Tag: Michael von Graffenried
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Blind – New Bern: The Portrait of a Small American Town
New Bern: The Portrait of a Small American Town Over a period of fifteen years, Michael von Graffenried documented the daily life of New Bern, North Carolina. This long-term project, published this spring with Steidl, is on view May 19–20 at the newly opened Espace MVG in Paris. Link: https://www.blind-magazine.com/en/news/1330/New-Bern-The-Portrait-Of-A-Small-American-Town Over a period of fifteen…
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Michael Von Graffenried à la Leica Gallery, NY
Link: The Leica gallery presents a must-see retrospective of the black-and-white and color work of the Swiss photographer, whose insolence is reflected in his attitude as much as in his images.
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Mois de la Photo 2014: Michael von Graffenried, Bierfest, at Galerie Esther Woerdehoff – The Eye of Photography
Link: Michael von Graffenried’s new series, Bierfest, can make you happy and sad at the same time. If humanity can sink so low, it can also elevate itself like, for instance, through the pictorial achievement in this series which celebrates all its “characters”.
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Michael von Graffenried, Rio in panoramic format – The Eye of Photography
Michael von Graffenried, Rio in panoramic format Von Graffenried holds his camera at the level of his navel and shoots blind, unnoticed by the people around him. Because he’s very tall and experienced, his navel is an excellent eye.
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Michael Von Graffenried: Inside Cairo
Link: Michael Von Graffenried: Inside Cairo | La Lettre de la Photographie Michael von Graffenried’s works realized in Algeria and Cairo represented a further development in his desire as an artist to get inside these particular societies where photographers were viewed with great suspicion, which itself demanded solutions enabling him to take photographs unnoticed. In…
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Algerian reflections on a Swiss vision of a civil war
Enter Michael von Graffenried. This much-lauded 51-year-old Swiss-born photojournalist has worked in this region for nearly two decades. He has a special relationship with Algeria, where he first shot photos in 1991 and returned to shoot the country’s agonizing and bloody decent into civil war. Von Graffenried’s Algerian work is the stuff of “Algerie: Photographies…