“My work deals in daily tensions, in those anxieties that we experience due to the discrepancies and contrasts between beauty and comfort, between the “great possibilities” of our time and the extreme precariousness of our contemporary situation.” Per Barclay.

02.03.2011[ read full story ]

In 2006, Artes de Mexico, the Mexican book publishing company that also edits an art review of the same name, decided to create a new collection devoted to photography books. “Luz Portátil”, literally “Portable light” will promote the discovery of “Contemporary Mexican ...

02.03.2011[ read full story ]

Over two hundred previously unseen photographs by Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko, held in private hands until now, presented at newly branded Art Sensus as part of the first comprehensive gallery exhibition devoted to the artist’s photographic work and that of his contemporaries. Curat...

01.03.2011[ read full story ]

Bert Stern has enhanced the glamour of his images with the use of crystals, overlaid on the surface of his photographs. Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, Twiggy, and Elizabeth Taylor are some of the subjects in this new technique. These unique prints are playful and inventive and enrich the iconi...

01.03.2011[ read full story ]

An encounter with S. H. Lim (Vivat Pitayaviriyakul) and his fashion and glamour photography is akin to a trip in a Time Machine. Back to the glory days and uncomplicated appeal of Thai cinema and beauty contests post-1957. His photographic prints have become the memory of that ...

01.03.2011[ read full story ]

What magic potion made Didier Brousse bring together photographers of such importance as Giacomo Bunelli, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Pentti Sammallahti, Hiroshi Watanabe, Masao Yamamoto and Sarah Moon and the drawings of Ilona Suschitzky? We could certainly find a way to the solut...

01.03.2011[ read full story ]

Meeting Frederick Edwin Bertin for the first time can be a rather out-of-time experience. With his gentleman education and delicate manners, his passion for the sculptors Riemenschneider and Houdon, the trios of Bach, Haydn and Mozart, the Schubert Lieder...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

From February 25th through April 24th, the city of Montpellier will host the exhibition “Playgrounds, fields of tension : Figures in European urban photography since 1970”, at the Pavillion Populaire.
Monika Faber, chief curator of the photography collection of the Albe...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

20 years have passed since Serge Gainsbourg has taken his final bow. An immigrant’s son who loved to tangle up the French language, using slang and juggling words, he also loved to play with his personal image. Belgian gallerist Roger Szmulewicz, a true Gainsbourg fan,...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

Galerie Daniel Templon exposed at Impasse Beaubourg the new series House from photographer James Casebere, on show for the first time in Europe. Born in 1953, James Casebere lives and works in New York. Recent projects have included taking part in The Pictures Generation e...

24.02.2011[ read full story ]