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Gilles Bensimon...Flowers are perishable

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He is one of fashion photography’s greatest, so he is displaying flowers. He pushes the paradox to such a point that he does not want to communicate or even announce his exhibition. He: is Gilles Bensimon. The exhibition is fabulous: 12 giant prints of flowers immersed in wa...

04.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Happy Birthday Robert by Brigitte Ollier

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Not so long ago, I was in Montrouge, in your studio, not far from Annette and Francine. Seated at a desk fit for a head of state, I was quickly at ease, as if in my own home. I was still thinking about how we had met, how we had come to talking, with Sebastião Salgado, abou...

13.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Michel Puech: In memory of my father

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50 years ago, Algeria won its independence after a long, deathly war. In order to face up to the Algerian nationalists’ insurrection, the French army called upon former colonial troops and their auxiliaries to create the “harkas”. They were referred to as “harkis”.

04.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Brigitte Ollier
Ma boîte noire

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(…) audacity won me over. I learned to love taking pictures without being a photographer. I saw in this democratic voice an access to the unknown, a way of looking at life from a distance, as if I belonged to an exotic temporality, far from France. I was no longer afraid of anythi...

03.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Where Did The Night Fall
Kpoon Dubus

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Kpoon Dubus is a young photographer from Lille, France. His series "Where Did The Night Fall" will be on display through April 14 in the gallery of the Leica store in Lille. The same series was presented last May at the Transphotographiques festival as part of the colle...

03.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Picasso faces the lens of Douglas Duncan

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La Piscine Museum in Roubaix, France, is presenting the exhibition Picasso à l’oeuvre through May 20. The show brings together 150 photographs by the American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan, shot between 1957 and 1973 in the painter’s homes.

11.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Liu Bolin
The Chameleon

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Liu Bolin’s ability to make himself invisible is, paradox aside, the most remarkable aspect of the Moscow photo biennial. Although a few exhibitions have yet to open, his exhibition at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation is so far the year’s most interesting.

03.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Berlin: The Eye Is a Lonely Hunter

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The Fotofestival Mannheim Ludwigshafen Heidelberg presented a selction of its 2011 program at Berlin’s Grimmuseum. The fourth edition of the Fotofestival Mannheim_Ludwigshafen_Heidelberg took place from September 10 to November 6, 2011, in Germany. Entitled The Eye is a Lonely Hunte...

02.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Andy Warhol: The Day The Factory Died

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On April 1, 1987, 25 years ago, Andy Warhol was buried in New York where a ceremony was held at Saint Patrick’s cathedral where 2000 people were present. Among them, photographer Christophe von Hohenberg. Here are his pictures. A book, “Andy Warhol: The Day The Factory Died” ...

02.04.2012[ read full story ]

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Marlous van der Sloot
Le corps vécu

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Marlous van der Sloot (1986) works on the border of applied photography and contemporary art, in which she focus on the immaterial world. The world of feelings and emotions. It attempt to make the modern human aware of all the expectations and obligations in daily life. She aims...

03.04.2012[ read full story ]

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