Exhibition

Greg Gorman
Hollywood Framed

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In 1982 Greg Gorman was just beginning his career as a photographer, creating campaigns and publicity shoots for such films as Tootsie, The Big Chill and Scarface, with stars from the worlds of film, television and music gracing his studio on a daily basis. It was also at this time that...

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Exhibition

Raom and Loba: On the other side of the mirror

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Raom is an Argentine Painter. Loba a Parisian artist. They chose to collaborate on a photographic work. The project is underway and titled LANDscapeING. It features children parachuting into a landscape.

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Magazine

La Revue de l'art: Special on Photography

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So symbolic, La Revue de l'Art is dedicating its 175th issue to photography, with a picture taken on May 6, 1968 by Gilles Caron on the cover. Symbolic, the editorial by Michel Poivert, Professeur à l'Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Inha, “Photography in France: A Nat...

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Portfolio

Klaus Pichler: Pamphlet on ecology

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Klaus Pichler is an Austrian photography who lives in Vienna. Concerned with our consumer society’s waste of food, he sent us these pictures and this presentation. According to a UN study one third of the world's food goes to waste - the largest part thereof in the industrialized na...

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Exhibition

Shanghai: Michael Kenna, Landscapes

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Throughout his career, British photographer Michael Kenna (born in Lancashire in 1953), has traveled the world looking for emblematic natural and urban landscapes. These well known spaces are a playing field for the photographer who experiments with the power of black and white, m...

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Book

Southeast Asian undergound music

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Mon nom est John Resborn, je suis un photographe suédois de 31 ans. Avec ma sœur Lena, une journaliste, nous avons travaillé pendant quatre ans pour mettre au point un livre photographique documentaire de 208 pages à propos des personnes qui font vivre les scènes mét...

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Book

Thomas Demand: Sacralization of everyday

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"Existing in a state of continual motion, from the hotel room to the road, the life of the travelling salesman, the commercial traveller, is experienced as a perpetual passenger, punctuated by both the shifting of place and the marking of time.”

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Art and commerce

La Fondation des Treilles
Véronique Ellena

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The Fondation des Treilles, initially created by Anne Gruner-Schlumberger, is located in the Haut Var and is part of a remarkable landscape conducive to creativity. Built in the same vein as the Villa Medicis as an artistic residence and think tank about Mediterranean cul...

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Art and commerce

La Fondation des Treilles
Raed Bawayah

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If Raed Bawayah used the olive tree to start his work, it is because this tree, symbol of peace for the Mediterranean, also provokes a sensation of peace and resistance to the violence of man and nature; the olive tree, a veritable metaphor of the Palestinian desesperate strug...

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Portfolio

Quentin Caffier: In the world of Starcraft

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Digital Heroes is a portrait series featuring the best French players of the computer game Starcraft 2. Released by Blizzard in 2010, Starcraft 2 was designed for competition. It is considered an unofficial national sport in South Korea, where players are treated li...

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