Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
No one disputes that the 1975 exhibition “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” was a landmark show. Attendance at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., wasn’t huge, and the presentation didn’t introduce any unknown talent. But the show...
StrangeHarvest.com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
"The Bechers' Industrial Lexicon: In their first full-length interview ever, Bernd and Hilla Becher talk about the collaborative project that has occupied them for more than four decades: photographing and classifying the industrial structures that are even now vanishing from the modern landscape..."
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
For many, landscape photography need proceed no further than the majestic idylls of Ansel Adams, but in 1975, an exhibition titled “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” presented a new approach to landscape that has quietly infiltrated the mainstream...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, held in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, (Rochester, NY) and the show brought together nine photographers—Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", a re-examination of the landmark exhibition originally held in 1975 at the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House , which brought together ten leading photographers : Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke,...
Art Limited (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
According to Spanish curator Octavio Zaya, who wrote the introduction to Kooi’s survey exhibition at the Casa Encendid, Madrid, last year: “Kooi shows us a world in which the ordinary silently slips towards fantasy.” With her large-scale panoramic views shot predominantly in the Netherlands, interest in Kooi has been growing over the past few years, both in her native country and...
Art Limited (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
According to Spanish curator Octavio Zaya, who wrote the introduction to Kooi’s survey exhibition at the Casa Encendid, Madrid, last year: “Kooi shows us a world in which the ordinary silently slips towards fantasy.” With her large-scale panoramic views shot predominantly in the Netherlands, interest in Kooi has been growing over the past few years, both in her native country and...
Art Limited (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
According to Spanish curator Octavio Zaya, who wrote the introduction to Kooi’s survey exhibition at the Casa Encendid, Madrid, last year: “Kooi shows us a world in which the ordinary silently slips towards fantasy.” With her large-scale panoramic views shot predominantly in the Netherlands, interest in Kooi has been growing over the past few years, both in her native country and...
Art Limited (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
According to Spanish curator Octavio Zaya, who wrote the introduction to Kooi’s survey exhibition at the Casa Encendid, Madrid, last year: “Kooi shows us a world in which the ordinary silently slips towards fantasy.” With her large-scale panoramic views shot predominantly in the Netherlands, interest in Kooi has been growing over the past few years, both in her native country and...
Art Limited (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
According to Spanish curator Octavio Zaya, who wrote the introduction to Kooi’s survey exhibition at the Casa Encendid, Madrid, last year: “Kooi shows us a world in which the ordinary silently slips towards fantasy.” With her large-scale panoramic views shot predominantly in the Netherlands, interest in Kooi has been growing over the past few years, both in her native country and...
Art Limited (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Los Angeles artist Doug Aitken. This exhibition will present a series of new text-based light boxes and will feature the west coast debut of the film migration. Aitken explores the themes of temporality, space, memory, movement, and landscape in his work. | The role of so-called globalisation has achieved widespread dominance especially...
National Portrait Gallery | Face to Face blog (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Martin Schoeller has exhibited his portraits internationally and has received numerous awards. His photographs have appeared in many prominent magazines, including the New Yorker, Gentleman’s Quarterly (GQ), Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone. A native of Germany who now lives and...
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
(TrendHunter.com) Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher were a married German photography duo best known for their images of industrial architecture. The Bechers began collaborating in 1959 (and were married in 1961) and worked…
airform archives (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
it was quite good hunting this weekend, and i will be posting numerous finds from a local library book sale and the rose bowl flea market. one of the nicest finds was this group of snapshots of industrial towers. of course, these reminded me instantly of the serial imagery of the bechers, who photographed industrial architecture in series and presented them in grid forms. while these are clearly snapshots,...
This is London (Free subscription) | 14/09/2009
Repetition is the theme behind this expansive and varied show ranging from American giants such as Richard Prince to budding British twentysomethings
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