Exhibition

New York: Denis Darzacq
Act

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Act, his new exhibition at the Laurence Miller Gallery, deals with the mentally and physically disabled. Denis Darzacq, looking good and sporting fashionable sneakers, sat in the patio of an East Village Mexican restaurant and spoke to us about the liberation of disabled bodies ...

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Exhibition

Nicolas Comment
Mexico City Waltz

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For his first exhibition at the Galerie VU’, Nicolas Comment presents Mexico City Waltz. The series is inspired by three texts: Jack Kerouac’s Tristessa, Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano, and Antonin Artaud’s Voyage au pays des Tarahumaras. These texts served Com...

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Exhibition

Matthew Pillsbury
City Stages

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Expanding the use of the long time exposure, Pillsbury ventures beyond the interior personal space , into the public space where we see ourselves reflected in the ghosts of our collective experience. 
New York City sets the stage for Pillsburyʼs examination of how we i...

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Exhibition

Stan Douglas
Disco Angola

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The new series by this Canadian artist, on display at the David Zwirner Gallery, plays with juxtapositions. Here, in these fictional pictures, he confronts two time periods, that of the civil war in Angola and the emergence of Disco in New York.

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Press Review

Michel Philippot
Hors-cadre

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In the news, what happens off-camera is the only thing that should interest a worthy photographer . The communicators, the ones that get a Rolex after 50 years of service, and the people that that pay , don’t like what happens off-camera. Is it so revolting to show those “things that mus...

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Festival

Caochangdi Photospring 2012 Bérénice Angrémy

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Bérénice Angrémy is undoubtedly one of the most emblematic figures of the contemporary art scene in Beijing. After having studied the Chinese language and traditional Chinese art in France, Bérénice left for Taiwan then settled in Beijing where she created several impo...

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Festival

A weekend at Caochangdi Photospring 2012

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April 21, 2012, it is gray and warm in this capital city art district. Spring has arrived in Beijing and pollen is floating in the air like snow. It is in this calm seasonal atmosphere that preparations are under way for the burgeoning Coachangdi PhotoSpring, a unique local...

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Book

Miss Rosen
Book Review

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Perhaps nothing is so romantic as what remains after that which was great has long faded away. The Romantic era of the nineteenth century was founded upon this, the idea that emotion is an authentic source of aesthetic experience. And the emotions Romanticism values most are those the remind ...

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Magazine

.tiff - New Annual Magazine

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The FotoMuseum Antwerp presents the first issue of their magazine .tiff, a new annual magazine about young Belgian Photography. .tiff is a future-oriented, annual showcase of young Belgian talent. FoMu will publish a selection of the very best of the up-and-coming image makers of our country.

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Video

Guillaume Geneste
The Guardian

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Jonas Cuénin, one of our New York contributors, has a passion for Irving Penn, and in particular one of the photographer’s most famous series: Small Trades. Jonas’ web series, “Of Pictures and Men” (Des images et des hommes) is a tribute to Penn’s work. It focuses on all those in the ...

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