Basé à Minneapolis, Alec Soth a reçu une bourse du McKnight and Jerome Foundations. Il a obtenu en 2003 le Santa Fe Prize for Photography.
Actualité Postcards from America ; suivez le road-trip américain de 5 photographes de l'agence Magnum Livre Alec Soth Songbook Livre « Ping pong conversations » of Alec Soth at Contrasto Livre MAGNUM MAGNUM, les photographes de l'agence se commentent en duos Livre Tell Mum Everything is Ok N°5 : les promesses tenues de la photographie contemporaine Livre Alec Soth The Last Days of W. Livre Un Printemps Georgien - Magnum Photos Livre Alec Soth Les Grands Photographes de MAGNUM Photos Livre Photo Art - Photography in the 21st century (Collectif) Livre Suburban World - The Norling Photographs Livre Alec Soth - Niagara Livre Fashion Magazine by Alec Soth Livre Alec Soth - Dog Days Bogota Conférence Visite commentée de l'exposition "L'espace entre nous" par Alec Soth Festival Photo London 2016 Festival La quatrième édition des Nuits Photographiques au Pavillon Carré de Baudouin Festival AIPAD 2011 - New York Festival Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival, Toronto Exposition Exhibition : « Primary Exhibition at Ryerson Image Centre » Exposition Exhibition : « Gathered Leaves » by Alec Soth Exposition Look3, Charlotteville Festival of the Photograph Exposition Exhibition : « Leaves Of Light And Shadow » by William T. Hillman Exposition Exposition: SONGBOOK by ALEC SOTH Exposition Alec soth: until now Exposition About Face Exposition Giorgio Armani, partenaire officiel de Paris photo, présente l'exposition Acqua#2 au Grand Palais à Paris Exposition La maison Christie's propose aux enchères 55 photographies provenant de la collection de Bruce and Nancy Berman Exposition The world is in London Exposition Nuits Photographiques des Rencontres d'Arles 2012 Exposition American Photography From Berenice Abbott to Alec Soth - Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß Exposition Strange & Familiar: Three Views of Brighton Exposition From Here to There: Alec Soth's America at Walker Art Center Exposition Lyon Septembre de la photographie 2010 : US TODAY AFTER... Exposition Le Printemps Géorgien Exposition Oeuvres choisies - Magnum Gallery Exposition Marks of Honour A Striking Library Exposition The evolution of documentary photography Exposition Selected photograhs - From Brassaï to Cindy Sherman Exposition ALEC SOTH - The Space Between Us Exposition Alec Soth - l'espace entre nous Exposition Magnum Photos 60 years at the Stedelijk Museum Exposition Alec Soth - Niagara Modifier l'image
Postcards from America. Dans ce premier voyage autour des Etats-Unis, cinq photographes de Magnum et un écrivain voyageront de San Antonio à Oakland du 12 au 26 mai 2011.
Suivez Paolo Pellegrin, Jim Goldberg, Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth, Mikhael Subotzky et Ginger Strand dans cette expérience documentaire unique, qui rappelle Stephen Shore et son American Surfaces. Pendant toute la durée du voyage, Les photographes animent un blog collectif et l'alimentent en photos, textes et vidéos. Des publications et des tirages limités seront ensuite produits à partir des images du road-trip.
Consultez le blog de l'expérience Postcards from America : http://postcardsfromamerica.tumblr.com/ et son site : http://postcards.magnumphotos.com/
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The International Center of Photography (ICP) is proud to announce the recipients of the 27th Annual Infinity Awards. Recognized around the world, the awards are widely respected as the leading honor for excellence in the field of photography. «Infinity Award recipients are dedicated to exploring photography’s cultural influence and how it opens new opportunities for communication and personal expression,” states ICP Ehrenkranz Director Willis E. Hartshorn. “This year’s recipients capture the importance of how photography shapes our sense of history in an ever more image-conscious world. We are pleased to recognize their achievements.»
