Quentin Bajac, chief curator of photography at the Pompidou Center in Paris, is appointed next chief curator of photography at MoMA. He succeeds Peter Galassi, who retired from that job in 2011 after 30-years. Quentin Bajac began his career at the Musée d’Orsay in...

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Proud Galleries presents Faces of the Sixties from photographer Justin de Villeneuve. Best known for launching Twiggy as the world’s first supermodel, de Villeneuve’s portfolio boasts celebrated fashion shoots, iconic portrait sittings with various...

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On June 5, 2012, the official portrait of François Hollande, the recently elected president of France, will be unveiled. The photograph was taken by Raymond Depardon. 
For the past few weeks, the Paris photo world was abuzz: would Raymond Depardon take the official portrait?

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While France was still struggling with shortages and reconstruction after the passage of the war’s nightmare, Walter Carone was inventing new methods, like Weegee, a new way of taking pictures of crime scenes, celebrities, backstage politics. This new photojournalism would be as clos...

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Paul Newman, Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Sean Connery are among the movie stars captured by Fuchs’s lens and proposed by V&M (vintage and Modern). Leo Fuchs, who started his photographic career at the age of 14 shooting burlesque queens, tr...

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At last. At last I’m going to meet Howard Greenberg. Face to face. 
I’ve been following the gallerists trail for several months now, and he keeps appearing – at the bend of one dealer’s path, in the corner of another dealer’s story. I’ve heard his name dozens of times, in the ...

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Monumental, elemental, transcendental - Marius Tegethoff''s photographic work presents virtually unseen, yet mysteriously familiar views: imagery of supernatural scale. 
The viewer is immersed in skyscapes of color, space, and distance. While absolute dimensions remain diffuse, ...

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“The Photo of the 20th Century” for people from the Brittany region of France.
“If I had to choose one photo from the book La Bretagne des photographes, it would be the one taken by Jacques Gourmelen. For me, it is the region’s photo of the century. Its meaning is powerful: the aspiration ...

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Archiphoto is an international architectural photography contest with a 2000€ prize. Organized by the “La Chambre” association and the MEA (Maison Européenne de l'Architecture-Rhin Supérieur), the contest began in 2010 on the occasion of the Journées de l'architecture, which will tak...

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My artistic research comes from an ideal of beauty, leading me to discover unknown people with a strong inner life. Entering the other’s life, trying to understand them in their entirety brings me to study myself. The characters that affect me have something of myself, I can notice it in ...

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After twenty years of civil war Somalia is one of the poorest and most dangerous nations in the world. Avoiding the risk of been killed or forced to fight in an infinite war many of its inhabitants try to move to foreign countries. 
Considering its position in the Mediterranean S...

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Spanish photography is on display at the VOZ’Galerie in Boulogne Billancourt. Through July 31, visitors can immerse themselves in the worlds of Alfonso Brezmes, Marga Garrido, Lola Guerrera and Maria Platero. These four artists transform the environment and our daily lives: a ...

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Out of Focus, the current exhibition at London’s renowned Saatchi Gallery, presents the first major photography exhibition at the gallery since its controversial 2001 exhibition I Am a Camera. The title, Out of Focus, proves to be rather apt. The gallery is filled with the work of 38 artists ...

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