Exhibition

Glaviano’s Supermodels in London

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The ‘supermodel’ phenomenon dominated the eighties fashion world and describes an era when a small selection of exceptionally beautiful women governed the scene. London’s Little Black Gallery lets the viewer get close to some of these incredible beauties – including Claudia Schiffer...

14.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Holly Andres
Remembrance

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The American photographer Holly Andres specializes in series informed by personal experience. With The Fall of Spring Hill, she revisits an event from childhood with her customary cinematographic style of narration.

15.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

London, Thomas Ruff
Nudes

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Thomas Ruff was born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany. The university colleague of Andreas Gursky studied photography in the 1970’s at the Stattlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Bernd Belcher, and also acted there as a teacher from 2000 until 2006. His work is ...

14.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Dulce Pinzón: The real story of Superheroes

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After September 11, the notion of the “hero” began to rear its head in the public consciousness more and more frequently. The notion served a necessity in a time of national and global crisis to acknowledge those who showed extraordinary courage or determination in the fac...

13.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Michael McCarthy
Human form

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The Duboys Gallery will be showing Human Form until May 5th; featuring 30 prints by Michael McCarthy. Skilled in traditional methods, this "photographer who paints or this painter who photographs" as he describes himself, is passionate about the body. H...

22.03.2012[ read full story ]

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Rahi Rezvani
Unseen

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He speaks the language of comparison and allegory. The scene is fantasy. Space is fantasy. Color is fantasy. The composition is fantasy. Everything is fantasy. But there is no place for lies and forgeries. It is false, but not a lie. He has nothing to do with 'reproduction' based on the ideas o...

06.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Didier Cohen: Black Square for Séries Noires

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Didier Cohen, former thriller novelist, is now script writer and photographer. For years, he has been sharing portraits of his former colleagues. All of the French mystery and detective writers only whose name we only know.

07.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Mariano Vargas
Soltanto Madonne

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Mariano Vargas Algeria born photographer lives and works in Spain. The Lina Davidov Gallery is presenting "Soltanto Madonne", a series by Mariano Vargas focusing on women with backdrops inspired by Rennaissance and Mannerism paintings. Vargas exaggerates colors and highlights the e...

07.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Martin Chambi
poet-photographer

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In addition to the Juan Manuel Castro Prieto exhibition, Etiopia, on display through March 31, 2012, the Galerie VU’ will also presents 28 small photographs by the celebrated Peruvian photographer, Martin Chambi. After his voyage to Ethiopia in search of a sort of ancestral memory of...

07.03.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Staging politics

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The three artists whose works are presented in this exhibition all share the tendency to transgress photography’s codes of beauty, with the aim of getting us to reconsider our view of politics.

19.03.2012[ read full story ]

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