Maroon is an English word that originates from the Spanish, “Cimarron”, which means living on the peaks. Between the 16th and 19th centuries an estimated 12 million Africans were enslaved and sent to the Americas. During the many voyages between Africa and the Americas, an estimated almost 2 million Africans...
Gerd Ludwig: Sleeping Cars
Fahey/Klein Gallery is pleased to present Sleeping Cars, an exhibition of work by contemporary documentary photographer Gerd Ludwig. The exhibition features large scale photographs of resting cars at night throughout Los Angeles. Undeniably the city of cars; these vehicles are the blood in the veins of Los Angeles. Ludwig documents...
Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of Pines
Gagosian New York is pleased to present new photographs by Gregory Crewdson. Cathedral of the Pines (2013–14) was made during three productions in and around the rural town of Becket, Massachusetts. In images that recall nineteenth-century American and European paintings, Crewdson photographed figures in the surrounding forests, including the actual...
Daniel Beltrá: Ice/Green Lands
Renowned aerial and conservation photographer Daniel Beltrá has seen his share of the effects of global warming. For more than two decades, Beltrá’s work has taken him to all seven continents, including several expeditions to the Brazilian Amazon, the Arctic, the Southern Oceans and the Patagonian ice fields. His work...
Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes
Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present Urban Landscapes, a selection of hyper-realistic works by Richard Estes. Regarded as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, Estes is known for his paintings and silkscreen prints of detailed urban settings. This exhibition includes two large-scale...
Best Images of Monochrome Photography Awards 2015
Monochrome Photography Awards is proud to announce the winners of their photography contest! Australian photographer Luke Tscharke has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2015 and $2000 prize money. His winning image, called ‘Barossa Bolt’ shows large storm and...
Gus Powell: The Lonely Ones
Gus Powell’s photographs have been published in The New Yorker regularly for the past few years as opening images for our Goings On About Town section. When I asked Gus recently if good pictures were to be had after he scouted an art installation for us, he answered, “I do...
Julia Solis: Stages Of Decay
Julia Solis explored crumbling theatres still standing throughout America and Europe. Using abandoned spaces as both subject and canvas, Solis details the theatres' stages and decorative elements as well as the eerie toll that age and entropy have taken on the once elegant surfaces. Where once-acclaimed performers such as the...
George Steinmetz – New York Air: The View From Above
Shooting in all seasons and from dawn to dusk, Steinmetz captures the thrilling complexity and romance of 21st-century New York, with its new skyline and waterfront landscape, dazzling contemporary architecture and historic buildings - along with parks and streets and rooftops used for every possible purpose, and the massive infrastructure...
Christopher Herwig: Soviet Bus Stops
Photographer Christopher Herwig has covered more than 30,000km by car, bike, bus and taxi in 13 former Soviet countries discovering and documenting these unexpected treasures of modern art. From the shores of the Black Sea to the endless Kazakh steppe, these bus stops show the range of public art from...