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Patty Bullion
Catastrophic memories

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On April 17th, a series of tornadoes struck six southern states in the United States. On the streets of Lester, Alabama, a woman collected photographs belonging to the victims and posted them on Facebook, in hopes of finding their owners.

18.05.2011[ read full story ]

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Florence Chevallier
Le Bonheur

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Le Bonheur (1991-1992) is a series of 38 pictures described by Bernard Marcellis as “The daily lives of couples for the most part enacted – literally – outdoors. Far from typical representations, here is a world visualized against an exterior where the natural backdrop (o...

31.05.2011[ read full story ]

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Charles Moore
Civil Rights and Beyond

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Charles Moore (1931- 2010) is the most important civil rights era photographer. His searing images of conflict between demonstrators and law enforcement helped propel landmark civil rights legislation.

11.05.2011[ read full story ]

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New York, Erica Simone
Self-Portraits

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As once an Angeleno in Paris, and now a Parisian in New York, really my mind is stuck in the stars. Photography has become a true passion and within it, a never-ending drive to try and challenge everything, even if it means getting naked in the freezing snow…

17.05.2011[ read full story ]

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Fabrice Lépissier: Story of a forgotten village

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Springtime 1956, the arrival at Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot of 1,200 French people from Indochina (of which 740 children) transformed the village’s military camp into a “Little Vietnam”. The village was supposed to be temporary, but 55 years later nothing has changed. Th...

18.05.2011[ read full story ]

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The alphabet in images (end)

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We feature today the letters N to Z from Nini Patte en l’Air through Zeppelin. Between these two letters, thirteen small master works quite unknown, like the class photograph of a group of shaved headed women during the Liberation, the fat nude woman in a doorway, the portrait of Marie...

19.05.2011[ read full story ]

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The alphabet in images

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Marion Pranal and Philippe Jacquier are two passionate people. They have not always been gallerists, before founding the Gallery La Lumière des Roses. They confess: They know nothing about photography! “We are aliens” they say. What they love is not to have...

18.05.2011[ read full story ]

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François Lochon: Japan, the Aftermath

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“For the first time in my 35 years of career, I am on a story 3 weeks late!” And François Lochon bursts into laughter. It’s one of the many features of my character: even in the worst of circumstances, he finds a way to laugh like a kid.

05.05.2011[ read full story ]

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Laurent Van der Stockt
Tahir Square

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“I come from a generation that no longer believes that one picture can change the world”, the great Gamma reporter tells me last November during his last Paris exhibition. “The pictures featured in Petit endroit, I shot them in Iraq between 2003 and 2005, from the beginning o...

05.05.2011[ read full story ]

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New York, Lyle Owerko The Samburu

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The Samburu portrait project by Lyle Owerko documents one of Africa’s last great Warrior tribes in vivid black and white renderings. As an established living record of a community in transition, the series transports a person into a world both equally ch...

04.05.2011[ read full story ]

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