The Rencontres d’Arles festival opens today. We will be providing coverage through Sunday. Schools, especially those from Arles, will be featured prominently. A harbinger of change, perhaps? We know that François Hébel has plans to make Arles into a permanent center of ...

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“Last year, Rémy Fenzy came to see me to tell me the school was going to celebrate its 30th anniversary. He asked if it would be possible to honor the occasion with a spot in the festival. Which I refused at first.” Then together, they took the time to conjure up a s...

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“Imagine if we could hold a seminar with a discussion between Rousseau and Voltaire. We would have had these two men telling the stories of their lives. We have the fortune today to have the greatest photographers in the world. Even if many of them are disappearing now, they all came to ...

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En 1967, terminant des études musicales, Arnaud Claass découvre la photographie. Il va alors parcourir les États-Unis jusqu’au milieu des années 1970 avant de s’orienter vers une œuvre personnelle. “L’image photographique non comme réponse, ni même comme question : comme exclamation” déclare...

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Just as Christian Milovanoff likes to combine images, superimpose photographs, and simultaneously see the front and back of a printed newspapers, three facets of his personality will be revealed to us during this festival. It’s up to us to grasp them to better understand the man.

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It has its principal characters, its supporting cast and its scenery. 
The show goes on permanently before your eyes, with its staged duels and its kissing. Photographing this human comedy was a choice. I joined them, got into their rhythm, and patiently recorded the doings of the candid...

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Alain Leloup gives us an exhibition of works by Monique Deregibus and Arno Gisinger in which the two artists question the current way of looking at the traces of History, and the status of their own photographic images.
Their works are hung from rails in the shape of an ...

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Trying in vain to depict the slobber of a panting animal, the Greek painter Protogenes ended up hurling a sponge at his picture. The accidental result was that he got the effect he was after. This anecdote, told by Pliny the Elder, is quoted by Pierre Soulages to explain the impor...

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I love machines, the ones that fly, speak, count, or observe. I’m fascinated by the magical aspect of science; which seems to reduce the complexity of the world to a few mathematical formulae. There is a certain irony in making a visible and understandable image of such mysteries of the u...

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The Earth is neither round nor blue: it’s a cube, white, pierced through by a double door. In this cube, there are grottos of immaculate whiteness and paper unicorns that wander across the valleys, steep flour mountains and women carrying, with the same momentum, a god-armchair; and t...

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Marina Gadonneix’s work weaves a complex link between documentary and fiction through photographs of places given over to temporary neglect. In each of the series presented here, the artist explores the startling transition of a rugged territory to a fantastical image, of a form of eviden...

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The story of the Voies Off festival is closely tied to the story of the Ecole Nationale de la Photographie (ENSP) in Arles. Founded by Christophe Laloi while still a student, he dedicated the 17th edition’s opening ceremonies to the 30th anniversary of the school. Voies Off and the ENSP have co-...

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During the opening week of the festival, The Impossible Project celebrates 30 years of the distinguished École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie: The school will install a “Trombinoscope” (a portrait gallery) – a growing yearbook wall of instant pictures for the past graduates...

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The opening pages announce the words and the images, or vice-versa if we consider that the words are already image full. Life—rather, the book, how it gives to see a slice of life—begins in 1999, with Mexique, la première dose d’Ice (Mexico, the First Dose of Ice).
Then came ...

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For the fourth consecutive year the gallery 2600 hosts in Arles, in the same space, major actors from the world of photo editing and a selection of emerging and post contemporary artists.

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Many of us are beginning to realize that either a), we need to get in shape quickly before we soon find ourselves on a beach somewhere far away, or b), that the Olympics are just around the corner! No matter what camp you fall in, you might just have enough time to get a leg up. ...

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The Prix Leica Oskar Barnack 2012 was awarded to the American photographer Frank Hallam Day for his “Alumascapes”. The jury was composed of Bruce Gilden (Magnum), Stephan Erfurt (C/O Berlin), Valérie Fougeirol (Galerie Magnum-Paris), Karin Rehn-Kaufmann (Leica Salzburg)...

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Susan White is returning to her old job at Vanity Fair as the magazine’s photography director. A position she had left last fall to take a job as executive director of editorial licensing at Trunk Archive, the photo syndication agency.  In returning toVanity Fair, she is replacing ...

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