Brett Van Ort documents the legacy of land warfare on the social and natural landscape of Bosnia

NEW YORK, NY.- One of the most brutal legacies of modern warfare is the land mine. The Earth is littered with over 100 million of these weapons of destruction with most of them remaining active and potentially lethal long after the conflict is over. In Minescape (Daylight Books), photographer Brett Van Ort documents the legacy of land warfare on the social and natural landscape of Bosnia where the presence of land mines continues to render many portions of the country impassable seventeen years [...]

Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery presents new works by photographer Mark Arbeit

COLOGNE.- The artist returns to Kaune, Sudendorf after showing his last work in 2012, „Three Boys from Pasadena“, a cooperation with his long-time friends and colleagues George Holz and Just Loomis to which he contributed a collection of female acts in various Parisian artists’ studios. His series of meticulously designed Polaroid-montages, which he started in the early 1990s and continues to this day, is this time accompanied by as yet unpublished work: Life-size photograms, intricately created with female models during an ‚artist-in-residence‘ arrangement [...]

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center surveys four decades of Polaroid’s influence in fine art photography

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY.- To the public, it’s a reminder of a bygone era of instant color snapshots at millions of family gatherings. For historians, it’s an obvious precursor to today’s ubiquitous instant photos. But from the time Polaroid’s famed SX-70 camera was released in 1972, there were those who saw its ability to instantly produce color photos as an exciting new medium for fine art. From April 12 through June 30 the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center will present The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography [...]

Never-before-seen photographs of music and fashion legend Madonna on view at W New York

NEW YORK, NY.- Madonna – A Transformational Exhibition, the never-before-seen photographs of the music and fashion legend’s iconic 1980s street style shot by world renowned photographers, Richard Corman and George DuBose and curated by Rock Paper Photo, the ultimate online photography gallery founded by Madonna’s longtime manager, Guy Oseary, makes the next stop on its traveling, multi-media tour at W New York – Times Square. That evening Corman was on hand as two of his photographs were transformed live outside of [...]

Brown University’s Bell Gallery examines War in Iraq

PROVIDENCE, RI.- The David Winton Bell Gallery presents two solo exhibitions featuring responses to the aftermath and consequences of the wars in Iraq. The American premier of The Ashes Series by Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal and I am Sorry It is Difficult to Start by American artist Daniel Heyman both running until Sunday, May 26, 2013. In addition, a screening of the documentary film Ghosts of Abu Ghraib by Brown alumna Rory Kennedy will be held on Thursday, April 18, at 5:30 [...]

“Yang Fudong: Estranged Paradise, Works from 1993-2012″ opens at Kunsthalle Zurich

ZURICH.- Yang Fudong (born 1971 in Beijing, lives and works in Shanghai) is one of the most important figures of China’s contemporary art scene and independent cinema movement. His films and photographic work, often rooted in traditional Chinese painting, examine tensions between urban and rural, history and the present, worldliness and intellectualism. Their a-temporal and dreamlike quality, long and suspended sequences, dividing narratives, as well as multiple relationships and story lines reflect the conundrums of idealism and ideology of a new [...]

Iranian American artist Shirin Neshat mid-career retrospective opens at Detroit Institute of Arts

DETROIT, MICH.- The Detroit Institute of Arts presents Shirin Neshat, a mid-career retrospective of Iranian American artist Shirin Neshat, April 7–July 7. Neshat is known for her exceptional photography, films and video installations that deal with issues of gender, politics and identity. This exhibition is the first major showing of Neshat’s work in more than 10 years and is free with museum admission. Shirin Neshat is organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts. Generous support has been provided by the MetLife Foundation, [...]

World premiere of Thomas Ruff’s series photograms at David Zwirner in New York

NEW YORK, NY.- David Zwirner presents an exhibition of two bodies of works by Thomas Ruff, including the world premiere of the series photograms. On view in the gallery’s 525 and 533 West 19th Street spaces in New York, this is the photographer’s seventh solo show since he joined David Zwirner in 2000. Working in distinct series since the late 1970s, Ruff has approached different genres of photography, including portraiture, architecture, astronomy, the nude, surveillance imagery, and reportage. Using a wide range [...]

Sotheby’s Spring Sale of Photographs offers a variety of exceptional works from the 19th to the 21st centuries

NEW YORK, NY.- Sotheby’s spring Photographs auction on 6 April in New York will offer a variety of exceptional works from the 19th to the 21st centuries. Of special note are masterpieces of 20th-century photography by Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, Robert Frank, Ansel Adams, Irving Penn and Alfred Stieglitz, among many others. The sale is currently on view in their New York galleries, alongside the 5 April single-owner sale of The Modern Image: Photographs from an Important American Collection. Originally in the [...]

Exhibition of works by acclaimed photographer turns lens on early supercomputers

STANFORD, CA.- Images by one of the nation’s most influential photographers bear witness to the supercomputer industry in “Lee Friedlander: The Cray Photographs.” The series, rarely seen in its entirety, includes 79 works by an artist lauded for his straight-forward documentation of ordinary things. The exhibition opened at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University on March 27 and continues on view through June 16. In 1986 Cray Research, Inc., then the world’s top supercomputer producer, invited American photographer Lee Friedlander (born 1934) [...]

Landmark exhibition considers evolving role of photography during American Civil War

NEW YORK, NY.- More than 200 of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for the landmark exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, opening April 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through examples drawn from the Metropolitan’s celebrated holdings of this material, complemented by exceptional loans from public and private collections, the exhibition will examine the evolving role of the camera during the nation’s bloodiest war. The “War between the States” was [...]

Off Beat: Exhibition of photographs by A-CHAN opens at Steven Kasher Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery presents two exhibitions by A-CHAN. The first, titled Off Beat, runs from March 28th through May 4th. The show is comprised of twenty black and white photographs made in New York between 2008 and 2009 and is drawn from the publication A-CHAN, Off Beat (Steidl, 2012). The second exhibition, Vibrant Home, opens May 8th and runs through June 8th. This exhibition will feature color photographs taken in Tokyo, 2000-04, in Fujishiro, 2004-06 and in New York [...]

Survey of five-decade career of photographer Steve Schapiro on view at Kunsthalle Rostock

ROSTOCK.- Steve Schapiro is the photographer behind countless now-classic portraits of rock stars, film stars and politicians from the 1960s and 70s. He is also an accomplished documentary photographer who recorded many of the greatest political and social upheavals of our times. While working as a ‘special photographer’ for the film studios, he designed several iconic film posters, most notably for Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver and The Godfather Part III. His extraordinary access has been the hallmark of an illustrious career. [...]

Christie’s launches spring photographs sales with the landmark sale of Modernist masterworks

On April 4, 2013, Christie’s will commence its spring Photographs sales in New York with the deLIGHTed eye: Modernist Masterworks from a Private Collection. This extraordinary collection of 70 vintage prints executed mainly between 1900 and 1925 was formed by a private collector based in South America with his advisor, Jill Rose, who later became Vice President of the International Center of Photography. In building the collection, it was their intent to focus on photographers who had been keenly influenced by the [...]

Exhibition of portrait photography from South Beach in the 80s opens at Howard Greenberg Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Miami’s South Beach, before it became an international scene, is the focus of an exhibition of portrait photography by Gay Block, on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery from March 29 through April 27, 2013. LOVE: South Beach in the 80s depicts a time when Jewish retirees led simple lives in affordable Art Deco buildings. The exhibition is being held in HGG Two, located next to the main gallery at 41 East 57th Street in New York City. From 1982-1985, Block [...]