Exhibition

Chicago
Uta Barth

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Uta Barth’s exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is called «…and to draw a bright white line with light ». This is how she describes it: “Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is the title of a biography of Robert Irwin. Long before that it was a line in a Zen text. No words...

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Exhibition

Montpellier
Gabriela Lupu, Les Roms

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Montpellier. The land they occupy is adjacent to the future City Hall
construction site. They call it the Platz. On the Platz they built
makeshift dwellings where they eat, sleep, rest, play, fight and
dream.

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Auction

New York, Photographers for Friends

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Photographers For Friends, an event benefiting Friends In Deed, a not-for- profit whose mission is to provide pragmatic, emotional and spiritual support for those affected by life threatening illness. Friends in Deed, a crisis center founded by...

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Festival

Pennsylvania Photo Biennale 2011

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The Silver Eye Center for Photography of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
just opened Keystone.1, the first photographic biennale. 16
contemporary photographers will be on display

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Festival

PhotoMed' 2011

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Fitting into the busy French cultural horizon is a new photography festival: PhotoMed. The first edition will take place on the Mediterranean coast from May 27 to June 19. For PhotoMed 2011, the first Mediterranean Photography festival, artistic direction is assured by Jea...

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Festival

PhotoMed'
Turkey

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PhotoMed’ selected Turkey as its special guest for this first edition of the festival. Sharing both Asian and European borders, this country can be discovered and rediscovered throughout the festival exhibitions.

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Festival

PhotoMed'
Martin Parr & Magnum

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Martin Parr, famous for his scathing observations of contemporary society, is the honorary guest at this first Festival PhotoMed’. This Magnum photographer’s humorous pictures of the city of Benidorm, Spain’s most visited tourist attraction, are on...

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Exhibition

PhotoMed'
Les expositions

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For this first edition, Jean-Luc Montérosso, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, was the Artistic Director. The program naturally begins with an exhibition of photos selected from the MEP collection: from Boubat to Izis, including Sab...

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