PHOTOGRAPHY, Page 19
Seydou Keïta is now considered one of the greatest photographers of the 2nd half of the 20th Century. Showing off his subjects to best advantage, his mastery of framing and light and the modernity and inventiveness of his compositions, earned him a huge success. He retired in 1977 after having …
On 19/1/1981 Francesca Woodman jumped to her death from the window of a N. York loft. As a photographer, she was prodigious …
On his recent works, Andreas Gursky explores the abstract potential of the photographic medium. From early in his career, abstraction has …
Andres Serrano unveils an often disturbing reality through his camera. Religion, death, sex and violence perfuse the American artist’s work. Since the …
Thomas Brummett stands for the unification of two essentially diametrically opposed approaches. On the one hand, he creates enlarged, detailed shots in …
The Nan Goldin Story is a familiar staple of the romantic mythology of urban bohemia. She is probably best known for “The …
The exhibition “The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel” presents an engaging survey of The Museum of Modern Art’s multifaceted …
Every two years, the European Month of Photography takes place in different places across Europe. Berlin turns into a large photographic gallery …
Robert Polidori is one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers of human habitats and environments. His career began in the mid ‘80s …
Every two years, the European Month of Photography takes place in different places across Europe. Berlin turns into a large photographic gallery …
Sally Man first received critical attention for her series “At Twelve” (1983–85), which depicted 12-year-old girls on the brink of adolescence. Between …
Paradise is one of Nobuyoshi Araki’s most important themes. After his wife death, he produced “A’s Paradise” (1998), in which he photographed …
In his 20 years of work, the photographs of Gregory Crewdson have garnered an international following. Each series: “Twilight”, “Dream House” and …
Considered to be one the important precursors of African photography, Seydou Keita, like many of his contemporaries, nothing particularly predestined him to …
Thomas Ruff has been a leading figure in contemporary photography since the ‘90s when he emerged as part of the Becher School. …
The Rencontres d’Arles is a Summer photography festival founded in 1970 by Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, author Michel Tournier and historian Jean-Maurice …
The Rencontres d’Arles is a Summer photography festival founded in 1970 by Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, author Michel Tournier and historian Jean-Maurice …
The work of Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) played a decisive role in the history of photography and offered a new way to understand …
Photographer, filmmaker, and writer Danny Lyon has over the past 50 years presented a charged alternative to the sanitized vision of American …
The phrase “In the cut” speaks to physical isolation. As an idiom it refers to sites that are removed from dense populations, …
Andreas Gursky studied at the local Kunstakademie with Bernd Becher in the ‘80s. Alongside Thomas Struth, Jörg Sasse, Candida Höfer, and Thomas …
The exhibition “The Memory of the Future”, at the Musée de l’Elysée, opens up a dialogue between the work of the pioneers …
The richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world’s population combined. Global inequality is worse than at any …
The exhibition “Diane Arbus: In The Beginning”, features more than 100 photographs that together redefine one of the most influential and provocative …
