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Although photography first emerged as a technological invention, it was also quickly conceived as an artistic practice as well. Pictorialist photographs in the nineteenth century were created to look like paintings, while advocates of straight photography in the first part of the twentieth century strived for the purely photographic means of creating photographic meaning. Street photographers devoted the medium to capturing the fleeting moment, while in the last part of the twentieth century many photographers turned to staging and directing in order to utilize photography for artistic visual communication. Art photography also includes numerous genres and creative practices from portraiture, landscape and still life to abstract and conceptual photography. In this call we asked contemporary photographers to show how they understand photography as a fine art practice in the twenty first century.

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This PH21 Gallery exhibition is presented in Barcelona, Catalonia Spain, in collaboration with Valid World Hall Gallery, a renowned centre for the visual arts.

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Curator's choice

Laura Malaterra: The Lights of a Fleeting Time No. 2 and No. 6

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Honourable mentions

Kostis Argyriadis: Untitled

Jenny Chernansky: Visage Blue

StreetMax21: OldJewry100118

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Exhibiting photographers

 

 

 

 Mildred Alpern (New York, NY, USA), Kostis Argyriadis (Thessaloniki, Greece), Deborah Bai-Lannon (S. Hamilton, MA, USA), Karin Bauer (Bisamberg, Austria), Susan Borowitz (West Harrison, NY, USA), Lindsay Brice (New York, NY, USA), Catherine Caddigan (Randolph, MA, USA), RemiJin Camping (Pembroke Pines, FL, USA), Jenny Chernansky (New Orleans, LA, USA), Michael Corthell (Millis, MA, USA), Charles Crain (Miami, FL, USA), Dorie Dahlberg (Long Branch, NJ, USA), Mark A. Deirker (Dubuque, IA, USA), Paul Delpani (Vienna, Austria), Frédéric Deschênes (Montréal, Québec, Canada), Peter Devenyi (Ottawa, Canada), Laurie Toby Edison (San Francisco, CA, USA), Francisca Filleul (Ottawa, Canada), Christopher Fluder (New York, NY, USA), Sari Fried-Fiori (Katy, TX, USA), Yiannis Galanopoulos (Abu Dhabi, UAE), László Gálos (Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands), Simon Gellért (Csanádpalota, Hungary), Dan Gemkow (Chicago, IL, USA), Suzanne Gonsalez-Smith (Grand Forks, ND, USA), Paul Gravett (New Westminster, BC, Canada), Pelin Guven (Beijing, China), Paula Haapalahti (Vantaa, Finland), Maureen J Haldeman (Los Angeles, CA, USA), Leena Holmström (Oulu, Finland), Ira Iosub (London, UK), Viktor Jáger (Hosszúhetény, Hungary), Robert S Johnson (New York, NY, USA), Gary Justis (Bloomington, IL, USA), Theodosis Karamanos (Nafplio, Greece), Micha Klimczak (Nuremberg, Germany), Marija Labudovic Pantelic (Belgrade, Serbia), Mar León (Madrid, Spain), Shifra Levyathan (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Laura Malaterra (Genoa, Italy), Michelle Markham (London, UK), Debbie McCulliss (Greenwood Village, CO, USA), Janet Milhomme (Los Angeles, CA, USA), In-kyung Na (Seoul, Korea), Wolfgang Nebel (Oldenburg, Germany), Fern L. Nesson (Cambridge, MA, USA), Alex Papaioannou (Athens, Greece), Jürgen Pawlik (Woerthsee, Germany), Allison Plass (New York, NY, USA), Silviu Preda (Timisoara, Romania), Dieter Provoost (Zedelgem, Belgium), Susan Reyman (Chicago, IL, USA), Inna Rogatchi (Turku, Finland), Jane Ross (London, UK), Miranda Schmitz (Lier, Belgium), Robindeep Singh (Brooklyn, NY, USA), Dina Sirat (Netanya, Israel), StreetMax21 (London, UK), Krisztina Szalmás (Budapest, Hungary), Joshua Tann (Long Beach, CA, USA), Ilya Trofimenko (Dresden, Germany), Ioana Vrabie (Barcelona, Spain), Lola Wallace (Portland, OR, USA), Eiji Yamamoto (Saarbruecken, Germany), Peng Zhou (Atlanta, GA, USA), Jagoda Zwiernik (Edinburgh, Scotland)

 

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