My first thought might not have been to check Magnum, a photography agency as the source for cultural events.
I was wrong as their events page is rich with many offerings from the artistic to the sociological.
Amongst them is La Géométrie et la Passion (Geometry and Passion), a retrospective of Italian photographer Ferdinando Scianna for the first time in France (program photo below from Magnum's event pages).
Here is how the event is described by Magnum:
taken over a period of 60 years. Many of them have the subjects of
numerous books such as Feste Religiose in Sicilia, Marpessa or Mondo
Bambino.
Ferdinando Scianna started taking photographs in the 1960s while
studying literature, philosophy and art history at the University of
Palermo. It was then that he began to photograph the Sicilian people
systematically. Feste Religiose in Sicilia (1965) included an essay by
the Sicilian writer Leonardo Sciascia, and it was the first of many
collaborations with famous writers.
Scianna moved to Milan in 1966. The following year he started
working for the weekly magazine L'Europeo, first as a photographer,
then from 1973 as a journalist. He also wrote on politics for Le Monde
Diplomatique and on literature and photography for La Quinzaine
Littéraire. Approached by Dolce and Gabbana, while still unknown, he
started with fashion photography in 1987."
It opened at Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, France on June 24 and runs until October 11.
Amongst Ferdinando Scianna corporate gigs are photographs (like the one below of the Belle and the Boys) for the 1996 Calendar of Lavazza, my preferred Espresso Coffee brand at home.
As for Upcoming Events, as the 40th Anniversary of Woodstock approaches, I noted Woodstock Generation at the Center for Photography at Woodstock opening on August 8 and featuring the work of Dennis Stock who we are told spent the entire year of 1969 visiting alternative communities in Colorado, New Mexico, and California. These communities ranged from the transient camp to the large and self-sufficient rural community, many of which took on names as if they were cities: "New Buffalo" and "Lorien" in New Mexico and "Wheeler’s Free" and "Drop City" in California. Each commune was a different collection of individuals living together with some shared passion or practical function such as music, art, environmental concerns, political concerns, sexual liberation, the practice of Eastern religions, draft resistance, or fear of the apocalypse.
Photographs as memory….