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SUMMARY:Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands
DESCRIPTION:Since the early 1970s\, artist\, activist\, and scholar Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe (b. 1951\, Chicago\, IL; lives and works in South Kent\, CT) has made photographs that testify to the beauty and complexity of Black life\, honoring the rhythms of the everyday and marking important rites of passage for the people who appear in them.  \nIn 1977\, following an earlier six-month independent study in West Africa\, Moutoussamy-Ashe traveled back across the Atlantic Ocean to Daufuskie Island\, which sits between Hilton Head\, South Carolina\, and Savannah\, Georgia. There and on the other surrounding Sea Islands\, she began making photographs among the Gullah Geechee—many of them descendants of the formerly enslaved people who acquired land from white plantation owners when they fled at the conclusion of the Civil War. For Moutoussamy-Ashe\, these places\, separated by the Atlantic\, were inextricably linked\, with the Sea Islands representing connective tissue within the Black diaspora; a place shaped by violent centuries of slavery and a community steadfast in the protection and nourishment of its unique culture and people. The Daufuskie Island photographs honor these entwined histories and the artist’s personal perspective. How images are made\, cared for\, and consumed are enduring concerns for the artist\, who maintains\, “Photography should force us to question ourselves and to question the environment in which we live.” \nDrawn from the Whitney’s collection\, this focused presentation includes a selection of Moutoussamy-Ashe’s black-and-white Daufuskie Island photographs and the artist’s related publications. Portraits of children and elders\, images of homes and the shoreline\, people at work and at rest\, and church services together form an impression of a community—and a place—on the cusp of great change.  \nJeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe and the Last Gullah Islands is organized by Kelly Long\, Senior Curatorial Assistant. \nhttps://whitney.org/exhibitions/jeanne-moutoussamy-ashe-last-gullah-islands
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/jeanne-moutoussamy-ashe-and-the-last-gullah-islands/
LOCATION:Whitney Museum of American Art\, 99 Gansevoort St\, New York\, NY\, 10014\, United States
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SUMMARY:Robert Caro's The Power Broker at 50
DESCRIPTION:“This special installation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the publication of Robert A. Caro’s The Power Broker\, the monumental work that has been called “surely the greatest book ever written about a city.” This groundbreaking book made known for the first time how Robert Moses\, over more than four decades and without ever being elected to public office\, amassed power so immense that with it\, he shaped New York. The installation explores the story behind the book: how Caro uncovered the falseness behind the image that Moses had so carefully cultivated\, and that the press and public believed\, to reveal the extent of Moses’ power and the heartbreaking human cost behind his public works. \nRobert Caro’s The Power Broker at 50 includes selections from the Robert A. Caro Archive\, opening concurrently with the installation. Visitors will see—from research material to manuscript drafts—Jones Beach\, the Cross-Bronx Expressway\, and Moses himself through Caro’s lens and lifelong mission to illuminate the times and the great forces that shape them. Curated by Meredith Mann\, curator of manuscripts and archival collections” \nhttps://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/robert-caros-the-power-broker-at-50
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/robert-caros-the-power-broker-at-50/
LOCATION:The New York Historical Society\, 170 Central Park West\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250123
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250506
DTSTAMP:20250317T002505Z
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SUMMARY:American Job: 1940-2011
DESCRIPTION:“Drawing from works by more than 40 photographers in the ICP collection\, with the addition of exhibition prints from contemporary photographers\, American Job: 1940-2011 highlights the collection’s breadth and contemporary relevance by surveying the photographic response to labor organizing and strike activity\, race and gender discrimination in labor\, organized labor’s role in politics\, labor and activism\, and the intersection of labor and the social changes wrought by the economic restructurings of the twentieth century. This exhibition is guest curated by Makeda Best\, photography historian.and Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Oakland Museum of California. \nOrganized chronologically in five sections\, the exhibition explores the transformation of work in America\, and with it the rise of activism and new forms of solidarity in pursuit of humane working conditions and economic equity. Including over 130 photographs\, along with photobooks and a wide range of ephemera that underscore text and image based storytelling\, American Job: 1940-2011 introduces lesser-known images from the ICP collection\, provides new contexts for celebrated bodies of work\, illustrates the contributions of professional photojournalists and community-based documentarians to the historical record of the twentieth century\, and demonstrates the breadth of ICP’s collection of works from across the country.  \nThis exhibition features works by photographers including Cornell Capa\, Chien-Chi Chang\, Arnold Eagle\, Robert Frank\, Otto Hagel\, Bettye Lane\, Freda Leinwand\, Ken Light\, Danny Lyon\, Susan Meiselas\, Charles Moore\, Barbara Norfleet\, Gordon Parks\, Sophie Rivera\, Accra Shepp\, Eugene Smith\, Dylan Vitone\, Todd Webb\, Dan Weiner\, Bill Wood\, and many more.” \nhttps://www.icp.org/exhibitions/american-job-1940-2011
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/american-job-1940-2011/
LOCATION:International Center of Photography\, 84 Ludlow Street\, New York\, NY 10002\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
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SUMMARY:Weegee: Society of the Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:“The career of photographer Weegee (born Arthur Fellig\, 1899-1968) is often divided into two distinct phases\, one gritty\, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes\, fires\, car crashes\, and the onlookers who witnessed these harrowing events across New York City in the 1930s and ‘40s\, Weegee also spent time in his career documenting the joyful crowds\, premieres\, and celebrities of Hollywood. His documentary images on both coasts gave way to experimental portraits late in his life\, which were distorted using a kaleidoscope and other tricks from his technical toolbox. Weegee: Society of the Spectacle aims to reconcile these two sides of Weegee through an investigation of his focus\, throughout his career\, on a critique of 20th century popular culture and its insatiable appetite for spectacle.  \nWeegee: Society of the Spectacle is curated by Clément Chéroux\, Director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (FHCB)\, Paris\, in collaboration with the Weegee Archive at the International Center of Photography (ICP)\, New York. The exhibition opens at ICP after a run at the FHCB and the Fundación MAPFRE\, Madrid. The exhibition will be accompanied by the publication Weegee: Society of the Spectacle (Thames & Hudson).” \nhttps://www.icp.org/exhibitions/weegee-society-of-the-spectacle
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/weegee-society-of-the-spectacle/
LOCATION:International Center of Photography\, 84 Ludlow Street\, New York\, NY 10002\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
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SUMMARY:To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography
DESCRIPTION:“Curated by Sara Ickow\, Associate Director of Exhibitions\, Keisha Scarville Guest Curator\, and Elisabeth Sherman\, Senior Curator and Director of Exhibitions and Collections at ICP\, To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography brings together the work of seven artists primarily working in photography—Widline Cadet\, Koyoltzintli\, Tarrah Krajnak\, Shala Miller\, Kameelah Janan Rasheed\, Keisha Scarville\, and Sasha Wortzel. The exhibition reimagines what an archive can be or might look like—more than just a means of recuperating the past\, these artists utilize the archive as a form for imagining new futures. \nMoving away from the centrality of the institutional archive\, the artists in To Conjure expand its parameters by engaging with materials—clothing\, instruments\, the landscape and more—beyond photographs and documents alone. By working with a myriad of contemporary materials\, these artists create new histories and material sensibilities.” \nhttps://www.icp.org/exhibitions/to-conjure-new-archives-in-recent-photography
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/to-conjure-new-archives-in-recent-photography/
LOCATION:International Center of Photography\, 84 Ludlow Street\, New York\, NY 10002\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250227
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SUMMARY:Tyler Mitchell: Ghost Images
DESCRIPTION:“And this beauty carries within itself the intimation that the past can never die because it still exists\, intact\, on some other plane of time\, around which we cannot see directly.\n—Clarence John Laughlin \nThe way we disappear. And reappear.\n—Robin Coste Lewis \nGagosian is pleased to announce Ghost Images\, an exhibition of new works by Tyler Mitchell. Opening on February 27 at 541 West 24th Street\, this is the gallery’s debut exhibition of Mitchell’s work in New York\, and the first since announcing its global representation of the artist. \nEngaging with Southern gothic themes\, Mitchell’s new images of seaside leisure (all works 2024) are rooted in his Southern upbringing and explore the psychological space of memory\, questioning how photographic tableaux might capture presences that are unseen but deeply felt. They also ask if photographs have the capacity to document memory and express self-determination in the light of history. \nThis body of work was shot on Jekyll and Cumberland Islands\, off the coast of Georgia\, when Mitchell returned to his home state in preparation for Idyllic Space\, his 2024 exhibition at the High Museum of Art\, Atlanta. The images are set among the beaches\, dunes\, estuaries\, park structures\, and ruins of these barrier islands—landscapes of natural beauty that are imprinted with significant human histories. In 1858\, the penultimate ship known to have transported enslaved people to the United States landed on Jekyll Island\, an event to which the toy boats in Gulfs Between allude. Now protected as national seashore\, Cumberland Island is the site of a ruined mansion owned by the Carnegie family\, who once controlled much of the island. \nOld Fear and Old Joys and Buoyancy are scenes of leisure and evocative compositional suspension. In many of the works\, Mitchell veils his subjects. Ghost Image features a boy peering out through a shroud-like net\, while the figures of Convivial Conversation and The sky is cold but the wing blood hot are transformed by scrims of sheet and kite that channel the sunlight. The artist further explores layering and ephemerality by innovatively printing photographs onto mirrors\, and onto sheets of fabric draped over empty frames. Inspired by photographers who were drawn to intangible aspects of space\, spirit\, and the human form\, including Clarence John Laughlin\, Frederick Sommer\, and Francesca Woodman\, Mitchell employs superimposition\, multiple exposures\, and fragmented composition to assert material presence while picturing apparitions of the past. \nWish This Was Real\, an exhibition of nearly ten years of Mitchell’s work\, is on view at the Finnish Museum of Photography\, Helsinki\, through February 23\, and will travel to Photo Elysée\, Lausanne\, Switzerland (March 28–August 18\, 2025)\, Maison Européenne de la Photographie\, Paris (October 15\, 2025–January 25\, 2026)\, and Foto Arsenal Wien\, Vienna (Spring 2026). \nMitchell is photographer of the exhibition catalogue for Superfine: Tailoring Black Style\, the Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York. In addition to documenting the exhibition’s objects\, he is contributing a thirty-two-page section of photographs that will celebrate its themes.” \nhttps://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2025/tyler-mitchell-ghost-images/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/tyler-mitchell-ghost-images/
