Photographs of Musicians by Laura Levine in Her First Exhibition at Steven Kasher Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Steven Kasher Gallery presents Laura Levine: Musicians, an insider’s look at the artists at the forefront of rock, punk, indie rock, post-punk, hip-hop, New Wave, and No Wave. This is the first one-person gallery exhibition featuring Levine’s photography, including her vintage gelatin silver prints – many one of a kind. The show features over 35 vintage and modern prints. Laura Levine: Musicians is being presented at Steven Kasher Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, [...]

Auction of Mike Mitchell’s Beatles Photographs He Took as a Teen Soars Over $300,000 at Christie’s

NEW YORK, NY (REUTERS).- A trove of unpublished photographs of The Beatles’ first U.S. concerts taken by a Washington teen-ager in 1964 took in more than $360,000 at auction, selling for many times their estimates. Forty-six lots of about 50 pristine black-and-white photographs of the Fab Four that had sat in a box for 45 years totaled $361,938, including commission at the sale Wednesday night, Christie’s said. The collection had been expected to fetch about $100,000. Bidders paid anywhere from $813 to $68,500 [...]

Brooklyn-Based Artist and Photographer Lorna Simpson Opens Solo Exhibition at Brooklyn Museum

BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Lorna Simpson: Gathered presents photographic and other works that explore the artist’s interest in the interplay between fact and fiction, identity, and history. On view through August 21, 2011 at the Brooklyn Museum. Through works that incorporate hundreds of original and found vintage photographs of African Americans that she collected from eBay and flea markets, Simpson undermines the assumption that archival materials are objective documents of history. Lorna Simpson (American, b. 1960). 1957–2009 Interiors (detail), 2009. Gelatin silver [...]

Nailya Alexander Gallery Presents The Extra/Ordinary World of Pentti Sammallahti

NEW YORK, NY.- Nailya Alexander Gallery presents The Extra/Ordinary World of Pentti Sammallahti, one of Finland’s most internationally prominent photographers. The exhibition will run through March 10, 2011. This show is in conjunction with Pentti Sammallahti’s retrospective at The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki (September 2010- February 2011). From early childhood Pentti Sammallahti (b. 1950) was drawn to photography. Growing up, he was surrounded by the works of his grandmother, Hildur Larsson (1882-1952), a Swedish-born photographer, who worked for [...]

Guggenheim Exhibition Explores Memory, Trauma and Return to the Past

NEW YORK, NY.- Much of contemporary photography and video seems haunted by the past, by the history of art, by apparitions that are reanimated in reproductive mediums, live performance, and the virtual world. By using dated, passé, or quasi-extinct stylistic devices, subject matter, and technologies, such art embodies a longing for an otherwise unrecuperable past. From March 26 to September 6, 2010, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, an exhibition that documents this obsession, examining myriad ways [...]

Raskols and Sing-Sing by Stephen Dupont at Jack Bell Gallery

LONDON.- Over the past six years, Stephen Dupont has traveled to Papua New Guinea, photographically documenting its changing face and the powerful impact of globalisation on the fabric of its traditional Melanesian society. From the recasting of tribal society into an urban proletariat and the effects of violence and lawlessness in Port Moresby to the westernization of traditional society in the Highlands, Raskols and Sing-Sing is an in-depth study of cultural erosion as well as a celebration of an ancient [...]

South American Nudes by Marcos Zimmermann at Couturier Gallery

LOS ANGELES, CA.- Couturier Gallery presents Marcos Zimmermann’s exhibition “South American Nudes” through April 17th, a selection of 30 gelatin silver prints from his recently published book Desnudos Sudamericanos (Ediciones Lariviere, Buenos Aires, 2009). One of Argentina’s premier photographers, Zimmerman’s new body of work, “Desnudos Sudamericanos,” is a series of nude portraits of men of South America revealed with surprising frankness and sensitivity. This series of male nudes is, for Zimmermann, another approach to viewing the “landscape” of his South [...]

Rubin Museum of Art to Show Exhibition of Tibetan Landscapes by Tom Wool

NEW YORK, NY.- In May 2001 photographer Tom Wool spent four weeks photographing life in the villages of Tibet ’s Rongbuk Valley , an expanse of rugged terrain which stretches roughly fifty miles from the base of Mount Everest on the north side. Home to some 3,000 Tibetans, this area is of distinct importance to the indigenous population for its sacred geography and religious history. Believed to be the place where earth touches the heav­ens, Mount Everest is called “Chomolungma” [...]