The idea was a funny one: the event would last until an ice block encasing a copy of South Pole had melted away. Published by Martine and Prosper Assouline, South Pole was presented on Thursday, March 15 at Sotheby’s in New York, in a run of 150 copies. The icebound copy sold for $3,000. Profits f...

19.03.2012[ read full story ]

On Thursday, March 8th there was an event at the 25CPW Gallery in New York that celebrated photography and the power of photography to inform and motivate people. The event was an exhibition combined with both a silent and active auction to raise funds to benefit the Man Up Cam...

12.03.2012[ read full story ]

An air of the 1970s emanated from the women's bodies presented by
Erica Lennard at the Galerie Agathe Gaillard. These famous and
lesser-known images represent a period of photography at odds with
today's standard gallery fare. They exude the sensual, poetic charm of a bygone pre-digita...

05.03.2012[ read full story ]

Alex Castro and Camilo Guevara (sons of Fidel and Che); the photographers Ernesto Fernández and Mario García Joya; the writer Miguel Barnet; the musicians Kelvis Ochoa and Roberto Fonseca; the artists Carlos Quintana, Fabelo and Rachel Valdez; and supermodel Januaria were all in attendance...

05.03.2012[ read full story ]

Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, opened its fourth exhibition of the work of Matthew Pillsbury, on the evening of February 23. Pillsbury's current work is an exploration of New York City and the events and places that define New York. Using a large-format (8x10) camera, bla...

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

On Thursday, February 23, Edwynn Houk Gallery opened a show of Portraits of long time friends Jonas Mekas and Robert Polidori. Mekas, while known as a film-maker, produces what he calls "frozen film frames" from his work that are revealing portraits in their own, unique way. Polidori is known ...

27.02.2012[ read full story ]

It was the photographic event of the year in NewYork. The openning of Cindy Sherman's exhibition at the MoMA yesterday evening.
The sumptuous restrospective spreads over 11 rooms. Abe Frajndlich was there among the happy few.

22.02.2012[ read full story ]

Last night in Soho the Staley-Wise Gallery opened their show, The Nude Interpreted. Taki Wise, one-half of the duo that started this landmark gallery in 1981, was on hand and made everyone feel welcome. The show, a selection of male and female nude studies, covers a wide se...

17.02.2012[ read full story ]

On Thursday evening in New York's Chelsea neighborhood Yosi Milo opened his new, expanded space. A large crowd was on hand to see a show of photos from a variety of artists that he represents,

17.02.2012[ read full story ]

Paris is cold, Paris is stuck, Paris is in a bad mood, as a onsequence there was hardly antbody at the Robert Doisneau exhibit at l'Hotel de Ville. 
But, there was in fact Yan Morvan, the eye of La Lettre as well as Robert's two daughters. which gave us this wonderful image...

08.02.2012[ read full story ]