Writing about Elliott Erwitt is an antediluvian adventure. It sends us back to when photography was practiced with humility and compassion, and was a bit less narcissistic. The bygone days at Magnum with its passionate members. Among them, this son of a Russian immig...

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What the camera captures is not always what the mind captures. When a photographer takes an image, he has a definitive assumption regarding the message he conveys. However, when the same image reaches the viewers, the impact can be different. For many reasons : the image could be ...

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“The idea of this exhibition, organized in the context of the second edition of Little Paradis, was to bring together worked that evoked the café culture, like friends in conversation at the bar. The anonymous photographers, who bring a vision of the café as a hangout for lost sou...

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Guy Laliberté is one of the founders of Cirque du Soleil, he is also a photography fanatic. He had access to the International Space Station. His pictures are now in a book, Gaia, published by Assouline. Book sale profits will be donated to ONE DROP, a non profit association that...

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The series La chute (“The fall”) by Denis Darzacq shows the evolution of the body in the urban space: In Paris and its surroundings, bodies seem to fall from the sky or from balconies, fallen or suicidal angels. Some seem to be levitations and recall the popul...

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Robert Doisneau had a grandfatherly tenderness towards children, recognizing in them his own fragility, a certain nostalgia, the thrill of playfulness, practical jokes and an enduring innocence. Robert, the orphan who lost his mother while still very young, ...

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Unfailing chronicler of a time when the “little” people were chased from their Parisian working class neighborhoods, when peasants looking for work would come fill the ranks of the poorly housed of the Parisian periphery and when suburbanites would be pushed beyond the edge o...

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Jean Desaunois, founder of the photographic press agency Imapress, representing Camera press in Paris, died on Monday, May 23, 2011. He was 77. The funeral was held in Capbis, the small south western village in France where he had been mayor since 1...

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