World’s Leading Photography Award Launches Third Cycle at Les Rencontres d’Arles

ARLES.- The third cycle of the Prix Pictet launches at Les Rencontres d’Arles, the world’s foremost photography festival, on 8 July 2010. The new cycle will be announced at the Théâtre Antique, Arles, with a special presentation of work by the four Prix Pictet laureates to date. Benoit Aquin’s 2010 Haiti project is among the new work to be featured. The Prix Pictet, conceived and run by the Swiss private bank Pictet & Cie, is the first photography award to [...]

The Music Photography of James Hamilton Edited by Thurston Moore

NEW YORK, NY.- Newly established publisher/editor Thurston Moore (founding member of Sonic Youth) is ecstatic to present as lead title in his first fall season: a luxury format, hardcover volume of the sumptuous photography taken by his favorite American music photojournalist, James Hamilton, entitled: You Should Have Heard Just What I Seen (Ecstatic Peace Library; November 2010) James Hamilton’s portraits of music world luminaries, reveal a previously unearthed master photographer, with compelling and rarely seen images of visionaries and artists [...]

Roger Ballen’s Pictorial Scenes on View at Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels

BRUSSELS.- Roger Ballen’s work can be recognised at a glance. His singular universe, from a documentary style in the early days to more pictorial scenes, navigates between dream and reality. In the course of his career, he has built up a body of work which is amusing, enigmatic and disturbing in equal measure. The Centre for Fine Arts is devoting an extensive retrospective to this special photographer within the context of the biannual Summer of Photography and the Visionary Africa [...]

Positions of Nude Art Photography at Camera Work Gallery

BERLIN.- From July 3, 2010, until August 28, 2010 CAMERA WORK will present a group exhibition mainly curated from its own collection, displaying more than 40 photographers and their perspectives on mostly female nude art. Selected classics are supplemented with, in some cases, never before exhibited contemporary works of Blaise Reutersward, Nadav Kander, or Ralph Mecke. The kaleidoscopic exhibition stretches from classical, nearly sculptural studio-stagings, as in the works of Horst P. Horst, Frantisek Drtikol, or Rudolf Koppitz, to the [...]

Exhibition of Photographs by Bill Armstrong at Dolby Chadwick Gallery

SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery presents Renaissance, an exhibition of photography by Bill Armstrong on view from July 1 through August 28, 2010. Working mostly from reproductions of Renaissance drawings featuring the human figure in different states of movement and repose, Armstrong eliminates much of the original perspective by painting over figure and background with a striking set of colors. Enough shading is visible through the paint, however, to give the figures a subtle sense of modeling. By setting [...]

Contemporary Photography and Video Featured at New York Metropolitan Museum

NEW YORK, NY.- Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography will be explored in The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s forthcoming exhibition in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Museum’s collection, Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography on view July 2, 2010 through February 13, 2011, will feature 22 artists whose photographic works convey a sense of a rootless or unfixed existence. In the 1960s and 1970s, photography was often [...]

Retrospective of Photographer Tina Modotti at Kunst Haus Wien

VIENNA.- The photographer Tina Modotti, who was born in 1896 in Udine, Italy and died in 1942 in Mexico, was one of the most fascinating women of the 20th century. She became famous as a result of the photographs she created in Mexico in the 1920s and her involvement in the revolutionary movements of her time. The exhibition at KUNST HAUS WIEN offers an overview of significant areas of her photographic work, which has yet to receive the tribute it [...]

Richard Avedon Photos Headed to Paris Auction at Christie’s

NEW YORK (AP).- One of Richard Avedon’s most defining photographs is of a willowy model adorned in a Dior evening gown, a silk sash cascading down her slender leg, striking a dramatic pose against a row of circus elephants. It is signature Avedon. Dramatic but playful, an image shot on a hot summer day in 1955 at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris. An exhibition-size print of the famous picture, “Dovima with elephants,” will be sold this fall in Paris, together [...]

MIT Museum’s Polaroid Exhibit to Feature Exclusive Lady Gaga Polaroid Photograph

CAMBRIDGE, MA.- Polaroid today gathered at the MIT Museum to celebrate the brand’s rich 73-year history and bright future. Polaroid presented an exclusive photo of Lady Gaga, Polaroid’s Creative Director, to the MIT Museum that will become a part of the Polaroid artifacts at the museum, while naming Bobby Sager as Chairman of the Board for Polaroid. “The Polaroid artifacts are of major significance to the MIT Museum not only for its intrinsic technical and historical value, but because of [...]

Photographs of Female Bodybuilders by Martin Schoeller at Hasted Hunt Kraeutler

NEW YORK, NY.- Hasted Hunt Kraeutler presents an exhibition of photographs of female bodybuilders by Martin Schoeller. Schoeller’s best known works are close up portraits without the usual artifices or digital manipulations of media and fashion photography, previously exhibited at the gallery in 2006 (Close Up) and 2008 (New Work). These portraits are highly-detailed, colorful investigations of a face and the character that animates it. The subjects are celebrities and non-celebrities, including people who live outside of western culture, exhibited [...]

Exhibition of Photographs by Johnnie Shand Kydd Opens at the Estorick Collection

LONDON.- Johnnie Shand Kydd is an acclaimed documentary photographer perhaps best known for his portraits of artist friends such as Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst. In 2000 he embarked on a longterm project to capture the dramatic and chaotic world of Naples. Having never visited the city before, he soon developed a relationship with it that he described as ‘akin to a drug habit’, returning again and again over the next eight years. Naples is known as the ‘Siren City’ [...]

Pobeda Gallery Presents Work from the Last 10 Years of Alexandra Catiere’s Career

MOSCOW.- Alexandra Catiere was born in 1978 in Minsk, Belarus. She fell in love with photograhy while studying at Minsk state linguistic university. In 2003, under the influence of her art guru, famous soviet artist Yuriy Kuper, she moved to New York where she completed a certificate program at the International Center of Photography. After graduating from ICP, she worked for a year in the studio of an internationally renowned photographer Irving Penn. In 2005 Alexandra Catiere was included in [...]

Getty Museum Explores the Tradition of Socially Concerned Reportage

LOS ANGELES, CA.- In the decades following World War II, an independently minded and critically engaged form of photography began to gather momentum. Situated between journalism and art, its practitioners created extended photographic essays that delved deeply into topics of social concern and presented distinct personal visions of the world. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, June 29 – November 14, 2010, Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties looks in depth at projects by [...]

A Useful Dream: African Photography 1960-2010 at Centre for Fine Arts

BRUSSELS.- Forming part of the Summer of Photography 2010, the exhibition entitled A Useful Dream celebrates fifty years of African photography and the building of collective identities in post-colonial Africa . It gives a general picture of present-day photography in Africa . Up to the late 20th century, the West had a monopoly in Africa on the view and hence definition of the world. The images from the colonial period deliberately focused on reducing this other part of humanity, in [...]

Steve McCurry Launches New Exhibition at Birmingham Museum

BIRMINGHAM.- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery presents the first and only UK exhibition of critically acclaimed photojournalist Steve McCurry, in association with Magnum Photos. The exhibition includes over eighty striking images that span a remarkable twenty year career, including his world renowned portrait “Afghan Girl”. Steve McCurry is recognised as one of the world’s finest photographers and during his career he has covered many international and civil conflicts, particularly within the regions of Asia and the Middle East. McCurry made [...]