Portrait

Yancey Richardson by Stéphanie de Rougé

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Yancey discovered photography when she was in graduate school studying art of ancient Greece . She explains that her reward when she had read ancient art history all day was to look at photography magazines in the library of her university (SMU Dallas, Texas). In 1979, she wr...

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Exhibition

Palma de Mallorca: Luna Trista: Portraits

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Luna Tristá doesn't look for perfection, but for the constant and tireless overcoming of her monsters.In darkness there is beauty that seduces. Tristá's artistic quest leads her to discover anonymous people with strong personality. They are her ideal of bea...

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Portfolio

Julie Coustarot:
Blue Rooms

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A woman, in an abandoned house ,the rooms have blue paint peeling off the walls. Overcome by her doubts and fears, she wanders through the house where every room has a painful history. She tears the rug apart, scratches the layers of paint and smothers her screams with her hands. All i...

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Portfolio

Jean-Luc Weber:
Au fil de l'ombre

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Au fil de l'ombre is a jorney through dreams and shadows. Jean-Luc Weber presents special moments gleaned here and there while traveling during the course of the past forty years. “I worked as a photographer for daily and weekly publications in Normandy, then as a journali...

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Exhibition

Atlanta: Frida & Diego revisited

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The blown-up image of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera that welcomes visitors at the new exhibit of the Atlanta’s High Museum of Art is a true representation of the life of the two Mexican painters: disproportionate yet captivating. In this image, Rivera looks straight forward, almost ten...

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Exhibition

Capa: La valise mexicaine présentée à Paris

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After exhibitions at ICP in New York, Arles in 2011, Barcelona, Bilbao and Madrid, the Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme (Mahj) in Paris is now welcoming the legendary Mexican Suitcase. Mysteriously and miraculously rediscovered in 2007, the suitcase contained 4500 ...

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Book

Antichambre:
Philippe Bazin

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Antichambres is the result of a month stay in Poland, where I visited 16 welcome centers for asylum seekers, as well as two detention centers. I worked in collaboration with the philosopher Christiane Vollaire, who interviewed more than one hundred Chechen refug...

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Exhibition

Adolfo Kaminsky:
Paris 1944 - 1955

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The work of Adolfo Kaminsky, who risked his life as a resistance fighter forging documents and photographs during the German occupation of France, is finally being exhibited in Paris at the Galerie Lina Davidov. A prolific photographer, Kaminsky took his first art...

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Exhibition

New York: Pictures from the Berman Collection

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The Steven Kasher gallery is presenting a selection from the Bruce Berman collection, and has transformed its severe walls into a more intimate space for the occasion. The display is dense and irregular, with up to three images stacked on top of each other to create a har...

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Portfolio

Andrea Albertini of Damiani Editore

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The 21st floor of the Standard East Village has 360-degree views of the streets, sidewalks, and rooftops of New York. With an espresso in hand, Andrea Albertini, president of Damiani Editore, speaks of his plans for the day. Ten meetings. Then a five p.m. flight back to Italy. It’s...

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