For twenty years, Stephen Shames has been taking pictures of children and adolescents in one of New York’s most stigmatized neighborhoods, The Bronx. The first pictures were commissioned in 1977 by Look magazine. Little did Shames realize then that he would become so involved wi...

27.09.2011[ read full story ]

Martin Parr’s collection of photobooks is one of the finest to have ever been assembled and The Protest Box is a box set which brings together five books from that collection as facsimile reprints. Parr has selected diverse books which each deal with the subject...

20.09.2011[ read full story ]

Dorothy Shoes is a 32 year old French photographer. She started out in photography in 2005; her images quickly traveled the world thanks to exhibitions organized in many countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Through Dorothy Shoes’ images, we are plunged into a...

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At the age of 30, Man Ray entered Paris. It was 1921. He stayed until 1940. Though he considered himself first a painter, it is his photography that has produced the most iconic images of his career. Many of those images are featured in May Ran in Paris by Erin C. ...

23.09.2011[ read full story ]

Fouad Elkoury was born in 1952 in Paris, and today lives between Paris and Beirut. After studying architecture in London in 1979, Elkoury turned to photography and depicted Beirut during the civil war. In 1997 Elkoury co-founded the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, which ...

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Stephen Waddell was born in 1968 at Vancouver, British Columbia. His parents were involved with the arts and he took courses at Simon Fraser University with Jeff Wall. He began making photographs as a means of “sketching” in preparation for paintings, but by the late ...

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Ernst Haas was born in Vienna in 1921, and took up photography after the war. His early Austrian work on returning prisoners of war brought him to the attention of Life Magazine, but he courageously declined a job as staff photographer in order to keep his indep...

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William Carter, born in 1934 in Los Angeles, is a photographer, writer and part-time jazz musician. He has exhibited and published widely, and his work is held in public and private collections in the USA and Europe. Combining his photographic and written work is Cart...

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On 6 August 1945, the US government dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This was the first wartime use of a nuclear weapon, and along with the bombing of Nagasaki three days later, heralded the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II. After the dust had settled, President Truman di...

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Bruce Davidson began photography at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University and was later drafted into the army and stationed near Paris where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the four founders of the reno...

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