Past
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Blues People
Express Newark 20 Feb - 19 Jul 2024 Inspired by the 60th anniversary of the acclaimed book Blues People: Negro Music in White America by writer, poet, and political activist Leroi Jones, who later renamed himself Amiri Baraka, visual artists – Derrick Adams, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Cesar Melgar, and Accra Shepp – have reimagined a pivotal... Read more -
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965
Bowdoin College Art Museum 24 Jun - 5 Nov 2023 Since the advent of photography in the nineteenth century, artists have used the camera to look at—and to look with—the human subjects in their midst. They have made a practice centered on the figure one of the medium’s leading genres. This interest in bodies in public and private space has... Read more -
Trace - Formations of Likeness
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany 14 Apr - 23 Jul 2023 Examining how photographers across a range of cultures have deployed portraiture as an apparatus for critical investigation throughout the history of the medium, Trace visualises the political and cultural factors that shape individual and collective subjectivities, with a particular focus on the relation between (self-)representation and social constructions of identity.... Read more -
Dissent, Discontent, and Action: Pictures of US
The Spencer Museum of Art at The University of Kansas 18 Feb - 25 Jun 2023 Shepp began photographing the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York’s Zuccotti Park on October 1, 2011. He was drawn to the sea of individuals as a photographic subject, based in part on his observation of the crowd’s diversity: “The press said the movement was predominantly young and white. And... Read more
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Celebrating the City
Museum Of The City Of New York 18 Feb 2022 - 9 Jan 2023 New York City may always be in flux, but shared activities and experiences connect New Yorkers across time and space. For more than a century, many of the world’s best photographers have used their cameras to capture iconic scenes of New Yorkers in action – from mundane daily routines to... Read more -
Feast For The Eyes
The Polygon Gallery, Vancouver, Canada 4 Mar - 30 May 2021 Featuring works by some of the most important artists of the past century, the presentation includes Nobuyoshi Araki, Guy Bourdin, Nan Goldin, Vik Muniz, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Andy Warhol, Weegee, and 50 more. The exhibition foregrounds their images within a history of artistic, commercial, fashion, and science... Read more -
Feast For The Eyes
Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden 29 Feb - 23 Aug 2020 We are what we eat. Food both fuels and shapes our physical bodies from the inside, and acts as an outward expression of our pleasures and our principles. Eating is one of the most mundane and carnal acts, yet it is also central to our rituals, religions, and celebrations. Food... Read more -
Feast for the Eyes – The Story of Food in Photography
The Photographers Gallery, London UK 19 Oct 2019 - 9 Feb 2020 Food has always been a much-photographed and consumed subject, offering a test ground for artistic experimentation and a way for artists to hone their skills. But even the most representative images of food have rarely been straightforward or objective. Food as subject matter is rich in symbolic meaning and across... Read more
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Food For The Eyes
C|O Berlin, Germany 8 Jun - 7 Sep 2019 Food for the Eyes at C/O Berlin presents the varied history of food in photography. The exhibition includes Swiss artist duo Fischli and Weiss’s legendary Sausage Series, showing hot dogs, German sausages, parsley, and pickles arranged as props in a grotesquely absurd scene; fashion photographer Irving Penn’s similarly iconic frozen... Read more -
Feast For They Eyes
FOAM, Amsterdam 21 Dec 2018 - 9 Feb 2019 Feast for the Eyes shows the rich history of food photography - not only in the visual arts, but also in commercial and scientific photography and photojournalism. From the banality of the diner-breakfast special of Stephen Shore to the allegorical still life of Laura Letinsky, from Roger Fenton's extensive nineteenth-century... Read more
