Exhibition

Denis Dailleux's Ghana

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Because he has been living in Cairo for nearly 5 years and has been traveling to Egypt for more than 18 year, it is easy to associate Denis Dailleux’s work with this country. How could it be otherwise with a bibliography like his. Le Caire, published by the Editions d...

21.09.2011[ read full story ]

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London, Peter Piller
Archive of images

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On one of the breaks during the set-up of his exhibition at Brancolini Grimaldi, Peter Piller took some time to talk with me about his latest series STOP. I was very interested in knowing the reasons that led an artist like Piller—who usually presents...

21.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Paris, Ron Galella
Boxing with the stars

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Ron Galella was born in the United States on January 10th, 1931. Considered the most famous and controversial celebrity photographer, he has also been baptized as the “Paparazzi Extraordinaire” by Newsweek, and “The US Godfather of the Paparazzi c...

19.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Berlin, Images of Terror

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The two quotes that accompany the exhibition Unheimlich Vertraut – Bilder vom Terror (« The Uncanny Familiar – Images of Terror »), featured on occasion of the 10th anniversary of New York’s terrorist attacks help to establish its time frame : On one hand, the “The games must go on!”...

19.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Photographic abstraction: Dmitry Sokolenko

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The work of Dmitry Sokolenko is based on the principle of fractality. By plunging into the matter of diverse surfaces, Dmitry Sokolenko uses photography as a means of taking abstract art to another level, that of visual language. He pictures the semantic fie...

06.09.2011[ read full story ]

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London, between real and dream

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Landscapes and city views were alongside portraiture and still life the first genres to be established in photography. The exhibition Land/City/Real/Imagined explores the two genres from the 1930’s onwards, from black and white photography through to digitally manipulated image...

06.09.2011[ read full story ]

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London, Nelli Palomaki: Midnight Sun

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Nelli Palomäki’s exhibition at Next Level Projects in East London is the second solo show from Midnight Sun, the gallery’s summer programme dedicated to Finnish contemporary photography. Midnight Sun previously featured the work of Sasha Huber (1...

05.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Charles Weever:
New York in 1940

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Charles Weever Cushman is an amateur photographer from Indiana, United States. For almost a half a century of travels, he has been going with his Contax II loaded with the mythical film Kodachrome, whose production was stopped in 2009.

29.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Photography and lie detector

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In July 2011, for 10 days, the Michèle Chomette gallery became a centre for secret interrogations carried out by the Canadian artist Paulette Phillips, using a lie detector as part of a project she is developing. In 2009, in Baltimore, she was accredited as an examiner an...

07.09.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, The choice of happiness

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Forma, the Foundation of photography in Milan presents an exhibition of photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue, one of photography's precocious prodigies, a genial enthusiast and a professional of happiness.

21.09.2011[ read full story ]

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