LOCATION:Gagosian\, 541 West 24th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Denis Piel: Exposed
DESCRIPTION:“This exhibition of photographs by Denis Piel is an overview of his varied career. It includes his sensual and cinematic photographs for VOGUE and designers such as Donna Karan in the 1980s\, and his abstract Padièscapes works\, which are inspired by his organic sustainable farm in southwest France. \nDenis Piel was born in France in 1944 and his family moved to Australia at the end of the war. After beginning his career in Brisbane and Melbourne\, he was encouraged to move to Europe and then New York where he began to concentrate on fashion. His photographs were brought to the attention of Condé Nast and his rise began. \nImmediately recognizable for their cinematic quality\, his images were a sensational departure from the posed models of his predecessors. His always-sensual photographs tell a story which must be guessed at as several interpretations are possible. Often featuring reclining models lost in thought or engaged in mysterious narratives\, Piel’s photographs were more influenced by filmmakers such as François Truffaut and Stanley Kubrick than photographers. His star rose swiftly and he was soon the fashion photographer of the 1980s\, shooting many celebrity portraits along the way. \nAfter a decade\, Piel moved on to advertising and filmmaking and in 2002 he moved his family to the Château de Padiès in southwest France where he became seriously interested in sustainable agriculture. This newfound passion resulted in his colorful and abstracted Padièscapes photographs; work which celebrates nature in flowers and gardens. These images are a departure from the fashion pictures of Piel’s early career\, but reflect his continued interest in the environment and humanity.  \nIn addition to his photography\, Denis Piel has created film advertisements for Donna Karan and Anne Klein. In 1993\, he directed his first feature-length documentary\, Love is Blind. Piel’s monographs include Moments (Rizzoli\, 2012)\, Down to Earth (2016)\, Filmscapes (2020)\, and the upcoming Rosemary (2025). He was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence for Commercial Photography in 1987 and his photographs are included in the permanent collections of The Victoria & Albert Museum and The Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston.” \nhttps://www.staleywise.com/exhibitions/denis-piel5
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/denis-piel-exposed/
LOCATION:Staley Wise\, 100 Crosby Street\, Suite 305\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jamel Shabazz: Seconds of My Life - Photographs from 1975-2024
DESCRIPTION:“The exhibition Seconds of My Life: Photographs from 1975-2024\, by Brooklyn-based photographer Jamel Shabazz\, offers a comprehensive look at his work from the 1970s to the early 2000s\, including iconic photo albums\, early images of his junior high classmates and photography spanning fashion\, street and documentary styles. It highlights Shabazz’s talent for capturing powerful stories of identity\, resilience\, and community from the streets of New York and beyond.” \n“I embarked on my photographic journey 50 years ago as a curious 15-year-old kid coming out of Brooklyn\, using my mother’s Kodak Instamatic 126 camera.\nMy primary subjects during that time were my junior high school classmates\, who were more than willing to pose for me.\nBack then\, I would take the finished film to the local drug store for processing\, and return about a week later to see the results of my efforts. To my surprise I made some pretty decent prints that I would then put into small photo albums and share with my friends. From that moment on\, I developed a profound love for photography and preserving memories.\nFrom 1975 to 2024 I have amassed quite a number of photo albums showing a wide range of images–from my original prints from the 1970’s\, to some of the very first black and white prints I developed in my makeshift darkroom. There are fashion\, street and documentary work featured in all of the albums” — Jamel Shabazz/” \nhttps://www.bronxdoc.org/bronx-documentary-center/exhibits/upcoming-exhibits/jamel-shabazz-seconds-of-my-life-photographs-from-1975-2024/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/jamel-shabazz-seconds-of-my-life-photographs-from-1975-2024/
LOCATION:Bronx Documentary Center\, 614 Courtlandt Ave\, Bronx\, NY\, 10451\, United States
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260222
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SUMMARY:A Century of The New Yorker
DESCRIPTION:“The New York Public Library’s new major exhibition A Century of The New Yorker draws on NYPL’s collections\, including the magazine’s voluminous archives and the papers of many of its contributors\, to bring to life the people\, stories\, and ideas that made The New Yorker. \nOver the past 100 years\, The New Yorker has created a world of its own. Guided by the founding vision of Harold Ross and Jane Grant\, and built upon by generations of staff\, the magazine has set the bar for effortless style\, thought-provoking prose\, journalistic rigor\, and playful art—delivered with a dash of snootiness\, and a wink. \nIn ways we see and don’t see\, The New Yorker has informed our understanding of almost every aspect of society: war and violence\, race and gender\, the environmental movement\, the distinctiveness of American fiction writing\, and more. In its contributors and its content\, the magazine has reflected both the lofty ideals and the profound inequalities that have defined the American experience in ways that continue to shape our social and political landscape today. \nThe story of The New Yorker—and the brilliant\, funny\, obsessive\, imperfect people who made it—is told\, in part\, in the pages of the 5\,057 issues that have gone to print in the magazine’s first 100 years. But a deeper history can be found in the magazine’s archives\, in the collections of The New York Public Library. Through correspondence\, manuscripts\, memos\, artifacts—and yes\, cartoons—A Century of The New Yorker uncovers the unsung stories of prickly editorial relationships\, diligent typists\, fastidious fact checkers\, and talented artists.” \nhttps://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/new-yorker-100
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/a-century-of-the-new-yorker/
LOCATION:New York Public Library\, 476 5th Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sueños Senos Exhumadas del Cenote Yemaya: Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
DESCRIPTION:“Baxter St\, in partnership with YoungArts\, presents Sueños Senos Exhumadas del Cenote Yemaya\, a solo exhibition by interdisciplinary artist Coralina Rodriguez Meyer. Engaging sculpture\, documentary photography\, and video installation\, the exhibition space is transformed into an immersive psychic interior womb\, tracing the survival of diasporic and integrated\, Indigenous knowledge systems that have endured or adapted over millennia. \nConceived as a sanctuary structured in three distinct trimesters\, the exhibition unfolds as a journey through bodily and cultural memory. At its center\, Cenote Yemaya serves as the exhibition’s navel—a large-scale video installation mapping sacred water bodies from the Caribbean to New York\, projected onto a Mother Mold fertility effigy. Cast from pregnant bodies and composed of materials including discarded medical latex gloves\, hair\, nails\, birth control packaging\, botanica elements\, serape fabrics\, and funeral flowers\, the work embodies both loss and survival. Drawing from preservation rituals such as Andean mummification\, Caribbean\, and Creole birthing traditions\, the effigy serves as a vessel for memory\, resistance\, and reclamation. A parallel series\, Rodriguez Meyer’s Línea Negra photography (2007–present) documents the artist’s infertility diagnosis in 2007 and her subsequent biological pregnancy after overcoming monumental institutional violence. The first trimester of the exhibition is a sterile\, hospital counter. An institutional space often hostile to melanated\, queer\, and immigrant bodies—the first decade of photographs documents the Mama Spa Botanica workshop (2007–present)\, conceived in collaboration with the artist’s full spectrum neighbors. Linea Negra is the hemispheric melanin line that appears on the abdomen during pregnancy. This natural mark\, most prominent in people of color\, is an index—an ancestral imprint inscribed between parent and child- connecting reproductive histories across geographies\, genders\, and generations. \nRooted in traditions that predate colonial borders\, Rodriguez Meyer’s work reveals interdependent social structures—matriarchal\, endangered\, and vulnerable—yet persistent across generations. Visitors move deeper into the installation\, to a spatial third trimester\, where the environment transforms into a multisensory sanctuary of color\, texture\, and movement. Suspended serapes and a throne offer a moment of rest and reconstitution—activating the relationship between the body\, memory\, and material culture as tools for resistance. \nThe Apariciones: Virgen Gruta series (2020–present) situates fertility effigies within their endemic landscapes\, reclaiming American material refuse as sites of matriarchal refuge. These vibrant\, altar-like forms recall botanicas\, domestic shrines\, and sacred grottos\, where marginalized communities have long cultivated protection and healing outside of sanctioned medical spaces or climate crises. The Foliage Obscura retablo installation honors syncretic healing traditions. Both immersive environments recall the Saltwater Underground Railroad—often understood as a terrestrial route—that was in reality a vast network of maritime and Indigenous sanctuary systems\, where self-emancipated people navigated landscapes and social structures in search of refuge. This exhibition acknowledges that legacy\, presenting preservation as an ongoing\, active negotiation between our bodies and the landscape — beyond visibility and concealment\, adaptation and resistance\, grief and regeneration. \nA mirrored photographic installation from the Double Consciousness Infinity Mirror series (2013–present) is viewable 24/7 in the Baxter St storefront\, functioning as a visual call and response—echoing diasporic traditions of self-recognition and resistance while also confronting the gaze of institutional surveillance. \nSpanning two decades of artistic and community practice in the Mama Spa Botanica workshop\, Sueños Senos Exhumadas del Cenote Yemaya is not simply about Latine\, Caribbean\, immigrant\, queer\, or melanated people\, but rather the practices that have long sustained those outside dominant systems\, demonstrating a cultural\, biological\, and ecological resilience that exists in bodies\, habitats\, and memory. \nABOUT CORALINA RODGRIGUEZ MEYER\nHomestead Everglades swamp born Coralina Rodriguez Meyer is a Miami & Brooklyn based indigenous Andean American (Colombian/Peruvian) Quipucamayoc artist\, architect\, archive digger\, advocate and mother whose work spans 2 decades and 30 countries. Raised Ital & Tinkuy between Miami and the Caribbean\, Coralina’s collaborative practice builds civic agency in their unvanquished barrios to resist assimilation and structural violence in American mythology.” \nhttps://www.baxterst.org/events/suenos-senos-exhumadas-del-cenote-yemaya/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/suenos-senos-exhumadas-del-cenote-yemaya-coralina-rodriguez-meyer/
LOCATION:Baxter St (Camera Club of New York)\, 154 Ludlow Street\, New York\, NY\, 10002\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick Waplington: Before the Clean Up
