Color Photographs Since 1970 by Joel Sternfeld at Museum Folkwang in Essen

ESSEN.- The Museum Folkwang, Essen/Germany, is dedicating a first European retrospective to the American photographer Joel Sternfeld (*1944, New York) from 16 July 2011, with around 130 works from over three decades. Entitled Joel Sternfeld – Color Photographs since 1970 eleven projects in total are being shown. One emphasis comes with 60 photographs from his never before published early work, which extends from 1969 to the late 1970s. Sternfeld’s gaze has always been directed at his home country of America, with [...]

Museum of Contemporary Art Presents Its 100th Artist for December: Jessica Labatt

CHICAGO, IL.- Jessica Labatte, the 100th artist to participate in the UBS 12 x 12 series, explores the color and shape of everyday objects and materials to create an installation that combines the traditions of collage and still life with the illusionistic tendencies of photography. Labatte’s exhibition opened on the evening of December 3 during First Fridays as the monthly UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, and runs through January 2, [...]

Destroy this Memory: Photographs by Richard Misrach

NEW YORK, NY.- The photographs in Richard Misrach’s Destroy This Memory (Aperture, August, 2010) are an affecting reminder of the physical and psychological impact of Hurricane Katrina as told by those on the ground, and seen through the lens of a contemporary master. Rather than simply surveying the damage, Misrach—who has photographed the region regularly since the 1970s, most notably for his ongoing Cancer Alley project—found himself drawn to the hurricane-inspired graffiti: messages scrawled in spray paint, crayons, chalk, or [...]

Sally Mann Exhibits in a Swiss Museum for the First Time

LAUSANNE.- For the first time in Switzerland, a museum exhibition is devoted to the exceptional oeuvre of Sally Mann. Over the past fifteen years this body of work has earned Mann a deservedly international reputation. Since the 1970’s this American photographer (b. Lexington, Virginia in 1951) has been dealing with the troubling themes of intimacy and the inexorable passage of time. Sally Mann’s work is centered on portraits of her children, as she observed them closely and with great honesty [...]