School had already closed for the holiday season. But they came anyway, Yan, Jonas, David and Gilles. It's true they had work to hand in late, so here they are. Holidays will begin tomorrow.

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Invited by Patrice Chéreau to produce work on the theme, “Faces and Bodies,” the American photographer Nan Goldin created her first series in six years by pairing her own photographs with photographs of celebrated paintings and sculptures from the Louvre. The Matthew Marks G...

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The Roswitha Haftmann Foundation board awarded Cindy Sherman with the 150,000 CHF Foundation Prize. The prize awarded by the Foundation, created in 1999 according to the wishes of the late Roswitha Haftmann (1924-1998), is given to "living artists producing...

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The following selection of photos from 2011 were pulled from the weekly reviews of imagery in the U.S. media for La Lettre de la Photographie. Looking back can be an enlightening exercise, but choosing from among all the photographs published this year was difficult. In the end, ...

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Part Two of the american press review David Shonauer has worked on every week for this past year

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An exhibition of new photographs by Jeff Wall is on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York. The exhibition presents pictures created over the last two years. In these new works the artist continues to address the neo-realist and near-documentary concerns at the core of his practice for...

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Pierre Gonnord (born in France in 1963, lives in Spain) is known for his portraits of marginal individuals, including Gypsies, punks and immigrants. His photographs speak of a long tradition of portraiture and representation in the history of art. The title of the exhibition,...

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“Both The End and Habana Libre are snapshots of places in time and ways of life that are either fading or being completely reinvented,” said Artist Michael Dweck. “The most obvious similarities are aesthetic - beautiful people in striking island ...

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As a girl, I grew up hearing and reading stories that created a mood and an inquisitiveness about the natural world. It was not until a few years ago that I began to understand the importance of these stories, folklore and fairy tales and their purpose in the processes of human his...

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In honor of Stanley Greene who received the Albert Kahn award Jean-François Camp from Dupon photolaboratory received last friday the US ambassador to France Charles Rivkin, his wife Susan Tolson and Jean-François Fortchambre, president of the association Albert Kahn. Here are some of Ya...

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The Icart Photo Grand Prize was awarded to Thomas Morel-Fort for his series "vu de l'extérieur" (views from the outside). "In this series, I took pictures of sports from a distance" commented the photographer. Before turning to photography, Thomas Morel-Fort studied th...

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Pierre-Marie Drapeau-Martin, born in 1991, is a third year student at the Paris Icart-Photo School. He tried to show the universal nature of sports by focusing on the body and matter.

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This series is devoted to the stadiums of past centuries, to the forms and details that don't allow us to recognize them, but to perceive them differently. A crossroads ignored by the masses.

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Delphine Lefebvre is a young French photographer. She leans toward staged photo reportages. To cover sports, she followed the women's rugby team of Chilly-Essonne.

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After the landscape studies that introduced her to the environment, Sandra Carrico, 21, began taking pictures of nature. She quickly switched gears, focusing on the banalities of daily life otherwise ignored. This project seeks to take city dwellers out of their indifference t...

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