DESCRIPTION:“S M I L E R S\, in its East Village basement\, honors the legacy and persistence of the New York City club scene in its second exhibition—BEFORE THE CLEAN-UP. Nick Waplington and Lizzi Bougatsos coexist as foils in this exploration of a clandestine\, oft-mythologized subculture—both participants but playing radically different roles\, with Bougatsos channeling a range of active subjects and Waplington as one of the few documentarians given access to a thriving 1990s underground ecosystem. Waplington’s photographs from the era are energized through Bougastos’s improvisational sculptural elements\, some likened to the items—and reticence—one sheds as the night takes over. \nNick Waplington (born 1965) is a photographer known for capturing a broad spectrum of uncannily charged imagery—from British suburbanism\, to life in the occupied West Bank\, to a beach riot spurred by a plane crash in Southern California\, to the focal point of this exhibition: the New York club scene. Immersion is key in Waplington’s process\, as his nomadic approach to life and his personal attachment to varied subjects give his work a timeless\, soulful vibration. The images on display were taken in various fabled venues including Limelight\, The Sound Factory\, Save the Robots\, Body & Soul\, and Paradise Garage. His club photos are not straightforwardly candid and subject engagement is often present in the eye-contact and cooperative\, vampish postures that Waplington captures from on and off the dance floor. The vigor of his execution is palpable\, as the acute angles from which Waplington shoots his subjects require unstinting physicality and movement. There are also images of individuals completely consumed by the moment\, whom Waplington does not disrupt; rather\, his photos eloquently communicate a fleeting\, blissful transcendence that is difficult to describe with words alone. \nLizzi Bougatsos (born 1974) is an experimental musician (Gang Gang Dance\, I.U.D.) and visual artist who employs her body\, voice\, and irrepressible energy as medium. Born and raised in New York\, Bougatsos has been a downtown cultural figure for decades\, both influencing and experiencing the various mutations of subculture that flourish in the absence of the mainstream gaze. Embracing the euphoria of bodily expression\, Bougatsos’s clothing and personal style are as much a part of her artistic rituals as the spontaneous movements and vocal textures for which her musical performances are known. To this presentation\, she contributes a grouping of sculptures whose language borrows from the intermixing ingredients—including music\, performance\, and fashion—of Bougastos’s prolific identity as a creator. Throughout the space\, Bougatsos also scatters ephemeral and atmospheric elements of herself\, with the accumulation of what remains after uninhibited revelry in mind. \nNightclubs and dance spaces are sanctuaries for those seeking freedom of self-expression\, to be lost in the music\, and a crowd which protects those outside of the deemed-normative. They are a space to remove the armor one erects to survive in polite society. Like any utopian idea\, there will always be those attempting to undermine its principles. In the 90s\, spearheaded by Mayor Giuliani\, the city endeavored to demonize nightlife as a lingering and degenerative symptom of the economic hardship of the 70s and 80s\, going so far as to resurrect an archaic bit of legislation called the “cabaret law” that banned more than three people dancing in a club without a license. In a twist of hypocrisy\, members of the conservative right who (even more so now) crusade to control bodies and sexual identity are said to have engaged in unchecked predatory behavior① in the same clubs that Giuliani sought to scapegoat for the city’s crime and blighted reputation. This exhibition harkens to a moment before the attempted “clean-up” and intends to redeem for the present any form of rebellion against the artistic or political status-quo. \nIn pairing Waplington and Bougatsos\, both of whom share a feverish devotion to their work\, the essential dynamic between photographer and subject is enlivened. Expressions of queerness\, femininity\, and masculinity mingle with Waplington as not quite a wallflower\, but a trusted observer of a vulnerable and diverse community with the keen ability to be both unobtrusive and deliberate\, and Bougatsos as an off-the-wall flower—representing the unruly body\, the delinquent silhouette\, the sensuous and bold. Club culture does not exist to contradict the veneer of clean streets that sells “New York” to tourists. Rather\, it would prefer to remain the secret pulsing heart of creativity—a perpetuator of New York’s eternal magnetism—and endures in fierce resistance to forces that tamper with liberation.” \nhttps://www.smilers.nyc/exhibitions/before-the-clean-up
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/nick-waplington/
LOCATION:Smilers NYC\, 431 East 6th St\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alec Soth: Advice for Young Artists
DESCRIPTION:“Sean Kelly is delighted to announce Alec Soth’s fifth exhibition with the gallery\, Advice for Young Artists which presents a curated selection of images from Soth’s recently completed body of work of the same name. Photographed during visits he made to twenty-five undergraduate art programs across the country from 2022 to 2024\, the resulting pictures\, interior studies\, still-lives\, and self-portraits depict Soth engaging with his subject while also reflecting\, obliquely\, on his life as an artist. There will be a reception on Thursday\, March 6\, from 6-8 pm. The artist will be present. \nAlthough the title might suggest otherwise\, Soth’s project is less about imparting his ideas to a younger generation and more about engaging with and learning from their creative energy. Instead of providing wisdom or guidance\, he presents a fragmented and open-ended meditation on artmaking across different life stages\, as well as the connections between photography\, time\, and aging. “I was just trying to be in the proximity of their energy\,” Soth reflects. The photographs that emerged out of his visits are deeply empathetic. In his portraits of students at work or in their studios\, he not only captures them as subjects but also positions them as artists in their own right. There is an implicit connection between the artist in front of the camera and the artist behind it. This is demonstrated by the ruminative and playful self-portraits that occur throughout the project: Soth situates himself not as an outside observer\, but amongst his subjects. \nDrawing inspiration from iconic American photographer Walker Evans’s late Polaroids\, Alec Soth’s Advice for Young Artists marks a significant evolution in his practice\, offering a fresh perspective two decades after the publication of his first book\, Sleeping by the Mississippi\, in 2004. Much like Evans\, who visited universities in the 1970s and photographed extensively with a Polaroid camera\, Soth embraces his encounters with students as a way to understand his work from a new perspective. As he describes it\, “When I was at a school and totally focused on my work\, I had the experience of age falling away.” Embedded in the environment of an art school\, Soth taps into the zeitgeist and rediscovers his practice anew. In Advice for Young Artists Soth allows an easy humor to enter his photographs and finds surprising juxtapositions\, he adapts and reinvents his visual language in response to the dynamic energy of his subjects. In this way\, the series marks a moment of innovation in the career of one America’s foremost contemporary photographers. \nAlec Soth lives and works in Minneapolis\, Minnesota. His work is the subject of over twenty-five books and including his publications NIAGARA (2006)\, Broken Manual (2010)\, Songbook (2015)\, I Know How Furiously Your Heart Is Beating (2019)\, A Pound of Pictures (2022)\, and most recently Advice for Young Artists (2024). In 2008 Soth started his own publishing company\, Little Brown Mushroom\, which is based in Minnesota. Soth’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international museums including the Deichtorhallen Internationale Kunst und Fotografie\, Hamburg; the National Media Museum\, Bradford\, UK; The Finnish Museum\, Helsinki; the Detroit Institute of Arts\, Michigan; El museo de Bogotá\, Colombia; the Fotomuseum Winterthur\, Switzerland; the Jeu de Paume\, Paris; and the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis. His work is in the permanent collections of institutions including the Museum of Modern Art\, New York; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Walker Art Center\, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New York\, amongst many others.” \nhttps://www.skny.com/exhibitions/alec-soth6
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/alec-soth-advice-for-young-artists/
LOCATION:Sean Kelly\, 475 Tenth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10018\, United States
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SUMMARY:Richard Learoyd: A Loathing of Clocks and Mirrors
DESCRIPTION:“Pace is pleased to present an exhibition of recent work by photographer Richard Learoyd at its 508 West 25th Street gallery in New York. On view from March 7 to April 26\, the exhibition will feature a selection of photographs Learoyd produced with his custom-built camera obscura between 2018 and 2025. Deeply inspired by Dutch Golden Age painting\, Learoyd’s latest works take viewers on a journey through intimate moments and intricate details\, examining the relationship between subject\, light\, and space. The photographs on display explore a range of subjects\, from hauntingly evocative portraits to still-life compositions that breathe life into the simplest of objects. \nLearoyd’s unique photographic processes require an immense degree of technical precision\, resulting in incredibly detailed\, luminous prints with a tactile richness rarely seen in contemporary photography. Reflecting on the delicate interplay between light\, shadow\, and form\, Learoyd’s work is imbued with a surreal\, auratic presence that speaks to his enduring interest in the notion of collective photographic memory—the idea that a picture can be felt and understood on a subconscious level. The artist is renowned for his masterful use of light and his ability to capture the profound depth and stillness of the human experience. \n“Light and space have always been central to my work\,” Learoyd explains. “I want to capture more than just an image; I want to convey a sense of time\, intimacy\, and presence—things that transcend the immediate and evoke a more timeless feeling.” \nHighlights in the exhibition\, carefully curated by Learoyd\, include a photograph of clasped hands\, an ode to Alfred Stieglitz’s images of Georgia O’Keeffe’s hands from the first half of the 20th century. Also on view will be the artist’s most recent body of work\, a series of photographs created using a new and transformative process of multiple impression printing layered with hand coated gesso on canvas. These multi-dimensional works showcase the artist’s exploration of depth\, texture\, time\, and the relationship between photography and materiality. \nIn recent years\, Learoyd has mounted solo exhibitions at the Fundación Mapfre Casa Garriga Nogués in Barcelona\, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London\, the Getty Center in Los Angeles\, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. His upcoming presentation at Pace in New York will coincide with AIPAD’s 2025 Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory\, where the gallery will organize a special program with the artist—further details will be announced in due course.” \nhttps://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/richard-learoyd-new-york/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/richard-learoyd-a-loathing-of-clocks-and-mirrors/
LOCATION:Pace\, 508 West 25th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zack Seckler: West
DESCRIPTION:“CLAMP is pleased to present “West\,” an exhibition of recent photographs and videos by Zack Seckler\, continuing his signature aerial perspective\, transforming vast landscapes into painterly compositions where land\, water\, and sky dissolve into near-abstractions. \nSeckler’s ability to distill the essence of immense terrains into fluid\, almost dreamlike visuals\, challenges traditional representations of the American landscape. His lens captures the interplay of organic forms and natural forces\, revealing a world where the familiar dissolves into the unexpected\, and scale becomes elusive. \nLike Alfred Bierstadt\, Thomas Moran\, Carleton Watkins\, and other painters and photographers of the later part of the 19th century who ventured west to depict and explore America’s vast and uncharted landscapes\, Seckler documents the Rocky Mountains\, the arid Southwest\, and more lush scenes in California. But unlike his predecessors\, Seckler is equipped with imaging technologies and means of travel allowing him to record the same landscapes from vantage points and in details incomprehensible in centuries past. \nThe artist’s approach bridges past and present\, acknowledging the historical impulse to chronicle and celebrate the wilderness while employing a contemporary\, almost abstract sensibility that shifts the focus from romantic documentation to commentary and interpretation. Seckler’s images and videos reveal rhythmic patterns and unexpected color harmonies across various sprawling western terrains now touched by man’s footprint. \nThe artworks embrace a surrealism of scale—where minute details\, like the bend of a river or a lone animal’s tracks\, become the focal points of vast\, minimalist canvases. The textures of the land\, shaped by erosion\, water flow\, and human intervention\, take on a lyrical quality\, transforming rugged topographies into soft\, painterly gestures. Challenging the viewer’s sense of perspective\, Seckler encourages an experience of the landscape as both intimate and infinite\, structured yet ephemeral. \nThe aerial vantage offers a view transcending the limitations of the human eye\, inviting a reconsideration of the land’s scale and vulnerability. His compositions\, at once serene and dynamic\, speak to the power of nature and the imprint of time\, making visible the otherwise imperceptible rhythms that define these remote and majestic expanses. \nZack Seckler was born in Boston and studied psychology at Syracuse University. Then\, traveling solo with a point-and-shoot camera in northern India\, his mind opened to the visual world. Upon returning to Syracuse\, he took coursework in photography at the renowned Newhouse School. With an internship in a Hong Kong photo studio and editorial work in New York City\, he developed his vision for image-making. “West” is the artist’s third solo show at CLAMP.” \nhttps://clampart.com/2025/02/west-2/#thumbnails
