Who Shot Rock & Roll is the first major exhibition on rock and roll to put photographers in the foreground, acknowledging their creative and collaborative role in the history of rock music. The exhibition includes 175 works by more than 100 photographers, [Read More]
Photography
At the End of the Earth continues Anne Noble’s fascination with the continent of Antarctica. White Lanterns showed at Stills Gallery in May 2006. This work depicted the surreal way the Antarctic was portrayed in museums and research centres around the world [Read More]
One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds (Aperture, August 2010), photographs by Dave Anderson, essay by Chris Rose, is a powerful portrait of post-Katrina New Orleans as seen through the prism of a single city block whose residents are attempting to rebuild [Read More]
Fascinating and historically important early photographs of the Japanese city of Yokohama in the 1860s by the renowned Italian/British father of photojournalism, Felice Beato, are to be offered at Bonhams India and Beyond sale in London on 5 October. The Beato images [Read More]
For more than 50 years, Theodore Nierenberg meticulously sculpted the splendid gardens of his New York estate. A rambling series of paths lead to intimate places and vantage points exposing vistas across an adjacent lake. A series of 56 photographs of these [Read More]
The Newseum marks the fifth anniversary of the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history with “Covering Katrina,” a new exhibit that chronicles the dramatic tale of the media’s reporting of the killer storm that struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005. Hurricane [Read More]
Khanom is a Farsi (Persian) word. It is commonly used and it applies to; Mrs., Miss, Ms, Wife, Lady, Woman, Mistress, Mother, Female and obedient. This exhibition touches down on identity crises for Iranian women due to socio/economical and political/cultural pressures. Who [Read More]
Goran Paskaljevic’s newest film, Honeymoons (2009), will have a weeklong run at the Museum of Modern Art, from September 9 through 15, 2010. Honeymoons, the first Albanian-Serbian film co-production, follows two couples, one in Albania, the other in Serbia, who decide to [Read More]
Artist/actor Leonard Nimoy exhibits his recent photographic series that explores the lost or hidden self, pen through Jan 2, 2011 at at MASS MoCA. Inspired by Aristophanes’ theory that humans were once double-sided creatures with two heads and multiple limbs before Zeus [Read More]
Aperture Foundationannounce Paul Strand in Mexico, an exhibition comprised of over a hundred photographic works by Strand, including vintage prints; stills from his classic film, Redes (The Wave; 1936); and previously unseen documents and ephemera related to Strand’s time in Mexico. The [Read More]
From October 30, 2010, through April 17, 2011, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present the U.S. debut of a major survey that examines photography’s role in invasive looking. Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870 is co-organized [Read More]
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) was the man who brought fashion photography to life. Instead of perpetuating static images of human mannequins posing stiffly in magazines, Avedon depicted his models as real women whose energy and exuberance complemented their modern lifestyles. Considered one of [Read More]
Bleicher/Golightly announces it’s debut photographic exhibit “(Vignettes)”, open August 12-26, a collection of innovative contemporary photographers whose works evoke narrative intrigue. The exhibit focuses on enigmatic figurative works that lead to internal narratives similar to those found in memory, daydream, nostalgia and [Read More]
WaterCan is bringing its development work in Africa to the doorsteps of Canadians through the powerful images of Peter Bregg, internationally renowned photographer. Water for Life: An African Photo Exhibit was launched at a private celebration hosted by The Honourable Peter Milliken, [Read More]