Portrait

Jack Woody by
Elizabeth Avedon

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Jack Woody is one of the world’s most important photo book publishers, yet remains relatively unknown. He currently lives in Santa Fe, continuing to publish books he likes, not taking into account their eventual commercial success. Elizabeth Avedon interviews this reclusive editor,...

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Exhibition

An Edwardian Summer at the Museum of Sydney

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An Edwardian Summer, a new book and an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney showcases for the first time an extraordinary collection of photographs that capture Sydney at the turn of the century at one of the most rapidly changing times in Australia’s history.

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Festival

Palm Springs
Photo Festival 2011

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The 6th Palm Springs Photo Festival gets underway next Sunday, March 27, in the warm desert air of Palm Springs, California. Over 700 photographers, curators, gallery directors, photo editors, advertising agency creative directors, music company creatives, art directors, art buy...

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Exhibition

Antanas Sutkus, a Lithuanian photographer

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Born in Lithuania in 1939, Antanas Sutkus is considered one of the greatest photographers of the former Soviet Union. A self-taught photographer, he built his body of work under the communist regime. Turning the traps of political censorship into anecdotes, he describes ...

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Book

Steve Schapiro, Hollywood's child

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A selection of Steve Schapiro’s pictures taken behind the scenes during filming of “The Godfather” and “Taxi Driver” will be on display at the A. Gallery in Paris until May 14, 2011. In 1971, when Francis Ford Coppola began working on “The Godfather”, Steve Schapiro was a young ph...

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Auction

New York's auctions: Swann Galleries

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It is a New York tradition that Swann Galleries kicks off the photography auction season. Among the 167 lots You will find pieces ranging from early Japanese photographs to contemporary work by Tina Barney. Henry Cartier-Bresson’s portrait of Stieglitz along with two of the Dan...

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Exhibition

Ida Kar, a bohemian photographer

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In 1960 Ida Kar (1908-1974) became the first photographer to have a retrospective exhibition at a major London art gallery. Fifty years after her groundbreaking installation at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery presents a re-evaluation of the work of one of...

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