Photography is as healthy as ever. That is the conclusion of this
month of November that just ended. A sparkling Photography Month, a sovereign Paris Photo that saw flocks of the world’s photo jet set,
hallucinating sales, unbelievably crowded galleries, even the most far
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27.11.2010[ read full story ]

Paris Le Mois de la Photo: 57 exhibitions organized by various
institutions and Parisian galleries, events including the Paris Match
Prize or the Pictet Prize, discoveries, retrospectives, and special
favorites. This year, the Month of Photography is celebrating its
30th edition.

05.11.2010[ read full story ]

It took Diane Dufour four years to make her dream come true: transform a former 1930’s brothel and horse betting house in the 50’s and 60’s, into an exhibition hall for photography in all of its current technological expressions. She gives us a guided tour of the Bal.

05.11.2010[ read full story ]

During a trip to the United States, Fabrice Hergott, director of the Paris City Museum of Modern Art, met with American filmmaker Larry Clark and suggested that he present an exhibition of his photographs. Kiss the past hello shows several pictures from Larry Clark’s e...

05.11.2010[ read full story ]

A video by La Lettre de La Photographie
For Agnès Sire, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) “was a true believer of photography: he had faith in pictures”. The director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation talks about this photographer

09.11.2010[ read full story ]

With the voice of Françoise Huguier
Françoise Huguier spent more than three years working on the community apartments of Saint Petersburg. Slowly but surely, she became familiar enough with the residents that she was able to shoot

09.11.2010[ read full story ]

After Japan two years ago, followed by Iran and the Arab countries, the spotlight will be on Central Europe this year – the final guest of our trilogy dedicated to the East. The guests of honour this year are Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia and Poland.

18.11.2010[ read full story ]

Duane Michals at the Thierry Marlat Gallery.
Everyone was waiting for Duane!! But he never showed: he was afraid of getting stuck in Paris with the strikes.

28.10.2010[ read full story ]

Yan Morvan will be covering Month of November’s photography
exhibition openings. Here, the Mutant Utopias at the Passage de Retz.

28.10.2010[ read full story ]

Viviane Esders opens the Photography Auction Season in Paris. Viviane Esders’ modern and contemporary photo auctions held at the Hotel Drouot on November 9 included 245 lots. Nearly half found buyers for a total of €310,047 (fees included) and more than 40 lots surpassed the high estimat...

22.11.2010[ read full story ]

Yesterday night the whole Paris Match office moved to a Maison Européenne de la Photographie to honour the photographer Olivier Laban-Mattei. Olivier was absent since he already went back to Haiti, but his father was there to receive the ”Grand Prix” from Olivier Royant.

25.11.2010[ read full story ]

Patrick Swirc is especially known for his portraits of movie stars. Here he delivers a more personal work on the association between eroticism and death. A narrow link between Eros and Thanatos that has always fascinated the photographers.

22.11.2010[ read full story ]

Why the Œil (Eye) throughout the month of November? For vanity?
Egocentrism? Self congratulation? No. The Oeil exists because the
world of photography is so fabulous: a blend of enthusiastic men and
women who share the same passion, the image.

27.11.2010[ read full story ]

They all came, they were all there. The gotha of the photographic world came out yesterday from 2pm to 10pm for the opening of Paris Photo. By 7pm, the crowd was so enormous that it was nearly impossible to see a picture.

18.11.2010[ read full story ]

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.

19.11.2010[ read full story ]

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.

19.11.2010[ read full story ]

La crème des crèmes, as the french use to say, were all gathered at HSBC at Champs-Elysées for the opening of ”East side story”. No one was missing: Kristine Scott Thomas, William Klein, Bruno Barbey, Alain Genestar… The theme of the exhibition is ”the new faces of eastern europe” through the image...

17.11.2010[ read full story ]

Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain are two of the best paparazzi in France. Yesterday night between 18-20 they were standing infront of 19, rue Guénégaud. But they were not looking for celebrities – they were celebrating the opening of their exhibition on Brigitte Bardot.

17.11.2010[ read full story ]

It was the “must see" evening for the followers of VU Gallery. VU agency celebrated a large exhibition of Mickael Ackerman, opening in the heart of Le Marais, where so many famous writers lived during the 19th century.

05.11.2010[ read full story ]

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”.