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/zack-seckler-west/
LOCATION:Clamp\, 247 West 29th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pia Paulina Guilmoth: Flowers Drink the River
DESCRIPTION:“CLAMP is honored to present Flowers Drink the River\, a solo exhibition by Pia Paulina Guilmoth—her first with the gallery. In this deeply personal body of work\, Guilmoth documents the first two years of her gender transition while living in a rural\, predominantly right-wing town in Maine. Her large-format photographs reflect both beauty and terror in a world where queer existence can be at turns both euphoric and deeply perilous. Haunting nocturnes replete with moths\, snakes\, and owls\, are animated by raw\, animistic rituals\, representing Guilmoth’s search for beauty\, sanctuary\, and resistance amid the wild landscapes and intimate relationships that define her life. \nSpanning themes of transformation\, belonging\, and defiance\, Flowers Drink the River is an ode to trans women\, queer kinship\, and working-class survival in the backwoods of central Maine. Guilmoth’s photographs reject easy categorization—mud-drenched bodies intertwine in the dark of night\, spider silk drifts across glowing landscapes\, and nocturnal creatures move through the frame like quiet witnesses. A burning house rages in the distance with a calm white horse seemingly unawares. Friends piss from tree branches like a warm summer rain. These photographs inhabit the space between land and body\, pleasure and threat\, inviting viewers into a world where boundaries are blurred\, and survival is a necessary act of creation. \nGuilmoth’s photographic practice is rooted in collaboration—both with her human subjects and the natural world. She constructs delicate sculptures from spiderwebs\, flowers\, and other found materials\, then waits as the environment intervenes\, letting wind\, water\, and light reshape her compositions. This meditative approach extends to her relationship with the animals she photographs\, earning their trust over weeks and months before capturing their presence on film. \n“Each night for a week in August\, I would sit in the tall\, tick-infested grass behind the orchard\, covered in Scent Killer Gold\, wearing a ghillie suit\, holding a tray full of crushed apples in one hand and a 30-foot makeshift shutter release cable attached to my 4 × 5 camera in the other\,” Guilmoth recalls. “The same family of deer would get more comfortable with my presence each night. Eventually\, they were eating the ripe fruit from my hands. The following Tuesday\, I would have my first HRT consultation. I was keeping it a secret\, knowing there was no way I could safely transition in this place\, but also no way I could hide my changing body over the following months and years.” \nGuilmoth’s use of large-format photography is both a technical and emotional choice\, emphasizing patience\, precision\, and physical engagement with the medium. “I have always embraced slowness in my life\,” Guilmoth states. “Both in the place I live and the way I aspire to be. Art and being with people I love are the things that allow me to really exist in a moment.” The intricate process of setting up each shot\, from building trust with wild creatures to manipulating natural elements\, reflects the broader themes of her work: resilience\, adaptation\, and the search for beauty in unlikely places. \nAt its core\, Flowers Drink the River challenges the conventions of documentary photography. Rather than approaching her subjects as an outsider\, Guilmoth photographs her own community—trans and queer people navigating life in a region that often denies their existence. The result is a body of work that resists voyeurism\, instead offering an intimate\, deeply felt portrait of chosen family\, survival\, and joy. “Resistance for me is saying: ‘You can try and take everything from me—healthcare\, safety\, affordable housing—but you can’t take away my joy and the ability to find beauty in my life\,’” she explains. \nThe exhibition is accompanied by a monograph of the same title published by Stanley Barker.” \nhttps://clampart.com/2025/01/flowers-drink-the-river/#25
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/pia-paulina-guilmoth-flowers-drink-the-river/
LOCATION:Clamp\, 247 West 29th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:UPRISE 2025: The Art of Resistance
DESCRIPTION:“In celebration of The Untitled Space’s 10th anniversary\, we are proud to present “UPRISE 2025: The Art of Resistance” an exhibition curated by gallery founder Indira Cesarine\, which will take place during Women’s History Month this March 2025. One hundred artists have joined forces for this landmark exhibition\, opening on March 8th in honor of International Women’s Day\, and on view through March 29th\, celebrating a decade of art\, activism\, and unwavering resistance at The Untitled Space. Since its inception\, the gallery has featured over 50 exhibitions and presented the work of more than 500 artists—many of whom have used their platforms to inspire and empower others while speaking out against political injustice\, inequality\, and oppression. UPRISE 2025 continues this legacy\, bringing together artists whose work confronts the challenges of today’s social and political landscape\, and envisions a future rooted in justice\, equality\, and freedom. \nPresented in collaboration with non-profit initiative Art4Equality\, the UPRISE 2025 exhibition celebrates the power of art to inspire resistance\, fuel activism\, and catalyze change\, and will feature works that address the most pressing political\, social\, and cultural issues of our time. As we continue to face rising political extremism\, threats to civil rights\, and an increasingly authoritarian climate\, UPRISE 2025 provides a platform for artists who use their work to respond\, resist\, and reclaim their power. \nThis exhibition brings together artists of all genders from The Untitled Space’s extensive history of exhibitions\, along with several new exhibitors\, many of whom have used their art to address issues such as gender equality\, immigration rights\, reproductive justice\, and social justice. With a particular focus on the ongoing struggle for women’s rights\, LGBTQ+ rights\, immigration rights\, and the fight for equality across all races and genders with the attacks against DEI (Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion) programs\, the UPRISE 2025 exhibition is a declaration of resilience in the face of adversity. This powerful exhibition will explore how art serves as a vital tool for resistance and activism in the face of the current political climate. \nThe collaboration with Art4Equality further amplifies the exhibition’s core themes of empowerment\, equality\, and social change. Together\, The Untitled Space and Art4Equality highlight the importance of collective action and creative expression in the ongoing struggle for equality and human rights. Art as activism takes center stage with these critical issues explored through a variety of artistic mediums\, including painting\, sculpture\, photography\, video\, installation\, and performance art\, ensuring a multifaceted immersive experience that invites viewers to engage directly with the artwork and the themes of resistance\, equality\, and freedom. \nUPRISE 2025 reflects on the gallery’s decade-long history of showcasing art that challenges societal norms and amplifies voices of resistance. The featured artists have been instrumental in creating a platform for art that speaks to the political\, social\, and personal struggles of our time through their inspirational and fearless visuals. The exhibition celebrates the gallery’s legacy as a space that has consistently championed activism\, diversity\, and social change through art. \n​​The title UPRISE 2025: The Art of Resistance is inspired by The Untitled Space’s renowned 2017 exhibition UPRISE ANGRY/WOMEN\, which featured the powerful work of 80 women artists. This pivotal show highlighted the voices of female-identifying artists as they responded to the political and social climate of the time\, focusing on themes of empowerment\, activism\, and resilience. UPRISE marked a moment of solidarity\, bringing together a diverse group of artists whose work boldly addressed gender equality\, reproductive rights\, and the fight for justice. Building on the legacy of UPRISE (2017)\, UPRISE 2025 expands upon this vision\, bringing together artists from all genders to continue the dialogue and amplify the message of resistance.” \nhttps://untitled-space.com/uprise-2025-the-art-of-resistance/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/uprise-2025-the-art-of-resistance/
LOCATION:Untitled Space\, 45 Lispenard Street\, New York\, 10013\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett: ONE DAY
DESCRIPTION:Seminal artists Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett debut a previously unseen photo series from the early 1990s at the Alice Austen House. \nMarlene McCarty and Donald Moffett’s collaboration began as members of Gran Fury—the AIDS activist collective and graphic arm of ACTUP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). Public interventions were staged using the language of art and advertising to make visible the catastrophe and political crisis of the AIDS epidemic. It was this collision that inspired McCarty and Moffett to found Bureau—a trans-disciplinary design studio in New York City active in print\, film titles\, and pedagogy. Bureau existed from 1989 to 2001. ONE DAY in 1992\, the partners were asked by Princeton University School of Architecture to design its Lecture Series Calendar. Princeton\, founded in 1746 before the American Revolution\, is one of the original nine colonial colleges. It was this fact that spurred McCarty and Moffett to a reimagining and queering of that early American History. \nIn preparation for the project\, McCarty and Moffett—dressed as pilgrims and women—headed to the North Fork of Long Island  with Bureau colleagues and friends for a photoshoot. The cameras were loaded with an unstable Polaroid 35mm positive film. While two photos were selected for the Princeton project\, the hundreds of other slides were packed away. Time has worked its magic of decay. The film emulsion has become an active ingredient and additional participant in the narratives. For the first time since ONE DAY in 1992\, newly produced archival pigment prints of ten performative tableaux will be exhibited at the Alice Austen House Museum. \nGallery hours are Thursday through Friday\, 12:00pm to 5:00pm\, and Saturday + Sunday\, 11:00pm to 5:00pm. \nAbout the Artists\nMarlene McCarty is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. McCarty has worked across various media since the 1980s. McCarty’s work probes issues of sexual and social formation. Recent work\, Into the Weeds\, mines the millennia long plant/human relationship. Such projects have been seen at the University at Buffalo\, Kunsthaus Baselland (Basel)\, Last Tango (Zurich)\, Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (NYC). A permanent earthwork called AGAIN is located in Silo City\, Buffalo. In October 2025\, another facet of this work will be at the Tabakalera Art Center in San Sebastian Spain. \nDonald Moffett is a New York–based artist known for working across artistic categories and media. His poetic\, provocative\, and at times humorous paintings and sculptures—from landscape and nature (as in the ongoing NATURE CULT works) to politics and history (as in the “Mr. Gay in the U.S.A.” drawings)—address issues that resonate in our current social and political milieu. \nhttps://aliceausten.org/marlene-mccarty-and-donald-moffett/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/marlene-mccarty-and-donald-moffett-one-day/
