Fascinated by photography since childhood, Jean-François Rauzier entered the École Nationale Louis Lumière in 1976. For thirty years, he explored different artforms, from painting to sculpture. In 2000, his work took a new turn. Using the visual grammar that he had developed...

27.01.2012[ read full story ]

Focused on the convergences between East European and Latin American artists during the 1960s and 1970s, the exhibition Redes Alternativas (Alternative Networks) recalls how photography was used as a strategic practice to overcome the censorship imposed by the dictatorships that once...

19.01.2012[ read full story ]

What remains of the old apartments and studios once inhabited by the likes of André Kertész, Rózsi Klein and Brassai? Who is lucky enough to live there now? And how do they live? The photographer Gabriella Cseh puts in context contemporary images of the spaces by presenti...

19.01.2012[ read full story ]

Steven Kasher Gallery presents Weegee: Naked City in conjunction with two major specifically-focused Weegee exhibitions, Weegee: Naked Hollywood at MoCA and Weegee: Murder is My Business at the ICP.

19.01.2012[ read full story ]

Gangland murders, gruesome car crashes, and perilous tenement fires were for the photographer Weegee (1899—1968) the staples of his flashlit black-and-white work as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1930s. Such graphically dramatic and sometimes sensationalistic photographs of ...

19.01.2012[ read full story ]

"Sit up, straighen up and pull your hair back. Close your mouth and try not smiling.” This is what we’re told today when posing for an ID photo. With the exhibition Fichés ?, the National Archives museum takes a look at the origins of ID photography.

20.01.2012[ read full story ]

The Salt Lake series dates back to 1986. Contrary to the works on display in Paris (see above), these pictures were taken when Ukraine was still part of the USSR. The 50 pictures in the series were taken secretly, a common practice, photography was considered subversive ...

18.01.2012[ read full story ]

Respecting My Elders is a collection of color portraits of creative persons over the age of eighty, photographed in their homes and studios. They are the artists and intellectuals of my parents’ generation, born at the turn of the last century, whose wisdom and insigh...

18.01.2012[ read full story ]

The Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery in Paris is showing works by Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov for the fourth time, featuring the series, Tea, Coffee, Cappucino taken between 2000 and 2010. The Loft 19 Gallery is also featuring a series enti...

18.01.2012[ read full story ]

The Rire Médecin (the clown doctoring association )was founded in 1991 by the American comedienne Caroline Simonds, a.k.a. Dr. Girafe. Twenty years later, Rire Médecin is the premier association of hospital clowns, counting 87 professional comedians who make 68,000 visits per year in 37 ped...

18.01.2012[ read full story ]