Festival

Photography at FIAC 2011

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The relationship between the FIAC and photography has always been tenuous. Until 1988 many galleries participating in this major contemporary art fair held under the prestigious dome of the Grand Palais showed photography exclusively. At one point, perhaps too numerous (or embarassing), the g...

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Exhibition

Tom Wood, the Eye and Soul of Liverpool

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For thirty years, Tom Wood has trained his unblinking eye on the streets of working-class Liverpool, largely forgotten by the rest of Britain. There they call him “Photie Man.” In the home of the Beatles lies a parallel society, set adrift, with its own codes and language. Tom ...

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Exhibition

Modernism and advertising photography

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L. Parker Stephenson Photographs presents Modernism and Advertising Photography 1920s - 1930s, an exhibition of vintage photographs by recognized masters and lesser-known American and European photographers.

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Exhibition

Deborah Turbeville
The Fashion Pictures

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For her latest book, The Fashion Pictures, fashion photographer Deborah Turbeville assembles a selection of the surrealistic photographs that made her name.

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Exhibition

Elliott Erwitt
A tribute to light

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It is a story of friendship that led to this new collaboration between the famous photographer and Artemide, the legendary Italian light designer. Elliott Erwitt, "the family friend" who took pictures of the family dog has long accompanied Ernesto Gismonti, the cr...

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Festival

19th Photographic Rencontres of Lorient

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Organized by Sellita 150 / The Le Lieu gallery, the 19th Photographic Rencontres of Lorient will take place in various galleries and institutions throughout the region until December 11, 2011. They will host nine exhibitions, conferences, films and events revolving around ph...

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Magazine

Dazed & Confused
Photography Special

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For the November issue Dazed & Confused announces a photography special with contributions from photographers and artist like Ryan McGinley, Rankin & Damien Hirst, Will McBride, Benjamin Alexander Huseby, Jeff Bark and Manuela Pavesi.

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Exhibition

Backstage Pass: Rock&Roll Photography

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The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, presents an exhibition on rock in the twentieth century through a series of iconic images of the movement’s biggest stars. It’s one of the largest private collections of rock ‘n’ roll photos. Assembled over the course of dec...

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Press Review

Paul Melcher's selection

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Drop everything you are doing, you are taking a spaceship. Not the kind that goes up for a few minutes and brings you back down. No, you are talking the Major Tom kind, destination Mars. You have not much time to pack and the agency, in its infinite kindness, let’s you take one photograph. On...

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Exhibition

Hypothèses, Rancinan + Gaudriault

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Hypotheses is the second part of the Trilogy of the Moderns. Caroline Gaudriault’s and Gérard Rancinan’s artistic and editorial approach has prompted them, at each stage of their Trilogy of the Moderns journey, to choose a place which resonates and conver...

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