Exhibition

Joel-Peter Witkin by Elizabeth Avedon

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“Witkin is a photographer who has been mistaken for a grave robber, whose works were described by Marina Isola as “Part Hieronymus Bosch, part ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’"

26.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Elliott Erwitt
Sequentially Yours

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In Sequentially Yours, published by teNeues in 2011, Woody Allen’s faithful screenwriter Marshall Brickman wrote about the infamous scene photographed by Elliott Erwitt on the set of Billy Wilder’s "The Seven Year Itch”, t...

13.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Le songe, la raison et les monstres

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Genesis according to Facebook: a mangled rainbow, a computer monitor frame, the last days of the city of angels... Le songe, la raison et les monstres reunites four artists making innovations in the medium of photography: Constance Nouvel, Paul Rousteau, Mathieu Tonetti and Z-M.

29.02.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Joel-Peter Witkin, the french recognition

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Today is dedicated to Joel-Peter Witkin. To the amazing exhibition opening at the Bibliothèque nationale, the two books of his work published for the exhibition and to the recent works on display at the gallery Baudoin Lebon. Four articles were written by Ber...

26.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Erica Lennard
The Beauty of Women

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Erica Lennard and the Agathe Gaillard Gallery have a long story together. The future photographer Erica came to Paris with her sister in 1973, shortly after finishing her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. With, as baggage, pictures of her sister Elisabeth and her friends...

02.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Laurent Condominas
A band of Outsiders

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This is Laurent Condominas's first show in the US. His photos focus notably on his family and friends, a "band of Outsiders", which would become part of the 1970's artistic avant -garde. A "poetry of everyday life" appears in this work, which takes small details of banal situa...

01.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Seattle: Malick Sidibé
Studio Bamako

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The M.I.A. Gallery has just opened in Seattle. It will promote the work of committed photographers and artists like Malick Sidibé. The retrospective Studio Bamako features a selection over thirty photographs taken since 1963.

29.02.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Melbourne
Ephemeral Memory

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Jeremy Blincoe is a Melbourne based photographer renowned for his representations of youth, the environment and indigenous issues. His latest series, Ephemeral Memory, highlights the struggle of indigenous people to retain their ancient culture and traditions, while forging a new...

29.02.2012[ read full story ]

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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