The Buchkunst Berlin Gallery is pleased to present selected positions of artistic photography at this year’s SCOPE Contemporary Art Fair, which combines icons of the medium with contemporary positions.
THOMAS HOEPKER
RENÉ GROEBLI
ROGER BALLEN
YASUHIRO OGAWA
JOHNNY MILLER
LOCATION SCOPE & photo basel/miami
Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA
BOOTH: A015
www.scope-art.com
DURATION
Tuesday, December 3, 2024: 12-8 p.m.
Wednesday–Sunday, December 4-8, 2024: 11 a.m.–8 p.m.
We have a contingent of VIP tickets. Please contact us, we would be delighted to welcome you at SCOPE Miami at our stand A 015.
Would you like to find out more about the artists, photographs and editions that we are presenting at SCOPE? If you are interested, please send us an email to info@buchkunst-berlin.de or call us directly on +49.179.6853085. We look forward to your inquiry and a personal conversation.
THOMAS HOEPKER
The photographs that Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker took of Muhammad Ali in Chicago in the summer of 1966 have become icons of photographic history and are etched in our collective memory. For SCOPE, we are presenting a portfolio of this series from the photographer’s archive, which includes 12 silver gelatin hand prints that were made in the darkroom of the Magnum photo agency in 2012 and were only recently rediscovered.
Thomas Hoepker, Magnum Photos: Muhammad Ali showing off his Right Fist, Chicago, USA , 1966
Part of the »CHAMP« portfolio box with 12 x Silver Gelatin Hand Prints / Size: ca. 50 x 60 cm
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Thomas Hoepker, Magnum Photos: Muhammad Ali showing off his Left Fist Chicago, Illinois. 1966,
Platinum Palladium Print / Größe: 76 x 56 cm
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RENÉ GROEBLI
René Groebli created his series “The Eye of Love” in 1952 in simple Parisian hotel rooms on the photographer’s honeymoon with his wife Rita. The series was conceived as the idea of a poem in pictures, inspired by Man Ray and the poetic realism of French cinema. Groebli combines intimacy and beauty with modernist and surreal image techniques. This most beautiful declaration of love in the history of photography is considered a classic of modernism, and not just in photography. The images continue to inspire generations to this day and were personally acquired by Edward Steichen in 1951 for the collection of the MOMA Department of Photography in New York.
René Groebli, The Eye of Love, #521, Paris, 1952 / Platinum Palladium Print
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René Groebli, The Eye of Love, #516, Paris, 1952 / Platinum Palladium Print
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ROGER BALLEN
Roger Ballen is one of the most important photographers of his generation. His work began in the field of documentary photography but developed into a distinctive fictionalized world. In his work, these psychological studies move from documentary photography into the realm of fiction, creating a moment between fact and fiction. The two portraits “Sleeping Girl” and “Study of boy and plant” were both taken in 1999 in South Africa, where the American photographer lives, and are considered key images in the artist’s transition from photographic documentation to playful staging in an increasingly fictional world. The series and the book “Outland”, in which the two photographs are presented, made the photographer internationally known. Today, Roger Ballen is considered one of the most important photographic artists, exhibited worldwide in retrospectives and new exhibitions and works. His intense and unique images are represented in the collections of the fifty most important museums in the world. In 2022, he was selected to represent South Africa at the 59th Venice Biennale.
Roger Ballen, Portrait of sleeping girl, 1999 / Silver Gelatin Print / Size: 40 x 40 cm
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Roger Ballen, Study of boy and plant, 1999 / Silver Gelatin Print / Size: 40 x 40 cm
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YASUHIRO OGAWA
With Yasuhiro Ogawa we are presenting one of the new and strong voices of Japanese photography in the USA for the first time. His pictures transfer well-known Japanese subjects into a contemporary attitude to life and their lyrical abstraction brings the photographs closer to painterly positions.
Yasuhiro Ogawa, Kimono Woman #6, Japan, 2024 / Fine Art Pigment Print
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Yasuhiro Ogawa, Kimono Woman #5, Japan, 2024 / Fine Art Pigment Print
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JOHNNY MILLER
Johnny Miller’s fascinating areal photographs already delighted the audience at last year’s SCOPE, and we are pleased to be showing new works created in Mexico here in Miami Beach this year! Images full of color and power that oscillate between topographical photography, expressive abstraction and social document, creating a new and unique view of our world.
Johnny Miller, Salt Works #2, Yucatán, Mexico, 2024
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Johnny Miller, Salt Works #4, Yucatán, Mexico, 2024
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