PAOLO GASPARINI – FIELD OF IMAGES

Posted on 2022-08-15

Paolo Gasparini is the photographer who has best portrayed the cultural tensions and contradictions of the South American continent. His images convey the harsh social reality faced by a region whose cultural authenticity is unquestionable, and where the past and local traditions parley with a clumsily imposed modernity.

Gasparini creates an oeuvre with its own visual language that always seems to express a criticism of consumer society while at the same time revealing a certain obsession with the way we are seduced by marketing and advertising.

Italian by birth yet Venezuelan in spirit, through his work the photographer has tried to eliminate the ethnocentric visions and stereotypes that have historically defined Latin America, almost always in terms of ‘the other’, fueled by the different populisms and nationalisms the region has endured.

Opposite – Electoral Campaign, avenida Urdaneta, Caracas, 1968

Exhibition runs through to August 28th, 2022

Fundacion MAPFRE
Paseo de Recoletos / Barbara de Braganza
28004 Madrid

www.fundacionmapfre.org

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ALLEN FRAME – WHEREUPON

Posted on 2022-08-15

Frame came to New York in 1977 and began to photograph his friends in his apartment and theirs — intimately observed, unposed scenes that were influenced by his love of film and theater. After his first solo show in 1980, he found himself cast as Jack Nicholson in Gary Indiana’s play The Roman Polanski Story, starring his friend John Heys as Roman and Cookie Mueller as Sharon Tate. He was suddenly introduced to a world of downtown legends that included Bill Rice, Taylor Meade and Jack Smith. In the exhibition, Whereupon, a haunting photo of Heys and Mueller shows them coming out onto the terrace of Heys’ East Village penthouse terrace. There’s also a photograph of William Burroughs at home in the Bunker on the Bowery. Nan Goldin is seen sitting on Frame’s bed with artist Siobhan Liddell and a friend, their limbs mysteriously intertwined. Many of the same friends who appear in Fever show up in these black and white photographs: a self-portrait with painter friend Charlie Boone; Butch Walker with Charlie and his boyfriend Bill; a morning photo of a young man lying across a mattress on the floor as a young woman crosses the room.

Exhibition runs through to November 5th, 2022

Gitterman Gallery
41 East 57th Street
New York
NY 10022

gittermangallery.com

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PICTURING NEW YORK

Posted on 2022-08-15

As part of Soho Photo Gallery’s 50th year anniversary celebration, the gallery is proud to present Picturing New York. Current and former members are exhibiting images made over the last 50 years of our home city.

Opposite – Norm Borden, Long Island City

Exhibition runs through to September 11th, 2022

Soho Photo Gallery
New York
NY 10013

www.sohophoto.com

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VICTORY LAP

Posted on 2022-08-08

Victory Lap, is a online exhibition featuring fifty photographs celebrating the life’s work of legendary sports photographer Walter Iooss Jr. Often cited as the “Rembrandt” of sports photography due to his use of light, color, and composition, Iooss has the innate ability to capture what Henri Cartier-Bresson defined as the “decisive moment.” His images transcend the fame of his subjects, and have come to represent modern sports culture.

Opposite – Street Ball, New York, NY, 1971

Exhibition runs through to September 6th, 2022

Bruce Silverstein Gallery
529 West 20th Street
New York
NY 10011

www.brucesilverstein.com

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DENIS DEFIBAUGH – NORTH BY NUUK

Posted on 2022-08-08

In North by Nuuk, photographer Denis Defibaugh presents his journey from Nuuk to the settlement of Illorsuit, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle, following Rockwell Kent’s earlier footsteps and offers a fresh look at timeless Greenland. Defibaugh’s revealing documentary photographs, made during 2016-17, introduce a changing country and its cultural continuity in response to Kent’s 1930s historic writings and images made during his residence in Greenland. Gallery text and video include native language speakers as well as Kent’s lantern slides.

Exhibition runs through to December 31st, 2022

Fenimore Art Museum
5798 State Highway 80
Cooperstown
NY 13326

www.fenimoreartmuseum.org

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IN MEMORIA

Posted on 2022-08-08

This exhibition highlights the careers of three PDNB artists that passed away within the past nine months, Jesse Alexander, Paul Greenberg and Jeffrey Silverthorne. PDNB pay tribute to the art they created and their everlasting friendship.

Opposite – Dressing Room, La Villa Blanc, Albuquerque, 1971 by Jeffrey Silverthorne

Exhibition runs through to November 12th, 2022

PDNB
154 Glass St. #104
Dallas
TX 75207

www.pdnbgallery.com

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