LOCATION:Alice Austen House\, 2 Hylan Blvd\, Staten Island\, NY\, 10305\, United States
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SUMMARY:Andreas Gursky: Inherited Images
DESCRIPTION:“Andreas Gursky stands out as one of the most important photographers of his generation. His monumentally scaled works have redefined the medium in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries\, capturing the circumstances of modern-day life in condensed form. \nInterested in the workings of globalization\, consumerism\, and social phenomena as they relate to society\, Gursky investigates the realities of our changing planet. In this unique solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers’ New York gallery\, Gursky’s new and recent works as well as a selection of his well-known photographs are placed in an intertextual dialogue with Old Masters. Engaging with the images inscribed into our collective memories by the history of painting – from Pieter Bruegel the Elder to J.M.W. Turner and Carl Gustav Carus – the show examines how contemporary images relate to ones of the past\, prompting viewers to consider their function as a silent foundation of the way we see. \nFor this exhibition\, Gursky pairs his photographs with blown-up facsimiles of Old Masters to explore the conditions of image-making and uncover the conscious and unconscious relationships between images created centuries apart. \nUpon entering the gallery\, viewers are confronted with Gursky’s Eisläufer and Bruegel’s Winter Landscape with Skaters and a Bird Trap. Despite being separated by some five hundred years since their creation\, both works display similarities in structure and composition. We see the harshness of winter and humankind’s capacity to adapt to and overcome extreme and precarious conditions. Gursky’s work\, however\, introduces a contemporary reference as crowds maintain social distance during the Coronavirus lockdown while walking and skating on the frozen Rhein in Düsseldorf. \n‘I have always spent a lot of time in museums and was able to see the paintings that have been recognized as masterpieces of Western history and its visual canon. This experience and influence have had an impact on my own work—I realized there were similarities to Old Masters that I had not intended; they weren’t conscious decisions in the genesis of my works.’ –Andreas Gursky” \nhttps://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/andreas-gursky-new-york/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/andreas-gursky-inherited-images/
LOCATION:Sprüth Magers\, 22 East 80th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10075\, United States
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SUMMARY:Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit
DESCRIPTION:“The retrospective exhibition Consuelo Kanaga: Catch the Spirit presents the work of Consuelo Kanaga (1894–1976)\, a critical yet overlooked figure in the history of modern photography. Co-organized with and first exhibited at the Fundación MAPFRE in Barcelona and Madrid\, Spain\, followed by a presentation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)\, the groundbreaking survey will return to the Brooklyn Museum\, which houses the world’s most extensive Kanaga collection. Catch the Spirit explores the artist’s groundbreaking work in photojournalism\, modernism\, and social documentary\, tracing the evolution of her art both chronologically and thematically through nearly 200 photographs\, ephemera materials\, and film. Catch the Spirit is curated by Drew Sawyer and presented at the Brooklyn Museum by Pauline Vermare\, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography\, with Imani Williford\, Curatorial Assistant\, Photography\, Fashion\, and Material Culture. \nOver the course of six decades\, Kanaga captured the urgent social issues of her time\, spanning urban poverty and labor rights to racial terror and inequality. Catch the Spirit charts the artist’s outstanding photographic vision\, from her pioneering photojournalism as one of the only women working in the field in the early twentieth century to her modernist still lifes and celebrated portraits of artists and anonymous sitters alike. Kanaga’s oeuvre includes key figures and moments in early 20th-century North America\, with a particularly strong focus on the lives of African Americans. The Museum holds a unique and invaluable collection of works by Kanaga that features nearly 500 vintage prints\, 2\,500 negatives\, and archival material. Two works by Kanaga are currently on view in the Museum’s recently reinstalled American Art galleries\, Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art. \nConsuelo Kanaga began her career as a staff writer and photographer at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1915 before moving to New York in 1922 to work for the New York American newspaper. Soon after\, she met Alfred Stieglitz\, who encouraged her to pursue photography as an art form. After moving back to California in 1924\, Kanaga met the Italian photographer\, actress\, and activist Tina Modotti and organized an exhibition of her photographs in San Francisco in 1926. During the early 1930s\, Kanaga became associated with Group f/64 and was included in its landmark 1932 exhibition at the de Young Museum. In 1935 she returned to New York and began producing photographs for leftist journals such as Sunday Worker. She eventually joined the Photo League\, where she lectured and became a leader of documentary group projects. During the 1940s and 1950s\, she continued her commitment to photographing African Americans\, documenting workers in the South during the Jim Crow era. In 1955 she was included in the landmark exhibition Family of Man at MoMA. \n“Kanaga’s photographs shed light on some of the most critical social issues and actors of her time. Her work and legacy seem all the more important and relevant today\,” says Pauline Vermare\, Phillip and Edith Leonian Curator of Photography. “The Kanaga prints and negatives that Barbara Millstein brought into the photography collection are one of the major treasures of the Brooklyn Museum. We are delighted that this exhibition will bring attention to an incredibly modern and generous artist\, who worked alongside many well-known photographers\, such as Imogen Cunningham and Dorothea Lange. Kanaga was an invaluable mentor to many women photographers of her time. Now is a perfect moment to bring her back into the light. We hope that her life and work will inspire new generations of image makers and critical thinkers.” \nThe title of the show comes from a quotation by the artist: “When you make a photograph\, it is very much a picture of your own self. That is the important thing. Most people try to be striking to catch the eye. I think the thing is not to catch the eye but the spirit.” The quotation encapsulates Kanaga’s use of photography to “catch the spirit” of the people she chose to focus on and of the times they lived in.The exhibition is organized largely chronologically and by bodies of work\, broken into the following sections: “Photojournalism and the City\,” “Portraiture\,” “Americans Abroad\,” “Photography and the American Scene\,” “Portraits of Artists\,” “Travels to the U.S. South\,” and “Nature Studies.” \nUsing modernist visual language to address social and economic inequities\, Kanaga’s work is visually arresting and unique when compared to that of her peers. The artist was committed to using photography to address difficult social issues from labor rights to discrimination\, focusing on representing individuals who had either been misrepresented or ignored by mainstream media and artists. Considered modern and progressive for its time\, her work—and the societal issues they capture—continues to resonate today. Catch the Spirit boldly brings history into the present to raise awareness for important contemporary issues. \nThe retrospective is accompanied by a catalogue highlighting Kanaga’s remarkable oeuvre and presenting new scholarship on this under-recognized artist. The publication includes an essay by Drew Sawyer with additional essays by Shalon Parker\, Ellen Macfarlane\, and Shana Lopes. Copublished by the Brooklyn Museum\, Fundacion MAPFRE\, and Thames & Hudson\, it is the first major publication on the artist’s work in 30 years.” \nhttps://www.brooklynmuseum.org/en-GB/press/the-brooklyn-museum-presents-consuelo-kanaga-catch-the-spirit
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/consuelo-kanaga-catch-the-spirit/
LOCATION:Brooklyn Museum\, 200 Eastern Parkway\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11238\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Construction(s)
DESCRIPTION:“Edwynn Houk Gallery is delighted to announce New Construction(s)\, the inaugural exhibition at our new location at 693 Fifth Avenue. This exhibition celebrates artistic innovation and reinvention\, mirroring the gallery’s own transformation as we embark on an exciting new chapter. \nInspired by our relocation and the complete redesign of our space\, New Construction(s) marks a moment of renewal. After nearly three decades at our previous flagship\, this exhibition reflects both the evolution of our artists and the gallery itself. Featuring recent works that explore new materials\, techniques\, and conceptual approaches\, the exhibition offers a glimpse into the future of each artist’s practice. \nThe title New Construction(s) underscores the creative possibilities that emerge in times of change. It also reaffirms our commitment to championing artists who push the boundaries of their medium\, embracing experimentation and reinvention. \nThe exhibition includes works by Valérie Belin\, Gregory Crewdson\, Lalla Essaydi\, Sissi Farassat\, Adam Fuss\, Sally Mann\, Abelardo Morell\, Ron Norsworthy\, Matthew Pillsbury\, Robert Polidori\, Stephen Shore\, Jessica Wynne\, and Lee Shulman & The Anonymous Project. By bringing together artists who have long defined our contemporary program with those newly presented by the gallery\, New Construction(s) highlights continuity and transformation in equal measure.” \nhttps://www.houkgallery.com/exhibitions/108/works/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/new-constructions/
LOCATION:Edwynn Houk\, 693 Fifth Avenue\, 6th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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SUMMARY:Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans
DESCRIPTION:Metropolitan Museum of Art \n“Nothing in Florida is quite what it seems. A popular tourist destination since the early twentieth century\, it is a place where fantasy and reality collide\, a subtropical paradise threatened by hurricanes and rising sea levels\, a refuge for extremism and eccentricity. This exhibition brings together photographs and paintings of Florida by two artists of different generations who have sought to understand its complexity and contradictions: Anastasia Samoylova (born 1984)\, a Russian-American photographer based in Miami\, and Walker Evans (1903–1975)\, an influential originator of documentary-style American photography. \n“Florida is ghastly and very pleasant where I am\,” Evans wrote to a friend during his first visit there\, in 1934. Over the next forty years\, he returned repeatedly\, creating a large but little-known body of work depicting the state’s unique natural and cultural landscape: palm trees and pelicans\, real estate billboards and souvenir stands\, Gilded Age mansions and “tin can” tourist camps. In addition to photographs\, the exhibition includes paintings\, negatives\, and postcards drawn from The Met’s Walker Evans Archive. \nSamoylova has been photographing Florida since 2016\, crisscrossing the state in a series of meandering road trips\, from the southernmost Keys to the state’s borders with Alabama and Georgia. Building on Evans’s legacy\, she creates vibrant photographs and mixed-media paintings that temper the shimmering seductions of the Sunshine State with an awareness of the troubling consequences of climate change\, gentrification\, and political extremism. \nThe exhibition is made possible by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation\, Inc.” \nhttps://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/floridas-anastasia-samoylova-and-walker-evans
