KIKUJI KAWADA: ‘ENDLESS MAP’
Exhibition at PGI, Tokyo
JANUARY 20 - MARCH 13, 2021
A new interpretation of master Japanese photographer Kikuji Kawada’s series, The Map, this new selection includes never before seen images from his original negatives as well as iconic favorites. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima which this series references, this ever curious eighty-eight year old photographer revisited, scanned and printed images that he made in the early 1960s.
The resulting rich detailed pigment prints appear to glow on the warm textured 16 x 20 inch thick washi paper. This presentation translates into a completely new language from versions of the past. Currently on view at PGI in Tokyo, the prints (in editions of 3) are also available through us in the US.
Noir & Blanc : Une esthétique de la photographie -
Collection de la BnF
Exhibition and installation: Grand Palais and Paris Métro stations
December 16, 2020 - February 1 & 13th, 2021
Drawn from the collection of the Bibliothèque national de France, the exhibition of 400 works by 200 photographers was never viewable by the public due to COVID 19 restrictions. However, heading underground the Paris métro has installed billboard photographs by 32 photographers, among them, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fluor Guarduño, and Felix Nadar over a dozen métro stations.
A 256 page catalog is also available. Order here.
AUCTION
Four Decades: in Celebration of AIPAD
December 15- 21, 2020 (Online)
Sotheby’s is pleased to present an auction of work selected from more than 50 esteemed members of The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD). This sale will help to support AIPAD’s education mission through public programing, the AIPAD Talks, which will debut virtually next year.
The Gallery has submitted two iconic prints for sale:
We selected this early self-portrait by Jane Evelyn Atwood to convey the power of the photographer and her work. As with many of the Gallery’s artists, Atwood broaches complex, layered and challenging subjects - prostitutes, blind children, incarcerated women - in a visually engaging and sensitive manner. In the heroic bust shown here, the artist is composed and sublime, while her face and throat are wrapped by an often fear-invoking reptile. The iconography echoes the Rod of Asclepius, Greek symbol of healing and medicine. For this reason, earlier this fall the Gallery presented an oversized reproduction of the image in one of our pop-up spaces on Madison Avenue, to honor and celebrate all those who face challenges with determination and grace. SHE IS RESILIENT.
We also Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's iconic Girl on a Spacehopper for its untethered joy and exuberance. This surreal scene in an empty street was made in a neighborhood (Byker) to which Konttinen, then a young accented foreigner, had recently moved and which was unbeknownst to her slated for urban redevelopment. The image and the series to which it belongs mark the beginning of a more than half-century journey she has spent celebrating working class and marginalized communities in the north east of England. Konttinen’s true and steadfast championing of the underrepresented and overlooked is one which the Gallery holds dear. This is also why we featured Girl on a Spacehopper in an 8 foot window-display on Madison Avenue this past September.
For information on these prints or the auction, contact: enquiries@sothebys.com
Du Jour au Lendemain…
November 13, 2020 - January 3, 2021
Honoring those killed in the attacks in Paris Nov 13, 2015
Jardin May Picqueray, Paris, 75011: Jane Evelyn Atwood is one of 42 artists in Paris five years ago selected by curator Laura Serani to respond to the events of the day. The exhibition, presented outside on the gates of a city park, was conceived by l’association 13onze15 - Fraternité & Vérité, an organization created by the victims and families of victims of the attacks at the Bataclan and Stade de France.
Each artist was asked to submit one image they would have taken that day and another made in response to the tragedy. They were asked to accompany these with the reason for their choice or their reaction to the events.
FACING BRItain: british photography since the 1960s
museum goch
goch, Germany
september 27 – november 22, 2020
This first, preview venue of the touring exhibition Facing Britain paints a portrait of Great Britain from time of its application to join the European Economic Community in 1963 to its exit from the EU. in 2020. Historically virulent topics such as youth unemployment, the decline of the mining industry or protests and demonstrations against Margaret Thatcher's policies are examined as well as current issues such as gender justice, consumer society, Brexit or migration. Examples of work from both Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and John Davies are included.
Click here to view the exhibition’s page.
Women Photographers
Women Photographers, Contemporaries 1970 - Today
Thames and Hudson has just come out with a three volume set of women photographers, divided historically by era: Pioneers, 1851-1936; Revolutionaries, 1937-1970; and Contemporaries, 1970-Today. We are pleased that our artist Jane Evelyn Atwood was recognized with an image of her Les Jumelles (blind twins) which were recently on display in one of the windows of our pop-up space on Madison Avenue at 69th street.
Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes (November, 2020)
Une histoire mondiale des femmes photographes
(A World History of Women Photographers)
A new reference book of 450 Images by 300 photographers.
Edited by Luce Lebart; photo-historian and curator and French correspondent for the Archive of Modern Conflict and Marie Robert; Curator of Photography at the Musée d’Orsay. Paris. 160 authors were invited to contribute in order to provide a global perspective. Our artist Jane Evelyn Atwood is among those featured.
