Exhibition

Lausanne: Gilles Caron
Le conflit intérieur

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A retrospective of the reportage work of Gilles Caron will be on display at the the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne until May 12, 2013. Presented in cooperation with the Fondation Gilles Caron, the exhibition curators are Michel Poivert</s...

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Book

The Opéra Magazine
Nude Photography

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The aesthetic and cultural wealth and the long tradition and classical status of Opera as a high-art function is here as an inspirational metaphor for a volume of photographs published annually and which deals with the most sensitive and direct kind of portrait: nude photography...

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Portfolio

Isa Marcelli by Samantha Rouault

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Isa Marcelli began posting pictures taken with her Canon APN on Flickr, always searching for different aesthetic results. “The Internet helped me greatly. It’s one of the best things about being active today.” She soon realized that she wasn’t looking at recreating re...

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In memoriam

Hollywood: The death of Brad Branson

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Brad Branson photographer and pop iconographer of the 1980's and 1990's, died on December 13, 2012 at the age of 49. As a teen growing up in Los Angeles, Branson learned all aspects of the photography process while working in a Hollywood photo lab picking up valua...

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Book

Jeanette Montgomery Barron: Scene

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A young Willem Dafoe sneers from the cover of Scene, bare-chested with a cigarette dangling from his mouth. It is a simple portrait that conveys the seething intensity that has made Dafoe one of the world’s leading actors. Photographer Jeannette Montgomery Barron</st...

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Exhibition

Aneta Bartos:
La quête du plaisir

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Jon Feinstein presents Boys, a solo exhibition of new work by Aneta Bartos. Boys is an exhibition of twelve photographs that create a newly interpreted female gaze through their depiction of male vulnerability. In these images, Bartos records pri...

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Exhibition

Kurt Hollander:
Happy City

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More than a dozen love motels string up along a single inner-city highway full of car repair shops, gas stations and industrial parks in Santo Domingo, the capital city of the Dominican Republic. Some of the motels were designed to look like exclusive suburban communities, with small hou...

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Portfolio

Cyril Christo:
The Last of the Titans

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We have felt their inimitable strides and trumpeting calls across the vast face of Africa, there where the human race emerged. But in the last few years an insidious trade has resumed , the ivory market has exploded again, and this time the elephant’s continued presence on this...

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Exhibition

Paulette Tavormina: Natura Morta

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These resolutely pictorialist still lifes by New York photographer Paulette Tavormina recall 17-century paintings. To compose the dramatic atmosphere of her images, Tavormina makes careful arrangements of fruit, flowers, ceramics, shells, butterflies, insects and even...

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Exhibition

Gordon Parks:
A Harlem Family 1967

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The current exhibition at the Studio Museum in New York is A Harlem Family by Gordon Parks. This series was originally published in Life in 1968, accompanied by the photographer’s raw commentary, inciting a national outcry at the disturbing social conditions it depicts. His essay ...

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Interview

Mexico: La mirada invisible

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After almost two-year of travel throughout Mexico, the group exhibition La mirada invisible (The Invisible Eye) now comes to the city of Santiago de Querétaro. What makes this event stand out is that each of the fifteen photographers featured in the show is blind.

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Book

Book Publisher Profiles: Charles Miers

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The book is a lasting luxury. We live with them throughout our lives, and when they are created by artists, they can become objets d’art in their own right. “Artists take the book very seriously as a creative part of their vision. They hold high standards and produce it with pas...

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Portfolio

Dorothée Davoise by Fanny Lambert

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The winner of the Prix SFR Jeunes Talents, Dorothée Davoise’s series on Greece, Topos, recently ended a month-long exhibition at Le BAL in Paris. An avid traveler, Davoise stands out for her desire to keep memory alive, and her work serves as a means to pre...

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