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Group Show ‘10 Projekt Fotografia Kolekcjonerska’Galeria DAP 2,...

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Group Show

‘10 Projekt Fotografia Kolekcjonerska’
Galeria DAP 2, Warsaw
11.10.2012 - 23.10.2012

The goal of the Fotografia Kolekcjonerska project is to promote the collection of photography in Poland and popularise works by Polish masters among international audiences. We select those of the artists’ works which have a special place in their oeuvre, i.e. which are exhibited, published and win prizes, both in Poland and abroad.

Photography, collected since the very beginnings of its 170-year-long history, is currently at its peak of popularity. Highly esteemed as a legitimate discipline of art and exhibited in the greatest museums of the world, it is enjoying a growing popularity among collectors. Year by year, photographs offered by major auction houses worldwide are sold at record-breaking prices.

To our delight, private photography collections are also being set up and expanded in Poland, with owners ever more frequently willing to show their collections to the public. This trend is exemplified by the collection of Joanna and Krzysztof Madelski, entitled the Subject of Gender and Desire, which was shown during this year’s edition of the Fotofestiwal in Łódź, as well as by the exhibition Life Flesh. Photography from the Collection of Cezary Pieczyński, shown in the framework of the Photomonth in Cracow.

Willing to support the growing interest in the collection of photography, this year we have the honour to present works by such artists as: Zdzisław Beksiński, Dorota Buczkowska, Jan Bułhak, Joanna Chudy, Roman Cieślewicz, Zbigniew Dłubak, Benedykt Jerzy Dorys, Przemek Dzienis, Krzysztof Gierałtowski, Józef Głogowski, Maurycy Gomulicki, Edward Hartwig, Ryszard Horowitz, Henryk Hermanowicz, Magda Hueckel, Waldemar Jama, Jacek Kołodziejski, Jerzy Kosiński, Georgia Krawiec, Aleksander Krzywobłocki, Ewa Kuryluk, Paweł Kwiek, Andrzej Lachowicz, Natalia LL, Rafał Milach, Fortunata Obrąpalska, Anna Orłowska, Marek Piasecki, Paweł Pierściński, Krzysztof Pijarski, Jacek Poremba, Wojciech Prażmowski, Agnieszka Rayss, Józef Robakowski, Tadeusz Rolke, Sławomir Rumiak, Zofia Rydet, Bronisław Schlabs, Leonard Sempoliński, Mikołaj Smoczyński, Juliusz Sokołowski, Jan Spałwan, Jan Tarasin, Wojtek Wieteska and Joanna Zastróżna.

©  Fotografia Kolekcjonerska


Group Show‘Anthology 2012′Southeast Museum of Photography,...

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Group Show
‘Anthology 2012′
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Florida
05.10.2012 - 03.02.2013

“All of the artists are entering the solid core of their careers as their style and subject matter matures to reflect the concerns of a new generation of artists.” - Kevin Miller, Director, Southeast Museum of Photography

The range and breadth of styles, techniques, themes and subject matter used by contemporary photographers presents a broadening and a deepening of the field of serious photography in ways that have re-energized and stimulated the entire profession. It was not so many years ago that so-called serious art photographers had just a few accepted styles, areas of practice and working methods that would be embraced by the worlds of museums, galleries, or in art publishing.

The photographers exhibited in Anthology 2012 represent much of this new range and are producing some of the most significant new work that is starting have an impact in the field. All of the artists are entering the solid core of their careers as their style and subject matter matures to reflect the concerns of a new generation of artists.

© Lauren Henkin  | Southeast Museum of Photography

WILLIAM EGGLESTON

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LOS ALAMOSGagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills27.09.2012 - 10.11.2012 “I just wait until (my subject)...

IN THE IN-BETWEEN: AISLINN LEGGETT’ New Interview by Greg Jones...

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IN THE IN-BETWEEN: AISLINN LEGGETT’

New Interview by Greg Jones featured on our sister blog In The In-Between with photographer Aislinn Leggett.

