Chris Killip at Yossi Milo Gallery

Photographer Chris Killip’s iconic images of the North of England, shot between 1973 and 1985, give meaning to the stereotype, ‘It’s grim up north.’ How will these two young girls survive their grey surroundings? (At Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea, through Feb 27th).

Chris Killip, Two girls, Grangetown, Middlebrough, Teeside, gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches (approx.), 1975.
Chris Killip, Two girls, Grangetown, Middlebrough, Teeside, gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches (approx.), 1975.

Irving Penn at Pace Gallery

From the 1940s onward, the fashion world embraced the elegance of iconic photographer Irving Penn’s highly visible commercial work, but it sometimes took longer for his personal projects to gain traction. In the iPhone era, his investigation of the wonderful in the banal seems prescient, especially in this particularly charming shot of an eerily face-like wad of chewing gum found on the city street. (At Chelsea’s Pace Gallery through March 5th).

Underfoot XXXIII, New York, gelatin silver print, image 19 1/8 x 18 ¾ inches, 2000.
Underfoot XXXIII, New York, gelatin silver print, image 19 1/8 x 18 ¾ inches, 2000.

Corinne May Botz at Benrubi Gallery




Corinne May Botz’s photos of medical actors, simulating illness in trainings for medical students are simultaneously moving and not-quite-believable. Though they don’t depict real scenarios, Botz’s photos nevertheless strongly tap a sense of dread and helplessness when our bodies fail to function as they should. (At Benrubi Gallery through Feb 6th).

Corinne May Botz, “Louise” from Bedside Manner, archival pigment print, 30 x 24 inches, 2013.


James Welling at David Zwirner Gallery




Influential LA photographer James Welling merges photos of dancers, modernist architecture and landscapes in one of his most beautiful series to date. ‘Choreograph,’ currently on view at David Zwirner Gallery, derives its brilliant colors from intense Photoshop experimentation and its dynamism from the ghost-like images interacting on Welling’s unique stage. (In Chelsea through January 16th).

James Welling, 7809, inkjet print, 42 x 63 inches, 2015.


Ian Ruhter at Danziger Gallery





This tranquil Lake Tahoe scene looks timeless, or at least captured about one hundred and fifty years ago. Working with a wet plate collodion process from the 19th century, photographer Ian Ruhter modernizes the method by shooting from inside a truck on huge plates, enacting what he calls a kind of alchemy. (At Chelsea’s Danziger Gallery through Jan 16th). 

Ian Ruhter, Snow on Pines, Lake Tahoe, 30 x 40 inch pigment print, 2010.