STEVENSON Tuesday December 13, 2022
Some photographers use the camera to uphold the status quo, while others use it to question and subvert it. South African image-maker Pieter Hugo has always been part of the latter camp,” notes AnOther, which spotlights “Polyphonic,” an exhibition at Johannesburg’s Stevenson gallery that brings together more than 100 portraits made by Hugo over the past 20 years. Hugo’s images, notes the gallery, “move beyond a study of the gaze, placing emphasis on the friction between the private and the performative.”
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The New York Times Tuesday December 13, 2022
Some of the year’s best photography books showcase women artists, declares The New York Times. Among them: Susan Meiselas’s Carnival Strippers; Carrie Mae Weems’s A Great Turn in the Possible; the retrospective Lorna Simpson; and Rosamond Purcell’s Nature Stands Aside. The book HELIOTROPO 37 chronicled the career of Graciela Iturbide, while the book Floridas features work by Russian-born photographer Anastasia Samoylova. Then of course there was A World History of Women Photographers, edited by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert.
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Wildlife Photographer of the Year Tuesday December 13, 2022
In October, Karine Aigner was named the top winner of this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year for her photo of a ball of buzzing bees. Now the contest is revealing the shortlist of its People’s Choice Award for 2022, giving you another chance to view the natural world and vote for your favorites. The pictures were chosen from 38,575 entries across 93 countries, according to London's Natural History Museum, which runs the annual competition. The winner of the award will be announced in February.
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ARTnews Tuesday December 13, 2022
“How might you define the art world in 2022? In a word, messy,” says Art News, which has looked back at 2022 and chosen 25 defining events—among them, a brazen robbery at the TEFAF Maastricht in the Netherlands and Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala dress (formerly Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress). Number 8 on the list is photography-related: In October, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case pitting photographer Lynn Goldsmith against the Andy Warhol Foundation over his paintings of Prince, based on her photography of the musician. Will the court redraw the limits of fair use? We shall see in 2023.
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