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APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW 2025
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AIPAD + Exposure are thrilled to announce The Photography Show 2025 at the iconic Park Avenue Armory. The 44th edition of the premier fine arts photography fair will run from April 23 - April 27, 2025. 

Early bird applications to exhibit in the Main Gallery Sector are now open! Early Application period ends September 20, 2024. If you have any questions or require further information, please reach out to info@aipad.com.
 

Exposure is highlighting five exhibitions on view this month at AIPAD member galleries, from gestural color work and unconventional portraiture to activist images. 

Vivid color - pink, green, red, and yellow hues - are common elements in the work of Blandine Soulage and Laura Bonnefous, whose work is on view through August 23 in the exhibition Concentrique at Koslov Larsen Gallery (Houston). Both photographers focus on bodies in space. In Soulage's series Déviation, bodies interact in unexpected ways with architectural elements: people cling to columns; drape over walls; or form sculptural elements within architectural shapes. Soulage worked with dancers for this series, photographing them without showing their faces, allowing for open-ended narratives. Bonnefous was drawn to the city of Kilamba, in Angola, for the distinctive color schemes of its neighborhoods, for the pastel-hued architecture and the quality of light, and out of a desire to explore the lives of the few occupants of this ghost town. She photographed people embracing, the gestures graceful and affectionate, and girls with beads and ornaments in their hair, images that capture a sense of beauty and tenderness, imbued with color. 

Color is also a central element of Assembly's (Houston) exhibition of work by Cristina Velásquez (El Nuevo Mundo), on view through August 17. Velásquez's photographs of disembodied hands or feet, or people whose faces are covered or turned away from the camera, explore issues of identity, colonialism, and labor. A native of Colombia, she considers the idea of mestizaje, the mixing of different cultures and ethnicities, employing both photography and weaving in her work. And while her photographs are rooted in serious subjects, there is a playful element to them as well, like the two feet, toenails painted bright red, that poke out from a sheet of gold fabric. Her images, which undermine conventional dichotomies that separate "modern" and "traditional" cultures, are sensory objects, evoking the warmth of the sun or the feeling of fabric or a leaf against the skin. 

Gordon Parks is also among the photographers included in The Culture from which I Sprang, on view at Jenkins Johnson Gallery in San Francisco through September 21. The seven artists in the show, which commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, include Parks, Andre D. Wagner, and Lola Flash, as well as Dewey Crumpler, Wadsworth Jarrell, Greg Rick, and Philemona Williamson. The Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination based on race, was also the end of the Jim Crow era, on paper, if not in reality. The artists in the show have made work in response to that reality - from Wagner's image of a group of Black children playing, carefree, in a spray of water or a couple kissing in the middle of the Manhattan hustle and bustle, to Lola Flash's color image of two nude women embracing, from her Cross-Colour series. In the gallery's Brooklyn location, Block Party II is on view through September 21, celebrating the joy and community that characterize the history of block parties throughout Brooklyn. The show includes work by Quinci Baker, Adrian Burrell, Mustafa Ali Clayton, Laurena Finéus, Quil Lemons, Collins Obijiaku, Gregory Rick, Andre D. Wagner, and Demetrius Wilson. 

Keith de Lellis Gallery (New York) is saluting summer with a show that looks back at the history of Coney Island. Coney Island: Dreamland is on view through September, with photographs from the 1920s to the 1970s of New Yorkers sunbathing, strolling the boardwalk, flirting, swimming, eating Nathan's Hot Dogs, drinking beer, and taking in the rides and the games. Coney Island became an amusement park at the turn of the 20th century, after Sea Lion Park, an enclosed amusement park, opened in 1895. Dreamland amusement park opened a few years later, and when the boardwalk opened in the 1920s, Coney Island became a summer escape for working-class New Yorkers (the subway fare was a nickel at the time, and it became known as the Nickel Empire). The show includes Fritz Neugass' 1940s photograph of the Wonder Wheel, which remains a Coney Island landmark today; Harold Feinstein's photograph of a man with a beer in hand, a cigarette in the other, his arm draped around his wife's shoulders, while she gives a dimpled grin to the camera; and four serious lifeguards posed for Edward Rutter in 1922, the winners of a one-mile relay race.

