PHOTO: Michael Kenna
By Efi Michalarou
Michael Kenna is one of the most influential landscape photographers of his generation, best known for his black & white landscapes. Often working at dawn or during the night, he has concentrated primarily on the interaction between the ephemeral atmospheric condition of the natural landscape, and human-made structures and sculptural mass.
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'In the Groove: Jazz Portraits' at National Portrait Gallery
Isabella Mason | December 09, 2016
National Portrait Gallery has on showcase “In the Groove: Jazz Portraits” by Herman Leonard. It will be on display till February 20, 2017.
Leonard, with his love for Jazz music, began his visits of Jazz clubs and captured the artists at their live performances. Leonard’s amazing photographs are considered to be renowned globally as the immaculate portraits of many of 20th century’s greatest jazz artists. He has captured the pictures with the very essence that would have been transpiring during the live performances. The exhibition features the portraits of artists such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk and Sarah Vaughan..
The exhibition is on view at 8th St NW & F St NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA.
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Paris Photo 2016 : les images coup de cœur de “Télérama”
Luc Desbenoit | November 10, 2016
"Une autre jeune femme, également inconnue, l’américaine Julie Blackmon ( stand Robert Mann de New York D12) surprend également par son image qui ne tient que par la grâce d’un fil, ou plutôt d’une corde coupant de loin comme une faille blanche, une scène de gamines en train de jouer. L’une est suspendue au filin à une hauteur vertigineuse, une autre pèse en bas de tout son poids. Le spectacle d’abord se remarque pas son élégance. Prise de nuit dans l’éclair d’une lumière aveuglante, la scène dégage une atmosphère intrigante, presque de film d’horreur. En fait, l’artiste évoque l’histoire d’un conte de fée. De ceux qu’on raconte aux enfants pour les endormir ou les avertir de la complexité du monde qu’ils commencent à explorer."
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Mauro Fiorese: Treasure Rooms at Robert Mann Gallery
By Jordan G. Teicher | Photograph Magazine
It’s perhaps inevitable that the museum, that carefully curated and guarded space for seeing and exploring, would become a favorite subject of examination in its own right.
But in several recent works, photographers who have turned their attention to museums have highlighted not what’s immediately viewable, but what’s just out of sight. In his series Skeletons in the Closet, 2014, Klaus Pichler photographed the uncanny scenes found in off-limits corridors and workshops at Vienna’s Museum of Natural History. As part of his series Animal Logic, 2010, Richard Barnes often photographed natural history exhibits as they were being assembled. Alec Soth, meanwhile, focused on guards, those largely unseen but vital guardians of culture, in front of their favorite pieces at the Minneapolis Institute of Art for the museum’s anthology, The Art of Wonder, 2014.
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Snapshot: ‘Treasure Rooms’ (2014) by Mauro Fiorese
The photographs give the viewer a glimpse into the secret vaults of Italy’s greatest museums
September 2, 2016 | Laura Garmeson
Veronese photographer Mauro Fiorese’s Treasure Rooms series give the viewer a glimpse into the secret vaults of Italy’s greatest museums.
His photographs — printed on cotton paper beneath glass on wooden frames — depict lush masterpieces stored in sterile, regulated worlds that form a kind of ordered beauty. In his image above, “Treasure Rooms of the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome”, the white tiles and gilt frames of the archives resemble a waiting room with Renaissance perspectives.
Fiorese, set for his first US show in New York, sees Treasure Rooms as a “series of non-traditional landscapes that form an imaginary art gallery”.
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Movable Feast: Mary Mattingly's Floating Garden
Michael McCanne | Aug 12, 2016
When Hurricane Sandy hit New York City in 2013, it flooded downtown Manhattan, parts of Queens, and Staten Island. An electrical substation exploded, cutting power to Lower Manhattan, and shipments of gas from New Jersey ground to a halt. Gas stations without electricity couldn’t pump; those that could soon ran out, causing huge lines and fuel shortages. In the span of a day, a hurricane revealed the precariousness of urban infrastructure in one of the richest cities in the country.
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A Sly Look at the Pleasures of Summer
PDN Photo of the Day | August 12, 2016
The end of summer is beginning to come into view, but there’s still time for a few more days at beach, and there is one more week for “Back at the Waterʼs Edge,” a group summer show at Robert Mann Gallery in New York City on view until August 19, which collects images of water, sand and beach culture from a range of photographers including Julie Blackmon, Jeff Brouws, Harry Callahan, Joe Deal, Elijah Gowin, Cig Harvey, Michael Kenna and Henry Wessel, among others. Callahan’s view of Cape Cod frames an empty beach and lonely volleyball net, and Kenna pictures dark arrangements of beach chairs under cloudy skies, but others are sunnier and less literal. In some, like Blackmon’s sunbathers on concrete, the kiddie pool in the background is an afterthought. In others, like Deal’s studies of the California coast, the beach is compressed into a slim strip by the ocean on one side and ocean-front real estate on the other. And while Cig Harvey makes a splash in one of her self-portraits, in the other, the sea is only a tiny sliver of horizon framing a vast blue sky.
We are thrilled to share the news that gallery artist Paulette Tavormina, has been awarded The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in the category of Photography.
An Artist Floats an Edible Forest
Susan Delson | July 28, 2016
It didn’t take long for the fishermen in the Bronx’s Concrete Plant Park to notice “Swale.”
Under any circumstances, an 11-foot-high, 130-by-40-foot barge would be hard to miss. But one that calls itself “a floating food forest in New York City and beyond” almost demands a closer look.
Conceived by artist Mary Mattingly and brought into existence with a swarm of collaborators, “Swale” explores ideas about art, sustainability, technology and access to fresh, healthy food.
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A Look at Mary Mattingly’s Floating Garden Project, ‘Swale’
Taylor Dafoe | July 22, 2016
Part artwork, part communal resource, “Swale” is a 130-by-40-foot barge containing a forest garden of edible and medicinal plants, including blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, dandelions, stinging nettle, comfrey, chamomile, and much more. Hydration is supplied by filtered rainwater and New York rivers water. Visitors are welcome to come and pick items for free, but people are also encouraged to bring food items of their own, creating a fully sustainable ecosystem.
In a way, “Swale” was born out of a loophole. It’s illegal to grow public food in public spaces in New York City. So Mattingly moved her project to the water. “There’s so many great things about working on the water,” she said. “Skirting around those land laws is one of them.”
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