In memoriam

The death of Eve Arnold

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Eve Arnold, globetrotter and photojournalist perhaps most known for her portraits of Marilyn Monroe, died last week at the age of 99, according to a Magnum photo agency spokesperson. Arnold died peacefully in her sleep in a London retirement home, added Fiona Rogers. Born in 1...

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Book

Paris, Portrait of a City
Jean-Claude Gautrand

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The first, is a photographer and historian, and the second is an editor, they are not on their first round of attempts. In 1999, Jean-Claude Gautrand released “Paris mon amour“ followed by monographs by photographers working in Paris, its secret hideouts, its popular ...

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Book

Miss Rosen
Book Review

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Perhaps there is nothing so compelling as the human face. For all the beauty it holds, the experience it hides, the emotions it shares, it is a map of personal history. It is the thing we cannot see on ourselves, unless we look in the mirror, and once we behold our visage, we reconsider. It i...

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Book

Marcus Reichert: Portraits of the artist's wife

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Marcus Reichert is known as a painter and filmmaker. Michael Hoppen Contemporary did an photographic exhibition in 2004 and Mel Gooding's Reichert: The Human Edifice (30 years of previously unknown photographs) was published by Artmedia Press, London ar...

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Exhibition

Raphaël Rémiatte's games

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He was an actor, storyteller, sailor, fireman. He became a photographer. His work is on display at the Agathe Gaillard gallery where the text he wrote to accompany his pictures is online on the French version of La Lettre.

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Book

Limited editions
Magnum gallery

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For the first time, Magnum Gallery presents in an exhibition its Limited Editions & books collection. The Limited Edition is a photography book accompanied with a Collection Print, often presented in a box, at an affordable price, between 100 and 1000
euros approximately.

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Press Review

Michel Philippot
Happy new year !

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Happy new year once and for all! It is the year of all dangers, but since "someone" is taking care of us, we have nothing to fear. A year that had a terrible start for traditional photography with today, the venerable Kodak house of Rochester, risking eviction from the New York S...

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