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Zhe Chen Bees at Beaugeste, Shanghai

Zhe Chen Bees at Beaugeste Gallery, Shanghai

BEES
Beaugeste is honored to invite you to the opening of Zhe Chen’s exhibition: (Recipient of the 2011 Inge Morath Award from Magnum Foundation) – Saturday 3rd of September 2011 from 3PM to 8PM

“Brought up in Beijing, China, Zhe Chen is a photo-based artist currently living in Los Angeles. In the past four years, Zhe has created a series of projects focusing on body modification, human hair, identity confusion, post-traumatic stress disorder, and memory. Zhe’s winning project is a document of self-mortification among a community of disaffected Chinese. The difficult nature of her subject is made more complex by Chen’s lyrical approach, identifying the physical self-destruction of her subjects as an act of spiritual cleansing.” That is how in some sixty words the Inge Morath Foundation and the Magnum Foundation have summarized the essence of Zhe Chen’s early master piece Bees in their introduction to the 2011 Award presented to her. Continue reading Zhe Chen Bees at Beaugeste, Shanghai →

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View York Exhibition & Book in Munich

Forthcoming from Galerie CLAIR, Munich

As a world stage, New York seems to provide an almost inexhaustible source of inspiration to photographers from a wide variety of backgrounds. This catalogue reveals the views of international photographers and authors who feel like New Yorkers. Some of them live or have lived there, many however are just passers-by, who have cultivated a secret pact with this city as they return over and over again. Featuring selected works from the years 1954–2010, including some previously unpublished works by renowned photographers, VIEW YORK offers nine personal insights into the essence of this super-metropolis.

Artists:
Leonard Freed, Gundula Friese, Erich Hartmann, Guy Le Querrec, Andrew Lichtenstein, Inge Morath, Hally Pancer, Klavdij Sluban and Patrick Zachmann

Authors:
Gundula Friese, Ruth Bains Hartmann, Andrew Lichtenstein, Anna-Patricia Kahn, Arthur Miller, Hally Pancer, Klavdij Sluban and Patrick Zachmann

Exhibition Dates:
15 September to 22 October 2011, Galerie CLAIR, Munich
from 15 September 2011, German-American Institute, Tübingen
from 25 April 2012, German-American Institute, Freiburg

Publisher: Kerber Verlag

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Inge Morath’s Bal d’Hiver in Esopus 17

Inge Morath: Bal d’Hiver (1955)

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The Paris social season opened with a big, elegant splash last Tuesday. The Baronne de Gabrol, President of ESSOR, an association for the protection of France’s abandoned children, sponsored the Winter Ball, at which some of the most distinguished names in Europe amused themselves for the benefit of needy children.

So begins Inge Morath’s description of the Bal d’Hiver, a dance on ice performed by European royalty, in costumes donated by couturiers including Hubert de Givenchy and Christian Dior, and attended by an international roster of celebrities, from the Countess d’Paris to film star Charlie Chaplin. Photographed by Morath in 1955, this exquisite story of Parisian society has remained unpublished until now. The IM Foundation is pleased to announce that a selection of twenty photographs from the story, along with facsimile reproductions of Morath’s texts for Magnum Photos and a drop-out contact sheet, will appear in the forthcoming issue of Esopus magazine.

Esopus 17, will appear on newsstands in November, featuring artists’ projects by Acconci Studios, Alyson Shotz, and Adam Chodzko; the latest installments of “Modern Artifacts,” co-presented with the museum of Modern Art Archives, and “Guarded Opinions” (commentary by museum guards on the art they oversee); as well as new fiction, poetry, and 100 frames from Sergey Dvortsevoy’s “Tulpan,” introduced by fiction writer Jim Shepard. The issue also includes a CD of 13 new songs inspired by Esopus readers’ irrational fears.

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My Viewpoint Exhibition at Venice Arts Gallery

My Viewpoint Program Exhibition at Venice Arts

On August 6, 2011, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm, Venice Arts Gallery will hold an opening reception for Shipping & Receiving: Photographs and Letters between Venice, CA and Dupree, SD. The exhibition highlights a photographic and personal storytelling exchange between youth in Venice and youth on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota and wil feature texts and panoramic, collaborative double-exposure photographs, paired with over thirty black-and-white and color photographs taken by youth who have participated in the My Viewpoint Photography Program since its inception in 2005.

This is the first public exhibition of their work. Inge Morath Award winner Emily Schiffer, founder of the My Viewpoint Photography Program, wil accompany five of the students from the Cheyenne River Reservation to Los Angeles for the exhibition. “This exchange and exhibition has helped our students to view their artwork within a larger context. The students who participated in the exchange have been studying photography for years, but this project enabled them to really look at their lives, identify what is important to them, and turn that reflection into photographs,” says Schiffer. Continue reading My Viewpoint Exhibition at Venice Arts Gallery →

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Emily Schiffer at Fovea Exhibitions, NY

Children of the Cheyenne Nation by Emily Schiffer

OPENING JULY 23
On view through September 4th. Reception 7/23, 5-7pm.

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ARTIST TALK
Second Saturday, August 13th 5pm.
Schiffer’s subjects are her students—from six to 20 years old—of the Cheyenne River Reservation in rural South Dakota, where she founded a photography program in 2005. This exhibit is comprised of medium format black & white photographs of them, and photographs taken by her students.