See the video from the 2011 Infinity Awards : http://vimeo.com/24579422
Each year ICP acknowledges the work of those whose powerful ima...
Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Soth traveled state by state while working on his self-published newspaper, The LBM Dispatch, as well as on assignment for the New York Times and others. From upstate New York to Silicon Valley, Soth attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings in search of human interaction in an era of virtual social networks.
With Songbook, Soth has stripped these pictures of their news context in order to highlight the longing for connection at their root. Fragmentary, funny and sad, Songbook is a lyrical depic...
Ping Pong Conversations is a long, friendly conversation between Alec Soth, one of the most prominent artist of this time, and the Italian curator and critic Francesco Zanot. Analyzing his most famous photographs as well as others that have been published or are virtually unknown, Soth reflects upon his career as a photographer. Each picture gives rise to a charter of its own, an original thought or reflection. Storytelling and the use of color and black and white, staged and candid approaches, and personal and political issues are just a few of the many arguments that the American photographer discusses with Francesco Zanot, resulting in a combination of words and images that constitutes both a complex examination of Alec Soth's work and a manual on that reading of photography itself. Soth’s images are shuf...
Réédité en « Petit Format », l'ouvrage Magnum Magnum était déjà paru en 2007. Ce livre retrace le travail des grands maîtres de la photographie du XXe siècle, des grands photographes actuels et des nouveaux talents de l'agence de photographes la plus connue du monde. 400 images iconiques des 60 dernières années ont été ici sélectionnées et commentées par les 69 photographes de Magnum. Ainsi, entre autres duos le travail d'Henri Cartier-Bresson est décrit par Eve Arnold, celui de Martin Franck par Ferdinando Scianna. L'oeuvre de Martin Parr est commenté par René Burri et l'oeuvre d'Alex Webb est détaillé par Chris Steele-Perkins.
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Le 5ème numéro de Tell Mum Everything Is Ok commence par un aveu de Frédéric Pierre et Camille Françoise (les initiales de FP & CF); après cinq numéros, des circuits et des habitudes se sont créées. Difficile aujourd'hui de se tenir à la règle des débuts ; travailler sur la base de libre propositions.
La petite revue connait effectivement le succès ; après un appel à candidatures sur Flickr qui réunit près de 2000 photos, le premier numéro (septembre 2009) est tiré à 150 exemplaires, et se retrouve épuisé en 5 jours. Le cinquième et dernier numéro, sur le thème Stigmate, est aujourd'hui tiré à 1000 exemplaires...
'During these last days of the administration, what is the point of protest, satire or any other sort of rabble-rousing? In assembling this collection of pictures I’ve made over the last eight years, I’m not really trying to accomplish much at all. But as President Bush once said, 'One of the great things about books is, sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.'' - Alec Soth...
Dix photographes de l’agence Magnum explorent la République de Géorgie durant ce printemps 2009, vingt ans après l’affranchissement du joug de l’URSS. Autrefois contrée paradisiaque, la Géorgie devient un état en faillite durant les années 1990. Un état où personne ne paie ses impôts et où l’électricité ne fonctionne que deux heures par jour. Dorénavant, malgré l’animosité de la Russie, elle sort petit à petit de ces années sombres avec volonté et courage.
Le Printemps géorgien est conçu à la manière d’un journal de bord. Le voyage de chaque photographe se concentre sur une facette différente du pays, où chacun d&...
-Les plus grandes photographies du XXe Siècle-
Livret : Alec Soth
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More adventurous in scope than other comparable compendiums, Photo Art is a vast critical survey of contemporary conceptual-oriented photography. It particularly addresses the work of artists emerging in Western and Eastern Europe--many of whom will be new to American audiences--and presents critical contexts for their work in accompanying essays. Gathering more than 120 image-makers from around the globe, this luscious compendium reads like an international art fair between covers, with the work of artists to watch now and in the future, from established figures to representatives of the newest generation. Among the artists featured here are Roy Arden, the Atlas Group, Seung Woo Back, Richard Billingham, Gerard Byrne, Claude Closky, Natalie Czech, Tacita Dean, Luc Delahaye, Ruud van Empel, J.H. Engstrom, Charles Freger,...
