Exhibition
The origins of photography
Perhaps the most extensive exhibition ever devoted to early calotypes, curated by Sylvie Aubenas and Paul Louis Roubert.
An anecdote for experts: Hans Kraus, the world’s most influential trader in XIXth century photographs, and Thomas Walther, the art collector,
26.10.2010[ read full story ]
Portfolio
Battlefields
by Yan Morvan
He has an incurable curiosity. That is how Yan Morvan, a 56 year old photojournalist, describes himself. He talks to us about his battlefields. “How and why does a person photograph war?”. I’ve asked myself this question throughout my twenty years as a war correspondent. Is it the desi...
25.10.2010[ read full story ]
Book
Book on famous art director Ruth Ansel
One day in 1962, Nancy White, the Editor in Chief of Bazaar, had a heated argument with her Artistic Director, Marvin Israel, and fired him. She replaced him with two women : Bea Feitler and Ruth Ansel. Both went on to become celebrities in their field. After Bazaar, Ruth...
27.10.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Looking at architecture
This exhibition is an opportunity to explore photography of architecture, and is based on the idea of possible comparisons and similarities between two collections, on Italian and one French.
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Musée du Judaïsme: collection
Since its creation over ten years ago, the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du
Judaïsme has regularly organised photography exhibitions (Magnum, Didier, Ben Loulou,…
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Portraits of writers 1850 to our days
This exhibition of portraits features works taken from three Parisian
collections. Photographs from the Maison de Victor Hugo collection evoke the early years of photography and the history of portraiture between 1850 and 1885,…
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
Portfolio
After Prom
by Martine Fougeron
From 2005 to 2009, French born photographer Martine Fougeron aimed her curious camera at her two adolescent sons. For four years, this New York City resident captured the fleeting moments of their coming of age, focusing on the delicate balance between youth and maturity, innocen...
25.10.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Portraits of artists in residencies
Every year since 1965, the Cité internationale des Arts has offered an artist-in-residence programme to artists from all over the world. Needless to say, the themes and works on show in the exhibition are very diverse
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
The Niepce Award
1955-2010: Retrospective
Since 1955, the annual Prix Niépce has recognized the work of a professional photographer. The prize is organized by Gens d’Images, an association founded in 1954 by Albert Plécy, Jacque-Henri Lartigue and Raymond Grosset.
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Angkor, a century
in pictures
This exhibition at the Musée Cernuschi focuses on a century of work at the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East) in Angkor, Cambodia.
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Steidl: From Robert Frank to Karl Lagerfeld
The exhibition is transferring from the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne and gives pride of place to photographers such as Jim Dine and Karl Lagerfeld, each of them taking over a room to display their abundant creative work and demonstrate the strength of their bonds with G...
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Feminism:
The Durand collection
The exhibition Photos Femmes Féminisme 1860-2000 is a historical journey through the photographic collection of the Marguerite Durand Library.
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
Exhibition
André Kertész, 91 years of masterpieces
There has never been a proper retrospective of the work of André Kertész (Budapest, 1894 – New York, 1985) in Europe, even though he donated all his negatives to the French state…
05.11.2010[ read full story ]
L'Oeil de La Lettre
Espace culturel danois Krass Clement
Nothing is missing in this exhibition by Krass Clement. His images, from 1973 and onwards, reminds of a mix between Robert Frank and Anders Petersen. They capture a cold and dark side of his home country Denmark. And when he uses colour, it´s not to make us comfortable. On the ...
04.11.2010[ read full story ]
L'Oeil de La Lettre
Institut culturel roumain: Les contemporains
I met Rumanian photographers…. an exhibition with documentary photographs showing a portrait, without artifice, of a country struggling to find its place in Europe. We want to see more, and for that you need to visit the websites of the artists. A naive and yet sincere ...
04.11.2010[ read full story ]
L'Oeil de La Lettre
Goethe Institut:
Herbert List
The Herbert List exhibition at the Goethe Institute only show us the most well known part of Lists work. This is a pitty. His book ”Lumière sur la Grèce”, offer us more knowledge about Lists love for photography and his incredible work from the 1930´s.
04.11.2010[ read full story ]
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