Who's Who

Quentin Bajac by
Denis Canguilhem

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A few essential facts might be sufficient to describe Quentin Bajac. Photography curator during the early days of the Musée d’Orsay, Senior Curator for the Photography Department at the Centre Georges Pompidou, professor at the Ecole du Louvre, director of several ...

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Portrait

New York, Fred Ritchin
What matters now?

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Fred Ritchin is professor of Photography at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, author of After Photography, former editor of the New York Times magazine and founder of the photojournalism program at ICP (International Center of Photogr...

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Exhibition

Paris, Arnaud de Gramont
Fluorescence(s)

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Ilan Engel Gallery will be showing Arnaud de Gramont's photos, in an exhibition entitled "Fluorescence(s)". After working 15 years as an architect, Arnaud de Gramont (born in 1960) became a photographer in 2003. Arnaud de Gramont adds: "I am fascinated by light, hence these ...

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Exhibition

Jacques-Henri Lartigue, The choice of happiness

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Forma, the Foundation of photography in Milan presents an exhibition of photographs by Jacques-Henri Lartigue, one of photography's precocious prodigies, a genial enthusiast and a professional of happiness.

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Exhibition

Milan, Polaroids by Julian Schnabel

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For many years Julian Schnabel, the versatile American artist and director, has taken large format Polaroids using an old panoramic 20 x 24in Camera from 1970 which is as large as a fridge.
The selection of images on show at Forma in Milan, including both vibrant colour images an...

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Exhibition

Paris, Le Bal
Topography of war

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Faced with an avalanche of weapons, dead bodies, explosions Diane Dufour Director of the BAL and Jean-Yves Jouannais curators of the exhibit Topography of war chose an other way to show war, « beyond the frame » as Jean-Yves wrote.

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Exhibition

Denis Dailleux's Ghana

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Because he has been living in Cairo for nearly 5 years and has been traveling to Egypt for more than 18 year, it is easy to associate Denis Dailleux’s work with this country. How could it be otherwise with a bibliography like his. Le Caire, published by the Editions d...

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Exhibition

London, Peter Piller
Archive of images

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On one of the breaks during the set-up of his exhibition at Brancolini Grimaldi, Peter Piller took some time to talk with me about his latest series STOP. I was very interested in knowing the reasons that led an artist like Piller—who usually presents...

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Exhibition

Sophie Zénon
In Case We Die

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The contempory art space Fernet Branca in Saint Louis a stone's throw from Basel offer Sophie Zenon the presentation from september 18th to december 18th 2011 of a small retrospective and most of all her last works.

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