Men wearing suits jousting with sailfish. Head-on bridge collision. Men with linoleum. Kitchen murder-suicide. Firemen playing donkey baseball. Ideal woman in apron. Through more than 10,000 images, Irwin Denison Norling, the unofficial town photographer for Bloomington, Minnesota, captured the strange juxtapositions, incongruities, and dark corners of the developing suburban America of the 1950s and '60s. A competitive amateur glued to his police radio, Norling spent years examining the light and darkness, tragedies and desolation, rituals of community and celebration through the lens of the camera, deftly capturing the uneasy dichotomy between the familiar and subversive–the familiarly subversive. "That was the way it was. And the way it was, that's what I was after."
In 2002 veteran journalist Brad Ze...
By way of follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut monograph Sleeping by the Mississippi, Alec Soth turns his eye to another iconic body of water, Niagara Falls. And as with his photographs of the Mississippi, these images are less about natural wonder than human desire. "I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers," says Soth, "the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion." The subject may be hot, but the pictures are quiet, the rigorously composed and richly detailed products of a large-format 8x10 camera. Working over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls, Soth edited the results of his labors down to a tight and surprising album. He depicts newlyweds and naked lovers, motel parking lots, pawnshop wedding ...
In this beautifully produced third issue of the international art/fashion collectible Fashion Magazine, the acclaimed American photographer Alec Soth plays Editor-in-Chief, Advertising Director and sole photographic contributor--to quietly mesmerizing results. Featuring exquisite printing, unexpected gatefolds, special inks, varnishes and paper changes, this magazine-as-artist's-book-as-sociological-study-as-tongue-in-cheek-(yet-also-very-real)-advertising-vehicle contains some of the most riveting work being produced by a young photographer today. Soth explains: "While Fashion Magazine has a single photographer-author, it's still a magazine, not a book. So it doesn't follow my usual mode of slow, solitary production. It's collaboration. The ideas for the collaboration were formulated very quickly. I was approached ...
After completing the work for his first book, Sleeping by the Mississippi, in 2002, Alec Soth traveled with his wife to Bogota, Colombia, to adopt a baby girl. The baby's birth mother had given the new parents a book filled with letters, pictures and poems for their daughter. "I hope that the hardness of the world will not hurt your sensitivity," she wrote. "When I think about you I hope that your life is full of beautiful things." While the courts processed the adoption paperwork, and with these words as a mission statement, Soth set about making his own book for his daughter. Soth writes, "In photographing the city of her birth, I hope I've described some of the beauty in this hard place." This beauty makes itself apparent through ramshackle architecture, the companionship of animals and t...
le 15 avril 2008 19h00 - 20h00
Alec Soth fait une visite commentée de son exposition, "L’espace entre nous", le mardi 15 avril à 19 h, au Jeu de Paume Concorde.
Visite gratuite sur présentation du billet d'entrée....
Photo London was created to give London an international photography event befitting the city’s status as a global cultural capital. Founded in 2015, it has already established itself as a world-class photography fair and as a catalyst for London’s dynamic photography community. From the capital’s major museums, to its auction houses, galleries large and small, right into the burgeoning creative communities in the East End and South London, Photo London harnesses the city’s outstanding creative talent and brings the world’s leading photographers, curators, exhibitors, dealers and the public to celebrate photography, the medium of our time.
Venice Beach, L.A, USA, 1982 © Harry Gruyaert/GALLERY FIFTY ONE
Photo London is more than an art Fair. For 2016’s ...
Le festival des Nuits Photographiques est né en 2011 d’une idée originale et inédite de créer en France un évènement proposant la promotion, la diffusion et l’aide à la création du film-photographique. Créer le 1er évènement offrant un espace et un temps de découverte de la création internationale contemporaine photographique présentée sur écran.
