Exhibition

Carte blanche
for Leon Herschtritt

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After his exhibition “Christmas in Berlin, The Wall, 1961” organized in 2009 for the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gallery Seine 51 gives Leon Herschtritt carte blanche.

17.02.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Terry O’Neil
The triumph of glamour

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Terry O’Neill was born in the East End of London and left school in 1952, aged 14, with the firm ambition of becoming a jazz drummer. He was already accomplished, and easily found work with small combos playing on the London scene. However Terry had bigger i...

23.03.2011[ read full story ]

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O. Winston Link: The Last Steam Railroad

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With the exhibition The Last Steam Railroad in America, Robert Mann Gallery presents a selection of classic images from Linkʼs body of work produced in the 1950s. When the Norfolk & Western Railway began to convert its operations from steam to diesel, O...

16.02.2011[ read full story ]

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Allen Ginsberg at
Howard Greenberg

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The exhibition gather vintage photo booth strips, “drugstore” prints, and uniquely captioned prints by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was made between the late 40s and early 80s, traces his life from New York to San Francisco to Tangier and elsewhere. His pictures ...

16.02.2011[ read full story ]

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Chantal Michel: The fairy of Château de Gruyères

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In the style of Cindy Sherman, the Swiss photographer Chantal Michel puts herself “on stage”. Her world however is more dreamlike then that of the American artist, and resolutely anchored in the traditional pictoral Swiss style. With great technical mastery, Chant...

16.02.2011[ read full story ]

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Valid Foto BCN Gallery in Barcelona

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A new photographic gallery project in Spain to exhibit and promote the photography of specific artist/photographers and to continue to establish photography as the valuable art form that it is. Valid Foto represents and promotes artists within the gallery itself as well as creat...

15.02.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Ice...Antoine D'Agata
Musée Niépce

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This ensemble is the achievement of a collaboration with the Museum that has been supporting Antoine D’Agata’s production for the past 4 years. “Never before has a photographer had such a space, so many linear meters to place their artistic narrative”, states François Cheval,...

15.02.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Hans Steiner: Chronical of a Modern Life

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From February 9th to May 15th, the Musee de l’Élysée of Lausanne will allow one to rediscover the work of Hans Steiner, Swiss photographer of the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition was conceived by Daniel Girardin and Jean-Christophe Blaser, Chief Curator and Cu...

15.02.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Pierre Jamet
Dina Vierny

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“If I love photography as much as I do, it must be, aside from the pleasure of the emotion and the form, for the desire to prolong the ephemeral, to save the instant.” Pierre Jamet

15.02.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Hiroshi Watanabe
Love Point

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I took the photograph of a bar, Love Point, a few years earlier in Japan. I liked the sign and its design. I used it on the cover in order to confuse the readers. When the show opened in Japan, a newspaper article appeared saying that the show is about a real place in Japan w...

11.02.2011[ read full story ]

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