Schools

Suisse, l'Ecole de Vevey

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Wedged between the major German, French and Dutch photography school, making a name for itself could have proven difficult for the Ecole de Photographie, Département du Centre d'enseignement professionnel de Vevey (CEPV). The first photography school in Suisse romande (French-speaking Switzer...

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Schools

L'Ecole de Vevey - Anne Golaz

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Like the painter Albert Anker (1831 – 1910), Anne Golez didn’t set out to be an artist. But unlike Anker, who studied theology before enrolling in the École Impériale des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Golaz didn’t want to go to a French photography school. Sensitive to Anker’s bucolic scenes of S...

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Exhibition

Delpire & Co. : Gallery Aperture

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As part of our sixtieth anniversary celebration, Aperture Foundation, in collaboration with our partners presents the exhibition Delpire & Co. featuring a half century of achievement in the life and career of visionary French publisher, editor, and curator Robert Delpire, who has rea...

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Exhibition

Delpire & Co. : The Gallery at Hermès

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The Gallery at Hermès, a space dedicated exclusively to photography, will present prints from photographers such as Harry Gruyaert, Jehsong Baak, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Michael Ackerman, Francesco Zizola, Raymond Depardon, Robert Doisneau, Paolo Pellegrin, and Marc Riboud. Th...

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Exhibition

Delpire & Co. : French Embassy

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Cultural Services of the French Embassy will present Delpire’s children books, including the original French edition of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are and Crocodile Tears by André François. These publications have entertained several generations of children since the 1950s u...

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Exhibition

Sarah Moon, Now and Then

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The new exhibition of Sarah Moon’s work coincides with that of her husband Robert Delpire. Entitled Now and Then, it presents a series of pictures taken throughout her career. A career that began during her career as a fashion model in the 1960’s. A career that naturally turned towards photog...

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Book

Miss Rosen, Book Review #31

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To have a muse is to appreciate the ebb and flow of energy that exists between the artist and the world. The muse is the one that inspires the creation of something new through the challenging of ideas, feelings, and vibes. The artist is the one that connects to this energy in search of so...

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Web Review

Michel Philippot
Fin des présidentielles

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This week I take all the credit Everything is happening in France with the results of « The Election ». French and foreign (now welcome), dailies and weeklies. Not much to say about the pictures, plain layouts, nothing bad, nothing exceptional. Each presidential election sho...

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Exhibition

Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964

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In the summer of 1964, San Francisco was ground zero for a historic culture clash as the site of both the 28th Republican National Convention (the “Goldwater Convention”) and the launch of the Beatles’ first North American tour. The young photographer Arthur Tress arr...

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Exhibition

Éric Chesnais : la passion des taxis

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During a brief visit to Beirut in November 2008, my eye was immediately drawn to the diversity of Lebanese taxis. I was surrounded by the “Dream Taxi,” “Speed Taxi,” “Star Taxi,” and “Taxi Charlie,” each with its own personality. I wanted to photograph them: they responded to eac...

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Exhibition

New York : Higher Pictures

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The opening exhibition for the new space, Higher Pictures, "Photography Is" presents a reflection about contemporary photography as a complex procedure and independent discipline. Joshua Citarella’s work “Hourglass and Apples and Oranges” is on display, a picture representing his i...

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Photo & Film

Ismail Bahri : Orientations

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The video work of Ismail Bahri is characterized by minimalist grammar: no sound, or very little, no editing, a fixed frame, a simple scene. They have a photographic aspect inspired not by documentary language but by an ordinary phenomenon simultaneously experimented by the artist. He is th...

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Editorial & Business

7 Days of Agencies
Invision

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There is a lot to be said about Greece these days. It has, in the last year or so, taken the biggest blow from the financial collapse generated in the US and its politics are fragile. But Greece is much more than a country battling for its economical survival and its place in the common ...

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Awards

City of Levallois Photography award 2012

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City of Levallois launches its call for applications for Photography Award 2012 in the Photo Levallois Festival. 
The award includes a 10,000 euros grant and the production of an exhibition during the 5th edition of the Photo Levallois festival. 
Open to less-than-35 year old ...

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Exhibition

3ème tour, musique d'une campagne

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The Galerie Duboys knows how to take risks, and it shows in their new exhibition, 3ème tour, musique d'une campagne. The gallery has given five artists carte blanche to express their feelings about this season’s French presidential campaign, which came to a close last Sunday. Two ph...

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