29.10.2010[ read full story ]

When I arrived in the apartment/gallery of Michele Chomette, in front of Le Centre Pompidou – where she has been living for the past 30 years, I saw an audience captivated by photographer Francois Mechain. It’s not an ordinary opening, it’s more like a private party w...

05.11.2010[ read full story ]

The opening of the Steidl exhibition at l’Hôtel de la Monnaie on the south bank of the Seine was full of beautiful celebrities from the universe of photography. Gerhard Steidl, Karl Lagerfeld, François-Marie Banier, Joseph Koudelka and many others were celebrating, drinking Ruinart ...

10.11.2010[ read full story ]

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...

29.10.2010[ read full story ]

The opening of Francoise Huguier was in the north of Paris, near Pere Lachaise. There are so many openings these days that you need to ride a Velib’ or a scooter if you want to see them all. As usual with Francoise, everything was friendly and joyful. Formats, color, d...

05.11.2010[ read full story ]

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...

29.10.2010[ read full story ]

Buttes Montmartre looked like Daytona yesterday night for the opening of the Philippe Vermes exhibition. Philippe was receiving his fanatic Harley Davidson friends dressed head to toe in leather outfit, in a cool, funny and relaxed atmosphere.

05.11.2010[ read full story ]

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 ]

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 ]

It’s 4 o’clock and I’m quite early. It’s more than thirteen openings tonight – a hard choice. I take advantage of the empty gallery to appriciate the sharpness of the images and to discover a not very well known part of Sally Mann, the nude men. Yan Morvan

08.11.2010[ read full story ]

The rain was pouring down on tuesday night, but in front of la Maison Européenne de la Photographie hundreds of people was gathered for one of the major exhibitions at La Mois de La Photo: ”Autour de l’Extreme”. The installation is beautiful, a mix of iconic classic photography like Penn...

12.11.2010[ read full story ]

A very warm and inviting atmosphere, reuniting friends. The world of photo journalism.

28.10.2010[ read full story ]

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 ]

The Month of Photography: the opportunity to be among friends and happily celebrate pictures, two steps away from the Fine Arts Academy. The atmosphere was more than happy and at the gallery next door, at number 4, Eikoh Hosoe, who will return on the 16th to sign his book, was d...

08.11.2010[ read full story ]

Jaques Borgetto, Françoise Nunez, Bernard Plossu et Sophie Zénon are exhibiting their vision of the internal voyage. The curator is Laura Serani, the installation is sophisticated and the ambiance joyfull.

12.11.2010[ read full story ]

Go, run, rush to the Jeu de Paume to see André Kertész exibition : it is a huge an gorgeous photography lesson. For the André Kertész groupies. I put one of my picture of the master made in 1979 during the Arles Festival with Agathe Gaillard. Yan Morvan

03.11.2010[ read full story ]

In his tiny gallery situated in one of the most charming places of Paris: the place of Fürstemberg, the very nice Serge Aboukrat presents works of the famous British photographer/sculptor Mac Adams. “Post-modern tragedies” is placed next to the more classic black and white “Emty ...

12.11.2010[ read full story ]

Weegee, Clark, Erwitt, Goldin… David Guiraud, specialist in 19th century photography, has the real talent to discover rare pictures. Beaudoin Lebon came to admire the Larry Clark images which where for sale for 3000 € each.
Please note that Galerie David Guiraud, on the...

03.11.2010[ read full story ]

It´s plenty of famous international artists who decorates the walls of Gallery 1900-2000: Araki, Bellmer, Molinier, Steichen, etc. All masters in the field of the eroticism, willing give us their view of the secrets gardens. Sometimes very direct and not very modest but always photog...

12.11.2010[ read full story ]

DIeter Appelt presented a new creation at gallery Françoise Paviot at
rue Saint-Anne called ”make moving images with photgraphy”. The master in geometry explains his approach: ”the images in my photgraphy are silent landscape with no human life”

15.11.2010[ read full story ]

Eric Rondepierre and Georges Rousse are showing at Gallery RX. The gallery directed by the two passionated Eric Rodrigue and Eric Dereumaux want is dedicate to fine art photography.

15.11.2010[ read full story ]

The Month of Photography in Paris is also the occasion to discover
some photography of original approach. Here five young women who works with fine art photgraphy exploring the female intimacy.

15.11.2010[ read full story ]