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| | | | On Tuesday Dec 3 ART MIAMI, UNTITLED, SCOPE and Context are starting the Art Week 2019, ART BASEL Miami Beach on Wednesday Dec 4 and PULSE on Thurs Dec 5. More than 500 exhibitors will exhibit more than 1,000 artworks in photography and videoart. The Miami Street Photography Festival 2019 is presenting from 5 - 8 Dec the best of contemporary street and documentary photography. |
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| | Making of 'Tsunami' (by unknown tourist, 2004) 2015
70 x 105 cm, Edition 6 + 1AP
Digital C-type print
Larger size available / 120 x 180 cm / in an edition of 3 + 1AP
© Cortis & Sonderegger, 2019 THE RAVESTIJN GALLERY | | | | | | | | ... until 7 December 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Ravestijn Gallery is proud to present the first solo show in the Netherlands of Swiss artist duo Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger, known as Cortis & Sonderegger. The exhibition will show photographs from their renowned series Icons, in which the pair trawled countless books filled with the world’s most iconic photographs before recreating many of them through meticulous dioramas.
Robert Capa’s The Falling Soldier and Henri Cartier Bresson’s Derriere la Gare Saint-Lazare are two photographs preserved in the canon of photography. And the attack on Pearl Harbor, John T. Daniels’ image of the Wright Brothers’ first powered flight and news footage from 9/11 are all etched into humankind’s collective memory. Cortis & Sonderegger lean on both the photographic medium and the wider world to reproduce what seems impossible to duplicate. Carefully considering the conditions in which each original image was made, the artists then mimic each photograph in their studio to an inconceivable level of realism, quite literally remaking an icon. It is easy to be in awe at their dedication to imitation, yet for the final photographs of their creations, the camera is always pulled back, framing their image within a new image and revealing their studio, tools, apparatus and debris in a blatant and humorous turn. Truth and illusion, past and present are coalesced; the theatrical creation as the past surrounded by the new frame of the present. | | |
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| | | | | | | | Stefanie Bürkle: me Crossing deep water channel, 2 Kanal Video 6 min © VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, Fotografie: J.Baumann |
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29 Nov 2019 – 5 Jan 2020 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Johanna Diehl: MARS, 2019, Filmstill/Making of, Video, Projektion, Farbe, Sound, Dauer: 15 min; Courtesy die Künstlerin und Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt/Berlin |
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| | | Robert Longo, Men in the Cities, New York, 1976/1982 © Robert Longo, courtesy Schirmer/Mosel Verlag | | | Body Performance | | | | | | | 30 November 2019 – 10 May 2020 | | | | Opening: Friday, 29 November, 8pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | Performance is an independent art form, and photography is its constant companion. For the first time in Germany, this group exhibition brings together photo sequences whose origins lie in performance art, dance, and other staged events, complemented by a selection of street photography and conceptual photography series. With their common focus on the human body, the images document or interpret performances, which in many cases have also been initiated by the photographers themselves. The close connection between photography and performance, happenings, and action art has existed for many decades and ranges from the Dadaists and Surrealists to Viennese Actionism and the contemporary nude human installations made in the public space by Spencer Tunick. The works of the 13 internationally renowned artists are presented throughout the spaces of the Helmut Newton Foundation as if on multiple stages, where visitors can view images of people who, in the act of performance, seem to slip into dream-like, parallel planes of reality.
A relatively unknown work by Helmut Newton is the series of images he made of the dancers of the Ballet de Monte Carlo starting in the 1980s. Instead of depicting them on the classical stage, he photographed them on the streets of Monaco, on the steps behind the famous casino, near the emergency exit of the theatre building, or in the nude at his own home. Newton reinterpreted with these dancers the compositional idea that came to define his work – Naked and Dressed – and once again addressed the link between exhibitionism and voyeurism.
We encounter a similar theme with Bernd Uhlig and his images of the choreographies by Sasha Waltz, whom he has accompanied wit… | | |
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| | | Warp © Alia Ali, 2019 | Atomic Flower © Alia Ali, 2019 |
| | | | | | | | ... until 14 December 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | "FLUX" is a series of shifting photographic artworks that embody silhouettes that are warped by textile, saturated in colors and a medley of motifs. Each frame is uniquely upholstered with wax print sourced from Cote d’Ivoire. While some of the images distort visibility, others create hypervisibility almost negating themselves into animated forms of camouflage.
