Lars Hall, Swedish art director extraordinaire, ran the pioneering photo gallery Camera obscura in Stockholm in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s together with Lars Durehed. Camera obscura’s exhibitions with Irving Penn were particularyl talked about. Now, Hall’s private collection of Irving Penn photographs is exhibited at the Gun Gallery in Stockholm. The show runs from 15 to 30 Januari.
Ré Soupault’s pictures are currently on display at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin (runs till 13 August). More information here.
Jonathan Elderfield has a great portfolio with pictures from Chicago. I really like this kind of street photography; so much better than some of the boring staged diorama-style that pass as “art photography”. A collection of his Chicago pictures is exhibited at the CUE art foundation, NYC, 26 April-2 June.
There’s a Cindy Sherman retrospective at Louisiana (quite close to Copenhagen). More information on the 250 pictures exhibition that ends 20 May here. I plan to go there soon; even though staged diorama-like photography is not my favourite style, one of course would like to see this exhibition.
Simon Roberts has travelled extensively in Russia. His exhibition, “Motherland”, will be shown at the Photofusion Gallery, London, 13 April - 25 May; the book has recently been published, check out its website for pictures and more information. A number of prints are for sale at the The Photographer’s Galler Print Sales.
Great work.
Rune Johansen has had an exhibition at Galleri 21 in Malmö during March. I thought the pictures interesting. The style of these pictures of rural people and milieux in northern Norway were documentary and left spaces for the onlooker to fill in, with stories and so on. For me, living an urban academic middle-class lifestyle, the pictures gave me almost an anthropological experience. Isn’t that one of the points about photography (or art in general), to give insights into other ways of living, thinking, behaving?
Something in the pictures reminded me of another Scandinavian photographer, Anders Kristensson and his exhibition Spår av en befolkning (”Traces of a population”).
The coffin with the body of Robert F. Kennedy was transported from NYC to the Arlington Cemetery by train. Aboard was photographer Paul Fusco who shot interesting pictures of the public as the train passed by.
Honduras Street Gallery in London has an exhibition 14 March - 13 April with these pictures. Here’s a selection of shots over at Digital Journalist.
Camera Work Gallery in Berlin has an Irving Penn exhibition coming up; 31 March - 23 June. After that: Peter Lindbergh and Diane Arbus. Some lineup.