Book
Tomasz Kizny
The Great Terror
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 ...
24.05.2011[ read full story ]
Portfolio
The Chernobyl of
Gerd Ludwig
To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, an exhibit titled “Der lange Schatten von Tschernobyl /The Long Shadow of Chernobyl” with 56 large prints by Gerd Ludwig will be on display at the Horizonte Fotofestival in Zingst, Germany.
26.05.2011[ read full story ]
Portfolio
Sophie Delaporte
Behind the ephemeral
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 ]
Exhibition
Kiev
Bob Carlos Clarke
The new photo gallery Brucie Collections is struggling to place the Ukrainian capital Kiev on the map of world photography. Thus the choice of Bob Carlos Clarke, master of erotic provocation. The exhibition is also unsuitable for minors, even if no photograph has the natur...
23.05.2011[ read full story ]
Book
Peter Doyle
City of Shadows
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...
24.05.2011[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Moscow, the children of Ansel Adams
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 ...
25.05.2011[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Gina Levay
Bullfight
Like Hemingway, Picasso and so many other artists, Gina Levray is fascinated by the corrida (Bull fighting), this art of killing with nobility, its symbolic conflict between man and beast. Five years ago, the photographer set off for Madrid to document women bullfighting. Sh...
23.05.2011[ read full story ]
Exhibition
The Chernobyl of
Rudiger Lubricht
The first pictures on display at the Willy Brandt Haus are of liquidators, to whom Rüdiger Lubricht dedicates his exhibition Chernobyl, Lost Places / Shattered Biographies: 19 color portraits accompanied by their respective stories.
26.05.2011[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Claude Cahun
Self-portraits
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...
25.05.2011[ read full story ]
Portrait
Miss Rosen
Shane Perez
Shane Perez has always had a disregard for authority. Growing up in Miami, Perez and his father would ride their bikes through the Everglades and come across abandoned cars and other detritus of civilization. At the same time, he discovered a pleasure in hacking phone syst...
23.05.2011[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Russia by
Peter Bock-Schroeder
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...
25.05.2011[ read full story ]
Awards
World Press Photo 2011 by Michel Puech
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 ]
Portfolio
Oliver Morris
The fish market
Oliver Morris regularly sends us the videos he makes from his pictures. Today’s is called “The Last Men” and is focused on New York City’s renowned Fulton Street fish market. Oliver was a photographer, picture editor and correspondent for Associated Press ...
23.05.2011[ read full story ]
Book
Dennis Hopper
Photographs 1961-1967
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...
24.05.2011[ read full story ]
Exhibition
Santu Mofokeng
Chasing shadows
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 ...
25.05.2011[ read full story ]
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