Nous avons initié le terme de “film-photographique” afin de fédérer l’ensemble des formes de créations qui pensent l’image fixe pour et par l’écran. (P.OE.M, web doc, time laps, stop motion...).
Cette pratique émergente à la croisée du film et de la photographie engage de nouvelles voies d’expressions transmédias et associe photographes, réalisateurs, créateurs sonore e...
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The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 17 through 20, 2011. More than 75 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern, and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The 31st edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 16 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography.&...
CONTACT is an annual month long festival of photography with over 1000 local, national and international artists at more than 200 venues across the Greater Toronto Area in May. Founded as a not-for-profit organization 14 years ago, CONTACT is devoted to celebrating, and fostering an appreciation of the art and profession of photography. As the largest photography event in the world, and a premiere cultural event in Toronto, CONTACT stimulates excitement and discussion among a diverse audience that has grown to over 1.5 million and is focused on cultivating even greater interest and participation this year.
Based on the curatorial theme Pervasive Influence, recent works by Canadian and international artists are showcased at Toronto's leading cultural institutions, contemporary art spaces and public sites. As the bo...
Angela Grauerholz is a Canadian photographer creating imaginary spaces, glimpses of interiors (either public or private), and ethereal rural and urban landscapes. Grauerholz's subjective vision is contemplative, presenting intimate moments that reveal the passage of time. With their out-of-focus quality, her photographs appear as an autobiographical stream of consciousness, which is transformed by the eyes of the viewers to create a sense of collective memory. Over the course of her career, the artist's use of photography has revealed the world through black and white, and more recently coloured, self-reflective images. From the pictorial nature of her single photographs to composite installations, Grauerholz has contributed to the re-invention of the medium. She emphasizes the materiality of images, proposing...
'To me the most beautiful thing is vulnerability' – Alec Soth
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Alec Soth is widely considered to be world’s foremost documentary photographer. Recently described as the ‘greatest living photographer of America’s social and geographical landscape’, Soth is admired for his experimentation across exhibition, book, magazine and digital forms.
Like many great photographers and writers from the American canon – such as Robert Frank, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld – Soth takes the open road as his subject, but brings to it his own unique and modern twist.
Through haunting, intimate portraits, desolate landscapes and wide open wildernesses, his work captures a profound sense of what it is to be human. Tenderness, joy, disappointment, fear or pr...
PEACE, LOVE & PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE 2006
This festival is motivated by the resolute belief that substantive, provocative photography not only has the power to deepen awareness about the forces that shape our world—it can change it for the better. Guided by nonprofit, noncommercial mission, they create public events and a mentorship program dedicated to photography. The LOOK3 Festival, which takes place for three consecutive years, transforms the historic pedestrian center of downtown Charlottesville, Virginia into a public arts experience. Every fourth year, LOOK3 produces LOOKbetween, the anchor event of the mentorship program, which fosters and celebrates international early-career photographers. 2014 will mark the second iteration of LOOKbetween, and Festival programming will resume in 2015.
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On 31 March, Christie’s will present the sale of "Leaves Of Light And Shadow: Photographs Gathered By William T. Hillman", comprising 117 works judiciously acquired by William Hillman over the past three decades. With a sophisticated eye and tremendous dedication to photography, Hillman has built a comprehensive collection by pursuing consummate examples from top photographers spanning the history of the medium. In Hillman’s dedication to both photography and his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, his primary mission over the past three decades has been to build a world-class collection that will ultimately be gifted to the Carnegie Museum of Art. “There are gaps in the vintage acquisitions and the need to support and strengthen the contemporary component of this endeavor,” Hillman ha...
Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual, Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the United States. From upstate New York to Silicon Valley, Soth attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals and communal gatherings in search of authentic human interaction in an era of widespread virtual social networking. Evocative, fragmentary, funny and sad, the work is a lyrical depiction of the tension between American individualism and the desire to be united. Songbook presents a profound exploration of the shifting landscape of early 21st century American culture.
