Who's Who

Sylvie Aubenas: The beginning of the chain

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Sylvie Aubenas is to photography what Mother Theresa is to misery: a Saint and an icon. She inherited the skills of a long line of otherwise unknown or forgotten curators, in the French photography world, her predecessors Bernard Marbot, Philippe ...

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Art and commerce

Jean Larivière and Vuitton
A perfect marriage

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Since the beginning, travel has been the object of Louis Vuitton ad campaigns, featuring the sublime pictures of photographer Jean Larivière. His images remain indelibly sealed in our memories of the Vuitton brand. To such an extent...

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Festival

PHotoEspaña by
Brigitte Ollier

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PHotoEspaña’s success is for the most part due to its charismatic director, Claude Bussac, and the selections of its chief curator. After Sergio Mah, it is Cuban Gerardo Mosquera who is, for the next three years, the band-leader for this o...

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Book

Katharina Bosse: Portrait as a Young Mother

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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother is the last book by Katharina Brosse. After six years in New York, the artist returned to live in Germany where she gave birth to two babies in four years. This double change in lifestyle is coupled with ...

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Exhibition

Stockholm
Robert Mapplethorpe

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Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) is undoubtedly one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. He was inspired by the sculpture of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and translated this aesthetic to a time and culture of his own, namely New ...

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Exhibition

Stéphanie Schneider
An ode to Polaroid

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For her photography series Stefanie Schneider exclusively uses expired Polaroid film in which the chemicals react in an unpredictable manner provoking chromatic aberrations, holes and haloes that carefully rest over the motifs like a second reality. Using ...

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Exhibition

Christophe Beauregard The removal of tattoo

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Christophe Beauregard was born in 1966 and lives in Paris. Following his studies in Literature, he became interested in photography and tattoo removal, as he states: “As tattoos and body art are fashionable in our contemporary societies, I am interested ...

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