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diane arbus: in the beginning
at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA, USA
Jan 21, 2017 - Apr 30, 2017

Diane Arbus: in the beginning considers the first seven years of the photographer’s career, from 1956 to 1962. A lifelong New Yorker, Arbus found the city and its citizens an endlessly rich subject for her art. Working in Times Square, the Lower East Side, and Coney Island, she made some of the most powerful portraits of the twentieth century, training her lens on the pedestrians and performers she encountered there. This exhibition highlights her early and enduring interest in the subject matter that would come to define her as an artist. read more...

Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom
at Yale University Art Gallery
New Haven, CT, USA
Jan 13, 2017 - Jul 09, 2017

This exhibition presents photographer Lee Friedlander’s images of the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, a critical yet generally neglected moment in American civil rights history. On May 17, 1957—the third anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, which outlawed segregation in public schools—thousands of activists, including many leaders from religious, social, educational, labor, and political spheres, united in front of the Lincoln Memorial, in Washington, D. read more...

Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960–75
at The Art Institute of Chicago
Loop - Chicago, IL, USA
Jan 28, 2017 - Apr 30, 2017

 The short-lived Tokyo magazine Provoke is now recognized as a major achievement in world photography of the last 50 years. Although it existed only for three issues and a mere nine months—November 1968 through August 1969—Provoke crystallized the best of progressive art photography and cultural criticism in Japan during the 1960s and early 1970s. The Provoke members—Daidô Moriyama, Takuma Nakahira, Takahiko Okada, Yutaka Takanashi, and Kôji Taki—connected in their interests with the nationwide political protest movement, itself a terrific source for photography and photobooks in that time. read more...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: In the Library
at National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Washington D.C., DC, USA
Feb 06, 2017 - Apr 14, 2017

Received as part of a gift by the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation to a consortium of five major art institutions, the Shunk-Kender Photography Collection at the National Gallery of Art Library's department of image collections documents exclusively the work of artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Harry Shunk and János Kender began working as a photographic team in 1958 and their work became highly sought-after in the artistic circles of Paris and New York. read more...

Legacy: Photographs by Vanessa Bell and Patti Smith
at Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, UK
Feb 08, 2017 - Jun 04, 2017

A special display bringing together photographs by Vanessa Bell and the American writer, artist and musician, Patti Smith (b. 1946). Smith has long been drawn to Bell's Charleston farmhouse in Sussex. Her black and white Polaroid photographs sensitively capture the lingering remains of the life Bell lead there - in particular with her life companion, Duncan Grant. Bell's own photograph albums include pictures from her childhood summers in St Ives and of her own young family and the circle of leading intellectuals and artists that surrounded her throughout her life. read more...

Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
at Whitechapel Art Gallery
London, UK
Jan 18, 2017 - Apr 16, 2017

Drawn from the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington, U.S.), this collection display showcases photography and video work by seventeen contemporary artists from around the world. By turning their camera to women, including themselves, these artists embrace the female body as a vital medium for storytelling, expressing identity and reflecting individual and collective experience. read more...

Wolfgang Tillmans
at Tate Modern
Bankside - London, UK
Feb 15, 2017 - Jun 11, 2017

From intimate still-lifes and portraits, to images that address vital political issues, explore the photographs of this groundbreaking artist. What are we to make of the world in which we find ourselves today?  Contemporary artist Wolfgang Tillmans offers plenty of food for thought. This is Wolfgang Tillmans’s first ever exhibition at Tate Modern and brings together works in an exciting variety of media – photographs, of course, but also video, digital slide projections, publications, curatorial projects and recorded music – all staged by the artist in characteristically innovative style. read more...

Ed van der Elsken: Camera in Love
at Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Feb 04, 2017 - May 21, 2017

The Stedelijk presents a major retrospective of the photographic and filmic work of Dutch photographer Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990). A unique figure, Van der Elsken was renowned as a street photographer, and is recognised as the most important Dutch photographer of the 20th century. Ed van der Elsken was a unique figure. read more...

SNAP. Documentary and Portrait Photography from the Collection
at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Oslo, Norway
Feb 17, 2017 - Sep 03, 2017

Does documentary photography show a true picture of the world? Do portrait photographs capture a person’s identity? Today pictures are shared in vast numbers on social media. This exhibition explores how photography has pictured people from the 19th century to the present. The exhibition sheds light on three key periods in the documentary genre: 1880s social documentary, 1960s street photography, and 1990s everyday documentary. read more...

Marina Abramović: The Cleaner
at Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden
Feb 18, 2017 - May 21, 2017

At once radical, controversial and revered, Marina Abramović is one of the most discussed artists today. Famous for her groundbreaking performance works, she continues to expand the boundaries of art. This exhibition is produced in close collaboration with the artist and marks her first major retrospective in Europe. In her work Marina Abramović explores the intersection between performing and visual art, with a focus in equal shares on body and time. read more...