Exhibition

Terry O’Neill…
Snapshots

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Born in London in 1938, Terry O’Neill is one of the great portrait photographers of his generation. From his portrait of Faye Dunaway, taken the day after she won the Oscar , looking blasé and alone,at the poolside of the Beverly Hills Hotel, to Brigitte Bardot, the win...

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In memoriam

Death of Jean-Claude Sauer

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Born in 1935, Jean-Claude Sauer was a photographer for Paris-Match for 40 years and was above all a photo journalist. He has covered numerous conflicts, from Algeria to Afghanistan, Biafra to Iraq, not forgetting Vietnam where he spent several months during 1965 and 1966. Many of his photog...

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In memoriam

Death of Claudine Sudre

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Claudine Sudre died on Janvier 9, 2013, in Aix-en-Provence. She was 88. Sudre was born on May 17, 1925. Paris paid tribute to her work last fall with the exhibition Les Sudre, une famille de photographe, presented as part of the Month of Photography. Sudre witnessed the prepar...

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Exhibition

London
Arthur Rickerby

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Daniel Blau presents an exhibition of vintage prints by renowned American photographer Arthur Rickerby (1921 – 1972). Best known for his depictions of New York life and organised sport, Rickerby also covered World War II events in the Pacific under Edward Steichen.

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Exhibition

JD Ferguson:
Backstage

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The Berlin-based fashion gallery MILA opens the first solo exhibition of the internationally known fashion photographer JD Ferguson. The show JD Ferguson: Backstage Pass features a good selection of approx. 120 backstage, celebrities and party photographs, ranging fr...

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Exhibition

Arvid Gutschow & Alfred Ehrhardt : Two of a Kind

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Arvid Gutschow and Alfred Ehrhardt encounter in this exhibition follows an extensive donation to the foundation by Arvid Gutschow, an important forerunner of the New Photography, whose vision and choice of motifs are closely related ...

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Exhibition

Héctor Mediavilla
Le comble de l'élégance

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At the start of the 20th century when the French arrived in the Congo, the myth of Parisian elegance was born among the youth of the Bakongo ethnic group, who were working for the colonisers. At that time, many considered white men to be superior, due to their sophistica...

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Exhibition

Mark and Kristen Sink:
Photos à quatre mains

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The Robin Rice Gallery presents Mark & Kristen Sink's second photography exhibition. Taking in Mark and Kristen Sink's photographs in all their patinated glory, with faces blurred and eyes sharpened, crinkled petals and languid limbs, their subjects app...

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Book

Martin Schoeller:
Portraits of twins

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Long a source of fascination, twins have often been the subject of myths and legends, starting with the ancient figures of Remus and Romulus. Twins can share the exact same DNA, tastes, habits, and have eerily similar life experiences. But in his latest work, the American photog...

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Exhibition

Whitney Hubbs: The song itself is already a skip

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M+B presents Whitney Hubbs’ first Los Angeles exhibition The Song Itself is Already a Skip. Dark, raw, the work of Whitney Hubbs is at once blunt, formal and improvised, recognizable to daily experience and yet totally foreign from it. Her ima...

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Exhibition

Peter Mangone: Marilyn Monroe rediscovered

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It is five and a half minutes of grainy eight millimeter footage, but in that time we can see more of the true nature of Marilyn Monroe than in many of her longer and better known films. The film was shot in 1955 when Marilyn Monroe was 29 and Peter ...

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Exhibition

Philip Melnick
Small Seductions

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The Joseph Bellows Gallery presents exhibition of the black and white prints of Philip Melnick. This is the first solo show in Southern California in three decades for the artist. Melnick, who grew up in Los Angeles, demonstrates a keen eye for the character of its ...

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Art and commerce

Roger-Viollet:
Henry Clarke Archives

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The American photographer Henry Clarke (1918-1996) discovered that fashion photography was his calling after meeting Horst, Cecil Beaton and Irving Penn. Arriving in paris at 31, he began working for Vogue (the French, English and American editions) and stayed there for 20 years...

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Exhibition

Hendrik Kerstens
Paula, ma fille, ma muse

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Born in the Hague in 1956, Hendrik Kerstens has for the last 17 years been producing a body of work that explores some of the many intersections between painting and photography. Using his daughter Paula as his only subject, Kerstens not only photographs h...

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