© Dorothea Lange, Courtesy Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, Gift of Katherine Taylor Loesch

Dorothea Lange's 1944 image "Signs of the Times" at the Museo Colecciones ICO in Madrid

June 2009 Datebook

At River’s Edge

’Tis the Season

Italian Masquerade

It’s Basel Time

Battle Bling

Venetian Canvas

Women’s Work

Gerhard Richter Larry Sultan Christian Boltanski Dorothea Lange David Goldblatt German Parliament to Return Nazi-Looted Portrait Gerhard Richter Also This Month

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Among the images displayed in the 31 exhibitions making up PHE’s Official Section are Dorothea Lange’s stark portraits of Japanese-Americans in internment camps during World War II, homeless men on Skid Row and migrant workers in California, at the Museo Colecciones ICO; Zhao Liang’s film series "City Scenes," showing the people of Beijing at play, at the Círculo des Bellas Artes; and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s grainy night-vision "still" videos of flowers, at the Matadero Madrid. On view for the first time in Spain are "Evidence," Californian duo Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel’s forensic-photograph reproductions, at the Royal Botanical Gardens, and Gerhard Richter’s painted photographs from 1989 to the present, at the Telefónica Foundation. But the festival’s theme is perhaps best encapsulated in "The ’70s: Photography and Everyday Life," held in the Plaza de Colón and featuring 20 artists, such as Christian Boltanski and David Goldblatt.

There is a commercial component to PHE as well: the Off Festival, which has 35 local participating dealers, including Egam and Astarté.

"Normal Vision" originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's June 2009 Table of Contents.