Eighteen hundred newborns die each year from unsafe deliveries in Paraguay, and at least 1,500 children lose their mother from preventable causes related to childbirth. This is just the beginning: the country is at the top of adolescent pregnancy in Latin America (alo...

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Today at Christie’s New York, The Feminine Ideal: An important Private Collection of Photographs. 79 lots with estimates ranging from 1.000-1.500 USD to 40.000-60.000 USD for Marilyn Jumping by Philip Halsman or Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn in Balenciaga by Irving Penn.

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Yesterday at Sotheby’s, Man Ray came out on top with the Photomontage with Nude and Studio Light going for 410,500 USD (estimate 100,000-150,000 USD) and he has 2 photographs on the top ten list.

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Hugues Vassal, co-founder of Gamma agency, exposes 24 exclusive images of the life of Edith Piaf at New York University’s La Maison Francaise until May 15th, 2011.

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Prague spring is dedicated to photography: In April, the fourth annual Prague Photo Festival takes place in the beautiful Bauhaus building of Manes on the river, with over thirty galleries and vendors displaying their work. There are over fifteen photography exhibitions acc...

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Just like cars and chocolate, death is the subject of a professional salon. The death salon! with its exclamation point, will take place in Paris’ Carrousel du Louvre from April 8 through 11, 2011. Jean-Pierre Jouët and Jessie Westenholtz, the creators of the FIAC, the Salon du Livre an...

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The APPPF (Agency for the Promotion of Professional Photography in France) has organized the third edition of the photographic prize called “Photographs of the Year”. A competition reserved for European professional photographers meant to promote their know-how.

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