The Beaugeste Gallery in Shanghai is exhibiting, for the first time in China, the photographs of Bruno Barbey (b. 1941 in Morocco) taken between 1973 and 1980. Founded in 2007 by the critic and curator Jean Loh, the Beaugeste Gallery occupies the...

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The years 1870-1871 were terrible for the French city of Saint-Cloud, when Prussian torches burned the castle and village to the ground. “One cannot envision the disaster without having seen it. Saint-Cloud should remain in our minds like the destruction of Pompeii,” wrot...

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Since the 1990s, the photographs of Laurence Demaison have gone beyond the genre of self-portrait to offer a deeply original vision that is at once multi-faceted and coherent. Although for many artists the representation of the self remains a sublime reflection of the...

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Frédérique Founès and Marie Karsenty. To celebrate 2013, Signatures, in collaboration with StoryLab, has produced a digital work called “Des baisers pour 2013” (Kisses for 2013) that combines photographs and poetry. So for the last day of January, Signatures wishes you a...

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Little Big Man, directed by Arthur Penn, opens with a young reporter interviewing a wrinkled, withered nursing home resident about his alleged participation in the battle of Little Big Horn and his life during the years of western expansion. Jack Crab, the ancient frontiersman, ...

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The Sapeurs exhibition unveils the secret society of Congo Brazzaville's finest and most elegant people. Featuring a series of flamboyant and extravagant photographs, Baudoin Mouanda portrays the Sapeurs, members of the S.A.P.E, Societé des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Elégantes, in other wo...

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All the current projects I am working with are tied up with the idea of deep alienation to the surrounding space. With the new series “Reductio Ad Absurdum” I also want to question the phantom reality we tend to create as a form of escapism from the real world. I chose kits...

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Irene Kung plunges cities into darkness to make their iconic monuments stand out. Floating in an artificial light and a futuristic atmosphere, these singular structures look like space ships floating through imaginary geographic spaces. The light reveals their geometr...

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United Photo Industries is a labor of love: love for the photograph and its ability to convey a complex array of emotions and ideas in a single, silent frame. Founders Sam Barzilay, Laura Roumanos, and Dave Shelley had been working in Dumbo, ...

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We discovered the fanzine Romka in early 2011 with the release of its fifth issue, a limp-bound A5 from Germany that gathered the favorite photos of its contributors. Released in November 2012, Romka No. 7 is slightly bigger and sturdier, but the objective is th...

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To launch our new photography publishing house, we selected a symbolic date, a symbolic place, and a symbolic subject. 
Many people worried about the supposed Mayan prophecies regarding the change of the solar calendar on the night of the 2012 winter solstice. So we chose the foll...

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Over the course of half a century, the American photographer Ezra Stoller documented the architecture of his country with the precision of a specialist in scale models. He frames the objects and buildings with the same acuity, playing with the lines and lighting, defying the rul...

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