Thirty five years ago, on June 17, Diego Goldberg and his wife Suzy began taking pictures of each other. Diego, a renowned Argentinean photographer, used a simple portrait format: a dark background, no props, unchanging lighting. Each looking directly at the camera. Their fa...

27.01.2011[ read full story ]

VIP Art Fair has launched its inaugural edition last Saturday featuring 138 leading contemporary art galleries from 30 countries, with more than 2,000 artists and 7,500 works of art in inventory. Works on view at the Fair range from more than 50 pieces priced above $1 million USD to more...

25.01.2011[ read full story ]

Wang Qingsong: When Worlds Collide, a solo exhibition by one of China’s most innovative contemporary artists, is on view at the International Center of Photography. Featuring a dozen large-scale photographs and three video works, it is the most extensive U.S. showing t...

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The Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow (formerly known as the Photography House of Moscow), 16 Ostozhenka, 119034 Moscow is 10 minutes from the Kremlin and not far from the Pushkin Museum. The interior measures 9000 m2, with 2500 m2 of exhibition rooms and a 400m2 terrace. It employs 20...

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When BP’s Deepwater Horizon well began pouring millions of barrels of oil into Gulf waters in May 2010, Edward Burtynsky travelled to the site to capture the disaster as it developed. Though characteristically visually spectacular (sublime is not too strong a word) and...

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After fifteen years of unrelenting work for the recognition of Russian photography, the passionate founder of the Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow talks about her taste for art.

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Born in Morocco, Lalla Essaydi has been examining the role of the Muslim woman by incorporating layers of Islamic calligraphy applied by hand with henna, in tandem with poses directly inspired by 19th Century Orientalist painting. By appropriating this imagery, the works reflect the “comple...

24.01.2011[ read full story ]

It’s with one laughing & one crying eye I am announcing that I will be leaving The New Yorker on March 15. On this date I will have been with the magazine exactly 15 years. I still love my work here-always have. Creating the New Yorker photo department & it’s visual l...

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The Lettre is now offering a weekly press review of photographic stories in American newspapers and magazines. It will run every Friday, prepared by David Schonauer, former senior editor of American Photo and founder of the blog “I like to Watch”.

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Naomi Leshem, recipient of the 2009 ”Constantiner Award for an Israeli photographer” by the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, studied photography at the Hadassah College in Jerusalem. Sleepers is her first solo exhibition at the Andrea Meislin Gallery.

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I blog and I read blogs. A lot of them. Blogs have become my go-to source for information; they feed and comfort me. Today, bloggers are widely respected within their industries and have become our new decision makers as they showcase, analyze and filter information for us.

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Photography from 1842 to 2010 was the theme for the final publication of the “Editions 303”, under the direction of Bernard Renoux. The XIXth and XXth centuries are exposed throughout pages of portraits, architecture, society, industry, landscapes, photography pioneers, artists an...

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The “Rue de l’Exposition” gallery is a project by the Romanian Cultural Institute of Paris. Motivated by their widely acclaimed Photo Month exhibitions in November 2010 (“Bucarest, the unloved”, “Don’t turn your Head”), the Institute’s Director Katia Danila has decided to op...

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Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road will present the first survey of Felice Beato’s (British, born Italy, 1832–1909) long and varied photography career which covered a wide geographical area—from the Middle East to Southeast Asia. This exhibition will run co...

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National Geographic organized its annual seminar on a Thursday in January, by invitation only. It is always a good opportunity to run into photographers. First, Vince Musi’s introduction. This photographer runs the show both here and at the annual June Look3 Festival in ...

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Offered by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, the HCB Prize helps artists complete projects otherwise abandoned for lack of funding. It is designed for confirmed photographers with a battery of work in documentary style. The candidate must be presented by an institution (gallery...

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