ART FAIR - PARIS PHOTO
November 10 -13, 2022
BOOTH B30
L, Parker Stephenson Photographs will again be participating in this international gathering of 133 galleries presenting photography along with and 40 photo-book publishers.
Our presentation is titled: READING THE SIGNS: THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF EARTH, WATER, AND HEAVENS
While our planet increasingly bears the imprint of humankind, the forces of nature reciprocate. L. Parker Stephenson Photographs will exhibit the work of four gallery artists who explore the intersections of these constantly fluctuating dynamics.
The economic history of a place, based on geography and natural resources, is charted by both John Davies (British, b. 1949) and Witho Worms (Dutch, b. 1959). Offering a broad vantage, Davies’ picturesque landscapes link their histories to the present. In contrast, Worms’ contact carbon prints aggregate conceptual typologies of seemingly wild sites which, in fact, are products of commercial practices. Ray Mortenson (American, b. 1944) pays reverence to the exquisite chaotic forces of entropy as vegetation claims its place. Shifting to the sublime and metaphysical, Kikuji Kawada (Japanese, b. 1933) invokes celestial magnetic powers causing them to glow amidst intense rich tones. We thank the Mondriaan Fund for its assistance in our presentation at the fair.
Darya
JUST OUT: A new book of work by Jane Evelyn Atwood published by Le bec en l’air, Darya, is the story of an immigration phenomenon that has existed in Italy for years: that of the badanti, women from other countries brought in to care for the elderly in their own homes. Darya is one of them - a remarkable Ukrainian woman responsible for not just one person, but four severely disabled sisters, who live together in a small apartment in Bolzano.
PARIS PHOTO Artist Talk by The Eyes, 2-2:45pm Thursday, November 10th. Atwood will be presenting her project and new book followed by a book signing at the bec en l’air, Stand #SE6
BYKER
JUST OUT: Dewi Lewis has re-printed Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s famous Byker with many new never-before-seen images. Limited edition books with signed prints and trade editions are both available at Dewi Lewis’ stand at Paris Photo
Special edition with print click here
BOOKSIGNING: Photographer’s Gallery, November 24, 2022
REVIEWS: BLIND
Madison Avenue Fall Gallery Walk
October 22, 2022
Over fifty galleries on Madison Avenue will be open to the public and offering talks of their fall exhibitions. The Gallery will be speaking about our new exhibition and the work of John Cohen at 11am and noon. Click here to read more.
Album cover by John Cohen
ALBUM RELEASE
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard: Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
Smithsonian Folkways recordings
The soaring harmonies and driving string-band sound of Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard shattered the glass ceiling of male-dominated bluegrass in the 1960s. Hazel and Alice’s influence on music – and not just roots music – is hard to overstate. They’ve been acknowledged by artists as diverse as country superstars Naomi and Wynonna Judd, champion flat-picker Molly Tuttle, and proto-feminist punk rocker Kathleen Hanna. Their steadfast devotion to their own hard-hitting style inspired generations of women in bluegrass.
Pioneering Women of Bluegrass: The Definitive Edition collects all the songs from Hazel and Alice’s two groundbreaking Folkways albums, and a previously unreleased bonus track, all remastered by their original producer Peter Siegel. They are joined on these recordings by such bluegrass legends as Chubby Wise and David Grisman. The CD booklet includes an expanded set of essays by Hazel, Alice, Laurie Lewis, and Peter Siegel, as well as iconic photographs by John Cohen and Carl Fleischhauer.
