Massimo Vitali work included in: Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-Present

Massimo Vitali is currently included in a group show at Hunter College called: Peripheral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s-Present Curated by Maria Antonella Pelizzari. The exhibition showcases the works of several major Italian photographers and will be on view at The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College.
Hunter West Building at the southwest corner of 68th & Lexington Ave, New York, NY

Find out more HERE.

Massimo Vitali, Arcadian Remains, a Critic's Pick in this month's Artforum.

Chloe Rossetti has a review of Massimo Vitali's current exhibition in the latest issue of Artforum:

"...The scale of the coastlines in Vitali’s enormous, saturated C-prints dwarf their fleshy inhabitants, creating a Where’s Waldo–type effect; a patient viewer is handsomely rewarded with a smorgasbord of candid moments between unknowing participants. The prints line the walls of the gallery on all sides, encircling a seating area that invites a leisurely look. It takes time to pick out what one might consider to be the “stars” of these scenes. In Les Catedrales, Low Tide, 2011, for example, a row of four intertwined visitors walk away from the knotted crowd, turning their backs on a pristine sea—three are dressed in identical white, flanked by an individual in a blood-red shirt. In Porto Miggiano, 2011, a white-haired man in neon-blue swimming trunks squats awkwardly on a rock. An inflatable blue mattress leans precariously on a nearby outcropping, out of place in the flesh-and-limestone landscape."

Read the entire review HERE.

Abelardo Morell retrospective planned for next year

The Art Institute of Chicago is currently organizing a retrospective exhibition of Abelardo Morell’s photographs to be held in Chicago and at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2013.

Watch the Art Institute of Chicago's website for more information as it becomes available.

Massimo Vitali feature in Paper Mag

Massimo Vitali's current show Arcadian Remains is featured in an article called "Escape The Winter Blues With Massimo Vitali" in the latest issue of Paper Mag:

"we strongly suggest you beat the early-winter blues by stopping by for an exhibit of Massimo Vitali's amazing, large-scale photographs of crowds of people in resort-y settings throughout Italy, Turkey and Germany. His bird's-eye photos of pastel-clad vacationers are so pitch-perfect that they seem like they've been meticulously choreographed. Check out a selection above, and stop by the store (50 Howard St.), or Bonni Benrubi Gallery (41 E. 57th St.), who are presenting a concurrent exhibition, "Arcadian Remains."

Read the entire article HERE.

Massimo Vitali's new show in Forbes magazine

Massimo Vitali's current show Arcadian Remains is featured in an article called "Massimo Vitali's Gorgeous, Peopled Landscapes" in the latest issue of Forbes Magazine:

"I think no matter what people do, no matter what they try to do to nature or to monuments, humans are terribly small and terribly fragile compared to what is around us,” says the 67-year-old photographer.

Read the entire article HERE.

Massimo Vitali feature in La Lettre

Massimo Vitali's current Exhibition Arcadian Remains is featured in the January 1st installment of La Lettre, De La Photographie.com:

"From his vantage point high above the scene, Massimo Vitali captures groups in vast public spaces and exposes human behavior at it?s most primitive and stripped down. We experience the quiet chaos of play and leisure, the realism of the photograph as a document and the surrealism of his extraordinary views.

Read the entire article HERE.

Louis Stettner featured in The Guardian / Observer

An article by Peter Conrad in the Guardian UK titled Cecil Beaton: The New York Years; The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951 discusses Louis Stettner's photographs in a new exhibition at The Jewish Museum in New York:

"The Photo League show has an ironic commentary on this mercenary declaration: in Louis Stettner's Coming to America, a Jewish immigrant and his child, swaddled in blankets, huddle on the deck of a ship, buffeted by gales as they stare at a flailing wintry ocean. The promised land is nowhere to be seen."

Read the entire article HERE.

Simon Norfolk review in Artforum

Simon Norfolk's most recent exhibition, Burke and Norfolk was reviewed by Brian Sholis in the January 2012 issue of Artforum:

"Simon Norfolk might be called a war-landscape photographer. He focuses on not only battles and resultant refugee crises but also the technological infrastructure that underpins conflict and the arenas in which those conflicts play out..."

Read the full review in Artforum Magazine now on sale.

Matthew Pillsbury images in New York Magazine

Photos by Matthew Pillsbury are featured in the latest issue of New York Magazine. The "Reasons To Love New York Right Now" issue is on newsstands now.