Madison Avenue Gallery Walk
MADISON AVENUE GALLERY WALK
Saturday October 24, 2020
824 Madison Avenue at 69th Street, 11-6pm Join us at our pop-up Gallery for the final day of Jane Evelyn Atwood’s “Selected Works”, Jan Yoors’ “Dawn” tapestry, and Photo Books for sale.
If you wish to visit before then, please contact us to schedule an appointment.
POP-UPS
The Gallery Hosts Two Pop-up Installations along Madison Ave
September 12 & September 26 & October 3rd
SATURDAY - both space will be open, 11am- 6pm (Final Day at 764 Madison)
Opening, Saturday, September 12th, 11-7pm through October 24th (by appointment)
764 Madison Avenue, ground floor
Join us as we participate in Madison Avenue’s Welcome Back Saturdays with an incredible window display, with an exhibition of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Selected Works and books for sale. Peruse books, take a look at the show, take a selfie with the Girl on a Spacehopper or just say hello. We’d love to see you after these many months. COVID restriction will be in effect.
Opening, Saturday, September 26th, 11-7pm through October 3rd (by appointment)
824 Madison Avenue at 69th Street, ground floor
We are pleased to also participate in Madison Avenue’s 2nd Welcome Back Saturday further up the street with another stunning window display and exhibition of Jane Evelyn Atwood Selected Works and Books for Sale inside.
If you are unable to make the openings, please contact the Gallery to make an appointment for another time. Great books for sale by these and other of our Gallery Artists… and more!
The City - The Countryside. Japanese Photographers of the 1960s and 1970s
From the collection of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
Through September 3rd, 2020
Kikuji Kawada is one among the 15 Japanese photographers included in this exhibition which originates from a 1976 traveling exhibition titled Neue Fotografie aus Japan curated by Otto Breicha. Ten prints from Kawada’s Los Caprichos series is on view.
RE-OPENING June 23RD BY APT
The Gallery will re-open on Tuesday June 23rd. In order to more easily follow national, state, and local authorities’ guidelines to avoid exposure and prevent the spread of COVID-19, we have decided to be open only by advanced appointment and will request that all visitors wear a mask prior to entering the Gallery. We will have them along with hand sanitizer on hand for visitors if you are in need or either.
Please contact us by phone or email to arrange a visit. We wish good health and well being to all!
May 10, 2020
For Mother’s Day
The art website Vignon 28 has curated an exhibition for Mom, Oum, Mama, Mum, Mamam, Oka-san. The exhibition, which includes some of our artists, launches on Mother’s Day and will be covered in the weekend section of the Belgian Financial Times, TIJD Sabato https://www.tijd.be/sabato.html The unexpected, challenging, exciting, blissful, terrifying, rewarding, hilarious rollercoaster of mothering is honored with all its dips and peaks.
FILM SCREENING AND LIVE CONVERSATION with the artist
May 4 - 10, 2020
Thursday, May 7th - 24hr Free Viewing of two films: Byker and Today I Am With You, grown from Amber Side's 50 year relationship with the Byker community in Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Friday, May 8th, 2pm EST - Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen will be live to discuss her seminal work beginning in 1968 and continuing to this day.
VIDEO
April 2020
“The Photographer of ‘The Map’ CHIZU: Kikuji Kawada” is a just released video which includes the artist as well as the graphic designer, Kohei Suguira, who together produced one of the last century’s most unique, immersive and influential photobooks. The short film was directed by Yasuyuki Takagi. We invite you to view it on the artist’s media page (HERE)
https://vimeo.com/408239704
ART FAIR
PARIS PHOTO NEW YORK
Pier 94, NYC
April 2- 5,2020 - CANCELED
Like many others, this fair was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While we were sorry not to see many of you at the fair in New York in April, we look forward to continuing to share our artists’ exciting work with you in various others ways.
We invite you to see examples from the presentation we were planning to exhibit in Paris Photo's CATALOG
KIKUJI KAWADA: Vintage photographs from "Los Caprichos”
L. PARKER STEPHENSON PHOTOGRAPHS, NEW YORK, NY
FEBRUARY 21-April 25, 2020
In the 1970s and 80s, Japanese photographer Kikuji Kawada took inspiration from Goya's etchings, critical of Spanish society, and produced dizzying imagery that may resonate with viewers in this turbulent era. The Gallery's exhibition marks the first time this series has been presented outside of Japan.
“I stared at ‘Los Caprichos (The Caprices),’ ‘Los desastres de la guerra (The Disasters of War),’ ‘Los Proverbios (Proverbs),’ and other such works by Goya so obsessively that they were virtually etched into my mind itself. As such, for a long time everywhere I looked I found similar imagery here in the real world. It got to the point where I almost couldn’t tell the difference between the two, like I was having dream flashbacks all throughout the day.”
PRESS
Collector Daily
SEPTEMBER, 2020
Kikuji Kawada: Chizu (Maquette Edition)
Seventy-five years after the end of World War II, MACK and The New York Public Library have collaborated to produce a facsimile of Kawada’s original two-volume maquette of Chizu, a revelation in its own right. An accompanying bilingual pamphlet, featuring new scholarship and an extended interview with the artist, details the evolution of one of the greatest photobooks ever made.