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/floridas-anastasia-samoylova-and-walker-evans/
LOCATION:Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reflections: Rahim Fortune
DESCRIPTION:“Reflections marks the first solo exhibition of photographer Rahim Fortune\, who hails from Texas. Over the past decade\, Rahim has used photography to explore collective history and cultural visual language in the American South by intertwining documentary and personal narratives. This exhibition showcases two bodies of work: I Can’t Stand To See You Cry (2021) and Hardtack (2024). \nRahim Fortune\, born 1994\, is a visual artist from the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma. He uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities\, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South. \nFortune’s previous book\, I Can’t Stand to See You Cry\, was published by Loose Joints in 2021 and was nominated for the Paris Photo-Aperture Photobook of the Year and the winner of the Rencontres d’Arles Louis Roederer Discovery Award 2022. His 2024 monograph\, Hardtack (Loose Joints)\, has garnered international attention\, earning a nomination for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2025. His work has been featured in exhibitions worldwide and many permanent collections\, including the High Museum of Art\, Atlanta\, GA; LUMA Arles\, France; the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London; the Virginia Museum of Art\, Richmond; the Nelson Atkins Museum\, Kansas City\, MO and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Fortune is represented by Sasha Wolf Projects\, New York\, NY. \nI Can’t Stand To You Cry explores Texas\, the surrounding states\, and the people fixed within its complex landscape. Fortune analyses relationships between family\, friends\, and strangers\, all caught in a flood of health and environmental issues while working to maintain grace. The artist uses his experiences to explore the friction between public and private life and the unspoken tensions in daily life through an approach rooted in the landscape. Moreover\, Fortune’s biographical approach to photography attempts to unpack his identity and experience amid a pandemic\, civil unrest\, a cross-country move\, a career\, and the loss of a parent\, thinking about the future and the past. \nIn Hardtack\, Fortune borrows from the language of vernacular and archival photography to interrogate his community’s historical relationship to photography. Rooted in the landscape\, Fortune often uses sites of historical and cultural interest as a guide but not a subject\, implying the deep ties that bind modern Black communities resiliently to their regions in the face of adversity and joy. A significant theme in Hardtack is Fortune’s striking portraits of coming-of-age traditions. Inside\, young bull riders\, praise dancers\, and pageant queens inherit and gracefully embrace these forms of community ritual. Fortune’s dignifying eye pays tribute to these cultural performances’ rigor\, discipline\, and creative flair and the intergenerational conversation between young people and elders who pass down these traditions.” \nhttps://www.howardgreenberg.com/exhibitions/rahim-fortune
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/reflections-rahim-fortune/
LOCATION:Howard Greenberg\, 41 East 57th Street\, Suite 801\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Safety Net: Stacy Kranitz and Chris Verene
DESCRIPTION:“New York\, NY (opens April 3\, 2025) – Psychic Readings* is pleased to announce “The\nSafety Net\,” a two-person exhibition that examines life in today’s American small towns\,\nthrough the work of documentary photographers Stacy Kranitz and Chris Verene. The\nexhibit highlights the resilience of human spirit and the importance of mutual aid. It\nfeatures a selection of new works and images from throughout the photographers’\ncareers. The exhibition will open at Psychic Readings* gallery at 629 E 6th Street New\nYork\, NY 10009 on Thursday\, April 3\, 2025\, and will run through May 10\, 2025. \nKranitz and Verene focus on a unique\, sensitive\, and intensely personal approach to the\ndocumentary tradition. They have dedicated their careers to photographing communities\nwhich are often overlooked and underserved. Verene has been photographing his family\nand friends in the small midwestern town of Galesburg\, Illinois since the late 1980s\, while\nKranitz has documented communities in the Appalachian region for the past fifteen years.\nThese communities share similar situations thousands of miles apart. The artists show us\nthat the government’s social safety net doesn’t work for people living near the poverty line. \nStacy Krantiz explains\, “On paper\, there are resources available through government\nprograms\, but in reality\, they are nearly impossible to access. I find this is the biggest\ndisconnect for people. If you have never needed these resources\, you do not understand\nhow difficult they are to obtain and keep.” \nKravitz and Verene both work in communities where the safety net does not provide\naccessible and adequate resources. Both see declining rural health care (rural hospital\nclosures\, maternity care deserts) the rise in rural homelessness and the lack of economic\nopportunity as significant factors in declining quality of life. Verene writes\, “The local\ngovernment condemned my friend’s home\, arrested the occupants for trespassing when\nthey tried to return\, then bulldozed houses they deemed to be where people used drugs.\nNow\, those people have no where to live and the situation is far worse.” \nThe exhibition’s curator\, Ani Cordero\, has long worked in grassroots organizing\, and aims\nto highlight the intersection of art and activism with this project. Cordero notes the artists’\ncommitment to harm reduction and their active encouragement of positive change from\nwithin the community through their work. \nStacy Kranitz and Chris Verene are both recent Guggenheim Fellows\, and both have\nmonographs including these topics published by the prestigious Twin Palms Press. \nAbout Stacy Kranitz: Stacy Kranitz is an American photographer born in Kentucky and\ncurrently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. She has received\nnumerous awards including the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography and a\nCenter for Documentation Fellowship. She recently collaborated with ProPublica on a\nproject about abortion rights in Tennessee. Her work is included in public collections\nincluding The Harvard Art Museum\, The Museum of Fine Art\, Houston\, and The Duke\nUniversity Archive of Documentary Arts. Krantiz’ work has been featured in publications\nincluding The Atlantic\, Bomb Magazine\, The New York Times\, Time Magazine and The\nWashington Post. \nAbout Chris Verene: Chris Verene\, born in DeKalb\, Illinois in 1969\, began photographing\nhis father’s small hometown of Galesburg in 1987. For nearly four decades\, he has\ncontinued intensively photographing the stories of his family members\, friends\, and their\ncommunity in the same area. Verene is currently working on the third book in his series.\nVerene’s work is in numerous museum collections including The Met\, The Whitney\, The\nJewish Museum\, The Getty\, and SFMoMA\, and has been featured in many major art\npublications\, including ArtForum\, Art In America\, The New York Times\, Frieze\, and Parkett. \nAbout Ani Cordero: Ani Cordero is a Puerto Rican singer\, composer\, activist\, and co-\nfounder of Puerto Rican Independent Musicians and Artists (PRIMA)\, which has provided\nsupport in Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane María. She has been featured on\nDemocracy Now\, All Things Considered\, and profiled in The New Yorker. Cordero is the director of Chris Verene’s ongoing performance work\, The Self-Esteem Salon®\, is Verene’s long-time artistic collaborator and partner. Cordero worked with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA). Cordero is partnered with Action Lab\, a strategy\ncenter for social movements that sparks political and personal liberation. \nPsychic Readings* is an artist-run gallery in the East Village neighborhood of New York City\, in full time operation since 2021.” \nhttps://www.psychicreadingsgallery.com/
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/the-safety-net-stacy-kranitz-and-chris-verene/
LOCATION:Psychic Readings\, 629 E 6th St\, New York\, NY\, 10009\, United States
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SUMMARY:Photographer as Sculptor\, Sculptor as Photographer
DESCRIPTION:Bruce Silverstein Gallery is pleased to present Photographer as Sculptor\, Sculptor as Photographer\, the inaugural exhibition of its new gallery space. This exhibition brings together sculptures and photographs by some of the most influential sculptors and master photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries to reveal the shared conceptual approaches that unite these seemingly distinct mediums. Including works by Constantin Brâncuși\, Man Ray\, Henry Moore\, Auguste Rodin\, and David Smith\, alongside photographs by Bernd and Hilla Becher\, Imogen Cunningham\, Karl Blossfeldt\, Bill Brandt\, André Kertész\, Barbara Morgan\, Aaron Siskind\, Frederick Sommer\, Edward Steichen\, and Edward Weston\, the exhibition challenges traditional distinctions of photography and sculpture\, unveiling a convergence between these artistic practices. Viewing these sculptures and photographs side by side\, the exhibition highlights how\, by shifting the boundaries of materiality\, space\, perception\, and form\, photographing becomes a sculptural act\, and photography becomes sculpture. \nSince its inception\, photography has played a crucial role in sculpture\, allowing sculptors to conceptualize\, refine\, and reimagine their works. Auguste Rodin\, the first sculptor to gain widespread recognition for his use of photography\, treated the medium as an extension of his sculptural practice. With the help of skilled artisans\, he shaped light and shadow with the same precision he applied to bronze and marble\, even going as far as coating his prints with potassium dichromate\, creating a pigmented surface of deep greens and browns that mirrored the natural patina of his sculptures. Constantin Brâncuși\, on the other hand\, used photography to alter how his sculptures were perceived\, capturing fleeting moments of illumination\, reflection\, and silhouette. In doing so\, he created a new form of sculpture– as the physical object’s shadows and contours blur together\, there is no clear separation between the material and the ephemeral. \nDavid Smith utilized the camera to study and document his welded metal constructions within their natural environment—the open fields surrounding his Bolton Landing home. His photographs demonstrate a profound understanding of photography’s ability to convey scale\, reflection\, form\, and texture. Set against the mountainous terrain and silhouetted against an ever-changing sky\, these “portraits” enhance the anthropomorphic and linear qualities of his sculptures\, transforming steel objects into seemingly animated forms that tower against the landscape. \nHenry Moore harnessed the power of photography to manipulate the perception of his sculptures\, using the medium to exaggerate their scale and emphasize elements that might otherwise go unnoticed. By shooting his maquettes from a low angle\, often set against stark\, minimalist backdrops or nestled in the gardens of his Hertfordshire studio\, Moore transformed these works into monumental figures\, commanding attention. His tightly cropped details often bordered on the abstract\, whether highlighting negative-space or transforming the folds of a draped garment into a rocky landscape. \nPhotographers\, too\, have sought to distill sculptural essence within their frames. By isolating organic forms as botanical studies\, Karl Blossfeldt elevated natural structures to the realm of sculpture. Imogen Cunningham pushed this further\, using light\, shadow\, and unconventional cropping; intricate textures of leaves\, stems\, and buds take on the solidity of carved or cast material. In Amaryllis\, 1933\, a single leaf curves and separates\, its sharp\, white edges delineating the form with precision. Its cool\, rich surface evokes the sleekness of polished steel or the fluidity of plastic. Similarly\, the Bechers’ typologies of industrial architecture reframe utilitarian structures as sculptural monoliths\, their repetition and precise composition amplifying their sculptural presence. Bill Brandt’s stark nudes echo the undulating masses of Moore’s bronzes\, while Man Ray’s surreal cropping of classical statues blurs the line between human figure and sculpted object. \nThe exhibition also underscores the ways photography births new sculptural realities. For Man Ray\, the camera itself becomes a tool for transformation\, capable of altering perception and actualizing modern sculpture. By carefully framing found objects–clothespins\, an egg tray–and photographing them under sharp lighting\, he plays a game of simulation\, turning household items into humanoid sculpture\, reinforced by a title “L’homme.” Aaron Siskind’s textural abstractions reimagine natural elements as readymade sculptures. Edward Weston’s nude\, Anita Brenner\, Mexico\, 1924\, embodies a Jean Arp-like form\, transforming the human body into a soft sculptural surface defined by form and isolation. Abstracting curves and contours\, Weston blurs the boundary between flesh and sculpture\, while Barbara Morgan’s kinetic compositions capture the body’s motion as though it were chiseled into time. \nThrough these juxtapositions\, Photographer as Sculptor\, Sculptor as Photographer reaffirms that the photograph is not a surrogate for the object but a site of transformation. By challenging traditional divisions between disciplines\, this exhibition signals a new direction for Bruce Silverstein Gallery—one that embraces a fluid\, interdisciplinary approach across all mediums of art\, united by vision and creativity. \nFor more information please contact milly@brucesilverstein.com or visit www.brucesilverstein.com
