MuHKA The order of things
In the fall of 2008, the Antwerp museum of contemporary art MuHKA will host an exhibition on the uses of archival images, image archives and image banks (and various other manifestations of a classificatory, encyclopaedic impulse) in contemporary art.
Aug 28, 2008 at 09:44 - discussion - info+

Josef Breitenbach exhibition of vintage photographs
This exhibition will highlight Josef Breitenbach’s avant-garde work from the 1930s and 40s. His use of vibrant color as an expressive tool sets him apart from his contemporaries and earns him a place in the history of art of this period. Breitenbach colored elements of his photographs using complex processes of bleaching, toning and pigment printing.
Aug 27, 2008 at 09:30 - discussion - info+

Michael Thompson exhibition
Part of the fashion continuum from Beaton and Horst through to Avedon and Bourdin, Michael Thompson is known for his extraordinary imagination and clarity, his vivid use of color, as well as his calm and diligence. American Photo named Thompson as one of the most important photographers working today, “renowned for making women look beautiful ... he sees them as art”.
Aug 26, 2008 at 18:07 - discussion - info+

City Spaces: Urban Stories
City Spaces: Urban Stories brings together leading photographers from around the world who have explored the notion of the global landscape. From the minutiae of everyday life through to vast industrial landscapes, each photograph documents the changing face of global living. This exhibition will explore the stories which take place in the shadow the world’s cities.
Aug 25, 2008 at 20:07 - discussion - info+

Elliott Erwitt - Unseen
"Elliott has to my mind achieved a miracle working on a chain-gang of commercial campaigns and still offering a bouquet of stolen photos with a flavor, a smile from his deeper self. " Henri Cartier-Bresson
Aug 25, 2008 at 12:12 - discussion - info+

Marie–Jo Lafontaine 'Come to me!
André Simoens Gallery is pleased to present the Gallery exhibition Come to me! from the Belgian artist Marie – Jo Lafontaine (b. 1950). As the title suggests, this exhibition is an invitation to enter into Lafontaine’s world. A world, existing of pieces generating interlinked stories of, at the same time, beauty and cruelty.
Aug 22, 2008 at 00:12 - discussion - info+

Sabine Richter winter day - summer night
Sabine Richter is a photographer and a sculpturer, focussing on the interaction of light and architecture. This photographic work concerns with the interplay of layers, dimensions and the co-existence of different forms. There are various of mirroring and reflections, making it difficult to find the boundary of interior and exierior space.
Aug 21, 2008 at 11:34 - discussion - info+

Alessandra Sanguinetti The Life that Came
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce The Life that Came, an exhibition of color photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti. The Life that Came is the continuation of The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams, an ongoing series of photographs following the lives of the young cousins Guillermina and Belinda as they grow up on their family’s farm outside Buenos Aires.
Aug 20, 2008 at 17:05 - discussion - info+

Jehad Nga : My shadow my opponent
LOS ANGELES – M+B is pleased to announce the exhibition “My Shadow, My Opponent,” color photographs by thirty-two year old artist Jehad Nga. Acclaimed for his deeply felt chronicles of people enduring war, poverty, sickness and violence in Africa and Iraq, he here turns his attention to men who train for the Kibera Olympic Boxing team in Kenya.
Aug 19, 2008 at 10:09 - discussion - info+