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Long Live Photography by Melanie Light

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In the wake of the Great Recession in America and the wobbling Euro due to the high finance shenanigans, arts organizations have been under more pressure than usual for a while now. Not long ago, I attended an event to celebrate the new space in San Francisco for http...

08.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Leo Fuchs : Classic Hollywood Stars

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Paul Newman, Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Sean Connery are among the movie stars captured by Fuchs’s lens and proposed by V&M (vintage and Modern). Leo Fuchs, who started his photographic career at the age of 14 shooting burlesque queens, tr...

05.06.2012[ read full story ]

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Restitution of three Marey photographs

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On Wednesday, February 15, Serge Plantureux, bookseller-publisher, Alexandre Giquello and David Nordmann, master auctioneers, and Antoine Romand, expert, turned over three chronophotographic negatives on glass plates by Étienne-Jules Marey to Monsieur Pierre Corvol, Collège de F...

07.05.2012[ read full story ]

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La Fondation des Treilles
Raed Bawayah

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If Raed Bawayah used the olive tree to start his work, it is because this tree, symbol of peace for the Mediterranean, also provokes a sensation of peace and resistance to the violence of man and nature; the olive tree, a veritable metaphor of the Palestinian desesperate strug...

17.04.2012[ read full story ]

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La Fondation des Treilles
Véronique Ellena

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The Fondation des Treilles, initially created by Anne Gruner-Schlumberger, is located in the Haut Var and is part of a remarkable landscape conducive to creativity. Built in the same vein as the Villa Medicis as an artistic residence and think tank about Mediterranean cul...

17.04.2012[ read full story ]

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KijK galerie: South African Photography

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Janette Danel has opened a new gallery in Paris devoted to South African photography (KijK galerie). To mark the opening, here are the photographs from Dale Yudelman’s series, i am, currently on display.

21.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Getty acquires 25 Ansel Adams Photographs

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The J. Paul Getty Museum today announced a donation of 25 photographs by acclaimed 20th century photographer Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). A gift of Carol Vernon and her husband Robert Turbin in memory of Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, “The Museum Set” was purchased from A...

13.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Hamburg Kennedy has 2 new spaces

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The Hamburg Kennedy Gallery of New York is announcing the opening of its new location at 54 Stone Street in Lower Manhattan and the opening of another Gallery in Miami at 838 Milan Avenue, Coral Gables (Florida).

29.02.2012[ read full story ]

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The Long Shadow of Chernobyl iPad App.

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Gerd Ludwig introduces his premier App for the iPad, the most comprehensive photographic coverage of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to date. Spanning nearly two decades of documentation, the groundbreaking work explores the human and environmental impact since the disaster, incl...

05.01.2012[ read full story ]

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Julie Cerise and Pierfrancesco Celada

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A new gallery just opened in San Francisco, Carte Blanche, by French owner Gwen Lafage. It will promote young photographers. Here are two of the first phoographers represented.

03.01.2012[ read full story ]

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