This is our contribution to current affairs. This photo was sent to us by photographer and photography expert Peter Jones. It shows one of his friends at the height of Hurricane Sandy. The text is by Jason Farago, who recounts the damage done to some Chelsea photo galleries. Half of our edit...

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The Bay of Saint-Brieuc is known in cuisine circles for its scallops. Recently, however, the region has turned heads for its production of journalistic works of photography. The Festival Photoreporter de Saint-Brieuc is the only festival that produces its own exhibitions. The ju...

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In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I’ve found that if I go very close in to the face, then the posed expression no longer exists. The face becomes a landscape of the lakes of the eyes and the ...

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Twelve years after their exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Clark et Pougnaud return with a series of photographs inspired by the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi, presented in a setting with Scandinavian undertones. This series offers a highly personal rei...

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From the Archives, the latest release from Editions FP & CF, could describe an entire area of contemporary photography, peering into the medium’s past to survey its experiments and how they turned out. Everything here began with the Flickr page of Don Hudson, an American photogr...

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In October, the Robert Mann Gallery presented in its new space an exhibition bringing together 25 years of work by the American photographer Richard Misrach. In these carefully composed photographs of landscapes, this contemporary artist expresses his love for beauty and nature. Lik...

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For the fourth month in a row, Inimaginable* has selected a photograph by William Daniels on Malaria in Nigera to be be exhibited on the streets of Paris from October 31 to November 6, 2012.

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Since its beginnings, photography has recorded the history of the world. Technical developments have allowed photographers to produce more accurate accounts of history, however fleeting it may be. Newspapers used photographs before the invention of their animated competitor, the televis...

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At the 19th annual Prix Bayeux-Calvados for war correspondents, the book fair was a great success. In addition to the remarkable testimonies found in Bosnia 1992-1995 and Révolutions, the book tribute to Rémi Ochlik, the story told by Edith Bouvier had my full attention, and I hope it will ...

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Ross Scrivener, a web developer, created the site 365project.com in early 2009 to bring together people who, like him, document their lives daily on the Internet. Every day, users on the site post a picture capturing a special moment in their day, along with a short text, and shar...

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A classic exercise in painting, the portrait also became a vital part of photography. In the 19th century, Nadar portrayed the Parisian bohemians. In the next century, August Sander, with his anonymous portraits, dissected contemporary German society. Later, Richard Avedon captured ...

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Is the End of the World announced by the Mayans a prophetic and one-time event? On the day of reckoning, December 20, 2012, in a resolutely artistic and infernal space, Le Purgatoire-54 Paradis, the end of the world will be celebrated in all its forms: with photography, ...

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Galerie Paris-Beijing presents the work of the French photographer Laurent Chéhère. Employing traditional photography and digital manipulation, his surreal series, Flying Houses, elevates architecture to a new level. The artist takes a variety of residential structures out of their d...

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It is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts. For almost a hundred years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, a border region with an Armenian majority . The conflict between the two former Soviet republics peaked in a bloody war in 1992 that killed tens o...

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Energy caught in flight, formed into self-portrait, is part of a work I began six years ago. The quantum physics of my work is expressed in the permanence of the framework, which simultaneously maximizes the potential of the multiple times of the being. A time of expressi...

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