Book

Henry Hargreaves
Au naturel in 3D

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Model turned photographer Henry Hargreaves’ book 3DD is, as he puts it, ”a celebration of natural boobs in 3D, all shapes, sizes, colors.” When La Lettre talks to the New Zealand born from his studio in Williamsburg, Hargreaves says that ”I man...

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Exhibition

Hiroshima
The recovered images

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On August 6, 1945, the first Atomic bomb in history would wipe the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the face of the earth, killing instantly 60,000 civilians and around 140,000 over the months that followed. We know the horrifying images from amateur photographers: burnt bodies, pi...

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Portfolio

The Mexico of Larry Cwik

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The work in this series results from a cumulative total of six months spent photographing for this project in Mexico, visiting annually since 1983, to a different large city each year, and walking an estimated 900 miles to date through the streets of Mexican cities, looking for images. Wh...

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Exhibition

MEP1
Jane Evelyn Atwood

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It took 40 years for Paris to pay tribute to this New Yorker who has lived in France since 1971. This June 2011, Jane Evelyn Atwood, who has been a photographer since 1974, will have her first retrospective at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), (Jane Evelyn Atwood, photogra...

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Exhibition

MEP 2
Xavier Lambours

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45 photographs, it’s better than nothing, but it is not enough to analyze the work of a photographer that has had so many prolix moments, intertwined with a few periods of silence. In this case, the current exhibition delves into an almost never-before seen series on nude photography.

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Exhibition

MEP 3
The Shadow of War

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What about war photography, does it still have an influence on the unfolding or the ending of conflicts in the world, what traces does it leave to posterity ? These are the questions that the exhibition The Shadow of War asks, presented until September 25th, 2011 at the MEP (Euro...

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Exhibition

MEP 4
Génération de l’air

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From June 29 through September 25, the magazine de l’air takes over the walls of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP). A real premiere in the history of this institution that has only devoted two exhibitions to photo magazines, Realités, and Vu...

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Magazine

de l'Air: anniversary of the magazine

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In parallel to the exhibition featured in the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), the magazine de l’Air has launched a special edition. As part of its issue 48, on newsstands all summer, the magazine devotes a good amount of its pages to the show in rue de Fou...

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