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Joel Sternfeld
First Pictures

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A major figure in the world of photography, Joel Sternfeld was born in New York City in 1944. His recent books include Walking the High Line, Treading on Kings and a reprint of his seminal 1987 publication, American Prospects. He is the recipient of n...

20.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Koto Bolofo
Horsepower

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Koto Bolofo was born in South Africa in 1959 and raised in Great Britain. Bolofo has photographed and made short films for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and GQ. He has created advertising campaigns for companies including Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Dom Pérignon. Bolofo ...

20.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Bals, Nicholas Foulkes

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From the twilight of the Romanov dynasty through les années folles of Art Deco Paris to the jet-set seventies, Bals explores the nine most exceptional private costume parties of the twentieth century. You will find the memories of Paul Poiret, Truman Capote, and Cecil Beaton who immortalized th...

27.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Michel Haddi
My Love

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On the occasion of the Fashion Weeks in New York, Paris, Milan and London, the fashion photographer Michel Haddi has published a photographic essay entitled ‘My Love’. His pictures are accompanied by love poems by William Shakespeare. The page layout is gothic, celebrating Icelandic culture.

27.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Jean-Marie Périer
Françoise Hardy

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She is sublime. He is totally in love with her. She is graceful. He is talented. The most beautiful pictures of Françoise Hardy were taken by Jean-Marie Périer. It was the 1970’s. A century away.

04.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Melanie Dunea
My last supper

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There was a moment when Melanie Dunea wondered if her work had gone too far. The New York City-based photographer was in Montreal, Canada to shoot two chefs, David McMillan and Frédéric Morin, who as a team go by the name Joe Beef. That is also the name of their popular...

29.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Jean-François Jonvelle, loving tenderness

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Jean-François Jonvelle was snatched by the hand of death with a suddenness to match the photographs that were his life. Just as that life was dedicated to capturing these stolen moments, so death followed suit, carrying him off in the midst of life. A tumour discovered in ea...

13.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Gigi Giannuzzi by
Miss Rosen

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Gigi Giannuzzi is wonderfully grim. He has a darkness of spirit that glows from within. On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of Trolley Books, the photography book publishing house that he founded and has operated since its birth in London, Giannuzzi shared his thou...

07.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Paris, rue des Lombards, Jane Evelyn Atwood

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Living in Paris since 1971, Jane Evelyn Atwood began photographing in 1975. She took as her first subject the universe of the street, on the rue des Lombards, after her encounter with Blondine, a prostitute of the neighborhood. For over a year, she spe...

01.07.2011[ read full story ]

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Jim Dow
Love poem to America

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Peripatetic artist Jim Dow has compiled many of his best-known images in this generous love poem to America. On the road, using a large format camera, Dow has catalogued the stadiums, the road signs, the diners, and the ice cream parlors that pepper the landscape.

29.06.2011[ read full story ]

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