Aislinn Leggett was born in Namur, Quebec, Canada. Working both with traditional photography and photo-composites, her work explores memory through objects and archives.

Her work is influenced by the history and stories of her family, the history of art but more specifically with the history of photography and how the medium is used today. With her work, she explores not only what or how we remember, but the myriad of ways in which remembering happens.

Aislinn has exhibited in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia. In 2011 she was published in Front Line: Interviews with International Contemporary Photo-based Artists by Beijing Modern Press. She has recently exhibited her new body work Enter The Great Wide Open at Gallery d’Este in Montreal, Les Rencontres internationales de la photographie en Gaspésie and recently at the Noorderlicht Fotofestival in the Netherlands. Aislinn currently lives and works in Montreal and is represented by Gallery d’Este.

Read more HERE

© In The In-Between | Aislinn Leggett

GLASGOW EFFECT

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BY HUMAN ENDEAVOR The term Glasgow Effect has often been cited in medical and academic texts to...

Tom Wood‘Men and Women’The Photographers’ Gallery,...

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Tom Wood
‘Men and Women’
The Photographers’ Gallery, London
12.10.2012 - 06.01.2012

The Photographers’ Gallery presents Men and Women the first major UK show of photographer Tom Wood. Since 1973 until the early 2000s, Irish born Wood has been continuously recording the everyday lives of the people of Liverpool and the Merseyside area. This exhibition will showcase over sixty previously unpublished portraits. It will also feature a selection of vintage prints and book dummies of his now out-of-print publications Looking for Love (1989), All Zones off Peak (1998) and Photieman (2005). Presenting an overview of Wood’s publishing output the show will provide new insights into his working methods and distinctive photographic style.

Editing from long-term and previously unseen bodies of work—such as the Football Grounds, Shipyard and Docks and Women’s Market—Tom Wood has re-evaluated these images through a creative collaboration with artist Padraig Timoney. Grouping the images in a non-chronological order under the headings Men and Women, the exhibition will showcase a curated selection of these photographs, soon to be published as two separate books by Steidl. The installation of the photographs will reflect the sequencing of the books mixing the different formats, styles and processes. This arrangement will highlight the formal correspondences and relationships between pictures as well as Wood’s prolonged involvement with his subject matter. His photographs include both candid and posed portraits of people alone or in groups. Images of strangers are interspersed with those of friends and family and are often made from repeated engagements with particular locales.

Trust and empathy are both key elements in Wood’s practice and his photographs are the result of considered observation, offering affirmative responses to moments from the lives of those he pictures. Exhibition highlights include Charlie and Alan (1977), a photograph depicting his father and cousin during a visit to their family home in Ireland; 20 and 13 (2008), a snapshot of his two sons; Not Miss New Brighton (1978/79) an image featuring two young women sitting on top of a red car posing for the camera; and Mrs Coulson (1973), one of the very first photographs taken by Wood picturing his landlady resting on the grass on a summer’s day.

Brett Rogers, Director, The Photographers’ Gallery said: The Photographers’ Gallery is proud to have the opportunity to introduce Tom Wood’s work to a wider audience.Having worked independently for nearly four decades documenting the lives of the inhabitants of the Liverpool and Merseyside area, Wood certainly deserves to be better known and recognised for his extraordinary contribution to British photography. His work is no ordinary form of documentation - through his prolonged engagement with his subjects, Wood transforms our relationship to them. This new exhibition Men and Women highlights his fine eye for composition and his instinctive feel for finding the grace and poetry inherent in his subjects’ lives.

Men and Women is a collaboration with the National Media Museum, Bradford. It is curated by Stefanie Braun, Senior Curator, The Photographers’ Gallery and Greg Hobson, Curator of Photographs at the National Media Museum.

Group showWALK#1Open exhibitions Ixelles, Brussel12.10.2012 -...

