A Memphis native, Eggleston developed his distinct oeuvre from the immediate world around him, incorporating all shades of life into his vivid photographs, and pioneering an approach that derives its power from a refined form of spontaneous observation. A modern-day flâneur, he captures compelling fragments, events, and personalities of the ordinary world. Eggleston is largely […]
The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Hiroshi Sugimoto: Past Tense in an exhibition on view February 4-June 8, 2014. Since the mid-1970s, Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, born 1948) has used photography to investigate how history pervades the present. Featuring photographs of habitat dioramas, wax portraits, and early photographic negatives. The exhibition brings together three separate bodies […]
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne presents Melbourne Now an exhibition on view through 23 March 2014. Melbourne Now celebrates the latest art, architecture, design, performance and cultural practice to reflect the complex creative landscape of Melbourne. Melbourne Now—the National Gallery of Victoria’s most ambitious exhibition to date—explores the idea that a city is significantly […]
Camera Work in Berlin presents Philipp Keel exhibition showing an exclusive selection of the artist’s photographic work and invites the recipient to discover his fascinating Oeuvre, which combines conceptual and abstract photo art. More than 100 million pictures are uploaded each day on Facebook worldwide, the number of pictures taken in Germany sums up to […]
FotoFest announces the names of the 48 leading contemporary Arab artists featured in the principal exhibitions of their 2014 biennial—VIEW FROM INSIDE. The fifteenth edition of the international biennial in Houston, Texas takes place March 15 to April 27, 2014. These presentations of contemporary photo and media-related art from the Middle East and North Africa […]
The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) has received a gift of 69 photographs from Maine philanthropists Owen and Anna Wells. The collection consists of photographs by well-known 20th-century artists, many with ties to Maine. Forty-five of these photographs will be on view in the exhibition American Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Owen and Anna […]
The Fine Art Society Contemporary presents Australia: Contemporary Voices on view through21 DECEMBER 2013 a group exhibition of twenty young to mid-career artists from Australia, curated by Guest Curator Geoffrey Cassidy. Australian art is often associated with the landscape, a looming and defining presence in the Australian psyche. The works presented in Australia: Contemporary Voices […]
The National Gallery of Canada presents Robert Burley: The Disappearance of Darkness an exhibition on view through January 5, 2014. The exhibition examines both the dramatic and historical demise of film-manufacturing facilities and industrial darkrooms. The photographs taken between 2005 and 2010 speak to sites and events related to the key corporations (Kodak, Agfa, llford). […]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents David Hockney: Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, 2011 on view through January 20, 2014. David Hockney: Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos, 2011 introduces to American audiences Seven Yorkshire Landscape Videos (2011, total duration of 12 minutes, nine seconds) in LACMA’s Resnick Pavilion. In this new film, Hockney employs 18 […]
The National Gallery of Canada presents Michel Campeau: Icons of Obsolescence an exhibition on view through 05 Jan 2014. In this exhibition, Campeau—poet, archeologist, and photo-documenter—presents the quickly disappearing world of analog photography through its obsolescent remains: darkrooms and their paraphernalia, film cameras, and photography manuals. The stunning photographs reveal spaces and objects transformed by […]
FLAG Art Foundation presents Images of Venus from Wayne Lawrence’s Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera an exhibition on view now through DECEMBER 14, 2013. The Orchard Beach series resonates with Awol’s approach to portraiture. When discussing Wayne’s work, Awol notes it quotes both photography and painting and that it both engages and leaves the spectator […]
The Canadian Cultural Centre presents Stan Douglas: Abandonment and Splendour an exhibition on view through January 17, 2014. A retrospective look at the photographic work produced by Stan Douglas in the last decade of the twentieth century, Abandonment and Splendour explores the ruins of certain great Western utopias in their paradoxical beauty. The exhibition focused […]