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Weinstein Gallery is pleased to present a retrospective of 35 photographs taken between 1998 and 2014 by internationally recognized Minnesota-based photographer, Alec Soth. Included will be photographs from the well-known projects Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006), Dog Days, Bogota (2007), Fashion Magazine: Paris/Minnesota (2007), Last Days of W. (2008), Broken Manual (2010) and Siren (2012). In addition, Weinstein Gallery will be debuting a new photograph taken during the Minnesota winter this year. The photograph, Lake Calhoun, 2014, was prominently featured in the New York Times Magazine.
Working in the photographic traditions of Robert Frank, William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, Soth captures large format color images with his 8 x 10 inch film camera. Guided by research, happenstance and curio...
This exhibition will explore the breadth and global diversity of contemporary photographic portraiture since 2000, highlighting recent acquisitions to the museum's permanent collection.
About Face will include works by twenty-nine artists from the United States, England, Canada, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, Iran and South Africa. Though each of these photographers approaches portrait-making differently, certain thematic threads resonate throughout the show, including questions of racial, cultural, ethnic, class and gender identity; the relationship between individuals and typologies; the way photographic processes themselves inform meaning; the relevance of historical precedents to contemporary practice; and the impact of media stereotypes on self-presentation. Considered collectively, the works in About Fa...
Pour la deuxième année consécutive, Giorgio Armani soutient Paris Photo, le rendez-vous international incontournable de la photographie, qui se tiendra du 15 au 18 novembre prochain au Grand Palais à Paris.
Partenaire officiel de l’évènement, Giorgio Armani soutient l’exposition « Acquisitions récentes », et présentera pour la deuxième fois un corpus de photographies en résonnance avec l’eau.
L’eau, présente depuis toujours dans le travail de Giorgio Armani, fait également l’objet depuis 2009 d’un engagement citoyen du créateur, à travers l’opération « Acqua for Life™ », qui lors de sa dernière édition a permis de collec...
Paris - Le 16 novembre prochain, le département Photographies de Christie’s a l’honneur de proposer aux enchères un ensemble de 55 photographies provenant de la collection californienne de Bruce et Nancy Berman dont l’estimation globale est comprise entre 150.000 et 220.000 euros. Walker Evans, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange ou encore Weegee pour les plus anciens mais aussi William Eggleston, Todd Hido, Martin Parr ou Alec Soth pour les plus contemporains avec des photographies grands formats. Cette collection, très raisonnablement estimée, comprend des clichés dont les prix s’échelonnent entre 2.500 et 10.000 euros.
© Mitch Epstein Stanley Hotel, Estes Park, Colorado, 1992 Estimation: €3.000-5.000
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The World in London is a major public art project initiated by The Photographers’ Gallery, to coincide with the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The project set out to commission 204 photographic portraits of 204 Londoners, each originating from one of the nations competing at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The portraits will be exhibited as large-scale posters at two sites close to Olympic venues: on the external wall surrounding the BT London Live site in Victoria Park in East London, and across a city-block in Central London covering the façade of the new Park House development in Oxford Street.
The World in London explores portraiture and cultural diversity using photography, one of the most accessible and democratic artistic mediums of our times. The project celebrates Lo...
Les photographes de la coopérative Magnum Photos se réunissent chaque année à New York, Paris ou Londres, alternativement. Pour fêter son 65e anniversaire, l’agence de presse a décidé de se réunir à Arles pour la première fois.
La présence de ces merveilleux photographes est exceptionnelle, d’où notre envie de leur consacrer pendant la semaine d’ouverture toutes les deuxièmes parties de soirées du théâtre Antique.
Le milo du soir en première partie chaque soir
Christian Milovanoff, photographe enseignant à l’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles depuis sa création, a eu un rôle majeur sur toutes les promotions sort...
