Russell James’ photographs of the eight beautiful women Brooklyn Decker, Miranda Kerr, Candice Swanepoel, Erin Heatherton, Emanuela de Paula, Jarah Mariano, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, and Lindsay Ellingson, entitled “V2”, were taken on the picturesque island »Necker Island« a...

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The photographs of Cy Twombly (born 1928 in Lexington, Virginia) are a revelation, albeit one that comes late in his life. World-famous for his abstract “scribbles” and nervous drawings, he has been a productive photographer since his student days and is now, at a late stage in his car...

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Today Sotheby’s kicks off New York Auction week.
174 lots with estimates ranging from 5.000-7.000 USD to 150.000-250.000 USD for a set of Richard Avedon photographs.
Here are some highlights of the auction.

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Today at Christie’s New York, the second day of auctions.
211 lots with estimates ranging from 1,000-1,500 USD to 250,000-350,000 USD for the Cuzco Children by Irving Penn. Also featured: William Eggleston, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank, Robert Mapplethorpe…

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During one week late January, the reknowned photographer Martin Parr settled into Paris’ Goutte d’Or district. The pictures he produced of neighborhood residents, merchants and meeting places were humorous and in characteristic contrast with typical clichés. His anglo-saxon point of ...

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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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This Saturday will see the Phillips de Pury auction in New York. Highlights include works by Cindy Sherman, Irving Penn, Florian Maier-Aichen, Robert Frank, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Lindbergh, Edward Weston & Desiree Dolron. These are some examples of the 261 lots sale.

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Juergen Teller is an iconoclast, a fashion photographer, whose subjects also include eccentrics and bohemians. The pictures all have accompanying texts describing the circumstances of the shoot. A wide diversity of personalities can be found in front of Teller’s lens. Fro...

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The collective Tendance Floue celebrates its 20th birthday this year. Precisely 20 years this exact month. For this occasion, we were interested in returning to the origins of the creation of Tendance Floue, to know its evolution among the photographer...

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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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Irving Penn shined at Christie’s auction “The Feminine Ideal: An Important Private Collection of Photographs” with his work getting the top 3 prices while placing 5 photographs on the top ten list.
The Sale total was 942,125 (USD) (Prices include buyer’s premium)

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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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Gilles Decamps, who also profiles for La lettre all of the features on auction sales this week, has had the idea to portray the people in the shadows that run the photography departments in Sotheby’s and Chtistie’s.

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Emil Cioran…affectionately referred to as the designer of despair, the aristocrat of doubt, the metaphysical dandy… Deceased in Paris in 1995, Emil Cioran, Romanian philosopher in both French and Romanian, would have turned 100 on April 8, 2011. He was 26 when he left Romania, settli...

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He wanted to be a painter, he has been a musician, he is a photographer. For years, Steve Hiett has been taking pictures of New York City from his window. When les éditions be-pôles gave him carte blanche, he chose to deliver this singular yet intimist look offering a touching dialogue betwe...

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In order to accomplish this story on the members of Christie’s and Sotheby’s photo department, Gilles Decamps had the idea to ask every one of the subjects to pose with their favorite photo in the auction they were heading. Here are the results.

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Madame Grès (1903-1993). Regarded by her peers as the tutelary spirit of the profession, Madame Grès constantly said throughout her life : « I wanted to be a sculptor. For me, working with fabric or stone is the same thing. » Her quest led her to the ancient world, but also to ...

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Beth Dow is an american photographer who uses historical references and traditional processes to address contemporary issues of land use and our experience of time.

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