The news fell yesterday: SIPA agency will be sold. The third mythical French agency, alongside Gamma and Sygma, will be sold to the German company DAPD. The agency was founded in 1973 by Göksin Sipahioglu, one of the last greats of the photography world. The m...

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The cult film Blow-Up is a unique exploration of the mysteries and ambiguities inherent in photographs. A new book, Antonioni’s Blow-Up by Philippe Garner and David Alan Mellor, evokes Antonioni’s investigations of this central t...

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This year’s International Center of Photography, ICP honorees for Excellence in Photography were: Peter Van Agtmael, Young Photographers Award, Ruth Gruber, Cornell Capa Award, Gerry Badger, Writing Award, Alec Soth, Publication Award, Abelardo Morell, Art Award, Viviane Sass...

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Mikael Jansson is one of the worlds most sought after fashionphotographers, working for magazines like Interview and Vogue Paris. For the men’s spring fashion issue of New York Times’ style supplement T, he created a series of images called ”Ballad ...

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Gunter Sachs killed himself this week-end. He was 78. A note was released by his family to the Swiss news agency SDA/ATS and made public according to the 78 year-old’s wishes, the agency reported. “The loss of mental control over my life was an undignified condition, wh...

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I’ve actually been taking pictures for as long as I’ve been making music. When I was 9 years old (around the same time I started studying music) my uncle gave me my first camera, a nikon F. my uncle (Joseph Kugielsky) was a photographer for the New York Times and National Geographic magazi...

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For 15 years, François-Xavier Seren worked on aristocracy and the French bourgeoisie. His pictures were featured in Point de Vue, Vogue Homme, L’Eventail and Dynastie. Here is a glimpse of his journey inside nobility: “I reacted to...

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A few days ago, Harry Lunn would have celebrated his 78th birthday. For many people, his flamboyance, his knowledge of photography, his generosity, his excesses and his mood swings are missing. New York art dealer Peter Hay Halpert is one of those people.

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1.6 million children across the UK live their daily lives in severe poverty (30%). This is more than in most other European countries. But Western poverty is often difficult to understand and to communicate visually in comparison to images of majority world poverty.

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The work of Diana Thorneycroft will be on display for the first time in France at The Canadian Cultural Center until September 9, 2011. Born in 1956, Diana Thorneycroft lives and works in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Although the selection on display here represen...

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The David Guiraud gallery presents an exhibition of 35 Jan Saudek signed vintage prints. They come from an exceptional private collection of over 60 pictures that will allow one to discover old and sometimes unknown images. The gallery will hang around 35 copies on ...

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It was the first scoop by La Lettre, it was even the first subject on the first day of our publication, on October 25th. These photographs of Kate Moss taken by Gene Lemuel when Kate Moss was still perfectly unknown, are now displayed in the...

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David Hilliard is an American photographer born in 1964 who lives and works in Boston (MA). His work is present in many large museums and in the principal galleries in the United States. For his first major solo exhibition in France, the Galerie Particulière ...

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The Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise” went to Agnes Dherbeys, who freelanced for The New York Times in doing her story “Violence erupts in Thailand.” Taking ...

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Diemar/Noble Photography in London presents a celebration of the first 100 years of photography in France. Some Photographs taken in France, behind the somewhat reprehensible title – which would perhaps indicate forgotten holiday snaps – hides an extraordinary...

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The Olivier Rebbot Award for “best photographic reporting from abroad in magazines or books” was given to Lynsey Addario for her National Geographic story “Veiled Rebellion: Afghan Women”. Her photographs give us a comprehensive and intimate look at...

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The Feature Photography Award for “best feature photography published in any medium on an international theme” was given to Rodrigo Abd of Associated Press for his story on an emergency room in Guatemala. His powerful and moving images show us a variety of ...

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The John Faber Award for “best photographic reporting from abroad in newspapers of news services” went to Daniel Berehulak of Gerry Images for his reporting on the “Pakistan Floods”. His images provide both the intimate details of individual struggles as well ...

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