Festival

Saint-Brieuc: production grants!

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The Saint-Brieuc Agglomération, an association of fourteen of Brittany’s municipalities or communes, has an original idea for a photography festival: use the raise money it raises to finance even more photography projects.

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Portrait

Stockholm: Birnbaum on photography

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When Daniel Birnbaum became director at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2011 he took the radical step to rehang the museum’s whole collection: out went the Rauchenbergs, the Duchamps and the Kleins and in came Cindy Sherman, Duane Michaels and Larry Clark.

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Editorial & Business

The Eddie Adams’ workshop

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One hundred strong, they walked up the gravel laden hill having just stepped off a caravan of yellow school buses, phalanxed by an applauding gauntlet of a Who’s Who of photography professionals. Little do they know that four days later, when they walk down that same hill for the last time...

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Exhibition

Elizabeth Taylor
by Firooz Zahedi

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Leila Heller Gallery presents forty photographs of Firooz Zahedi travelling with the screen legend, Elizabeth Taylor, in 1976. She poses in odalisque costumes and fashionable chadors. Before the exhibition, Elizabeth Taylor said, “Seeing these photographs brings back fond memories ...

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Exhibition

Photography in
the New Yorker

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Howard Greenberg Gallery presents Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker, curated by Elisabeth Biondi, the former visuals editor of the magazine. The New Yorker Magazine began to publish photographs in 1992, under the editorial direction of Tina Brown. At that ...

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Exhibition

Adam Fuss, The Space Between Garden and Eve

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At Xavier Hufkens in Brussels, a new exhibition by Adam Fuss. The Space Between Garden and Eve is the fifth solo exhibition by the artist at the gallery. The British artist Adam Fuss lives in New York. For almost three decades he has brought photography back to its...

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Exhibition

Julia Margaret Cameron: unreleased pictures

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My aspirations are to ennoble Photography and to secure for it the character and uses of High Art by combining the real and Ideal and sacrificing nothing of the Truth by all possible devotion to Poetry and beauty.

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Auction

Ader Nordman

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The Ader Nordman auction house in Paris will hold a public auction for photography books, Thursday, October 20 at 14h. In addition to the titular collection, a selection of European, American and African photographers’ portfolios will be up for auction, many of them signed. Also available will be severa...

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Auction

Pierre Bergé & Associés

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The Pierre Bergé & Associés auction house offers a collection of photography books, assembled over the course of more than twenty years by an amateur photography lover.

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Press Review

Paul Melcher’s selection

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Talent, they say, is something that comes with age. Sometimes talent likes to play a trick on us and disregard our rules. It emerges out of seemingly nowhere. 18 year old Australian born photographer Nirrimi Hakanson is one of these “natural’ photographer that has not wait...

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