The 11th African Biennale of Photography

Organised by the Malian Ministry of Culture and the Institut français, and directed by Samuel Sidibé, Director of the National Museum of Mali, Les Rencontres de Bamako is the leading international platform dedicated to contemporary photography and new images in Africa.

The 11th African Biennale of Photography, will take place from December 2, 2017 to January 31, 2018, with professional days from December 2–5, 2017.

The full list of the artists selected for the Pan-African exhibition is available online.

www.rencontres-bamako.com

Lianzhou (CN) Photography

Lianzhou's International Photography Festival is not opening only the festival, but also a permanent museum.

www.lianzhoufoto.com/

The Lianzhou Museum of Photography will open to the public together with the festival on 2nd of December 2017.

lmop.org.cn

Deutsche Börse Photography
Foundation Prize 2018

The four artists shortlisted for the 21st edition of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize are
Mathieu Asselin » Rafal Milach » Batia Suter »
Luke Willis Thompson » . The winner will be announced at a special award ceremony in May 2018 at The Photographers' Gallery in London.
Works by the shortlisted photographers will be exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery London from 23 February until 3 June 2018 and subsequently tour to the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main as part of the triennial RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/Rhein Main.

deutscheboersephotographyfoundation.org

Miami Beach 2017

On Tuesday Dec 5 Art Miami and Context started the Art Week Miami 2017, Art Basel Miami Beach on Wednesday Dec 6 and PULSE on Thurs Dec 7.
More than 500 exhibitors will exhibit more than 1,000 artworks in photography and videoart.

From 7 - 10 Dec The Miami Street Photography Festival 2017 is presenting the best of contemporary street and documentary photography.

Guy Bourdin » Image Maker

While Bourdin found a prime client in French designer Charles Jourdan starting in 1967, Newton photographed the collections of clients such as Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Thierry Mugler, Mario Valentino, and Blumarine, parallel to his magazine editorials. Newton called himself in self-irony “A Gun for Hire,” a term then used for the title of the exhibition of his commissioned work shown posthumously in 2005 in Monaco and Berlin and later in Budapest. A selection of this project will now be shown again at the Helmut Newton Foundation – for the first time juxtaposed with the works of his notable French colleague, Guy Bourdin.

Guy Bourdin was a painter all his life and an auto-didact photographer; his career spanned over three decades since his debut editorial in 1955. He was also an instinctive Surrealist, a creator of enigmatic narratives and a sophisticated art director. He extended the possibilities of what a fashion photograph might be by creating images that were, cinematic and unforgettable with intense interplay of light and shadow, hyper real colors and tight composition. Entitled "Image Maker" the exhibition introduces works by Guy Bourdin from various publications, iconic and lesser-known images alongside his visionary advertising for Charles Jourdan shoes. Both formally and contextually Bourdin presented shoes and other fashion products in challenging ways, by mainly using it as double spreads that resound today modern beyond their commercial context.

On the occasion of the exhibition the book "Guy Bourdin. Image Maker", with an introduction by Shelly Verthime (curator of the Guy Bourdin Estate) and a text by Matthias Harder (curator of the Helmut Newton Foundation), will be published by Assouline, Paris / New York; 10 x 13 in – 25.4 x 33 cm, 260 pages, over 150 photographs, 4 illustrations, hardcover, ISBN: 9781614286356, $150 – €150 – £110

Helmut Newton » A Gun for Hire

Angelo Marino » Another Story

Margot Wallard » NATTEN

The exhibition with the title "NATTEN", bearing the same name, now presents some impressive photographs of the project and for the first time presents the photo book by Margot Wallard, edited and designed by Greger Ulf Nilsson, published in July 2017 by Max Ström Verlag. "NATTEN" depicts Wallard's very personal confrontation with the combined emotions of death. The mourning for the deceased, the fear of oblivion, but also the desire for (self-)healing, reflect Margot Wallard's photographs in a dark way and at the same time in unspeakable beauty.

"I needed to look death in the face; I found in nature a way of re-poetising it, a place and a quiet calm where I could express the process of questioning what I had just been through. I recorded reality, expressed in its purest form, I scans the things around me the organic material, vegetable or minéral and dead animals I found on my expeditions. By using this means of recording reality in its pure expression, I find a different way of coming to grips with it."

