Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon (powerHouse Books) is the fifth book by the unstoppable Paola Gianturco, who is a grandmother herself. Ms. Gianturco has dedicated herself to documenting the women who light the dark all around the world. Her oeuvre is sprin...

12.10.2012[ read full story ]

The beach has become a recurrent theme in contemporary photography, and has featured in Martin Parr’s photographs since early in his career: “The seaside has to be one of the most fascinating places for people-watching. It is a place where we relax and lose our inhibitions, and that’s w...

15.10.2012[ read full story ]

“Each portrait is a short story.” So claims the preface of this new book, the culmination of six years of work on a much-coveted theme. Baudouin, a well-known portrait photographer in the French media, must have walked through many doors before arriving at this selecti...

19.10.2012[ read full story ]

In 2010, Jeremy Stigter photographed the patients and the nursing staff of the Cancer Unit at the Hôptial Cochin in Paris, led by Professor François Goldwasser. This photographic series was born of portraits reflecting the relationship that formed between the photographer and his ...

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We know of the African influences in Brazil and the Caribbean, but what do we know about the presence of black populations in Andean South America? Africa-America is a photographic journey examining the traces of Africanness in the black diaspora of the Andes. Starting in the 16th ce...

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The idea of the forest has been imaginary for centuries. Through fairytales and mythical narratives, the forest has emphatically written itself into collective memory. In it, the forest’s visual substance mostly sees itself as a psychic area of retreat, in which childish l...

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With a foreword by screen legend, Joan Collins, Hollywood Unseen: photographs from the John Kobal Foundation will be published worldwide in October by ACC Editions. There is also an accompanying exhibition featuring images from the book which will be at the Getty Im...

24.10.2012[ read full story ]

In a short new book, special correspondent Jean-Marie Bourget and photographer Marc Simon revisit the “near genocide” (in the words of the UN) of two Palestinian camps in Beirut Lebanon in September, 1982, the aftermath of which they witnessed while reporting for the French...

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For 40-some exhalting years, Martha Cooper, the “Grande Dame of Hip Hop”, as she has once been called, has been documenting street art and graffiti artists. She has traveled all over the world since her first book, Subway Art, got published, in partnership with Henri C...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

In-sight is the second volume in a series of publications on the Wemhöner Collection. This book explores the medium of photography, which is the main focus of the collection.

In his investigation of photography, Heiner Wemhöner concentrates on artists w...

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