In memoriam

Willy Rizzo:
by Daniel Filipacchi

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Two years ago, art collector and media mogul Daniel Filippachi sat down with us to speak about Willy Rizzo. Here is that interview, first published on December 6, 2010.
In an exclusive audio interview, Daniel Filipacchi share his personal memories of Willy Rizzo and Paris Match.</...

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In memoriam

Adieu Willy
by Didier Rapaud

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Willy, You probably don’t remember this, but as a child I used to wander the halls of Paris Match on certain Thursdays. My mother was working there in the offices on the Rue Pierre Charron, and one time you gave me permission to come into the photography department. In that room, saints...

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Exhibition

Primerose, Russian Colour Photography

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Official celebrations, however boring, can sometimes lead to worthwhile initiatives. Although the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Netherlands and Russia four hundred years ago is not necessarily a major historical event, it serves as the pretext for a fascinatin...

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Portfolio

Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson: Abyssinia

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We have been to the land of milk and honey and it is in southern Ethiopia, former Abyssinia. A generation ago many of the tribes in the Omo River region did not know they lived in modern day Ethiopia and yet a mega hydro-electric dam, the Gibe III, could render the chalice...

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Portfolio

Victoria S. Maidhof: Adventure's with Patty

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Adventure's with Patty is a series I worked on from May 2012 until mid November 2012. It began as many of my photo projects do. When I met Patty, I became floored by how interesting she was and I wanted to spend time getting to know her and photograph her. What I d...

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Exhibition

Ottawa: Don McCullin
Retrospective

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Photojournalist Don McCullin risked his life covering civil wars on four continents from 1964 to 1985. As Harold Evans writes in the introduction to the catalogue produced by the National Gallery of Canada: “Don McCullin has guts. He can stop in the middle of a firefight to measure...

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Portrait

Estevan Oriol: Portraiture of Los Angeles

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Back in ‘93, Estevan Oriol was tour manager for House of Pain. His father, a photographer, Eriberto Oriol gave his son a camera, told him to take pictures. Oriol remembers feeling weird about it. “Most people with cameras were paparazzi or tourists. They take...

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Exhibition

Munich: Rise and Fall
of Apartheid

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Complex, vivid, evocative, and dramatic, "Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life" represents the most comprehensive exhibition of its kind, attempting to formulate an understanding of apartheid's legacy in South Africa through visual records. ...

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Portfolio

Danica O. Kus: Poetics of Niemeyer's architecture

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Danica O. Kus has been photographing the unique buildings of legendary Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer who passed away in December last year. 
He was the last architect of the modernist era known for designing Brasilia and adding curves to strict ...

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Exhibition

Bangkok: le génocide des requins

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Freeland and Love Wild Life foundations, with the support of Canon, have organized a photography information to take action against consuming shark fins. It’s a group show with installation, video and photos, included World Press Photo-awarded photographer Paul Hilton.

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Exhibition

Stockholm: Uta Barth
la transformation invisible

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Andréhn-Schiptjenko presents new work by Uta Barth. In keeping with her signature operating methods, Uta Barth takes a simple observation — the tenuous light filtering through a curtain — and turns it into a complex perceptual experience. The artist m...

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Exhibition

Georges Pacheco: Amalthée la nourricière

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This work, whose title is taken from the name of the goat that nursed the baby Zeus in Greek mythology, was shot in the intimacy of my studio. It depicts mothers with different personalities and body types nursing their children. It is a tribute to the universal act of breas...

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Exhibition

Boston: Bruce Davidson
The natural soul

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His modern vision of documentary influenced generations of photographers. The American Bruce Davidson, now 79, a Magnum member since 1958, will have a retrospective at the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston until March 30. The show includes photographs from his p...

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