Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman has built one of the most influential bodies of work in contemporary art by photographing herself without ever making self-portraits. A student at Buffalo State College, she turned from painting to photography, and in 1977, newly settled in New…
In The Mental Image, Stephen Shore finally puts into words a tradition he has carried privately for forty years – that a photograph can hold the trace of a mind, not just a scene. L’article Stephen Shore: “The World Would Be a Better Place if Everyone Really Paid Attention” est apparu en premier…
Born in New York in 1947, Stephen Shore is one of the photographers who made color a serious medium in American art. He was 14 when Edward Steichen bought three of his prints for the Museum of Modern Art, and still a teenager when he photographed daily life at Andy Warhol’s Factory. In 1971, the…
From giant poodles to accidental spills, Kenya Sugai finds strange pleasures among the city’s shadows.
A tool for depicting the industries that shape contemporary life, photography is also enabled by a system of extraction that often goes unseen.
Marchers from the first demonstrations for homosexual rights, nurses of the AIDS years, performers of the night: across 250 portraits gathered at the National Portrait Gallery, Tim Walker ennobles the heralds of his community. L’article Tim Walker’s Queeristocracy Holds Court in London est apparu…
An off-site exhibition by the Institut pour la photographie in Lille, Bérangère Fromont’s “République” (Republic) explores daily life on a square known for its uprisings, somewhere between friendly encounters and gentle resistance. The article “République”: Everyday Revolts appeared first on…
For its eighth edition, the T3 festival slows the hurried heart of the Japanese capital and casts photography as a go-between linking worlds. On the city's walls, 18 artists unsettle borders, denounce them, or draw new ones to bring together what we tend to keep apart. An invitation to look beyond…
He hires extras, builds sets, and scans entire crowds through photogrammetry, and out of all of it raises the Gastown riot of 1971 or Penn Station, demolished in 1963. The Jeu de Paume brings together some forty of these documentary fictions in the largest exhibition devoted to the Canadian artist…
On her Instagram account, Zhenya posts collages imbued with a dark poetry. A collection of "visual residues" that evoke the mysteries of her inner world.
The Italian photographer spent years behind the cloister walls of the Teutonic Order, between a chronicle of daily life and a re-examination of his own Catholic upbringing.
Back in high school, I kinda sorta knew Christy Schnabel. She was a little younger than I was, and a lot cooler. I hadn’t thought about her for, like, decades until I somehow came upon her mesmerizing “On the Path” series that turns passersby on a Santa Monica, California, bike path into a beachy…
The Italian photographer set out for Yokohama on the trail of her forebear and of Felice Beato, a pioneer of 19th-century war photography. With a large-format camera, she takes up his protocol, the full-length pose, the tool of the trade, the plain backdrop, to assemble a gallery of present-day…
Before it was a book and an exhibition, House of Love was a house, on Canyon Drive in Beachwood Canyon, where photographer Shelby Duncan and her best friend Saraï Fiszel welcomed more than 500 artists under one roof between 2009 and 2015. People danced there. They fell in love there. They became…
Ansel Adams, from the first issue of Aperture magazine, April 1952
In Brooklyn, Picto New York presents "Yōkai and Landscapes," Yuji Watanabe's first solo exhibition in the United States. The Japanese photographer, who lives between Paris and Tokyo, sets creatures from Japanese folklore, shot on Polaroid, in dialogue with deserted landscapes captured across…
Artist Keisha Scarville has reworked a childhood passport photograph of her father more than 300 times. Her book Passports explores his past, the link between citizenship and identity, and the Black diaspora.
Raised by a successful model, the acclaimed portrait photographer has long understood the power of getting dressed.
For six years, the Dutch photographer shared the silence of the puesteros, aging herdsmen who have never owned an inch of the land they inhabit and watch over. Coirón, his first book, is published by GOST Books. L’article Pie Aerts in the Winter of Patagonia’s Last Gauchos est apparu en premier…
Shown in London for the first time, Sanlé Sory’s color work reveals a wonderful studio portraitist, long in the shadow of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé.
Bassist for Hole and later the Smashing Pumpkins, the Montreal-born musician brings more than two hundred photographs from the heart of the grunge years to Toronto. An intimate, searing archive of the last analogue decade. L’article Melissa Auf der Maur: A Bass and a Nikon est apparu en premier…
To inaugurate its new space on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière is showing James Barnor. The Ghanaian photographer, now 97, steps to the other side of the lens in a group of previously unseen prints drawn from his archive. L’article James Barnor, Born Lucky est…
At the Bourse de Commerce in Paris, the Pinault Collection puts photography center stage with "Remember Me," a choral exhibition where iconic artists meet visual experiments.
What if photography were rediscovering what painting has never stopped exploring: the slowness of looking? In an age of endless image streams, some photographers are drawing on pictorial logic to give their images time, texture and presence. In this long-standing dialogue between photography and…
Artist Yufan Lu visited over thirty cosmetic surgery clinics in China with her self-portrait, asking consultants to assess her face. Her book Make Me Beautiful uses photography and text to document those encounters.
A leading light of China’s new photography, Hailun Ma, whose work slips between personal projects and fashion commissions, brings her first major solo exhibition abroad to Foam in Amsterdam. The show, “Hometown,” carries us off to Xinjiang. L’article Hailun Ma Makes Ürümqi the New Brooklyn est…