The picture album The Great Terror in the USSR presents the results of a documentary photo project conducted by the author. The book presents pictures of 20th century crimes committed against humanity in Soviet Russia from 1937-38, providing a face and voice to the victims ...

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In the late 1980s the Historic Houses Trust rescued four tonnes of forensic crime negatives from a flooded warehouse in Lidcombe and relocated them to Sydney’s Justice & Police Museum. Fifteen years on, the Historic Houses Trust has reproduced to stunning effect a selection of mor...

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In the far south-west of Bangladesh, the remarkable and gripping photographs of Munem Wasif show the consequences of the global warming and of the intensive culture of prawns on his country’s ecosystem. The salinity raised and traditional agriculture is not a possibili...

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“When I first saw the beach at Lynemouth in January 1976, I recognized the industry above it but nothing else I was seeing. The beach beneath me was full of activity with horses and carts backed into the sea. Men were standing in the sea next to the carts, using small wire nets attached to p...

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Candlestick Point was first published in 1989 and has been unavailable for decades, other than as an expensive collectible on the secondary photobook market. The New York curator Marvin Heiferman characterized Lewis Baltz’s landscape photography as a “topog...

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Artists, men of letters, actors, and dancers met in his portrait studio in Paris. Photographer, painter, and object artist Man Ray (1890!1976) knew them all, the brilliant figures of the scene. During his active time as a portrait photographer thousands of peo...

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Dennis Hopper, the outlaw of American film, died last year. For the general public, however, he will forever remain that beatnik cavalier sitting astride his Harley Davidson in the road movie Easy Rider. A hymn to liberty and smokin’ joints, hair in...

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Bloom Japan… Cherry blossoms will flower once more.
Independant publishers be-poles, in collaboration with the photographer Frédéric Lebain, brings a special edition of « Portraits de villes » donating all sale profits to the Japanese Red Cross Society “Help Japan” opera...

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