Exhibition

Claudine Doury
Passages

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For the past 15 years, the photographer Claudine Doury has been exploring the world of teenagers, capturing with a sense of modesty and delicacy their rites of passage, their private moments, their erratic times, of joy and desire.

23.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Alessandra Sanguinetti
Interior Worlds

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In the remote farmlands near Buenos Aires, Argentina, Alessandra Sanguinetti produced a series of photographs entitled On the Sixth Day that centered on the symbiotic relationship between the farmers, their animals, and the land. While working on this...

22.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Sophie Zénon
In Case We Die

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The contempory art space Fernet Branca in Saint Louis a stone's throw from Basel offer Sophie Zenon the presentation from september 18th to december 18th 2011 of a small retrospective and most of all her last works.

21.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Aliza Eliazarov
Organic America

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This young photographer delved into the daily lives of Americans who,
disgusted with bad eating habits, have created their own private
farms. After having developed a documentary eye, her work on the
chicken, one of the food industry’s most despised animals, was more
artistic.

29.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Jeffrey Silverthorne
Travel Plans

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For more than 40 years, Jeffrey Silverthorne steadily explores the issues of sex and death. For this exhibition, Jeffrey Silverthorne revisits his own work. Travel Plans is a family photo album comprised of more than 150 photographs, of which many pages are kept open to allow the...

29.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Laurent Camut
Atelier of portraits

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Portraits represent the core of the work by Laurent Camut. Besides drawing, he has been taking photographs since he was twenty years old. Through this activity he has found answers to his own technical and artistic expectations.

28.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Yaakov Israel, The quest on the white donkey

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As per the Orthodox Jewish tradition the Messiah (the Prophet) will arrive riding on a white donkey. A few years ago, as I was photographing near the Dead Sea a Palestinian man rode past me on his white donkey and I took a picture of him. It was after having developed this...

28.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Salzburg: Role Models - Role Playing

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Roles, actors, stages, scripts ... a glance at the imagery of these terms reveals society as a theatre. We are all actors playing different cultural, social and biological roles. According to Erving Goffman (“The Presentation of Self in Everday Life“), life is a theatre in which w...

22.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Willy Rizzo
Snapshots

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Willy Rizzo chose to present in his gallery this month some spontaneous moments of stars made during the past years.Willy Rizzo started his career in Paris where he photographed stars and starlets for Ciné Mondial, Point de vue and Image du monde. He even cov...

28.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

New Orleans
Joséphine Sacabo

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I believe in Art as the means of transcendence and connection. My images are simply what I’ve made from what I have been given. I hope they have done justice to their sources and that they will, for a moment, stay “ the shadows of contentment too short lived.”

07.10.2011[ read full story ]

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