depth. His collection also expands the diverse perspectives featured in our collection, including new works by Alabama artists, women artists, and LGBTQIA+ artists. Visit this focus installation of fourteen photographs to see how the Museum’s collections have recently grown.

Opposite – Ray K. Metzker, Sand Creatures, 1969

Exhibition runs through to November 1st, 2022

Birmingham Museum Of Art
2000 Rev. Abraham Woods, Jr. Blvd
Birmingham
AL 35203

www.artsbma.org

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BRYAN LOCK – HOT WALKER

Posted on 2022-08-29

California reared, fine artist, Bryan Locke is a dedicated foot soldier in dogged pursuit of the celebration of his subjects at their zenith and most raw. His visceral approach, while supported by a keen understanding of light & depth , has resulted in a body of work that summons both Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. “Hot Walker” shot over a four year period at Golden Gate fields is a labor of love that brings to light his unmistakable intuition at displaying humanity at its finest.

Exhibition runs through to October 15th, 2022

Harvey Milk Photography Center
50 Scott St.
San Francisco
CA 94117

www.harveymilkphotocenter.org

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ELLIOTT ERWITT – THE ART OF OBSERVATION

Posted on 2022-08-22

This exhibition shows both the miracle of Erwitt’s balance between commercial and personal photography, and the memorable flavor that he brings to his work.

Opposite – Marilyn Monroe in New York, 1954

Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2022

Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80
Cooperstown
NY 13326

www.fenimoreartmuseum.org

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WILLIAM KLEIN – YES

Posted on 2022-08-22

Street photographer. Fashion photographer. Painter. Graphic designer. Abstract artist. Writer. Filmmaker. Book maker. Few have transformed as many fields of art and culture as William Klein. From his wildly inventive photographic studies of New York, Rome, Moscow, and Tokyo to bold and witty fashion photographs; from cameraless abstract photography to iconic celebrity portraits; from documentary films about Muhammad Ali, Little Richard, and the Pan-African Festival of Algiers to fiction films about the beauty industry, imperialism, and consumer culture, Klein has made every form and genre his own. Through it all runs his distinct graphic energy and deep affection for humanity’s struggles through the chaos of modern life.

Exhibition runs through to September 12th, 2022

ICP Museum
79 Essex Street
New York
NY 10002

www.icp.org

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CHARLES FRÉGER – FABULA

Posted on 2022-08-22

Over the past twenty years, Charles Fréger has built up a vast collection of portraits, first by focusing on outfits and uniforms, then by exploring masked traditions on every continent. His photographs confront us with secular figures, beings with multiple and ambiguous identities on which our imagination is projected. Four series are brought together in this vast exhibition : “Commedia dell’Arte”, produced in Venice and showing the body play of his masked characters ; “Yokainoshima”, in which the photographer explores the ritual figures of Japan ; “Wilder Mann”, a photographic campaign carried out over many years in 20 European countries ; and “Cimarron”, which takes the photographer to Afro-descendant America, from the southern United States to Peru. Embodying strange, comical, sometimes frightening or extravagant animals or creatures, the figures Fréger photographs give a measure of the variety of customs and cultures around the world. By paying attention to the finery and the solemnity of the pose, the artist leaves us alone in front of these masked figures.

Opposite – Wilder Mann, 2010,2011

Exhibition runs through to August 25th, 2022

MBAL Musée des beaux-arts
Marie-Anne-Calame 6
2400 Le Locle

www.mbal.ch

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