LOOKING IS EVERYTHING!

Here at Musée, we are celebrating International Photography Day by presenting you twenty-two images chosen from our various issues. In the words of Henri Cartier-Bresson, “Photography affords me an immediate grip on the world. It is a way of understanding and a way of living more intensely.” Nothing quite parallels the feeling of getting that perfect shot, encapsulating a moment into infinity. The relationship between the photograph and the viewer is an intimate and emotional one. There is no denying the impact of photography. Through our camera lens, we can see the world in an entirely new perspective. Images are the universal language of our age. They are fundamental to how we interact, tell stories, make choices, buy and sell things, see the world, and understand who we are.

Alex Prager, Dusk, 2021_ from the series, Part One- The Mountain

All photos ©Thomas Wrede. Courtesy of Kopeikin Gallery and Beck _ Eggeling Gallery

Ann Hamilton. Oneeveryone - Vivian, 2014. Courtesy Ann Hamilton Studio and Carl Solway Gallery

Barbara Kruger. Untitled” (Your body is a battleground), 1989

Ben Zank, Brooke Untitled_

Deborah Roberts, Baldwins Promise, 2017. Courtesy of Jenkins Johnson

Graeme Williams, A city refracted 5, 2014

Ivan Forde. Axis Mundi- North. 2014

Jacques Henri Lartigue. Anna la Pradvina, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 15 January 1911.

Mariko Mori, Tea Ceremony I, 1994. Images courtesy Mariko Mori

Motoyuki Daifu, Project Family, 2010. All images courtesy of Misako Rosen

Robert Cohen, Pattipat, Muay Thai FIghter, 13 Years Old, 25 Fights, 201X

Stefan Jennings Batista, Bottom_ Maia, 2014

Steven Klein, Girl in Pool with Horse, 2006. Courtesy Staley-Wise Gallery, New York

Tyler Mitchell, Untitled (Two Girls Embrace).

Zhang Huan, Foam 1, 1998

Anastasia Samoylova, Gator, 2017; from the series FloodZone

Cao Fei, Nova, 2019, Single channel HD video, 2.35_1, colour with 5.1 sound, 97min 13sec. Courtesy of artist, Vitamin Creative Space and Sprüth Magers

Carli Davidson, from the series, Shake

Deana Lawson, Roxie and Raquel, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010. Courtesy the artist; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

Ron Haviv, Senad Medanovic

a sole survivor of a massacre finds his home in ruins after the Bosnian army recaptured his village from Serb forces. He is standing on what is believed to be a mass grave of sixty-nine people, including his family

Shaughn + John, from the series Sisters of the Valley, 2016.

“I don’t believe in art. I believe in photography.” -Andy Warhol