Hort Faas died on Thursday, May 10, 2012 in Munich of complications from a stroke that had affected his back bone in May, 2005, while in Vietnam with his colleagues to honor the 30th anniversary celebrations of the end of the war. For Tim Page: “That was my last mem...

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As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was "Horst's army" of young photographers, who fanne...

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In my latest project, "Mothers and Daughters" I portray the complex and sometimes challenging relationship between a mother and her daughter. It is both documentary and biographical, as it also illustrates memories of my and my two sisters' relationships with our mother,...

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Anthony Bannon is not one to follow other people’s scripts. Dismissing the cautionary message in Thomas Wolfe’s 1940 posthumous novel, “You Can’t go Home Again,” Bannon is coming home again to Buffalo, New York, the city where he grew up, studied, and first honed his skills as filmma...

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First Place and Our Congratulations is a reflection on youth and on competition, set within the microcosm of sixteen midwest (USA) county fairs. These temporary, annually occurring encampments provide the perfect stages, rich with characters and detail beyond my imaginings, on which to c...

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Jonas Cuénin, a New-York based writer for La Lettre, has a passion: Irving Penn, more specifically, one of the photographer's most unforgettable works: small jobs. It is in homage of this work that he started a web series entitled "Pictures and Men", devoted to those who are never ...

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Interested in hairs as very functional as well as strange material, Erik Steinbrecher presents with (Frisuerchen) 12 plates with photographic compositions of hairstyles – as worn by mannequins in cheap shop windows, sculptures made by the ar...

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The Steven Kasher gallery in New York is presenting through May 26 the latest exhibition by Chip Simone, an artist working at the intersection of American modernism and street photography. Forty digital photographs produced in the last ten years show signs of how much inspiration Sim...

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On Thursday, May 10, 2012, an exhibit of Black and White and color photographs by Evelyn Hofer opened at the James Danziger Gallery in Chelsea. In the 1970’s, Hilton Kramer, the art critic for the NYTimes, called her “the most famous unknown photographer in America.” Hofer was b...

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The Steven Kasher Gallery in New York presents new images by the photographer of the moment. On display are thirty-five black-and-white pictures taken on the streets of Chicago and New York, mainly portraits of strangers, scenes, shadows and other objects taken on the fly with the Rolleifl...

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Patrick Taberna started this series six years ago. « A contretemps » (On the off beat) is a long and slow work about his nearests, mainly produced during different trips. His family is the common thread of his piece of work, and the trips, even nearby, remain an excuse, to c...

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On Tuesday May 15th 2012, the Aday.org (www.aday.org) initiative will invite the entire world to participate in the largest and most comprehensive photographic documentation of a single day in human history. Whether an amateur with a mobile phone camera or a professional phot...

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This American photographer unearthed medical artifacts from Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum and shot them against a black background. Like an anatomy archive, this book reveals a large number of medical student manuals, tools, bones, microscopes and formaldehyde jars filled with h...

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On May 15, 2012, at 6pm, Sotheby’s France will auction photographs from the 19th, 20th and 21st century. Among the 110 lots in the catalog, we specially remarked lot number 4, an exceptional photo album with 9 salt prints by Gustave Le Gray made for the 1852 Salon. 
After Gustave Le Gr...

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Forests, seen from afar, seem to be composed of all the same trees. They are tall, green, have branches and stand, righteous, and stand next to one another. It is only when we step inside that we discover that not one tree is a look. The same can be said of humanity. As a whole, we know who w...

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Mogensen's female figures are partially made in the spirit of Italian comic book artist Milo Manara. Depicting blatantly sexualized women in strong female roles is a consistent theme in Manara's erotic graphic novels. Mogensen's comments on his view in creating perfection using imag...

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