Monday, 25 July 2011
Thursday, 21 July 2011
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
A Gift of 47 Photographs by Neil Folberg to the Everson Museum of Art
Posted: 18 Jul 2011 10:30 PM PDT  Syracuse,NY - The Everson Museum of Art recently received a gift of 47 black-and-white photographs by Neil Folberg entitled Celestial Nights: Visions of an Ancient Land. Celestial Nights is a stunning portfolio of nocturnal landscapes and star-filled skies set in ancient ruins found in the Middle East. A selection of these photographs are exhibited at the Everson from July 16th through September 18th. The artist skillfully captures a spectacular world of nocturnal landscapes in Israel and the Sinai where the horizon is not always definitive. The earth and heavens are mingled in this series of arresting images, which to Folberg represents a blurred division between present and eternity, substance and spirit, and knowledge and imagination.  |
Europe's Largest Exhibition Hall For Contemporary Art & Photography
Posted: 16 Jul 2011 06:50 PM PDT
The Deichtorhallen are a pair of buildings in Hamburg, Germany, formerly used as a market and now a centre for temporary exhibitions of modern art, photography and design. The Deichtorhallen consist of Europe's largest exhibition hall for contemporary art together with the more recent Haus der Photographie (House of Photography). They are located in the centre of Hamburg, between the Kunstmeile ("art mile") and the former docks area, HafenCity. The spacious buildings are distinguished architecturally by their open steel-girder and glass construction, and offer a visually impressive venue for the large international art exhibitions hosted there today. There is also a design store, a specialist photography bookstore and a restaurant. The Deichtorhallen do not house a permanent collection, but instead a continually changing series of exhibitions; however, the basis of the Haus der Photographie is two collections on extended loan: the collection of the photographer F.C. Gundlach, one of Germany's leading collectors of artistic and fashion photography; and the archive of the magazine Der Spiegel, which with over three million images is the largest journalistic research archive in Germany. Next to the buildings is a moored balloon, "HiFlyer", which offers views across the city. What were once two market halls, today provide some 6,000+ square meters of exhibition area forming one of Europe’s largest centers for art exhibitions". ...Anyone who hates that museum feel will love the old halls; no sense of claustrophobia here, a modern ambience, and the shows are always exciting,“ is how the magazine "MarieClaire“ describes the Deichtorhallen. The editors of the annual CAPITAL-Kunstkompass art guide rank the Deichtorhallen among their group of only ten internationally important museums and art institutions alongside the likes of the Guggenheim and MOMA, New York, the Stedelijk, Amsterdam, the Tate Modern, London and the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris.The restored halls were donated by the Körber Foundation to the city of Hamburg. In 1989 they were assigned to the Deichtorhallen-Ausstellungs GmbH. The Deichtorhallen’s international art exhibition program was launched by Harald Szeemann who curated the first show "Einleuchten“ which opened on November 9, 1989. Open steel and glass architecture highlight the spacious historic buildings which today offer room for spectacular, large-scale international exhibitions. Deichtorhallen Director Dr. Robert Fleck fills these rooms with international contemporary art grouped under particular headings – or with single shows on Warhol and Marc Chagall through to Haring. This catalogue of artists is also supplemented by star photographers such as Newton, Leibowitz and Penn. The "Deichtorhallen" enjoy an impeccable international reputation, based upon the six to eight annual exhibitions of art and art history which are consistently representative of an extremely high international standard. The gallery therefore has established itself as an important platform for creative art after 1945. They have included comprehensive shows by such artists as Andreas Gursky (1994), Cindy Sherman (1995), Jason Rhoades (1999), Andrea Zittel (1999), Elizabeth Peyton (2001) and Wolfgang Tillmans (2001). Furthermore, thematic and group exhibitions have gone on tour as have renowned international art collections such as the Center Pompidou Collection (1990) or the Goetz Collection (1998 – 1999). Since its reopening in April 2005, the House of Photography has organized exhibitions spotlighting the diversity of photography, presenting unknown but world class photographers as well as photographic stars since photography’s beginnings in the 19th century through to the current upheaval marked by the transition from traditional to digital-electronic photographs. Visit website at : www.deichtorhallen.de/
