Exhibition

David Goldblatt: Fondation HCB

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Delivered by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, the “HCB prize” is designed to help promote creativity for artists unable to complete their work for lack of financial backing. The prize is attributed every two years and offers €3000. The winner’s work is exposed and a catalog publ...

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Exhibition

Izis would be 100

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The Willy Brandt House in Berlin extended the exhibition « Izis, Paris der Träume » to coincide with the photographer’s 100th birthday. For his 101st birthday, his work might be exhibited in Israel « Izraël Biderman » later to become Israëlis Bidermanas, and finally Izis, the name under which th...

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Exhibition

Five strange family albums at the BAL

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A new photographic space devoted to the "image-document" opened in mid-September, 2010 near Paris’ Place de Clichy: the "BAL", takes its namesake from the location's history as a famous dance hall during the roaring twenties. For its first exhibition series, Director Diane Du...

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Exhibition

Dave Mead
Magnificent Specimens

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Magnificent Specimens is a glimpse at photographer Dave Mead’s extensive portrait series, featuring the 2009 World Beard & Mustache Championship contestants: a collection of some of the World’s most elegant, most bizarre and most elaborate beards and mustaches. Photographed ...

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Art and commerce

Chris Beetles opens new gallery in London

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To celebrate the opening of their second gallery, Chris Beetles Fine
Photographs, the London based photo gallery in St. James, chose to
present famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Marlène Dietrich or Joséphine Baker taken by Eve Arnold.

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In memoriam

The death of Milton Rogovin

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Milton Rogovin, the Buffalo social documentary photographer who became internationally renowned for his portraits of the poor and working class, died January 18 in his Chatham Avenue home, under hospice care, from complications related to a mild heart attack.

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