Sylvie Lécallier graduated in 1993 from the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie. Since 2000, she has overseen the Galliera photography collection at the Musée de la Mode de la ville de Paris. This specialized collection contains 50,000 photogra...

07.07.2012[ read full story ]

Christophe Berthoud, an art historian specializing in photography, graduated from the ENSP in 1992. Today he has been invited to revisit the work of the Alinari between 1852 and 1920. Berthoud decided to account for the diversity of the themes and genres approached through the...

07.07.2012[ read full story ]

An art fair dedicated to contemporary photography, nofound photo fair offers a meeting ground for everyone involved in the world of the still image, through unique and original projects. The main objective of nofound photo fair is to create an event that brings to light the ...

03.07.2012[ read full story ]

En 1967, terminant des études musicales, Arnaud Claass découvre la photographie. Il va alors parcourir les États-Unis jusqu’au milieu des années 1970 avant de s’orienter vers une œuvre personnelle. “L’image photographique non comme réponse, ni même comme question : comme exclamation” déclare...

02.07.2012[ read full story ]

Trying in vain to depict the slobber of a panting animal, the Greek painter Protogenes ended up hurling a sponge at his picture. The accidental result was that he got the effect he was after. This anecdote, told by Pliny the Elder, is quoted by Pierre Soulages to explain the impor...

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Thoughtful, demanding and tenacious, Rémy Fenzy began his career in the administration of the French embassy in Reykjavik, Iceland. He decided to pursue a graduate degree at the Sorbonne (Paris I), becoming first an art school professor, then a director of the Ecole Supérieu...

03.07.2012[ read full story ]

“Last year, Rémy Fenzy came to see me to tell me the school was going to celebrate its 30th anniversary. He asked if it would be possible to honor the occasion with a spot in the festival. Which I refused at first.” Then together, they took the time to conjure up a s...

02.07.2012[ read full story ]

“Imagine if we could hold a seminar with a discussion between Rousseau and Voltaire. We would have had these two men telling the stories of their lives. We have the fortune today to have the greatest photographers in the world. Even if many of them are disappearing now, they all came to ...

02.07.2012[ read full story ]

There is nothing more French than this small village in the Loir Valley—not to be confused with the Loire Valley—where our “good” kings would come to taste the pleasures of the flesh on the banks of the Loir. It is in this charming locale that Odile Andrieu organized the 8th ...

28.06.2012[ read full story ]

With « Circus in Palestine », Milan Szypura, a young photography student at the EMI-CFD, did not win a Vendôme award, but did win the encouragement of several journalist jury members. About his story, “Le cirque en Palestine”, he said: “Making movies in Palestin...

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