No permanent collection is mounted in the Deichtorhallen Halls. The emphasis is firmly on temporary exhibitions, despite the House of Photography being based around two collections: the F. C. Gundlach collection, one of Germany’s leading compilations of artistic and fashion photography, and the Spiegel magazine photo library, Germany’s biggest research archive for journalists, with more than three million pictures. The emphasis is firmly on temporary exhibitions, despite the House of Photography being based around two collections: the F. C. Gundlach collection, one of Germany’s leading compilations of artistic and fashion photography, and the Spiegel magazine photo library, Germany’s biggest research archive for journalists, with more than three million pictures. Since its reopening in April 2005, the House of Photography has organized exhibitions spotlighting the diversity of photography, presenting unknown but world class photographers as well as photographic stars since photography’s beginnings in the 19th century through to the current upheaval marked by the transition from traditional to digital-electronic photographs. The central element in all this is the F.C. Gundlach Collection, one of the leading collections of art and fashion photography which the Deichtorhallen succeeded in keeping in Hamburg. It is on permanent loan to the Deichtorhallen and will be shown gradually over the upcoming years juxtaposed with works from the international world of photography. The architectural conception was based upon the ideas of Prof. F. C. Gundlach and is a substantial and sensitive development of the renovationof the former market hall by Josef P. Kleihues in 1989. After the construction of the Schürmann-Wing at the Museum of Arts and Crafts and the adaptation of Bucerius Artforum in Hamburg architect Jan Störmer has now set a third landmark in the Hamburg cultural landscape with the House of Photography. The hall has received a new climate and light system, separate exhibition cabinets, a hightech auditory, an interactive educational lounge, a library, a storage space for the photographic collections as well as a bookshop and the new restaurant »Fillet of Soul«. The House of Photography thus fulfills the physical and conservatory conditions for a multidisciplinary vital and internationally working exhibition center.
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
Kate MccGwire
APRIL 12, 2011
Kate MccGwire.
British artist Kate MccGuire's work is something from a dream. One of those very strange and slightly disturbing dreams that leaves you questioning reality for the rest of the day.
Saturday, 16 July 2011
Photographs and Paintings by Colleen Hennessy
Posted: 15 Jul 2011 09:30 PM PDT
Denver, CO - The galleries of the Bannock Arts Building honor women as we enter the holiday season, with two extraordinary shows. The Camera Obscura Gallery features Phil Borges: Women Empowered, and Wilson Adams Gallery is proud to present Colleen Hennessy’s visual journal, Catrachas: Women and Children of Honduras.
Friday, 15 July 2011
Jake and Dinos Chapman
Posted: 14 Jul 2011 10:53 PM PDT
LONDON.- White Cube presents a new exhibition by Jake and Dinos Chapman. Jake and Dinos Chapman began their artistic collaboration after graduating from the Royal College of Art in London in 1990 when they created We are Artists. Since this self-defining anti-aesthetic manifesto was first stencilled onto a mud-splattered wall at the ICA London in 1992 they have developed their own shared discourse as ‘sore-eyed scopophiliac oxymorons’ with, as they put it at the time, ‘a benevolent contingency of conceits’. Exhibition on view 15th July through 17th September.
"Bronx Boys" With Photographs by Stephen Shames Is An Ebook Now
Posted: 14 Jul 2011 09:32 PM PDT
NEW YORK, NY.- For over two decades (1977-2000), Stephen Shames photographed a group of boys coming of age in the Bronx in a neighborhood ravaged by drugs, violence and gangs. These young men allowed Shames extraordinary access into their lives on the street and in their homes. Shames met the "Bronx boys" as children, and tracked them growing up, falling in love, and having children of their own. His work explores the interplay between good and evil, violence and love, chaos and family. He captures the brutality of the times - the fights, the shootings, the arrests, the drug deals - but also revelatory moments of love and tenderness.