Emily Schiffer was the recipient of the 2009 Inge Morath Award for an early version of this project. Congratulations Emily!.

Fovea Exhibitions is located at 143 Main Street in the town of Beacon, New York.

Presented with support of the Farnsworth Museum, the Magnum Foundation, Great American Signs, & Chateau Routas.

IM Mag 2010/2011, IM Magazine

Isabelle Pateer: Unsettled

Isabelle Pateer (Netherlands): Unsettled

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The documentary series Unsettled focuses in a metaphoric way on the idea of “progress” in a case where living environment and heritage have to disappear because of industrial purposes. Within this project this international tendency is illustrated by focusing on the Belgian village Doel and the surrounding polder area. The place is threatened by vast expansions of the port of Antwerp and related nature compensation plans, which installs an artificial contrast between nature and culture.

Unsettled illustrates this actual case in an indirect way, exceeding a pure documentary approach. It shows portraits of young inhabitants alternated by landscapes which bare witness to the transformed state of the area. Leaving a sourish taste by contrasting the young with the local changes, they symbolize the international tendency of global political and economic shifts and the way they manifest themselves to the people and their surroundings. Continue reading Isabelle Pateer: Unsettled →

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2011 Inge Morath Award Announced

2011 Inge Morath Award Winner Announced

The Inge Morath Foundation and the The Magnum Foundation are pleased to announce the recipient of the 2011 Inge Morath Award.

Each June, the winner of the Inge Morath Award is selected by the full membership of Magnum Photos, and the Director of the Inge Morath Foundation, during the annual Magnum meeting. The recipient of the 2011 Inge Morath Award is Zhe Chen, for her project Bees.

Brought up in Beijing, China, Zhe Chen is a photo-based artist currently living in Los Angeles. In the past four years, Zhe has created a series of projects focusing on body modification, human hair, identity confusion, post-traumatic stress disorder, and memory. Chen’s winning project is a document of self-mortification among a community of disaffected Chinese. The difficult nature of her subject is made more complex by Chen’s lyrical approach, identifying the physical self-destruction of her subjects as an act of spiritual cleansing. Continue reading 2011 Inge Morath Award Announced →

IM Mag 2010/2011, IM Magazine

Helena Schaetzle: 9645 Kilometres Memory

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Helena Schaetzle (Germany): 9645 Kilometres Memory

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“History is alive as long as our memory is alive.”
Konstantin Isaakow, Moskau

Almost every person in Europe has part of their family history connected to World War II happenings. With the dying out of the last living witnesses of this time, we are entering an age of forgetting and overcoming our past. The aim of this project is not just to remind of that time and the remains still perceivable in today’s society, but also to close a circle of time with personal records and memories of still living witnesses in photographic and text form. Thus, to overcome prejudices and look beyond, seeing the personal experiences and memories rather than the memories and experiences of a certain nation.

In the Second World War, from 1939 to 1945 more than 50 million people were killed. Most of them were civilians or politically and racially persecuted people like Jews, homosexuals or Roma. The biggest loss happened on the Soviet side, where about 27 million people died. This was mainly caused by the cruel war strategy of the Germans, which showed in the way they treated prisoners of war or in the systematic execution of people by the SS. The “Generalplan Ost” put on to record the elimination and oppression of people from the East European states. But the high loss of Soviet people was also caused by the ruthless command of Stalin. Continue reading Helena Schaetzle: 9645 Kilometres Memory →

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Announcing Paul Fusco Prints to Benefit Magnum Foundation

MAGNUM FOUNDATION & 20×200 TO RELEASE TWO PAUL FUSCO PRINTS

On June 8th, 2011, in cooperation with Magnum Foundation, 20×200.com will release a pair of limited-edition prints from Magnum photographer Paul Fusco’s RFK Funeral Train series. Proceeds will benefit the Magnum Foundation’s Legacy Program.

PRINTS TO BENEFIT LEGACY
The Magnum Foundation has partnered with limited-edition print site 20×200 | A Jen Bekman Project and Paul Fusco to release a pair of prints from Fusco’s RFK Funeral Train series. The prints will be available on 20×200.com on Wednesday, June 8th, at 2:00 p.m. ET, but 20×200 newsletter subscribers have first access to the prints beginning at 11:00 a.m. Proceeds from the sale of this edition will directly benefit The Magnum Foundation. Continue reading Announcing Paul Fusco Prints to Benefit Magnum Foundation →

IM Mag 2010/2011, IM Magazine

Rachel Loischild: Estate Sale

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Rachel Loischild (USA): Estate Sale

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Estate Sale is an investigation of the estate sales of New England documenting the objects and domestic spaces that remain when someone dies. Estate Sales becomes a collection of environmental portraits that tell a story about individual lives, families, and an entire generation which is quickly evaporating. Details of ones life are laid out and exposed, allowing for the examination of the physical relics of someone’s life. This work examines these domestic spaces that have been very clearly shaped by women. In doing so, I am both creating portraits of these women and examining the cultural nuances to which they subscribed, as well as comparing them to our own schema today. This can be seen in the pieces of cosmetics remaining on a dressing table and the ornamentation of a house; even the choice of wall paper reflects such subtleties. Continue reading Rachel Loischild: Estate Sale →