PHOTO NEWS
Robert Polidori places multiple groups of his works in dialogue with one another. In Exteriors and Interiors, images from his series Hotel Petra and Dendritic Cities will be shown for the first time, works that the photographer, produced between 2008 and 2011. Polidori’s views of exterior and interior spaces in their urban contexts are like portraits that make the passage of time visible in present-day images. Galerie Karsten Greve, Drususgasse 1-5 Cologne, Duration: 5/11-8/12/14, www.galerie-karsten-greve.com
Anna Gaskell, works closely with the Bolshoi principal dancer Svetlana Lunkina, using their interplay to examine and subvert the role of the performer vs the role of the spectator. Douglas Gordon with a wide selection of new works, selected to offer visitors the sensory experience of the profound duality of human nature: love and hate, seduction and violence, life and death… Through the combination of their respective works-videos, installations and photographs-Anna Gaskell and Douglas Gordon provide visitors with a visual and sound dialogue within the gallery’s two exhibition spaces. Yvon Lambert Gallery, 108 rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, Duration: 6/11-25/10/14, Days&Hours:Tue-Wed: 10:00-13:00 & 14:30-19:00, Thu-Sat: 10:00-19:00, www.yvon-lambert.com
Walker Evans (1903–1975) was one of the great personalities of 20th century photography, being an exponent of what is called the “documentary style”. His work, which spans a period of over fifty years. 200 original prints from the years 1928 to 1974, taken mostly from the considerable private collection of Clark and Joan Worswick, but also from various German collections are shown at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Berlin, Duration: 25/7-9/11/14, Days & Hours: Wed-Mon: 10:00 -19:00, www.berlinerfestspiele.de
Dennis Hopper established his reputation as a cult actor and director with Easy Rider (1969), during his rise to Hollywood stardom, he captured the establishment-busting spirit of the 1960s in photographs that travel from Los Angeles to Harlem to Tijuana, Mexico. Drugstore Camera, photographs were shot in Taos, New Mexico, where Hopper based himself following the production of Easy Rider and into the 1980s. An exhibition of the late Dennis Hopper’s photographs of the 1960s, together with the Drugstore Camera series of the early 1970s and continuous screenings of his films and interviews, presents in Rome by: Gagosian Gallery, Via Francesco Crispi 16, Rome, Duration: 23/9-8/11/14, Days & Hours: Tue–Sat 10:30-19:00, www.gagosian.com
Since the 1980 David Goldblatt has been travelling in every province of South Africa and photographed monuments and buildings, public or private, secular or religious, built from the Colonial era with the idea that the architecture reveals something about the people who built them. Photos from 1980 until today are shown at: Galerie Marian Goodman, 79 Rue Du Temple, Paris, Duration: 6/9-18/10-14, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat: 11:00-19:00, www.mariangoodman.com