Diane Arbus, *Blonde girl with shiny lipstick, N.Y.C. 1967*
© The Estate of Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus, *Young couple on a bench in Washington Square Park, N.Y.C. 1965*
© The Estate of Diane Arbus

David Zwirner Hong Kong | Nov. 17 - Dec. 21, 2022

David Zwirner and Fraenkel Gallery are pleased to announce Diane Arbus: First Coming, on view at David Zwirner’s Hong Kong location. This will be the artist’s first solo presentation in Greater China, and it will follow the September through October 2022 exhibition Cataclysm: The 1972 Diane Arbus Retrospective Revisited at David Zwirner New York, which commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Arbus’s momentous 1972 retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition in Hong Kong will feature a range of the artist’s photographs spanning her brief but phenomenally influential fifteen-year career.

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Fred Lonidier
ABC VS CLC, 1982/2022
3 Digital prints
27.5 x 59.5 inches each
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Michael Benevento | Nov. 17 - Jan. 21, 2023

Michael Benevento is pleased to present Fred Lonidier’s third solo exhibition at the gallery, featuring early works and more recent PowerPoints and digital prints. For the last five decades Fred Lonidier has dedicated his life's work to documenting labor, institutional and class struggles. Lonidier is a core member of the San Diego group that includes Martha Rosler, Phel Steinmetz, and Allan Sekula. Treading the line between activist, artist and active spectator, Lonidier’s photographs are often contextualized though the lens of social documentary photography and conceptual art.

Lonidier has been compiling a digital photo archive by scanning his black & white and color negatives. New PointPoints in this exhibition are created by collaging these photos and presenting them as a slide show.

Recent works in the exhibition include Mission Bay Photo Shoot, 2022, which was created with other UCSD MFA candidates, including Phel Steinmetz, Steve Buck, Louise Kirkland, Barbara Greenlee and Ruth Krimmel, among others. These works explore Lonidier’s interest in the “male fetish” or “male gaze.” Although not overtly political at the time, these images touch upon pressing concerns in contemporary society. Lonidier uses his camera to point into the direction of cancel culture, teasing out sexual politics, in our institutions and daily lives as they are made manifest by the camera.

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*Kathleen & Max Damian, 22 & 1 year, San Francisco*, 1968
vintage gelatin silver print (1968)
paper 14 x 11" (35.6 x 28 cm)
signed in ink & pencil, & titled & dated in pencil on verso (12-9)

Deborah Bell Photographs | Nov. 17 - Mar. 4, 2023

Deborah Bell Photographs presents Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968, an exhibition of vintage prints of portraits the photographer made in the now-legendary San Francisco neighborhood called Haight-Ashbury. Celebrating the recent publication by Damiani of the book by FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore, Elaine Mayes: Haight Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968, the exhibition opens November 17 and will be on view through March 4, 2023. A reception and book signing with the artist, in cooperation with FotoFocus and Damiani, will take place in the gallery on Thursday, November 17, from 6-8pm. This is the first monograph of Elaine Mayes's Haight-Ashbury portraits, published more than 50 years after the photographs were taken.

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