Exhibition

Allen Ginsberg at
Howard Greenberg

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The exhibition gather vintage photo booth strips, “drugstore” prints, and uniquely captioned prints by Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) was made between the late 40s and early 80s, traces his life from New York to San Francisco to Tangier and elsewhere. His pictures ...

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Festival

Circulation(s) – Festival of Young Photography

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From February 19th through March 20th, the Gallery Côté Seine in Bagatelle park in Paris will hold the first Festival of Young European Photography. Under the name Circulation(s), this event, organized by the Fêtart association, will present a 360° view of ...

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Exhibition

Megan Cump
Darkening

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My series, Darkening, reveals nighttime worlds otherwise undetected and builds upon photography’s historic relationship with making the unseen visible. Influenced by allegorical painting, spirit photography, and notions of the uncanny, I adapt scientific and stealth imaging techniqu...

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Festival

Circulation(s) – Sophie Bernard

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Sophie Bernard, editor-in-chief of Images magazine and member of the jury for the festival’s program, was eager to highlight Anna Skladmann’s work. This young German photographer, who works between Moscow and New York, presents a series of portraits called “Little adults”. This wo...

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Book

Yelena Yemchuk
Gidropark

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Yelena Yemchuk was born in Kiev, and immigrated to the United States with her parents at the age of eleven. She studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Art Center in Pasadena. She started her photography career shooting music album covers as well as directing music videos. H...

14.02.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

Small world
Jonas Cuenin

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New York and photography. The wedding has been consummated now for quite a long time. When we think of New York, we see photography. When we live photography, we want New York. To talk about this historic union is also to be interested in its witnesses. Or better yet, to its actors. Thos...

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Portfolio

Photography in
Czech Republic

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‘So, what’s going on in Prague?‘: in my travels I am often asked about the state of Czech photography. Czech (or Czechoslovak) photography has always had a ’sound’ to it, but lately this sound is often not combined with any actual clear image. Viewed from the outside, photography in...

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Festival

Circulation(s) – Carte blanche for Laura Serani

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Curator Laura Serani is the godmother to the first edition of Circulation(s), the Festival of Young European Photography. Since the 1980s, she has devoted an important part of her projects to promote new artists, from new generations, and to realities or countries ...

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Exhibition

Ice...Antoine D'Agata
Musée Niépce

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This ensemble is the achievement of a collaboration with the Museum that has been supporting Antoine D’Agata’s production for the past 4 years. “Never before has a photographer had such a space, so many linear meters to place their artistic narrative”, states François Cheval,...

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Exhibition

Chantal Michel: The fairy of Château de Gruyères

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In the style of Cindy Sherman, the Swiss photographer Chantal Michel puts herself “on stage”. Her world however is more dreamlike then that of the American artist, and resolutely anchored in the traditional pictoral Swiss style. With great technical mastery, Chant...

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Exhibition

Carte blanche
for Leon Herschtritt

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After his exhibition “Christmas in Berlin, The Wall, 1961” organized in 2009 for the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gallery Seine 51 gives Leon Herschtritt carte blanche.

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Festival

Circulation(s) – The Jury’s selection

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After making a call for entries among European photographers, Fêtart, the association organizing the Festival, has set up a Jury made of personalities from around the world, from both the image and the arts. Chaired by Laura Serani, the Jury has chosen the 37 artists based...

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Portfolio

Wendy Burton
Nests

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For well over a decade I have photographed abandoned, derelict buildings: empty homes, failed factories, shuttered schools, churches devastated by Katrina. I have been drawn to the unspoken histories of these places – human presence evident even in its absence. There is a subtle connection, a ...

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Exhibition

O. Winston Link: The Last Steam Railroad

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With the exhibition The Last Steam Railroad in America, Robert Mann Gallery presents a selection of classic images from Linkʼs body of work produced in the 1950s. When the Norfolk & Western Railway began to convert its operations from steam to diesel, O...

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Portfolio

Lucile Chombart de Lauwe: Night workers

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With a degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure of Photography in Arles in 2010, Lucile Chombart de Lauwe integrated the photography collective “the bar Floréal” the same year. Her series “at night”, based on night shift workers in France and Belgium was p...

14.02.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Pierre Jamet
Dina Vierny

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“If I love photography as much as I do, it must be, aside from the pleasure of the emotion and the form, for the desire to prolong the ephemeral, to save the instant.” Pierre Jamet

15.02.2011[ read full story ]

Book

Big Sister: The whole world is watching

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Big Sister by Hana Jakrlova has just been published by Images en Manoeuvres Edition and Eric Franck Fine Art. Here is a text of Marvin Heiferman: “Do you ever feel horny? Do you want to see real sex? Real guys with real girls?” The website for Big Sister, a brothel ...

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Exhibition

Charles H. Traub
Object of My Creation

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This exhibition is comprised of photographs that Charles H. Traub made during his last semester in college through his time in graduate school and is concurrent with the release of his fourth monograph, Object of My Creation (Gitterman Gallery, 2011).

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Festival

Circulation(s) – Artists revealed by Fêtart

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Since its creation in 2005, Fêtart’s aim is to promote emerging photographers by giving them a debut to exhibit their work. As a springboard for their careers, the association has enabled the discovery of various talents by offering them this opportunity to enter the...

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Festival

Circulation(s) – The guests

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The first edition of the Circulation(s) Festival of Young European Photography is rich in meetings and rendezvous: The program welcomes numerous guests in order to federate and bring to the spotlight the initiatives launched by curators, gallery owners, festivals, groups, photography ...

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