Album Review: click here
To Purchase, click here
Brooklyn Folk Festival Honors John Cohen
All this is a record of my search: john cohen at 90 - Weekend festival
Saint Ann’s, Brooklyn & L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
October 20 - 22, 2022
Thursday, October 20, 8:00pm “Different Johns” (2020) 99min, followed by Q&A with Director and music
Friday, October 21, 6-8pm Exhibition opening: What Thoughts Look Like
Saturday, October 22, 12:15pm Screening of three films by John Cohen
Saturday, October 22, 2:00pm Presentation by the curators of the John Cohen Collection at the Smithsonian
American Folklife Center
Saturday, October 22, 3:20pm A series of performances by close to a dozen musicians influenced by Cohen
during his more than sixty-year musical career
Location St Ann’s Church, 157 Montague Street Brooklyn and L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
For more information on the Brooklyn Folk Festival, please visit: https://brooklynfolkfest.com/schedule/
GALLERY EXHIBITION
WHAT THOUGHTS LOOKS LIKE: THE FABRIC OF JOHN COHEN’S LIFE
October 22 - December 22, 2022 - Extended by request to February 4th, 2023
Opening Friday October 21, 5-7pm
This exhibition on John Cohen (1932-2019), drawn from his personal archive and from his own collection, presents art that ranges from the pre-Columbian era to 2017. See Exhibitions for checklist, installation and press release.
New York Magazine: At Home With His Father’s Loom
Kore Yoors, the son of the artist Jan Yoors, grew up in Greenwich Village, where he tends to the family legacy
October 11, 2022
BLIND
JANE EVELYN ATWOOD: MARGINALIZED HUMANITY
September 12, 2022
An interview with Jane Evelyn Atwood about the retrospective of her work being shown at the Château de Laréole, haute-Garonne, France.
Click here to read more in English and in French.
Book: Darya. Histoire d’une badante ukrainienne
Le bec en l’air
marseille, france
This new book by Jane Evelyn Atwood documents the life of a Ukrainian woman, Darya, who lives meagerly and works tirelessly in Italy such that her family in Ukraine may live better lives.
Book Signing: La Nouvelle Chambre Claire, Paris
Saturday, September 10th, 4pm - 6pm
For more details, click here.
For more on the book, click here.
LES TERRILS DE JOHN DAVIES
Centre Historique Minier
Lewarde, France
September 5 - october 9, 2022
Artist’s talk: Sunday, September 18th
“Located on the former Delloye pit, the Lewarde Mining History Center is the most important mining museum in France. At the heart of the museum’s itinerary, the exhibition dedicated to John Davies’ art presents a selection of his photographic work on the slag heaps of the North.”
For more details, click here.
Somebody’s homeland, somebody’s goldmine
Fries museum
Fries, Netherlands
august 27 - february 19, 2022
“In Somebody's Homeland, Somebody's Goldmine the theme is landscape. What is our relationship with our environment, on a local and global scale? The artists show different artistic perspectives on the subject, from personal relationships with a specific place to political and technological reflections. The exhibition features work by Astrid Nobel, Oscar Santillán, Eric Giraudet de Boudemange, Cristina Lucas, Aàdesokan, Alle Jong, Ellen Mandemaker, Witho Worms, Johan Nieuwenhuize, Jananne Al-Ani and BC Epker.”
For more details, click here.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON ACQUIRES KIKUJI KAWADA’S CHIZU/THE MAP ARCHIVE
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
August 5, 2022
L. Parker Stephenson Photographs (New York) and PGI (Tokyo) are delighted and honored to announce the acquisition by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston of the archive of Japanese photographer Kikuji Kawada’s landmark series Chizu / The Map.This exceptional archive of his renowned early series consists of a set of 87 photographs along with their negatives, binders of the original contact sheets with personal notes, and a rare 1965 first edition of the photobook itself.
For more details: click here to read the Gallery and PGI’s press release
click here to read the Museum’s press release
click here to read the Boston Globe’s article about the acquisition
NEW BOOK: Vortex
Akaaka-sha
Kimi Himeno, Japan
A brand new book by Kawada is coming out with text by Yoshiaki Kai, Akiyoshi Taniguchi, and Pauline Vermare. Its 544 pages are taken from the artist’s vivid and prolific Instagram posts from the past four years interspersed with earlier work to offer a prism of the present.
Book available at the Gallery tephenson.nyc/shop-/kikuji-kawada-vortexand here.
