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Mona Kuhn Talks to Elizabeth Avedon

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Working with preeminent photography publisher, Gerhard Steidl, on her newly released Bordeaux Series, Kuhn said, “The thing is, I only have really wonderful things to say about Gerhard. He is indeed a genius of publishing.”

11.11.2011[ read full story ]

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Taryn Simon: A Living Man Declared Dead

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In one afternoon at the Tate Modern, I was first pleasantly surprised to discover the exhibition Contested Terrains in the Level 2 Gallery (http://lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/4494/londres-contested-terrains), before I continued on to the upper floor to see th...

27.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Susan Barnett by Adriana Teresa

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Susan Barnett is a very secretive photographer, but she met Adriana
Teresa of FotoVisura & Visura Magazine. Here is their interview. Susan Barnett: I grew up in Packanack Lake, New Jersey, a lake community not far from Paterson. Packanack was a community known for its...

27.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Elinor Carucci by
Sabine Mirlesse

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On September 15th Sasha Wolf Gallery opened a brand new body of work by Elinor Carucci entitled Born – a series of images about her twins, Eden and Emanuelle and her first experience with motherhood. Known for her profoundly intimate images documenting her parents, herself...

27.10.2011[ read full story ]

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London
Contested Terrains

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My mind was set on visiting the Tate Modern over the weekend. I wanted to finally see the installation of Taryn Simon’s A Living Man Declared Dead. I had already flipped through the book a couple of times and pondered whether or not I should buy it—due to its con...

26.10.2011[ read full story ]

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Stockholm: Birnbaum on photography

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When Daniel Birnbaum became director at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2011 he took the radical step to rehang the museum’s whole collection: out went the Rauchenbergs, the Duchamps and the Kleins and in came Cindy Sherman, Duane Michaels and Larry Clark.

17.10.2011[ read full story ]

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W.M. Hunt Talks to Elizabeth Avedon

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The first U.S. exhibition of over 500 photographs from W.M. Hunt’s extraordinary collection will open at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film on October 1, 2011.

30.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Karim ben Khelifa
Emphas.is

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Karim ben Khelifa, 38 years. Photojournalist for 15 years, with many publications in the international press. He lives between New York and France.

29.09.2011[ read full story ]

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New York, Fred Ritchin
What matters now?

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Fred Ritchin is professor of Photography at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, author of After Photography, former editor of the New York Times magazine and founder of the photojournalism program at ICP (International Center of Photogr...

21.09.2011[ read full story ]

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Tohoku by Martin Hladik

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Although Japan’s March 11 triple disaster is long gone from front-page news, conditions there remain dire. Tokyo-based, Czech photographer Martin Hladik is hoping to maintain awareness of the disaster’s effects, and the residents struggling to survive.



28.09.2011[ read full story ]

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