Exhibition

Photographs from Cuba
Paul Meleschnig

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In his recurring travels to Cuba between 1997 and 2009, Meleschnig captured boxers and their everyday life of physical training. Gymnasium, ring and street collectively unfold the lives of young men in a sort of visual poem.

06.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Robert Adams 's America

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Timothy Taylor Gallery presents an exhibition that brings together the work of Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs. All three artists create deeply personal, yet iconic images of America.

01.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Terry Richardson
Terrywood

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Inspired by the multiple facets of Hollywood life, Terrywood unveils a series of images of the famous locale, as seen through Richardson’s eyes. Terryworld meets Hollywood, as the local characters, familiar landscapes, and architectural details, now verge on having a new ...

28.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Munich
American True Stories

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A concise overview of American photography, that forms a comprehensive and high-calibre focal point within the collection, is presented for the first time. At the beginning of the 1960s, a young generation of photographers started to take a close look at the changing political, social a...

29.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Cindy Sherman’s
Early Works

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A Vienna exhibition of Cindy Sherman’s early work coincides with the enormous retrospective currently at the MoMA in New York. The smaller of the two focuses on her early works. Although her celebrated series Untitled Film Stills (1978-1980) could certainly be consid...

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Cindy Sherman by
Eva Respini

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To mark the opening of the stunning Cindy Sherman retrospective at the MoMA this season, we spoke with the exhibition’s curator, Eva Respini. She took us through this unique contemporary photographer’s method and influences. At first sight, Cindy Sherman’s photographs look like self-por...

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

A triumph in Paris for Ai Weiwei

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The Ai Weiwei exhibition Entrelacs at the Jeu de Paume contemporary art museum in Paris is the first of its kind in France. Press coverage of this multi-talented artist tends to emphasize his work’s subversive aspects and his frequent run-ins with the police and government. His impris...

23.02.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Ralph Steiner
A Point of View

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The Scott Nichols Gallery in San Francisco presents a selection of photographs by Ralph Steiner, celebrated for his visions of life in America. These images are among the pioneering works of documentary photography.

28.02.2012[ read full story ]

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Snapshot: Painters and Photography

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This fascinating exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., revisits the origins of the Kodak myth through the photographs of post-impressionist painters, who found inspiration for their paintings in the pictures they took.

28.02.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Berlin
Robert Polidori

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On February 12, the Camera Work Photo Gallery, founded in 1997 in the Charlottenburg neighborhood of Berlin, opened a new exhibition space in the heart of Berlin-Mitte. CWC (Camera Work Contemporary) Gallery occupies a historically charged building designed by the architect Alexander Beer. Bu...

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

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