The outburst of saturated colors and hyperoptic motifs in these images, lend themselves to vibrating results obscuring the complex and sometimes iniquitous conditions by which these textiles came into fruition and destabilizing the source(s) from where they came from. The multiple dimensionality creates a kaleidoscope of perspectives, horizontally and vertically. Horizontally, in that this material has come into existence across borders over land and water, and vertically in that they draw from and evoke cosmic, mythical and religious inspirations. Furthermore, these particular wax prints are a key to mapping the colonial trade routes. While they certainly can be seen as escapist dreamscapes, they are also objects of oppression and capitalism.
Alia Ali (Austria, 1985) is a Yemeni-Bosnian-American multi-media artist. She is a graduate of the United World College of the Atlantic (UWCAC) and holds a BA in Studio Art and Middle Eastern Studies from Wellesley College. She is currently finishing her Master of Fine Arts at CalTec, Los Angeles. She has been awarded the Alice C. Cole '42 Grant of Wellesley College, LensCulture’s Emerging Talent Awards 2016 and Gold Winner in a Fine Art Category of the Tokyo International Photo Awards. Alia has exhibited internationally in museums, fairs and festivals including PhotoLondon 2019 in the UK, 1:54 Contemporary Af… | | |
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| | | | | | | | Nashashibi/Skaer Why Are You Angry?, 2017 16 mm film, black and white and colour, sound, 16 min. © Nashashibi/Skaer |
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30 Nov 2019 – 16 Feb 2020 | | | | | |
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| | | Katerina Belkina: The Three Spinners. Coming, photograph, 75 x 100, edition 8 | | | | | | | | 27 November – 29 December 2019 | | | |
Solo exhibitions at Galerie Lilja Zakirova and Target Point International in Heusden
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Katerina Belkina (1974, born in Russia, living and working in Berlin) is a visual artist who through her photographical series has sought for the path back to the deepest essential layers of the human identity and has acquired international fame. Not in the least by the prestigious awards she has won: in 2015 she received the International Lucas Cranach Award and in 2016 she became the winner of the International Hasselblad Masters Award in the category "Art" which led to a participation in a parallel program at the Venice Biennial this year.
In her newest series "Dream Walkers. Imagery of Change" the artist focused herself on the old mythology and uses the art of storytelling from the fairy tales of the European continent to ask herself and the viewer existential questions. The universal myth lived through personally, diving into the motivational depth of the heroin (SnowWhite, Frau Holle, Sleeping Beauty and many others) and at the same time surging to the awareness of the archetype, Katerina Belkina is able to concentrate herself on the (sometimes invisible) magical momentum on the eve of transformation or transition to the next mental level by which the artist achieved to create mesmerizing monumental compositions that remind of cinematographic stills with the essential equally participant – the landscape. The artists train of thought is deepened with a catalogue. | | |
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| | Sissi Farassat: Stay 4, 2019
© Sissi Farassat, Courtesy in focus Galerie, Köln | | | | | | | | ... until 21 December, 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sissi Farassat was born in 1969 in Tehran and moved with her family to Vienna in 1978, where she still lives and works today. She has been working as a photographer since 1991 and participated in the 1993 International Summer Academy under the direction of Nan Goldin. She was a student of Friedl Kubelka at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst Fotografie in Vienna (1993-94). She then received a scholarship from the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts to realize her series Self Portrait Paris.
Sissi Farassat's works are largely autobiographical and often reveal her personal history through a unique combination of influences from Persian and Viennese art and design. She began by changing her own expired passports, decorating them with sequins and pearls, and returning the passport from its original use to a unique work of art. Through her handicraft, Farassat isolates parts of the photograph and replaces the original background with a fine overlay. Hundreds of hours have been spent manually transforming each photo into a unique object. Farassat drastically changes the most inherent characteristics of the photographic medium: the immediacy of the camera and the ability to make multiple photographic prints. Instead, she takes the needle and thread to each print and sews thousands of crystals, pearls, and sequins by hand, turning her photos into a kind of tapestry.
