Openning day Salon de la photographie,discovery of the exhibit of the Agnes B collection . The journalists are waiting: she arrives a few minutes latter. Cameras and photos lenses are focussing on her , she goes around the exhibition, checks that everything is under control, ...

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More than 30 openings at the in and the off on this day the 8th of November. Yes , yes 30 openings between 6 and 9 pm. So tonight, no questions on "Where do I go,and what do I see? '. I will make them all! ... Or at least I will try. 30 openings in 3 hours, that make...

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The Magnum Foundation (MF) was founded in 2007 in New York. The organization is independent of the agency but relies on the historical values of its members to support documentary photography internationally. In order to develop different activities around...

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The next photography sale at Sotheby’s will be held during Paris Photo, on November 16, 2012, at 16h30. One of the sale’s highlights is Lot No. 59, a portfolio of 65 nude photographs gathered for Magnum’s 60th anniversary by 65 Magnum photographers: Henri Cartier-Br...

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Barely a year after its takeover by two “money makers,” the Sipa photo agency is now dealing with the turmoil created by the bankruptcy of several subsidiaries of the second largest German news agency, DAPD. While one of the shareholders is in hiding, 127 employees and tens of millions of ph...

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I always find it intriguing the way foreigners view Australia. For many of my friends who live in Europe and the US, Australia is defined as a vast land where the majority of its happy-go-lucky population clings to the sea board, while the centre of the country is lost...

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Panopticon Gallery announces the release of Harold Feinstein: A Retrospective published by Nazraeli Press with Introduction by Phillip Prodger. The gallery is hosting an exhibition to coincide with the book.
Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island in 1931. He began his ...

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Taschen will publish a limited edition book (995 copies) focusing on the topic of kimbaku, the art of Japanese bondage. Bondage devotee Araki has taken thousands of photos on the subject, and this 600-page book (240 x 290 mm) collecting his best shots comes in a 290 x 330 mm wooden...

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« A great traveller with a passion for Africa, Nicola Lo Calzo knows that alongside cultural landmarks and fetish books, one needs a mentor and a guide to be shown the path. In his previous work “Morgante”, the role of mentor was played by Lyne Laure Nguewo, founder of ASCAPPT,...

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The collection of the Maison Européene de la Photographie’s holds more than 20,000 works from the second half of the twentieth century. On the occasion of this exhibition, Jean-Pierre Bourgeois and I have selected images on the theme of love, with iconic photographs by Henri ...

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The time between All Saints' Day November 1st and November 11th, the latter marking the end of the first worldwide human massacre( world war One), has always seemed a little sinister to me. Nature loses its colors as gray and black take over. (I know it's mundane, but if y...

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Most of the time, if not all of the time, when you pick the best images of the week, you are dealing with events happening miles away from where you are. You look at them as a spectator who has limited patience for anything they don't immediately connect with. This week, things are a...

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A portrait of the artist is always their subject. Their ideas find form in their iconography as identity becomes manifest in the content presented and the mode of representation itself. Artists lead complex inner lives, wrestling with ideas, conflicts, and questions without answers throu...

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The photography department at Christie’s will hold a sale of 197 photographs on Friday, November 16, 2012, at 15h00 for lots 1 to 55, and Saturday, November 17, 2012, at 15h00 for lots 56 to 197. This set of photographs, estimated to be worth 2 to 3 millions euros, is ...

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Étude Millon will be auctioning off 311 photographs from the 19th and 20th centuries. The sale will be overseen by Christophe Gœury, and will include: several nudes from the Herschrtitt collection; more than 300 Gisèle Freund prints, sold in lots, at the request of the Admin...

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Phillips de Pury & Company’s November London Photographs auction totaled £1,405,650 / $2,249,040 selling74% by value and 61% by lot. The top lot of the sale was Helmut Newton’s work entitled Charlotte Rampling at the Hotel Nord Pinus II, Arles, 1973 which sold for £181,250/$2...

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Hasted Kraeutler presents Cyclops, an exhibition of rare, unique vintage photographs by Albert Watson, beginning October 25 and running through December 8, 2012. The works in this exhibition celebrate the 20th anniversary of Cyclops (Callaway Editions, 1...

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The Indian photography scene is small, but it has seen a great deal of turmoil flutter since the announcement of the sale of a collection of photographs once owned by Kanu Gandhi, the nephew of Mahatma Ghandi. His family has opposed the ...

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Nelli Palomäki’s latest series Sons of Nakhimov is a series of portraits of young pupils from the Nakhimov NavalAcademy, a Russian military school in St Petersburg. The work addresses the tradition of classic, black and white photographic portraiture and the relationship between pho...

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