Exhibition

Thomas Dorn & Isabelle Derigo: The Yoke

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Today’s Thomas Dorn pictures are currently being presentd by the Markowicz Gallery for Art Basel Miami Beach. “The Yoke” means “the link” in sanskrit.

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Awards

Camden, Prix Nadar 2011
Jean-Christian Bourcart

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Created in 1955 by the Gens d’Image association, the annual Prix Nadar recognizes a single outstanding work of photography published in France over the course of the year.

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Book

Bertien van Manen: Let's sit down before we go

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The title of the exhibition (and the accompanying book published by Mack) is a “metaphor,” explains the photographer Bertien Van Manen. It refers to an old Russian custom where travellers about to embark on a long voyage sit dow and take a moment to consider, “where the...

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Exhibition

Real Venice
Venice in Peril

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On a rainy and cloudy Monday morning, with a post-Paris Photo mood, I headed to the Somerset House to visit Real Venice. An exhibition organised by the charity Venice in Peril, in collaboration with Ivorypress, to raise funds for the restoration and protection of buildings and a...

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Auction

Since Photography
Binoche and Giquello

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Since Photography is a generic title that includes the "Épreuves choisies" (from the photographic patrimony of Serge Plantureux) confronting "aesthetic mutations”. On Monday, December 12, 2011 at 4pm at Drouot Montaigne, under the expertise of Jean-Mathieu Martini, a...

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Auction

Eugène Atget
30 pictures of Paris

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Pierre Champion and Françoise Kusel, auctioneers in Nimes, will be running the sale of photographs by Eugène Atget to be held on Saturday, December 3 at 2pm, in the city’s Hôtel des Ventes. Under the expertise of Yves Di Maria, this auction will be offering diverse lots focusing...

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Editorial & Business

Harry Benson at Contour Getty Images

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Harry Benson is now represented by Contour Getty Images. Scottish born photojournalist Harry Benson began his career at the Hamilton Advertiser before moving to London's Fleet Street where he worked for the Daily Sketch and the Daily Express. Harry traveled to America with the Bea...

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Advertising

Greece according to Platon

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For the past ten years, the New York photographer Platon has photographed the world’s economic and political leaders for the most prestigious magazines. Greece is a personal work, a return to his native country. “These are pictures from my homeland, the Greek islands; the people I ...

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Editorial & Business

7 days of agencies
Majority World

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Probably because it was first invented in Europe and probably because it was, for a long time, a rich man's club, photography has been predominately a western hemisphere preoccupation. For a very long time both its creators ( photographers) and its support ( magazines) have been ge...

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