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The World According to Petr Lovigin

The World According to Petr Lovigin

Petr Lovigin appears to inhabit a different world, a different planet. Or maybe different worlds and different planets. His visions are romantic and ironic, cynical and dreamlike. Somehow his work manages to embody both the splendour and the defects of life, both what is sure and what is in doubt. The World According to Petr...
Eikoh Hosoe at the Weltkunstzimmer

Eikoh Hosoe at the Weltkunstzimmer

Work by CLAIR Gallery artist Eikoh Hosoe was included in an extraordinary exhibition at the Weltkunstzimmer that explored the complex beauty and art of Butoh dance. The Butoh Photography exhibition at the Weltkunstzimmer contemporary art centre in Düsseldorf, Germany ran from February 11, 2016 to March 12, 2016. Butoh is a style of Japanese dance...
Lartigue in Photo International

Lartigue in Photo International

The Jacques Henri Lartigue exhibition Créateur de Bonheurs, curated by CLAIR Gallery director Anna-Patricia Kahn, has received a glowing review in Photo International, Germany’s most esteemed photography magazine. The Créateur de Bonheurs exhibition ran from February 25, 2016 to April 1, 2016 at Franz-Joseph-Strasse 10 in Munich. For more information, contact Anna Patricia Kahn.
Créateur de Bonheurs

Créateur de Bonheurs

Jacques Henri Lartigue rejoiced in life and had an insatiable fascination for all that surrounded him. For more than six decades, he used photography to preserve those exquisite moments that created such joy for him. The Créateur de Bonheurs exhibition united more than 50 of these sublime images in both black and white and colour,...
The Arrival of an Image

The Arrival of an Image

For more than thirty years, Adriana Lestido has photographed humans: I use the term ‘humans’ here because Adriana sublimely captures these beings that so perfectly evince humanity. She becomes close to them, lets her eyes wash over them, and then ‘seizes’ them between her fingers and her camera. And, voilà, suddenly the subjects are evoked,...
Gundula Friese in the Koenig Collection

Gundula Friese in the Koenig Collection

The work of Gundula Friese has been featured in beautiful reportage on the Koenig Collection that has appeared Dec. 2015 in one of Germany’s leading national newspapers. The Koenig Collection, which was assembled by Gabriele Koenig, is one of the leading archives of East Germany photography. It has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and...
Erich Hartmann at Landesmuseum Zürich

Erich Hartmann at Landesmuseum Zürich

CLAIR Gallery was delighted to help organize the presentation of the photography series “Our Daily Bread” by Magnum photographer Erich Hartmann at Landesmuseum Zürich, the Swiss National Museum. This project was initiated by UNICEF Switzerland in collaboration with the Landesmuseum Zurich. The exhibition ran from 28.08.2015-02.10.2015 and was met with both critical praise and popular...
Kate Winslet as Lee Miller

Kate Winslet as Lee Miller

Kate Winslet has been cast to play Lee Miller in an upcoming movie about the photographer’s life. Miller (1907, USA—1977, UK) was one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. She is renowned for the creative range of her images, from landmark fashion photography to chilling images of concentration camps during World War II...
Halsman at Jeu de Paume

Halsman at Jeu de Paume

CLAIR Gallery would like to announce that the monumental exhibition of Philippe Halsman’s photography, Astonish Me!, has arrived in France. After appearing at the Musée d’Elysée in Lausanne, the exhibition will now open at the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris. It is next scheduled to travel to Rotterdam, Barcelona, and Madrid. The...
Tomasz Lazar at Fashion Week

Tomasz Lazar at Fashion Week

As part of a series of photo essays for New York Magazine, Tomasz Lazar has created stunning images from both London Fashion Week and Milan Fashion Week. The complete essay from Milan Fashion Week can be seen here. The London Fashion Week photo essay can be seen here, but the CLAIR Gallery must warn you that it may induce...