In 2007, while seeking material for an unrelated project, John Maloof happened upon the photographic oeuvre of Vivian Maier at auction. Said Chicago auction house had acquired 10,000 rolls of her film, 20-30,000 of which were undeveloped, amon...

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In the fall of 2011, Steidl published The Protest Box under the aegis of Martin Parr, a collection of exact replicas of five out of print photo books that each in their own way focused on the theme of political opposition. Algeria (Algérie), by Dirk Alvermann, is one of those. While visiting...

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This is Laurent Condominas's first show in the US. His photos focus notably on his family and friends, a "band of Outsiders", which would become part of the 1970's artistic avant -garde. A "poetry of everyday life" appears in this work, which takes small details of banal situa...

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Timothy Taylor Gallery presents an exhibition that brings together the work of Robert Adams, Robert Bechtle and Ewan Gibbs. All three artists create deeply personal, yet iconic images of America.

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The Berlinische Galerie presents Time is out of Joint, a large retrospective of Boris Mikhailov’s work from the 1960s to today. This is the first Mikhailov exhibition of its size to be held in Germany, where the photographer has lived for more t...

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I lived with Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, he later became her husband, from late 1941 until after the end of the war. It was sort of a ménage à trois, but Roland was in the British army, and so the ménage à trois became a ménage à deux. After the liberation of Paris, Lee and I liv...

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We all attended the Paris International Agricultural Show, for the occasion, we decided to publish Claudine Coupé: Breton through and through, I love the ocean, listening to the wind, traveling, laughing, discovering, dreaming and telling stories. Snow falls on a farm in Lohennec. Y...

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Hidden behind the anonymous stucco facade of a Regents Park Inner Circle villa, Akiko Takizawa's first solo show, held at the Daiwa Foundation in London, is anything but anonymous. In fact, Takizawa's images are highly personal compositions, emotionally charged yet containing w...

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What do you do when all the images offered on the market start looking more and more like each other ? In a space dominated by a few major international stock photo agencies who produce images at factory pace under the barking orders of creative directors armed with numbered filled e...

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