Evelyn Hofer » CITIES, INTERIORS, STILL LIFES

Evelyn Hofer worked as a photographer starting in the mid-1940s. Her work is inextricably bound up with the books she illustrated in the late 1950s and 1960s for acclaimed authors such as Mary McCarthy and V.S. Pritchett. Her work in those years unforgettably evokes the atmosphere of places like Florence, London, Spain, New York, Washington and Dublin. In 1986, Evelyn Hofer took a similar approach in her series, Emerson in Italy. Her photographs are also well-known from their appearance in such magazines as Life, London Times Magazine and New York Times Magazine. And yet, she is still "the most famous 'unknown' photographer in America."

Evelyn Hofer was uncompromising in her commitment to honesty and directness in her pictures and exhibited a deep empathy and understanding that allowed her to bring out the innate beauty in her subjects. She seemed to have an intuitive talent for getting to the essence of each object or person she photographed. One senses that she took plenty of time to get to know her subject before taking up her camera. She needed time to arrive at where she wanted to be, to become part of what she was trying to capture or to generate a certain intimacy with her subject. This meant for her - and through her photographs, for us, as well - apprehending the underlying nature of her subject. Until she discovered just what that was, she was not ready to ta…

Sammy Slabbinck » Surreality Check

Slabbinck’s collages are often published as illustrations and have been featured in The New Yorker, The Telegraph and Der Spiegel. He has also made the artwork for many album covers, among which is You Want it Darker by Leonard Cohen.

Lucien Clergue » Unforgettable masterpieces

Among the topics are the “nudes of the sea” and the “vines”, that were exhibited in New York at the MoMA in 1961, on an invitation of Edward Steichen for the exhibition « Diogenes with a camera V ». A graphic series called “corn” has been added to the set. These vintage prints were all made by the author in his dark room and glazed on mirrors, which give them a very particular texture.

The selection also showcases modern silver prints, showing the dreamlike side of Lucien Clergue with acrobats in the ruins of Arles, gypsies and Jean Cocteau in the « Testament of Orpheus ».

These photographs are presented in Luxembourg for the first time.

Ruby Rumié » Weaving Streets

This new body of work was born from a chance encounter between the artist, Ruby Rumié, and Dominga Torres Tehran, a woman who for more than 45 years has walked the city streets selling fish. Dominga caught the attention of the artist for her unique and natural beauty. For nearly half a century this woman worked unnoticed, but at that moment, she completely captivated Rumié.

Weaving Streets is an attempt to rescue women like Dominga from oblivion and invisibility - women who have spent valuable years of their lives as ambulant street vendors, permanently wandering the neighborhoods of the city. Aptly named, "Weaving Streets" references the phrase used by grandmothers to describe those who walked the city streets often.

Rumié’s goal is to present new views on the vendors and their environment. The viewer’s encounter with these women will be different for the exhibition – it will be special. Viewers will see for the first time what has always been there, like running a thin veil between the visible and the invisible, a veil of old and constant stereotypes that keep us numb, or blind, so we ignore the marvelous and different realities.

"Problems such as gender violence, gentrification, social barriers and discrimination constitute a constant concern which I attempt to uncover through my work, by means of large installations where I use repetition as a platform for protest; bodies as objects of mass consumption that reveal the disappearance of our intangible heritage, and photographs to suggest the enigma of social stratification, all of these…

Gérard Musy » l’oeil fertile

With this exhibition, the Swiss photographer, now living in Paris, offers us a journey through forty years of prints, playing with reflections and echoes between his images. We follow one photograph after another through visual links and this repetition of formal elements gives a sense of flow, an uninterrupted visual sequence. In this world of appearances, of women in finery, he makes an exhibition of beauty, a play of figurative rhythms, in a precarious balance between order and chaos.

Gerard Musy went back to his archives for this exhibition, looking for vintage prints, mostly unpublished. Large spectacular prints echo on the walls of the gallery in a shock of colours, graphic lines, shadows and lights. Beyond, Lustre, Lamées, Leaves, Lontano/ Lejano and Back to Backstage, a composition of images unfolds, random snapshots of reality, sensual light bursts, in a true photographic euphoria!

Claus Goedicke » Dinge

He presents the objects singly, frontally, up close, and in even daylight that accentuates their plasticity. Unlike commercial photography, which uses similar means, the objects do not appear to be immaculate or brand new. Their limpid beauty stems from their straightforward functionality and signs of wear. Carefully chosen backdrops, which themselves show signs of wear and tear—crumpled, scratched, and yellowed—lend the objects their own identity, a back story, and the photographs a certain portrait character.

