Sous Les Etoiles Gallery

Sous Les Etoiles Gallery Sous Les Etoiles Gallery is a contemporary New York-based exhibition space specializing in fine art

After fifteen years located in Soho in the historic Photo building at 560 Broadway and then 100 Crosby Street, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery moved the gallery in June 2021 on its new location on Manhattan Upper East Side, 16 East 71th Street , New York, NY 10021. With this move, the gallery is continuing to be passionate about photography and its extraordinary capacity of narration with its talented

artists and photographers and its program talks and lectures. In addition to its annual program of photography exhibitions, the gallery regularly hosts artist’s talks and lectures, publishes portfolio collections, photo books and exhibition catalogues, and participates in several top US art fairs. Press coverage of the gallery’s exhibitions includes the New Yorker, L’Oeil de la Photographie, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Photo Review, and TIME Lightbox, among others. Founder and Director Corinne Tapia has over a twenty-year history as a photography curator, consultant and collector, actively collaborates in portfolio reviews on a global scale, including FotoFest (Houston), ICP (New York), and Les Rencontres d’Arles (France); and is dedicated to partnering with public and private institutions to further advance the exposure and careers of the photographers she represents.

While it last only one day until tomorrow to see Gottfried Jäger and the Founders of the Generative photography , we are...
04/10/2026

While it last only one day until tomorrow to see Gottfried Jäger and the Founders of the Generative photography , we are very pleased to have received today the new book of Gottfried Jäger related to his personal archives. The exhibition "Poesie des Fotografischen" is on view in Kulturzentrum am Munster Konztanz (Germany) until August 28th! This exhibition demonstrates how Gottfried Jäger conceives of the photographic process as an act that is simultaneously poetic and technical, thereby opening up new perspectives on the image in the digital age.

The book is available at the gallery! and Tomorrow is your last chance to see some of his photographs in our gallery space!

You have until this coming Saturday 4/11 to visit the show “Gottfried Jäger and the Precursors of the Generative Photogr...
04/08/2026

You have until this coming Saturday 4/11 to visit the show “Gottfried Jäger and the Precursors of the Generative Photography”, a survey of one of the most creative, productive and visionary era for the medium. Here you can see “Zwei Dreiecke (Two Triangles), Photo Work XI, 1983, 2” , a unique “photo object” as per Jäger’s vocabulary.

03/21/2026

We are welcoming the Scottsdale audience with our artists at Visit us at booth B2 today and tomorrow. .officiel .nikolova__ .artduo

The gallery is very happy to meet the new audience in Scottsdale AZ, amazing city, amazing crowd and a great fair. ...
03/20/2026

The gallery is very happy to meet the new audience in Scottsdale AZ, amazing city, amazing crowd and a great fair. Come visit us until Sunday from 11am to 7pm at booth B2, we will be happy to share the works of our incredible artists: .officiel .nikolova__ .artduo .rivas.art

We are glad to be part of Scottsdale Art Week returns that March 19–22, 2026, bringing a global celebration of art to t...
03/18/2026

We are glad to be part of Scottsdale Art Week returns that March 19–22, 2026, bringing a global celebration of art to the heart of the desert of Arizona. This year’s fair will feature 123 booths representing 112 galleries, creating an extraordinary cross-section of historic masterworks, modernism, Indigenous art, and cutting-edge contemporary practice.

Opening is Thursday March 19th and we are Booth B2. welcome!

Part of our current exhibition, Carl Heinrich Strüwe (1898–1978) was a German photographer whose work occupies a pivotal...
03/17/2026

Part of our current exhibition, Carl Heinrich Strüwe (1898–1978) was a German photographer whose work occupies a pivotal position between scientific observation and photographic abstraction. Through close-up studies of natural and organic forms, Strüwe developed a systematic visual language that reduced subject matter to structures, rhythms, and formal relations. His photographs emphasize process, repetition, and analytical observation rather than expressive composition, transforming nature into an autonomous visual system. By privileging method over motif, Strüwe anticipated key principles of generative photography, contributing to a shift toward rule-based and non-representational image-making in the postwar period.

Microphotography,
Structure of circular
diatoms. From the
series "Forms of
Structure and
Movement: Diatoms"
(Actinoptychus), 450:1, 1928

9.4 x 7 in.

right-field illumination. Later silver gelatin baryta
paper print, Type 1,
white, glossy, thick paper. High-gloss drying

The exhibition Gottfried Jaeger and the Founders of the Generative Photography is is on view until April 10th.

For more information please contact us at [email protected]

The polarization is one of the several experimentation realized by Gottfried Jäger during the 60s' and two Polarization ...
03/10/2026

The polarization is one of the several experimentation realized by Gottfried Jäger during the 60s' and two Polarization can been seen in our exhibition "Gottfried Jäger and the Pioneers of the Generative Photography, on view through April 10, 2026.

