Don McCullin | Tate Britain London

Tate Britain presents a comprehensive retrospective of the legendary British photographer Don McCullin with over 250 photographs.
Tate Britain: February 5th – May 6th 2019

To coincide with this major retrospective Hamiltons, London will be celebrating Sir Don McCullin’s lifetime achievement and decades of collaboration by exhibiting rare and unseen vintage prints dating back to the 1950s.
Hamiltons: January 30th – April 24th, 2019

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A collaborative platform that links the international photography community; World-class artists / photographers, galleries, dealers, & publishers.

Thursday, January 31st - Sunday, February 3rd
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Thursday, January 31 (6pm - 9pm)

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artgenève 2019

artgenève is an art exhibition, which aims to establish an artistic platform in the - French-speaking Switzerland - at the very forefront of contemporary art, modern art and contemporary design, with more than 100 artists showing photography.

The Centre de la photographie Genève and the Contemporary African Art Collection are presenting Studio Africa – Collection Jean Pigozzi

Thursday, January 31st - Sunday, February 3rd

Saskia de Brauw & Vincent van Wijngaard » Ghosts Don't Walk in Straight Lines

Foam presents the project Ghosts Don’t Walk In Straight Lines by Saskia de Brauw and Vincent van de Wijngaard. For this project Saskia de Brauw, mostly known for her international career as a top model, crossed the streets of New York by foot, walking from North to South in one full day. This slow walk along Manhattan– juxtaposing a city that is in many ways very fast moving – was documented by Vincent van de Wijngaard along with stories and encounters from 225th Street and Broadway all the way down to Battery Park. The walk took Saskia on a journey through Manhattan, crossing many different neighborhoods, sparking observations, thoughts and memories.

This multifaceted project consists of an exhibition, a short film edited by Will Town featuring music by Jim Beard and costume design by Haider Ackermann, as well as an accompanying book designed by Matt Watkins. The book and the film capture New York in a very specific moment in time, where traces of the past are still visible but on the brink of disappearing.

The title of the project refers to Doyers Street, which is a part of the route that Saskia walked. It is a peculiar street, situated in Chinatown and has a sharp bend in the middle. It is said that the street was designed after the zigzagging pathways the Chinese built to ward off evil spirits, who were said to travel only in straight lines and were unable to follow twisted paths. Here its meaning relates to the Manhattan grid. The grid deter­mines our way of moving through the city. When people would choose a natural route they would never walk in straight lines, but the landscape of the city fo…

Robin de Puy » LOVE ME

Unexpected, moving beauty is what links the photos in the exhibition LOVE ME. And in every image De Puy is present. As a photographer she determines who participates in her photographic world, she is the director. And in her world everyone has a very specific, undeniable beauty.

De Puy selects her models based on a very personal criterion: there must be a sense of recognition between her and the person portrayed. They are not weirdos, as she says herself; she is not looking for the sensation of the deviant, like her famous predecessor Diane Arbus did. De Puy is looking for a mental or physical beauty with an edge. The vulnerability of the individual who sometimes is on the margins of society ... Or the deviant beauty of people with a disability or - sometimes literal - scars of life. Robin de Puy is searching for where pain becomes beauty.

She is consistently confronting our preconceived ideas of who belongs and who does not, who meets the social norm and the prevailing ideal image. And last but not least, she is confronting herself. De Puy recognizes herself in the people she portrays. The vulnerability that you feel as an adolescent, when you are insecure and anxious and you wonder whether others will accept you. The fear that life sometimes evokes, the desire to be seen and to be loved.

Stefanie Bürkle »
Studio + Laboratory. Workshops of Knowledge

An exhibition of the Kunstbibliothek and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with Technische Universität Berlin

Bürkle's photographies are space portraits that feature deserted spaces for development and thought, rooms full of materials, tools, experiments, and setups whose purposes remain hidden from the viewer but that nevertheless allow us to imagine great things. The photograph reveals links, interfaces, and parallels between the spatial constitution of laboratories and studios through which the close connection between the two sites of activity – as places for the creation of research and art – become palpable.

Stefanie Bürkle’s photographs are, in a certain way, about the alchemists’ labs of the present time. She explores the analogies between experimentation and process in both the studio and the laboratory, and reveals these workshops of knowledge for the first time.

