Video

Oliver Morris
A poem in images

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The American photographer and journalist Oliver Morris sent us this video that he made from his images. He accompanied it with these words: “For two wonderful gentlemen, Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington, who loved and lived in New York”.

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

In memoriam

The death of
Tim Hetherington

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The news fell at the end of the afternoon. Tim Hetherington was just killed in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya. Chris Hondros, in critical condition, but alive. Then just a few hours later, Chris died. Tim Hetherington, born in Liverpool, was 41 years old. He had...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

In memoriam

The death of
Chris Hondros

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Following injury to his head, Chris Hondros died a few hours after Tim. Wednesday, a photo that he had shot made the front page of the Washington Post. A man portrayed digging out a tomb in a cemetary in Misrata. Chris was 41 years old, member of Getty agency ...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Arthur Elgort
The snap shot style

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Arthur Elgort created a sensation in his 1971 debut in British Vogue when a breath of fresh air wafted into the world of fashion photography. His free and easy snapshot style freed his models to move. Young and pretty models wore less make-up, were more...

18.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Phil Stern
the Hollywood legend

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Sammy Davis, Jr. in his dressing room, lost in a cigarette’s reverie. Liza Minelli pushing half-sister Lorna Luft in a stroller. Frank Sinatra, in white tie, offering a light to JFK at the new pr...

20.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Philip Jones Griffiths
Maelstrom

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The exhibition Maelstrom of photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths at Howard Greenberg gallery in New York covers his work on the Vietnam War and the conflict in Northern Ireland during the 1970s.

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Marcus Adams
A Royal Photographer

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An exhibition of over 100 photographs of the Royal Family is now showing at The Queen’s Gallery in Edinburgh to celebrate the work of Marcus Adams. Widely acclaimed for his photographic portraits of children, Adams created a unique record of two generations of ...

19.04.2011[ read full story ]

Book

Michael Thompson
Portraits

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Acclaimed by American Photo as “one of the most important photographers working today,” the fashion and celebrity photographer Michael Thompson began his career in the late 1980s as a studio assistant to Irving Penn, and now is famed for his g...

18.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Patrick Tosani, photography 1980-2011

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Regrouping more then 200 works, the exhibition retraces the path of Patrick Tosani with a work combining the heritage of the avant-garde of the 1970s and the affirmation of the photographic medium as a mode of experimentation.

19.04.2011[ read full story ]

Portrait

Sonia Sieff by
Stéphane Brasca

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The career of Sonia Sieff began at the age when her father Jeanloup Sieff passed away. Since she was 20 years old, she hasn’t stopped. Here is a portrait of her, by Stéphane Brasca, Editor in chief of De l’Air magazine. “I am returning to essentials”. The author of this p...

18.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Suzanne Opton
Vermont, 1970

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Suzanne Opton’s images of Chelsea, Vermont in 1970’s are on display at the new Robert Anderson Gallery in New York. Opton’s first major series, the Vermont work, reflects her beginnings as a portraitist who pushes the boundaries of the genre.

19.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Bradford
Photographic treasures

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The Lives of Great Photographers, a free to enter exhibition at the National Media Museum in Bradford, draws on the Museum’s renowned collection to focus on the pioneers behind the camera, exploring the extraordinary stories surrounding some of photography’s most important innovat...

20.04.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

Tokyo
Natsumi Hayashi

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“Today’s Levitation” is the ongoing self-portrait-diary project for the year 2011 produced by Natsumi Hayashi, a Japanese contemporary photographer. It has been updating daily bases since the first day of the year at the photographer’s blog called “yowayowa camera woman diary” — meaning “a ...

20.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

In the Shadow of Things
Leonie Hampton

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Forma Foundation for Photography in Milan presents an exhibition by award-winning photographer Léonie Hampton (formally Léonie Purchas) about her mother’s Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Alixandra Fazzina
Escape from Somalia

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There are few places in the world more difficult and dangerous for journalists to work than in lawless Somalia. Similarly, living in the country which has been embattled by civil war since 1991 involves unrelenting poverty, unrestrained violence and little hope for sudden ch...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

NY, Pioneers of the Downtown Scene

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The word ‘Underground’ is a tricky one for curators. It rather predicts failure. Conjuring up unspoken dark secrets, it leaves one to ask certain ethical questions as a consumer, wondering around through the dark concrete tunnels of the artist’s subconscious, who can’t even chase...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

Portrait

Beijing
Lijie Liu, Another episode

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Lijie Liu is a photographer who commits much of her free time expressing feelings and perspectives which many females experience throughout their lives. Born in 1973 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, she moved to Beijing in 2004 where two years later, her Another...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

The Photographic Object 1

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Contrary to what certain people think, this exhibition is not about the history of the photographed object, that is to say, following the opinion of what could be qualified as “stil lie”. Instead, the reference is made to the “photographic object”. Which is to say that ...

19.04.2011[ read full story ]

Book

Miss Rosen
Book Review 1

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Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than the content of the communication…. The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged the fragmentation process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and ...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

The Photographic Object 2

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In this part, The Monochrome Photography, the curator has kept the direct positives, the monochrome matrix and their prints. The interventions made on the negative, the interventions made on the prints and the non-silver emulsion photographic processes.

19.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Neu-Ulm
The Walther collection

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This past summer a new complex of buildings in Neu-Ulm (Germany) opened to the public. It is owned by The Walter Family Foundation and the stated purpose is to show photography. In addition to exhibitions the beautifully conceived spaces will be used for curatoria...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

New York Solitude by Hana Jakrlova

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New York: swimming through the crowds, catching the light, mingling, calling, chatting, running, wondering, working, flirting, observing, shopping, thinking, decision-making, hunting, texting, networking.

18.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Jo Ratcliffe
Chelsea, New York

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The Walther Collection now has a second space in New York City, in Chelsea. Appropriately called the Walther Collection Project Space it opened April 14, 2011 with an exhibition of the work of South African photographer Jo Ractliffe. It is an exhibit that explores...

21.04.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

The Photographic Object 3

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This part of the exhibition, The Color Processes, is devoted to an entire room. It includes the direct positives, the color prints “matrix” and an extensive selection that illustrates the different processes used to make photochemical and digital prints.

19.04.2011[ read full story ]

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