“Masturbation is not permitted during the entire duration of the exhibition.” This is what the invitation to François-Marie Banier’s exhibition in Stuttgart at Abtart informed. Provocative certainly, but full of talent. The exhibition showed his last works, his painted photograp...

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On April, 6, 2010, just thirteen months ago, the Paris courts placed the then bankrupt Eyedea photo agency group (formerly Hachette Filipacchi Photos) under the direction of photographer and former President of Gamma, François Lochon. The nomination occurred shortly a...

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The rumor began two months ago, we wondered and however it was amplifying. The issue No 16 of Egoïste was about to come out. For this issue, we waited three and a half years. We were doubting, yet the rumor was true. Egoïste is out today in your newsstands.

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It is a shocking but true. Slavery is the third largest crime in the world today. Human trafficking is a modern-day form of slavery for the purpose of sexual exploitation or forced labor. Every year, over two million women and children—as young as three years old—will be...

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Through 380 photographs and 70 pieces of furniture, the Petit Palais presents the work of Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) through the illumination of photography, although she is primarily known and celebrated for her creations of home furnishings and living...

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In an effort to turn Paris into a European reference for photographic sales, Sotheby’s will be holding, on May 10, a specialized sale focused on a unique collection of works by photographer, Heinz Hajek-Halke (1898-1983).

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It’s a challenge narrowing down a selection of stunning fashion and beauty features published in Western and Eastern Europe, the UK, and along the Mediterranean, but one must begin somewhere.

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Her name, Nicole Wisniak, her magazine, Egoïste. “The most beautiful in the world”. Their new issue is out today. We were waiting for this moment for three and a half years. 25 years ago, I had written a few lines in Photo about Nicole. Save from a fe...

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Kicken Berlin’s spring exhibit focuses on Aspects of Color, a survey ranging from the early 20th century to contemporary color works. The exhibit presents selective examples of color photography in the twentieth century, from Pictorialism to contemporary photograp...

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After Robert Doisneau and Willy Ronis, the City of Issy-les-Moulineaux, a stone’s throw from Paris, continues its policy of enabling its fellow citizens to discover humanist photography featuring 59 photographs by Edouard Boubat</stro...

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40 years after the release of David Plowden’s The hand of man on America, Mitch Epstein renews and intensifies the message. American Power is a collection of pictures that he defines as “questioning man’s control over nature, its conquest at any pri...

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Since the zero issue, all of the aristocracy of photography has contributed at least once to Egoïste. We find them notably in: Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, François-Marie Banier, Bettina Reims, Daniel Jouanneau, Alice Springs, Brassaï, Roger Corbeau, Andy Warhol, Guy B...

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« Among the subjects that he has photographed, there is one that is very dear to Ernst Haas, New York City. For nearly 40 years, he has taken pictures of a city that as a child in Austria he could only dream about. With the help of his friends at Magnum, Henri Cartier-Bresson<...

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The Samburu portrait project by Lyle Owerko documents one of Africa’s last great Warrior tribes in vivid black and white renderings. As an established living record of a community in transition, the series transports a person into a world both equally ch...

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“I come from a generation that no longer believes that one picture can change the world”, the great Gamma reporter tells me last November during his last Paris exhibition. “The pictures featured in Petit endroit, I shot them in Iraq between 2003 and 2005, from the beginning o...

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I photographed rural Africa, where the people have their feet on the ground. Bernard Descamps was always horrified by constraints and obligations, even at school, he did only what he wanted, but was a “brilliant student when he wanted to be,” according ...

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From 1957 to 1973, Hans Silvester was not racing around Ethiopia as today, but Europe and North America instead. During these years, he lived a nomadic life next to tziganes, romas and gypsies, sharing their shelters and sheds, the sadness and the joy.

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“For the first time in my 35 years of career, I am on a story 3 weeks late!” And François Lochon bursts into laughter. It’s one of the many features of my character: even in the worst of circumstances, he finds a way to laugh like a kid.

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It is the star exhibition of MAM in Moscow until July 15th, 25 years after the nuclear disaster of Chernobyl. Olga Sviblova presents the work of the photographer Sergey Shestakov. Here are two texts, the first by Olga Sviblova and the second by Sergey She...

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Ernest Hemingway was, without a doubt, the first citizen of the world. Long before the hippies and the cult of traveling, he led a life of discovery far from his native North America. His was a voluptuous, eager and sensual curiosity. Above and beyond his admiration for t...

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