Brassaï the photographer (1899–1984) long feared traveling to America. His friend Henry Miller, who had fled New York for Paris during the 1930’s, unfailingly described his country as hostile, closed minded, pitiless for the weak. Brassaï had long doubted him...

24.06.2011[ read full story ]

Writing about Elliott Erwitt is an antediluvian adventure. It sends us back to when photography was practiced with humility and compassion, and was a bit less narcissistic. The bygone days at Magnum with its passionate members. Among them, this son of a Russian immig...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

The series La chute (“The fall”) by Denis Darzacq shows the evolution of the body in the urban space: In Paris and its surroundings, bodies seem to fall from the sky or from balconies, fallen or suicidal angels. Some seem to be levitations and recall the popul...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

For this first edition, Jean-Luc Montérosso, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, was the Artistic Director. The program naturally begins with an exhibition of photos selected from the MEP collection: from Boubat to Izis, including Sab...

01.06.2011[ read full story ]

This dual exhibition of partly unknown works by the German-American artist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) provides an overview of Feininger’s graphic œuvre as well as of his photographic output.

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

The “Galerie de la photographie classique” has just opened with an exhibition devoted to the Ansel Adams school (1902-1984). The gallery and the exhibition have made names for themselves, through their quality and scale. This two-floored new venue also includes ...

25.05.2011[ read full story ]

This exhibition at Jeu de Paume, the first one on such scale to be held in France for sixteen years, brings together a broad ensemble of major works, some of which are little known or have seldom been exhibited. It highlights both the diversity and the unity of the photographic work o...

25.05.2011[ read full story ]

Baron Wolman immortalized the faces of the most iconic celebrities of our times, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis in Monterey in 1969, BB King. The exhibition presents multiple covers that Baron Wolman created for Rolling Stone between 1967 and 1970, with Janis Jopl...

31.05.2011[ read full story ]

The Transphotographique Festival has the particularity of taking over numerous places all around the region. Parallel to the exhibitions shown in Lille, the festival organizes other numerous demonstrations in the cities nearby such as Villeneuve d’Ascq, Tourcoing or even Roubaix....

26.05.2011[ read full story ]

The Transphotographiques Festival presents the large majority of the exhibitions in the center of Lille, on places as numerous as they are eclectic, under the direction of two curators, Françoise Paviot and Gabriel Bauret.

26.05.2011[ read full story ]