In doing so, she blurs the distinction between the photo and the object, the revealed and the hidden, and eliminates the subject from its original context. Farassat challenges our gaze and seems to rejoice in the ambivalence of her transformations. For her works she uses either intimate selfportraits or random snapshots of her friends and close acquaintances. | | |
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| | | | | | | Denis Darzacq, Recomposition N°1, from the series "Recomposition"
© Denis Darzacq / Courtesy of the artist |
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30 Nov 2019 – 5 Apr 2020 | | | | | |
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| | | ALFRED EISENSTAEDT: Children at a puppet theatre III (Paris, 1963) © LIFE Gallery of Photography. | | | | | | | Selected prints from the LIFE Magazine Collection (1936-2002) | | | | | | | | 29 November – 1 February 2020 | | | | Opening reception: Thursday 28 November 2019, 18:30- 20:30 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Atlas Gallery is pleased to present LIFE, an exhibition of photographs celebrating the golden age of the first American all-photographic magazine. LIFE’s photographers documented the most important events, memorable people and places in modern history. The exhibition will showcase the work of stellar names associated with the magazine, such as Andreas Feininger, Joe Rosenthal, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Eisenstaedt, John Dominis, John Loengard, Nina Leen and J.R. Eyerman, whose professional engagement in the events of the 20th century led to an epic form of photojournalism that captured both momentous and intimate moments with unparalleled perception. | | |
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| | | | | | | | Family photos of Sandra Bush. © Mickalene Thomas. Courtesy of the artist. |
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| | | | | | | | from the series "Heartbeats" © Juuso Westerlund |
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| | ABINGDON BRANCH, WAITING FOR THE CREEPER IN THE GREEN COVE STATION
Green Cove, Virginia, 1956
© O. Winston Link / O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, Virginia | | | | | | | | ... until 26 January 2020 | | | | | | | | | | | | | A drive-in movie theater, a ghost town, three young ladies in bathing suits, children fishing, and ever-present in the photographs: the steam locomotives of the Norfolk & Western Railway – or sometimes just their white smoke trails. The chugging of the engines, the whistles blowing and bells ringing as the iron horses roll through town are all there – supplied by one’s imagination.
Ogle Winston Link (1914–2001), a civil engineer and commercial photographer from New York City, captured these scenes and moments in time with his camera between 1955 and 1960 in Virginia and neighboring states. His work has nothing in common with conventional rail photography. O. Winston Link preserved a multifaceted atmospheric record of rural America in a »time capsule« of sorts before many things changed there forever. His sole freelance, and therefore self-financed, project was intended to document the entire gamut of activity of the Norfolk & Western Railway. Because it manufactured its own locomotives and owned its own coal mines, the N&W was the last of the large rail companies in the United States to successfully employ steam locomotives while all others had already switched to diesel. But the age of steam also came to an end in Virginia in 1960.
In a race against time, O. Winston Link began his project in 1955. He contacted the company and asked for assistance in finding suitable locations and for permission to enter their property. This elaborate and expensive photographic obsession would lead him over a railway network encompassing nearly 4,000 kilometers and result in 2,200 fascinating photographs. | | |
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | 2020 Vision Photographs, 1840s–1860s | | 3 Dec 2019 – 10 May 2020 | | | | | | | |
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| | Albarrán Cabrera, Nyx #60627, 2017
Tirage pigmentaire sur papier japonais et feuille d'or, 32 x 48 cm, édition de 10 | | | | | | | | ... until 21 December 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | With Someone lived this, their first exhibition in Paris, the Spanish duo Albarrán Cabrera questions the reality of our memory. They invite us to think of works of art as the support of an imaginary journey, towards dreams, which allows the creation of fictional memories.
These photographs are inspired by their travels, their readings, the artworks they love and which move them. In front of the beauty of landscapes, glittering light, subtle colours, the viewer also dreams of escaping time, of reconnecting with nature - so present in their works - as a consolation for the world's current events. The mystery of the shaded figures in the series This is you here reminds us of lost friends or forgotten childhood memories that only photography can trace.
