Portrait

Exclusive: Moby talks to Elizabeth Avedon

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“When I play music, I’m just exclusively focused on the music. When I’m taking photographs, I’m exclusively focusing on that. There’s not a lot of interdisciplinary stuff going on in my head.”– Moby

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Exhibition

Lewis W. Hine, the concerned photographer

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Some people consider Lewis Hine the number one documentary photographer in the sense in which that label would later be applied to Walker Evans and his followers. Others consider him the precursor of politically committed photographers, “concerned photographers” as they were ...

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Exhibition

Revisited places by
Luuk Wilmering

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In a French exclusive, the l'Institut Néerlandais presents the monography of the work by the Dutch artist-photographer Luuk Wilmering. The title of his exhibition, A natural story, is inspired by the artist’s frequent visits to the Natural History Museum...

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Exhibition

Hollywood in Paris: Stephen Vaughan

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Stephen Vaughan has been working for the greatest directors of Hollywood since 1978. He is credited on the most famous movies - more than 60 -: Blade Runner, Rain Man, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Mr & Mrs Smith, Master and Commander, Mission Impossible, Man on Fire ...

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London, between real and dream

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Landscapes and city views were alongside portraiture and still life the first genres to be established in photography. The exhibition Land/City/Real/Imagined explores the two genres from the 1930’s onwards, from black and white photography through to digitally manipulated image...

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Exhibition

Shunsuke Ohno: Contrasts

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In the Mandala series, Shunsuke Ohno puts forward the morphological similarities between the worlds of the infinitely small and the infinitely large. Successively, we fly over Tokyo city, its skyscrapers and large arteries and plunge into the lichen that grows on the bark of trees an...

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Exhibition

Photographic abstraction: Dmitry Sokolenko

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The work of Dmitry Sokolenko is based on the principle of fractality. By plunging into the matter of diverse surfaces, Dmitry Sokolenko uses photography as a means of taking abstract art to another level, that of visual language. He pictures the semantic fie...

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