The 40 works range from early black and white photographs to the classic icons of American color photography.
A number of great photographers played a large role in forming and defining the American Myth. The discovery of everyday aspects of American life was decisive in this: cities and symbols, cars, signs, billboards, advertising, telephone poles, parking lots and barbershops.
People are a second aspect of the wide-ranging exhibition, from the years of the Great Depression to impressive portraits of celebrities.
The comparison of almost a century of American photographs results in an interesting structure of similarities and contrasts, which are balanced through the selective choice of images.
The exhibition begins with works of the early 20th century by Paul Strand and Berenice Abbott, who both show ...
New works by three internationally acclaimed photographers, each presenting a very different response to the city of Brighton & Hove. Rinko Kawauchi (JPN), and Alec Soth (USA) commissioned by Photoworks and Stephen Gill (UK), in association with the Archive of Modern Conflict.
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Brighton Picture Hunt
For this Photoworks commission, his first in the UK, Alec Soth has made work in collaboration with his daughter Carmen walking around Brighton & Hove. Like much of his previous work, the photographic journey of Brighton Picture Hunt combines poetic and documentary sensibilities, each photograph and idea leading to the next. People, places and objects are woven amongst local newspaper headlines. Serendipity is at play as text and image combine to make uncanny connections and provide a captivating portra...
The first major survey for the artist in the United States, From Here to There: Alec Soth's America explores the past 15 years of work by one of the most compelling voices in contemporary photography. While Soth's practice has taken him throughout the world – from Paris to London to Bogotá to the country of Georgia – the Walker exhibition, curated by Siri Engberg, focuses on his pictures made in the United States. Featuring more than 100 photographs, the presentation includes a major new body of work, Broken Manual, as well as selections from his well-known series Sleeping by the Mississippi, NIAGARA, Fashion Magazine, The Last Days of W., and a number of other projects. The exhibition and its 224-page catalogue will also cast light on the multiplicity of the artist's practice, which extends from exhib...
Lyon Septembre de la photographie, dans sa thématique, ajoute au panorama français
un nouveau point de vue sur la photographie, à côté de manifestations d’importance comme
Visa pour l’image de Perpignan qui traque l’actualité et les clichés comme objectivation de
problèmes sociaux ; Les Rencontres d’Arles qui rendent compte d’une actualité, ou encore
Paris Photo qui s'inscrit dans le cadre du marché de la photographie.
La spécificité de Lyon Septembre de la photographie est de trouver et de pratiquer le
lien entre la photographie documentaire et l’art contemporain. Elle interroge la praxis de la
photographie documentaire créative qui confronte la subjectivité du photographe à ...
L’exposition Le Printemps Géorgien retrace les itinéraires thématiques de dix photographes de Magnum Photos, ayant parcouru la Géorgie le temps d’un printemps, celui de 2009.
. Antoine D’Agata a parcouru la route 27 qui traverse la Géorgie, de la Turquie à l’ouest jusqu’à l’Azerbaïdjan à l’est.
. Jonas Bendiksen est allé à la rencontre de la jeunesse de Tbilisi.
. Thomas Dworzak a suivi le Président Saakashvili et son entourage en Géorgie et à l’étranger.
. Martine Franck a travaillé sur les familles géorgiennes, tout particulièrement dans la communauté des artistes.
. Alex Majoli s’est rendu sur les différents lieux où...
MAGNUM GALLERY présente les oeuvres des artistes Alec Soth, Christopher Anderson, Erich Hartmann, Lise Sarfati, Patrick Zachmann et Trent Parke.
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Marks of Honour - A Striking Library
Marks of Honour is a photo book project and exhibition organised and curated by Nina Poppe and Verena Loewenhaupt.
MoH was conceived in order to reveal the inspiration that a new generation of photographers have gained from the history of photography in the form of books.
13 international photographers were invited to pay artistic tribute to a publication that has been influential to their own work.