Myth of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan
Posted: 14 Jul 2011 08:43 PM PDT
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Photography between Africa, Color, & Color Photography
Posted: 14 Jul 2011 11:19 PM PDT
NEW YORK, NY.- “Africolor” - the exhibition - looks at the connections in photography between Africa, color, and color photography. While Africa as a subject has attracted and inspired photographers since the invention of photography, because of the obvious financial and technical issues involved – photographing Africa in the 19th century was largely a European endeavor. By the middle of the 20th century, however, photography both as a business and a means of artistic expression was beginning to flourish across the African continent. With the advent of color photography and in particular with the acceptance of color photography into the mainstream of fine art in the 1980s, the vivid colors and bright light of the continent seemed to serve as inspiration for a wide range of photography from the indigenous to the imagined and from documentary to staged. Celebrating the diversity of color photographic expression, “Africolor” presents groupings of work that are a compelling (but by no means comprehensive) sampling. The exhibition is on view at Danziger Projects until September 10th.
The exhibition begins with a room of recent photographs by the Italian photojournalist Daniele Tamagni. In 2008, Tamagni traveled to the Atlantic coast of Africa to document the little known sub-culture of the sapeurs or La SAPE - a French acronym for La Societe des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elegantes. The sapeurs sport ostentatiously dapper suits and fedoras. They have made fashion their religion, living an elegant lifestyle in direct reference to the French colonialism that contributed to the poverty of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Sapeurism is a means of dealing with this past, by appropriating western style. A code of conduct dictates to sapeurs not to wear more than three colors in any outfit and to not only look but also to behave in an elegant manner.
This work resulted in Tamagni's debut book, “Gentlemen of Bacongo” which became a seminal style volume. (The designer Paul Smith based an entire collection around the book.) "My aim," said Tamagni, "was to produce a portfolio which might generate a critical reflection about the identity of these people who consider elegance their main reason for existence inside a social reality so different and distant from our society." In 2010, Tamagni received the ICP Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion photography for the work.
Samuel Fosso is another of Africa's most eminent photographers. Often described as “the African Cindy Sherman” for nearly 40 years Fosso has been using the camera to experiment with self-portraiture and identity dressing up (or down), posing in different guises, and recreating other famous pictures. Fosso started taking self-portraits to send to his mother in Nigeria, from whom he was separated as a refugee fleeing the Biafran war in the late 1960s. Although his initial aim was to show he was alive and well, his interest in exploring the genre grew steadily, and he continually experimented with new techniques and poses. In 1994, he was discovered by chance by the French curator and gallerist Jean Marc Patras who brought Fosso's work to a wider audience and into the limelight of international critical attention.
Fosso’s work has been shown at The Guggenheim and in major museums around the world, but his local community in Bangui, Central African Republic, remains unaware of Fosso's success, a situation Fosso is keen to maintain. He is happy to keep his costumes out of sight and continue his passport and portrait photography business. His neighbors assume he travels to Europe to take wedding photos.
The second room of the gallery presents a sampling of work by wonderful photographers three African and three European – whose work connects to Africa and color but differs in many of the ways the medium allows.
Malick Sidibe, the renowned Malian photographer, is noted for his pictures of local Malians which he began taking in the 1950s. In 1958, he opened his own studio (Studio Malick) in Bamako focusing in particular on the youth culture of the Malian capital. A naturally gifted artist Sidibe’s reputation exploded when the first conferences on African photography were held in Mali in 1994. Sidibe’s work is now exhibited worldwide. In 2003, he received the Hasselblad Award for photography, and in 2007, Sidibe was awarded the Venice Biennale's Golden Lion lifetime achievement award - the first time it had been presented to a photographer.
While known as a black and white photographer, Sidibe has often presented his photographs in colorfully hand painted glass mounts and it is these “decorated” works, reflecting a particular palette and form, that are being shown.
