Category: Exhibitions

Katie Cookie in “Arrangements in Black and Grey” Show at Fox Talbot Museum

Nicolai Grossman Leave a comment

Photon Detector favorite Katie Cooke is showing some of her pinhole work at the Fox Talbot Museum:

Visit our upper gallery to see our current photography exhibition. ‘Arrangements in Black and Grey’ invites you to explore the relevance of black and white photography in the 21st century through a collection of beautiful images from six British artists, Anthony Jones, Deborah Parkin, Trevor Ashby, Nettie Edwards, Mark Voce and Katie Cooke.

Each artist approaches and uses monochrome differently, from the patient process of using a pinhole camera to producing work with only an iPhone to hand, there is more to these photographs than meets the eye.

The fine language of black and white focuses on texture, line and shape. By taking away the distraction of colour we are forced to look at the picture in a different way. The importance of light moves into the foreground and we start to understand the world in subtle tones rather than bold colour.

Show runs 12 April – 22 October, 2013 at the Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, England

Katie Cooke’s "Balancing Act" pinhole show, Edinburgh

Nicolai Grossman Leave a comment

Relentlessly awesome photographer Katie Cooke‘s Balancing Act series of pinhole photographs opens 3 July, 2010 at Axolotl, Edinburgh, Scotland, and runs for the month.

Cooke writes, “This is a show of my long exposure self portrait pinhole photographs, mostly from the Balancing Act series that I made between 2006 and 2007, exploring the gain, loss, and regain of my ability to stand.”

Two prints from this series are hanging in my home, and they’re beautiful. Go see them in person if you can.

You can see more of her work at her web site, katiecooke.com, and here on Flickr.

Preview of Sally Mann’s new series & book, Proud Flesh

Nicolai Grossman Leave a comment

Jörg Colberg says:

On September 15th, 2009, “Proud Flesh”, a series of new photographs by Sally Mann, will open at Gagosian gallery. Coinciding with the show, Aperture is going to release a monograph containing the photography. In the following essay, prepared for this blog, Sally Mann reveals her thoughts behind "Proud Flesh". The essay and images (which are part of “Proud Flesh”, and which were photographed by Rob McKeever) are © Sally Mann; the images are courtesy Gagosian gallery and Aperture. Click on the images to see larger versions.

GO SEE THE PHOTOS AND READ THE ESSAY NOW at Conscientious. They’re amazing.

 

Aperture’s description of the book:

Children, landscape, lovers—these subjects are almost as common to the photographic lexicon as light itself. But Sally Mann’s take on these iconic themes, rendered through both traditional and esoteric processes, is anything but common. Astonishingly original both in image and technique, Mann’s work consistently challenges the viewer: in her hands, experiences drawn from daily life are rendered both disquieting and sublime. Now, having studied relationships between parent and child, artist and subject, life and death, Sally Mann: Proud Flesh (Aperture/Gagosian, October 2009) investigates the bonds between husband and wife.

Exquisitely detailed, intimate, psychologically and emotionally intense, Sally Mann: Proud Flesh engages territory most often inhabited by male artists portraying their wives and female lovers as Mann turns the camera to her husband of 39 years, Larry. Beautiful, textured, and provocative, these unprecedented nude studies neither objectify nor celebrate; rather, they go far under the skin to suggest a relationship between man and woman that is profoundly trusting: sensual, sexual, sometimes painful, often indescribably tender, and always unblinkingly honest…

Continue reading at Aperture.

The clothbound book of 33 tritone images on 64 12″ × 14″ pages will be released by Aperture in October of 2009 and will cost US $64.