Following the bankruptcy of its German shareholders, the fates of the photo agency Sipa Press and the ambitious news and photo service, Sipa News, will be decided by the Tribunal de Commerce in Paris on December 6. On Thursday, November 22, in Paris, the weather was perfect for a visit to 1 ...

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There’s no need to discuss Robert Doisneau’s life: looking at his photographs is enough to love him. But this man, who is the contemporary and equal of the uknowns he liked or disliked but whom he photographed all the same, is no stranger. As famous in England and America as in Franc...

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Barbara and I go back forty years. Our professional lives have run in parallel, both of us devoted enthusiasts sharing a deep love of Art Nouveau, Barbara as a prominent New York gallerist, myself as an auctioneer. Our passion for the sensuous lines of French Art Nouveau furn...

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These girls? Their curves sketch infinity; their eyes pierce the image when they reach you. Waxy bodies bring back the image to a less synthetic century. Artificial? Bodies are framed, embedded and enclosed in a photograph. Caught in limited spaces: in the depths of a boulder, on a ...

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This fall, the Parisian publishing house Various is releasing Journal, 2000-2012, a series of color photographs by the artist Julien Magre. Following the 2010 publication of Caroline, Histoire numéro deux (Éditions Filigranes), Magre continues his search for the real in our daily l...

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"When I started my project on cities, I wanted to photograph enclosed spaces. I thought of Xavier de Maistre..." A great lover of literature and an explorer of cities, Jean Mounicq speaks fondly and generously of his photographs. He's full of anecdotes. You could...

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Founded in October 1992, the Centre Iris in Paris not only trains photographers. It has also organized several exhibitions and events related to the image, like those held in Cannes in 1993 and 1994, and has helped to promote new talent while cultivating a new audience for photography.

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Stanley Greene, Olivier Culmann, Denis Darzacq, Patrick Tourneboeuf and Gilles Coulon, not less than thirty photographers are bring together for a sale to support the activity of one of last Parisian silver lab, Fenêtre sur Cour. Wednesday, November 28th and Saturday, S...

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During a recent conference on the Digital Revolution, Aline Manoukian, president of ANI (National Association of Iconographers) spoke about the “new rules of photography in the French press.” The conference was organized by PAJ, an association of photographers, arti...

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Bureau d'Etudes Japonaises just published Bruno Quinquet's "Salaryman Project business schedule 2013". In the shape a a 2013 professional agenda, the "Salaryman Project" is a parallel observation of the cycle of seasons and of masculine identity in Toky...

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I’m sending you this little satire from China. It’s a strange feeling to select photographs that have nothing to do with the people that surround you. Distance, like time, has the power to give an event life or make it disappear. Forgive this truism... The Chinese care little...

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Like housemaids, tinkers and gynaecologists, truckers tend to exist at the periphery of our consciousness, shadowy figures up to something beefy in the provinces. Truth be told, until Brian Finke informed me about truckers, I didn't know what one was. Brian F...

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"To the desert" it is a series of ten self-portraits on a background of sand. A mental trip to deserted unexplored lands filled with every day images that integrate to create a non-existent reality. The artist allows, through photomontage techniques, the co-existence of...

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"Working and living together is both exciting and challenging, and almost impossible at times,” says Slava Mogutin, one half of SUPERM, the ongoing collaboration with Brian Kenny. “BEAUTY & HELL marks eight years of our creative and romantic partnership....

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