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Group show
WALK#1
Open exhibitions Ixelles, Brussel
12.10.2012 - 14.10.2012 

WALK#1 is the first edition of a photo festival focused on young Belgian photographers. This is a self-organised project by the photographers. It happens once a year for a 3 days week-end in all kind of places, artists ateliers, empty appartments, part of houses, empty shops. This is a walk-through event with an opening on the friday evening (18-21h). During the opening (friday 21:30) there will be a projection of other photographic works invited by the photographers with some live music, and a debate.

Featured photographers: Patrice BroquierAurore Dal MasDavid MarléSébastien Marcq,  Benoît ReynaertZoé Van der HaegenWilmes & Mascaux

ROBERT ADAMS

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ON ANY GIVEN DAY IN SPRING & LIGHT BALANCES Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Robert Adams:...

GROUP DEGREE SHOW UNIVERISTY OF WALES

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IN OUR NATURE Ffotogallery, Cardiff11.10.2012 - 14.10.2012 Once again, the Ffotogallery are hosting...

NADAV KANDER

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YANGTZE - THE LONG RIVERGalerie Edwynn Houk, Zurich01.11.2012 - 22.12.2012 Galerie Edwynn Houk is...

DANIEL KUKLAThe Edge Effect Photographer Daniel Kukla is an...

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DANIEL KUKLA
The Edge Effect


Photographer Daniel Kukla is an artist who finds great fascination in the concept of natural borders of land, set edge to edge, that compliment and conflict with each other at the same time. After receiving an artist residency from the U.S. National Park Service in southern California, He decided to capture this contrast in a project entitled The Edge Effect. This effect, defined as the juxtaposition of boundaries between different natural habitats such as a forest and an urban development, creates an interesting visual phenomenon.

During his time in California, he hiked around Joshua Tree National Park in order to capture this anomaly that he observed throughout the terrain. Using just a mirror and an easel, he set up compositions in which mirrored reflections were set amongst natural landscapes. The results are these stunning painterly squares, set side by side within a contrasting environment. He says, “Using a single visual plane, this series of images unifies the play of temporal phenomena, contrasts of colour and texture, and natural interactions of the environment itself.”

© Daniel Kukla

ZHANG KECHUN‘The Yellow River’CCAE - THERE THERE event , Cork...

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ZHANG KECHUN
‘The Yellow River’
CCAE - THERE THERE event , Cork City
20.10.2012 - 03.11.2012

The Yellow River Surging Northward Rumblingly Regarding it as a song, perhaps, has become a popular joke for a long time.

Regarding it as a mother, or a root, probably ends by banishing such memory or cutting off that relationship. We play and chase all day long in the powerful torrent of moderisation. Yet the winding river has possibly been put out of our minds. There is no more gaze on it with quiet and peace, even a second.

It is a river, with it’s unity of bend and straight, fullness and imperfection, rapid and slow, active or tranquil, majestic and elegant, simple and wonderful, bright and dark, light and colour, form and spirit, visionary and real. Moreover, it also embraces people’s reality and fate, joy and sorrow, firmness and leisure.

Then I determined to go and follow it’s pace, with all my courage and my only presentable equipment; the large format camera. That’s the connotation and solemnness I can give. I know that it is improper for a photographer to make comments on mountains and rivers. It is a kind of bad manner to growl and to make a bowl pledge or a complaint on it’s plentiful history and such a consistant exit. Now, it’s time for me to wake up my silent soul to quietly watch on it for thr season, stare at it through this journey, have a cup of wine with it and sing a song, and sleep beside it.

Who will keep watch on whom? Who will flow with whom? As being alive, we all go by with time. But we are still here, ad we may have a better consideration on the future after having a look at the past and present with heart. In such a noisy world, only a fresh and simple song might possibly match with it original noble colour, it’s past and present, and be well worthy of it’s drifting place to place…

© Zhang Kechun

STEIDL REPRINTS BOOKS BY JOEL STERNFELD

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Introducing the reprint of American Prospects and Stranger Passing by Joel Sternfeld. Joel Sternfeld...