Reviews: Collector Daily
FILM SCREENING: OBJECTIF FEMMES
Artecinema
Procida Island, off the coAst of Naples, Italy
july 16, 2022
A special edition of Artecinema, the international art film festival conceived by Laura Trisorio, will open with a screening of "Objectif femmes". Directed by Julie Martinovic and Manuelle Blanc, this documentary is about the history of women's photography (specifically Sarah Moon, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Dorothée Smith and Christine Spengler). Produced by FRANCE 5 - Camera lucida productions, Musée d’Orsay.
French, English
For more details, click here
SIRKKA-LIISA KONTTINEN RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTOR OF LETTERS DEGREE
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK
july 14, 2022
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen was bestowed with an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the prestigious Newcastle University in her adopted city.
JACQUES SONCK: PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE
l. parker stephenson photographs
New York, NY
June 28 - august 5, 2022
The gallery is pleased to present its second exhibition of photographs by gallery artist Jacques Sonck. The Flemish portraitist draws inspiration from 17th century painters as well as 20th century photographers when in his studio and during encounters with people on the beaches, streets and parks in Belgium. Sonck celebrates humanity in its diversity and trains the viewer to do the same.
Books available here.
tHE Tate photography series: sirkka-liisa konttinen
PUBLISHER tatE london, uk
This new book, one of four published by the Tate highlighting communities, presents two of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s photographic series: Byker (1969–83) and Writing in the Sand (1978–98). “This enlightening book captures a working class neighbourhood and reveals the devastating impact that the redevelopment of Newcastle’s East End had on the community, but also the moments of joy of the group outings to the beach.” - Tate Website
Book available here.
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FACING BRITAIN - british photography since the 1960s
Museum for photography
krakow, POLAND
june 16 - september 18, 2022
This is the fourth museum venue for this traveling group exhibition, curated by IKS Photo Department. Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is represented by her color Byker Revisited series and John Davies’ work is take from The British Landscape project.
Click here to view the exhibition’s page.
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KIKUJI KAWADA: Los caprichos, near far
photo Gallery international
tokyo, japan
june 29 - august 10, 2022
“The exhibition Los Caprichos, Near Far at PGI is composed of photographs from Kawada’s ongoing series Los Caprichos –Instagraphy– 2017 as well as images originally shot in the 1960s. Some of the works, especially those shot in Europe and later published as part of Kawada’s book Sacré Atavism (1971), appear as symbol-laden images about water and the world. […] Kikuji Kawada’s resolute search for an overview of the here and now remains unchanged in Los Caprichos, Near Far, which moves freely between places and eras. Even during pandemic conditions, Kawada continues to extract the zeitgeist carved into the depths of the city.” - PGI
View exhibition here.
JANE evelyn atwood: Sept histoires 1976 – 2010
Festival de photo MAP Toulouse
Château de Laréole, haute-Garonne, France
June 3 - September 25, 2022
Jane Evelyn Atwood is one of ten artists chosen to represent this year’s festival photo MAP. Her solo exhibition of 210 black and white and color photographs is drawn from six series and a group of stand-alone images. The presentation hangs in the 16th century château de Laréole, built in alternating rows of stone and Toulousaine brick. The exhibition, castle, park and tea room are well worth a visit if you find yourself in south western France this summer.
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KIKUJI KAWADA: CHIZU/THE MAP
The third gallery aya
osaka, japan
may 15 - june 18, 2022
This exhibition of 1970s silver prints and recent digital pigment prints drawn from Kikuji Kawada’s iconic 1960s Chizu/The Map series celebrates the first solo show of Kawada’s work in Osaka.
Radical Landscapes
Tate Liverpool
Liverpool,UK
May 5 - September 4, 2022
Encompassing over 150 paintings, sculptures, photographs, films by artists including Jeremy Deller, Ingrid Pollard, Tanoa Sasraku, Derek Jarman, Hurvin Anderson, Claude Cahun, Alan Lodge, John Davies and many more, this major exhibition explores broad connections to the British rural landscape.
Jacques sonck: portraits
Castilla y León International Photography Festival
SPAIN
April 26 - May 29, 2022
Jacques Sonck shoots classical analogue black-and-white portraits with an eye for the extraordinary. Across all ages, genders and races, Sonck is attracted by people who stand out from the crowd and walk on the border of ‘normality’, either by an anomaly in their appearance or by their extravert attitude or clothing-style.
