HOW SHE SEES

Posted on 2021-10-11

Inspired by exhibition: The New Women Behind The Camera, the current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art jointly curated with the National Gallery of Art, How She Sees: Several Exceptional Women Photographers 1919 – 1970, seeks to highlight several female artists that all made significant contributions to the field of fine art photography and the art world as a whole. With works ranging from the early 1900’s up to the 1960’s, each of these women created compelling bodies of work: some revolutionary in changing the often predictable aesthetics of their time, while others opened doors and inspired many artists who came after them.

Opposite – Elisabeth Hase, Badeszenen, 1932-33

Exhibition runs through to November 19th, 2021

Robert Mann Gallery
14 East 80Th Street
New York
NY 10075

www.robertmann.com

  

GOTTFRIED JÄGER – INTERSECTION OF COLOR

Posted on 2021-10-11

Known as one of the greatest figures in German photography, Gottfried Jäger (b. 1937, Burg near Magdeburg) is an exper-imental artist who, over the years, redefined the term “photography”. In breaking the boundaries of what the camera can accomplish, Jäger reexamines the objectivity of the photographic process. In 1968, during the movement of Concrete Art, Jäger developed the concept and theory of Generative Photography. In his words, it consists of “finding a new world inside the camera and trying to bring it out with methodical and analytical methods.”

Opposite – Multiple Optics 4.52, 1980

Exhibition runs through to November 27th, 2021

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

www.souslesetoilesgallery.net

  

CLAUDIA ANDUJAR – THE YANOMAMI STRUGGLE

Posted on 2021-10-11

For five decades, photographer Claudia Andujar (b. 1931) has dedicated her life and work to the indigenous Yanomami communities in the Amazon region of Northern Brazil. In the late 1970s, when the community found itself subjected to severe external threats, the Swiss-born photographer, who is based in São Paulo, began fighting for the Yanomami’s rights. She subsequently went on to join the community, thus deepening relations between them.
Her fourteen-year battle alongside Yanomami leader Davi Kopenawa and other concerned parties led to an official demarcation of the community’s land in 1992. Today, Andujar’s activist efforts are as relevant as ever – as is illustrated by current events, such as the ongoing deforestation and environmental destruction caused by mining and ranching, human rights violations in the region or the spread of malaria and COVID-19. The exhibition brings into focus the humanitarian and environmental crises that have been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Opposite – The young Susi Korihana thëri swimming, infrared film, Catrimani, Roraima, 1972-74

Exhibition runs through to February 13th, 2022

Fotomuseum Winterthur
Grüzenstrasse 44 + 45
CH – 8400 Winterthur

www.fotomuseum.ch

  

DAWOUD BEY – IN THIS HERE PLACE

Posted on 2021-10-04

In This Here Place is the third project in Dawoud Bey’s history series. Working his way back in time, Bey’s first series, The Birmingham Project, (2012), paid tribute to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The second series, Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017), departed from figuration as Bey made the landscape his subject with photographs of real and imagined locations along the Underground Railroad. This third, new body of work portrays the physical sites of the forced labor of enslavement. Taken at sites with an unfathomably traumatic past, this series represents a deep witnessing and rich visual description, evoking the past in now unpopulated landscapes. The photographs were all made in Louisiana, along the west banks of the Mississippi River and at the Evergreen, Destrehan, Laura, Oak Alley, and Whitney Plantations.

Opposite – Cabin and Benches, 2019

Exhibition runs through to October 23rd, 2021

Sean Kelly
475 Tenth Avenue
New York
NY 1001

www.skny.com

  

AMERICAN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY, 1930-1950

Posted on 2021-10-04

Hindsight presents a case for the decisive impact of women upon the history of documentary photography through a selection of prints drawn from Mia’s collection as well as that of Dan Shogren and Susan Meyer. Centering the work of six American photographers – Margaret Bourke-White, Esther Bubley, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Genevieve Naylor, and Marion Post Wolcott – the exhibition showcases images that were created for a diverse range of projects, from governmental commissions to editorial assignments. Meant to communicate with audiences increasingly attuned to global social and political movements, these photographs provide insight into lives both everyday and extraordinary: the routines of working people in Brazil; the impact of industrialization upon rural Americans; Black Americans’ experiences of racial segregation and economic inequality; the nonviolent political resistance of Mahatma Gandhi against British colonial rule. In these ways, Hindsight reveals each photographer’s power in the making of historical memory.

Opposite – Esther Bubley, American, 1921-1998, Greyhound Bus Station, New York City, 1947

Exhibition runs through to November 7th, 2021

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis
MN 55404

new.artsmia.org

  

CTRL+ALT+YELLOW

Posted on 2021-10-04

California is home to the largest population of individuals of Asian descent in the U.S. From the galleon ships that brought sailors to the Americas from the Philippines in the 16th century to the contract laborers who arrived from China in the 1850s, many groups from Asia immigrated to escape hardship, war, or colonization, only to endure policies of exclusion, indentured servitude, racist policies, and negative stereotyping in their new home. Today, violence and prejudice continues in the form of scapegoating around the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ctrl+Alt+Yellow convenes Bay Artist artists with Asian lineage who imagine alternative modes of existence. They employ radical modes of narration, exemplifying how communities can take charge of their own stories to re-construct their own understanding of the past, the realities of the present, and future possibilities.

Exhibition runs through to November 6th, 2021

B4BEL4B
184 10th Street
Oakland
CA 94607

www.b4bel4b.com