Goedicke's collection is made up of images, not objects. If we focus our attention on these photographs, they give us something in return: the certain knowledge that we can halt the rattle of life through the act of attention.

SITUATIONS | POST FAIL

Adam Basanta » Felicity Hammond » Joey Holder » IOCOSE » Michael Mandiberg » Jon Rafman » Harm van den Dorpel » ...

"SITUATIONS/Post Fail" is guest-curated by Matteo Cremonesi, in cooperation with the Link Art Center, Brescia. More Information: www.linkartcenter.eu

The show will feature works by Adam Basanta, Discipula, Peter Halley, Felicity Hammond, Joey Holder, IOCOSE, Michael Mandiberg, Jon Rafman, Harm van den Dorpel and a video contribution by the art critic Joanne McNeil.

All SITUATIONS within the cluster “Post Fail” (#101 to #110) will be accessible online from 28 November 2017: situations.fotomuseum.ch

SITUATIONS/Post Fail is kindly supported by Art Mentor Foundation Lucerne.

Balthasar Burkhard »

The legendary city photographs by Balthasar Burkhard were first shown at the 48th Venice Biennale in 1999 and 1999 at the Fabian & Claude Walter Gallery in Basel. The exhibition was curated by Harald Szeemann, with whom Burkhard had been associated since the 1960s through professional cooperation and close personal friendship. From 1961 to 1969, when Szeemann was director of the Kunsthalle Bern, Burkhard was a photographer who assisted him in the realisation of posters and catalogues as well as in the documentation of exhibitions. From 1969 to 1970 Burkhard worked with Markus Raetz. Together, they conceived a series of photo canvases that made Burkhard famous as a pioneer of monumental black-and-white photography. In 1970, the works were first shown in a museum exhibition, the show "Visualized Thinking Processes", curated by Jean Christophe Amman, at the Kunstmuseum Luzern.

In 1977, Burkhard presented his works for the first time in a solo exhibition at the Zolla Liebermann Gallery in Chicago, where he was a visiting professor at the University of Illinois from 1976 to 1978. After his return to Switzerland, he had his first solo exhibitions in museums at the Centre d' Art Contemporain in Geneva (1980) and at the Kunsthalle Basel (1983). Burkhard showed two sensational female nudes stretching over more than 13 metres. In the 1980s, plants appeared as motifs in Burkhard's work alongside human bodies. In the 1990s, a series of animal photograph…

Annelies Štrba » Madonnas

Annelies Štrba has been fascinated by the variety of Virgin Mary's representations since her youth and has created an extensive archive of Mary's representations over the years. Using modern technical aids, the artist succeeds in transforming the classic "Madonna picture" into the present day.

The Madonna pictures of Annelies Štrba show St. Mary not as the Mother of God, but as the ideal representative of her family. In the personification of the divine, the artist draws an image of femininity that lifts the once religious intention into an abstract sphere. The digital alienation, the almost ecstatic colouring stages a projection screen for emotions. Štrba adopts the Madonna as her own, hides the transcendent to a large extent and concentrates on the empathic emphasis of the mother-child relationship, the interpersonal.

With the choice of the role model, the Mother of Jesus Christ, Štrba lays out the role of the woman as a painful and deprived person, but also marked by purity, tenderness and kindness. Originally, these facets were laid out in Mary's composition and facial expressions, but the artist reinforces or alienates them through her colour filters and the removal of contours and contrasts - the dissolving figures lose their own luminosity. Annelies Štrba thus opens up a wide range of interpretation possibilities.

(Text: Matthias Becher, arnoldsche ART PUBLISHERS, Stuttgart)

Large photos each 217,5 × 174 cm (85 5/8 × 68 1/2 in.),
small photos each 34,8 × 27,8 cm (13 3/4 × 11 in.).

Estimate: EUR 80.000 – 120.000 / USD 94,200 – 141,000

Modern and Contemporary Photographs

Émile Zola Photographer

Books & Manuscripts

Worldwide renowned for his great humanistic commitment with the article J'accuse published during the Dreyfus affair, his activity as an amateur photographer is less known to the general public.