See the images and read the article HERE.

David Leventi featured in ESPN The Magazine

Images of sports arenas by David Leventi are featured in a photo essay titled Grand Stands in this week's ESPN, The Magazine.


See the entire article HERE.

Matthew Pillsbury images in The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine this week features images by Matthew Pillsbury in an article about Jane's Carousel, a restored 1920's era carousel on the Brooklyn waterfront.

Read the entire article HERE.

Jeffrey Milstein's “AirCraft: The Jet as Art” Opens at the National Air and Space Museum

"AirCraft: The Jet as Art" opens at the National Air and Space Museum Nov. 25 and will be on display for one year. The exhibition will feature 33 super-sized photographic archival-pigment prints that transform aviation technology into fine art.

A photographer and pilot, Jeffrey Milstein captures speeding aircraft as they are about to land and creates crisp images that highlight the design, color and symmetry of his subjects. Milstein uses photographic post-processing techniques and neutral backgrounds to focus attention on the elegance, colors and form of each aircraft. The aircraft with their spread wings evoke the human form or that of birds or insects.

"Milstein’s photographs of frozen moments evoke speed, technology and the excitement of flight," said Carolyn Russo, curator of the exhibition. "The enormity of the images seems to pull you into the air, as though you are going along for the ride. Collectively, Milstein’s jets are a photographic typology and part of an important trend in contemporary photography."

Jeffrey Milstein will be in the gallery from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 25, signing the AirCraft: the Jet as Art book published by Harry N. Abrams.

The National Air and Space Museum building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is located at Sixth Street and Independence Avenue S.W. The museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is located in Chantilly, Va., near Washington Dulles International Airport. Both facilities are open daily from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. (closed Dec. 25). Admission is free, but there is a $15 fee for parking at the Udvar-Hazy Center.

Simon Norfolk: Burke + Norfolk featured in The Wall Street Journal

The gallery's current exhibition, Simon Norfolk: Burke + Norfolk has been featured in a Wall Street Journal article called A Teacher, a Student and Three Books, with Lisette Model and Lars Tunbjörk:


...Simon Norfolk (b. 1963) is a British photojournalist famed for his pictures of the war in Afghanistan. John Burke (1843-1900) was an Irishman who photographed the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1878-1880. When Mr. Norfolk returned to Afghanistan last year after a decade's absence, he drew upon his study of Burke's 19th-century pictures for his new work...


Read the entire article HERE.

David Leventi in Financial Times Weekend Magazine

David Leventi is featured in a Financial Times cover story this week about opera houses:

"It was a moment I will never forget. “This is the Callas spot,” said Riccardo Muti, at that time music director of La Scala, Milan’s opera house. He was indicating a precise point near the front of the stage, a few feet right of centre, where Maria Callas invariably took up position during performances there. The legendary diva reckoned it was the optimal place for projecting her voice during an aria. Woe betide anyone who got in the way...."

Read the complete article HERE.

Gillian Laub feature in Time | Light Box

Gillian Laub's images of the Tel Aviv Beach have been featured in Time Magazine's Light Box

"Every Jew has two requests of God: a place in paradise in the next world, and a place on the Tel Aviv beach in this world,” wrote Sholem Asch, the Polish-born novelist, in 1937. Stretching five kilometers from its southern tip at the old port city of Jaffa to the new cluster of high rise hotels and condos at its northern end, Tel Aviv’s beach (or Tayelet as it’s called in Hebrew) probably looked a little different in Asch’s day. But I think of him as part of a long legacy of both travelers and natives who have sought refuge in those sands from Israel’s political dramas, which can gush like a Texas oil well. At the beach, I discovered Israel in all its vitality, without the conflict."

Laura McPhee reviewed in the Boston Globe

Laura McPhee's Something About Love exhibition at Carroll And Sons Gallery in Boston was reviewed by Cate McQuaid in The Boston Globe:


"In “Something About Love,’’ McPhee’s new show at Carroll and Sons, she follows her own daughter, Isobel, into her teens, and occasionally shoots other family members. The artist has concocted a visual ambrosia of wild hues, fervid blossoms, and pouty lips. Each piece is collaborative, representing both the artist’s perspective and her subject’s projection, shifting even within one work; each is a montage..."

Read the complete article HERE.

