MARY ELLEN MARK – GIRLHOOD

Posted on 2021-04-12

An icon of modern photography, Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) created compassionate and candid portraits of subjects living outside of mainstream society. From street children in Seattle to circus performers in India, Mark captured the lives and stories of individuals with empathy, humor, and candor. Through the lens of her camera, she cut through social and societal barriers to champion overlooked communities in the United States, India, Mexico, the former Soviet Union, and other countries.

Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood examines Mark’s depictions of girls and young women living in a variety of circumstances around the globe. While Mark photographed people from all walks of life, she was particularly interested in children. “I don’t like to photograph children as children,” Mark said. “I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I’m always looking for the side of who they might become.”

Opposite – Lillie with Her Rag Doll, Seattle, 1983

Exhibition runs through to May 29th, 2021

National Museum Of Women In The Arts
1250 New York Ave NW
Washington
DC 20005

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MICHAL CHELBIN – HOW TO DANCE THE WALTZ

Posted on 2021-04-12

In his preface to the book, Joseph Akel writes: “That pervading sense of contradiction, that eruptive moment when budding youth clashes with burgeoning adulthood, lies at the heart of Chelbin’s images, evinced through her juxtaposition of teenage subjects captured in garments, costumes, and uniforms symbolic of long-standing institutions and their traditions.” The artist has long been fascinated by costumes and uniforms, commenting on how youth is so startlingly apparent – especially when dressed up in the clothes of adulthood. This fascination led Chelbin over the course of five years to photograph young matadors training at schools in Seville, Spain; cadets at a military academy in Ukraine; and high school students on the eve of prom in Kiev (the capital of Ukraine). The artist looks at puberty and gender as a performance that involves keen attention to costumery. The photographs address the ways in which societal expectations of gender, especially in regard to clothing and uniform, inform a young person’s development and identity. With the subjects gazing directly into the artist’s lens, Chelbin’s remarkable portraits simultaneously represent the sitters’ vulnerability and self-possession.

Opposite – Young Matadors in the Bush, Spain, 2018

Exhibition runs through to May 29th, 2021

ClampArt
247 West 29th Street, Ground Floor
New York
NY 10001

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CIG HARVEY – EAT FLOWERS

Posted on 2021-04-12

Eat Flowers, an exhibition of recent work by Cig Harvey, is a multi-sensory installation of photography and text that celebrates the artists’ unique and contemplative approach to finding beauty in even the most mundane. Combining letterpress text, straight photography, and sculpture, Harvey provides an experience mirroring her celebrated photobooks, in which she offers viewers a glimpse into her artistic process through drawings, writings, and references.

Opposite – The Wind, Scout, Camden, Maine, 2018

Exhibition runs through to May 15th, 2021

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

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ROOMS THAT RESONATE WITH POSSIBILITIES

Posted on 2021-04-05

When we think of rooms most of us draw on mental pictures of predictable spaces that are very familiar and give us a sense of security. We tend to see, and live in a fixed and predictable diurnal environment. But for many photographers rooms or interior spaces have often presented themselves as challenges and invitations to see creatively and not be hemmed in by social conventions. A room, as a subject, can resonate with potential possibilities. It can metaphorically be akin to an artist’s palette waiting to be brought to life through a new creation. The photographs of Karen Knorr, Massimo Listri, Sandy Skoglund, Michael Eastman, John Dugdale and Bernard Faucon present new approaches and unique visions to picturing space.

Opposite – Karen Knorr, Emptiness no Other than Form, Obai-in, Kyoto

Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2021

Holden Luntz Gallery
332 Worth Avenue
Palm Beach
FL 33480

www.holdenluntz.com

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BILL BRANDT – PERSPECTIVE OF NUDES

Posted on 2021-04-05

Bill Brandt first gained recognition as a photojournalist in the 1930s and 1940s, capturing images of all levels of British society for magazines like Lilliput, Picture Post, and Harper’s Bazaar. After turning his focus to nude photography for over a decade, he published his milestone photo book Perspective of Nudes (1961), and in 1969 he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which traveled internationally. Brandt’s first exhibition at Marlborough New York in 1976 was a critical turning point in situating his work within the context of fine art.

Initially influenced by the work of Man Ray, Brandt’s earliest experiments with nude photography took place in Paris before the Second World War. But it wasn’t until his return to the genre in 1944, while back in England, that his explorations into the body’s sculptural potential within the two-dimensional space of the photographic print spurred a painstaking, long-term study, largely unencumbered by idealized classical conventions.

Opposite – Nude, London, March 1952

Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2021

Marlborough New York
545 West 25th Street, 2nd floor
New York
NY 10001

www.marlboroughnewyork.com

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BUT STILL, IT TURNS PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE WORLD

Posted on 2021-04-05

This exhibition presents photography attuned to this consciousness, photography from the world, from life as it is-in all its complicated wonder-in the twenty-first-century United States: from Vanessa Winship’s peripatetic vision in she dances on Jackson through Curran Hatleberg’s gatherings of humankind in Lost Coast; Richard Choi’s meditation on the differences between the flow of life and our memory of it in What Remains; RaMell Ross’s images of quotidian life from South County; Gregory Halpern’s luminous Californian journey in ZZYZX; Piergiorgio Casotti and Emanuele Brutti’s Index G work on the delicate balance between economic theory and lived fact; Kristine Potter’s re-examination of the Western myth of manifest destiny in Manifest; or Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa’s braiding the power of images with the forces of history in All My Gone Life.

Opposite – Richard Choi, Untitled (Recorder), 2011

Exhibition runs through to May 9th, 2021

ICP Museum
79 Essex Street
New York
NY 10002

www.holdenluntz.com

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