Born in 1938 to a comfortably off Bostonian family, Turbeville found her way into photography through magazine journalism. Following a stint at the age of 20 as a model for Claire McCardell, the innovative New York ready-to-wear designer, she went on to work as an editor on American Harper’s Bazaar in the 1960s.

At the magazine, she recalled, she was given a section that dealt with personalities and children. ‘I used rather eccentric-looking people with very special photographers and the section became talked about.’ But after three years, the editor-in-chief, Nancy White, called it a day, telling her that she had ‘taken things too far’. The end was ‘very explosive,’ Turbeville relates. Shortly after this episode Turbeville showed her own amateur photographs to Richard Avedon, with whom she had worked on the magazine. As a result he allowed her to attend some advanced seminars he was teaching with the artist and art director Marvin Israel. This was to be her only formal education in taking pictures. Avedon predicted in the class that she would, one day, succeed.

Deborah Turbeville “Past Imperfect” Exhibition – until March 20th
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Nei mesi di luglio ed agosto 2008 si terrà, presso il ristorante di Peschici “Al Trabucco da Mimì”, una mostra di opere grafiche di Francesco Sessa.

Francesco Sessa è nato a San Severo nel 1949, ha studiato disegno e pittura con il prof. Luigi Schingo, si è laureato in architettura presso la università di Roma ed ha  insegnato Costruzioni presso l’istituto tecnico per geometri”Vittorio Emanuele III” di Lucera. 

Le opere esposte sono stampe su carta Fabriano del formato 50X70 e rappresentano uno dei trabucchi più belli del Gargano. 

Il “trabucco” è una costruzione in legno, fatta di sottili pali e di snelle travi, fissata a terra da cavi di acciaio che viene usata per la pesca con le reti: i pescatori, al momento del passaggio dei pesci, sollevavano rapidamente e in gran trambusto le reti che avevano calato in mare.

Accanto al trabucco, la famiglia di Mimì, fiero pescatore di 74 anni, vive e continua il lavoro iniziato con la cottura del pesce che veniva pescato al momento e offerto agli occasionali visitatori. 

Il trabucco, detto “Da Mimì”, è stato salvato dall’incendio dell’estate 2007 dalla famiglia del proprietario che ha impedito, rischiando la vita, che le fiamme si propagassero alla costruzione. 

Attualmente, il ristorante è uno dei luoghi maggiormente visitato dai turisti del Gargano ed offre anche serate jazz, apprezzate nelle serate estive dai clienti più raffinati ed esigenti. 

Le opere esposte costituiscono un omaggio, che l’autore ha voluto realizzare nei confronti di una delle costruzioni più affascinanti del Gargano.

Il trabucco ha già ispirato artisti famosi, come il pittore istriano Romano Conversano, uno dei primi a scoprire il fascino di Peschici, quando, lontano dalle principali vie di comunicazione, appariva al turista come un paese antico e remoto.

Echo, a solo exhibition of new works by Los Angeles artist Korin Faught, which will be opened on 27 Jun 2009, is the next showstopper hitting Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery. Following her 2008 breakout solo debut ‘Twenty Two‘ at Corey Helford Gallery, Faught continues to evolve her signature works of multiples with the addition of triplet and quadruplet figures.
Faught’s oil-on-canvas portraits elegantly layer narrative, texture and mood, capturing intimate moments of her subjects. Movement is created from repetition and pattern, and Faught’s milieu of fabrics and interiors transform with the addition of reds, oranges and purples to her neutral palette. For the show, Faught will unveil her largest piece to date, a fourteen-foot triptych.

Richard Kern is going to have his show “Vintage Kern Photos from 1980 – 2009” at RENTAL New York from June 4th to July 5th.
Richard Kern (born: North Carolina, 1954) has lived and worked in New York City since 1979. In the eighties, he produced a series of short films that now are recognized as the central works of the movement now known as the Cinema of Transgression. In the 90’s he turned almost exclusively to still photography of glamour, bondage and fetish models in books such as “New York Girls,” still reflecting his unique sensibility. He has pornographic spreads for Hustler and Hustler’s Leg Show magazines.

The photographer, Wolfram Ruoff works with an abstraction of the 2D picture, with light, depth and the straightness of a technical line used as a citation of form. Thematically, his photographs deal with the interaction of sign-dominated urban spaces and the individuals living within them. Specific post-processing of the photographs shifts the viewer’s focus to emphasize details and a temporal compression of space, causing the past to become the present. Subsequently, the photographs begin to talk and tell the viewer stories of an uncertain future, in which the inhabitants of metropolitan spaces sway between self confidence and uncertainty. for years, while on numerous trips abroad, ruoff has continued his series, Pure Lines, using his camera to analyse the mystical atmosphere of the world’s metropolises, without manipulating its contents. Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is thrilled to host the first solo exhibition of Wolfram Ruoff, Pure Lines, in New York City in April 2009. – Artnet

The Gagosian in New York is representing the painter Richard Phillips (born 1962 in Marblehed, Mass, USA) from 14 March 2009 to 2 May 2009.
Richard Phillips’s strikingly distinctive paintings derive their tension from an unsettling blend of lurid imagery and a refined, almost academic painting style.
Phillips often incorporates material taken from a range of cultural sources, from porn, advertising and fashion spreads from the 1950s,1960s and 1970s to the pop paintings of Mel Ramos, Alex Katz and Andy Warhol, translating these into glossy, hyperrealist portraits. The result is stylised figures either in heightened colour, reminiscent of 70s Technicolor films, or in black and white, which he paints in flat, slick surfaces on canvas or aluminium.
Richard Phillips makes jpeg art — that is, imagery that looks absolutely fantastic when transferred digitally from gallery to collector, curator, critic or magazine art

director. The paintings themselves are enormous, and there is no denying the fact that images of bare-breasted babes and Nazi insignia still pack a wallop in a media-glutted world. In fact, this is partly what the work is about, the backbreaking effort to make “paintings as such” while burdened with a head full of Yale-induced Postmodern critical theory.

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Marie Blanco Hendrickx aka Mijn Schatje is a 25 year old illustrator and graphic designer based in Paris. This half dutch and half spanish girl’s work is pure, poetic and sophisticated. She’s obsessed with beautifully strange wide-eyed dolls. KochxBos Gallery Amsterdam is presenting her recent digital works from March 14 until May 9 in an exhibition entitled Storytelling.

“MADE IN HOLLYWOOD: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation” which is opened at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on July 11th and runs there through October 12, 2008, will be exhibited at Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, Tennessee from May 8 to September 9, 2009.
Drawn from the rich archive at the John Kobal Foundation in London, this exhibition focuses on the stars, the sets, and the scenes created by the film industry and memorialized by the most important photographers who worked in Hollywood from 1920 to 1960. Featuring more than 90 vintage images, Made in Hollywood offers a glimpse into the world of fantasy, glamour, and perfection that the image makers produced.
How many of the faces could you recognize? Have you ever seen them on the screen?

Circleculture Gallery presents “WILL BE HOME LATE – LEAVE THE LIGHT ON” the solo exhibition of work by Charlie Isoe.
Date: February 12th – April 4th, 2009
Open: Tue – Sat 14:00 – 18:00
Place: Circleculture Gallery
Address: Gipsstrasse 11, 10119 Berlin

Charlie Isoe’s pictorial compositions are based largely on his personal experiences and observations he makes of his immediate social surroundings. For the last three years, Isoe has been living in Europe as a freelance artist, observer and wanderer. His work has been seen on the streets of Australia, Thailand, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Czech Republic and Germany. This is his first solo show in Europe.