Auction

The Erotic Photography of Claude François

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To mark the 35th anniversary of his death, the auction house Coutau-Bégarie decided to organize the first auction devoted entirely to Claude François. A whole year was necessary to prepare for the sale, because the many collectors of Claude François’ work ar...

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Exhibition

Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows

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The premiere exhibition of over 100 works by Todd Hido, entitled Excerpts from Silver Meadows opened on May 24th at the Transformer Station, Cleveland’s new exhibition space for contemporary art. Hido’s recent work offers a darkly dramatic glimpse into a world that reflects bot...

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Exhibition

Gérard Uféras:
Eloge de la volupté

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Around 20 French women photographed by Gérard Uféras wearing Triumph lingerie, produced in partnership with Joséphine Beauté, will be on display in different places over the next six months. The first edition was held at the Arts Déoratifs in Paris.

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Exhibition

Vincent Fillon:
Entre-Deux

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Despite appearances, the act is photographic. The protocol is precise, the technique is simple: 2 photographs superimposed one on the other, without any other artifice. 
As an architectural photographer, I shoot volumes, perspectives, spaces, materials… as an art photographer, an auteur,...

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Exhibition

Jérôme Ferrière
Ibiza Facebook

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In the early 1980s, Spanish Movida left a permanent mark of the young Jérôme Ferrière, a young man from South West France. When he was twenty, he roamed the planet, visiting tropical locations and learning to take pictures in Brazil. His idols were all mavericks with a spiritual si...

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Portfolio

Aneta Bartos:
Spider Monkeys

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Aneta Bartos' recent series, Boys, explores male masturbation, the penis the focus of the compositions...a lightning rod. Spider Monkeys is the complement to Boys its negative space. The images do not possess such a point of concentrated energy, they are envelopes, or...

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Art and commerce

Lumières des Roses
Images/Documents #6

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The gallery Lumière des Roses in the Parisian suburb Montreuil is now offering its latest catalogue, Images/Documents #6, with 25 photographs of the world. There’s nothing studied about its disorder, which helps keeps the eye on alert.

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Exhibition

Berlin: Marius Tegethoff
Skyscapes

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Marius Tegethoffs photography explores physical self-resemblance of existence. Originated in altitudes of up to 40000 feet, far away from any human trace, his monumental yet subtle skyscapes explore the relativity of dimensions and the absoluteness of proportions: ...

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Portfolio

Gavin Watson
Chroniques anglaises

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Born in 1965 in northwest London, Gavin Watson started taking pictures at an early age. By the time he was 14 he was a skinhead, immersed in the world of Madness and Two Tone, and set about documenting the antics of his friends and especially this 'muse', his brother Neville. The pi...

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Portfolio

Karol Pałka:
Histoires de familles

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Are we independent individuals or rather playthings of genes and generational transmission? How does time affects us? Some of the most uneasy questions emerge when watching Generations – a personal, brilliantly simple series of paired images taken by a young photographer Karol Pa...

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Portfolio

On the Road with Braschler/Fischer - Part 5

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After publication of the first three parts, here is the fourth book of the road trip of the photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer across fourteen countries ! With Kenya, India, Switzerland, Vietnam and South America behind them...

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Exhibition

Une galerie en ligne: Readymade Images

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Readymade Images is an online photo gallery founded by two longtime collaborators and friends whose aim is to make high-quality artistic photography accessible to as many people as possible. The starting premise is all of us can live with an artistic photograph.

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Awards

Gomma Books:
Su-ture Contest 2013

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Through a call for entries that started last November 2012, Gomma Books Ltd invited photographers to submit their images for a new, collaborative photobook contest titled Su-ture. 
The aim was to create an uninterrupted visual journey made from exquisite imagery th...

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