The Roger-Viollet collection is full of portraits of fashion designers and stylists. Boris Lipnitzki and Laure Albin Guillot had the chance to spend time with Paul Poiret and Madame Grès, Jacques Fath and Jeanne Lavin. Bruno de Monès shows Loris Azzaro in a moment of feig...

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On January 9th, the academy member Lucien Clergue was elected president of the French Académie des Beaux-Arts for 2013. With the election of photographers Yann Arthus Bertrand in 2006 and Lucien Clergue this year...

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Bruno Bisang (1952) is one of Europe‘s leading photographer. After studying at the School of Applied Arts for Photography in Zurich he has gone on to work with all the major supermodels, magazines and fashion houses. Bruno Bisang has been on a lifelong artistic quest to document the ...

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I believe that death is not the end, but a new beginning. It is an opportunity for us to reflect on life and discover its deeper meaning. Death appears to sever the spirit from the flesh but perhaps this is not true. Perhaps death transcends our understanding of absolutes....

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For Cyril Duchêne, 24, each generation has its trinkets, and those trinkets are part of our cultural heritage. With a sociological approach, Duchêne photographed the trinkets and their owners, giving insight into their personalities. This required a certain level...

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On January 10, the jury of the second edition of the Prix Icart Photo met to award the Prix 2013 and the Jury Prize. Founded in 2012 by Yan Morvan, the prize awards the best works produced during his month-long seminar held during Icart Photo. The 2013 theme was: “You are the Minister of Culture...

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In response to the theme of this year, which asked photographers to represent France’s cultural heritage, Marjolaine Roland, 20, showed that not every object in our heritage receives attentive care and plans for restoration. She began by photographing a place ...

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Repetition. Our life is plagued with repetition. From the moment we wake up to the moment we return to bed, we spend our days repeating most of the tasks that we had done the day before. We talk to the same people, see the same place, think the same thoughts and return, somewhat exhaus...

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It seems this year we've woken up on the wrong side of the bed. Like the same time last year, it feels as though the newsrooms are still nursing a hangover. Except for this astonishing image from Tasmania, there's nothing much to write home about. It's sad, but this week I ha...

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Queensland’s flagship contemporary art exhibition – the Asia Pacific Triennial (APT) Series – celebrates its 20th anniversary with the mounting of the most ambitious and comprehensive exhibition to date. The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT7) fe...

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Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents Us, a site-specific installation by the artist Silvio Wolf. For the past twenty years, Wolf has explored the limits of photographic representation with his interest in the abstract, the fleeting, the visible and invisible, c...

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For over two years we’ve been talking about it: C/O Berlin, an internationally renowned photography institution founded in 2000, which occupies the Postfuhramt on Oranienstrasse in the Mitte district, will change locations. After several aborted projects, including the plan announced ...

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