At this year’s AIPAD Photography Show New York, Robert Klein will be moderating A Celebration of Francesca Woodman. The panel discussion will honor the work of a woman photographer whose imprint on the medium has developed steadily since her death in 1981.
AIPAD offers this description of A Celebration of Francesca Woodman: “To commemorate the traveling retrospective of Francesca Woodman (organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art), experts will talk about the importance of this groundbreaking artist and her enduring legacy. Panelists will include Julia Bryan-Wilson, associate professor, art history, University of California, Berkeley; Sloan Keck, a designer and friend of Francesca Woodman; and artist Elisabeth Subrin.” In 2000, Subrin directed The Fancy, a short experimental film that explores Woodman’s life.
A photography dealer for over 30 years, Klein has witnessed firsthand the meteoric rise of Woodman’s celebrity.
A Celebration of Francesca Woodman will be held Saturday, March 31, at 4PM. Tickets are $10 per person and will be available at The AIPAD Photography Show New York during show hours. For more information, visit www.aipad.com.
FRANCESCA WOODMAN, Self-portrait with Liza von Rosensteil, from the series Space Squared, 1976-77. Vintage gelatin silver print, printed by the artist.
Die Antwoord and Roger Ballen are a match made in MTV heaven. The South African music group recently collaborated with the fine art photographer on a music video for its latest song, “I Fink U Freeky.” The result is a creepy, “freeky” montage of black and white film that earned over half a million hits on YouTube in its first 36 hours online.
In a January 29 article for the New York Times Magazine, writer Eve Fairbanks called South Africa’s viral musical export Die Antwoord “mysteriously transfixing.” Representing zef or “common” culture, Die Antwoord channels the “poor but classy” lower-middle class caucasians in South Africa whose experience since the end of apartheid in 1994 has been marginalized.
The photograph of Die Antwoord that accompanied Fairbanks’ article was shot by Roger Ballen, an American-born fine art photographer living in South Africa since 1982. Ballen has long approached unexpected realities with an unflinching and empathetic style, using dark imagery and taking a psychological approach to his craft. In Ballen’s 2005 monograph Shadow Chamber, published by Phaidon, Robert A. Sobieszek writes: Ballen “has transformed [photography] into a vehicle for portraying pluralism, relativism and the mortal struggles of our modern souls.”
Ballen believes his role in the “I Fink U Freeky” video can promote a better understanding of his role as an artist.
“Die Antwoord and I have been trying to find a way to cooperate for many years,” Ballen told the Robert Klein Gallery in a February 2 email. “I was very motivated to be involved in the video because it offered me the opportunity to extend my aesthetic using other medias.” Ballen is currently working on a series about birds in strange, surreal environments; a monograph is set to be published in 2013.
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Since 1980, the Robert Klein Gallery has been devoted exclusively to fine art photography. Included in the Gallery's collection are works by renowned photographers of the 19th & 20th centuries, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Mario Giacomelli and Harry Callahan.
The Gallery's contemporary offerings include artists such as Cig Harvey, Arno Rafael Minkkinen and Paulette Tavormina.