Besides his immense literary work, in the last years of his life (from 1894 - 1902), Émile Zola practiced photography as an enlightened amateur.

As he personally knew great photographers of the 19th century (Nadar, Carjat, Pierre Petit), he discovered the practice of that medium during his vacation in Royan during the 1888 summer. A few years later, he immersed himself in what will become a real passion for him. He bought several cameras, and set up not less than three photographic laboratories in his numerous residences. He photographed his daily family life, his double life, but also his friends, his dogs, the bike rides, his travels abroad, his exile in England or even the Universal Exhibition of 1900.

The photographs presented at auction come from his grandson François Émile-Zola’s former collection and include:

• two exceptional daguerreotypes of Émile Zola as a child
• 7 albums made by the writer himself, including a beautiful one offered to Jeanne, the mother of his children, as a tribute to them
• an important selection of vintage prints by Émile Zola covering all the years of his photographic practice
• numerous portraits of Émile Zola by the greatest studios of this time
• numerous self-portraits of the writer
• negative glass plates
• cameras and laboratory coats

This important archive was shown during several museum exhibitions and displayed in the reference book by François Émile-Zola and Massin, "Zola Photographer", Denoël, Paris, 1979, reprinted at Hoëbeke in 1990.

Bassenge Photography Auction 110

Nobuyoshi Araki » Eugène Atget » Edouard Baldus » Max Baur » Felice Beato » Bernd & Hilla Becher » Sibylle Bergemann » Édouart Boubat » Harry Callahan » František Drtikol » Walker Evans » Lee Friedlander » Mario Giacomelli » Lewis Hine » Yevgeny Khaldei (Chaldej) » Germaine Krull » Jacques-Henri Lartigue » NASA » Alexander Rodchenko » August Sander » ...

Lempertz - Photography

Online Catalogue: Photography

Online Catalogue: Heinrich Kühn. Sixty Photographs

Preview: Saturday 25th November 10:00 – 16:00 | Sunday 26th November 11:00 – 15:00 |
Monday 27th Nov – Thursday 30th November 10:00 – 17:30

Lempertz - Photography

Preview: Saturday 25th November 10:00 – 16:00 | Sunday 26th November 11:00 – 15:00 |
Monday 27th Nov – Thursday 30th November 10:00 – 17:30

The Contemporary Photography offer showcases a broad range of international artists: The Korean photographer Kim In Sook is represented by two works from her well known series of nocturnal building facades, one mounted over a lightbox (lot 645/646, €25,000 – 30,000 and €30,000 – 40,000). The Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra is known for presenting her subjects alone in the centre of the image before a neutral background. The two works in this sale both depict young girls and were taken in Brighton, England and Odessa, Ukraine (lot 869/870, €5,000 – 6,000 and €15,000 – 20,000). Photographs by Nan Goldin (lot 789, €3,500 – 4,500), Tina Barney (lot 468/469, each €4,000 – 6,000), and Doug Hall (lots 741 – 743, from €3,500 – 4,500 to €6,000 – 8,000) demonstrate the diversity of American photographic art.

Photography

Lai Afong » Richard Avedon » Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood) » Henri Cartier-Bresson » František Drtikol » Robert Frank » Emanuel Gyger » Emil Meerkämper » Marco Pellanda » Lawrence Schiller » Albert Steiner » Bert Stern » Michael Wesely » ...

The auction continues with classic photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson (lots 1695-1696 & 1700), a unique glass negative by Frantisek Drtikol (lot 1710), portraits of Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern (lots 1846 & 1847), Lawrence Schiller (1844 & 1845) and Bruno Bernard (lots 1835-1839), and contemporary photographies with large-format “Marcotypes“ from the Zurich-based photographer Marco Pellanda (lots 1888, 1899-1901 & 1921) and a monumental floral still life by Michael Wesely (lot 1890).

A highlight of the Photography auction is a collection of 19 portraits by Richard Avedon, which he created in 1998-2001 for an advertising campaign by Winterthur Insurance International. This series comes from a Swiss private collection, and it is the first time that it has been offered publicly in this format. The photographs will be sold individually , and depict personalities such as Nikki Lauda, Giovanni Agnelli, Desmond Tutu, Naomi Campbell, Richard Avedon and Donald Trump.

The top lot of the auction is the rare view “London 1951” by Robert Frank (lot 1702), in which the photographer depicts the social disparities in the British class society.