Exhibition

Romy Schneider and Gamma

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Romy Schneider shared a special relationship with the Gamma photo agency, notably with the photographers Juan Carlo Botti and Jean-Pierre Bonotte. A full 90% of the photographs currently on display at the Espace Landowski were taken for the agency.

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Book

Paris Match: Dans l'intimité des peintres

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Imagine us, passing through Arles one November morning of 1888, in front of the yellow house at 2 place Lamartine, peering through the ground floor window. We would have seen two gentlemen leaning over their work, next to a coy woman in fancy dress: Van Gogh and Gauguin s...

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Book

Robert Capa
37, rue Froidevaux

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A life, a book : Robert CAPA – Traces of a legend by Bernard Lebrun & Michel Lefebvre, with Bernard Matussière, La Martinière Books.

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Fashion

Charles Fréger
and fashion

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Since 1999, the photographer Charles Fréger has continued adding to his series Portraits photographiques et uniformes, an examination of various social groups as seen through their uniforms. Captured with a precise photographic vocabulary, the subjects evoke pl...

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Magazine

Andrea Blanch
Musée magazine

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Musée Magazine is a visually-driven photography magazine dedicated to displaying the work of international emerging photographers. It will also incorporate interviews with different guest photographers, artists, writers, collectors and gallerists.

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Exhibition

Thomas Florschuetz
Gœthe Institut

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Born in Zwickay in 1957, German photographer Thomas Florschuetz’s reputation grew from his large format “tableaux”, collages of pictures taken of his own body. Since then, his work has evolved towards architecture, specifically focusing on intermediary and ephemeral urban landsca...

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Exhibition

Pavel Platonov
The Sword of Damocles

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According to Greek legend, Panderingof the Dionysius I – tyrant of
Syracuse, Damocles exclaimed that Duonysius is a great man of power and authority surrounded by magnificence. Dionysius then offered to switch places with Damocles, so that Damocles could taste that very fortune...

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Press Review

Paul Melcher's selection

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Adam Hinton’s professional photographic career started with a knife attack. Awarded a compensation by the british government after a brutal attack at the age of 15, he decided spend the money on new lens, hardly a typical expense for that age. At 18, when he received the other part, he decide...

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Book

Hollywood and
The Ivy Look

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In the decade between 1955 and 1965 a coterie of discerning Hollywood hipsters appropriated the incomparable Ivy League clothing of America’s East coast elite. These West Coast actors elevated the Ivy look to the height of cool and defined a quintessentially American male dress code for a...

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