The extraordinary northern Indian city of Lucknow knew a particularly prosperous era during the mid 18th century, until the 1857 revolt against British rule. The city’s monuments are a reflection of the sophisticated lifestyle of Lucknow’s royal Nawabs (rulers) who...

12.04.2011[ read full story ]

Even before the turning point of the 1900s, among many other innovators, Vuillard, Bonnard and Degas began to use photographic cameras to use what only seems – in the eyes of their contemporaries – simply a technical mechanism foreign to the ...

12.04.2011[ read full story ]

Till very recently, we thought that seisms as emotions were under control in Japan. It was yet impossible to imagine that the devastating Nature could punish such an admirable and calm country. That the earthquake-proof constructions could’nt resist to a superhuman force.

12.04.2011[ read full story ]

The Glaz Gallery in Moscow presents an exhibition by Sergueï Burasovsky about the beaches of the 5 continents. We travel to Magadan, Russian Far East, a northern region, terribly unfriendly and synonymous with every Russian for the most dreadful goulags. Copacabana or the Canary...

12.04.2011[ read full story ]

Arthur Elgort created a sensation in his 1971 debut in British Vogue when a breath of fresh air wafted into the world of fashion photography. His free and easy snapshot style freed his models to move. Young and pretty models wore less make-up, were more...

18.04.2011[ read full story ]

For the first time in Russia, Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents a solo exhibition of American photographer Roxanne Lowit. The exhibition is part of the parallel program of the 6th Moscow International Festival Fashion and Style in Photography 2011.

11.04.2011[ read full story ]

“An American Prayer” is a poem by Jim Morrison, who would have traded rock stardom for recognition as a legitimate artistic figure in a hearbeat. Seven years after his death, “An American Prayer” was the name of a posthumous album of his poetry recorded to music by the remaining Do...

14.04.2011[ read full story ]

Just like cars and chocolate, death is the subject of a professional salon. The death salon! with its exclamation point, will take place in Paris’ Carrousel du Louvre from April 8 through 11, 2011. Jean-Pierre Jouët and Jessie Westenholtz, the creators of the FIAC, the Salon du Livre an...

07.04.2011[ read full story ]

Beth Dow is an american photographer who uses historical references and traditional processes to address contemporary issues of land use and our experience of time.

06.04.2011[ read full story ]

Who are tomorrow’s photographers? The curators of the Musée de l’Elysée de Lausanne try to answer this question by proposing a selection of young international artists on their way to becoming big names in the photography arena. reGeneration2 follows the fir...

06.04.2011[ read full story ]