Hello and welcome back. It's another nostalgic day as we review the best exhibitions of the summer. Tomorrow and for the rest of September, Magnus Naddermier, the artistic director of the Journal, will select the weekend portfolios. From Monday through Sunday, we will be providing comprehensive coverag...

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It was in the United States after the war, in a context of economic growth and a buoyant and expanding press, that Erwin Blumenfeld’s humorous, inventive and personal work (1897-1969) flowered. Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Collier’s, Cosmopolitan, Life, Look all of the big Am...

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On the eve of the second anniversary of the Parisian gallery space Le BAL, the Chris Kilip exhibition What Happened established a distinction between History, a posterior construction whose legitimacy comes from its distance from the actual event, and “what happens,” a subjective narrativ...

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The 2012 FotoVisura Pavilion in San Juan, Puerto Rico is a four-day contemporary photography event celebrating international and local photography through exhibitions, panel talks, portfolios consultation and review.

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The exhibition ' Echoes of Neorealism' offers an almost complete picture of the period of Italian photography that began in the early 1950s when in cinema the neorealist parabola was already turning into a fresco of society. 

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The Nebraska-based Moving Gallery presents its photo exhibition, WILD – Animals in Contemporary Photography, curated by Matthias Harder and Maren Polte. In an impressive showcase of 80 photographs, the exhibition features recent works by 17 artists from Germany, Italy, Belarus, Belgium, Greece, and the...

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All summer long there the feeling of nostalgia seems to permeate our days. Whether we are lucky enough to be lounging at the pool or beach, or walking from sweltering street to airconditioned office or driving on a hot summer night, the memories of past summers are mixing wi...

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This exhibition pays tribute to Ando Gilardi, the photographer and art historian, who passed away in March. Olive & Bulloni consists of a series of historical photographs taken by Gilardi in the 1950s and 60s, with several publications and documents of the time, including...

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This exhibition of the Italian photographer Willy Rizzo at the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture in Sao Paulo offers a sensitive and revealing look at some of last century’s famous faces.
Willy Rizzo, one of the great portrait photographers of the twentieth century, presents his ...

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Uncommon Ground is the title of the group exhibition currently on display at Flower’s Gallery, one of London’s biggest commercial galleries. This ambitious exhibition is hung over two floors, including the newly converted first floor of Flowers East. All photographs on display have a ...

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Five or six years ago, I discovered thanks to Christian Caujolle a few prints of Shaolin Monks by Isabel Muñoz. I remember the sudden inexplicable feeling of euphoria at the sight of these monks dancing and flying. To a fan of "wuxia" novels (1) that I was, it was like a dream...

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Last spring, this New York gallery, in a declaration of its taste for big cities, presented a major project on Tokyo. Now In Walking the City, we find ourselves in the streets of New York, Paris and Berlin, with photographers like Jean-Michel Berts, Bruno Bertrand-Frezoul,...

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In the summer of 1964, San Francisco was ground zero for a historic culture clash as the site of the twenty-eighth Republican National Convention (the “Goldwater Convention”), the launch of the Beatle’s first North American tour and civil rights demonstrations. In the midst of the excitemen...

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(Art) Amalgamated presents Frances Goodman’s first solo show in New York, Touched. By looking at everyday obsessions and behavior she explores the way people respond to our contemporary, highly materialistic society and the often idiosyncratic coping mechanisms they...

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The exhibition Chromogenic 2012 is a showcase of talented Melbourne based photographers that embraced technology. ‘Chromogenic’, better known as a C-type photograph, is a medium that has, for the last 120 years or so, made it possible for us to capture images the way our eye does a...

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Michael Corridore’s primary interest over the past six years has been inventing new narratives around automobile culture and its influence on us. After photographing spectators at various races and burnouts contests, Corridore began to explore precise moments brought abou...

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It wouldn’t be a New York summer without the annual crop of exhibitions across the city. The Staley-Wise Gallery has chosen to honor woman, or rather, women. From Eleanor Roosevelt to Dolly Parton, from Susan Sontag to Janis Joplin and Marilyn Monroe, these artists, activists, musicians and singers sa...

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Glaz gallery presents its traditional summer group show. This year the motif of the exhibition is birds. Artist always found birds fascinating. Because of their grace, because of their independence and, of course, because of their ability to fly. Birds have always been used as symbols for dreams, desir...

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An eclectic group of images, chosen by the entire gallery staff, includes an array of both well- known and unknown works by: Jacques Henri Lartigue, Robert Frank, Joel Meyerowitz, William Gedney, Danny Lyon, Bruce Davidson, Dorothea Lange, Arnold Newman as well as many others.

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The Corcoran Gallery of Art presents Charlotte Dumas: Anima, the first solo exhibition in the United States by Dutch artist Charlotte Dumas. Anima, organized by Paul Roth, the Corcoran’s senior curator and director of photography and medi...

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Jim Marshall might have been the most talented Rock & Roll photographer in history. His work has been exhibited around the world, but many of his photographs remain unseen. Since his death in 2010, Marshall’s agent has been gradually releasing the photographer’s unpublished neg...

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The city of Deauville in France presents a selection of photographs taken by the actor Yul Brynner. Known for his roles in films like The Magnificent Seven and The Ten Commandments, the Russian-born Brynner lived for part of the year in Deauville. A resident of Paris between 1934 and 1941, he ...

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This exhibition crossed the Atlantic to the Museum of the City of New York to let us rediscover the streets of London: its Victorian buildings, its beautiful cars, and the places where the people spend their time. The exhibition was intended to coincide with the opening of the Olym...

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Like every year, this important San Francisco gallery organized a group exhibition by bringing out a selection of famous photographs from its collection. This year, Summer Show displayed no less than 80 photographs by major artists like Paul Strand, Cartier Bresson, Lartigue, Walker Eva...

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Everyone has an opinion of the panoramic image, a symbol of modernity but also of a ‘fantastic necessity’ that photography today seems to have accepted. In panorama, lines are replaced by curves, bodies are deformed and objects stand out. And yet, using the German camera Noblex, Pao...

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Following our tribute to Martine Franck, John G. Morris has shared with us this text and photograph. "Martine was a great woman as well as a fine photographer. She deserves immense credit, both for her own work and for sustaining Henri and Magnum and the HCB Foundation throug...

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