The “Galerie de la photographie classique” has just opened with an exhibition devoted to the Ansel Adams school (1902-1984). The gallery and the exhibition have made names for themselves, through their quality and scale. This two-floored new venue also includes ...

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This exhibition at Jeu de Paume, the first one on such scale to be held in France for sixteen years, brings together a broad ensemble of major works, some of which are little known or have seldom been exhibited. It highlights both the diversity and the unity of the photographic work o...

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The Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award was created by the eponymous Foundation in 2009 to support photojournalists. With a grant worth 50,000€, the Award is designed to finance thematic stories inspired by current events. Those stories are then honored with an ...

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For decades the Eastern giant had been the great unknown on the international scene. The Iron Curtain separated the huge Empire between the Baltic sea and the Pacific from the rest of the world. Only scanty news and rumors trickled through. After Stalin’s death in 1953 the force o...

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Hopelessly dry soil, sad men and animals, pointless and endless waiting: this is Sertao, northern Brazil, a forgotten region lost in this economically and socially burgeoning nation. These incredible black and white pictures taken by Tiago Santana, also born in ...

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Until September 25th, 2011, the Jeu de Paume presents through a choice of more than 200 photographs and slide shows, 30 years of photo essays by Santu Mofokeng. A kind of retrospective shown for the first time in Europe and which, following Paris, will be featured ...

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On Tuesday, May 24th, hundreds of mourners gathered inside the First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City to begin — in the words of Sebastian Junger — “the process of living in a world without Tim.”

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This exhibition is a dialogue between two generations of Japanese photographers, Shigeichi Nagano and Koji Onaka. Their images portray a sometimes unknown Japan. Through a picture, as an instrument of social chronicles and a distant inventory, ...

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