SIMON NORFOLK featured in Design Arts Daily

Simon Norfolk has been featured in the September 16th issue of Design Arts Daily, in a feature article entitled Simon Norfolk, A Tale Of Two Cities

"Simon Norfolk has been studying war for much of his career, in places like Rwanda, Bosnia, Iraq, Lebanon – and most recently, in Afghanistan. In a presentation on Wednesday at Aperture, Norfolk talked about his shift away from photojournalism, saying that he had become enraged by the prosecution of the Gulf War and didn’t want his images, in which his perception and opinion are integral, to be offered as illustrations for newspaper articles with which he might strongly disagree..."

Read the complete article HERE.

Our current exhibition of Norfolk's photographs, Burke + Norfolk is on view at the gallery through December 3rd.

Simon Norfolk's Burke + Norfolk exhibition featured in The New Yorker

The current exhibition from Simon Norfolk, Burke + Norfolk, has been reviewed in the September 19th issue of The New Yorker.


"...Although Norfolk remains skeptical about the war’s imperialist roots, he borrows Burke’s formal group-portrait style for sepia-toned pictures of musicians, female skateboarders, a local airline crew, the Afghan Women’s National Basketball Squad, and other indicators of progress."

-The New Yorker


Read More at The NewYorker.com

Simon Norfolk Featured in the New York Times Magazine

"Late last year, Simon Norfolk traveled to Afghanistan to retrace the footsteps of John Burke, a war photographer who once covered much of the same ground. Their work is being presented together this spring, at the Tate Modern in London, as an “artistic collaboration.”

“It’s just that one of us is dead,” Mr. Norfolk said.

And has been for quite some time."




For the full blog posting, please visit the New York Times Magazine Blog 'Lens'

A Collaboration Across 130 Years: Simon Norfolk Retraces the Footsteps of John Burke

Laura McPhee's exhibition, River Of No Return to open at the Russell Hill Rogers Galleries Thursday September 29, 2011

Laura McPhee, River Of No Return, September 1 - November 20, 2011.

Russell Hill Rogers Galleries, Navarro Campus. Southwest School Of Art - 1201 Navarro Street. San Antonio, TX 78205

Visit the Southwest School Of Arts website for more information.


"Laura McPhee's series of monumental photographs explore the dillemmas of landscape and land use, and challenge us to consider our relationship to nature. For two years, as an Alturas Foundation artist-in-residence, McPhee traversed Idaho's remote Sawtooth Valley with her view camera, capturing images in breathtaking clarity."

SIMON NORFOLK and MERRY ALPERN featured in EXPOSED at Fundación Canal, in Madrid

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that two gallery artists, Simon Norfolk and Merry Alpern, will be featured in the exhibition EXPOSED at the Fundación Canal, in Madrid (formerly on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Tate Modern).

"Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects."

Merry Alpern is featured in two of the five thematic sections of the exhibition with work from her Dirty Windows series included in Voyeurism and Desire, while work from her Shopping series is included in the Surveillance section of the exhibition. Simon Norfolk is likewise featured in Surveillance.

The exhibition will be on view from October 26th 2011 running till January 8th 2012.

KARINE LAVAL featured in French publications

Karine Laval has two new features in the French press. One long feature in MUZE about New York and 9/11 as experienced by 3 artists, along with Mitch Epstein and Siri Hustvedt, and a special issue of Les Echos/Serie Limitee about 100 shakers and movers of tomorrow.


Read the complete articles here: MUZE. Les Echos/Serie Limitee.

Josef Hoflehner Featured in the Wall Street Journal.

Josef Hoflehner's book, ZNZ:Zanzibar, in the Wall Street Journal's Photo Op: Dark Light section.

"In one image after another, the Austrian photographer [Hoflehner] heightens contrasts as far as his camera will let him. Making his way along the Zanzibar coast, through marshy inlets and rocky bays, he captures scenes so full of light that sand, sea and sky blend into one another."

For the full article, please visit the Wall Street Journal's Website:
Photo Op: Dark Light

Documentary Short on SIMON NORFOLK released by TATE MODERN

Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From The War In Afghanistan

"Summer Time with the McCartneys" feature in Time | Light Box

Linda McCartney : Life In Photographs has been featured in Time Magazine's Light Box

"Thirteen years after her untimely death from breast cancer, the Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York City is showcasing photographs by Linda McCartney that chronicle her professional career with images of iconic rock-n-roll musicians, celebrities, and warm, tender snapshots of her family. TIME spoke with Paul and Linda’s eldest daughter, Mary McCartney, to get the backstory of this image."

