Jeudi 29 Juin 2017 10:57:30 par Claudia Lacave dans Expositions

Press Release -

“I feel there is something unexplored about women that only a woman can explore.” Georgia O’Keeffe, 1925

Staley-Wise Gallery presents an exhibition celebrating prominent women photographers from the fields of documentary and fashion photography. Photographers from the legendary cooperative Magnum Photos are engaged in a visual and thematic dialogue with photographers working in editorial and advertising photography. Photographing and moving in different spheres, they are recording and interacting with women in the larger world to highlight disparate subjects such as war, childhood, religion, sexuality and style while celebrating the complexity of the female experience.

Photographers included: Eve Arnold / Olivia Arthur / Lillian Bassman / Louise Dahl-Wolfe / Bieke Depoorter / Carolyn Drake / Martine Franck / Toni Frissell / Sheva Fruitman / Isabella Ginanneschi / Pamela Hanson / Rose Hartman / Erica Lennard / Ruth Harriet Louise / Diana Markosian / Susan Meiselas / Sheila Metzner / Inge Morath / Genevieve Naylor / Ruth Orkin / Priscilla Rattazzi / Cristina Garcia Rodero / Alessandra Sanguinetti / Marilyn Silverstone / Newsha Tavakolian / Deborah Turbeville / Ellen von Unwerth

© Bieke Depoorter / Magnum Photos
From “I Am About to Call It a Day”, 2010-2014


© Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos
Traditional Indian dance mask, Nicaragua, 1978


© Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos
Marilyn Monroe in the Nevada desert during the filming of The Misfits, 1960


© Sheila Metzner / Magnum Photos
The Passion of Rome, 1986


© Diana Markosian / Magnum Photos
Hanan Saeed Abdo, Germany, 2017


© Louise Dahl-Wolfe / Magnum Photos
Liz Gibbons as Photographer, 1938