L. Fritz Gruber (1908-2005) was a central figure in the German photography industry. With Bruno Uhl he founded the Photokina trade fair and DGPh (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie e.V) in 1951. But he played an equally important role in the distribution of ...

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The legacy of Bill Brandt, one of the major figures of twentieth century photography, is split between a humanist documentary approach and an artistic conception of the real. As the title of the retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art suggests, a larg...

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Guy Bourdin refused to publish books in his lifetime. For this extraordinary fashion photographer, printed images belonged in magazines, like Vogue, where he was a frequent contributor from 1955 to 1987, or in advertisements, like the ones he d...

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This exhibition was put together by Christiane Paul, a visual arts professor at the Parsons New School in New York and an associate curator for New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum. For the past ten years, she has been intrigued by the increasing disappearance of the boundary between t...

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Last wednesday was the opening of Antoine d'Agata's new exhibition at the gallery Filles du Calvaire. The classic scenography counterbalances the bold set taking blance at the BAL where Antoine d'Agata is exhibiting since last january. A crowded gallery, happy visitors, a gr...

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Winter in Cleveland sucks. Long, cold, and worst of all rarely sunny. By February everything feels as if covered in an inescapable pall of gray. March follows though, the middle of the month giving us a goal in St. Patrick’s day, where we are, once again, assured of finally ...

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All the world is a stage, theater in the round, and when we walk upon it, we take action accordingly. We become actors in the movie of our lives, taking on a public persona that is in part crafted by the landscape itself. The milieu becomes a defining factor in our lives, but the more int...

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Attending the NPPA convention, where some of the best news photographers of america converge to share experiences, tips, advices and anecdotes, one is reminded of a few key elements of photojournalism. There is much more to a picture than the picture itself : listening to photographers...

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This letter will be as brief as the conclave held to elect the new pope, Francis. He gave himself an ordinary name but he'll always be recognizable thanks to his outfit. Apparently he's a "humble man who leads a quiet, modest life," but he's against the legalization of aborti...

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Have you heard of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art? It’s a bright cumulonimbus cloud designed by Richard Meier in the western part of the old city. Their current exhibition is a major event in Barcelona photography. The space devoted to the first group in the exhibit...

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“How many roses barely bloom?” the late French singer Daniel Darc wondered. We could all count summer petals forgotten between the pages of a book, the bouquets bought too late, the withered poplars on the cusp of spring. There’s the flower that we smothered with car...

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The Vanguard Gallery is dedicated to the promotion of a young generation of Asian artists and located in one of the most famous arty places in Shanghai: M50. Among the cluster of unceasingly changing galleries and studios, the Vanguard Gallery belongs to the “sen...

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The 4th edition of the Printemps de Pomerol festival opens today. Created by the commune of Pomerol near Bordeaux and its viticultural trade association, this weekend will be all about good wine and photography. “This event has a meaning and a history,” said art...

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The festival Photo of Levallois on the outskirt of Paris presented her work last May, and even though she moved to France in 1990 and became a French citizen in 2005, Jan Groover (1943 - 2012) remains an outsider to the national photography scene.

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