Martha casanave biography

Martha Casanave was.
Martha Casanave is an award-winning photographer who taught locally at Monterey Peninsula College and Cabrillo College for thirty years.
Learn more about Martha Casanave (American, 1946).

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Exhibition: Martha Casanave, Fictions

Exhibition: Martha Casanave, Fictions
Curated by Cydney Payton
On View: May 20 – July 9
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A retrospective exhibition with legendary photographer, educator, and writer, Martha Casanave. CPA is proud to have shown more than 60 photographs from this artist’s archive.

Martha Casanave: Fictions features a survey of narrative photographs from 1969 to 2017. One of the few women photographers who came to be known during the 70s and 80s, Casanave is recognized for portraiture, pinhole photography and experimentations with historic photographic processes. This exhibition commences with singular portraits of artworld celebrities and others culled from her book Trajectories. Her Sequential Portraits feature individuals and families Casanave photographed over the course of decades, some up to forty years. In the long-term project False Flag, hand-colored photographs represent work done in the USSR|Russia. The ambiguous and mysterious Pinhole Narratives reflect Casanave’s more personal narra

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Martha Casanave

Boris Mikhailov: Refracted Times

From January 10, 2025 to February 22, 2025

Marian Goodman Gallery is very pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition of works by the acclaimed Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov which will be on view from 10 January to 22 February 2025. Known for his groundbreaking photographic practice which combines his interest in cinema, documentary, performance, and writing, Mikhailov has been an inventive, tender but uncompromising witness to the changing fate of his native Ukraine and the consequent experiences of war and displacement. The exhibition explores his rethinking and reworking of the photographic image by including two video works – one from the late '60s-'70s, Yesterday’s Sandwich, and the most recent, Our Time is Our Burden, 2024 – as well as showcasing three iconic photographic series from the ‘80s and ‘90s. One of the most acclaimed photographers of the former USSR, he represented Ukraine at the Venice Biennale in 2007, and debuted his work in the United States with a solo presentation at MoMA in 2011.Mikhailov was bo

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Martha Casanave

Carol Williams never talks about her own work as a photographer, which is a surprise, considering the company she keeps in her gallery – Ansel Adams, Morley Baer, Christopher Burkett, Paul Caponigro, Kenro Izu, Roman Loranc, Don Worth and Edward and Brett Weston, to name a few. Williams co-founded Photography West Gallery in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in 1980, with dear friends and fellow photographers Ron C. James (1937-2013), Claudette Bargeen Dibert (1942-1982) and the legendary Brett Weston (1911-1993) widely regarded as the child genius of American photography.

The gallery shows only accomplished darkroom masters using film, archival photographic papers and wet processes, each piece hand-crafted by the artist. “Brett used to tell me the integrity of the photograph depends on the photographers doing the darkroom work themselves,” Williams says of the late Brett Weston, with whom she had over a decade of “photographic adventures” spanning the Monterey Peninsula to the Big Island of Hawai’i. Not only has Williams persisted for 40 year