The technical term is cliché cellophane (cellophane based a luzide, transparent composition, visualized with the help of polarized light – in function with a self-constructed polarizator). Another collective name for this technique (introduced by Hajek-Halke) is „Luzidogram“ (composed transparent materials in the function of a photo negative).
The optical procedure is consisting of folded cellophane (which included double breaking crystals) is mounted between two polarization filters (like a sandwich); the filters and the cellophane are separately movable; to seen is a chromogenic interferential game of different geometric patters and colors. The sandwich was treated to the place of a photo negative in an enlarger in the darkroom and was exposured on color photo paper as an unique color print.

1/ Polarization 6/2/02, 1965, 1965
C-Print, 7.6 x 6.4 in. unique

2/Polarization 6/2/02, 1965, 1965
C-Print, 7.6 x 6.4 in. unique

Herbert W. Franke (1927–2022) was a pioneering figure at the intersection of art, science, and technology, and one of th...
03/06/2026

Herbert W. Franke (1927–2022) was a pioneering figure at the intersection of art, science, and technology, and one of the earliest proponents of algorithmic and generative image-making. Trained as a physicist and mathematician, Franke was instrumental in introducing concepts of information theory, cybernetics, and computation into the visual arts during the 1950s and 1960s. His work encompasses experimental photography, computer-generated graphics, and theoretical writing, positioning photography as a system governed by rules rather than representation. Closely associated with the New Tendencies movement, Franke understood images as the outcome of programmable processes, anticipating later developments in digital and AI-based visual culture. His contributions form a crucial link between early generative photography and the emergence of computer art as a distinct field.

Gottfried Jäger and the Precursors of the Generative Photography,
an exhibition on view from January 21 to April 10, 2026. The exhibition brings together key works by early pioneers whose systematic and rule-based approaches laid the foundations of generative photography: Herbert W. Franke, Heinz Hajek – Halke, Heinrich Heidersberger, Roger Humbert, Peter Keetman, Hein Gravenhorst, Karl Martin Holzhäuser and Carl Strüwe among others.

Herbert Franke
From the series "Ultra-Photos ", Camera photography of objects with short-wave radiation, 1956
Silver gelatin baryta paper, Type 111,
11.4 x 9 in.

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Heinrich Heidersberger (1906–2006) was a pivotal figure in postwar experimental photography, best known for his Rhythmog...
03/04/2026

Heinrich Heidersberger (1906–2006) was a pivotal figure in postwar experimental photography, best known for his Rhythmograms, which introduced a systematic and time-based approach to image generation. Developed in the early 1950s, these works were produced through precisely controlled movements of light sources during long exposures, transforming photography into a mechanical and procedural system. Rather than representing external reality, Heidersberger’s images emerge from the interaction of light, motion, and duration, governed by predefined conditions. His practice exemplifies a generative logic executed through analog means, foregrounding process, seriality, and automation. Heidersberger’s work constitutes a crucial precursor to generative photography, anticipating later rule-based, algorithmic, and system-oriented approaches to image-making.

The exhibition " Gottfried Jäger and the Precursors of the Generative Photography", is on view through April 10, 2026. The exhibition brings together key works by early pioneers whose systematic and rule-based approaches laid the foundations of generative photography: Herbert W. Franke, Heinz Hajek – Halke, Heinrich Heidersberger, Roger Humbert, Peter Keetman, Hein Gravenhorst, Karl Martin Holzhäuser and Carl Strüwe among others.

Heinrich Heidersberger
Rhythmogram No. 3782/47,
Camera luminogram with rhythmogram machine, 1956-1957
Unique gelatin silver print, 9.2 x 11.4 in.

Heinrich Heidersberger
Rhythmogram No. 3782/212a
Camera luminogram with rhythmogram machine, 1963
Unique Silver gelatin baryta paper print, type 111, high gloss
11.8 x 9.2 in.

For more information and price, please send an e-mail to [email protected]

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Roger Humbert (1929–2009) was a French photographer whose work played a significant role in the emergence of systematic ...
03/02/2026

Roger Humbert (1929–2009) was a French photographer whose work played a significant role in the emergence of systematic and generative approaches to photography in the postwar period. Through serial investigations and rigorous formal reduction, Humbert explored photography as a process governed by rules rather than expressive intent. His images emphasize repetition, variation, and structural coherence, often abstracting the visible world into autonomous visual systems. By prioritizing method over motif, Humbert anticipated key principles of generative photography, contributing to the shift from subjective authorship toward procedural image-making.

The exhibition "Gottfried Jäger and the Precursors of the Generative Photography, is on view from through April 10, 2026 . The exhibition brings together key works by early pioneers whose systematic and rule-based approaches laid the foundations of generative photography: Herbert W. Franke, Heinz Hajek – Halke, Heinrich Heidersberger, Roger Humbert, Peter Keetman, Hein Gravenhorst, Karl Martin Holzhäuser and Carl Strüwe among others.

For more information and price please send an email at [email protected]



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Thursday 12pm - 6pm

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