Art and commerce

The ideal collection of Bettina Rheims

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I am an avid collector. I buy everything I like, whether it be in the Louvre, at the Prado, or in an antiques shop. It’s easy in a museum because I walk out with my collection of…post cards! Yesterday, for my friend Jean-Jacque’s “La Lettre”, I went shopping at Paris Photo. F...

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Exhibition

Death in the afternoon
Jean-Claude Sauer

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In 1958, Life magazine asked Hemingway to write a series of stories about the combat between two mythical crowd-pleasing bullfighters: Luis Miguel Dominguin and Antonio Ordonez.

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Auction

Richard Avedon
Fixing the Ineffable

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Richard Avedon’s photographs have impressed themselves on the consciousness of successive generations through their very singular authority. If any photographer deserves to have that over-used term ‘iconic’ attached to so many of his images it is surely Avedon.

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L'Oeil de La Lettre

Jean-Claude Sauer
at Photo 12

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With Jean-Claude Sauer, a bit of Paris Match’s history is told in this
exhibition. The Vietnam War, face to face with De Gaulle, Pompidou,
Giscard… Bullfighting with Dominguin and Ordonez el Cordobes.

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L'Oeil de La Lettre

William Klein
at the Polka Galerie

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William Klein was the guest of honor at last night’s opening at the
Polka Gallery. The Genestar family hosted their friends. Stephen
Dupont’s remarkable portraits of Marines with their commentaries in
the gallery’s front room.

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