Howard Greenberg’s name has been synonymous with great photography for over thirty years. A leader in the modern photography market, Greenberg early on established himself as one of the pillars of the New York photography scene. Now a selection of photographs from Greenberg’...

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“Howard Greenberg, Collection” Opening at the Musée de l’Elysée September 21, some 120 of the greatest photographs from Howard Greenberg’s vast private collection will be shown for the first time. The works range from the Modern aesthetics approach of the 20s and 30s with...

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Tod Browning was well acquainted with freak shows. Before his distinguished career in cinema, Browning started out in the circus. The spirit of Phineas Taylor Barnum, who had died a few years earlier, still marked everyone working in the business, which the ringmaster had tra...

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Through September 23, Oi Futuro in Rio de Janeiro is presenting photographs from the collective AMAZONAS. The exhibition, Olhar sem fronteiras (‘Seeing without borders’), on display at the cultural center in Flamengo, brings together the work of the collective’s eight pho...

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I remember becoming conscious of Kyrgyzstan for the first time when in march 2005 I watched on TV Asiatic looking men surging toward an imposing soviet-style administrative building. Once inside the building they started to vandalise and loot anything they found and soon after a few men...

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A collection of portraits taken in India, one of the largest in the world, is currently on display at the Museum für Fotografie in Berlin. This set of 300 photographs dating from the second half of the 19th century offers a broad view of Indian society and culture, albeit w...

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On September 12 and 13, the photography portfolio website Photoshelter organized a conference to discuss the links among photography, technology and commerce. A dozen speakers were on the program each day to discuss these topics and share their experience. Can we still trust images? What ...

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If by now you thought you knew everything about photography, you are wrong. In fact, after another day at Luminance 2012, it seems that everything that you know is about to become obsolete. Take the Lytro for example, presented an explained by Eric Cheng who is Director of Photography at...

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Beginning Saturday, 8 September 2012, BLUE, an exhibition of photographs by Tomek Niewiadomski will open to the public at DAP Gallery. (Warsaw, Poland). The exhibition will feature a series of photographs taken between 2003 and 2012.

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First noticed in 2009 with The Great Unreal, an hallucinogenic photographic road trip across the United States, the Swiss duo TONK (Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs) recently published a two-volume work: As long as it photographs / It must be a camera.

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The hunger to learn, share and make great photography is great in Turkey and the second International Bursa FotoFest has been a rich, dynamic experience. The main Organizers, Utku Kaynar and Jason Eskenazi have set the bar high featuring Ara Güler, Mary Ellen Mark, Antonin Krat...

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At Teheran, in 1943, I'm sitting waiting for the official portrait session to start, and suddenly I look, and there's Stalin. Beautiful cap, uniform. Somebody said he got his beige uniform from Saks Fifth Avenue. Nobody could prove or disprove it. He walked around, and he looked to ...

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Pierre Terrasson presents his Polaroids and decals from the 1990s. In the Polaroid process, you keeps positive image and throw out the chemistry. For decals, the process is reversed: you take the chemistry and apply it to watercolor paper. The effect is close to painting, and the results a...

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The Swiss photographer Zoé Beausire is 25 years old and lives in Berlin. Kominek Books is publishing her first book, Rosette, Mauricette et Roby, and exhibiting her work at the Kominek gallery. Rosette, Mauricette et Roby was Beausire’s graduation project, produced in 2009-2010 with her grandpa...

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Toward the end of 1953, Willy Rizzo took a series of portraits of the architect Le Corbusier, three of which were published in the magazine Paris Match. Much of Rizzo’s work was done in medium-format color. These photographs have not been published since. As part of the events organized ...

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For its third edition, Photocollection asserts its place on the list of photography festivals in the heart of Paris. The 2010 edition introduced emerging artists like Isabelle Levistre, Marc Chatelard and Eva Mayer. Their work has been exhibited regularly ever since.
Held at...

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True to its quality programming, the Fundacion Mapfre, in its exhibition hall in Azca, Madrid, is presenting one of the finest shows Europe has seen in the last twenty years: a retrospective devoted to the American photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883 – 1976). The curator Celina Lunsford (F...

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Last November in Paris , Wall30 exhibited in the Marais they are now moving across the Seine to the Galerie Samantha Sellem, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près. From September 18 to 23, the online gallery will present the work of 30 of its photographers during a two-part group show. Th...

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Among the many portraits that covererd the walls of Bursa’s hans and cultural center were those, disfigured, found by rescue teams after the Japanese earthquake of Fukushima, and photographed by Jake Price before they were carefully cleaned. Fascinated by the culture of a count...

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