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Guernica, a photographic ... resurrection

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“Painting is not designed to decorate apartments, it is a war tool, offensive, and defensive, against the enemy”. James Nachtwey has taken on this quote by Pablo Picasso as his own, expressed by the Spanish painter to describe his Guernica, a painting denouncing the air r...

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Eggleston x 3 in Los Angeles

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William Eggleston who recently honoured Paris with an exhibition at Fondation Cartier is showing at no less than three different art spaces in Los Angeles within the next two weeks: ”American Photographer” at Edward Cella Art+Architechture (28.10.2010-31.12.2010),

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Henri Foucault at Baudoin Lebon Gallery

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Henri Foucault, who explores bodies in all dimensions, illuminates the prestigious Beaudoin Lebon Gallery with his experiments of photography as an “instrument” for sculpture. A great number of art world VIP’s came out to celebrate Fine Arts and this photographic “process”.

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L’enfant flou at Agathe Gaillard Gallery

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One of JP Charbonnier’s pictures, “the blurry child”, a “split” image, inspired this exhibition showing twenty photographers’ works whose visible flaws (lab accidents) add magic and mystery. A quote by Louis Pasteur “fate is beneficial to ready souls” is the exhibition’s...

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Saul Leiter at Camera Obscura Gallery

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Painter and photographer, Saul Leiter enjoyed belated recognition. In his photography, there is painting, and in his paintings, there is photography. “Painting is glorious. I love photography, but I am not sure that photography can do what painting does.”
Arrived too lat...

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