London Art Fair 2018 with Photo50

Over the last thirty years, London Art Fair presenting leading British and international galleries alongside curated spaces Art Projects and Photo50. This year’s edition of Photo50, titled Resolution is not the point., is curated by Hemera Collective, the first collective to curate London Art Fair’s annual exhibition of photography.

Tuesday 16 January (Preview Evening): 6pm – 9pm
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Marc de Groot » Faces from the Glossies

MARC DE GROOT (NL, 1964)
Marc de Groot’s fashion and portrait photography seeks to capture the spontaneous vitality in people. His images have helped define major Dutch fashion magazines including Vogue, Glamour, Linda, l’Homo and Elle. His international advertising work has enhanced campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, Scotch & Soda, Levi’s and Calvin Klein. He lives with his wife, son and daughter in Amsterdam.

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NAUTILUS

Herbert Bayer » Imogen Cunningham » Alfred Ehrhardt » Andreas Feininger » Florence Henri » Fred Koch » Herbert List » Man Ray » Lee Miller » Aenne Mosbacher » Walter Peterhans » Edward Steichen » Otto Steinert » Josef Sudek » Edward Weston » Wols »

The invention of photography in the second half of the 19th century brought new possibilities for scientific documentation, for which the shells of snails and sea animals served as popular motifs. X-ray photography was especially important in this context, providing a view into the inner structure of these natural forms. In the 1920s shells became a subject matter in autonomous, artistic photography. Both natural philosophy and the influence of New Objectivity played a role in this newfound interest, as did the notion of using such "structural forms in nature" as inspiration for design and architecture. Marking the beginning of this interest was the highly acclaimed thematic issue of the Dutch avant-garde magazine Wendingen, which was published in 1923 with shell and snail photographs by Bernard Eilers and J. B. Polak. Somewhat later in the US, Edward Weston created iconic images of modern photography with his photographs of shells, which were shown in 1929 in the influential exhibition Film und Foto in Stuttgart. His photograph Nautilus Shell (1927) is to…

Bernhard Fuchs » Lot / Fathom

Bernhard Fuchs lives and works in Düsseldorf. His work is found in important collections, both public and private, and is exhibited internationally. The book to the series was published by Koenig Books, London.

Vincent Munier » In the Frosty White

The in focus gallery now presents a spectacular selection of his pictures designed in incomparable aesthetics. The visitor is invited to discover the rough world of these icy expanses, to get to know the animals living here and to perceive the fragility of this world.

Vincent Munier (born 1976) has specialized in animal and landscape photography since early youth. His reportages were written on many trips around the globe. He has published numerous books - including in 2008 at Knesebeck "Kamchatka - Unspoiled Wilderness" or 2016 "In the Frosty White". He was the only photographer to receive the Eric Hosking Award of the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year three times in a row. His works have been shown in many exhibitions worldwide.

Scott Mead » Above The Clouds

The tranquil moments Mead has experienced above the clouds have helped to bring both closure and acceptance to some of life’s more difficult experiences as well as deep, spontaneous joy at the shared experiences of people on Earth. The challenge is to retain the enhanced perception and positive state of mind in the day-to-day routine of life ‘on the ground’.
"I have come to find that above the clouds, while looking out the window and into oneself, these answers and insights, and a clearer view of past, present and future, may well await you.”
Scott Mead

Douglas Kirkland » BEHIND THE SCENES

Born in Toronto in 1934, Douglas Kirkland started his career as legendary Irving Penn’s assistant, he joined Look magazine in 1960 and soon became contract photographer. A year later he had a chance to shoot a feature on Marilyn Monroe for the 25th anniversary of the magazine. An evening of November 17, 1961 with the most beautiful woman of the time turned into a series that became iconic both for the actress and young Kirkland. He recalls their time together as if they "were in a beautiful dance” with Marilyn Monroe leading: «Marilyn, with her sweet intuitiveness, made it easy. She simply said, "Okay, I know what we need. We need a bed with white silk sheets and nothing else, and it will work. "But”, she added, "the sheets must be silk”. She had done the biggest part of my job for me: understood my ideas and articulated them better than I had been able to – bless her».

