Many photography fair exhibitions were held this past weekend in New York, the Armory Show Modern, Armory Contemporary, Armory Lexington and Volta NY. La Lettre’s correspondent Gilles Descamps, covered them all. He presents to us today the revelations of Volta NY, which is in fact an ex...

08.03.2011[ read full story ]

Born 1967 in México DF, México, Tatiana Parcero entitles her series of constructed self portraits Cartografía interior (Interior Cartography) in order to frame her practice as a form of personal mapping, a quest for knowledge about the self, seen through the prisms of history, culture...

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My work with Strude began at a local museum on a small Danish island where women’s folk dresses were exhibited on faceless cloth dummies. The colours were intense and the detail intricate, but it was the mask-like hood that drew my eye. A garment called a ‘strude’, worn by women in...

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The Musée d’Orsay is presenting “A Ballad of Love and Death”: pre-Raphaelite Photography in Great Britain, 1848 – 1875, from March 8 to May 27. The exhibition, organized by Diane Waggoner, curator at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and Françoise Heilbrun, head curator at the ...

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I love seeing photography resist to outbursts in technology, fashion trends, the demons of oblivion or, more selfishly, to the idea that I have of America, at least to the one photography gave me. And on these three points, Marion Dubier-Clark generously offers me a set of ...

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Photographer Alexandra Kremer-Khomassouridze is showing a black and white exhibition about music backstage. Born in Bakou, she grew up in a family of musicians (a cellist, three pianists, two violinists and two harpists) “I lived near music, not in music”, she says. “I listen...

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The numerous photos taken by Charles Marville are interesting for many reasons. They not only show the street’s beginnings, but also the means used to build the titanic construction projects in Paris under the Second Empire. Shovels, pics, a few horse-drawn carriages to remov...

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“Did you say fashion photography?” Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin… These names, today famous, belong to photographers that have crafted a particular language to the image of fashion. What is it that makes a photograph beautiful, different, uni...

07.03.2011[ read full story ]