 Roger Ballen
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The art of Roger Ballen is impossible to forget. It goes deep. Gets at places we didn't know were there. Maybe hoped weren't there. It makes us wild. It opens us up to those uncertain, shocking and frighteningly banal aspects of the waking dream, twitching between animal and human, the clean and the unclean, the animate and the inanimate, the lived and the imagined, the natural and the performed. So despite the fact that his early and mid-period works - stretching, say, from the late 1970s throu...
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Roger Ballen photo poche
La photographie de Roger Ballen, photographe sud-africain d'origine américaine, (né en 1950), surprend autant qu'elle touche.
Sa mère, Adrienne Ballen, cofondatrice de l'un des premières galeries de photographie new-yorkaise, et ayant longtemps travaillé chez Magnum, l'initia à la photogra...
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Pieter Hugo s'exhibe au Musée de l'Elysée
Le Musée de l’Elysée présente pour la première fois en Suisse une exposition monographique majeure consacrée au photographe sud-africain Pieter Hugo, né à Johannesburg en 1976. En moins de dix ans, ce jeune photographe dont les images monumentales sont centrées autour de l’Afrique sub-saharienne ...
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Exposition collective sur le portrait à Saint-Petersbourg
Rosphoto présente The Face, exposition à propos de l'évolution du portrait dans l'art photographique contemporain. L'évènement concentre un panel de travaux de 50 photographes provenant de 20 pays. Les travaux de jeunes artistes peu connus du public de St Pétersbourg se retrouvent aux côté...
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Roger Ballen - Skadukant
Roger Ballen is one of the most important photographers of his generation. He was born in New York City in 1950 but has lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, for over thirty years. In his work from 1982 to 1994, Ballen trained his camera on the white population living in the hinterland. He has gained world fame with his penetrating photos recording the ...
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Roger Ballen - Photography 1969 - 2009
As early as the 1960’s, Roger Ballen became acquainted with the names of well-known photographers like André Kertész, Bruce Davidson and Henri Cartier-Bresson through his mother Adrienne who was working for the New York branch of the Magnum photo agency at the time. He did, however, initially study psychology at the University of Berkley in California. In 1973, he set out on...
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Roger Ballen, Boarding House
"it is difficult to explain this place except that I think it exists in some way or another in most people's mind." - Roger Ballen
South African-based photographer Roger Ballen is included in the 17th Biennale of Sydney line up of artists. Ballen's disquieting images, which combine challenging social commentary and dream-like surrealism, ...
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