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Book Review: Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the 80s by Joseph Rodriguez
When Brooklyn-raised photographer Joseph Rodriguez first debuted his body of work shot in Spanish Harlem in the 1980s, it changed the face of documentary photography. Grit, elegy, celebration, pride, lurking cataclysm—all embedded in the portrait of a place and the people. Now, three decades later, Rodriguez and powerHouse Books are revisiting that groundbreaking series: unearthing
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Location: Online Type: Book Review
Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira @ Jerwood Space, London
Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Sam Laughlin and Lua Ribeira 17 January – 11 March 2018 The exhibition explores themes of such as death, belonging and the fragility of the natural world. Jerwood Space 171 Union Street, London SE1 0LN
Location: England, London, United Kingdom Type: Exhibition
The Douglas Brothers @ Kopeikin Gallery
The Douglas Brothers: SEE / SAW January 13th – February 17th, 2017 Opening Reception Saturday, January 13th from 6-8pm “The brothers combine a 19th century Pictorialist tradition with a contemporary sensibility. They relax focus and court movement, marginalizing light and celebrating shadow. Darkness illuminates their subjects. They began testing nuances of alternative chemistry and later,
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Location: California, Los Angeles, United States Type: Exhibition
Chen Man @ Fotografiska
Chen Man: Fearless & Fabulous 9 December – 4 March 2018 “Chen Man is undoubtedly the pioneer of China’s fashion photographer. Throughout the years, Chen Man has firmly established herself as the most sought-after and certainly the highest paid fashion and portrait photographer in China. Her works have featured across a range of leading publications,
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden Type: Exhibition
Book Review: You An Orchestra You A Bomb by Cig Harvey
Cig Harvey’s third monograph is a vibrant and bold book, capturing moments of awe, icons of the everyday, and life on the threshold between magic and disaster. The breathless moments of beauty in her images propel us to fathom the sacred in the split-seconds of everyday. A raw awareness of fragility permeates this work. I
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Location: Online Type: Book Review
Maggie Meiners @ The Union League Club of Chicago
Maggie Meiners: Revisiting Rockwell Opening Reception: December 7 | 5:30 – 7 PM “In Revisiting Rockwell, Meiners attempts to contemporize Norman Rockwell’s original works by weaving into each photograph the social issues and elements more suggestive of today. She is examining whether the nostalgia of Rockwelll’s work translates into our rapidly changing lifestyles and his
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Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Type: Exhibition
Svetlana Bailey @ Filter Space
Svetlana Bailey: once there was there wasn’t December 1 – 30 “Until the age of eight, Svetlana Bailey’s childhood summers were spent at her grandmother’s house in the Russian countryside. It was an influential period in which she discovered the world on her own and her earliest memories were formed. Sixteen years ago her grandmother
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Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States Type: Exhibition
PAUL RAPHAELSON @ FRONT ROOM GALLERY
PAUL RAPHAELSON: SWEET RUIN DECEMBER 8, 2017 – JANUARY 14, 2018 OPENING RECEPTION WTIH THE ARTIST: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 7-9PM “Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Refinery, once the largest in the world, shut down in 2004 after a long struggle. Most New Yorkers know this 135-year-old industrial relic only as an icon on the skyline, multiplied on
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Location: New York, New York City, United States Type: Exhibition
Conflitos: fotografia e violência política no Brasil 1889-1964 @ Instituto Moreira Salles
Conflitos: fotografia e violência política no Brasil 1889-1964 November 26, 2017 to February 25, 2018 “Conflitos contradicts the image of Brazil as a pacific country and offers a retrospective outlook on the history of the country, bringing up fundamental points for understanding the present political crisis. Some of the episodes covered are the Federalist Revolution
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Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro Type: Exhibition
Jannica Honey @ Arusha Gallery
Jannica Honey: When The Blackbird Sings 2 – 25 March 2018 “The compelling works depict naked women of all ages as well as poetic shots of flowers in water. The subjects are family, friends and acquaintances of the artist, always posing outdoors and at twilight. Honey shot the fascinating images over the course of a
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Location: Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Type: Exhibition
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