Michael Eastman » Buenos Aires - Southern Light

The exhibition features unexpected photographs of iconic interiors in Buenos Aires. It is natural that Michael Eastman, whose works tell stories through the details of interiors located throughout the world, found rich material and inspiration in this city. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Buenos Aires staged ambitious and extravagant architectural projects to brandish its wealth, its stunning architecture helping the city earn its nickname "the Paris of South America.” Latin America’s tallest building and a series of neoclassical palaces were amongst the feats the city boasted. While Buenos Aires proudly retains this legacy today, still teeming with examples of architectural achievement from its belle époque, many of its buildings show signs of the country’s recent political and economic hardships. Eastman’s series illuminates how these interiors, captured a century after their heyday, have not dimmed with time but rather become more intriguing in their age.

At the heart of each photograph is an essential element of surprise: an electric blue light illuminating the doorway of a classic palace, the psychedelic twist of a spiral staircase, the blazing reflection of light in an entirely golden theater. These details dazzle, but equally important is what is absent from these photographs. Each interior is largely devoid of contemporary design, technology, and, somewhat hauntingly, inhabitants. A college stairwell transport…

Claus Goedicke » Dinge

He presents the objects singly, frontally, up close, and in even daylight that accentuates their plasticity. Unlike commercial photography, which uses similar means, the objects do not appear to be immaculate or brand new. Their limpid beauty stems from their straightforward functionality and signs of wear. Carefully chosen backdrops, which themselves show signs of wear and tear—crumpled, scratched, and yellowed—lend the objects their own identity, a back story, and the photographs a certain portrait character.

Goedicke's collection is made up of images, not objects. If we focus our attention on these photographs, they give us something in return: the certain knowledge that we can halt the rattle of life through the act of attention.

SURVEILLANCE INDEX

Laia Abril » Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin » Merry Alpern » Viktoria Binschtok » Mohamed Bourouissa » Sophie Calle » Edmund Clark » Anne Collier » Tiane Doan na Champassak » Uri Gershuni » John Gossage » Fred Hüning » Mishka Henner » Esther Hovers » Thomas Mailaender » David Maisel » Taiji Matsue » Daniel Mayrit » Daido Moriyama » Trevor Paglen » Jon Rafman » Doug Rickard » Richard Ross » Jules Spinatsch » Andrzej Steinbach » Katja Stuke » Ai Weiwei » Michael Wolf » Donovan Wylie » Kohei Yoshiyuki » ...

Compiled by the American Mark Ghuneim, his collection of over 200 photography books explores "the golden age of surveillance – ours" and its visible and invisible inner workings. An expert observer of technological innovation, aware of the challenges of protecting his private life very early on, Ghuneim investigates all the lawful and unlawful procedures the State has put in place to watch its citizens. In the early 1990s, he listed all the CCTV cameras in the streets of New York and created an interactive map which takes you through the parts of Manhattan that aren’t under surveillance with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In 2009, six years before the Snowden affair, Ghuneim began collecting books by artists and photographers about "people who watch and those they are watching" men, machines, institutions, governments, spies, hackers, voyeurs and egotists. In the LE BAL Gallery, over 200 books from his collection Surveillance Index will be made available to the public.

"The iconography of surveillance is part of our daily lives and has inspire a multitude of works of art" Mark Ghuneim.

In the spirit of a genuine "artistic alert", Ghuneim is raising the alarm, using this collection and the plethora of visual material it represents as a wake-up call raising awareness and r…

Space & Photography

Philip Kwame Apagya » Herbert Bayer » Franz Bergmüller » Giacomo Brogi » Jindrich Eckert » Hans-Peter Feldmann » Seiichi Furuya » Isa Genzken » Georges Lévy & Moyse Léon » Johannes Gramm » Birgit Graschopf » Florence Henri » M. Hoffmann » Kenneth Josephson » Wolfgang Kudrnofsky » Werner Mantz » Ingrid Martens » Santu Mofokeng » László Moholy-Nagy » Negretti & Sambra » Beaumont Newhall » Gregor Sailer » Alfons Schilling » Allan Sekula » Dayanita Singh » Margherita Spiluttini » Hito Steyerl » Sasha Stone » Clare Strand » Yutaka Takanashi » Wolfgang Tillmans » UMBO (Otto Umbehr) » Felix Weber » Stephen Willats »

