Portfolio

Bettina Rheims
The Gender Studies

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Over a year ago, we got a request from “Candy magazine”, an yearly publication on transexuality and drag, to publish once again, and twenty years later, the “Modern Lovers” and “Les Espionnes”. A body of work on androginy and transgender shot during the hardest times of aids.

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

Book

Tina Merandon
Political portraits

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These thirty-six portraits of key players in the French political arena were taken as part of a long-term photography project with Le Monde newspaper. With intuition and sensitivity, Tina Merandon zeroes in on the human truth behind these political figures and their deepe...

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Portfolio

Melanie Dunea, the world greatest chiefs

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After two successful books asked the world’s greatest chefs, “What would be your last meal on earth?”, it was time to bring ‘My Last Supper’ to life. Melanie Dunea interviews and photographs the world’s best chefs, celebrities and foodies, who in turn reveal their intimate des...

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

Book

Miss Rosen, Book Review: George Lois

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Creation is one thing. Communication is another. The two are often conflated, mistaken as one in the same, when discussing art. It seems as though as the audience, we have forgotten our role. We are not the reason for the art, though we would like to think it so.

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

Portfolio

Julien Baer, from music to images

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We know Julien Baer for his music, we didn’t know he was also a photographer. He will be at the Elysée Museum this summer. Here are some pictures and his text.

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

Editorial & Business

7 days of agencies
Icon Sport

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It is no wonder that the greeks, as they were creating the foundations of civilization, put sports competition in such a high prominent place. It has every element of the human life : success, drama, effort, failure, victory, group interaction, solitude, social interaction, involvemen...

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Press Review

Michel Philippot: Political commitment

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I’m feeling a bit lost this week, so if you can’t be bothered, go ahead and turn the page. A few minutes ago, they announced on the radio that Brigitte Bardot thinks Marine Le Pen, the right-wing candidate in the upcoming French presidential elections, fantastic, and plans to v...

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

Magazine

Zineland by Antoine Soubrier: Garagisme

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From the opening words of the first issue of Garagisme, a beautiful 100-page A4 format magazine (10€) with no ads and the title “Car Cultures,” we know the focus is going to be cars, and all with a certain sense of refinement; the -ism in the title proves its sophistic...

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

Exhibition

José Maria Sert, The other side of the story

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José Maria Sert, a Spanish muralist who moved to Paris in 1900, experienced photography as a constant companionship. We know nothing about his first encounter with the medium, nor when it was that he decided to carry out through photography transfers from reality to the i...

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

Festival

The Kassel Book Fair at the BAL

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Created in 2008, the International Kassel Photography Book Fair has become a reference and an essential annual rendez-vous. To respond to the rising demands of photography books of the past decade and to “reveal the changing political, social and cultural history of photography”, the ...

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

In memoriam

Bièvres: Death of André Fage

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The French Photography Museum Association of Bièvre announced the death of André Fage, on April 16, 2012, in his 85th year, 21 years after that of his father who was born in Budapest in 1905. The funeral was held on Wednesday, April 18, in the Bièvres Church.

20.04.2012[ read full story ]

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