OBJECTIF FEMMES
March 8, 11am-1pm
Film “Objectif Femmes” Cafe-Cine Fotofever, Saint Germain, Paris - Film screening followed by discussion with the authorsFaced with the omission of women in the history of photography, directors Manuelle Blanc and Julie Martinovic have decided take action. For more than a year, they have gone through numerous archives to discover women artists who were unfairly forgotten by art history!
This 52-minute documentary gives the voice to 4 photography experts: Marta Gili, Michel Poivert, Marie Robert, Abigail Solomon Godeau and 4 internationally renowned photographers: Jane Evelyn Atwood, Sarah Moon, Dorothée Smith and Christine Spengler. An opportunity for them to talk about their own artistic approach and to evoke women photographers who inspired them.
This deeply moving documentary was produced by Camera Lucida for the exhibition Who's afraid of women photographers? at the Musée d'Orsay in 2015, and broadcast by France 5.
Click here to read more.
Jane Evelyn Atwood, l’œil des oubliés
March 19, 2020
Jane Evelyn Atwood walks through her retrospective exhibition at La Filature in Mulhouse which opened in early March, 2020. The exhibition was only accessible a short time before having to close due to the outbreak of the Covid-19 Corona virus. Highlighting the prostitutes in Rue des Lombards, incarcerated women in Trop de Peine, an early AIDs patient, here is everyone’s chance to catch a glimpse of Atwood's long and rich career photographing people on the margins and in closed societies.
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‘Youth Unemployment’ by Tish Murtha © Ella Murtha, All rights reserved.
Women Photographers from The AmberSide Collection
November 15, 2019 - March 8th, 2020
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Feb 27th. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen speaks at the Stills Gallery in the final week of the exhibition
Stills is excited to present a selection of photographs from The AmberSide Collection, a unique archive that continues to grow out of the documentary production, commissioning, exhibition and touring work of Newcastle-based Amber Film & Photography Collective. The group established itself in North East England in 1969 and opened Side Gallery in 1977. Exhibited artists: Diane Arbus / Martine Franck / Graciela Iturbide / Izabela Jedrzejczyk / Laura Junka-Aikio / Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen / Susan Meiselas / Tish Murtha / Grace Robertson
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John Cohen: Look Up to the Moon (Steidl)
SEPTEMBER, 2020
In the summer of 1955 a relatively naive and uninformed John Cohen crossed the straits of Gibraltar. He arrived in Tangier with a handwritten note in cursive Arabic; the man who had composed it in New York had told him to “keep this paper far from your passport.” Cohen had no idea why or indeed what the note said; it was not addressed to a specific person. He was simply instructed to look for a certain man when he arrived, who would then send him to “the others.” Cohen’s otherwise straightforward trip to make photographs in Morocco thus began with a sense of intrigue and perhaps risk.
This was Cohen’s first journey outside America to see the world. In his words: “The camera led my way to a distant culture, along with the desire to represent what I could see and sense there, and not be distracted by chronology or thought. My photographs were intended to be a sensual response to light and to the people who inhabited these spaces. These Morocco photos were … an indication of what was to come.”
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John Cohen: Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream (Steidl)
RELEASED September, 2020
One cold sunny morning in December 2018, Gerhard Steidl drove from New York City to see John Cohen at his rambling home in upstate Putnam Valley. The purpose of the visit was to pick up originals to be scanned for Cohen’s Look up to the Moon, his book of photos from Morocco in 1955 and published by Steidl in 2020. But in the organized chaos of Cohen’s barn-cum-studio they stumbled across another group of prints from across his 60-year career: “I didn’t know what to do with them,” he recalls, “They weren’t a book or an exhibit, or for sale. They were not of one subject.” To Cohen’s surprise and delight, Steidl took the boxes under his arm, and the photos now appear for the first time here in Do Not Disturb My Waking Dream, Cohen’s most lyrical and personal book, as well as his last.
Sequenced wholly by mood and intuition and eschewing titles and dates, the portraits, landscape and still lifes, along with some of Cohen’s drawings, unify disparate subjects—his wife Penny, Roscoe Holcomb, fragments of the Parthenon, renovations to Cohen’s farmhouse in the mid-sixties—into a dreamlike flow. Cohen’s confessional text, recalling his intense intertwining dreams across decades, explores the line between dream and reality, and between memory and book.
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Jane Evelyn Atwood Photographs 1976-2010
March 3 - April 8, 2020 - EXTENDED TO JULY
La Filature, Mulhouse, FRANCE
The work of American photographer Jane Evelyn Atwood translates a profound intimacy with her subjects garnered over time. Fascinated by those outside of the norms and excluded from society, she penetrates the worlds that many of us overlook or decide to ignore. Organized around her major series (prostitutes, the blind, incarcerated women, Jean-Louis.Living and Dying from AIDS) and photographs of different subject, the exhibition will cover 35 years of her work.
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