The Dutch photographer Ruud van Empel’s pictures are both a dream of Africa and a meditation on the role of color in a racial as well as pictorial sense. Van Empel is known for taking digital manipulation of photography to a new level. He photographs professional child models in his studio along with detailed images of leaves, flowers, plants and animals. The pictures are then mixed and composed into Rousseau-like edenic settings using Photoshop. Mixing truth and fiction, innocence and danger, van Empel’s work contains complex pictorial and political underpinnings while bursting with color.
Lolo Veleko, a 33 year old South African, came to attention in ICP's 2006 exhibition "Snap Judgments" - a show of contemporary African photography. In Veleko's ongoing series "Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder" her photographs capture the street fashion of today's Johannesburg youth in small but vibrant full length portraits.
Veleko's portraits show her subjects to be highly individualized and independent and suggest an implicit collaboration between artist and sitter. There is nothing haphazard in the choices of dress or pose or in the execution of the photographs which present a vivid counterpoint to the traditional western photographic depiction of Africans and a reminder of the freshness and quality of work coming entirely from the African cultural tradition.
Africa would seem to be a natural subject for Martin Parr. With his trademark acid color palette and boundless energy, Martin Parr has come to be seen as one of the freshest and most original voices in photography. Thus a fashion story for Rebel Magazine commissioned in 2001 became an opportunity for Parr to shoot high end clothing and accessories in the streets and on the locals of Dakar. For Parr, an ironist and a humorist as well as a colorist, fashion transcends geographic boundaries. In switching his focus between the refined creations of haute couture and the real world, Parr reminds us that no-one is immune from the influence of fashion and globalization.
Mickalene Thomas is a New York artist best known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic and enamel. Thomas was trained as a photographer and returns frequently to the medium influenced by sources as varied as the work of Seydou Keita and pinup posters. Thomas’s pieces in “Africolor” were directly inspired by Nollywood, the Nigerian film industry and continue her colorful exploratory mix of classical portraiture and pop culture.
Considered one of the freshest voices of the contemporary art world Mickalene Thomas has had exhibitions at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum; The Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit; The Studio Museum in Harlem; and P.S.1/MoMA. She is currently the artist in residence at The Versailles Foundation Munn Artists Program in Giverny, France.
The show concludes with a large single piece by JR, the street artist who has mounted his guerilla-style installations of photographs all over the world. The piece we are showing records a project, “Women Are Heroes”, where JR photographed women living in Kenya’s Kibera slum. He returned a month later with enormous blow-ups of their faces printed on waterproof vinyl material which was then applied to dilapidated railway trucks and leaky tin roofs, ensuring that his art intervention had a practical purpose.
In 2011 JR received the TED prize - awarded in the past to figures like Bill Clinton, Bono and the biologist E. O. Wilson. He is using the $100,000 to create a large-scale participatory art project where people are encouraged to make black and white portraits and send them in to insideoutproject.net. The digitally uploaded images are then made into posters and sent back to the creator to exhibit in their own communities wherever and however they want. The installations will then be documented, archived, and put on view on the web.
Thursday, 14 July 2011
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Digital Portraits by Photographer Robert Weingarten
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Wednesday, 13 July 2011
Irving Penn Portraits
Posted: 12 Jul 2011 07:35 PM PDT
LONDON - Irving Penn (1917–2009) was one of the great photographers of our time. Focusing specifically on his portraits of major cultural figures of the last seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits is a glorious celebration of his work in this genre. The exhibition is brought together from major international collections and includes over 120 silver and platinum prints, many vintage, ranging from his portraits for Vogue magazine in the 1940s to some of his last work.
Monday, 11 July 2011
Elliott Erwitt
Posted: 10 Jul 2011 06:55 PM PDT
NEW YORK, NY.- An eyewitness to history and a dreamer with a camera, Elliott Erwitt has made some of the most memorable photographs of the twentieth century. A substantial retrospective exhibition of his work, Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best, is on view at the International Center of Photography (ICP) through August 28th. The exhibition includes more than 100 of Erwitt’s favorite images, a selection of his documentary films produced over the past sixty years, as well as some previously unseen and unpublished prints from his early work.
