Simone Nieweg, born in Germany in 1962, lives and works in Düsseldors. She studied photography under Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1984 to 1990. Simone Nieweg photographs the gardens, fields, prairies and forests that have held her interest for the past 30 years. Th...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

To mark the occasion of this exhibition, Schirmer/Mosel will publish the retrospective work, Unconscious Places, which brings together more than 230 street photographs Struth has taken across the world over the past 40 years. The book will be published in August 2012 with an comprehe...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

Schirmer/Mosel Showroom is a Munich gallery space and bookstore founded in 1998 by the publishing house Schirmer/Mosel. The showroom is situated in the beautiful arcades running along the Hofgarten, first built in the 17th century and then restored after World War II. This baroque garde...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

Founded in Munich on April 1, 1974, by Lothar Schirmer and Erik Mosel, the publishing house Schirmer/Mosel is today run by Lothar Schirmer with the help of a team of twelve people. For the past 37 years, Schirmer/Mosel has published the greatest photographers of the 19th and 20th ...

27.06.2012[ read full story ]

Senior prom is a near mandatory ritual for American teenagers. Prom, the latest work by the photographer Mary Ellen Mark, celebrates this event, long associated with losing one’s virginity. From 2006 to 2009, Mark visited thirteen private and public US schoo...

19.06.2012[ read full story ]

American publisher Rizzoli just released the first major monograph about Ryan McGinley whose work has been recognized for the past ten years. Through his viewfinder, we rediscover the intimacy of his generation, photographed with brio. In 2000, Ryan McGinley turned 22. He organ...

18.06.2012[ read full story ]

Identity is an ever-shifting series of self-imposed labels that come from within and without. It is who we are and who we think we are that creates the self. We define ourselves based on that which we are attracted to or repulsed by; we identify with who we aspire to be and who we fear we...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

“I entered the world in Dinard, in 1953, during a news projection – slightly delayed – featuring the crowning of the Queen of England. Through an extremely rare phenomenon, that I will not elucidate here, I was given birth by my grandmother (my mother, who was living in...

14.06.2012[ read full story ]

Readers of La Lettre know Yan Morvan. He’s “The Eye of La Lettre”, the photographer who has from the very first issue provided you with a veritable “Who’s Who” of the world of photography. This month he will publish (in French) Reporter de guerres (Éditions La Martinière), a memoir o...

13.06.2012[ read full story ]

The Eyes of War features forty portraits and accompanying interviews of men and women, who lost their eyesight during the Second World War when they were either children or young soldiers. Former enemies from Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Ukraine, and Russia ar...

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