Stephen Cohen Gallery announces a new show, "Immaterial World," an exhibition of images exploring the provocative and haunting intersections of photography and the supernatural. The show will include a selection of the earliest "spirit" photographs of the Victorian era which saw the rise of photography as a new and exciting technology ripe for exploration—and exploitation. A group of contemporary work will provide a counterpoint to the early images and demonstrate modern photographers’ con…

Running concurrent with the J. Paul Getty Museum retrospective, the Stephen Cohen Gallery features a wide range of Teske’s work, stretching from early black-and-white documentary images of street scenes and found objects, to impressionistic red-grey-brown duotone solarizations, to his signature surreal images that beautifully blur the lines between reality and fantasy. A pioneering visual artist, Teske was born in Chicago in 1911, where his childhood interest in photography grew into a 60-year…