Over the years, with an excellent knowledge of history of photography and ancient techniques, they have developed unique and precious printing processes. They combine traditional silver printing, cyanotype or platinum- palladium printing with the use of pigments, Japanese paper and gold leaf. Their images are thus adorned with a singular intensity and light that seem to make the image shimmer, and enliven it with the emotion that was part of its creation. Far from being a mere image of reality, Albarrán Cabrera's photography becomes a magical object, a window opening onto other worlds. | | |
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| | | | | | | | Araribóia, Maranhão. Members of the Guajajara forest guard patrolling the Araribóia indigenous reserve in Maranhão State beat another indigenous man whom they suspect of collaborating with illegal loggers. © Tommaso Protti for Fondation Carmignac |
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| | Kayapó Indigenous Territory, Pará. Kayapó children play behind a waterfall in the Kuben-Kran Ken village, in the southern Pará State.
© Tommaso Protti for Fondation Carmignac | | | | | | 10TH CARMIGNAC PHOTOJOURNALISM AWARD | | | Maison Européenne de la Photographie
December 4, 2019 through February 16, 2020 | | | | | | | | | | | | | The project carried out by Tommaso Protti, laureate of the 10th edition of the Carmignac Photojournalism Award dedicated to the Amazon and the issues related to its deforestation, goes beyond a narrow understanding of photo reportage. In his series, produced with the support of the prestigious Award, Protti documents the deforestation of the Amazon and bears witness to the environmental, humanitarian and social crisis resulting from this catastrophe. His deeply personal vision resonates with current events and concerns about the future of our planet and its ecosystem.
EXHIBITION AT MAISON EUROPÉENNE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE, PARIS
Hours: Weds-Fri from 11am to 8pm, Thurs. from 11am to 10pm, Sat-Sun from 10am to 8pm
EXHIBITION AT HÔTEL DE VILLE, PARIS
On the occasion of this exhibition, Tommaso Protti’s photographs will also be displayed on the wrought-iron grill in front of Paris’ Hôtel de Ville from November 30, 2019, through January 10, 2020
PUBLICATION
A bilingual French-English monograph “Amazônia, Life and Death in the Brazilian Rainforest” is co-published by Reliefs Editions and the Fondation Carmignac. More information here. | | |
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| | | | | | | | Hannah Modigh: aus der Serie "Delta", 2014−19 |
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29 Nov 2019 – 25 Jan 2020 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | | | Jeff Widener: Tank Man, Tienanmen, Peking, 5. Juni 1989 |
| | | | 1932-1989 | | | | | | | Thu 28 Nov 18:00
28 Nov 2019 – 8 Mar 2020 | | | | | |
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| | Bastiaan Woudt, Left: Tinotenda III, 2015, right: Hairpiece, Mukono, 2017
Archival Pigment Print on Inova Baryta Papier, 120 x 90 cm each, Edition 10 & 2 AP | | | | | | | | 29 November 2019 – 25 January 2020 | | | | Opening: Thursday, 28 November, 6pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | Bastiaan Woudt has enjoyed a meteoric rise to success within the world of contemporary photography. After starting his own photography practice from scratch a mere five years ago, with no experience or formal training, he has developed into a photographer with his own distinct signature style – abstract yet sharp, with a strong focus on detail.
As a student of the history of photography, learnt through devouring photobooks and visiting museums and fairs, Bastiaan Woudt has a strong preference for classic subjects, such as portraits and nudes, and we see references to illustrious periods from photography throughout his work, such as Surrealism and both the fashion and documentary photography of the 1960s and 70s. But through a sophisticated use of both camera and post-production techniques, which he has taught himself by heavily experimenting with both, he gives his own graphic and wholly contemporary twist to the classical.
Bastiaan Woudt’s work was exhibited in museums, at fairs and in galleries worldwide. In 2014 he was chosen as New Dutch Photography Talent, in 2016 he was named one of the biggest talents working today by the prestigious magazine The British Journal of Photography, furthering his position as a talent on the rise. In 2017 he won the Van Vlissingen Art Foundation Award. In 2019, his extensive monograph "Hidden" was published by Ypublishers.
"My inspiration comes from many forms of art, but in particular, the old masters of photography like Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, Bill Brandt, all amazing minds. They nailed what it takes to make an interesting image: Dynamics, movement, imperfection, feeling. Besides photography, there are many more ways I get inspired. Paintings, the way the Dutch masters saw the light is extraordinary. I believe that in art photography, you have to create a little dream world: a unique insight into the photographer’s mind. Black and white help to differentiate from reality. I find that color is too distracting."