Linda McCartney: Life In Photographs

Gallery Exhibition "Linda McCartney: Life In Photographs" has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The Telegraph, and Flavor Pill, amongst many other publications.

The Wall Street Journal: Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs

The Telegraph: Linda McCartney photographs' reveal intimate family moments

Flavor Pill: Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs @ Bonni Benrubi Gallery

GEORGES DAMBIER passes away at 86

Georges Dambier passed away at 86 years of age on May 30, 2011. We are saddened by the loss but we share in his family’s happiness as we celebrate the legacy of his work and joie de vivre that embodies each of his images.

Past Exhibition: Who’s That Girl? Georges Dambier Fashioning the Fifties
March 24-May 27, 2011

Please contact the gallery regarding updated editions and prices.

RON VAN DONGEN wins P. J. Redouté Prize

Ron Van Dongen was honored in France for his 2010 publication, The Tulip Anthology,' with the P. J. Redouté Prize for the best botanic/nature book of 2010

MASSIMO VITALI to speak and on display at LOOK3

NATURAL HABITATS will be on display at Chroma Projects June 3-June 26.

Massimo Vitali’s INsight Conversation will take place at the Paramount Theater June 10, 4-6pm.


For more information about the exhibition and conversation, please visit the LOOK3 website page for the artist: Massimo Vitali

SIMON NORFOLK reviewed in the London Evening Standard

"Separated by almost a century and a half, John Burke and Simon Norfolk have become umbilically linked through photographs taken during two of Britain's wars in Afghanistan.

Norfolk's impeccable research into Burke's documentary of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) led to his own 2010 photographic project and he echoes the scenes preserved from the 19th-century pioneer's beautifully ornate photo-album."

For the full article, please visit the London Evening Standard Website: Burke and Norfolk Show Epic Scenes of War

Abelardo Morell featured in National Geographic

"Something strange and wonderful happens when light enters a dark space through a tiny opening. Aristotle described the phenomenon back in the fourth century B.C. Leonardo in Renaissance Italy sketched the process. In Coney Island and other 19th-century seaside resorts, tourists lined up to see the magical results. Shift to a Boston classroom, the year 1988. Cuban-born Abelardo Morell, teaching an introductory photography course at an art college, was curious to step back in time. On a sunny day, he covered the classroom windows with black plastic, making the space as dark as a cave, cut a dime-size hole in the material, and told his students to watch. Almost instantly the back wall came alive like a movie screen, its surface covered with a fuzzy image of people and cars moving along Huntington Avenue outside. Then the double take: The image was upside down, sky on floor, ground on ceiling, the laws of gravity seemingly gone haywire."

For the full article, please visit the National Geographic website: Rooms With a View

Simon Norfolk Reviewed in Financial Times

"On the south bank of the Thames, Tate Modern is having an overtly political moment. Its customary letters facing St Paul’s Cathedral spell out the message RELEASE AI WEIWEI, referring to the Chinese artist who was a beneficiary of a Unilever commission at Tate and is now under arrest in China. In the week that Osama bin Laden was executed in Pakistan, a powerful exhibition opens that focuses on the war in Afghanistan just over the border.
Simon Norfolk is a British photographer who has worked in Afghanistan before with considerable distinction. His book Afghanistan Chronotopia contrasted the appalling hardware used in the war with the beautiful mountain and desert landscapes in which it was waged. Norfolk is not a classic war photographer by any means – he is as interested in landscape as in conflict, and more interested in memory and the reshaping of truth than in anything practical. He is a radical intellectual with a camera."

For the full review, please visit the Financial Times website: Burke + Norfolk, Tate Modern, London

DAVID LEVENTI photographs JFK Airport's T.W.A. Terminal for The New York Times Magazine

Gallery artist David Leventi's photographs accompany The New York Times Magazine's March 20, 2011 article, The T.W.A. Terminal, Reborn, celebrating the renovation of Eero Saarinen's 1962 master piece work which is still considered a "vanguard of modern design". Leventi is a maker of large prints taken with negatives from large format cameras. He meticulously captures the architectural grand interiors of landmark buildings. Currently, he is documenting opera houses all over the globe.

SIMON NORFOLK exhibition in the L2 gallery at the Tate Modern

In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century British photographer John Burke. Norfolk’s photographs reimagine or respond to Burke’s Afghan war scenes in the context of the contemporary conflict. Conceived as a collaborative project with Burke across time, this new body of work is presented alongside Burke’s original portfolios.

