GAIL ALBERT HALABAN – ITALIAN VIEWS

Posted on 2020-03-23

Gail Albert Halaban’s new series Italian Views, with an accompanying monograph from Aperture (2019), extends the photographer’s Out My Window project to the cities of Venice, Rome, Naples, Palermo, Florence, Lucca, and Milan, collaborating with pairs of neighbours in these cities to create visual short stories that the viewer is invited to write for herself.

Opposite – Luigi and Family, Via Monserrato, Rome, June, 2017

Exhibition runs through to April 11th, 2020

Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta
GA 30305

www.jacksonfineart.com

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DAWOUD BEY – AN AMERICAN PROJECT

Posted on 2020-03-16

Since the beginning of his career, Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953) has used his camera to depict communities and histories that have largely remained underrepresented or even unseen. This full-scale retrospective highlights the artist’s commitment over the course of his four-decade career to portraying the black subject and African-American history in a manner that is at once direct and poetic, and immediate and symbolic. The exhibition includes his tender and perceptive early portraits of Harlem residents, large-scale color Polaroids, and a series of collaborative word and image portraits of high school students, among others.

Opposite – Three Women at a Parade, Harlem, NY, from the Series Harlem U.S.A., 1978

Exhibition runs through to May 25th, 2020

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco
CA 94103

www.sfmoma.org

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GUANYU XU – TEMPORARILY CENSORED HOME

Posted on 2020-03-16

Since 2018, Beijing-born, Chicago-based artist Guanyu Xu has secretly created photographic installations throughout his childhood home in Beijing in order to queer his parents’ domestic space, transforming it into a scene of revelation, protest and reclamation. Using collected images from Western film and fashion magazines, photographs from family albums, as well as portraits of himself with other gay men, Xu enacts a deeply intimate and political performance.

Opposite – Facing North, Looking West, 2019

Exhibition runs through to April 4th, 2020

Yancey Richardson Gallery
525 West 22nd Avenue
New York
NY 10011

www.yanceyrichardson.com

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BRUCE GILDEN – LOST AND FOUND

Posted on 2020-03-16

LOST AND FOUND is the result of a happy accident: the rediscovery of some 2000-odd rolls of 35mm film from Bruce Gilden’s early days photographing New York City, spanning from 1978 to 1984. The film had been relegated to filing cabinets at the time, yet in the summer of 2017, after a house move, Gilden found it again. These pictures are almost all made without the use of flash, which would become his trademark. As Gilden himself explains, “It’s Bruce Gilden before he really became the known Bruce Gilden.”

Opposite – Three Women at a Parade, Harlem, NY, from the Series Harlem U.S.A., 1978

Exhibition runs through to May 16th, 2020

10 Corso Como
1 Fulton Street
New York
NY 10038

10corsocomo.nyc

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ROGER EBERHARD – HUMAN TERRITORIALITY

Posted on 2020-03-09

The series Human Territoriality by Swiss photographer Roger Eberhard explores former borders, across the globe and throughout human history. Some have slowly moved over time, due to natural or human landscape transformations, others have vanished with the fall of empires and shifts of political and religious powers.

Borders act as tools of separation, dividing here and there. Meanwhile they define what lies within the boundaries, instilling a claim to permanence and protection.

In a time of mass migration, border walls and spreading nationalism, Eberhard captures the inherent instability and transience of human demarcations.

Opposite – Nobistor, 2018

Exhibition runs through to April 18th, 2020

Mai 36 Galerie
Rämistrasse 37
CH-8001 Zürich
Switzerland

www.mai36.com

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ELLEN VON UNWERTH – DEVOTION!

Posted on 2020-03-09

Renowned German photographer Ellen von Unwerth presents Devotion! 30 Years of Photographing Women, a survery exhibition shown at Fotografiska Stockholm, now significantly expanded for New York. Devotion! explores von Unwerth’s provocative yet playful photography through seven expressions: Play, Gender, Drama, Love, Power, Passion, and Lust. Each image, characteristic of von Unwerth’s style, reflects lively, energetic, sensual style with a slight humorous touch. For the artist, it’s never about objectifying, rather, playing with archetypes and stereotypes, high and low, stirring emotions and creating commotion.

Opposite – “Bathtub,” Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss for Vogue US, 1996

Exhibition runs through to March 29th, 2020

Fotografiska New York
281 Park Ave South/22nd
New York
NY 10010

www.fotografiska.com

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