- Bastiaan Woudt | | |
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| | | © Art Basel Miami Beach | | | | | | | | | | | 5 – 8 December 2019 | | | Meridians Opening (by invitation only): Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 4pm to 7pm
Private Day (by invitation only): Wednesday, December 4, 2019, 11am to 8pm
Vernissage (by invitation only): Thursday, December 5, 2019, 11am to 3pm
Public Days: Thursday, December 5, 2019, 3pm to 8pm | Friday, December 6, 2019, 12 noon to 8pm
Saturday, December 7, 2019, 12 noon to 8pm | Sunday, December 8, 2019, 12 noon to 6pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In our American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main exhibition hall. | | |
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| | Portraits from ”People of the 20th Century“. 1912–32
70 Gelatin silver prints, printed by Gunther Sander 1961–63.
From 40,9 × 26,9cm to 49,7×39cm (161/8×105⁄8in. to 195⁄8×153⁄8in.).
Each laid down on original cardboard (c. 59,7 x 49,3 cm (23 1⁄2 x 19 3⁄8 in.)).
Unique set of large-format exhibition prints, printed in August Sander's lifetime.
Provenance: Formerly August Sander, Cologne / European Corporate Collection | | | | | | | August Sander » 70 Portraits | | | | A European Corporate Collection | | | | | | | | Wednesday 27 November 2019 6 pm | | | | | | | | | | | | | Our upcoming photography auction will feature an entire corporate collection comprising iconic works of photography. These include early photographs from the 19th century by the likes of Negres, Cameron, and Kühn as well as images by recognized Modernists such as Renger-Patzsch, Steinert, Irving Penn and others.
Particularly noteworthy are the 70 portraits by August Sander, which will be offered at auction for the first time. August Sander himself compiled these works for a final exhibition in the years 1961 to 1963, before his death in 1964. A legacy. And his life’s work.
August Sander – Portraits from "Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts", Lot 2149
You may view the complete illustrations of this lot in our brochure August Sander – 70 Portraits. | | |
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| | | Lot 4287 Vera Mercer. "Green Leaves". 2014. C-Print on aludibond. | | | Bassenge Photography Auction 114 | | | | 19th – 21st Century Photography | | | | | | Wednesday December 4, 2019
15:00 Erdener Str. 5a, 14193 Berlin
Preview:
Rankestrasse 24, 10789 Berlin Mon 25 – Fri 29 Nov, 10:00 – 18:00
Mon 2 Dec, 10:00 – 18:00
Tue 3 Dec, 10:00 – 15:00
as well as by appointment
Online Catalogue:
www.bassenge.com | | |
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| | Raoul Ubac
Untitled (from the series: Penthésilée), 1939
Vintage gelatin silver print on Agfa-Brovira paper
27.2 x 39.5 cm
€ 20,000-25,000
Lot 11 / Auction 1142 | | | Lempertz Photography | | | Auctions 1142 | 30 Years of Photography at Lempertz – 30 Photographic Masterpieces
Photography | Friday 29 November 2019, 1.30 pm
Auctions 1144 | Contemporary Art + Photography
Friday 29 November 2019, 7 pm | Saturday 30 November 2019, 3 pm | | | | | | Lempertz Neumarkt 3, 50667 Cologne / Germany
Experts: Maren Klinge M.A. & Dr. Christine Nielsen
Tel: +49-(0)221-92 57 29-28 or -56
Fax: +49-(0)221-92 57 29-6
photo@lempertz.com
www.lempertz.com | |
| | | | | | Auction 1142 │ 30 Years of Photography at Lempertz – 30 Photographic Masterpieces (lot 1-30)
On the occasion of our anniversary, we are covering a wide range in terms of content and technology with this special catalogue from the beginnings of photography up to the most recent present. The first is the exceptionally beautiful, large-format daguerreotype by an anonymous photographer who immortalised the Reinecke Quartett in the mid-19th century (lot 1, € 3/4,000). With Heinrich Kühn’s blue pigmented, impressionistic gum bichromate Auslaufendes Segelboot, a top piece of pictorialist photography from the turn of the century comes to the fore (Lot 2, € 20/25,000). Names such as August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Karl Blossfeldt are emblematic of New Objectivity photography of the 1920s and are each represented by characteristic works (lots 4 – 6, € 12/40,000). Raoul Ubac’s photographic interpretation of the Penthesilea theme from Greek mythology is one of the most fascinating images produced by French surrealism (lot 11, € 20/25,000). In the context of the social documentary Photographie Humaniste, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s famous photograph of two couples relaxing on the banks of the Marne River was taken at about the same time (lot 10, €8/12,000).