May 6 - July 10, 2011

GEORGES DAMBIER featured in Cathy Horyn's On the Runway in The New York Times Fashion section

“Georges Dambier, whose work is the subject of a delightful exhibition at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery on East 57th Street (through May 27), liked to use Paris as the backdrop for his fashion photographs. Or Cannes or Marrakesh. This was the postwar world of jazz clubs, existentialists, cheap travel, uncrowded streets, beautiful cars, artists and, of course, Paris couture. With his Rolleiflex, Mr. Dambier, who will be 86 on Tuesday, captured all of this with honest joie de vivre, publishing his fashion images in French Elle. And he worked with some of the era’s great beauties: Suzy Parker, Dorian Leigh, Bettina, Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Capucine, Ivy Nicholson and a young Brigitte Bardot.”



For the full On the Runway article, Curious About Georges



The Exhibition is on view from March 24 - May 27, 2011

KARINE LAVAL reviewed in The New Yorker

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that the current exhibition of work by Karine Laval, entitled MISE EN ABYME, has been reviewed in the Goings on About Town:Art section of the The New Yorker website.
MISE EN ABYME is on view from January 13th through March 19th, 2011



"Laval returns to a favorite subject—swimming pools—in summery photographs that both suggest and invite total immersion. Several of the largest pictures depict clothed figures that appear as liquid as the agitated water around them. Even more pleasurably disorienting is a smaller series that plays with reflections, often flipping the scene so that sky and water are reversed and the world turns an aqua blue. Because Laval’s colors have always skewed toward the sun-bleached and the watery, these images aren’t unexpected, but they push her farther toward abstraction, which seems like a fine place for her to be."

Iconic Surfing Photographer LEROY GRANNIS passes away at 93

We are sad to report that the iconic surf photographer and founder of Surf Magazine in the 1960’s LeRoy Grannis passed away on February 3, 2011. Considered one of surfing’s most important documenters, Grannis began his career in 1960 at the age of 43 and remained working and surfing until the end of his life.

Los Angeles Times Obituary for Grannis

ABELARDO MORELL announced as recipient of 2011 Infinity Award for Art

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that Abelardo Morell will be the recipient of the 2011 Infinity Award in the category of Art at the 27th Annual Infinity Awards on May 10, 2011.

ABELARDO MORELL reviewed in ARTnews

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that the concurrent exhibitions of new work by Abelardo Morell, which were on view this fall, GROUNDWORK and The Universe Next Door, have been reviewed in the February 2011 issue of ARTnews.


"In "The Universe Next Door" at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery and "Groundwork" at Bonni Benrubi, the Cuban-born photographer Abelardo Morell showed an impressive mastery of both antiquated techniques, such as the camera obscura and the cliche verre, and modern digital photography, all to produce otherworldly images."
-Steve Barnes, ARTnews

ABELARDO MORELL’s work featured in exhibition at The Morgan Library

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that the work of artist Abelardo Morell is featured in the exhibition Mannerism and Modernism: The Kasper collection of Drawings and Photographs, on view from January 21 through May 1, 2011.

The Morgan Library & Museum presents over one hundred drawings and photographs from the collection assembled by American fashion designer Herbert Kasper—known simply as Kasper. The collection, exceptional for its distinctive character and superb quality, is being exhibited to the public for the first time. Photographs constitute the most diverse portion of Kasper's collection, with excellent prints by major historical figures, in addition to numerous works by emerging artists.

CEDRIC DELSAUX featured in Art in America

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that gallery artist Cedric Delsaux has been included in a feature entitled "A Planet of Relics" in the January issue of Art in America.

"The mightiness of production and consumption turns mute on arrival when captured by the camera. Our negligent habits as stewards of the earth, and of our own prospects, are put on display, as if by institutional emphasis. The effect degrades what was once obviously functional and leaves everything, even of recent vintage, in a state of didactic remoteness."

-Max Kozloff, Art in America

An online version of the article and slideshow of related images is available on the Art in America website.

ABELARDO MORELL featured in The New Yorker

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that the current exhibition of new work by Abelardo Morell GROUNDWORK has been reviewed in The New Yorker.


"These dreamlike visions were made by allowing a pinhole of light into a darkened room, projecting a single, upside-down image. Sometimes, Morell rights that disorienting image with a lens; either way, the results are wonderful and oddly exhilarating."

