The curator Sylvie Aubens and the collector Marc Pagneux have deliberately ignored the classic approaches to an exhibition. Don’t bother searching for a theme. The curators are very explicit about how this exhibition was prepared: they selected of 100 photographs which they cons...

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The Muses are the nine companions of Apollo, each embodying a distinctive art, each the idea made flesh, the sublimation of desire into the creation of beauty. The muse inspires the artist to find the divine and bring it to life, to make anew something that exists in the space between us, ...

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Since 2009, the Berlin photographer Ono Ludwig has been exploring the creative potential of the camera obscura. He continues to create playful and sometimes unsettling self-portraits today in continuously developing series. As a result of the camera obscura’s long ...

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Following two historical Collector’s Room Updates (pictorialism and modernism) the third Update is a unique perspective on photography and its history with images exploring the boundaries of conventional photography. Photography as a medium explodes and loses its traditional...

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This week, the Villa Grisebach presented 182 lots for the auction of modern and contemporary photographs autumn. Total sales amounted to 739,137 euros, led by the works of Peter Beard, Robert Mapplethorpe, Thomas Ruff and Alexander Rodchenko. The top 16 results are presented here in...

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By bringing together two series by Bruce Davidson taken fifteen years apart—one in New York’s Central Park in the early 1990s, the other in the gardens of Paris in 2005-2006—the Jackson Fine Art gallery offers visitors a political reading. City parks are indicative of t...

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Starting Saturday, December 1, on the eve of the anniversary of Napoleon’s victory at Austerlitz, the Gamma Rapho photo agency will exhibit sixty vintage photographs in honor of the French military academy of Saint-Cyr, whose students, according to its motto, “study to conquer.” The trea...

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Next year will mark the 20th anniversary of my first visit to Cambodia. I remember the first trip like it was yesterday. Tourists were rarely seen at that time so when I set up my large camera on the causeway to the Angkor Wat, I was alone. After spending a good amount of time...

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Italy, Piazza Armerina: like one of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, a non-place. A town which, because of its name, most Italians still mistake for a square (that’s what Piazza means). A village in the heart of Sicily doomed by its own name to an existential limbo, a chronicized c...

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Australia’s major cities dot the coastline of this vast continent and Sydney, the country’s largest metropolis, is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, its glittering harbor, the Opera House, Harbor Bridge and its surf beaches tourist draw cards of the land do...

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A graduate of the École Louis Lumière and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Paris-Cergy, Marc Philbert’s work has appeared in high-end fashion magazines. We might wonder then why he decided to photograph, for the magazine Fast (published by the independent ad agency Born to Ru...

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This was a pretty calm week, even if there’s no shortage of misery in this world. Kind of like in the newspapers. A considerable time difference is making me miss hours of press time. It’s raining in England—what a surprise!—but a little more than usual, and that’s an event o...

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Photography is a capitalist tool. With a camera you can transform time into money. The creation of wealth by trading labor against capital is, after all, at the root of any capitalist society. And that is what every photographer does. But unlike most professions, the time spent on crea...

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The early 20th century witnessed the epilogue of one of the greatest genocides in human history. In the first decade, the so-called American Indians were dying in the reserves that the United States had invented, or they had already died from illness, despair, or at the hands ...

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L'Atelier Fenêtre sur cour organized a very special sale of prints on Wednesday the 28th A second edition will take place Saturday, December 8th starting at 2 pm.

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The last opening of the mois de la photo “”month of photography'' at the BnF:”bibliothèque Nationale de France” 100 photography masterpieces . Few people, a religious silence , the photographs are numbered and each one present looks following the order never forgetting to read the ...

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As part of the World Innovation Summit for Education, the photographer Reza produced several series on innovative educational projects in fourteen different countries. His photographs are being published Learning a Living: Radical Innovation in Education for Work, which document...

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