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PHOTO:Diane Arbus-In The Beginning

The exhibition “Diane Arbus: In The Beginning” at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), considers the first seven years of the photographer’s career, from 1956 to 1962. Bringing together 100 photographs from this formative period, many on display for the first time, the exhibition offers fresh insights into …

Eric Cahan, Water - I Hardly Knew Her, 2016, Pigment print, oil paint and varnish, © Eric Cahan, Courtesy the artist

PHOTO:Eric Cahan

Eric Cahan, is Influenced by the Impressionists’ depiction of natural light and its ever-changing qualities, as well as Color Theory. For him, …

Wolfgang Tillmans, Iguazu 2010, © Wolfgang Tillmans, Tate Modern Archive

PHOTO:Wolfgang Tillmans-2017

Wolfgang Tillmans has earned recognition as one of the most exciting and innovative artists working today. First rising to prominence in the …

Francesco Jodice

PHOTO:Francesco Jodice-Panorama

Francesco Jodice graduated as an architect and began his artistic activity in 1995. From his very first works, undertaken in a specifically …

Cindy Sherman, Untitled #582, 2016, Dye sublimation metal print, 137.2 x 178.4 cm, © Cindy Sherman, Courtesy of the artist, Metro Pictures and Sprüth Magers

PHOTO:Cindy Sherman

Her long career in photography has established Cindy Sherman as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. At first painting …

Donald Judd, Studies of Colonial Architectural Fragments and Stepped Circle, Baja California, Mexico and 2 Views from train en route from New York to Marfa, Texas, 1965-67, Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel – 2001, © Donald Judd Estate/Foundation, Metropolitan Museum of Art Archive

PHOTO:The Poetics of Place, Part II

Metropolitan Museum of Art began collecting photographs in 1928, when Alfred Stieglitz made the first of several important gifts to the Museum. …

Naoki Ishikawa Capturing the Map of Light on This Planet

PHOTO:Naoki Ishikawa

Since his late teens, Naoki Ishikawa has been travelling to the earth’s far corners and has scaled the highest peaks on all …

Hiroshi Sugimoto, Hyena-Jackal-Vulture, 1976, © Hiroshi Sugimoto, Foam Archive

PHOTO:Hiroshi Sugimoto-Black Box

Hiroshi Sugimoto has defined what it means to be a multi-disciplined contemporary artist, blurring the lines between photography, painting, installation, and most …

Michael Kenna, Pine Trees at Dusk-Contrada Cordano-Abruzzo-Italy, 2016, © Michael Kenna, Courtesy Robert Mann Gallery-New York

PHOTO:Michael Kenna

Michael Kenna is one of the most influential landscape photographers of his generation, best known for his black & white landscapes. Often …

The Poetics of Place, Met Collection

PHOTO:The Poetics of Place, Part I

Metropolitan Museum of Art began collecting photographs in 1928, when Alfred Stieglitz made the first of several important gifts to the Museum. …

Thomas Ruff, Substrat 31 III, 2007, © Thomas Ruff / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2016, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art Kanazawa Archive

PHOTO:Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff has fundamentally changed our relationship to the photographic image, moving it beyond reactionary ideas of documentation and supposed “truth” towards …

Candida Höfer Nach Berlin

PHOTO:Candida Höfer-Nach Berlin

For the presentation of her work Candida Höfer not only uses traditional photography in various sizes adjusted to the demands of composition, …

Thomas Ruff, press++65.11, 2016, Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner New York/London

PHOTO:Thomas Ruff-New Works

In his approach to photography, Thomas Ruff explores a breadth of themes that is reflected in the range of techniques he employs: …

Seydou Keïta, Untitled, (MA.KE.128 BOX-NEG.00854), 1953-57, ©Seydou Keïta/SKPEAC, Courtesy CAAC – The Pigozzi Collection & Galerie Nathalie Obadia Paris/Bruxelles

PHOTO:Seydou Keïta

Seydou Keïta is now considered one of the greatest photographers of the 2nd half of the 20th Century. Showing off his subjects …

PHOTO:Andres Serrano-Torture

Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …

PHOTO:The Shape of Things

The exhibition “The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel” presents an engaging survey of The Museum of Modern Art’s multifaceted …