The Andrew Freedman Home is a giant building in the Bronx that once housed ruined capitalists, victims of the system they fed. Their former quarters have been transformed, since last April, into exhibition halls featuring graffiti, painting, sculpture and material and photographic install...

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The new series by Martine Fougeron was taken in the South Bronx where this French photographer visited bakers, fishmongers and tradesmen of all sorts. Her work is on display until June 5 at the Andrew Freeman Home.

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Photography and the nude have gone hand-in-hand since the invention of the medium in the mid-19th century. The nude is not only a genre of photography; in every representation of the human body, the human being has sought to provoke desire, venerate its heroes, mystify its existence,...

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In ancient times, a terrible wind blew across the vast steppe connecting Europe to the Far East. The Greek poets called it the Boreal, and believed it lived in a cave somewhere in the Altai Mountains. Beyond the great wind - in the country of Hyperborea - there was to be...

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Coney Island is a world unto itself. It is a time and place that exists independent of everything else. Situated where South Brooklyn meets the Atlantic Ocean, it is an urban fantasy of beachfront life. It is equal parts escapism and entertainment, strange and seedy and strikingly American...

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For me, the final days of the past week were fabulous. Three days in Sète, c’est à voir, is unusual and unique. Finally, an unpretentious festival, where kindness, friendship and sincerity were fundamental, a festival growing year to year, maturing its content and presentat...

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In the end, it's all in how we depart. Whether it's facing the raging seas, or inside a limousine, surrounded or not by friends and family grieving, we are only truly alive when we engage ourselves in something new. It's all about what we have just finished and what we are about to emb...

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We have received this letter from Hubert Henrotte : "As many errors are currently being communicated about the creation of the Gamma Agency, even in yesterday’s issue of La Lettre (article evoking the book about Gilles Caron), I wanted to provide the facts as they were revealed i...

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Bela Doka, in his series titled “The Sundays of life”, charts a challenging path for himself. How do you photograph the daily moments that, while not dramatic, form the core of life’s pleasures and satisfactions? The answer for Mr. Doka is found in a country house owned by the famil...

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The golden age of Iranian photography began in 1997 when international magazines and editors frequently published pictures by Iranian artists, attracting the curiosity of museum curators and exhibition organizers around the world.

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In 2010, Jacques Borgetto presented L’autre versant du monde, a selection from his travels to Argentina and Chile, in the footsteps of his family who emigrated. Since then he’s only kept on looking elsewhere, in Tibet and Mali, and the equestrian center in Maisons-Lafitte, where he was in ...

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Winner of the 2012 HSBC Photography Prize alongside Eric Pillot, Leonora Hamill has also developed video work about the question of emotional identity. Her deliberately refined visual language – absence of camera movement, long takes, on-location sound bites, minim...

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The Photoink gallery, in collaboration with curator Ram Rahman, will present through July 2nd seventy images of photographer Madan Mahatta. The images trace the birth of modern Indian architecture in Delhi in the 1950s and 60s. Trained in Great Britain, Madan Mahatta returned to India in 19...

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Götz Göppert is a German photographer based in Paris. He is one of those photographers who manage to balance professional work and personal projects. Recently exhibited at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie for his series Les quatre saisons, his latest show presents a s...

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Frank Schramm has been fascinated by airplanes since childhood. Armed with his Hasselbald, he decided in 1989, while eating lunch in a Paris airport, to photograph the sky, and in particular the Concorde. These incredible machines became an obsession, leading him to observe more clo...

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Gare du Nord is the title of the exhibition currently on display at the Institut Néerlandais, in collaboration with the Musée de la photographie de La Haye, through July 29, 2012. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Paris has attracted photographers from all over the w...

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