"As a center of expertise on artistic photography, we have designed this exhibition to tease out the interconnections between the photographic medium and sociopolitical questions around space, with a particular view to the recent renaissance of boundaries and standardizations," Sabine Breitwieser, Director of the Museum der Moderne Salzburg, explains. "Our objective is to shed light on photography’s formal and technical diversity as well as the evolution of genres and themes in a variety of geographical and sociopolitical contexts." Christiane Kuhlmann, the museum’s Curator of Photography and Media Art, underscores the historical depth and cultural breadth of the selection on view in Space & Photography: "In addition to examples from the early days of photography, we showcase contemporary works by artists whose non-European backgrounds and circumstances inform their perceptions and interpretations of space, complementing the long-domin…

Youngsook Park »
Could Not Have Left Them Behind

Willy Spiller » Street Life: NY/LA 1977-1985

It is this that ensures his place in the annals of great Swiss photography. Like many of the resonating names before him, he managed to translate empathy into form through strength of will. Or, as his long-time friend and companion Paul Nizon so aptly put it: "I've often asked myself what made Willy Spiller's photography so forthright, so refreshing and so riveting. I believe it's a blend of unabashed curiosity and roguish complexity combined with a fraternal sense of compassion. It isn't something you learn at school: it's more a question of class, of predisposition, and ultimately of character. Behind the swashbuckling, wheeler-dealing façade is a dreamer, a man hungry for life and beauty. And that is the reason he sides with humanity, which is just another way of saying that he had an innate love of mankind. That is the way he sees things. And it is driven by a highly developed artistic energy."

OUT NOW | Foam Magazine #49: Back to the Future

Beyond projects relating to the theme of Back to the Future, regular features include a Self Portrait by Aneta Bartos that explores the complexities of the father-daughter relationship, an insightful interview with Anne-Marie Beckmann, Curator and Director of the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, as well as new work by Simone Bergantini, Willem Popelier, Aaron Schuman and Kenneth Bamberg.

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Anna Atkins | Kenneth Bamberg | Tim Barber | Sylvia Ballhause | Aneta Bartos | Simone Bergantini | Karl Blossfeldt | Bownik | Matthew Brandt | Raphaël Dallaporta | Jessica Eaton | Sam Falls | Lucas Foglia | Spiros Hadjidjanos | Thomas Mailaender | Douglas Mandry | Chris McCaw | Liz Nielsen | Drew Nikonowicz | Trevor Paglen | Willem Popelier | Jannemarein Renout | Khadija Saye | Aaron Schuman | Silver and Gold | Theo Simpson | August Strindberg | Witho Worms

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Clouds ⇄ Forests

Adel Abidin » Matthew Barney » Björk » Hussein Chalayan » Rohini Devasher » Cecile B. Evans » Forensic Architecture » Theaster Gates » Gauri Gill » Elliot Hundley » Pierre Huyghe » Ali Kazma » Michael Najjar » Uriel Orlow » Laure Prouvost » Robert Zhao Renhui » August Sander » Mikhail Tolmachev » Ryan Trecartin » ..

The concept of Clouds⇄Forests focuses on a new eco-system formed through the circulation of "Cloud Tribes" born on the Internet cloud space, and "Forest Tribes" born in an analogue world. Works of the artists in the Main Project are displayed in dialogue with works from the permanent exhibition of The State Tretyakov Gallery.

Michael Najjar » has been invited to participate in the Biennale with several large-scale artworks from his celebrated "outer space" series. On view for the first time will be his "liquid time" triptych, created especially for the Biennale. This work highlights the fragility of our ecological balance and the significance of the change of state from ice to water because glaciers are storehouses of time - layer on layer they capture the air, water and oxygen of countless thousands of years. The picture was taken in early 2017 in an ice cave under the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier in Iceland.
Also on view, in the All-Russian State Library, will be Michael Najjar´s striking new video artwork "terraforming". The work focuses on transformation of a natural environment through energy input and combines footage taken on various locations in Iceland in early 2017 with Martian landscapes shot by NASA´s Curiosity Mars rover.