Exhibition

Charlotte Perriand
Petit Palais, Paris

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Through 380 photographs and 70 pieces of furniture, the Petit Palais presents the work of Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) through the illumination of photography, although she is primarily known and celebrated for her creations of home furnishings and living...

03.05.2011[ read full story ]

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Raphaël Dallaporta
Grand Organs

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The Parker Stephenson Gallery in New York has been showing since early March the latest series by the photographer Raphaël Dallaporta. The artist presents a series that breaks away from his previous works.

26.04.2011[ read full story ]

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Allegoric photography
at the Royal Monceau

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The Royal Monceau presents the Russian collective AES+F. This exhibition is the first in the permanent space in Art District, the gallery in Le Royal Monceau devoted to contemporary art.

26.04.2011[ read full story ]

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Philip Jones Griffiths
Maelstrom

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The exhibition Maelstrom of photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths at Howard Greenberg gallery in New York covers his work on the Vietnam War and the conflict in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

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NY, Pioneers of the Downtown Scene

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The word ‘Underground’ is a tricky one for curators. It rather predicts failure. Conjuring up unspoken dark secrets, it leaves one to ask certain ethical questions as a consumer, wondering around through the dark concrete tunnels of the artist’s subconscious, who can’t even chase...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

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Shadi Ghadirian
Miss Butterfly

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Shadi Ghadirian catapulted quickly through the ranks of Iranian artists at home and abroad. Wry images addressing traditional social roles and paradoxes in her homeland, Ghadirian’s photographs feel instantly iconic. Drawing heavily from her life for themes, each n...

26.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Alixandra Fazzina
Escape from Somalia

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There are few places in the world more difficult and dangerous for journalists to work than in lawless Somalia. Similarly, living in the country which has been embattled by civil war since 1991 involves unrelenting poverty, unrestrained violence and little hope for sudden ch...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

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Hambourg: A century of photographic portraits

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The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg will be showing the exhibition Series of Portraits – A century of Photographs, a collection that will bring together 400 photos from 35 international artists. With the aim of offering the visitor different approaches...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

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From La Courneuve to Chicago

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The Mona Bismark Foundation is hosting the photo exhibition An Eye for an Eye, photographs by teenagers from La Courneuve and from Altgeld Gardens, a neighborhood in southern Chicago where Barack Obama began as a social worker.

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

In the Shadow of Things
Leonie Hampton

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Forma Foundation for Photography in Milan presents an exhibition by award-winning photographer Léonie Hampton (formally Léonie Purchas) about her mother’s Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

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