Sotheby’s announced that Paris will become the company’s European centre for sales of Photographs. Biannual sales will be held at the Galerie Charpentier in May and November. The first spring photographs sale includes an important collection of works by Heinz Hajek-Halke.

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I took the photograph of a bar, Love Point, a few years earlier in Japan. I liked the sign and its design. I used it on the cover in order to confuse the readers. When the show opened in Japan, a newspaper article appeared saying that the show is about a real place in Japan w...

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This week, David Schonauer shows us images from the storms that ravaged New Hampshire, with an image by Tim Jean published in the New York Times in which we see cars knocked over by the side of the road. And at the same time, in China, they celebrated their...

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Betel Nut Beauties is a photoseries documenting the compelling phenomenon of roadside betel nut stands across Taiwan. A fixture on the streets of urban and suburban Taiwan, these brightly lit, often ramshackle huts sell a mild stimulant made from the nut of the areca pal...

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The Gotha reunions on the world of photography, on the occasion of the 16th edition of the HSBC Photography Prize – one of the first “out of the ordinary” sponsors that has believed in and backed photography in its evolution and coronation. The prize is a “must” that celebrates a...

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Born in Russia in 1979, Lev Ilirov followed his mother who had chosen to emigrate to Israel as many other Russians did during the 1990’s.
Scenes from everyday life taken from a personal diary create the history of an amiably weaved existence. Mikaela Zyss obtained carte b...

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In 2006, Leon Herschritt celebrated 50 years in photography. To him we owe such iconic portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, the General De Gaulle, Salvador Dali, Catherine Deneuve, as well as many other images of photojournalism crafted by this humanist author. Gallery 51, run by Sylvie P...

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