Book

Frank Rothe
Lost in White Nights

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Technically speaking the so-called “White Nights” (Beliye Nochi) are not unique to St Petersburg, but only here the northern nights have received such a poetic acclaim. What could be more romantic than walking along rivers and canals when night is as bright as early evening? It i...

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Exhibition

Hedi Slimane
Fragments Americana

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The result of a fruitful collaboration of more than eight years between the gallery and the artist, the Almine Rech Gallery present Fthe first exhibition by Hedi Slimane in Brussels.
Fragments Americana follows Young American, a project presented in 2007 at the FOAM Phot...

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Exhibition

Karlheinz Weinberger
Rebel Youth

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Karlheinz Weinberger was an unknown Swiss photographer. Rebel Youth, his first posthumous publication dedicated to his work, gives homage to a Helvetian generation in search of their identity.

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Exhibition

Young photographers of Georgia

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Nestan Nijaradze, editor of the Georgian magazine Photo, is presenting for the first time in Moscow an exhibition of six young photographers from her country. Two years after the war that divised the two countries, the exhibition is a local event. But war is not wh...

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Portfolio

Albert Watson and the Art of Dance Photography

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This year, the Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates its 85 Anniversary Season, making it the oldest modern dance company in America. Graham, who died twenty years ago this April, had a revolutionary vision and artistic mastery that has made her one ...

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Book

Photobooths

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In September of 1952, a Russian immigrant in New York named Anatol Josepho sets up the first completely automatic photo studio. A small booth where it is possible to produce and obtain photo identification pictures without the intervention of a photographer: “8 pictures in 8 minutes for 25 cents.”

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