Born Elio Romano Erwitz to Russian Jewish émigrés in Paris in 1928, Erwitt spent his childhood in Italy, returned to France in 1938, and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1939. After moving to Los Angeles in 1941, Erwitt attended Hollywood High School and began working in a commercial darkroom processing photographs of movie stars. He studied filmmaking at the New School for Social Research in New York from 1949 to 1950, and worked as a documentary photographer on the Standard Oil Company project directed by Roy Stryker. After military service, Erwitt returned to New York, where he met Edward Steichen and Robert Capa, who became strong influences in his life. In 1953, he was invited by Capa to join Magnum Photos, and in 1955 he was included in Steichen’s Family of Man exhibition. From early on, Erwitt set his own criteria for photographing. During the 1940s and 1950s, when many noted fine-art photographers followed established guidelines for exposure, focus, and composition, Erwitt developed his own ideas. With an incisive, humanistic sense of observation and a finely honed wit, he illuminated the small moments of life, even when covering major news events.
“To me, photography is an art of observation,” said Erwitt. “It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place . . . I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
Throughout six decades of making pictures, Erwitt has been recognized for his versatility. While famous for personal photographs of people and dogs and widely reproduced commercial imagery, Erwitt is also respected for his work as a photojournalist. Among the iconic moments he has captured with his camera are the Khrushchev-Nixon “Kitchen Debate” in 1959, and Jacqueline Kennedy, veiled and in distress at the funeral of her husband in 1963; his photograph of segregated water is a poignant reminder of the injustices of the Jim Crow South. Erwitt is also celebrated for portraits, including such distinguished subjects as Grace Kelly, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Kerouac, Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich, and Che Guevara.
“Erwitt is noted for his offbeat sense of humor, combining gentle whimsy with ironic observation of everyday life. Often these works involve visual puns that make the viewer look twice, but they are always organized with great elegance and precision,” said ICP Chief Curator Brian Wallis, who organized the exhibition.
Internationally renowned for his photographs, Erwitt is also a recognized filmmaker. His documentaries include Beauty Knows No Pain, Red, White and Blue Grass, and The Glassmakers of Herat. He has also produced seventeen comedies and satires for HBO. To date, he has authored more than twenty photography books, including Eastern Europe (1965), Photographs and Anti-Photographs (1972), Son of Bitch (1974), Personal Exposures (1988), Between the Sexes ( 1994), Elliott Erwitt’s Handbook (2002), and Elliott Erwitt: Personal Best (2009).
Interpreting the power and evolution of photography, the International Center of Photography is a museum and school dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of photography. ICP creates programs of the highest quality to advance knowledge of the medium. These include exhibitions, collections, and education for the general public, members, students, and professionals in the field of photography. Photography occupies a vital and central place in contemporary culture; it reflects and influences social change, provides an historical record, is essential to visual communication and education, opens new opportunities for personal and aesthetic expression, has transformed popular culture, has revolutionized scientific research, and continually evolves to incorporate new technologies. Visit :http://www.icp.org/
Friday, 8 July 2011
Contemporary Photography from the Stéphane Janssen
Posted: 07 Jul 2011 08:08 PM PDT
André Kertész Photography
Posted: 07 Jul 2011 08:24 PM PDT
Winnipeg, Canada - Hungarian-born photographer André Kertész (1894-1985) gained critical attention for his unorthodox compositions and use of unusual camera angles. In 1925 he moved to Paris, becoming involved with the Dada movement. Due to the looming war in Europe he relocated with his wife to New York in 1936. Over his long and impressive career he created an exceptional number of serene and exquisite images. At the heart of Kertész’s mastery was his belief in catching the right moment when the subject changes and shifts into something else wholly new. His interest in using light to capture and create specific shadows is a characteristic that dominates his compositions. On view through 9 September at WAG.
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