At the end of the Second World War, Lucien Hervé « born in Hungary Laslo Elkan » 'kept the name he used as a resistance fighter, in 1947 he returned to photography. Two years later, thanks to Père Couturier, director of the magazine Art Sacré, he spent a day tak...

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The annual National Geographic seminar took place last week in Washington. Jean-François Leroy, director of the Visa pour l’Image Festival, was there: "It was a beautiful Thursday morning. In the National Geographic lobby, crowds meant it would be a brilliant new convention. After National...

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Today the US celebrates Martin Luther King Day. The Roger-Viollet agency pays tribute to the great man with this report by Matt Heron, an American civil rights defender. Matt Herron is a politically engaged American photographer. Registered as a conscientious obj...

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Nicole Crassat, one of Elle Magazine great fashion editors, passed away last week. Gilles Bensimon shares these parting images and words: “I don’t like the word ‘memories,’ so I will always imagine her in the french country side, looking at us all benevolently".

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It was not long after the invention of photography that artists decided to tinker with it and started discovering what else, besides copying reality, could be achieved. Man Ray, for example, realized that a lot could be done in the dark room, and thus spend more time in post production than ...

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Photo l.a. returned to the historic Santa Monica Civic Auditorium for its 21st edition January 12 —16, 2012. Jeff Dunas was "L'Oeil de La Lettre" for the opening last thursday wich gathered all the photographic people of the West Coast.

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Throckmorton Gallery opened its second show of the work of Lucien Clergue this past week, a show of work done by the French-born photographer in America. The show, including B&W and color, vintage and non-vintage prints, titled “Clergue in America”, is also availab...

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Laurence Miller Gallery, opened the show Burned, photographs by Burk Uzzle Thursday evening 1/12/2012. The newest project of Uzzle’s, a professional photographer for 57 years, began when he drove by an burned out, closed convenience store, about an hour from hi...

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