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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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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In partnership with the Camera Obscura gallery, the Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau, located in Gentilly is presenting through April 30, 2011, works by Lucien Hervé, “Vivants”. In the introductory text by artistic director Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq, the exhibition’s title can be und...

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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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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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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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On this February 8th, James Dean would have been 80 years old. His life tragically ended on September 30th 1955 behind the wheel of his lightening fast Spyder, James Dean (and his romantic rebel image) has remained eternally trendy. During his short life and by way of o...

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Thomas Millet was born in 1977 in Paris. Three years after starting his Architectural studies, he began his career as a photographer, assisting Denis Rouvre. In 2002 he commenced his work on “Hidden Portraits,” a series full of humor and poetry, where the models and the objects fi...

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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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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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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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