In the newly opened space dedicated to the collection of the famous fashion designer agnès b., photography dialogues with every form of visual art. La Fab in Paris offers a fresh look at works of photography which we find scattered throughout the venue.
Thomas Sauvin is one of the recurring names in today’s vernacular photography. This French artist and long-time resident of China has given new life to negatives found in a landfill in northern Beijing through daring exhibitions and publications. A sprawling project that enables viewers to discover photographs of anonymous people from the Middle Kingdom.
A world traveler, cab driver, and teacher, Nelly Rau-Häring is, above all, a photographer. Born in Switzerland in 1947 she made Berlin her home in the mid-1960s. Like no one else, she recorded the city’s life, boredom, joie-de-vivre, struggle, and exuberance. A selection of her photos of West and East Berlin spanning over four decades are showcased in at f3–freiraum für fotografie in Berlin.
To celebrate an expanded edition of American Prospects (first ed. 1987), released by Steidl in November, the Xippas Gallery is showcasing for the first time thirteen photographs selected by the artist.
Considered to be one of the major figures in Italian photography, Guido Guidi has spent years exploring northern Italian landscapes. In his latest book, In Veneto, 1984–89, published this fall by Mack, he brings out a series devoted to the eponymous region. We visit the artist whose Italy doesn’t fit into postcards.
Regarded as the most celebrated French photographer working today, Valérie Belin explores surface, identity and artificiality in her work. Each of these themes is given prominence in her latest series Reflection, which was commissioned by the V&A in London, and takes its inspiration from the museum archives
Until April 20, the Lyon gallery Le Réverbère brings together the works of four photographers who share similar concerns. Serge Clément, Baudoin Lotin, Julien Magre, and Bernard Plossu are all tireless gold seekers, obsessed by the Abstract poetry of the real.
The work of this iconic photographer is now on display at the Hayward Gallery in London, with over a hundred early images, for the most part printed by the artist.
An exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Paris traces a prolific decade in the work of the Italian photographer. A pioneer of color photography, Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) was able to turn photography into an instrument for better capturing “earth writing” and the “architecture of the ephemeral.”
