Photograph Exhibitions, Events, & News

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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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Lots of Events

wednesdayjuly6

Plus 1 opens at Sloan Fine Art, 128 Rivington St, at Norfolk, 6-8pm

Ella Kruglyanskaya & Benjamin Senior at James Fuentes, 55 Delancey St, at Eldridge,11am-5pm

On Shuffle opens at Lehmann Maupin, 540 W 26^th St, btw 10^th and 11^th, 6-8pm

thursdayjuly7

Brian Leo and Don Procella open at Christina Ray, 30 Grand St, btw Thompson and 6^th, 7-9pm

The House Without the Door, curated by Kristine Bell, opens at David Zwirner, 525 W 19^th St, btw 10^th and 11^th, 6-8pm

Laura Ball opens at Morgan Lehman, 535 W 22^nd St, btw 10^th and 11^th, 6-8pm

Take Out, curated by Scott Hug, opens at Andrew Edlin, 134 10^th Ave, btw 18^th and 19^th, 6-8pm

Lydia Anne McCarthy opens at Daniel Cooney, 511 W 25^th St, btw 10^th and 11^th, 6-8pm

Cirprian Muresan opens at David Nolan, 527 W 29^th St, btw 10^th and 11^th, 6-8pm

The Beach Beneath the Street at ISSUE Project Room, 232 3^rd St, at 3^rd, 3^rd Fl, 7:30pm, Brooklyn, Free

fridayjuly8

The Wake and Weekend perform at South Street Seaport, 7pm, Free

Summer Sampler opens at Front Room, 147 Roebling St, btw Metropolitan and Hope 7-9pm

Lionel Lamy opens at Live With Animals, 210 Kent Ave, at Metropolitan, 7-10pm

Quiet Places, curated by Sunny Soe, opens at BronxArtSpace, 305 E 140^th St, at 3^rd Ave, Bronx, 5-8pm

saturdayjuly9

Kal Spelletich opens at Jack Hanley, 136 Watts St, btw Washington and Greenwich, 6-8pm

You Were There, curated by Thomas Duncan, opens at Rachel Uffner, 47 Orchard St, btw Grand and Hester, 6-8pm

Intuitive Realities, curated by Jeanne Brasile, opens at Chuchifritos, 120 Essex St, btw Rivington and Delancey, 4-6:30pm

Alan Gaynor opens at Viridian Artists, 530 W 25^th St, 407, btw 10^th and 11^th, 4-7pm

sundayjuly10

Gotham Writers’ Workshop: Fiction with Alison Espach at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince St, at Lafayette, 6pm

Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D screens at IFC Center, 323 6^th Ave, at W 3^rd, 7:15pm

Cheeseburger perform at Beekman Beer Garden, Northside Pier 17, at South St, Brooklyn, 3pm, Free

mondayjuly11

Rachel Mason and Little Band of Sailors perform at Asia Song Society, 45 Canal St, btw Ludlow and Orchard, 8pm, RSVP to asiasongmaggie@gmail.com

Oculus Book Talk: Dickson Despommier at Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Pl, btw 3^rd and Bleecker, 6pm

Rebecca Wolff reads at Book Court, 163 Court St, btw Dean and Pacific, Brooklyn, 7pm

tuesdayjuly12

Invaders from Mars screens at BAM Rose Cinema, 30 Lafayette Ave, btw Flatbush and Fulton, 9:15pm

Ritual opens at Causey Contemporary, 92 Wythe Ave, at N 11^th, 6-9pm

Bad Banana, Tacocat, Forever, Little Victory, and Aye Nako perform at Death By Audio, 49 S 2^nd St, btw Wythe and Kent, 8pm, $7