Jan Banning was born in The Netherlands in 1954, from Dutch-East-Indies immigrant parents. He studied social and economic history at the University of Nijmegen and has been working as a photographer since 1981. The central concern in his work is the theme of state power (and its abuse)....

17.05.2011[ read full story ]

The Hiltawsky gallery in Berlin is displaying until May 21st more than 30 works belonging to the portfolio of the former assistant of Helmut Newton, Just Loomis (*1957, Nevada). The photographs, color and black and white, feature strip-teasers, older folks ...

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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...

20.05.2011[ read full story ]

Le BAL continues its Japanese season displaying from May 20th through August 21st three Japanese photographers: Keizo Kitajima, Yutaka Takanashi and Yukichi Watabe.

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Berlin’s Deutsche Guggenheim will be presenting an eclectic selection of works from their Artist of the Year 2011, Yto Barrada, in an exhibition entitled Riffs until June 19. Born into a Moroccan family in France in 1971, the artist’s work explores the postcolonial ...

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Marion Pranal and Philippe Jacquier are two passionate people. They have not always been gallerists, before founding the Gallery La Lumière des Roses. They confess: They know nothing about photography! “We are aliens” they say. What they love is not to have...

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As once an Angeleno in Paris, and now a Parisian in New York, really my mind is stuck in the stars. Photography has become a true passion and within it, a never-ending drive to try and challenge everything, even if it means getting naked in the freezing snow…

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The British photographer, Rankin, is in conjunction with Fahey/Klein Gallery launching his first exhibition at his new gallery on Melrose Avenue, entitled Rankin’s Rubbish. Rankin is best known for his celebrity portraiture and fashion photography, with Rankin’s Rubbish...

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Viktoria Sorochinski was born in Ukraine, later settling in Russia, and then in 1990 at the age of 11, she left for Israel. At 17, she went to Canada, where she obtained a degree in fine arts. For over five years, she has been living and working in New York.

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The exhibition is called “Immortal”, in which the Australian photographer Vee Speers works on the myth of eternal youth, revisiting the codes of the human vanity.

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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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A mythical, historical highway. A photographic road movie that has guided my travels between Paris and Nice since 2009. The seasons and landscapes that make up this 1000 km stretch from the North to the South of France. I forget Germaine Krull, Paul Morand and A bout de soufflé b...

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On April 17th, a series of tornadoes struck six southern states in the United States. On the streets of Lester, Alabama, a woman collected photographs belonging to the victims and posted them on Facebook, in hopes of finding their owners.

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The 7th “Photographic Promenades” of Vendôme will begin on Saturday, June 18, with an auction organized by the Maison de Vente Volontaires Rouillac. The core of this sale is comprised of ten Gustave Le Gray “seascapes”, exceptional both for their quality and for their...

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Joe Conzo, Jr. Ricky Flores. Ángel Franco. David Gonzalez. Edwin Pagán. Francisco Molina Reyes II Three decades ago, six native New Yorkers walked the streets of the South Bronx. Armed with their cameras (and sometimes other items), they passed like ships in the night. Al...

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After three decades of society photography, Roxanne Lowit has become a star in her own right. She is part of the “scene” and everyone who is anybody knows her. Since the late 70s the fashion aficionado has not missed a glamorous event, VIP party, or major catwalk show. Her portfolio is an ar...

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Alejandro Chaskielberg was the guest of honor at the exhibition entitled “Subjective / Objective” that Elisabeth Biondi organized during the New York Photo Festival which ended today. Alejandro has also received the l’Iris d’Or Photography Award in the recent London’s Sony Wo...

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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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A golden-era industry insider, Phil Stern’s access to the greatest legends of the time allowed him to create indelible portraits of some of the most celebrated icons of the 20th century including James Dean, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne.

16.05.2011[ read full story ]

We feature today the letters N to Z from Nini Patte en l’Air through Zeppelin. Between these two letters, thirteen small master works quite unknown, like the class photograph of a group of shaved headed women during the Liberation, the fat nude woman in a doorway, the portrait of Marie...

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After starting in France in 2009, Pixways has launched the service PixTrakk in the United States. PixTrakk is a solution that allows one to easily find the author of a photograph published both on paper or the Internet. This search is po...

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The son of a master shoemaker, Malian photographer Adama Kouyaté was born in the French Sudanese village of Bougouni (now Mali) in 1928. A contemporary of Malik Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, his introduction to photography occurred in 1946 when on Christmas day, he sat ...

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A significant portion of Ranee Palone Flynn’s work is devoted to chronicling teenagers, depicting them with “a tenderness and frankness.” In the past, she has found her subjects through happenstance encounters or online, and she continues to push that met...

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