Steidlville

We are pleased to announce an exhibition of works from Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre's The Ruins of Detroit

“Ruins are the visible symbols and landmarks of our societies and their changes, small pieces of history in suspension. The state of ruin
is temporary by nature, the volatile result of the end of an era and the fall of empires. This fragility, the time elapsed but even so running
fast, lead us to watch them one very last time: being dismayed, or admiring, wondering about the permanence of things. Photography
appeared to us as a modest way to keep a little bit of this ephemeral state.”

Ernst Haas is unquestionably one of the best-known, most prolific and most published photographers of the twentieth century.

Parallel to his commissioned work Haas constantly made images for his own interest, and these pictures show an entirely different aspect of Haas’s sensibility: they are far more edgy, loose, complex and ambiguous – in short, far more radical than the work which earned him fame. Haas never printed these pictures in his lifetime, nor did he exhibit them, probably believing that they would not be understood or appreciated. Nonetheless, these works are of great complexity, and rival (and sometimes surpass) anything done at the time by his fellow photographers.

Peter Sekaer (1901-50) emerged as an artist in the company of Ben Shahn, Berenice Abbott, and Walker Evans.

This book intends to show how he stepped from their benign shadows to build his own distinctive style. It is the first monograph to show the full range of his accomplishments. Sekaer’s early work combines dispassionate images with others that show his concern and intuitive grasp of the human condition.