The small publisher CityFiles press published this month a new monograph dedicated to Vivian Maier, following an earlier release by powerHouse Books. This new work is organized in sections, and features many never- seen before photographs. Given the sheer number of ...

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There's a picture I made of General Douglas MacArthur in his plane, The Bataan, on a flight he was making to watch the dropping of U.S. paratroopers near Pyongyang late in the Korean War. There was only a handful of correspondents and photographers aboard, nested back at th...

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Fine art photographer and digital artist Alexia Sinclair’s works are a curious mix of historical scenes and creative fantasy that combine show us the hedonistic beauty of power and corruption in the world’s Royal Courts. 
In her series the Regal Twelve and ...

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Asked why she didn’t photograph mountains or landscapes, Herlinde Koelbl once replied: “People are unpredictable.” Perhaps this statement gives an indication of what makes the work of this great German art photographer so special. She wants to grasp people,...

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His work is intimate, impressive and without bias. Whenever Anatol Kotte approaches his protagonists, we are confronted with a moment of surprise, accuracy and pragmatism. His lens catches what many might find unexpected: the soft genuineness which signifies the stron...

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First, a chance encounter: that of a Japanese artist and the ambitious gallery Lazarew. Yuriko Takagi owes the opportunity to exhibit her photography in this beautiful space because, “she looked like an artist.” And she was an artist—and an original and spectacula...

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Two photographers. Two visions. Two countries with diametrically opposed cultures. One in black and white, the other in color. And yet, a common line emerges. This exhibition highlights the fundamental changes taking place in these two countries. China continues to experience a hig...

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The Kogan Gallery is hosting the first solo exhibition of the work of Léo Caillard. The artist studies the contradictions of our society in its relation to the image. Between the real and the virtual, between art and consumption, between the immediacy of the i...

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Great artists are blind to the traditional borders of creative endeavor. They don't yield to the exclusive canon built up over generations by craft's practitioners. Instead, they follow their muse, often tripping from one medium to the next to discover and declare their visio...

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New York, Hanoi, Berlin, Antananarivo, La Paz, Bamako, London Bordeaux, Moscow, Havana… Ma cantine en ville presents a panoramic world round-up of habits, ways and means related to street eating. Like a traveller’s scrap book it will bring together all sorts of documents reflectin...

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The exhibition’s Russian title – Vid na zhitelstvo – technically means ‘a residence permit for immigrants’ but the word vid may also mean ‘view’ or ‘perspective’, which gives the title a second meaning – ‘a view on living’. The exhibition encompassing work by renowned contemporary Russ...

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In the landscape photography of Gérard Tordjman, the road often takes center stage. “We may look to the left and the right of it,” he says, “but we rarely look at the road itself.” Across the vast spaces of our world, these lines are what connect one group of people...

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The work assembled under the title Border Lines was made during trips to Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The implementation of these images makes a fundamental appeal to digital technology; based on a montage in panorama format, the images maintain a descrip...

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