Don McCullin » PROXIMITY

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Douglas Busch » David Campany » Forensic Architecture » Dieter M. Gräf » Katrin Koenning » Simon Menner » Rosa Roth » Anastasia Samoylova » Joachim Schmid » Alistair Taylor-Young »

Vadim Gushchin » From the Private Library

The exhibition includes works created by the artist over the past three years. Photos of this period are a new stage in the work of Gushchin and at the same time a continuation of the cycle of minimalist still lifes. His focus is centered on the book — an object that has managed to preserve its enduring cultural significance in an era of technological revolutions and the dominance of digital information.

The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography will present the series Paintings (2016), Still Life with Books (2017), Transparent Case (2017), Books in a Box (2017), Books (2018), Still Life (2018). Each of them is based on special compositional principles and laws of the compatibility of shapes and colors. All of them are connected by a single spatial model: the strict geometry and purity of abstract forms refer us to the ideal world of Suprematist objects. By removing the function of the subject, Gushchin strips its uniform, combining everyday objects in abstract minimalist compositions.

"In his aesthetics, he simultaneously revives the two-dimensional world of Malevich and creates a photographic illusion of three-dimensionality," writes art historian Mikhail Sidlin in the introduction to Gushchin's album Everyday Objects / Cultural Treasures (2013).

Gushchin manages to balance on a fine line between abstract and concrete, pure form and substance, symbolic and transient. His chosen principle of catalog is more than a mere enumeration of similar objects—it is a reflection on time, memory and man.

The From the Private Library exhibition will include tours led by the photographer himself.

Polish Photography

Weronika Ławniczak » Anita Andrzejewska » Wiktor Franko » Marcin Giba » Weronika Izdebska » Piotr Komorowski » Bart Krezolek » Arkadiusz Kubisiak » Adam Markowski » Katarzyna Niwińska » Mikolaj Nowacki » Roland Okon » Adam Pańczuk » Tomasz Padlo » Agnieszka Rayss » Tomek Sikora » Lukasz Sokol » Tomasz Tomaszewski » Tomek Tomkowiak » Katarzyna Widmanska » Wojtek Wieteska » Tomasz Wysocki »

Despite these conditions, Poland has a long and illustrious history of creative fine art photography. But unlike its better-known regional neighbors (Germany, Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia), the works of Polish photographers have been less accessible and less known outside the country’s borders.

YourDailyPhotograph.com presents a special 30-day section of contemporary Polish photography, starting January 7, 2019. You will discover some terrific works to collect.

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WINTER IN SWISS PHOTOGRAPHY

Robert Bösch » Guido Baselgia » Werner Bischof » René Burri » Sandro Diener » Philipp Giegel » René Groebli » Douglas Mandry » Bernd Nicolaisen » Arnold Odermatt » Hans Jakob Schönwetter » Daniel Schwartz » Willy Spiller » Albert Steiner » Sabine Weiss »

Winter as a photographic subject has a long tradition in Switzerland. Snow and cold almost completely transform a landscape, concealing many of its characteristics and often reducing them to contrasts, planes and textures. Winter thus invites us to look at a place in a new and different way, to surrender ourselves to the play of light on this blank canvas and to trace the fresh traces. Many artists and photographers feel inspired by this side of winter.

A highlight of the exhibition are the vintage prints by Albert Steiner (1877-1965) from the Kaspar Fleischmann Collection, never shown publicly before and unmatched in their quality and uniqueness. Steiner is followed chronologically by winter pictures of important exponents of Swiss photography: Werner Bischof (1916-1954), René Burri (1933-2014), Arnold Odermatt (*1925), René Groebli (*1927) and Philipp Giegel (1927-1997) and the Swiss-French photographer Sabine Weiss (*1924), who lives in Paris.

These icons of Swiss photography are juxtaposed with more recent positions: for example, Douglas Mandry's unique photographic specimens (photographic lithographs on a glacier cloth) or Sandro Diener's landscapes (*1975).

The exhibition is rounded off with photographs by established Swiss photographers: Robert Bösch (*1954), Guido Baselgia (*1953), Daniel Schwartz (*1955), Willy Spiller (*1947) and Bernd Nicolaisen (*1959). They all know how to translate the breathtaking beauty and existential boundaries of alpine regions into exceptional photographs.