Subways, sphinxes and the Stones: highlights from NYC’s Photography Show – in pictures
A cover shoot for New York magazine and the subversive work of Lee Miller join a selection from top galleries at Aipad’s photography bonanza
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Luxor hotel and casino, Las Vegas, 1994
Aipad: The Photography Show at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, from 25-28 April features a selection from a number of galleries, including this work by Martin ParrPhotograph: Martin Parr/Magnum Photos/Courtesy Clémentine de la Féronnière
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Subway NY, Elevated Station, 180 St, Queens, 1977-1984
In May of 1977, 30-year-old Swiss photographer Willy Spiller, arrived in New York City and descended the steps of the city’s subway for the first time. Beginning that week and continuing for eight years, Spiller took his camera on the subway. See more of his images in this galleryPhotograph: Willy Spiller/courtesy of Bildhalle
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Untitled #4, 2020
Rashod Taylor’s ongoing Little Black Boy series is a collaboration with his son, LJ. The project addresses an under-represented chapter of the United States: the black American experience, particularly the relationship between father and son. The subtleties in Taylor’s work – gestures, objects, framing choices – push our psychology, engagement and emotion. You can see more in this galleryPhotograph: Rashod Taylor/courtesy of Obscura
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Untitled from Angnus Dei (#138) 1998
Mikiko Hara photographs the nonchalant figures of fleeting passers by, as well as the landscapes and material things that emerge and disappear before her eyes wherever she goes. In those places she has come upon by chance, she quietly releases the shutter. She gambles on the accumulation of chance that is the technique of the snapshot. Each of the moments that have been retained among the hordes of photographs resonates with the fragments of memory within the viewer, arousing feelings which precede words.Photograph: Mikiko Hara
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Eclipse, Japan, 2016
Kenji Wakasugi (born 1941) meticulously weaves a sense of reverence for shadows and negative space into his platinum prints, inspired by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s essay In Praise of ShadowsPhotograph: Kenji Wakasugi/courtesy of Ippodo
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Portrait of Qusuquzah with flower in hair and hand, 2022
Mickalene Thomas’s photographic work celebrates female sexuality and queer desirePhotograph: Mickalene Thomas/courtesy of Yancey Richardson
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Alaskan Way, Seattle, 2018
‘I’m looking for a moment where individuals are dwarfed by what surrounds them, appearing lost but searching for something,’ says photographer Oli Kellett. ‘They then go on their way, whichever direction that may be.’ You can read more about this image with the Observer’s Big Picture seriesPhotograph: Oli Kellett/courtesy HackelBury
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Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Villa Nellcôte, 1971
‘Sometimes turmoil and trouble in art make it come out good.’ Read more about the Stones at Villa Nellcôte in this featurePhotograph: Dominique Tarlé/courtesy La Galerie de l’Instant
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Ali Underwater, 1961
In 1961, Flip Schulke captured an up-and-coming black boxer submerged in one of the few desegregated pools in America at a hotel in Overtown, a historically black neighborhood in downtown Miami. Holding an iconic fighting stance underwater in a swimming pool, wearing his legendary Everlast boxing trunks, Cassius Clay (as he was known then) became immortalisedPhotograph: Flip Schulke/courtesy of Keith de Lellis Gallery
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Couple #1, 2015
This deeply intimate portrait by Michael Massaia shows partners in reverie, transformed into sculptural formsPhotograph: Michael Massaia/courtesy of GALLERY 270
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Pelle Cass, Little West 12th Street, 2023
In this image, commissioned by New York magazine for its annual Reasons to Love New York issue, Cass photographed and composed 72 people who embody New York. His energetic compositions condense hours of dynamic action into a single still frame. See more in this galleryPhotograph: Pelle Cass/courtesy of Koslov Larsen
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The Mouth of Krishna, 2020
The artist duo Angel Albarrán and Anna Cabrera (both born 1969, based in Barcelona) have spent a lot of time in Japan, and their travels there have strongly influenced the aesthetic choices in their work as well as the printing techniques they use. The question their work asks is how images trigger individual memories in the viewer, depending on their cultural backgrounds and personal experiencePhotograph: Albarran Cabrera/courtesy of Marshall Gallery
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Aljana Moons 3, 2015
While on a residency in Senegal, Alexis Peskine became interested in the children of Senegal who were working for a marabout (Muslim religious teacher, also called a holy man, mystic or seer). The children begged for money for the marabout and used coffee tins to collect it. They slept on rice bag sacks. Peskine used these materials to make outfits which reflected the dreams the children had of being a race car driver or an astronaut. Rather than photograph the actual children Alexis worked with Senegalese modelsPhotograph: Alexis Peskine/courtesy of G.W. Einstein
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Joe in Front of Glads (from the series The Ramboys), 1993-1994
A curated collection of Evergon’s prints from Polaroid 655 negatives celebrate a prestigious career spanning more than 50 years. He is an important precursor of homoerotic contemporary art and an iconic figure for LBGTQ+ communitiesPhotograph: Evergon /courtesy of Ellephant
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Trees in Winter Field, Oregon, 2014
Jeffrey Conley’s stunning landscape photographs capture vistas from the Pacific Northwest to Iceland. Never before seen photographs will be featured in Peter Fetterman gallery’s presentation. You can see more of Conley’s work in this galleryPhotograph: Jeffrey Conley/courtesy Bildhalle
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Portrait of Three Women in Beijing, c1868
The 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop will present masterworks including some of the earliest photographs made by Chinese photographers and some of the first photographic portraits of Chinese womenPhotograph: John Thomson/courtesy of 19th Century Rare Book & Photograph Shop
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