Exhibition

Wanderings
Polka Gallery

Thumb_william-klein-la-couronne-2011-_-courtesy-polka-galerie-jpg

For their new exhibition entitled Wanderings, Polka Gallery presented Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama’s, Light Memoirs, William Klein’s, The Wedding of the Century, Prune Nourry’s Holy Daughters a...

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

Portfolio

Sophie Delaporte
Behind the ephemeral

Thumb_emilie-2-2002-jpg

Sophie Delaporte lives and works between Paris and New York. For more then ten years, her photographs are published in international magazines (ID, Interview, Italian Vogue, Chinese Vogue, Japanese Vogue…).

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

Press Review

Michel Philippot

Thumb_21-05-jpg

Moran Atias’ legs open Michel Philippot’s Press Review, then continues with pictures in Syria by Muhammad Hamet (The Observer) featuring a
woman brandishing a poster addressed to President Bashar al Assad:
“Go”. Philippot then covers Barack Obama’s...

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Munich
Lyonel Feininger

Thumb_feininger_pl02_nightviewoftrees_146-4-291-jpg

This dual exhibition of partly unknown works by the German-American artist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) provides an overview of Feininger’s graphic œuvre as well as of his photographic output.

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

Awards

World Press Photo 2011 by Michel Puech

Thumb_0011-jpg

While the World Press Photo 2011 exhibition in Beirut was forced to close one week early due to political controversy over Israeli photographer Amit Sha’al’s work (3rd Prize Arts and Entertainment), in Paris, the Azzedine Alaïa Gallery will display the exhibition until June 2...

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

Press Review

David Schonauer
The Weekly World Tour

Thumb_lens-5-20-png

David Schonauer begins his Press Review with an homage to photographer Anton Hammerl, killed on April 5 in Libya. He continues with pictures of other human tragedies, including Charles Ridel’s shots of tornado devastation in Joplin, Missour...

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

In memoriam

The death of
Richard Steinheimer

Thumb_rs-1s-jpg

Richard Steinheimer, the acknowledged “Dean” of western railroad photography, passed away quietly on May 4, 2011, in Sacramento, California, after a long illness. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 23, 1929, he migrated to Southern California at the age of six ...

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

Exhibition

Madrid, Atget in the Fondation Mapfre

Thumb_1-jpg

Eugène Atget did not train as a photographer and only turned to it in order to try to earn a living, having been unsuccessful in other fields. He started out in the provinces but soon arrived in Paris where he lived for the rest of his life. Atget worked anony...

27.05.2011[ read full story ]

© Le Journal de la Photographie 2011 | Terms and Conditions