Steidlville

Raymond Depardon is showing work from Hear Them Speak at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris.

The exhibition Native Land, Stop Eject unites filmmaker and photographer, Raymond Depardon, and urban planner and philosopher, Paul Virilio, who propose a reflection on the notions of “taking root” in a given place, and of being “uprooted.” It also attempts to address the questions of identity that are linked to these notions. On this occasion, the Fondation Cartier and Steidl are publishing Hear Them Speak, a collection of colour Polaroids by Raymond Depardon. In the course of some ten journeys, from Central America to South America, from Europe to Africa, Raymond Depardon went out to meet small ethnic groups who are hanging on determinedly to their land and their language: the Kawésqar, Chipaya, Quechua, Mapuche, Afar, Occitans, Bretons, Guarani and Yanomami. Their statements were recorded in their mother tongue and are accompanied by Polaroid photographs. In the resulting portraits, these people express the strong bond that ties them to their land and culture, offering a moving demonstration of the way land, speech and memory are intimately interconnected.

An exhibition of works from Leo Rubenfien's Wounded Cities will be exhibited at the following venue in Lianzhou, China.

5 - 10 December, 2009
5th Lianzhou International Photography Festival
The Granary, Lianzhou
(showing with Wie Kultur, Berlin)

Please join Clic Gallery and Steidldangin publishers in the celebration of the US release of Patrick Demarchelier's monograph Patrick Demarchelier

This monograph is the definitive guide to the photographic career of one of the most prodigious fashion photographers of our time. From his earliest work at Harper’s Bazaar to his now mythic collaboration with Vogue, Demarchelier has single-handedly redefined the fashion photograph and the fashion industry along with it. His celebrity portraits have shaped the public personae of figures ranging from Princess Diana to Madonna.

We are very pleased to announce an exhibition and book launch for John Warwicker's The Floating World: Ukiyo-e

Inspired by the ancient Japanese artists of Ukiyo-e and a polymath’s myriad references, John Warwicker has for over 10 years been one of the most original thinkers in the design and creative industries. As a founding member of Tomato, he established an international reputation in the 1990s and has been formative in shaping popular media. The Floating World: Ukiyo-e is the first monograph of John Warwicker’s work.

Lasting Impressions
The Fine Art & Craft of the Steidl Book

Exhibition:
Musée de l’Elysée
Lausanne, Switzerland
Opening 17 November, 2009 - 21 February, 2010

Everyone knows a beautiful photography book when they see one. But few people realise what a labour of love a fine publication represents, and what diverse and complementary skills combine to ensure the best possible results. For many photographers and curators, the quality of a Steidl publication represents nothing less than the gold standard. It was the intensity of our personal experience of book-making at Steidl, as Musée de l’Elysée curators, which led us to the idea of an exhibition which would unveil the art and craft involved in the production of a Steidl book: the A to Z of the process, from the first rough sketches on a scrap of paper, through the tortured convolutions of “dummy” production, to the (often agonizing) choice of the “right cover” (not to mention the myriad choices of paper, typography and binding). We determined not only to show all these diverse operations in as accessible a manner as possible, but also to give visitors a sense of the experience of daily life at “Steidlville”, where photographers, graphic designers, printers, curators and other photography specialists rub shoulders as they busy themselves with one or another aspect of book production, the combined results of which are destined to expand and enrich the field of art photography.

Mitch Epstein will speak about his recent publication American Power at The Photographers' Gallery, London.

Friday 13 November 7pm

The Photographers' Gallery
16 - 18 Ramillies Street
London
W1F 7LW

We are very pleased to announce the following exhibitions and book signings for Mauro D'Agati's Palermo Unsung and Alamar

Book launch and slide show at Steidlville Rome
13 November, 2009, 7pm
Steidlville Rome, s.t. foto libreria galleria, Via degli Ombrellari, 25 - Rome

Fazal Sheikh will be exhibiting photographs at the following venues:

Ladli, Moksha, The Circle, Portraits
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Oct 10, 2009 - January 31. 2010
Beloved Daughters: Photographs

Han van der Meer will be giving a talk on his body of work, European Fields: The Landscape of Lower League Football at Host Gallery, London, this Friday, 23rd October.

Date: Friday 23rd October
6:30 Drinks, 7:00pm Start

An Exhibition of works from Jim Goldberg's Open See will be on show at The Photographers' Gallery, London from 16 October, 2009 - 17 January, 2010.

Open See tells of the journeys of refugee and immigrant populations who travel from war torn and economically devastated countries, often leaving AIDS ravaged communities or totalitarian regimes to make new homes in Europe.

An exhibition of works from Torbjørn Rødland's I Want to Live Innocent will be on show at galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium from 8th October.

With I Want to Live Innocent, Torbjørn Rødland takes a break from the nomadic lifestyle reflected in his first book and returns to Stavanger, the city he grew up in. He doesn’t revisit old haunts and the images aren’t dominated by the geography of the region but Stavanger becomes a generous theatre for Rødland’s exploration of the incongruous complexities both of his own mind and that of our culture. The centre of Norway’s oil industry, this Protestant coastal city has seen a tremendous economic growth since the late 1960s and Rødland utilises a diverse array of pictorial languages to reflect on the paradoxes which arise with the addition of newfound wealth and materialism.

Photographed entirely in Brazil, mostly in the rainforest and city surroundings, Native employs the green, gold and pink underlying palette of the country.

“This work began as a personal journey. Metaphorically, I was thinking of a bird that flies back into the forest, searching for its childhood nest. The images here are a creation of my abstracted wishes and dreams. As I was searching, instead of home, I found an empty past, just traces of it. Yet, my journey was filled with new friendships, and discoveries made along the way.” (Mona Kuhn)