Ali and Elvis: Exhibition of American Icons at the James A. Michener Art Museum

DOYLESTOWN, PA.- Elvis is in the house and Ali is in the ring. Two of our nation’s most well-known icons—”the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll” and “the Greatest”—meet at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pa., February 19 through May 15. Ali and Elvis: American Icons, features two photography exhibitions: the Smithsonian’s Elvis at 21 and art2art’s Muhammad Ali: The Making of an Icon. Elvis at 21 is sponsored nationally by HISTORY™. Muhammad Ali, c. 1970, Gordon Parks, courtesy [...]

Pobeda Gallery Presents “Face to Face” the First Exhibition of Georgian Photography in Moscow

MOSCOW.- POBEDA Gallery presents a new project – “Face to Face” – the first exhibition of Georgian photography ever to take place in Moscow. It includes works of 6 authors: Guia Chkhatarashvili, Beso Uznadze, David Meskhi, Guram Tsibakhashvili, Irina Abzhandadze and Yuri Mechitov. Curator of the project Nestan Nizharadze was born and raised in Tbilisi. Educated as a journalist, Nestan curated numerous projects (such as Michael Kenna’s exhibitions in Tbilisi, georgian photography retrospective in Kiev, contemporary Georgian photography exhibition in [...]

Private Collectors Make Fantastic Donations of Photographic Art to Moderna Museet

NEW YORK, NY.- Several photographic works by Annika von Hausswolff, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe and other artists have been donated to Moderna Museet. These works will be shown in the museum’s new presentation of the collection – Another Story. Moderna Museet’s focus on photography in 2011 has been met with great enthusiasm even before it is in full swing. Several impressive private donations of works by key artists working in the photographic medium have further enhanced the museum’s collection. Since [...]

18 Photographic Prints by Alex Van Gelder of Louise Bourgeois’s Hands at Hauser & Wirth

ZURICH.- Gnarled, sinewy and wrinkled with age, Louise Bourgeois’s hands were fascinating. Her hands are the subjects of portraits taken by the artist Alex Van Gelder, who, at Bourgeois’s invitation, photographed her at her New York townhouse during the last year of her life. The resulting portfolio of eighteen photographic prints will be on display at Hauser & Wirth Zürich from 12 February. More than purely a portrait project, Bourgeois considered this collaboration to be an extension of her work. [...]

Thousands of Historical Mexican Photographs Now Part of an Electronic Catalogue

MEXICO CITY.- More than half of the 900,000 historical images safeguarded by the INAH National Photographic Library are available to general public worldwide thanks to a new electronic catalogue available on the Internet. Images from the most important Mexican photographic collections can be consulted and acquired without having to travel to the facilities at Pachuca, Hidalgo. After several months of hard work creating the catalogue cards, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) integrated the virtual catalogue available at http://fototeca.inah.gob.mx [...]

Charif Benhelima’s First Exhibition in Berlin Opens at Galerie Michael Janssen

BERLIN.- Galerie Michael Janssen presents for the first time Belgian photographer Charif Benhelima with the exhibition Harlem on my Mind: I was, I am. Long before Harlem became one of the trendiest neighborhoods in the real estate market of Manhattan, it was a metaphor for African American culture at its richest. Benhelima’s passion for Jazz as well as his desire to experience African American culture at its source prompted him to move to Harlem, where he lived and worked from [...]

Paul Wilcockson L.M.P.A

Having been involved in the world of art and design for over 35 years I have seen most of everything if not all of it, I have had numerous solo shows, taken part in countless collective exhibitions, and attended many other artists shows across the globe, each and every one of these had some kind of catalogue, most had promotional posters, and all had some kind of photographers in attendance. It was not until the 3rd of February at the “Casa de la [...]

Zeitgeist and Glamour: the Decades of the Jet Set at the NRW Forum in Dusseldorf

DUSSELDORF.- The Sixties. It is as if a new era has dawned, a ‘revolution of the young’ has begun: new faces, incredible music, unusual beauties, a change of fashion, style, and taste, another way of life. Everyone wants to be a part of it and everyone and everything is mingling together: la dolce vita and subculture, glamour and art and intellectual currents. The protagonists of money and power surround themselves with the protagonists of the arts: aristocracy, politics, business, painting, [...]

Posing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890s to the Present at Newark Museum

NEWARK, NY.- Posing Beauty: African-American Images from the 1890s to the Present, a photography exhibition that explores the ways in which African and African-American beauty has been represented in the media historically and in contemporary times, at the Newark Museum through April 28, 2011. Curated by Deborah Willis, Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University , Tisch School of the Arts, the exhibition explores contemporary notions of beauty, by framing them within the contexts of art, history, popular [...]

Dual Exhibitions Present Changes in Urban Life and Photography Over the Last 60 Years

STANFORD, CA.- The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University announces two concurrent exhibitions of photography. “In a New York Minute: Photographs by Helen Levitt” and “Paths through the Global City: Photographs by Leo Rubinfien” open February 2, and both continue through May 1, 2011. Admission is free. “These images by Levitt are icons of the spontaneity and eccentricity of the New York City streets. Rubinfien’s work reveals the poetry of urban life, especially the street,” said Hilarie Faberman, Ph.D., the [...]

Erin O’Connor Unveils New Rankin Photographs at National Portrait Gallery’s Fashion Friday Late Opening

LONDON.- On Friday 11 February, as part of the National Portrait Gallery’s programme of late openings, Late Shift, in partnership with FTI Consulting, All Walks Beyond the Catwalk will unveil the new Rankin portraits as part of their latest campaign to broaden the range of body and beauty ideals in our media. The images will be displayed as part of a tour running throughout the Gallery with each sitter wearing designs by British greats: Dame Vivienne Westwood, Stella McCartney and [...]

The British photographer Adam Fuss stated in the Fundación Mapfre his first retrospective in Spain

Madrid – The splash that produces a drop of water falling, the movements of snakes in a tissue or how it bends the stem of a sunflower, make up most of the striking images of Adam Fuss (London, 1961). Are fifty images that make up the first retrospective in Spain of this unique artist whose work can be seen in the Madrid headquarters of the Fundación Mapfre until 27 April. With nature as a pretext, Fuss talks about such essential [...]

Photographs of Native Americans by Herbert Ascherman at the Butler Institute of American Art

YOUNGSTOWN, OH.- Considered by many one of this nation’s foremost living portrait photographers, Herbert Ascherman has rejected modern photographic technology, returning to the the late 19th and early 20th century platinum printing process. This Cleveland, Ohio, artist utilizes an 8 x 10 inch format, cherrywood camera that he takes on location, including places like Dubai, France and India, to create his exquisite images. This exhibition features portraits of Native Americans primarily from the Three Affiliated Tribes, as well as numerous [...]

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 [...]

Mary McCartney Opens First Solo Show in Germany at Contributed, Studio for the Arts

BERLIN.- Mary McCartney (b 1969) started her career as a photographer in 1995. Her work is reflection not only of Marys personal world, but of the unique relationships she establishes with the people she photographs, like Kate Moss, Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tracey Emin, Stella McCartney or Paul McCartney. Her first book – From Where I Stand – combines those images with places and events as seen through Marys eyes: the intimacy of backstage preparations amoung the corps de ballet [...]