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François-Marie by
Jean-Marc Roberts

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It is a surprising picture. We are accustomed to seeing pictures of parents, grandparents, out-of-town aunts and uncles, nephews, nieces and cousins boating on the enchanted river of the Jardin d’Acclimatation. But here, 5 people, Jacques Grange, Pascal Grégory, François-Ma...

20.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Muriel Pic: Les désordres de la bibliothèque

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Les désordres de la bibliothèque presents an ensemble of manual photomontages from public and private libraries. It is joined with a prologue by Christian Prigent and an essay on the first published library photograph taken by W.H.F. Talbot in 1844. What sens...

24.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Bobby Fischer
by Harry Benson

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Harry Benson’s rare, exclusive photos of the controversial chess genius Bobby Fischer taken during the historic World Chess Championship match in Iceland in 1972 are collected for the first time in the book Bobby Fischer published by powerHouse Books.

27.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Katharina Bosse: Portrait as a Young Mother

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother is the last book by Katharina Brosse. After six years in New York, the artist returned to live in Germany where she gave birth to two babies in four years. This double change in lifestyle is coupled with ...

15.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Tristan Jeanne-Valès, Pina Baush to Trish Braun

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Since 1980, Tristan Jeanne-Valès has specialized in dance photography. The book entitled “Dance, l’étreinte” covers the worlds of Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Maguy Marin, also those of Josef Nadj, Catherine Divèrres, Mathilde Monnier, and many o...

16.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Bruno Mouron's 10 books

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Bruno Mouron photographer and collector dived in his collection of over a thousand books for La Lettre. Classic titles like The Americans by Robert Frank (in all its editions), Paris La Nuit by Brassai, Photographies 1920-1934 by ...

21.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Miss Rosen
Book Review 6

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Underneath the fireworks in the night sky, New York is dark, a noirish place where Arlene Gottfried takes her camera and collects images of a time and a place like no other. The Lower East Side has become iconographic, all the more so because it’s been erased by a honey monied culture th...

10.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Larry Fink
Hollywood Parties

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The annual Oscar party by U.S. American magazine Vanity Fair is not only one of the most coveted dates in every major Hollywood star’s diary, over the last ten years the parties themselves have gained legendary status. After the awards ceremony all the beautiful, famous, ric...

06.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Assaf Pocker
Scar Tissue

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“This haunting first monograph by Israeli-born photographer, Assaf Pocker, Scar Tissue reinvents photographic portraiture as a medium for communicating the deepest and darkest of human emotions,” as described by Nazraeli Press. Pocker, who studied Photography and Art at Jerusalem’s, Bez...

03.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Gaia
Circus in Space

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Guy Laliberté is one of the founders of Cirque du Soleil, he is also a photography fanatic. He had access to the International Space Station. His pictures are now in a book, Gaia, published by Assouline. Book sale profits will be donated to ONE DROP, a non profit association that...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

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