Christiane Amanpour, Chief International Correspondent for CNN, will be president of the jury of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents. The application deadline is June 10, 2013. The prizes will be given out on October 12, 2013.

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On Friday, March 15, 2013, for the launch of the 20th edition of the Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, the theatre company Map performed Jusqu’au bout, a play directed by David Ropars based on a text by the photojournalist Eric Bouvet. It was a great succ...

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A.B.C. Whipple, who as a magazine reporter helped save an iconic photograph of World War II from the censors, died March 17 in Greenwich, Conn. of pneumonia. He was 94. Mr. Whipple was a Washington correspondent for Life Magazine in 1943, assigned to the new Pentagon, when photographer George ...

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They were thought to be lost forever. After an incredible journey, 4500 negatives from the legendary photojournalist Robert Capa and his friends Gerda Taro and David ‘Chim’ Seymour, resurfaced in New York in 2008. These striking, never-before-seen images of the Spanish Civil War, t...

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A unique collaboration has produced “Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq”, a special exhibition marking the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War has opened at the Bronx Documentary Center. The unsettling, dark, crazy war diary entries of Marine Lt. TImothy McClaughlin (blown...

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The Bronx Documentary Center is gradually becoming one of New York’s most innovative art spaces, combining photography with different materials and approaches. Its latest exhibition, Invasion : Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq, on view until April 19, 2013, takes the spec...

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In this first iBook edition of her landmark 1976 study Janine Wiedel transports us to the heart of the Irish Traveller community of the 1970s. Through words and photographs amassed over five years spent with the Travellers, we are offered a window into a transitional mo...

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The photography couple Mathias Braschler & Monika Fischer have been commissioned by a insurance company to take portraits around the world. For example a small farmer in Kenya who has a micro-insurance for his crops that is financed by them...

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In these large-format photographs, the monumentality of the subjects echoes the sculptural aspect of the object. Immoderation, a recurring motif, guides the viewer on an ambiguous journey. A headless tree trunk illuminates a dark forest with a surreal, bright orange. Two other photogr...

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Among the exhibitions commemorating the 10th anniversary of the war in Iraq , