It was the photographic event of the year in NewYork. The openning of Cindy Sherman's exhibition at the MoMA yesterday evening.
The sumptuous restrospective spreads over 11 rooms. Abe Frajndlich was there among the happy few.

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Growing up, my mother Madje would rarely let me photograph her. But when her memory began to fail and I saw her beginning to disappear before me, I began taking pictures. She didn't mind at all, maybe she didn't realize I was doing it. Over the eight or ten years of watching her decl...

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In Earth Laughs In Flowers David LaChapelle appropriates the traditional Baroque still life painting in order to explore contemporary vanity, vice, the transience of earthly possessions and, ultimately, the fragility of humanity. Expectations of the still life a...

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Worldwide, prisons are ʻhomeʼ to more than 9 million people, and their numbers will only increase over the coming decades. But what do our various societies seek to accomplish by locking up such massive numbers of offenders?

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The exhibition, Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Photographies on display at the Jeu de Paume Museum of Paris through April 29, 2012, before traveling to the Beaux-arts Museum of Ontario, is the first comprehensive view of this American photographer’s work to be shown in both Fr...

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The Alliance Française in Mexico City presents the exhibition A mexican in Paris, by Yolanda Andrade, a chant d´amour by the Mexican photographer to Paris.

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It is a New York tradition that Swann Galleries kicks off the photography auction season. Among the 113 lots you will find pieces ranging from early photographs to contemporary work by Cindy Sherman, Helmut Newton, Weegee, Horst P. Horst, Henry Cartier-Bresson along with a photogra...

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The photobooks part of the auction includes many classics and several rarities. Take a look at the portfolio of our favorites.

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Dmitry Baltermants was born in 1912 in Warsaw, Poland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Baltermants spent his childhood amidst civic dissolution, revolution, civil war, and a drastic reorganization of state, property and society. After leavin...

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