A considerable part of the photographic production of the 20th century is due to the field of applied, commissioned photography. It is represented in our catalogue by Horst P. Horst’s famous fashion photo of the Mainbocher Corset (lot 12, € 10/15,000) or Julius Shulman’s night shot of the spectacular Case Study House #22 (lot 17, € 10/15,000). | | |
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| | Lot 1705
ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)
"Photographs", 1976-1979. Portfolio with 12 original-photographs.
Gelatin silver prints on Agfa paper. Slightly later prints, printed under the supervision of Chris Makos.
The prints each 50 x 40.5 cm, image dimensions approx. 42 x 29.5 cm (vertical and horizontal formats)
One of 250 hand-numbered copies.
CHF 25 000 / 40 000 | | | | | | | | | | | | Auction:
Monday 2 December 2019, 3:30 pm
Preview in Zurich: Thu 28 November: 10am-9pm Wed 27 November – Sun 1 December 2019: 10am–6pm Hardturmstrasse 102, 8031 Zurich
Online Catalogue:
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | The focus of this December's Photography auction at Koller is clearly on portrait photography. Featured is Andy Warhol’s portfolio "Photographs" with 12 original photographs (lot 1705, CHF 25,000/40,000). Consisting of social photos of stars and celebrities, they include portraits of Liza Minelli in her bathrobe in her dressing room, Bianca Jagger getting a spa treatment, Salvador Dali with Ultra Violet, the fashion designer Roy Halston imitating a woman, Tennessee Williams and Lester Persky hugging, Peter Malatesta gazing at Monique van Vooren’s cleavage, Henry Kissinger and Elisabeth Taylor kissing each other on the cheek, Truman Capote lying on the sofa at home and Pope John Paul II greeting believers. Among them is also a self-portrait of Andy Warhol, who with this work places himself in the same class as the other prominent personalities.
Three one-of-a-kind photographs by Warhol will also be offered in the sale: Polaroids of Toni Schumacher (lots 1702 and 1703, CHF 1,500/2,000 and 1,500/2,500) and Paul Anka (lot 1704, CHF 2,000/3,000). The latter is also signed by the Canadian singer. Another outstanding portfolio shows Pablo Picasso at bullfights in Fréjus, Arles and Nîmes together with friends and family (lot 1697, CHF 15,000/25,000).
This assemblage of 45 original photographs by Lucien Clergue comes from the former collection of the art collector and author of the definitive catalogue of Picasso's graphic works, Georges Bloch (1901–1984). Also in the realm of portrait photography is an ingeniously composed nude photograph of Kate Moss in Marrakech by Albert Watson (lot 1709, CHF 6,000/9,000). The photograph evades precise categorization, and is simultaneously a still life, a landscape, a portrait and a fashion photograph.
Contemporary photography is represented by major photographers such as Thomas Ruff (lots 1714 – CHF 7,000/10,000 –, 1719 and 1720), Nobuyoshi Araki (lots 1712 and 1713), Luigi Ghirri (lots 1723 and 1724), Vik Muniz (lot 1718, CHF 8,000/12,000) and Richard Misrach (lot 1735, CHF 2,400/3,200). The latter shows the Golden Gate Bridge on a particular day and time from a vantage point on the photographer's porch, an excerpt from his three-year project.
In the field of classical photography in this sale, works by Robert Frank (lot 1678, CHF 5,000/8,000), Balthasar Burkhard (lots 1653 and 1654), Geraldo de Barros (lots 1642 and 1643) and Mario Giacomelli (lots 1646 –1650) deserve special mention. In addition, some interesting photographs from the early work of the Hungarian photographer André Kertész (lots 1668–1692) are also on offer.
As usual, the offer is broadly diversified, including works of historical and travel photography with some exciting daguerreotypes (lots 1601–1610), stereo photographs (lots 1611 and 1612) and views of China by William Pryor Floyd (lots 1614–1616). Swiss photography is represented by a series of winter portraits by Albert Steiner, Emanuel Gyger and Arnold Klopfenstein.
