Thomas Demand in conversation with Joseph Grima.
© Mitch Epstein, Eastern Cottonwood Tree, Staten Island II 2011
From the press release:
Mitch Epstein’s new work features the idiosyncratic trees that populate New York City, underscoring the importance of trees in urban life and their complex relationship with the city’s human dwellers.
Trees have long been a leitmotiv in Epstein’s projects, especially in his series American Power (2003-2008). After five years of photographing the manifestations of energy production and consumption across the United States, Epstein decided to make pictures that reflect how he, “would like to see the world, not simply how I have inherited it.”
Read an interview with Mitch Epstein about this project on the New York Times’ The Sixth Floor blog.
Mitch Epstein
March 16 – April 24, 2012
Sikkema Jenkins & Co, New York
Between the years 2006 to 2010, Michael Schmidt has traveled the European continent and photographed the production, processing, packaging and presentation of food. After five years of planning and realization of his monumental essay with the presentation in the museum Morsbroich and the accompanying publication will be unveiled: 177 images from the daily life of the agricultural and food industry, which is not only an important economic sector, but indirectly also the political and social self-understanding of the population reflects. Field workers, farms, fish farms, bakeries, packaged meats and by the food industry trimmed landscape – it is an intermediate realm that Schmidt shines through with his painfully realistic look.
The exhibition will travel to Innsbruck (Taxispalais, June 16 – August 26, 2012) and Berlin (Martin-Gropius-Bau, January 12 – April 1, 2013)
Michael Schmidt, Lebensmittel
March 4th – May 13th 2012
Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen
© Paul Graham, Diptych from “The Present”
Enrique Metinides, Series
Through April 13, 2012
Kominek Gallery
Bertien Van Manen, Let’s sit down before we go
Through April 14, 2012
Robert Morat
Tobias Zielony, Manitoba
Through April 15, 2012
Kow Berlin
Michael Schmidt, 89/90
Through April 21, 2012
Galerie Nordenhake
Arnold Newman, Masterclass
Through May 20, 2012
C/O Berlin
Jörg Brüggemann, Metalheads
March 16 – April 21, 2012
Gestalten Space
Bruce Davidson, Subway
March 17 – May 20, 2012
C/O Berlin
Boris Mikhailov, Time is out of joint. Photographs 1966-2011
Through May 28, 2012
Berlinische Galerie
Paul Graham, The Present
April 27 – May 28, 2012
Carlier Gebauer
© Nigel Bennet, “Piak” & “June” from the series Silence Has An Echo
© Jessica Caisse, “Beck”
© Kevin Kunishi, “Magsasaka”
© Aaron Blum, “The Daughter of Morgan Morgan”
ONWARD Compé ’12 Exhibition
Through March 25, 2012
Project Basho, Philadelphia
ONWARD is an annual photography competition and Lecture/Networking event presented by Project Basho, a photography resource center in Philadelphia. Curated by guest juror Todd Hido, the exhibition of ONWARD Compé ’12 features 57 images by 50 emerging photographers from across the US and 25 countries around the globe.
© Chris Killip, Bever, Skinningrove, Yorkshire, 1980, Courtesy of the Artist
The Museum Folkwang is showing a retrospective exhibition of 126 images curated by Ute Eskildsen with an accompanying publication, text by David Campany and Ute Eskildsen.
A slideshow of 20 previously unseen images from the exhibition can be seen on Chris Killip‘s website.
Chris Killip, Arbeit / Work
February 4 – April 15, 2012
Museum Folkwang, Essen
© Simone Nieweg, Grabeland in Poigny-la-Forêt, Yvelines, 2005
Simone Nieweg’s images of fields, woods and gardens will be on show at the Josef Albers Museum in Bottrop, Germany. Nieweg is particularly interested in the interplay of nature and human culture: how people use nature, how they shape nature, estranging it from its origins.
Simone Nieweg, Natur der Menschen. Landschaftsfotografie
February 12 – May 27, 2012
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop
Saul Leiter, Untitled, 1950ies (Selfportrait) © Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
The House of Photography at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg will present a major retrospective of photographer Saul Leiter. The exhibition covers more than 400 works, including a selection of sketchbooks never seen before by the public.
© Saul Leiter, Sketchbook, Courtesy This Long Century
The website This Long Century has recently published some images of Saul Leiter’s sketchbooks. Leiter says about making sketchbooks: “I think there is a certain freedom when you are absorbed in painting a sketchbook. You are not burdened to do something important. You are not dealing in big things. You are just thinking and the sketchbooks are a way to express your thinking. They are very intimate.”
In addition the gallery f5.6 in Munich is hosting an exhibition entitled “Early Color”, with works by Evelyn Hofer, Raghubir Singh as well as Saul Leiter.
Evelyn Hofer, East 69th Street, New York, 1964, © Galerie mBochum
Saul Leiter. Retrospective
February 3 – April 15, 2012
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Early Color
Saul Leiter, Evelyn Hofer & Raghubir Singh
January 27 – April 21, 2012
Galerie f5.6, Munich
