Lisette Model, Lower East Side, New York, 1950
Lisette Model, photographer and teacher (1901 – 1983), encouraged her students to take a visceral approach to photography. This is at the heart of her own practice and evident in the immediacy of her subjects – from rich corpulent ladies in Nice to caberet drag queens and down-and-outs on [...]
Michael Kenna’s black and white photographs, 200 of which are on show in his retrospective at the Bibliothèque Nationale (Richelieu), are almost too good to be true. His unpopulated landscapes and cityscapes have an ethereal quality, which is so consistent that, taken as an ensemble, his work can appear excessively romantic. Often working at night [...]
Lewis Carrol, Alice Liddell as a beggar, 1859
Although Controverses (Controversies) displays a huge variety of subject matter, the main polemics surrounding the photographs on display come down to violence, sex or fraud in some form. That is not to say that the exhibition is one-dimensional – far from it. The idea is to display photographs [...]