I’m as wistful that summer has ended as the next person, but at the same time, I’m looking forward to the fall season of exhibitions. (The shorter days and cooler temperatures? Not so much.) Here’s my September shortlist:
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“Harper’s Bazaar: A Decade of Style” opens at the ICP on Friday, just in time for Fashion Week. Description: “In the ten years since Glenda Bailey became Editor in Chief of Harper’s Bazaar, she and Creative Director Stephen Gan have carried on the magazine’s tradition of publishing high-impact photography. This exhibition distills that decade into a choice group of nearly thirty images by some of the most important photographers working today, including Peter Lindbergh, Jean-Paul Goude, David Bailey, William Klein, Patrick Demarchelier, Sølve Sundsbø, Tim Walker, Mario Sorrenti, Hiro, Melvin Sokolsky, and Karl Lagerfeld. Among the artists represented are Nan Goldin, Ralph Gibson, and Chuck Close.”
More info: http://www.icp.org/museum/exhibitions/harpers-bazaar-decade-style
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Cornelia Hedinger’s “Doppelgänger II” opens tonight at Klompching Gallery in DUMBO, with a reception from 6 to 8. Description: “With this newly released series of photographs, Hediger continues her exploration of the uncanny, constructing complex pictorial narratives into segmented tableau vivants, consisting of up to eighteen individual photographs combined into a single composition. In each artwork the central characters—doppelgängers—are interwoven into a performative psychological struggle, displaying an undercurrent of the sinister, of angst and moral ambiguity. The relationship between the two central characters is superbly enacted by the artist herself, drawing comparisons in visual and conceptual strength to the work of historical photographers such as Claude Cahun.”
More info: http://www.klompching.com/
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Pieter Hugo’s “Permanent Error” opens tomorrow at Yossi Milo, with a reception from 6 to 8. Description: “Pieter Hugo’s new series, Permanent Error, depicts Agbogbloshie, a massive dump site for technological waste on the outskirts of Ghana’s capital city, and the locals who burn down the components to extract bits of copper, brass, aluminum and zinc for resale. Tons of outdated and broken computers, computer games, mobile phones and other e-waste are shipped to the area as “donations” from the West, under the guise of providing technology to developing countries. Rather than helping to bridge the digital divide, the equipment is transformed into noxious trash threatening the health of the area’s inhabitants and contaminating the water and soil.”
More info: http://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/2011-09-pieter-hugo/
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MoMA will unveil “New Photography 2011” on September 28. Description: “This year, MoMA’s annual New Photography series expands to feature the work of six artists, with the aim of capturing the diversity and international scope of contemporary photographic work. New Photography 2011: Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Zhang Dali includes the work of Davey (Canada), whose mailed-photograph grids feature the stamps, postmarks, and return addresses that have accreted on each photograph—analog elements that are particularly unique in these digital times; Georgiou (England), who looks at modern-day Turkey as it seeks to hold on to its traditions and landscape amid the oncoming wave of Westernization and development; Lawson (U.S.), whose work showcases the African American experience, with a particular emphasis on the human figure and form, in powerfully intimate portraits of people from all walks of life; Rickard (U.S.), whose photographs document the blurred faces of people and crumbling American cities as captured by the Google Streetview lens, and explore issues of poverty, race, and privacy; Sassen (The Netherlands), who incorporates images of the people and places of the African continent in an attempt to recapture her surreal dreams and memories of growing up in Kenya; and Dali (China), who uses original source materials, including Chinese archives, books, and periodicals, to trace the lineage of propaganda made during Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution.”
More info: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1199
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The Danziger Gallery premieres “Edward Steichen—The Last Printing” on September 15. Description: “Danziger Gallery opens our fall 2011 schedule with a show of 84 Edward Steichen photographs printed by the renowned photographer George Tice. Tice was the last person to print for Steichen in his lifetime. These prints not only remind us of Steichen’s genius but also highlight the formidable quality of printing that George Tice has been known for throughout his career. In conjunction with Steichen’s work, the gallery is also pleased to present 12 rarely seen George Tice photographs in our new print room along with his classic signature image, ‘Petit’s Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, NJ, 1974.’”
More info: http://www.danzigerprojects.com/exhibitions/2011_9_edward-steichen-the-last-pri/
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Yes, even before cellphone cameras and the digital revolution, regular folk took photos not just to document their lives but for the pleasure of the art. And these images were often quite artful, as we’ll see in the exhibition “Vernacular Snapshots by Unknown Photographers.” The show, which features selections from the collection of Peter J. Cohen, opens tomorrow at the Morgan Lehman Gallery.
More info: http://www.morganlehmangallery.com/exhibitions/2011-09-08_vernacular-snapshots-by-unknown-photographers/
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A show of Sara Greenberger Rafferty’s color-bleeding C-prints opens today at Rachel Uffner Gallery. Description: “For her second solo outing at the gallery, Rafferty will exhibit photographic portraits as well as larger scale works on acetate and Plexiglas. While in the past Rafferty used the subject of mid to late 20th century comedy as an immediate reference point, her new pieces employ images of comedians and entertainers in a rather more open-ended way. With the “waterlogging” technique she developed for her gallery show in 2009 – with which she works liquid into inket just printed extant images, then rephotographs and digitally manipulates the mottled, apparently damaged results – Rafferty suggests not only the destruction and bifurcation experienced by individual bodies, but also the fascination with which our culture gazes at such images of harm.”
More info: http://www.racheluffnergallery.com/future/sara-greenberger-rafferty/2/
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Yancey Richardson Gallery is mounting a self-titled show of Hellen van Meene’s portraits of adolescent girls and of dogs that opens tonight. Description: “The exhibition includes several new portraits of adolescent girls, each one characterized by the artistʼs extraordinary use of light and elicitation of her subjectʼs psychological state. … Van Meene has elsewhere sought to expand her study of photographic portraiture by turning to dogs as subjects. …The artist has created an outdoor studio with a simple background in order to focus on the character of each dog and to highlight their idiosyncrasies. Using a navy or crimson backdrop and an antique Persian carpet, van Meene imbues the dogs with a measure of rank and respect, while drawing out of them the same psychological potential as her human portraits.”
More info: http://www.yanceyrichardson.com/current/?page=1&work_id=1710
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