All participating works are limited to three copies, each containing the original photo book and its accompanying homage.
The exhibiton MoH/08 displays the variety of inspirational sources and their tributes through a combination of different media.
Marks of Honour is an ongoing project that aims to create a striking library of contemporary photo books.
Catalog: books@...
For over sixty years, Magnum photographers have been responsible for taking some of the world’s most memorable photographs, images that have become instantly recognizable. Robert Capa’s iconic ‘The Falling Soldier’ (1936), Cartier-Bresson’s seminal ‘Place de l ’Europe’ (1932) capturing a man jumping a large puddle, or Dennis Stock’s famous photograph of James Dean walking in the rain in Times Square (1955) are classic examples. These are images from the early years of Magnum, the height of photojournalism in the traditional sense, of black and white reportage and ‘the decisive moment’. With this in mind, it is interesting to consider what the future iconic Magnum images will be. ‘Magnum Contemporary’ at Atlas Gallery will feature striking photo...
For a number of years we have been gathering together a collection of photographs which has evolved into a substantial group, but has never been shown publicly. A selection of which we would now like to present in our exhibition 'Selected photographs. From Brassaï to Cindy Sherman'.
Our intentions are to provide a wide and representative cross section of our inventory, beginning in the late 1920s and continuing up to the present day. We focus on American and European photography; black and white, as well as color. We have chosen works - in addition to the significance of the individual artists according to certain central themes: the nude, landscapes, portraits and architecture, to name the most prominent.
Brassaï and Cindy Sherman are representative of the chronology of our selection, the ...
Alec Soth's photography is firmly rooted in the tradition of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. His depiction of the everyday confronts the ideals romanticized by American society; independence, freedom, religious devotion and individual expression. Through his 8 x 10 camera lens, Soth captures the extraordinary by exposing and utilizing the vernacular of the ordinary. The exhibition features a selection from Alec Soth's two acclaimed bodies of work Sleeping by the Mississippi and Niagara along with a selection of images from the series Dog Days, Bogotá, and his ongoing project, Portraits.
Sleeping by the Mississippi: Evolving from a series of road trips along the Mississippi River, Alec Soth captures America's iconic yet often neglected "Third Coast". Soth's richly descriptive, large form...
Les photographies d'Alec Soth puisent leur racine dans la tradition de Walker Evans, Robert Frank et Stephen Shore. Sa représentation du quotidien met en scène les idéaux d'indépendance, de liberté, de spiritualité, et d'individualisme de la société américaine.
L'EXPOSITION
L’exposition rassemble 80 photographies. Une sélection de ses deux séries les plus connues, Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004 / 23 photographies) et Niagara (2006 / 16 photographies), est présentée dans le cadre de cette exposition. Elle est complétée par des photographies extraites de la série Dog Days, Bogotá (2007 / 24 photographies) et de son travail en cours de réalisation, Portraits (17 photographies).
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Throughout that period MAGNUM never ceased to supply photographs that have become part of the world’s collective memory – pictures of landmark events like the Russian army’s invasion of Prague in 1968 and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year and gives visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carl de Keyzer, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas and Leonard Freed.
MAGNUM was established in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour. They were convinced that photography was the best medium with which to document world events and raise public awareness. And they succeeded – the way MAGNUM photographer...
I went to Niagara for the same reason as the honeymooners and suicide jumpers… the relentless thunder of the Falls just calls for big passion – Alec Soth
Alec Soth came to prominence in 2004 with his documentary Sleeping by the Mississippi, a poetic and deeply enigmatic account of the river and its people. Here the distinctive landscape and individuals he encountered were captured through a series of pictures suggesting an imaginary, dream-like meandering journey of their very own. Soth is continually intrigued with the act of photography in relation to different states of consciousness making pictures that have compelling formal qualities yet are lyrical, open-ended and pensive studies of the dynamics between people and place.
Like previous work, Niagara is borne out of an immersive experience. It...