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LOCATION:Bruce Silverstein\, 529 W 20th St\, 4th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:The New Art: American Photography\, 1839–1910
DESCRIPTION:“This exhibition presents a bold new history of American photography from the medium’s birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century. Drawn from The Met’s William L. Schaeffer Collection\, major works by lauded artists such as Josiah Johnson Hawes\, John Moran\, Carleton Watkins\, and Alice Austen are shown in dialogue with extraordinary photographs by obscure or unknown practitioners made in small towns and cities from coast to coast. Featuring a range of formats\, from daguerreotypes and cartes de visite to stereographs and cyanotypes\, the show explores the dramatic change in the nation’s sense of itself that was driven by the immediate success of photography as a cultural\, commercial\, artistic\, and psychological preoccupation. In 1835\, even before the nearly simultaneous announcement of the invention of the new art in Paris and London\, the American philosopher essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson noted with remarkable vision: “Our Age is Ocular.” \nhttps://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-new-art-american-photography-1839-1910
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/the-new-art-american-photography-1839-1910/
LOCATION:Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 1000 Fifth Avenue\, New York\, NY\, 10028\, United States
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SUMMARY:Malick Sidibé: Regardez-moi
DESCRIPTION:Jack Shainman Gallery is thrilled to announce Regardez-moi\, an exhibition of photographs by the Malian photographer Malick Sidibé. The exhibition\, the title of which translates to “Look at Me”\, marks the gallery’s latest celebration of Sidibé’s unparalleled ability to capture the heartbeat of Bamako\, Mali following the country’s liberation from colonial rule in 1960. \nFeaturing a vibrant selection of photographs — some of which have never before been exhibited — this presentation invites viewers into the bustling parties\, joyous gatherings\, and tender moments that defined the transformative era of a young nation relishing to establish its own national identity. In today’s cultural climate\, where visibility and representation hold immense weight\, Sidibé’s work and legacy remain as significant as ever. \nPresented in conjunction with this exhibition is the publication of Painted Frames\, a monograph by Loose Joints\, and the first exploration of Sidibé’s synergistic painted frame photographs. In these works\, Sidibe collaborated with local Malian artists to blend his iconic photography with the traditional West African art of reverse-glass painting. Regardez-moi presents a selection of these painted frames; reaffirming the sanctity of African photography as a medium of memory and identity. The publication also features an essay by writer\, independent researcher\, and collector-archivist Amy Sall\, in which she makes a case for the continued and ever-expanding importance of Sidibé’s oeuvre: \nMalick Sidibé was witness to\, and preserver of\, a nascent\, burgeoning postcolonial society in which a new modernity was being constructed by way of transcultural osmosis. From his studio to the soirées\, and even to the banks of the Niger River\, Sidibé and his camera were at the center of it all. He was not only chronicling Malian history and culture\, but making pivotal contributions to it…. The night clubs\, living rooms\, and courtyards he photographed were spaces of freedom and community. Sidibé’s oeuvre reflects dialectic expressions of being because he captured his subjects as their imagined and authentic selves. From his widely recognized Nuit de Noël (Christmas Eve\, Happy Club) (1963) to his series Vues de dos\, the framed images carry the same undercurrents of power and rebellion\, tenderness and joy that flow throughout Sidibé’s entire archive. \nRegardez-moi underscores Sidibé’s role as a pioneer who sculpted the visual identity of the African diaspora\, offering a window into a Malian nation that boldly joined a global youth movement. His photographs transcend their historical context\, speaking to contemporary dialogues about identity\, agency\, and the power of being seen. Sidibé’s photographs don’t just freeze time\, they transform these scenes into vibrant stages where his subjects — young couples excited to be married\, or older men or women reclaiming their freedom of expression — assert their presence and identity. In Dansez le Twist (1963-2010)\, Sidibé captures a young man and a woman in a state of joy while dancing the twist\, an American rock ‘n’ roll dance that became a global cultural phenomenon from 1959 to the early 1960s\, which was known for its simple yet lively steps that encouraged freedom of movement and expression. By providing his subjects with ways to be seen and celebrated\, Sidibé’s lens offers a powerful counterpoint to our tech-filtered world\, reminding viewers of the raw\, unscripted joy of human connection. One of Sidibé most celebrated series\, Vues de Dos — with examples from the series held in the collections of numerous museums such as the Getty Museum\, The National Gallery of Art\, as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art — provides viewers with a deeper understanding of the photographer’s curatorial eye\, depicting women in his studio with their bare backs to the camera against a signature backdrop of striped walls. Sidibé’s photography serves as both a reflector and a loudspeaker\, magnifying the vibrant\, intimate essence of Bamako’s people in the wake of gaining independence from French colonial rule. The works capture a liberated people that resonates with a contemporary urgency now more than ever. \nMalick Sidibé (b. 1935\, Soloba\, Mali; d. 2016\, Bamako\, Mali) was a photographer known for his black and white images chronicling the exuberant lives and culture—often of youth—in his native Bamako\, Mali. Much of Sidibé’s work documented a transitional moment as Mali gained its independence\, transforming from a French colony steeped in tradition to an independent country looking toward the West\, and Sidibé played a pivotal role in sculpting the fresh\, global appearance of the African diaspora. \nThis political expression often took shape through individual and collective presentation\, such as fashion\, music\, and dance – something made palpable by Sidibé’s rhythmic compositions. Often capturing his subjects in the midst of ceremonial action or in joyous moments of nightlife\, Sidibé built the narrative of a specific time and space that empowered a culture to dictate their own stories. There is a distinct sense of chronicle felt in the movement of Sidibé’s subjects\, who boldly occupy both the photograph’s frame and their recently decolonized nation’s public and leisure spaces. Beyond his candid shots\, Sidibé ran a formal portrait studio with a deliberately dramatic décor as a backdrop. In order to capture his sitters’ characters and lives\, he orchestrated them into relaxed positions encouraging them to bring along beloved personal objects\, like a new motorcycle or a James Brown record. It was through his portraiture that Sidibé documented the changing fashions and aspirations of generations in Bamako. \nhttps://jackshainman.com/exhibitions/malick_sidib_regardez_moi
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/malick-sidibe-regardez-moi/
LOCATION:Jack Shainman\, 513 West 20th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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SUMMARY:Selections from the Polaroid Collection
DESCRIPTION:Selections from the Polaroid Collection presents works from the institutional collection of the camera maker that revolutionized instant photography. Offered in advance of Photographs from the Polaroid Collection on May 29th\, the exhibition showcases the company’s outsized impact and influence on art and visual culture\, with highlights that include David Hockney’s large-format Polacolor Interior\, Pembroke Studios\, London\, a 1990 Polaroid portrait of Jeff Koons by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders\, and further Polaroid-based works from Sarah Moon\, Richard Hamilton\, Dawoud Bey\, William Wegman\, Harold Edgerton\, and many
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/selections-from-the-polaroid-collection/
LOCATION:Rago Wright Auctions\, 501 W 20th St\, New York\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Being There: Lee Shulman & Omar Victor Diop
DESCRIPTION:Being There is a bold and timely reimagining of 20th-century visual history. Conceived through a vibrant collaboration between British-French artist and filmmaker Lee Shulman—founder of The Anonymous Project\, an expansive archive of mid-century amateur color photography—and Senegalese artist Omar Victor Diop\, the series places Diop within original vernacular photographs\, creating imagined yet believable scenes that invite viewers to reconsider who is seen\, remembered\, and included. \nThis US debut is a symbolic homecoming. Many of the original slides were taken in the United States\, capturing family rituals\, leisure moments\, and the texture of daily life from the 1950s through the 1980s. Photography has long played a powerful role in both shaping and reflecting the American dream\, especially through images made by everyday people\, capturing joy\, connection\, and aspiration. Shulman’s placing of Diop inside these nostalgic moments expands their meaning with curiosity and grace. Diop doesn’t disrupt these images—he inhabits them\, reclaiming space with poise\, humor\, and imagination. \nRather than critique from a distance\, Being There joins the archive in a spirit of play and purpose\, offering a warm and generous invitation to reshape history. Blending performance\, photography\, and archival excavation\, the project reshapes the American story quietly but powerfully\, underscoring how visibility—especially within the imagery of the everyday—is not just symbolic\, but essential to belonging. It speaks to the complexity of the nation’s cultural imagination\, honoring its history while questioning who that history has served and who it has left out. \nThe accompanying film\, premiering at Edwynn Houk Gallery\, brings these still moments into motion\, transforming the archive into a living montage that deepens the series’ invitation to look again\, and look closer. \nhttps://www.houkgallery.com/viewing-room/21-the-anonymous-project-presents-being-there/ \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/being-there-lee-shulman-omar-victor-diop/
LOCATION:Edwynn Houk\, 693 Fifth Avenue\, 6th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10022\, United States
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SUMMARY:The AIPAD Photography Show
