Exhibition

Bangkok, Kathmandu Gallery: S.H. Lim

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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 ]

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The Fables
Camera Obscura Gallery

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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 ]

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Frederick E. Bertin Bergman, the Gentleman

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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 ]

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Aires de Jeux: European urban photography

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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 ]

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Serge Gainsbourg by the great photographers

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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 ]

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James Casebere
An ideal suburb

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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 ]

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Oleg Dou
Funeral portrait

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Born in 1983 in Moscow. As his mother was a painter and his father was a dress designer, in his childhood Oleg Dou used to gather with the artists and to spend a lot of time reading is father’s fashion magazines. At the age of 13, his parents offered him his first computer set up with a...

24.02.2011[ read full story ]

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Hedi Slimane
Fragments Americana

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The result of a fruitful collaboration of more than eight years between the gallery and the artist, the Almine Rech Gallery present Fthe first exhibition by Hedi Slimane in Brussels.
Fragments Americana follows Young American, a project presented in 2007 at the FOAM Phot...

23.02.2011[ read full story ]

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Photosculpture
Kunsthaus, Zurich

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Conceived by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the exhibition PhotoSculpture in Zurich’s Kunsthaus will run from February 25 to May 15, 2011. Imagined by MOMA curator Roxana Marcoci, the exhibition, featuring more than 300 current and historical pictures gathered fro...

24.02.2011[ read full story ]

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Lorna Simpson
Gathered

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In an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum until August 21st, 2011, renown artist Lorna Simpson reexamines her questions about identity through history and Afro-American photographs. A dialogue with herself and with the spectator.

24.02.2011[ read full story ]

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