Book

Paul Jasmin
California Dreaming

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When I flip through the pages in Paul Jasmin’s latest book California Dreaming, I come to think about the song Being Boring – the second single from Pet Shop Boys’ album Behaviour. The black and white footage of the video opens with a nude boy coming out of a pool. The video conti...

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Exhibition

Martin Kollar
Nothing Special

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Born in Zlina, Slovakia in 1971, Martin Kollar began his Nothing Special series in 2001. “This project resulted from my reaction to what was happening in post-communist Eastern Europe, the clash with the new system. You are 18 years old, and you are told th...

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Exhibition

Katy Grannan
Boulevard

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For the past three years Katy Grannan has roamed the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco, photographing strangers. Her subjects are most often people whom others pass by without notice, anonymous individuals who have now been transformed by photography’s peculiar magi...

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Portfolio

Céline Medina: Through taxi windshields

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“I dedicated this TAXI BE TV exhibition to Pierrot Men, a photographer and malgasy magician . And to La Caravane that is my little right bank home”, writes Céline Medina. Architect and photograph. Globetrotter, she is passionate to travel because she finds inspi...

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Exhibition

Bruce Wrighton
An interior man

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In addition to his street portraits, Bruce Wrighton also tried to capture environments. Not because he wanted to be close to his subjects, but to show that he felt for others, that it wasn’t just a body experience. Cars, household interiors or advertisements were ...

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Exhibition

Staging Action
Photography since 1960

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This New York exhibition highlights artistic performances staged expressly for the camera, in contrast to photos that are mere witnesses to disassociated actions. Selected from the MoMA collections, the autonomous and expressive pictures of Staging Action display scenes, of...

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Portrait

Pierre Klein
by Bernard Perrine

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William Klein’s son Pierre, 47, is a director, photographer, and painter whose movies, books, and exhibitions have influenced cinema and photography. He grew up in the intensity of this vast heritage that seemed to carve out his future, after first turning away, he came back, attr...

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