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THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW
Presented by AIPAD
Center415
New York, NY
May 20 - 22, 2022
PGI and L. Parker Stephenson Photographs have joined forces to showcase striking vintage works from Japan, the US, and Europe ranging in date from the 1930s to the 1970s. In addition, the theme of the surreal and the landscape are represented in prints by contemporary artists who use alternative processes and turn our assumptions inside out. BOOTH 227
bob dylan center, tulsa ok
opening may 10th, 2022
John Cohen’s color photograph of Dylan on the rooftop of his Greenwich Village townhouse is part of the 1970s backdrop at this widely anticipated new venue housing and exhibiting more than 100,000 cultural treasures spanning the artist’s incredible career. Visit the shop for your own John Cohen - Bob Dylan t-shirt.
Around the polar circle
galerie caroline o’breen, amsterdam
netherlands
april 9 - may 7, 2022
In a play of dark and light, this two person exhibition demonstrates Witho Worms’ and Jen Knigge’s two different approaches to photographing the polar landscape.
For more details, click here.
JANE EVELYN ATWOOD: Soul
Chanel NEXUS
Tokyo, japan
March 30 - May 8, 2022
This first expansive and immersive solo exhibition of Atwood’s work to be presented in Japan includes prints from a number of series she has produced over the past 40 years. Click here to view
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ONE PICTURE BOOK #25: MASK
NAZRAELI PRESS
Paso robles, ca
Printed in edition of 500, this publication includes 11 duotone images of masked figures by Kikuji Kawada, accompanied by an original signed photograph.
Click here to purchase
photographs of byker, 1969 - 1970
Michael hoppen gallery
london, UK
February 25 - march 25, 2022
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen came upon the Byker area by chance and immediately fell in love with it, marking the beginning of her relationship with the local community there and the seminal photographs that she produced documenting local life over the next seven years.
Click here to view the exhibition’s page.
FACING BRItain: british photography since the 1960s
Mönchehaus Museum
Goslar, Germany
February 20 – May 1, 2022
This third venue of the touring exhibition Facing Britain paints a portrait of Great Britain from time of its application to join the European Economic Community in 1963 to its exit from the EU. in 2020. Historically virulent topics such as youth unemployment, the decline of the mining industry or protests and demonstrations against Margaret Thatcher's policies are examined as well as current issues such as gender justice, consumer society, Brexit or migration. Examples of work from both Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and John Davies are included.
Click here to view the exhibition’s page.
WOODIE GUTHRIE: PEOPLE ARE THE SONG
MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
New York, NY
FEBRUARY 18 - MAY 22, 2022
This exhibition presents the story of the great American troubadour and writer with handwritten lyrics, musical instruments, manuscripts, audiovisual media, and photographs (by John Cohen, among others). It was curated in collaboration with the Woody Guthrie Center, Woody Guthrie Publications, and music historian Bob Santelli.
Click here to view the exhibition’s page.
The lonka project: Numbered
Jewish museum and tolerance center
moscow, russia
February 17 - may 15, 2022
This exhibition of 60 photographs of Shoah survivors honored International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ginette Kolinka, Paris by Jane Evelyn Atwood, at left.
For more details, click here.
FAREWELL PHOTOGRAPHY: THE HITACHI COLLECTION OF POSTWAR JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHS
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, AZ
January 19 - June 26, 2022
Spanning the years from 1961-1989, this exhibition explores the radical reconsideration of the photographic medium in post-World War II Japan through outstanding works from the Center for Creative Photography and features work by Kikuji Kawada.
Click here to view the exhibition’s page.
AFTER INDUSTRY, COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN ENGLAND 1960S - 1980S
Tate BritaIn
London, UK
December, 2021- October 22, 2022
The photographs in this display were taken during a period of deindustrialisation in the north of England. Featuring work from Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and John Davies.
Click here to view the exhibition’s page.