BOOK REVIEW: 'BOTANICA' BY SANDER MEISNER

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BY STEVE BISSON I’ve been following for some years the work of the Dutch photographer Sander...

THE WRINKLES OF THE CITY In May 2012, JR collaborates with...

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Two Havana residents now grace an exterior corner of an old building


The process for pasting each of the works was time intensive and drew a crowd to observe the team's steady progress


An additional paste from 'The Wrinkles of the City' in Havana, Cuba


A work in progress

THE WRINKLES OF THE CITY

In May 2012, JR collaborates with Cuban-American artist José Parlá on the latest iteration of The Wrinkles of the City: a huge mural installation in Havana, undertaken for the Havana Biennale, for which JR and Parlá photographed and recorded 25 senior citizens who had lived through the Cuban revolution, creating portraits which Parlá, who is of Cuban descent, interlaced with palimpsestic calligraphic writings and paintings.

Parlá’s markings echo the distressed surfaces of the walls he inscribes, and offer commentary on the lives of Cuba’s elders; together, JR and Parlá’s murals marvelously animate a city whose walls are otherwise adorned only by images of its leaders. 

© JR | José Parlá - Wrinkles of the City project in Havana, Cuba


METADATA #14: NICOLE JEAN HILL

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BY GARY GREEN Nicole Jean Hill was born and raised in Toledo, Ohio. She received a BFA in...

WEEGEE

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THE NAKED CITY Moscow House of Photography10.10.2012 - 16.12.2012  Weegee, the moniker that made...

ANDY FREEBERGGuardians of Russian Art Museums In the art museums...

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Michelangelo’s Moses and the Dying Slave, Pushkin Museum


Kugach’s Before the Dance, State Tretyakov Gallery


Stroganov Palace, Russian State Museum


Statues of Antonius Pius, Youth and Caryatid, Hermitage Museum

ANDY FREEBERG
Guardians of Russian Art Museums

In the art museums of Russia, women sit in the galleries and guard the collections. When you look at the paintings and sculptures, the presence of the women becomes an inherent part of viewing the artwork itself. I found the guards as intriguing to observe as the pieces they watch over. In conversation they told me how much they like being among Russia’s great art. A woman in Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery Museum said she often returns there on her day off to sit in front of a painting that reminds her of her childhood home. Another guard travels three hours each day to work, since at home she would just sit on her porch and complain about her illnesses, “as old women do.” She would rather be at the museum enjoying the people watching, surrounded by the history of her country.

© Andy Freeberg

THE ALEXIA FOUNDATION GRANTS

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The Alexia Foundation promotes the power of photojournalism to give voice to social injustice, to...

THODORIS TZALAVRASNicosia in Dark and White Following the...

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THODORIS TZALAVRAS
Nicosia in Dark and White

Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 most of the buildings in Nicosia in the area around the so-called Green Line were abandoned. A lot of them stayed that way. Over the years I had visited the southern part of the island many times on vacation since my mother’s family is in Limassol. I never spent time in the capital of Nicosia though. That changed in 2002 when during my mandatory service in the Greek armed forces stationed on the island I got to spend significant time in and around the old city of Nicosia. Unlike the locals, who had grown accustomed to this haunting and intriguing scenery, I was unprepared, disturbed and inspired. The places that I present here made such a huge impression on me from the first time I came across them that I felt compelled to communicate this through my craft. All pictures were captured with the existing light entering those places, with a medium format camera on a tripod and long exposures. Thodoris Tzalavras was born in Athens, Greece in 1978. His photographs have been exhibited at Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Silver Eye Center for Photography, HOST gallery, and David Alan Harvey’s loft in New York as part of the Burn Gallery Show. This body of work is published in a monograph HERE

© Thodoris Tzalavras

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