The Dominique Issermann exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, on display since January 18, has met with such success that it has been extended through May 27. A first for the MEP! To mark the occasion, we’ve chosen to present the video Impression, whic...

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When you were a child, I suppose many of you had a favorite toy. Depending on what generation you grew up in, it could have been a number of things, from a Barbie doll to a Star Wars figure, a toy truck or a dinosaur, a Matchbox car, or even a Beanie Baby. But what happened to all of those toys? Do you s...

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This 170- auction lot was held yesterday at the Bonhams New York headquarters with a simulcast with Bonhams in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Several iconic images captured by top fashion and celebrity photographers were offered. Marilyn Monroe, the last sitting comes a Vogue assigment, just six week...

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The auction by the Maison de Ventes Million &Associés, May 13, 2012, offers, under the expertise of Christophe Gœury, a classical collection of photographs from the Deriaz dynasty and their collection, pictures by Lazhar Mansoni and the "Diaphanorama" and his plates by Eugè...

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Jean-Robert Dantou, photographer, joined the team of Agnès Gramain and Florence Weber in 2011. His work shows the results of his ethnographic and statistical research into the professional and familial care of disabled and dependent.

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I am not feeling well so I was sent to an Israeli hospital to see a skin doctor. While walking towards the outside clinic I was very nervous, as I did not want to be checked by an Israeli doctor. It is true that it wasn’t the first time for me to be checked by an Israeli doctor, but this pa...

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Through July 29, 2012, the Fondation HCB in Paris will exhibit Toshi-e (Towards the City), Machi (City), and Golden-gai Bars, three essential series by Japanese photographer Yutaka Takanashi, a major figure in the generation of photographers who revolutionized the vision and th...

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Take time, calm down, observe… 
Take time to lie down and dream, take time to make use of slow photography, take time out of time. 
This work, as well as the other Ambrotypes series I've made, is a multi level paradox.

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Darkroom charts the physical and psychic terrain of photographic printing rooms while conveying their transition from the realm of pure functionality into historical artifact. Indirect portraits of both producer and product, Bartos’ work explores the physical space linking artist to artwork and ...

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To understand Pierre de Vallombreuse’s involvement with photography, we have to go back to the source, Borneo in the 1980s. “In Borneo, I realized that instead of spending my life behind a drawing board trying to imagine stories, I could live them myself and forge my own experi...

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Amateur photography has been honored in Toulouse for three years thanks to the MAP Festival. Jean-Stéphane Cantero and Pierre Garrigues, both festival directors, presented the new edition under way until May 31 with 20 exhibitions based on five themes: memory, feelings, bonds, tale...

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My Life story was very brief. I was real easy on my expense account, so it was not my fault that the magazine went out of business. I had just been asked to be the photographer in London, and I was more upset about not getting to take my family there for two or three years than I...

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French, Poursuite Books often combines maps with personal stories: the suburbs of Barcelona, the Artois, the Vendée region, the outskirts of Strasbourg… the authors of this publishing house have covered as many as 20 cities since its creation in 2005.

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Willy Brandt Haus is currently presenting in Berlin an exhibition of works by Yvonne von Schweinitz “Faces of Afghanistan” : 120 black and white pictures were selected from her vast 1953 work. That year, Yvonne von Schweinitz traveled for seven months with Swiss photograph...

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