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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

“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 ]

From July 2nd through August 31st, the Parisian Library Claude Levy Strauss exposes black and white photographs by Elise Hardy. I remember the first time I met Elise Hardy, the year she entered Rapho agency, in 1992. The agency was in its historical offices, on the R...

01.07.2011[ read full story ]

Montpellier. The land they occupy is adjacent to the future City Hall
construction site. They call it the Platz. On the Platz they built
makeshift dwellings where they eat, sleep, rest, play, fight and
dream.

01.06.2011[ read full story ]

As early as my first photos, I had the certainty that the world belonged to me. Everything, absolutely everything, from the red boat washed ashore to the cat jumping in mid air, everything could enter my black box, even if sometimes it was necessary to rearrange the arrivals, ...

21.06.2011[ read full story ]

25.06.2011[ read full story ]

Vered Gallery features Couture Shock, the first solo exhibition of work by new fashion photographer Raul Higuera. Couture Shock features highlights of Higuera’s wonderfully bizarre, sexy surreal fashion stories straight from the pages of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and Ha...

02.06.2011[ read full story ]