Maripol is a force of energy. Warm like a fire and flickering like a flame, she is one and the same as those who wore her designs in the earliest years. Grace Jones, Debbie Harry, Madonna, the list goes on and on. Her aesthetic influenced the generation that watched “Bur...

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David Schonauer begins his press review with the picture that shocked the majority of the French, (John Marino, Daily News) : Dominique Strauss-Kahn, leaving prison, surrounded by the state police of New York. No pr...

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On the main street, on the corner, just across from the market and next to the veterinarian, the Kodak sign indicates Oumar Ly’s Studio. Two large hinged door sections, held on each side by a stone, leaving a view into the inside of the studio, a bench and a dis...

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It is no surprise that this week’s European Press Review focuses almost exclusively on the vertiginous fall of Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The affair nearly eclipsed all other news: As Michel Philippot emphasizes: “I heard the news (Paris, May 19, 2011, 7:15pm) that a picture of Dominique St...

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This is not that ! The title of this exhibition is intriguing and poses questions…. Under this title the two curators of the show, Dominique Charlet and Fabien Charuau have chosen to present this exhibition entirely devoted to Indian photography...

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The Yann le Mouel Auction House, with the expertise of Viviane Esders, will be selling 342 photographic lots in room 4 of the Hôtel des Ventes Drouot Richelieu on May 27, at 2pm. The beginning of this sale (lot n°5) will feature the sale of an album including e...

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At Christie’s in London earlier this week was the spring photography auction. Out of the 90 lots, 63 sold for 141% by estimate. Philippe Garner, International Head of Photographs and Alexander Montague-Sparey, Head of Sale commented: “...

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