For the past five decades, the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has roamed the world’s streets, countrysides and beaches in search of life in blue, green, yellow and red. In the 1970s, his sense of modernism contributed to the acceptance that color photographs could be works of ...

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I was born in 1973, and when I was about 14, my father gave me his old camera. Something clicked, and I’ve never looked back. I’m self-taught. I learned to use the camera by taking pictures and spending hours printing them. Next, I worked on a film set and became first assist...

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The European Month of Photography began in Berlin in mid-October. One of the main exhibitions of the program is the one organized by the Berlinische Galerie on art photography from the German Democratic Republic. It collects 260 photographs taken by 34 different artists. This is ...

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For their first joint creation and third collaboration, Nicolas Rouget and Claude Tomas are merging their approaches to photography. For both artists, the photographic image refers not only to the visible, but to the sensible, to sentiment as much as to sensation. The res...

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“Advertising is, after all, artificial truth,” writes Steven Heller in the introduction to Advertising From the Mad Men Era: The Sixties (Taschen). This is the second in a two-volume slipcased look at the mid-century edited by Jim Heimann and featuring texts by Steven H...

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There’s something strangely organised about Alex A. Naanou’s compositions: every detail seems to have been carefully worked out. Yet the everyday scenes of Moscow today that this young photographer captures are never been contrived. With Naanou, the only interaction is through...

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Founded in 1998, the Prix Picto de la Jeune Photographie de Mode aims to highlight the work of an emerging young fashion photographer selected by a jury of professionals. Once again this year, the Laboratoire Picto is committed to helping young artists, and is now accepti...

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To celebrate the Mois de la Photographie, the Franco-German TV network Arte will be devoting several programs to photography, and releasing DVDs on the subject. 
They will be airing the documentary Le siècle de Cartier-Bresson directed by Pierre Assouline, author of a biogra...

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This is the photographer speaking: “The meaning of art is not authenticity but the expression of authenticity. Truth alone can neither justify nor excuse it. Since the object itself is absolutely inimitable, one must always search for the only valid translation into another l...

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As part of the Mois de la Photo 2012 in Paris, the Galerie Karsten Greve is presenting an exhibition of photographs by Ilse Bing, featuring sixty vintages prints in various formats and from different eras. Ilse Bing is one of many photographers being presented by the gallery, ...

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Given the scope of his already impressive body of work, it was rather late that I discovered and made the acquaintance of Steeve Iuncker through Gilles Favier. For the first edition of his festival, Images Singulieres, Favier has put together a program of undisputed q...

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Sergey Chilikov is a Russian photographer born in Kilemary, Mari Republic, in 1953. He started photographing in 1973, at a time when the Soviet Union frowned on the notion of photography as artwork. In reaction, Chilikov distilled into his photography both his personal obsessi...

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The photographs of Gaël Bonnefon form a kind of personal documentary that explores unconscious situations and lost characters, resulting in a fiction rooted in everyday life. About decline, a changing work drawn from the artist’s own exhibitions, follows a twilit world where n...

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