Photo Guide is a monthly blog with 20 personal best photo exhibitions and new photo books. Highly subjective, off course. This month featuring  the Deutsche Börse Photography Price shortlist for 2013. With Christina de Middel, Sebastiao Salgado and John Stezaker. Books by Brian Griffin and David Rochkind with Dewi Lewis.

The photograph of the Nenet is taken from the forthcoming book

Genesis by Sebastião Salgado to be published by Taschen in 2013.

It will coincide with an exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London.

 photo and comment by Narciso Contreras from Aleppo, Syria, 2012

  ” I saw a rebel running to reach his comrades with the bomb device.

I followed him with my camera, took the picture then

retreated to another building to take cover.”

Helmut Newton, Amica, Milano 1982  © Helmut Newton Estate, from

 the exhibition : World without Men, at  Newton Foundation, Berlin

Sirren Song V, 2011 © John Stezaker, from the exhibition

Deutsche Börse Photography Price at c/o Berlin

McLean, Virginia, December 1978, Courtesy Luhring Augustine,

New York,  from the exhibition Joel Sternfeld, Retrospektive,

c/o Fotografie Berlin

SPI, Ancarno, Abruzzi, Italy,2011 by Mischka Henner;

shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Price.

Courtesy of the artist and the Photographers’ Gallery, London.

Bongo, from the series The Afronauts, by Cristina de Middel;

shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Price.

Courtesy of the artist and the Photographers’ Gallery, London

Boat repair, Skinningrove, Yorkshire, 1983 by Chris Killip;

shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Price.

Courtesy of the artist and the Photographers’ Gallery, London

© Andreas Magdanz, Flur mit Blick in Zelle 719, 2011,

from the exhibition Stuttgart Stammheim, Germany’s

prison to demolish, at Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Arno Fischer, Westberlin, 1958; © Erbengemeinschaft Arno Fischer

from the exhibition Künstlerische Fotografie in der DDR 1949-1989

Berlinische Galerie

Secretary at West German Radio, Cologne, 1939, © August Sander

from the exhibition at New Walk Art Gallery, Leicester

Tänzerin Ida Fuchs, 1930, by Baron Wolff von Gudenburg,

from the Finders Keepers at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London

Untitled, from the series Flowers, 2009, © Jitka Hanzlová; from

the exhibition at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh

Girl in window, orange refection, New York, 1972, by Helen Lewitt,

from the Positive View Foundation exhibition at Somerset House,

London.© Estate of Helen Lewitt

Police frisk a man in a security sweep, Ciudad Juárez, by David

Rochkind from the book Heavy Hand, Sunken Spirit published

by  Dewi Lewis 2012

Friederike Hamann, New Video Work, Cadillac, Monitor, Rear View,

Installation at www.braennen.de © Moritz Hirsch, 2012

Acton, London by Brian Griffin; from the book Open by Brian Griffin

published by Dewi Lewis

Syrians walk past damaged houses during heavy fighting in Aleppo,

Syria, 2012 by Narciso Contreras/AP from The Observer

US Bombings on Taliban Positions by Luc Delahaye, from

Seduced by Art at the National Gallery,London

Dying Infant Found by American Soldiers, Saipan, June 1944 by

Eugene Smith/Magnum; from War/Photography at

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Kommentar schreiben , Kommentar als RSS Feed |Geschrieben am 19.12.2012 um 14:12 | Kategorien: Allgemein | Tags: Andreas Magdanz, Arno Fischer, August Sander, Brian Griffin, Chris Killip, Cristina de Middel, David Rochkind, Helen Levitt, Helmut Newton, Jitka Hanzlova, Joel Sternfeld, John Stezaker, Luc Delahaye, Mischka Henner, Moritz Hirsch, Narciso Contreras, Sebastião Salgado, W. Eugene Smith, Wolff von Gudenburg