DESCRIPTION:“The Photography Show presented by AIPAD\, the longest-running fair dedicated\nto photography in the world\, will take place April 23-27\, 2025 at the Park Avenue\nArmory\, with exhibitors from around the globe unveiling an exciting and diverse mix\nof work that reflects a fluid and dynamic understanding of the photographic\nmedium. \nThe Photography Show showcases exceptional presentations by esteemed\nmembers of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD)\, along\nwith guest exhibitors and galleries new to the fair. The upcoming iteration of the fair \nrepresents its continued evolution since returning to the Park Avenue Armory in\n2024\, with an emphasis on emerging artists\, young galleries and new curatorial\napproaches being placed in dialogue with canonical photographers and legacy\nphotography institutions. \nAIPAD welcomes new members Galeria Alta\, Galerie Julian Sander\, LARGE GLASS\nand Ungallery\, coming to New York in April from Andorra; Cologne\, Germany;\nLondon\, UK and Buenos Aires\, Argentina. Exhibiting at The Photography Show for\nthe first time\, their presentations will push the boundaries of photography and\nprovide new perspectives alongside the many established\, long-time exhibitors.\nComplementing these presentations and in tandem with an added day for this\nyear’s fair\, The Photography Show will feature an expanded and robust slate of\nprogramming. Four days of AIPAD Talks\, hosted by thought leaders in the arts and\nculture space\, will be accompanied by insightful walkthroughs and educational\nevents. The celebration of the prestigious AIPAD Award\, presented annually to a\npioneer in the community\, recognizing them for changing the ways we perceive\nphotography\, will take place during the new Opening Night Party on Wednesday\,\nApril 23. The fair will utilize a new layout and floor plan that will see publishers brought into the main exhibition space\, the Wade Thompson Drill Hall\, highlighting the importance of book publishing within the landscape of contemporary\nphotography. \nDISCOVERY SECTOR \nAIPAD will debut its reenvisioned Discovery Sector for the 2025 edition of The\nPhotography Show. Reflecting its renewed commitment to platforming new and\nemerging galleries\, these booths will showcase single-artist or theme presentations\nalongside focused historical exhibitions. The Discovery Sector will provide viewers\nwith opportunities to not only encounter new examples of photography and\ncuration\, but to re-discover the work of some of the medium’s most iconic\npractitioners as well. \nEXHIBITORS \n\n19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop | New York\, NY\nAndrew Smith Gallery | Tucson\, AZ\nBildhalle | Zurich\, Switzerland | Amsterdam\, The Netherlands\nBruce Silverstein | New York\, NY\nCandela Gallery | Richmond\, VA\nCatherine Couturier Gallery | Houston\, TX\nCavalier Galleries | New York\, NY | Greenwich\, CT | Nantucket\, MA | Palm Beach\, FL\nCharles Isaacs Photographs | New York\, NY\nCLAMP | New York\, NY\nContemporary/Vintage Works | Chalfont\, PA\nDaniel / Oliver Gallery | Brooklyn\, NY\nDanziger Gallery | New York\, NY\nDeborah Bell Photographs | New York\, NY\nEcho Fine Arts | Cannes\, France\nForm. Gallery | Dinard\, France\nGaleria Alta | Andorra\nGalerie Johannes Faber | Vienna\, Austria\nGalerie Julian Sander | Cologne\, Germany\nGALERIE XII | Los Angeles\, CA | Paris\, France\nGalerija Fotografija Gallery | Ljubljana\, Slovenia\nGilman Contemporary | Ketchum\, ID\nGitterman Gallery | New York\, NY\nHackelBury | London\, UK\nHans P. Kraus Jr. Inc. | New York\, NY\nHigher Pictures | Brooklyn\, NY\nHolden Luntz | Palm Beach\, FL\nHoward Greenberg Gallery | New York\, NY\nIlaria Quadrani Fine Art | New York\, NY\nJackson Fine Art | Atlanta\, GA\njdc Fine Art | San Diego\, CA\nJoseph Bellows Gallery | La Jolla\, CA\nKeith de Lellis Gallery | New York\, NY\nKoslov Larsen | Houston\, TX\nLa Galerie de L’Instant | Paris\, France\nLARGE GLASS | London\, UK\nMarshall Gallery | Los Angeles\, CA\nMichael Hoppen | London\, UK\nMIYAKO YOSHINAGA | New York\, NY\nMonroe Gallery of Photography | Santa Fe\, NM\nNailya Alexander Gallery | New York\, NY\nObscura Gallery | Santa Fe\, NM\nOlivier Waltman Gallery | Miami\, FL | Paris\, France\nPatricia Conde Galería | Mexico City\, Mexico\nPaul M. Hertzmann\, Inc. | San Francisco\, CA\nPeter Fetterman Gallery | Santa Monica\, CA\nPhoto Discovery | Paris\, France\nPOLKA Galerie | Paris\, France\nRichard Moore Photographs | Oakland\, CA\nRick Wester Fine Art | New York\, NY\nRobert Klein Gallery | Boston\, MA\nRobert Mann Gallery | New York\, NY\nRose Gallery | Santa Monica\, CA\nSasha Wolf Projects | New York\, NY\nScheinbaum & Russek Ltd. | Santa Fe\, NM\nScott Nichols Gallery | Sonoma\, CA\nStaley-Wise Gallery | New York\, NY\nStephen Bulger Gallery | Toronto\, ON\nStephen Daiter Gallery | Chicago\, IL\nThrockmorton Fine Art | New York\, NY\nToluca Fine Art | Paris\, France\nUngallery | Buenos Aires\, Argentina\nVasari | Buenos Aires\, Argentina\nWeston Gallery\, Inc. | Carmel\, CA\nYancey Richardson | New York\, NY\n\nPHOTOBOOK + PARTNERS \n\n10×10 Photobooks | New York\, NY\nAmerican Photography Archives Group | New York\, NY\nAperture | New York\, NY\nAtelier EXB | Paris\, France\nConvoke | New York\, NY\nDatz Press | Seoul\, South Korea\nGOST Books | London\, UK\nGravy Studio | Philadelphia\, PA\nKGP MONOLITH | New York\, NY\nL’Artiere | Bologna\, Italy\nLe Plac’Art Photo | Paris\, France\nLight Work | Syracuse\, NY\nMW Editions | New York\, NY\nNearest Truth Editions | Slovakia\nSaint Lucy Books | Baltimore\, MD\nSetanta Books | London\, UK\nThames & Hudson | London\, UK | New York\, NY\nTIS Books | New York\, NY\nWorkshop Arts | Brooklyn\, NY\n\nAbout AIPAD\nOrganized in 1979\, AIPAD\, with its global membership across six continents\, is the\ncollective expert voice for fine art photography dealers. Through its acclaimed\neducation initiative\, AIPAD Talks and its flagship event\, The Photography Show\, the\norganization enhances the confidence of the public\, museums\, institutions and\nothers in responsible fine art photography collecting. \nPresented by AIPAD\, The Photography Show is the longest-running exhibition\ndedicated to the photographic medium in the world. The 2024 edition marked the\nexciting return of the fair to the iconic Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side\nof Manhattan.” \nhttps://www.aipad.com/show
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/the-aipad-photography-show/
LOCATION:Park Avenue Armory\, 643 Park Ave\, New York\, NY\, 10065\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zanele Muholi: Sawubona
DESCRIPTION:Yancey Richardson is proud to present Sawubona\, an exhibition bringing together work from five different series made between 2002–2013 by South African artist and visual activist Zanele Muholi. Their fifth exhibition with the gallery\, Sawubona reveals both the historical depth and visual complexity of Muholi’s overarching project of empowering the Black LGBTQIA+ community in South Africa through a collaborative process of representation. Sawubona will also be the first gallery exhibition outside of Africa to feature their early work. The exhibition will be on view from April 17 through May 23\, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday\, April 17 from 6–8PM. \nFor more than twenty years Muholi has studied the multifarious and ever-evolving nature of Black\, queer life in South Africa\, specifically through a group of projects centered around forms of portraiture both intimate and disarming\, personally descriptive and socially incisive. Though widely-known and celebrated for their ongoing series of self-portraiture titled Somnyama Ngonyama (“Hail\, the Dark Lioness”)\, which they began in 2012\, Muholi had by that point either completed or begun several other bodies of work that addressed the discrete circumstances and challenges—including for basic civil rights and for visibility and recognition free from stereotypes—being faced by different members of the queer community in South Africa. These early projects\, including Only Half the Picture (2002–2006)\, Being (2006)\, Beulahs (2006)\, Faces and Phases (2006–ongoing) and Miss Lesbian (2009)\, each seek to empower Muholi’s participants and by extension the queer community at large\, with images defined by affirmation\, dignity and joy rather than struggle\, tragedy or trauma.  \nMuholi’s first project\, Only Half the Picture\, grew out of their work with the Forum for the Empowerment of Women\, which works with survivors of hate crimes living across South Africa and its townships and which Muholi co-founded in 2002. Rather than emphasize the visceral details that would attest to the suffering endured by each participant (a term Muholi uses in place of “subject”)\, these photographs instead show fragments of bodies at rest or in repose and faces that are contemplative rather than vindictive. Muholi often isolates body parts and garments as well\, creating pictures that complicate whatever normative assumptions about gender and identity we may hold. \nThe challenge to stereotypical and queerphobic representations was further developed by Muholi with their series’ Being and Beulahs. For the former\, Muholi made portraits of queer couples in settings and circumstances at times intimate and domestic\, in others casual and public. Each photograph demonstrates the bond of love between two people regardless of personal difference or public challenge. If the Being photographs were largely situated in private spaces\, those Muholi made for the series Beulahs were just as often situated outdoors and in public spaces. In South Africa the term “beulah” refers to a gay man that the queer community deems beautiful. The “beulahs” that Muholi photographed demonstrate how malleable masculinity can be—their self-presentation is their own as opposed to being socially prescribed. \n\n\nIn their Miss Lesbian series Muholi used the conventions of pageantry as the aesthetic and conceptual framework to critique social definitions of beauty and success. These self-portraits take the staging and presentation used by beauty pageants as a pretext for exploring how they have historically expressed gender as a social construct and how that has defined what “success” or “acceptance” so often looks like. \nMuholi’s project Faces and Phases is a vast collective portrait that both commemorates and archives the lives of Black LGBTQIA+ people in South Africa. Many of these portraits are the result of long and sustained relationships and collaboration\, as Muholi often returns to photograph the same person over time. In the title\, “Faces” refers to the person being photographed\, while “Phases” can signify the transition from one stage of sexuality or gender expression to another\, while also marking the changes to the participants’ daily lives. As with so much of their work\, Faces and Phases acts as a living archive that visualizes Muholi’s belief that “we express our gendered\, racialized and classed selves in rich and diverse ways.” \nZanele Muholi was born in Umlazi\, South Africa and currently lives and works in Cape Town\, South Africa. They studied Advanced Photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Newtown\, Johannesburg and in 2009 completed an MFA: Documentary Media at Ryerson University\, Toronto. Their work has been exhibited at the 2020 Biennale of Sydney; the 58th International Venice Biennale; Documenta 13; the South African Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and the 29th São Paulo Biennale. They are currently the subject of a mid-career survey at the Instituto Moreira Salles\, Sao Paolo. In 2024 they were the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and in 2020\, the Tate Modern mounted a major mid-career survey which traveled to Martin Gropius Bau\, Berlin; Maison Européenne de la Photographie\, Paris and Bildmuseet\, Sweden.  \nOther notable solo exhibitions have taken place at the Tate Modern\, London; Sprengel Museum\, Hannover; Stedelijk Museum\, Amsterdam; Kulturhistorek Museum\, Oslo; Schwules Museum\, Berlin and Brooklyn Museum\, New York. They received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in 2016\, a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2016\, an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society in 2018\, and the Spectrum International Prize for Photography in 2021. Their work is included in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Brooklyn Museum; the High Museum of Art; the Carnegie Museum of Art; the Guggenheim Museum; the Museum of Modern Art\, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Tate Modern\, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum\, London; Centre Pompidou\, Paris; the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts\, Houston\, among many others. \nhttps://www.yanceyrichardson.com/exhibitions/zanele-muholi5
URL:https://jamesmaherphotography.com/event/zanele-muholi-sawubona/
LOCATION:Yancey Richardson\, 525 West 22nd Street\, New York\, NY\, 10011\, United States
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