MUSÉE MAGAZINE REVIEW: School's Out For Summer

The exhibition draws on the ecstasy of summer and the freedom the season embodies once individuals are no longer confined to the soul-crushing fluorescent lights of school classrooms.

Summer is a season where connecting back with yourself is green-lighted, and the urge to succumb to the beauty of nature is achievable through warmth and the ability to consent to the naturality surrounding individuals. Summer is a time to disconnect and bloom into a newer and more organic version of yourself, and this is achieved through the connotation that summer can adhere to. The online exclusive exhibition runs from June 18 - through September 2, 2024. We invite you to visit the online exhibition and immerse yourself in the beauty of summer captured in these photographs.

Malibu Beach, captured by Joe Deal, transports individuals to an era where comfortability and quietness seemed to exist seamlessly together. This photograph is a testament to his ability to freeze moments in time and evoke a sense of tranquility. The viewer's eyes are drawn to multiple places all over the photograph. From the naked couple soaking in the summer sun like a couple of reptiles in their glimmering skin to individuals setting up their beach day, an older couple read peacefully while listening to the meditative lapping waves. The photograph can highlight the quiet and tranquility experienced, and the more tranquil beach exudes isolation and the need to reset.

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PHOBLOGRAPHER: "THIS SUMMER’S BEST EXHIBIT"

SANDRA CATTANEO ADORNO
Águas de Ouro I, 2016
Archival pigment print

It’s the summer here in the northern hemisphere — and for many younger folks, school is out!

To celebrate this, the curators over at Robert Mann Gallery have put together a special online exhibition all about school being over. It’s called School’s Out for Summer — and it’s an online group showing of images from various photographers. For many people, it’s a celebration of the fact that they don’t need to do much work and be on a set schedule. Instead, they’re embracing freedom.

We can see several images in either a very warm tonality or in black and white. The black and white photographs often remind of very classic times during the summer long gone. At the same time, the warmer images give us the feeling os summer sunsets — often considered universally to be amongst the best time for people to be out. The exhibit will appeal to those who like street photography, urban geometry, cityscapes, etc.

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Robert Mann Gallery Returning to Chelsea This Fall

The gallery looks forward to welcoming you in our new location

The gallery first opened its doors in 1985 on 76th Street and Madison Avenue.  After 14 years at that location, Robert Mann Gallery relocated to Chelsea, the first photography gallery to settle in the newly forming art world hub in 1999. In Chelsea we moved between two locations, our last on 26th street right off the High Line.  

At the end of 2019, our crystal ball suggested returning to the Upper East Side and now it has us returning to 26th Street once more.  Our new location will provide a beautiful space for private viewings and to host small exhibitions.

Please stay tuned for further announcements and we look forward to welcoming you to our new location this fall. In the meantime, we wish you a very pleasant and relaxing summer!

-Robert Mann

Cover Photograph by Julie Blackmon
New Neighbors, 2020
Archival pigment print

Virtual Booth Released for The Photography Show presented by AIPAD

Were you unable to attend the fair? View our virtual booth with one click!

Thank you to everyone who visited us at our booth at this year's Photography Show. We hope you had a lovely weekend!

Our Virtual Booth is live if you want to revisit select works, or if you couldn't make it to New York this year.

You may also visit AIPAD's virtual viewing room of our gallery for some of our selected works.

Featured image: Mike Mandel’s People in Cars, 1970-1973.

Maroesjka Lavigne’s Solo Exhibition at Cultuurcentrum Scharpoord

Lavigne shares a unique culmination of her projects over the last twelve years

On view now through May 12, 2024, the Cultuurcentrum Scharpoord in Knokke-Heist, Belgium, is exhibiting a photo series by Lavigne.

Lavigne shares she is inspired by ever changing landscapes and bases her new textile works from her own photography archive. She uses different threads and/or combinations of threads and transfers photos on them to create a layered and tactile feeling.

Her most recent monograph, Someone, Somewhere, Sometime, includes her 4 previous projects and is published by Radius Books and Robert Mann Gallery. 

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Artist's Talks at the Night of Photography

Join us this Friday evening at The Photography Show with two of our represented artists:
Drift and Cig Harvey

The artists will share how their personal experiences are incorporated into their visual narrative at the Photography Show presented by AIPAD on April 26, 2024.

A Q&A session will happen after the 15-20 minute talk. 

Drift's talk begins at 5:30pm and Cig Harvey's talk will follow thereafter at 6:30pm in Booth C10.

Please contact for more information or for press material.

New Documentary on Larry Fink Released with Preview

We are pleased to share a preview of a short documentary film capturing some of the last footage of the iconic twentieth-century photographer.

Over sixty years as a photographer, Larry Fink’s sense of humanity came to define his storytelling. He captured influential moments including Civil Rights events, the Beat generation and Greenwich Village’s countercultural heartbeat, the boxing scene and Manhattan's high society.

An expert who cast an unfaltering eye on events that unfolded over his lifetime, the documentary entitled, FINK, reveals the emotions and the intimate energy in his photographs.

Communicating his art, Fink invites director Lisa Schiller into his personal universe, reflecting on his artistic intentions and the cultural landscape that guided his personal experience. 

Watch a short trailer below or watch the full video on Fellowship.

ringl + pit on display at Carnegie Hall

The most comprehensive collection of works assembled for exhibition

We are pleased to partner with our friends at Fotografiska in arranging this exhibition of works by ringl + pit at Carnegie Hall in conjunction with the festival, “Fall of the Weimar Republic: Dancing on the Precipice.”

It has been over 20 years since this significant collection was last exhibited.

ringl + pit were childhood nicknames of Grete Stern (ringl) and Ellen Auerbach (pit), who opened an advertising photography studio in 1930 in Berlin. Together, they sought to challenge the expectations of their classes, culture, and gender during the fragile political climate of the Weimar Republic. View more of their images on their artist page.

The display is free to all Zankel Hall concertgoers on view now through July 1, 2024.

Drift Climbs New York Times Tower

IN a newly released YouTube video, the urban explorer and photographer climbs 354 meters for a breathtaking view

In 2021, a New York Times article helped bring public awareness to Drift's pending trial over several counts of trespassing. Drift wanted to challenge the concept that what is illegal is also immoral.

Drift shares in his choice of climbing the tower, "The aim was to capture the insignificance of man in the shadow of an ever expansive city and world while also showing that man himself is limitless."

Watch the full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPeIQaACE8

The film was shot by the duo from OnTheRoofs- Raskalov and EM.1T.

We are saddened to share the news of the passing of Larry Fink

A dear friend and extraordinary artist

Born in Brooklyn in 1941 and raised in New York City, Fink began making pictures in his early teens. He was privately taught and mentored by photographer Lisette Model whose work greatly influenced him.

Fink is best known for his series Social Graces, a body of work made in the 1970s that depicted and contrasted wealthy Manhattanites at fashionable clubs and social events alongside working-class people from rural Pennsylvania participating in everyday events such as high school graduations and birthday parties. Social Graces was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1979 and was published as a monograph in 1984.  

Social Graces was just one of many genres that Fink explored during his six decades of image making. He also made series of portraiture, fashion, the logging industry, boxing, nature and most recently quiet and contemplative still lives taken in and around his home in rural Pennsylvania, all skillfully executed with a particular style one could only attribute to Fink.

He will be greatly missed.