Alongside to the main auction, Koller will once again hold an online-only auction. Bidding opens on 25 November and closes on 10 December. Here, too, there are some attractive lots by well-known names such as Martin Parr, Florence Henri, Louis Stettner, Man Ray, Erich Lessing and László Moholy-Nagy. | | |
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| | | | | | | | Bamako Encounters - Streams of Consciousness | | | | | | | | 30 November 2019 – 31 January 2020 | | | | Opening reception: Saturday 30 November | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 12th edition of the Bamako Encounters - African Biennale of Photography—the singular photographic and lens-based art biennale on the African continent—will run in Bamako, Mali, from November 30, 2019 to January 31, 2020, celebrating its 25 years of existence since the first edition in 1994.
Conceived by Artistic Director Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and a curatorial team comprised of Aziza Harmel, Astrid Sokona Lepoultier and Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, joined by artistic advisors Akinbode Akinbiyi, Seydou Camara and scenographer Cheick Diallo this edition is an invitation to think about the artistic practice of photography as a stream of consciousness, as well as to consider photography beyond the tight corset of the photographic. The moment of a snapshot emanates from a flow of thoughts and associations reflecting the photographer’s inner voice, which is unavoidably and constantly in motion.
Titled Streams of Consciousness, after the eponymous 1977 record by Abdullah Ibrahim and Max Roach, the Biennale will employ multiple understandings of how such streams can be used as photographic tools. Tools that bridge the African continent with its various diasporas, in addition to conveying cultures and epistemologies. "Africa" has, after all, long ceased to be a concept limited to the geographical space called Africa. Africa as a planetary concept relates to people of African origin, the I & I, that are spread over the world in Asia, Oceania, Europe, the Americas and the African continent.
The exhibition will apply the notion of the stream of consciousness as a metaphor for the flux of ideas, peoples, cultures that flow across and along with rivers like the Niger, Congo, Nile or Mississippi.
This edition of the Biennale listens carefully to remoteness, invisible matters, hitherto erased voices and images, as well as celebrating politics and poetics of (in)animate ecosystems. It deliberates on the role of collectives in African photographic practices, and the possibility of collectively telling our own stories through images, arguing for the fact that in society we are not individuals, but dividuals: divisible entities that together make up a larger collective. In an effort to go beyond the frame of photography as a visual experience, this Biennale will engage with the textuality, the tangibility, the performativity and especially the sonicity of photography. The sonic properties of photography are envisioned as a stream of consciousness wherein the photographic and phonographic intersect. How can we understand the lyricism of the photographic in that space of cognitive flux? The stream in streams of consciousness is a spectrum that encompasses the conscious and unconscious and forms a space in which the notions of consciousness and unconsciousness collapse into each other. | | |
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| | | | | | | | A CHANCE FOR THE UNPREDICTABLE | | | | | | | | 30 November 2019 – 3 January 2020 | | | | Opening reception: Friday 29 November | | | | | | | | | | | | | The year 2019 marks the fifteenth year of Lianzhou’s photographic journey. Since 2005, the festival has gained international recognition as the most professional photography festival in China. In 2017 this ambition has been taken on by the Lianzhou Museum of Photography that opened in the city’s historical centre, granting China its first public institution devoted to the medium.
This year we commemorate this anniversary with the joint opening of Lianzhou Foto Festival’s fifteenth edition and Lianzhou Museum of Photography’s Winter program. The theme of the festival ‘A Chance for the Unpredictable’ will pay homage to photography’s practice and malpractice with an international theme exhibition under the curatorship of Swiss Foundation for Photography Peter Pfrunder. Alongside the theme exhibition will be over 50 solo and group shows presenting local and overseas talents. Meanwhile the LMP will unveil four solo exhibitions from Chinese, French and Indian photographers. During the opening days, Lianzhou will hold a curated program of events and become a platform for discussion for Chinese and international photographers, curators, journalists, academics and enthusiasts. | | |
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| | | | | | 7th International Photography Festival | | | | | | | Thu 28 Nov 20:00
28 Nov – 7 Dec 2019 | | | | | |
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| | | LUCIA NIMCOVA & SHOLTO_DOBIE, still from the series BAJKA 2016 | | | | | | | TAXED TO THE MAX | | | | | | | | ... until 1 December 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 26th edition of the festival examines the societal tensions created by international conglomerates with their vast accumulations of capital and their influence on national and global politics. TAXED TO THE MAX asks: how does the increasingly perfected entanglement of corporatism, finance capital and modern government affect the lives of regular people?