Furthermore, The Island of Rota,, a collaborative publication by the Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art that combines Morell's cliche verre photographs with the design of Ted Muhling and writings of Oliver Sacks, is featured on the "Photo Booth" section of The New Yorker website.

Our current exhibition of Morell's photographs is on view at the gallery through January 8th, 2011.

ABELARDO MORELL featured in New York Magazine

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Abelardo Morell has been featured in the October 25th issue of New York Magazine, in a feature article entitled "Seeing New York though Leonardo's Eye."

Our current exhibition of Morell's photographs is on view at the gallery through January 8th.

RON VAN DONGEN releases The Tulip Anthology

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that gallery artist Ron van Dongen has recently released a new book devoted exclusively to tulips, with a forward by best-selling author Anna Pavord, published by Chronicle Books.

"Coveted by kings and admired by gardeners in ancient and modern times alike, the tulip has nearly brought nations to moral and economic ruin. The Tulip Anthology is a beautiful and comprehensive celebration of this most astonishing and beloved of flowers."

MASSIMO VITALI: NATURAL HABITATS

Massimo Vitali has released a new monograph entitled Massimo Vitali : Natural Habitats, published by Steidl. This long awaited monograph includes 70 images of his work from 2004 to the present.

KARINE LAVAL featured in The New Yorker

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that an image from Karine Laval's Poolscape series has been featured in The New Yorker as a highlight from the Gallery's Summer Place exhibition.


A portfolio of Laval's work is also featured on the magazine's online edition, accompanied by a review in the Photo Booth section of the website.

SIMON NORFOLK photographs Yemen for The New York Times Magazine

Gallery artist Simon Norfolk's photographic essay of Yemen for The New York Times Magazine documents the growing concern that the country is emerging as a hotbed for Al Qaeda activity.

"Yemen is the Arab world's poorest country, with a fast-growing and deeply conservative Muslim population of 23 million. It is running out of oil and may soon be the first country in the world to run out of water. The central government is weak and corrupt, hemmed in by rebellions and powerful tribes. Many fear that Al Qaeda is gaining a sanctuary in the remote provinces east of Sana... similar to the one it already has in Afghanistan and Pakistan."

- The New York Times Magazine, July 11th, 2010

SIMON NORFOLK and MERRY ALPERN featured in EXPOSED at SFMOMA

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that two gallery artists, Simon Norfolk and Merry Alpern, have been featured in the exhibition EXPOSED, currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

"Exposed offers a fascinating look at pictures made on the sly, without the explicit permission of the people depicted. With photographs from the late nineteenth century to present day, the pictures present a shocking, illuminating and witty perspective on iconic and taboo subjects."

Merry Alpern is featured in two of the five thematic sections of the exhibition with work from her Dirty Windows series included in Voyeurism and Desire, while work from her Shopping series is included in the Surveillance section of the exhibition. Simon Norfolk is likewise featured in Surveillance.

The exhibition will be on view through January 30, 2011.

JEHAD NGA : TURKANA reviewed in The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce that the exhibition of Jehad Nga's recent work, Turkana, was reviewed in the July 12th issue of The New Yorker, as well as the June 8th edition of the Wall Street Journal's Greater New York feature.

"Posing informally in a tent that blocks out the surrounding terrain as well as most of the light, Nga’s subjects are cloaked in darkness but picked out by shafts of sun. Handsome figures in colorful robes and bright beaded necklaces, they recall Leni Riefenstahl’s Nuba tribesmen and Irving Penn’s Dahomey villagers, and the decision to isolate them from their environment makes them appear more iconic."

-The New Yorker

CEDRIC DELSAUX featured in The New Yorker magazine

The current exhibition of Cedric Delsaux's recent work, Nous resterons sur Terre, has been reviewed in the May 4th issue of The New Yorker.


"This French photographer makes a strong solo début with a group of large-scale color
images whose common theme is often the fraught convergence of man and nature."
-The New Yorker

MASSIMO VITALI featured in The Wall Street Journal

The current exhibition of Massimo Vitali's recent work, Landscape with Figures 2, has been highlighted in the February 13-14 issue of the Wall Street Journal. A selection of images from the exhibition have also been included in the accompanying slideshow on the Wall Street Journal website.

