Baltic Center for Contemporary Art Announces Partnership with Sky Arts

GATESHEAD.- Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art announced a new media partnership with international satellite broadcaster BSkyB’s arts channel Sky Arts. The joint venture began in October 09, centers on Baltic’s autumn season and culminates in a documentary Sky Arts at Baltic to be broadcast in December across the Sky Arts television channels and website. The program features interviews from internationally recognized Magnum photographer Martin Parr and cultural icon Malcolm McLaren, both of whom are currently exhibiting at Baltic. In addition [...]

Valencian Institute of Modern Art shows José Cendón’s Photos of War & Trauma

VALENCIA, SPAIN – José Cendón’s photographic exhibition “Fear in the Great Lakes” emerges from the collaboration between the Fundación por la Justicia and the IVAM. It gathers photographs that show the work of this Galician photographer in psychiatric hospitals in the African Great Lakes region. José Cendón tries to show to society the consequences of war in civil population by means of these photographies. He obtained the World Press Photo 2007 Award (category of Contemporary Issues) and the Pictures of [...]

First Major Survey of the Work of American Artist Zoe Leonard at MUMOK

VIENNA.- “Photographs” is the first major survey of the work of American artist Zoe Leonard. In addition to early works from the 1980s and 1990s, the MUMOK exhibition will include “Analogue”, a series of 412 photographs produced between 1998 and 2009 in which Leonard investigates the changes in the urban landscape and economy resulting from a rapidly advancing globalization. Born in 1961 in Liberty, New York, Leonard is counted among the most outstanding figures in the art world today; in [...]

Van Ham to Auction Numerous Works by Established Photographers

COLOGNE.- On the occasion of the anniversary sale, VAN HAM presents numerous works of established photographers such as Werner Mantz, Albert Renger-Patzsch and August Sander as well as interesting contemporary photo art, such as Beate Gütschow with a fascinating nature depiction, Petra Wunderlich with an urban motif and furthermore Gudrun Kemsa and Thomas Struth. Beate Gütschow’s landscapes impressively spread out in front of the beholder, though the title “LS#4″ gives no idea about that. This work from 1999, published in [...]

Canadian Photographer Edward Burtynsky Presents “Oil” at Huis Marseille

AMSTERDAM.- With his exhibition and publication on oil, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky has produced a masterpiece. On the basis of monumental and highly detailed color photographs about oil, its extraction and consumption, which Burtynsky has been making since 1997, he reveals the connection between our use of oil and the effect this has on the landscape. Within this context the relationship between the culture of oil consumption and the immense infrastructure that it requires is also firmly established. Ultimately Burtynsky’s [...]

Koudelka’s Legendary Photographs of the Prague Invasion to be Shown in Miami

MIAMI, FL.- The Freedom Tower at Miami Dade College in Miami, Florida is the third stop on the tour for “Invasion 68: Prague”, an exhibition and accompanying book presenting legendary Magnum photographer Josef Koudelka’s remarkable work documenting the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague. The show in Miami follows a successful kick off at Aperture Gallery in New York in the fall of 2008, followed by stops at the American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, in Washington, D.C., and Centro Cultural [...]

Photographer Michel Demanche Wins Holgapalooza National Competition

BROOKLYN, NY.- Causey Contemporary photographer, Michel Demanche has won first place in the special categories for the 2009 Holgapalooza National Photographic Competition, sponsored by LightLeaks Magazine. Out of 2500 entries, her entry, “Finding Santa” was selected as the the Holgablog award for the strangest, most bizarre and downright WTF photograph. The image will be printed in issue 16 of Ligh Leaks, Low Fidelity Photography available at lomography stores worldwide and at lightleaks.org. Michel says of her winning photography, “this image [...]

Christie’s December Photographs Sale Offers Exceptional Array of Works

NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of Photographs on December 7, which will conclude the Fall 2009 season for the category. With viewings open to the public from December 3-6, the sale presents a distinct array of themes varying from the examination of the human form, the western frontier, to decadent and glamorous fashion photography. The 190 lots included in the sale are expected to realize in the region of $950,000-$1.4 million. Important highlights from the sale include a [...]

Karijn Kakebeeke Named Winner of the 2009 BMW Paris Photo Prize

PARIS.- Karijn Kakebeeke was named winner of the 2009 BMW – Paris Photo Prize for contemporary photography at the opening of Paris Photo, receiving the 12 000 Euros (US $ 15, 000) Prize. Karijn Kakabeeke, represented by The Empty Quarter Gallery from Dubai, is the sixth winner of this major international award. Born in 1974, the Dutch photographer is pursuing her continuing interest in social issues through her photojournalistic, essayistic images. In this context, she captures pictures that stand as [...]

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke Presents “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids”

DURHAM, NC.- “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids,” an exhibition of rare photographs, many depicting celebrities, will open at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke on Thursday, Nov. 12. The exhibition includes about 250 Polaroids and 75 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987. The exhibition includes Warhol’s Polaroids of such famous subjects as artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, writer Truman Capote, skater Dorothy Hamill, fashion icon Bianca Jagger, artist Grace Jones, golfer Jack Nicklaus and musician Rick [...]