Artistic positions from five decades of photogaphy on view at Fotomuseum Winterthur

ZURICH.- Growing up is a time of self-searching. Who am I and who do I want to be? It is a time of trying to ground oneself in the world and build a relationship with one’s own persona. Each individual must perso­nally undergo the experience of transition from a protected childhood into a social system of relation­ships and responsibility, finding one’s role in group dynamics, identifying, and testing possibilities and boundaries. Artistic photography has repeatedly examined this phase of life, from [...]

First extensive overview of 17 years of fashion photography by Viviane Sassen on view at Huis Marseille

AMSTERDAM.- In the Netherlands and abroad Viviane Sassen is known foremost as an artist, whose somewhat surreal, colourful photographs of Africa won her the Prix de Rome in 2007. Alongside her autonomous work, however, she has long worked as a fashion photographer. Her fashion work is held in high regard, and she has carved out her own unmistakable style. Huis Marseille is exhibiting a retrospective of her fashion oeuvre over the last 17 years. The retrospective shows images built up like a painting [...]

Cindy Sherman at the Walker Art Center is a comprehensive survey of the acclaimed artist’s many guises

MINNEAPOLIS, MN.- Throughout her career, American artist Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) has used photography to present a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation. Through February 17, 2013 the Walker Art Center is presenting Cindy Sherman, a comprehensive survey tracing the groundbreaking American artist’s career from the mid-1970s to the present. The exhibition, organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, brings together more than 160 key photographs from the artist’s acclaimed bodies [...]

Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the permanent collection opens

PHILADELPHIA, PA.- This exhibition presents a survey of photographs from the permanent collection and includes an important group of works by Dorothy Norman and her mentor Alfred Stieglitz, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century American art. There are also early masterworks by Gustave Le Gray, whose images of light and motion inspired the Impressionists; Edward Weston; Julia Margaret Cameron; and Charles Aubry. These striking images are complemented by an array of modern and contemporary works that trace the medium’s history [...]

Exhibition at La Malmaison Arts Centre in Cannes presents works by French photographer André Villers

CANNES.- « Your disregard of established values removes us from these cultural peons »…The note sent to André Villers by Robert Doisneau thirty years ago echoes the very sentiments of the photographer in his autobiography. A reading of the excerpts presented here is a testament – in the image of the man himself – to a simple and candid language, on occasion radical and not devoid of irony, which is quite clearly leagues removed from the convoluted gibberish typically spawned by [...]

Marilyn Monroe subway grate photo by Sam Shaw on view at 42nd Street in New York City

NEW YORK (AP).- A famous image of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt billowing atop a New York City subway grate is on display in a picture-perfect spot: outside the Times Square subway station. The supersized version of Sam Shaw’s well-known picture is part of an exhibit. The exhibit also features eight of Shaw’s other Monroe pictures, on view inside the 42nd Street-Bryant Park station on the B, D, F, M and 7 lines. The show opened Thursday. It’ll be up for [...]

The Playmate as fine art: Seven contemporary artists interpret Playboy’s iconic centerfold

NEW YORK, NY.- For more than half a century, Playboy has explored the female body as a work of art. The January/February 2013 issue of Playboy reveals how the magazine’s pictorials have influenced artists (issue on newsstands and i.Playboy.com Tuesday, December 18). The Playmate as Fine Art features compelling pieces from today’s leading contemporary artists interpreting the Centerfold on their own terms. No conditions were set, nor specific Playmates mandated. Cindy Sherman is counted among the most influential artists of the [...]

Vancouver Art Gallery announces major donation of photographs by Robert Frank and Charles Gagnon

VANCOUVER, BC.- Robert Frank’s historic photograph Parade, Hoboken , New Jersey (1955) is part of a major group of artworks donated recently to the Vancouver Art Gallery . Other new acquisitions include more than one hundred photographs by Canadian artist Charles Gagnon, a significant collection of works by Myfanwy Macleod, and a number of other art works. Vancouver art patrons Andrew Gruft and Claudia Beck donated the famed Frank photograph, along with photographs by artists Greg Girard, Rodney Graham, Erich Salomon, and Aaron [...]

BJ and Richeille Formento present photographs as part of a group exhibition at Edelman Arts

NEW YORK, NY.- In November 2009, like adventurers from American mythology, New York based photography team BJ and Richeille Formento lit out for the territory. Hauling the silver Airstream trailer which would serve as living quarters, make up room and wardrobe for the next five months, they embarked on an epic road trip which would take them across 25 states as they recreated their singular interpretation of a great nation and its people sliding toward recession. The results of this epic [...]

Bryan Adams ‘Exposed’ embarks on tour, Goss-Michael Foundation in Dallas is first stop

DALLAS, TX.- For the past 12 years, musician Bryan Adams has sharpened his skills as a professional photographer by capturing intimate images of friends and colleagues in the entertainment, fashion and art industries. In October, Adams released a comprehensive retrospective of his photographic work in a book titled, “Exposed.” Beginning in December, 46 select images from the book will be on public display in the U.S. as part of a 3-city tour of art galleries in Dallas, Oklahoma City and Marfa, [...]

Second part of the full survey of Joel Meyerowitz’s career opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Howard Greenberg Gallery has announced its worldwide representation of Joel Meyerowitz, whose first solo show with the gallery, 50 Years of Photographs, is a full survey of the artist’s career in two parts: November 2–December 1, 2012, and December 7, 2012–January 5, 2013. One of the foremost photographers working today, Joel Meyerowitz is renowned for his crucial role in the establishment of color photography as a fine art. His work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and [...]

Buhl Collection brings $12.3M – Highest ever total for a private collection of photos sold at auction

NEW YORK, NY.- Yesterday at Sotheby’s, the sale A Show Of Hands: Photographs from The Collection of Henry Buhl concluded, bringing a total of $12,318,704, exceeding the pre-sale estimate of $8.1/12.2 million*. The total is the third highest for a single-owner collection of photographs and the highest ever for a private collection of photographs. Following today’s result, all of the seven highest single-owner auctions in this category have been held at Sotheby’s. These include Important Photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [...]

“Cindy Sherman: The Early Works 1975-1977″ opens at Centre de la photographie Genève

GENEVA.- Cindy Sherman began studying painting in 1972, at the age of eighteen, at the State University of New York, Buffalo. In 1975, she changed her major from painting to photography. She graduated in 1976 and left Buffalo the following year to move to New York City. Contrary to previous assumption, the famous Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980) were not Sherman’s first works. In fact, during the time from 1975 to 1977 in Buffalo, she produced an extensive body of early work [...]

Liz Deschenes’s photographic works on view in new exhibition at Vienna’s Secession

VIENNA.- Liz Deschenes’s photographic oeuvre deals with the conditions of photography and its components, with perception and the correlation to other artistic media, and with the architecture within which her works are shown. Her works allow a self-referential look at the medium, liberated of its functions, taking its own conditions as its theme. For some years now, Deschenes has been working almost exclusively with photograms – pictures created without a camera, using a technique as old as photography itself. Traditionally, it [...]

A Show Of Hands: Sotheby’s announces sale of photographs from The Collection of Henry Buhl

NEW YORK, NY.- On 12 & 13 December 2012 Sotheby’s will present one of the world’s most significant privately owned photograph collections with the auction A Show Of Hands: Photographs From The Collection of Henry Buhl. The single owner sale explores the theme of the human hand, encompassing works from the art form’s early 19th century pioneers to the masters of 20th century photography and beyond. It was assembled over a period of 20 years by the visionary philanthropist and collector Henry M. [...]