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Bernd and Hilla Becher, Hochöfen, Vereinigte Staaten, Deutschland, Frankreich, Luxemburg, Belgien (Blast Furnaces, United States, Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium), 1968-93 (detail). Courtesy the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, © Estate of Bernd and Hilla Becher

Becher Show Goes West: Following its run at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the posthumous retrospective Bernd & Hilla Becher opens at SFMOMA on December 17. The German artists photographed examples of disappearing industrial architecture throughout Europe and North America, including blast furnaces, grain silos, cooling towers, as well as houses. Using a large-format camera, they created photographic grids they referred to as “typologies” and employed a rigorous, minimal approach that influenced the next generation of photographers.

SOHO PHOTO GALLERY New York City Moving Forward: The Future of Photography, the 13 to 30 Competition Winners Opening December 15, reception December 17, 5-7 pm GALERIE BENE TASCHEN Cologne Donnie Molls: Palms and Places Opening December 15

THROCKMORTON FINE ART New York City Luis Gonzàlez Palma: Mirada Opening December 15 BILDHALLE ZURICH Zurich Philipp Keel: In Other Words Opening December 15, 6-9 pm

EN FOCO AT BRONX KREATE HUB Bronx, NY Memoria Impressa: Posters from the En Foco Archive Opening December 16, reception December 17, 6-8 pm GALERIE CAROLINE O’BREEN Amsterdam Hans Bol, Lucas Leffler Opening December 17

The December issue of photograph is online now!

Interview: Renate Aller’s Immersive Landscapes, by Lyle Rexer

Renate Aller, Alaska Valdez Range, August 2017. Courtesy the artist

Aller: I grew up in Hamburg and early on I was exposed to Caspar David Friedrich’s famous image of the monk contemplating the sea [The Monk by the Sea (1808-10)]. But instead of placing a person into the land like his monk, I put the viewer in the position of that figure. The landscapes I am presenting ask the viewer to perform, to be present. They demand attention. People stay longer in front of these works. … more

Review: Boris Mikhailov: Ukrainian Newspaper at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, by Iris Mandret

Boris Mikhailov, from the series Dance, 1978. ©Boris Mikhailov, VG Bild-Kunst, courtesy Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève

A self-taught photographer under the Soviet regime in Ukraine, Boris Mikhailov has been making experimental photographic work about social and political subjects for more than 50 years, dismantling propaganda with a sharp undercurrent of sarcasm. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, his studio was regularly searched by the KGB, who suspected him of being a spy, and his images were censored by the regime because they were considered subversive. Those pictures, however, made him one of the most influential contemporary artists in Eastern Europe. Ukrainian Newspaper, on view at MEP through January 15, 2023, is the largest and most exhaustive retrospective of the photographer’s work to date. … more

Review: Jess T. Dugan: Look at me like you love me, at CLAMP, by Elyssa Goodman

©Jess T. Dugan, Oskar and Zach (embrace), 2020. Courtesy the artist and CLAMP

Dugan’s work has long been an exercise in queer representation, and their subjects exist on a spectrum of gender and sexual identity. In these images of individuals and couples, Dugan creates a sense of intimacy between the viewer and subject. Influenced early on by portrait photographers including Catherine Opie, Dugan suggests that presenting oneself, unedited, in front of the camera can be a radical act. “I want to tell you things; I want you to know my story,” Dugan writes in the exhibition’s wall text. “There is so much I can’t say in my photographs, though it’s all there, just below the surface, if you know what to look for.” … more

Torrance York, from the series Semaphore.

The Griffin Museum of Photography is hosting two artist talks this week: On December 13, 6:30-8 pm, Torrance York will do a book-signing and an artist talk about her book Semaphore (Kehrer Verlag, 2022); and on December 14, 7 pm, on Zoom, Lyn Swett Miller will give an artist talk about her series Muse and Metaphor.

Elisabeth Sherman

Elisabeth Sherman has been named the new senior curator and director of exhibitions at the International Center of Photography (ICP). Currently at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Sherman begins her new post on January 17, 2023. She has curated and co-curated such exhibitions as Time Management Techniques, on view at the Whitney through January 8, 2023, and Dawoud Bey: An American Project, which traveled from 2019 to 2022. In Cincinnati, FotoFocus founding Executive Director Mary Ellen Goeke has announced that she is retiring at the end of 2022; she will be succeeded by FotoFocus Biennial Director Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth. FotoFocus is planning to build a new center for photography and lens-based art in Cincinnati. Congratulations to Priscilla Aleman, who has been named the recipient of the 2023 Baxter St. x YoungArts Residency. Aleman’s interdisciplinary practice retraces ideas around the body as a vessel, the afterlife, Pre-Columbian cosmology, and the interplay of cultures from the global south.

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