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January 12, 2017 News & Press

Lestido at Photoaumnales

CLAIR Gallery is proud to announce that Adriana Lestido was a featured photographer at the Photaumnales festival in Beauvais, France. The 13th edition of Photaumnales was curated by Paul Ardenne and the festival explores the theme of love stories through the work of leading international photographers. Images from Adriana Lestido’s astonishingly intimate series Madres e Hijas...

January 12, 2017 Events & Exhibitions

Halsman – Facets and Faces

Photographers who capture an iconic image are often confronted with a paradox: the celebration of a single photograph overshadows the entirety an artistic oeuvre. Yet what happens in those rare situations when a single photographer is responsible for scores of iconic images? This is the question that was explored by the Halsman: Facets and Faces exhibition. Philippe...

January 1, 2017 News & Press

Vera Mercer Joins CLAIR

CLAIR Gallery is pleased to announce it now represents the esteemed photographer Vera Mercer. Mercer was born in Berlin in November 1936. She has done photo reportages on Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Satyajit Ray, Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer,  Marcel Duchamp, and others. She has also made documentary photos for many artists, including Eva Aeppli, Jean Tinguely,...

December 12, 2016 Events & Exhibitions

A Certain Slant of Light – Erich Hartmann

As one of the 20th century’s most renowned documentary photographers, Erich Hartmann relied on the nuances of natural light to capture the deeper truths of human experience. Yet when in the studio, Hartmann embraced a different vision: by injecting artificial light into the frame of an image, he transformed the commonplace into something both mesmerizing...

December 11, 2016 News & Press

Inge Morath – On Style

The plaudits and praise continue to flow for the exquisite new book that explores the fashion photography of Inge Morath. Inge Morath: On Style was published in the fall of 2016 by Abrams Books. It includes 250 black-and-white and colour photographs and was edited by John P. Jacob, the American curator and director of the Inge...

December 5, 2016 News & Press

Adriana Lestido – Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin

CLAIR Gallery is pleased to draw attention to a glorious article about Adriana Lestido’s photography that appeared in Der Tagesspiegel. Attention: German required. See the original article here.

December 4, 2016 Publications

RUDI WEISSENSTEIN BOOK

CLAIR Gallery is pleased to announce the publication of Rudi, A Dreamer—Rediscovering an Archive. Rudi, A Dreamer—Rediscovering an Archive donors the legacy of Rudi Weissenstein’s photography. It is published by Kehrer Verlag and CLAIR Gallery curator Anna-Patricia Kahn is the book’s principal editor. You can learn more about the book by visiting the Kehrer website. Rudi, A Dreamer—Rediscovering an Archive has received critical...

October 23, 2016 Anna's Eye

“Approaching Reality”

What is forbidden by the Second Commandment, (Ex 20.4 and 5.8 Dt) “You shall not make for yourself an idol,” is to try to own the vision that the eye perceives, with arrogance or impatience, whether staring for the first or umpteenth time. It is exactly the opposite of what a photographer and photography attempts...

September 28, 2016 News & Press

Philippe Halsman, Who Am I?

The attempt to understand our identity has preoccupied humankind since time immemorial. Each and every one of us grapples with the issue throughout our lifetime. Nevertheless, none of us can clearly or definitively answer the question: What makes us the person we are today? The Who Am I? exhibition explored the notion of identity through...

September 1, 2016 Events & Exhibitions

Munich Seaside

Summer and sea have been forever entwined in both the popular and the creative imagination. While paintings such as Waves Breaking by Monet or Beach Scene by Degas are iconic, there is also a seminal body of photography that explores the innate human connection to water. In the summer of 2016, the Munich Seaside exhibition...