Exhibition

Serge Gainsbourg by the great photographers

Thumb_guy-aelsbrecht-1-jpg

20 years have passed since Serge Gainsbourg has taken his final bow. An immigrant’s son who loved to tangle up the French language, using slang and juggling words, he also loved to play with his personal image. Belgian gallerist Roger Szmulewicz, a true Gainsbourg fan,...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

Book

Call me Gainsbarre
by Paul Alessandrini

Thumb_01-couverture-3d-du-livre-jpg

GAINS… BARRE like MAL BARRÉ , (bad start) POINT BARRE ! (the end)) Tu te BARRES ? (are you going?) BARRE TOI ! (Get out!) ALORS, JE ME BARRE aussi …DÉFINITIVEMENT. (so I’m going too… definitively.) That’s what this cabbage-head man did, on March 2, 1991, right to the Mo...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

Press Review

David Schonauer
The Weekly World Tour

Thumb_fashion-1-jpg

David Schonauer begins festivities with Fashion Week: in “The Big
Picture,” Boston Globe, Timothy A. Clark photographs a patchwork of looks. Again in the Boston Globe, a picture of a model waiting at a Son Jung-wan casting call, taken by Mike Segar . I...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

Book

Frédéric Chaubin
CCCP

Thumb_07-fo_chaubin_cccp-jpg

Frédéric Chaubin, Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed published by Taschen. Frédéric Chaubin is the editor-in-chief of the French lifestyle magazine Citizen K. He reveals 90 buildings sited in fourteen former Soviet Republics which express what he considers to be...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

Portrait

Eric Johnson by
Sara Rosen

Thumb_messkid-jpg

“There’s clearly a reason why kids are hanging out here all the time, everyone is here for s different reasons,” observes photographer Eric Johnson. There are so many stories in his midtown loft, which transforms in many ways. It’s a gallery, a disco, a lounge, a photo...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Aires de Jeux: European urban photography

Thumb_dziworski-2-from-my-view-1970-s-1-jpg

From February 25th through April 24th, the city of Montpellier will host the exhibition “Playgrounds, fields of tension : Figures in European urban photography since 1970”, at the Pavillion Populaire.
Monika Faber, chief curator of the photography collection of the Albe...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Frederick E. Bertin Bergman, the Gentleman

Thumb_01-2001-008-12-jpg

Meeting Frederick Edwin Bertin for the first time can be a rather out-of-time experience. With his gentleman education and delicate manners, his passion for the sculptors Riemenschneider and Houdon, the trios of Bach, Haydn and Mozart, the Schubert Lieder...

25.02.2011[ read full story ]

Best of Last week

© Le Journal de la Photographie 2011 | Terms and Conditions