Exhibition

Arnold Newman, a master of portraiture

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Arnold Newman is the man of the hour at the C/O Berlin with the exhibition Masterclass, a retrospective boasting 200 vintage black-and-white photographs. It includes a large number of portraits, some well known, and several still lifes, street scenes an...

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Exhibition

Dulce Pinzón: The real story of Superheroes

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After September 11, the notion of the “hero” began to rear its head in the public consciousness more and more frequently. The notion served a necessity in a time of national and global crisis to acknowledge those who showed extraordinary courage or determination in the fac...

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Exhibition

Tribute to Georges Bataille

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The Galerie Hors-Champs will exhibit the work of two photographers in a show dedicated to the writer Georges Bataille. Philippe Bréson offers his “conception of eroticism, where the woman is once again mutilated, deformed, scarified.” Alain Brendel present...

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Book

20 Now: Contemporary Photographers

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20 Now: Contemporary Photographers is a book that presents 20 western photographers to South East Asia. From Adam Fuss to David Hilliard’s Panoralic photography, the book shows different approaches and idea sto the medium of contemporary photography.

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Art and commerce

Getty acquires 25 Ansel Adams Photographs

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The J. Paul Getty Museum today announced a donation of 25 photographs by acclaimed 20th century photographer Ansel Adams (American, 1902–1984). A gift of Carol Vernon and her husband Robert Turbin in memory of Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, “The Museum Set” was purchased from A...

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Portfolio

One day... The future according to Malo

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"One day my son told me that he wanted to be an explorer when he grew up. My daughter, on the other hand, was set on becoming an artist. It made me wonder what they would really become.

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Exhibition

Madrid: Emile Otto Hoppé

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La Fundacion Mapfre is showing for the first time in Madrid, until May 20, 2012, the work of photographer Emil Otto Hoppé. Born in Munich in 1878, E.O. Hoppé moved to Great Britain in 1902 where he began working as a photographer in 1907.

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Exhibition

Elliott Erwitt
Sequentially Yours

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In Sequentially Yours, published by teNeues in 2011, Woody Allen’s faithful screenwriter Marshall Brickman wrote about the infamous scene photographed by Elliott Erwitt on the set of Billy Wilder’s "The Seven Year Itch”, t...

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Exhibition

Stephen Perloff: Promenade in pictures

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Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review and the editor of The Photograph Collector. He is also photographer. Here is his text:

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Magazine

Photo Celebrates Mario Testino

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The French magazine Photo devoted its latest issue to Mario Testino, a world of fashion photography . This special edition is the most recent in a long line of tributes and monographs dedicated to the likes of Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier Bresson, Edouard Bou...

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