With the 34 participants, the festival presents a refreshing mix of photo series, mixed media, video and sound installations, performances, and spatial work on this theme.
TAXED TO THE MAX
...at least you are not afraid to live life on the brink of chaos
Alan Gignoux | Anika Schwarzlose | Bérangère Fromont | Brigitte de Langen | Coralie Vogelaar | David Klammer | Davide Monteleone | Dorothée Elisa Baumann | Ezio D’Agostino | Gina Peyran Tan | Glenna Gordon | Igor Tereshkov | Ishan Tankha | Ivar Veermäe | John Vink | Jos Jansen | Joseph Rodríguez | Kanad Chakrabarti | Lana Mesić | Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping | Mari Bastashevski | Mark Curran | Martin Toft | Marvin Leuvrey | Michele Borzoni | Oliver Ressler & Zanny Begg | Sergey Novikov & Max Sher | Sven Johne | Thomas Kuijpers | Tony Fouhse | Ursula Biemann Mentorship young curators: George Knegtel & Laura Carbonell Reyes
A new Noorderlicht initiative is a mentorship for young curators who are invited to curate an exhibition that will flank the festival. With this mentorship program Noorderlicht realizes the ambition to not only produce exhibitions and festivals, but to also facilitate the photographic community, invest in emerging voices and share its experience and knowledge. George Knegtel (Netherlands, 1992) and Laura Carbonell Reyes (Colombia, 1986) have been selected for this pilot edition. For their exhibition, they have invited the following participants.
Daniël Siegersma | Keijiro Kai | Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan & Tolin Alexander | Lucia Nimcova & Sholto Dobie | Marcos Ávila Forero | Roberto Huarcaya | | |
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| | | | | | | | © Johanna Heldebro, Night Watch II, from To Come Within Reach of You (Gunnar Heldebro, Hässelby Strandväg 55, 165 65 Hässelby, Sweden), 2009 |
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Chapter Two: 17 OCT - 21 DEC | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Mondi| Lucca | | | | | | | – 8 Dec 2019 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | International Photography Festival | | | | | | | – 31 Dec 2019 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Terra Nostra - The Age of the Anthropocenee | | | | | | | – 5 Jan 2020 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | IMAGINED COMMUNITIES | | | | | | | – 2 Feb 2020 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | Every Step in the Right Direction | | | | | | | – 22 Mar 2020 | | | | | |
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| | | | | | 72 DAYS OF FREE ART | | | | | | | – 1 Dec 2019 | | | | | |
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| | Luo Yang, Chen Nienying & Ho Tingshao, 2019, Hong Kong. Courtesy of the artist.
China Pulse 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | – 5 January 2020 | | | | The 2019 Jimei × Arles Festival will kick off with an Opening Weekend (November 22-24) full of events and activities for photography professionals, art lovers and the general public: portfolio reviews conducted by renowned professionals, lectures, performances and guided tours by artists and curators. | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival celebrates its 5th anniversary this year alongside Rencontres d’Arles celebrating its 50th anniversary!
Since 2015, Les Rencontres d’Arles (France), travel to China with the Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival in Xiamen! Each Winter, Jimei x Arles shows 8 exhibitions coming from Rencontres d’Arles alongside 20 Chinese and Asian photography exhibitions – with a focus on India this year. The festival also promotes Chinese talents on an international scale, with its Discovery Award, shown in Arles every year.
The fifth Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival will take place in Xiamen from 22 November 2019 to 5 January 2020. Co-created in 2015 by Chinese pioneer photographer RongRong (also the founder of China’s first ever photography museum Three Shadows Photography Art Centre) and Sam Stourdzé, the director of the world’s most important international photo festival, Rencontres d’Arles (France), Jimei x Arles has become a must-see event for photo lovers in China, and attracted more than 230,000 visitors in the last years (70,000 in 2018). | | |
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