KAREN KNORR launches  LADIES work at Focus , Mumbai’s first free photography Festival, a celebration of the art of photography and the promotion of work of young and established hotographers in both India and abroad.I am delighted to be showing work alongside two members of the Lucida photography group:

ARUNIMA SINGH and SURUCHI DUNPAWAR  who I have worked with in India.

A Photograph is Not An Opinion – Contemporary Photography by WomenAt the Terrace Gallery, Curated by Sunil Gupta Jehangir Art Gallery, 161 Kala Ghoda, Mumbai

ART DUBAI,  Dubai, United Arab Emirates  March 20- 23  2013

A solo exhibition 8 photographs from the evolving INDIA SONG  series will be shown at the Tasveer Arts at  the seventh edition of Art Dubai .

Over the last six years, Art Dubai, the leading international art fair in the MENASA (Middle East/North Africa/South Asia), has become a cornerstone of the region’s booming contemporary art community. In 2012, Art Dubai welcomed 22,500 visitors – including 75 international museums groups – and hosted 75 galleries  from 32 countries.

 AIPAD, New York City, New York  March April 4- 7 2013 

Karen Knorr will be represented by Eric Franck Fine Art and James Danziger Gallery

PARIS PHOTO, Paramount Studios, L.A  March 26- 28 2013

Karen Knorr will be represented by the James Danziger Gallery at the first Paris Photo edition  in Los Angeles.

Art Geneve. Feb 1-3 2013
India Art Fair. Feb 1-3 2013

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The photographic work of Karen Knorr has developed intellectually and aesthetically since the mid 1980’s, following an initial practice relating to social documentary, Knorr discovered a new area of investigation that went hand in hand with her natural curiosity, interest and knowledge of art theory and art history.

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Becoming Arihanta, Jain Temple, Gwalior

Fresh from Paris Photo 2012, Karen Knorr  has solo exhibitions  of new work planned for 2013 to take place in  Bangalore, Dubai and New York.

Preparations are being made to make work in Rome, Kyoto and Madurai and a new artist’s book project is evolving based on Karen Knorr’s collaboration last year with Vanessa Reid and friends  for Pop Magazine.

Watch this space!

Installation shot of KAREN KNORR’s INDIA SONG @James Danziger Gallery at Paris Photo Nov 2012

The Show includes 90 photographs alongside selected paintings from The National Gallery’s Collection.  The Exhibition travels to Caixa Forum, Barcelona (21 February – 19 May 2013) and to Caixa Forum Madrid (18 June – 15 September 2013)

The Work of Art In the Age Of Mechanical Reproduction / CONNOISSEURS 1988

This is the first exhibition ever staged in Brazil to chart a course through British photography in modern times.  It spans almost a century -  from the new photographic directions of the 20s and 30s that developed alongside the emergence of mass media, to the diverse practice of today’s image-laden world – and features the work of many of Britain’s most significant, celebrated and influential photographers.

The exhibition takes Britain itself as subject -  its society and culture, places and people – presenting the work of those photographers who, rather than looking at the world beyond or at inner worlds, focused their attention on their own country  – on the customs, character and conditions of those around them . As such, it explores a fertile and dominant strand of subject matter, changing over the century – a swathe of British social and cultural history – and a broad tradition of documentary practice which has always been at the core of British photography.

It explores the ways in which humanist and social documentary modes emerged as a dominant force, the motivations and conditions that sustained these modes – professional, artistic and political -  and the ways in which they have been challenged, changed and superseded. The photographs on display draw on, or work against, a variety of visual codes, clichés and conventions.  They cross genres from the urban street scene to landscape and the portrait, and touch on an extraordinary range of subjects, from celebrity and high society to gritty realism and subversive street culture. Photographers adopt varied positions from detached voyeur to committed participant; the photographs portray attitudes of nostalgia or rebellion, moods of elation and despair.  Throughout, the exhibition questions its own premises, asking what, if anything, can be portrayed in images of the essential character of a people over time; and it asks questions of the nature of the photographic medium itself, and the uses to which it has been put.

Around 30 photographers will be included, each represented by a number of photographs drawn from significant projects or series; including Cecil Beaton, Bill Brandt, Humphrey Spender, George Rodger, Paul Nash, Madame Yevonde, Nigel Henderson, Roger Mayne, Ida Kar, Norman Parkinson, Terence Donovan, Ian Berry, Shirley Baker, Tony Ray-Jones, Raymond Moore, Paul Trevor, Tish Murtha, Daniel Meadows, Chris Killip, Martin Parr, Paul Graham, Keith Arnatt, Anna Fox, Derek Ridgers, Peter Fraser, Jem Southam, Karen Knorr, Richard Billingham, Paul Seawright, Wolfgang Tillmans, Jason Evans, Simon Roberts, Nigel Shafran,  Rut Blees Luxemburg, Sarah Jones, John Duncan, Gareth McConnell.

Significant publications – photo books and illustrated magazines, will be included in a documentary section alongside, and there is potential for an accompanying programme of documentary film which would extend the scope of the exhibition and point to significant moments of intersection between documentary photography and film, particularly in the 30s, 60s and 80s, and now.

Curated by Joao Kulcsar in Sao Paulo and Martin Caiger-Smith in London

with the artist’s eye, into a work of art – some fruit in

a bowl, a fallen flower on a low brick wall, a stack of

tea cups, a raw light bulb. The creation of a mood, an

atmosphere – ‘don’t shoot what it looks like, shoot what

it feels like’. An uninteresting moment turned into an

unforgettable one.”

- Anjum Katyal

Participating Photographers :

Adil Hasan, Amit Mehra, Amit Pasricha, Anna Fox, Annu Matthew, Anuj Ambalal, Arun Nangla, Bijoy,
Chowdhury, Blodsow VS, Christopher Taylor, Deepak John Matthew, Edgar Angelone, François
Daireaux, Gireesh GV, Jasmeen Patheja, Jyothi Bhatt, Karen Knorr, Madhavi Swarup, Mahesh
Shantaram, Manoj Kumar Jain, Mukesh Parpiani, Navroze Contractor, Neeta Madahar, Pradip Malde,
Prarthana Modi, Prashant Panjiar, Rajesh Vora, Rajib De, Saibal Das, Sunil Gupta, Swapan Nayak,
Tarun Chopra, Tim Hall, Tom Parker, Vicky Roy, Vinay Mahidhar, Vivek Vilasini

Details of Exhibition

Date: 24th August – 14th September, 2012

Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm ( Sundays off )

Venue: CINNAMON

#11 Walton Road

Off Lavelle Road

Bangalore – 560001

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A unique set of black white vintage  Punks photographed by Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon in 1977 will be exhibited in Tate Britain as part of Another London

Tate Britain will hold an exhibition of 180 classic twentieth-century photographs which take London as their key subject. In the years between 1930 and 1980,some of the best-known photographers from around the world came to London to make work about the city and its communities. This exhibition will bring together some of the biggest names in international photography, to explore the ways photographers, for whom London was a foreign city which they either visited briefly or settled in permanently, saw and represented the subject in their own unique and distinctive ways.

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