During AIPAD's Photography Show in April, artists Carla Williams, pictured below, (whose book Tender won the Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Award in 2023), Siân Davey (whose book The Garden was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet in 2023), and Matt Wilson (whose series Stateside was shown at Galerie Sit Down this past spring) joined Stephen Frailey, editor of Dear Dave magazine, for a series of intimate discussions focusing on the convergence of influences, process, and inspiration in art making. The talks were recorded, in case you missed them, and can be found here. 

Baudoin Lebon and Galerie Miranda will partner for the fall. From September to December, Galerie Miranda will welcome Baudoin Lebon as a "guest gallery" in its space in Paris. The two galleries will share the walls for a season, taking the opportunity to cross-fertilize their rosters and explore their deep connection to Australia.

Bildhalle Amsterdam (Amsterdam), Where Are You – Chantal Elisabeth Ariëns, through August 31

Bruce Silverstein (New York), Summer Glow, through September 7

Catherine Couturier Gallery (Houston), Jeffrey Becom: Painted Villages of Ecuador, through August 17

CLAMP (New York), Sharp Cuts: Queer Collage, through August 29

Danziger Gallery (New York + Online), Corinne Vionnet: Paris Paris Paris / Robert Frank - Centenary, through September 6

Etherton Gallery (Tucson), Redux: Selections from The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD, through September 21

Fahey/Klein Gallery (Los Angeles), Face the Music: The Legacy of Music Photography, through September 7

Galerie XII (Los Angeles), Branches as Bridges / Jeremiah Chechik: Explorer, through August 24

Holden Luntz Gallery (Palm Beach), Summer Snapshots: A Celebration of Sunlit Moments, through August 24

Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York), Printer Savant: Lumiere Press and the Art of the PhotoBook, through August 16

The Hulett Collection (Tulsa), Danny Lyon: Thirty Photographs (1962-1980), through August 24

Jackson Fine Art (Atlanta), Private Collection Salon and Sale, August 17 - September 21

Jenkins Johnson Gallery (San Francisco + Brooklyn), The Culture from which I Sprang / Block Party II, through September 21

Joseph Bellows Gallery (La Jolla), Steve Fitch: American Motel Signs, through August 31

Keith de Lellis Gallery (New York), Coney Island: Dreamland, through September 27

Kicken Berlin (Berlin), 50 Years | 50 Photographs, through December 20

Marshall Gallery (Santa Monica), Land/Space: Rodrigo Valenzuela & The New Topographics, through August 17

Michael Hoppen Gallery (London), Outside Inside, through September 20

Monroe Gallery of Photography (Santa Fe), Tony Vaccaro: The Pursuit of Beauty, through September 15

Nailya Alexander Gallery (New York), Summertime, through August 31

Obscura Gallery (Santa Fe), Parallel Playground, Douglas Miles & Al Díaz, through September 1

Peter Fetterman Gallery (Santa Monica), Her: The Great Women Photographers, August 17 - November 23

Robert Klein Gallery (Boston), Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders, through August 31

Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco), Ljubodrag Andric, India, through August 17

Scheinbaum & Russek (Santa Fe), A Distinguished Eye, through September 6

Staley Wise Gallery (New York), Pairs, through August 16

Stephen Bulger Gallery (Toronto), Louie Palu | Distant Early Warning, through August 24

Throckmorton Fine Art (New York), Frida Kahlo Forever Yours, through September 28

Weinstein Hammons Gallery (Minneapolis), Teo Nguyen Sojourn 

Yancey Richardson Gallery (New York), Immersion, through August 16