The work Incroyable Afrique presents a selection of color photographs by Pascal Maitre taken in 25 different African countries over the course of thirty years. 
“In anthropology, we call this ‘reciprocal exchange.’ The people I speak of in the texts gave me s...

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My meeting with Joe Krautler was short and to the point. No small talk, no hesitation, no overstatement – nothing to feed a story lover like me really. And yet, the half hour I spent in his office left me with a crisp and clear impression - one of simplicity - as if t...

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The sculptor Henry Moore was in his 80s in 1983. At four o'clock I was at his estate outside London, it started to snow. It was getting dark. I thought the snow might pile up gently over the night. I said to Todd Brewster, a writer who was with me, “Let's come back at dawn.” It was ...

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A whole life document destroyed. Well, nearly. What first looked l ike a disaster proved to be something more ambiguous. Some of the prints survived, changed – the water making their colours run and bleed in places, somet imes obliterating all pictorial image but more often...

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Sophie Zenon is exhibiting at the gallery Thessa Herold, in the Mois de la Photo, “Exquisite corpses”. This is my personal favorite of the month. The exhibition is beautiful. The walls of the gallery showing mummy portraits, all very different from each other. And...

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The photographs from the series “Rodina” (the russian word for home), which are presented in the gallery, are reflecting on home. What does home mean? Is it a geographically tangible territory, a feeling or longing, or the want for staying and belonging? Maybe it can also mean...

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Gilles Verneret, director of Bleu du Ciel, took full advantage of his new exhibition space to explore two works whose languages, at first sight quite different, correspond to each other in this visual essay comparing History and history. The title isn’t a reference to Hiroshima, but...

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The web documentary Alma, A Tale of Violence by photographer Miquel Dewever-Plana (Agence VU’) and the journalist Isabelle Fougère, has been awarded the Prix DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling by the International Documentary Festival Ams...

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In 1975, the George Eastman House in Rochester presented the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, which featured the photographs of Robert Adams, Stephen Shore and Lewis Baltz. This group show marked a turning point in the representation of urban...

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This exhibition is devoted to the work of two photographers working at the same time, the 1960s, and the same place, Barcelona, but whose photographs are characterized by different approaches. Narcís Darder captured fleeting moments in the streets on the city, while Richard ...

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Curated by Agnès de Gouvion Saint Cyr, one of the three themes of this year’s Mois de la Photo is "Small is beautiful". This theme was developed many years ago by the Galerie Alain Paviot, to which the head curator Jean-Luc Monterosso did not fail to pay ...

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Leon Levinstein is best known for his photographic investigations of different New York neighborhoods: Times Square, the Lower East Side, and Coney Island in particular. An exhibition at the Steven Kasher gallery, on view until December 22, demonstrates Levin...

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Featuring six “quadriptychs” and three self-portraits, the exhibition Je & un autre is a work in progress that combines the representation of the other and his or her own apprehension of themself. Fifteen artists from the Révélateur agency collaborated for this series. Twelv...

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Germaine Chaumel (1895-1982) is one of the best representatives of the “new vision” which developed between the wars, although she never had the chance to practice her art in what was then the world capital of photography: Paris. When comparing her photogr...

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