Exhibition

New York
Herb Ritts, Houk Gallery

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Herb Ritts (American, 1952-2002) occupies photography’s Mount Olympus with the most important fashion and glamour photographers of the late 20th Century, including Horst, Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, and Helmut Newton. His photographs are a standard reference in...

03.06.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Gagosian Shows
Richard Avedon

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This past May 4th, La Lettre de la Photographie announced in an avant-première the international exclusive representation of Richard Avedon by the Gagosian Gallery. During his lifetime, Richard Avedon (1923-2004) had created the Avedon Foundation and appointed as tr...

06.06.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Milan
Women changing India

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On the initiative of BNP PARIBAS banking group to commemorate the 150 years of work in India, the exhibition features more than 130 pictures taken by 6 photographers of Magnum: Olivia Arthur, Martine Franck, Raghu Rai, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Webb and Patrick Zachmann</str...

02.06.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Sète, ImageSingulières : the program

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The festival ImageSingulières, dedicated to documentary photography, will run from June 2nd until July 10th in Hérault, at Sète. Organized by the association CéTàVOIR, the show is run by Gilles Favier, artistic director and Valérie Laquittant...

06.06.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Marilyn by
Ed Feingersh

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The Photo-Galerie of the Maison des Etats-Unis will be presenting from May 31 through October 7, 2011, A Blonde in Manhattan, The Marilyn Monroe you’ve never seen" an exhibition by photographer Ed Feingersh on the occasion of the release of Adrien Gombeaud’s book, “A Blonde in Ma...

02.06.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Stéphanie Schneider
An ode to Polaroid

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For her photography series Stefanie Schneider exclusively uses expired Polaroid film in which the chemicals react in an unpredictable manner provoking chromatic aberrations, holes and haloes that carefully rest over the motifs like a second reality. Using ...

15.06.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Stockholm
Robert Mapplethorpe

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Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is undoubtedly one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He was inspired by the sculpture of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and translated this aesthetic to a time and culture of his own, namely New ...

15.06.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Chicago
Uta Barth

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Uta Barth’s exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is called «…and to draw a bright white line with light ». This is how she describes it: “Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is the title of a biography of Robert Irwin. Long before that it was a line in a Zen text. No words...

01.06.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Wanderings
Polka Gallery

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For their new exhibition entitled Wanderings, Polka Gallery presented Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama’s, Light Memoirs, William Klein’s, The Wedding of the Century, Prune Nourry’s Holy Daughters a...

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Cafe Society
Photos de comptoir

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“The idea of this exhibition, organized in the context of the second edition of Little Paradis, was to bring together worked that evoked the café culture, like friends in conversation at the bar. The anonymous photographers, who bring a vision of the café as a hangout for lost sou...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

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