MASSIMO VITALI featured in The New Yorker

The current exhibition of Massimo Vitali's recent work, Landscape with Figures 2, has been highlighted in the January 25th issue of the New Yorker Magazine. His photograph,Scala dei Turchi Island, Sicily,2009 was featured in the magazine's Goings on about Town section. A full review of the exhibition can be found in the January 18th issue of the magazine.

DAVID LEVENTI featured in Conde Nast Traveler

A portfolio of work by gallery artist David Leventi has been featured in the February issue of the magazine.

"In these hypnotic photographs by David Leventi, the theaters are at rest, showing off their own beauty as they wait for the doors to open." -Conde Nast Traveler

JEHAD NGA featured in the New York Times' 2009 : The Year in Pictures

Gallery artist Jehad Nga's work documenting the drought stricken Turkana region of Kenya was featured in the New York Times' 2009 : The Year in Pictures. His photographs were also featured on the front pages of the December 12th, 2009 and January 2, 2010 issues of the New York Times. The Gallery will be presenting a solo exhibition of Nga's Turkana work this Spring, on view from May 6 - July 2, 2010.

SIMON NORFOLK releases Full Spectrum Dominance; Missiles, Satellites, Rockets

This hand-made leporello, created from sustainable archival quality papers contains 5 original high gloss digital chromogenic prints from Norfolk's Full Spectrum Dominance series. It is signed, dated and editioned by the artist in an edition of 100. Handmade at Book Works, London.
Available for sale at the Gallery.

ABELARDO MORELL’s work featured in several solo exhibitions at the end of 2009

Abelardo Morell, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, England, July 4th - December 13th 2009

Abelardo Morell: Pingyao International Photography Festival
 in Pingyao, Shanxi Province, China
, September 19 - September 25, 2009.

Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
 - Southwest School of Arts and Crafts,
 San Antonio, TX
 September 17 - November 8, 2009.

Abelardo Morell’s work is also included in Alice in Pictureland: Illustrations of Lewis Carroll's Classic Tales, at the Brandywine River Museum, Chadd's Ford, PA, from November 27, 2009 - January 10, 2010.

ABELARDO MORELL to be featured in Embarrassment of Riches : Picturing Wealth at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

The Minneapolis Institute of Art will feature several photographs by Abelardo Morell in their upcoming exhibition Embarrassment of Riches : Picturing Wealth on view from September 17, 2010— January 2, 2011. This exhibition explores the representation of wealth in the new global economy.

MATTHEW PILLSBURY : FUTURE IMAGES

Matthew Pillsbury has been featured in the new book Future Images, edited by M. Cresci and published by Federico Motta Editore, an overview of the most important young photographers worldwide.

JOSEF HOFLEHNER : CHINA

Josef Hoflehner has released a new monograph of work this September, entitled China, featuring more than 100 photographs from the last four years. From the Introduction by Scott Minick, "Josef Hoflehner's China monograph spans four years of intense travel to the Middle Kingdom and is an amazing testament to the unique confluence of geography, history and commerce that has shaped this vast nation. Through an original and often startling juxtaposition of images, classical sites from antiquity mix with new urban skylines to form a collection that underscores the contrasts of modern Chinese life and the sweeping changes taking place."

MATTHEW PILLSBURY to be included in (OUT OF) TIME at the Photography Biennial in Liege, Belgium

Organized by the Cultural Centre Les Chiroux in Liege, Belguim, the Photography Biennial will take place from February 28 - April 25, 2010. Matthew Pillsbury's work will be included in an exhibition entitled (OUT OF) TIME at Les Brasseurs.

New monograph by JEFFREY MILSTEIN available in April 2010

Jeffrey Milstein's new monograph Cuba: Photographs by Jeffrey Milstein, published by Monacelli Press, will be released April, 2010. Introduction by Nilo Cruz.

ABELARDO MORELL featured in Picturing New York : Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art

Abelardo Morell is included in the exhibition Picturing New York: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition will be traveling to La Casa Encendida, Spain, Museo Arte di Rovereto & Trento, Italy, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin from the period of March 26, 2009 - February, 2010. His work is also featured in the accompanying catalogue.

AU FÉMININ : WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHING WOMEN, 1849-2009

We are pleased to announce that five of our artists, Laura McPhee, Karine Laval, Gillian Laub, Pamela Hanson, and Merry Alpern were selected for inclusion in “Au féminin” an exhibition of 100 women photographers at the Centre Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris which took place from June 24th - September 29th 2009. They were also included in the accompanying catalogue of the same name.