Photographer Ralph Gibson began talking pictures seriously while in the US Navy. Later he became the assistant to Dorothea Lange and soon after established his own studio. Ralph Gibson, Nudes is a limited edition (1,200) monograph from Taschen focusing on Gibson’s most recent works. Included is an in depth interview with the artist written by Eric Fischel, a renowned figurative painter.

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The latest feature from Walrus TV focuses attention on famed Los Angeles photographer Estevan Oriol. Having started his career documenting his work with House of Pain and Cyprus Hill, Oriol has developed an individual style. Outside of his own work, he’s been tapped by the likes of Nike and Cadillac to add a little cool to advertising campaigns.

In celebration of Upper Playground’s 10th year, an Oriol portrait of Xzibit is up for give away. To enter, just head to Upper Playground and sign up for the news letter.

Born in 1944, Thomas Arndt has spent much of his professional career documenting everyday life in Minnesota. His images, rendered in black and white, and straightforward and aim to represent the state geographically and emotionally.

Thomas Arndt’s Minnesota presents 75 photographs from the permanent collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the artists own holdings. The exhibition is on view until August 23, 2009.

Modernism has returned to favor recently, with celebrations of Le Corbusier at the Barbican just one example. Not far a field from that exhibition is an ode to Italian Modernism at the Estorick Collection. Drawing from the RIBA British Architectural Library, some 100 photographs make up Framing Modernism. The result is both celebration of Italian architecture of the era and the skill of the men behind the camera. To the 21st of June, 2009. (via Wallpaper*).

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Tomas Sarceno is an acclaimed architect and theorist in the tradition of Buckminster Fuller. His work looks to scientific principles as a way of answering complex questions about how to develop new ideas for sustainable communities and new models of social interaction.

Opening on May 14, 2009, Tomas Saraceno: Lighter Than Air brings a showcase of Saraceno’s installations, sculptures, and photographs to the Walker Art Center. The exhibition focuses on material from 2003 to the present. Lighter Than Air is Saraceno’s first large scale exhibition in the United States. It runs to August 30, 2009.

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D’Amelio Terras is proud to present Noguchi Rika’s critically acclaimed photographic series The Sun, on view for the first time in New York. This series, begun in 2005, depicts 18 images recorded by shooting directly into the sun using the most primitive type of lens-less device for capturing images: the pinhole camera.

Rika was born in Japan, and now works in Berlin. The Sun series was first presented in America at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. This is the first showing of the work in New York. D’Amelio Terras is located at 525 W. 22nd Street, New York. Rika’s photographs are on view until June 20, 2009.

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Copenhagen’s V1 Gallery will be exhibiting Simon Hogsberg’s 100 meter long photo project beginning May 6, 2009. Entitled We’re All Going to Die: 100 meters of Existence Hogsberg’s work compliments the larger exhibition on view at the gallery, The New Yorkers.

Open to June 22, 2009, The New Yorkers features some of the city’s heaviest art hitters – Kaws, Steve Powers, Bill McMullen, Futura, and many more.

V1 Gallery, Flaesketorvet 69 Koedbyen 1711 Copenhagen V.

Marilyn Minter’s second solo showing at Salon 94 opened on April 28, 2009. The photographer/painter specializes in photo-realistic images with an interest in juxtaposing beauty with the grotesque. She casts the body as a site of aggressive desire.

Green Pink Caviar is the name of the show, which remains on view until June 13, 2009. Salon 94 is located at 12 E. 94th Street, New York. (via Living Proof).

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Altamont is hosting a series of photographs by the famed Boogie in New York from April 30, 2009 until May 15, 2009. The Best of Times will be at the brands showroom at 29 Greene Street, New York. An opening event is planed for the 30th, running from 9pm to midnight.

Swedish photographer Edvard Koinberg has created a visual counterpart to Carl Linnaeus’ 18th century work on plant sexuality. Linnaeus worked with a collection of 20,000 plants and grouped them according to sexual organs, drawing parallels to human anatomy. It was a “sexual revolution” for plants. Koinberg dedicates his photographic efforts to documenting the life cycle of plants. The effort is apparent in Edvard Koinberg: Herbarium Amoris. Floral Romance. The book is out now from Taschen.

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