This photograph is part of the exhibition Summer Place currently running at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery:

Bonni Benrubi Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition, Summer Place. This exhibition expresses the vitality of the summer season through the work of contemporary photographers who capture the leisure, athleticism, heat and psychology of the season through their images.

Highlights include new work by gallery artist Karine Laval, who transports the viewer to a place of pure sensual, existential experience, as swimmers splash and shimmer among the reflective waters of her exuberant yet nostalgic color pool images.Susannah Ray documents the surfing subculture of Rockaway Beach, NY, which makes up for the lack of allure and lifestyle of West Coast surfing with a surfeit of heart, dedication and soul. (more)

About Karine Laval:

Her photographs are notably spontaneous, and they are reminiscent of the photographs of masters such as Cartier Bresson and Eggleston, for she shares a similar use of color as an expressive tool. In this regard, her most characteristic series, such as White, on the snowy winter landscape of Norway, and Pool, on the relaxed and leisure environment of swimming pools in summertime, transport viewers into simple and naïve atmospheres meant to portray everyday life in XXI century society. (Bio)

Visit Karine Laval official website.

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“Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, on a lilo in a swimming pool decorated for Christmas, Hollywood, 1954. The Hollywood sign can be seen in the distance.”

Previously on Skandalon

Eric Zener is “California artist creating figurative work with underwater themes.” Read an article about Zener’s work by Jessica Lyons: “Swimming strong: Eric Zener creates narrative paintings that float between introspection and escapism.” (2004)

I first came to know this artist via Pasa La Vida.

“July 10, 1924. Washington, D.C. “Radio at Wardman Park Hotel pool” — 85 years ago today. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.”