Since the Spring of 2006, when photography entered the Beaux Arts Academy with the election of two photographers, this venerable French institution has been publishing the “Lettre de l'Académie des Beaux-Arts". Arnaud d'Hauterives, perpetual secretary, is the publicati...

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Philippe Garner, International Director of Photography at Christie’s, “Collecting Photography, a passion” provides a reflection about photography’s inevitable entry into the art market. Fascinated by photographs since the early 1960s, when I started systematical...

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Bernard Perrine, journalist and photographer and Michel Poivert, Art History Professor at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, they analyze the influence of technology, specifically digital technology, on photographic esthetics.

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Quentin Bajac, Head Curator of the Photography Department of the Pompidou Center wrote an essay entitled “The long walk” that covers the recognition of photography in France between the two World Wars.

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Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey’s Trash, written and directed in 1970, is the second film in a trilogy, along with Heat and Flesh. Perhaps the most original and free-spirited of the trilogy, Trash is an icon, an immortal cult cinema classic reflecting the New York counter-cultural cli...

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At the end of 2011, Chadwick Tyler created a series titled Tabernacle. Featuring Julia Hafstrom, it is a forecast of the evolution of his work. Through this series, we start to understand the philosophy and the influence behind his images. Each one of them suppor...

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For over two years, Eliane de Latour photographed prostitutes in the ghettos of Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s largest city. In her book she tells the story of meeting the girls and their “husbands” (slang for “pimp” in nouchi, the local street dialect). She took the first pic...

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In January 12, 2010, a catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti, one of the poorest and least developed counties in the world. An estimated two million people were affected by the disaster, which reduced much of the capital, Port-au-Prince, to rubble. According to the International Organization for ...

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