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Ken Light : Valley of Shadows and Dreams

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Ken Light and I have been really happy to see our latest book, Valley of Shadows and Dreams, find its way onto the pages of the NY Times Sunday Review, reviewed by Newsweek’s Daily Beast and shown at the Oakland Museum this fall. But, five years ago I...

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Une Nouvelle Collection aux Editions KnowWare

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The publishing house KnowWare is releasing its first collection of photography books with Voir naître le talent. This new collection aims to present the work of promising young French photographers. The first two titles (available in bilingual French-English editions) are...

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Hollywood Bound:
Heroes and Villains

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Hollywood was a city of extremes: not for Tinseltown the carefully judged subtleties of shot and tone that were the hallmark of the art-house auteurs. It demanded passion, thrills, suspense, violent outbursts of emotion and movement – and so for every protagonist sweeping his way...

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Yan Morvan :
Gangs Story

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Yan Morvan is a great photographer. The only problem is that’s he’s unbearable. But behind his endless outrages and provocations lies an unusually cultured man, a genuine tenderness, and the authentic vision of a journalist and photojournalist. Human beings, the other, fasc...

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Pierre Crocquet de Rosemond

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The book Pinky Promise is an investigation in which photography is just one of the many tools used to represent, as accurately as possible, a difficult subject: the sexual abuse of children. These stylistically diverse photographs—from classic black and white to more journalistic ...

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Matteo Bastianelli : The Bosnian Identity

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The facades of the houses and apartment-blocks are full of gaping wounds. Holes left by machine-gun fire and the white blotches of concrete used to fill in many such holes caused by the bombings, look like imaginary constellations throughout the whole of Bosnia. Memories, des...

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Paris Photo : Les images choisies par David Lynch

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The Paris Photo 2012 catalogue was designed by David Lynch, who selected 100 photographs. The catalogue is available from Steidl. "I, David Lynch , selected for you at Paris Photo 2012 100 images that striked me. Did you know an image worth a thousand words?

14.11.2012[ read full story ]

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Zineland by Antoine Soubrier : Storyteller

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Zineland usually covers small books, limited editions, and other esoteric projects. But today we’re going to look at one of today’s biggest fashion photographers: Tim Walker. According to Walker, an exhibition with photos hanging on the walls, “isn’t very interesting.” Since...

13.11.2012[ read full story ]

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New York At Night : Photography after dark

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In New York at night, we find ourselves immersed in the wildest years of the American metropolis. The evenings were extravagant and glamorous. Adrenaline was a religion and promiscuity a way of life. It was a New York of extremes, with danger, loneliness and brutali...

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Anne Menke - See the World Beautiful

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Anne Menke has traveled the world on assignment for the likes of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire, Conde Nast Traveller, usually in search of the perfect environment to shoot a fashion spread. She has discovered that these environments themselves are the origins of much ...

19.11.2012[ read full story ]

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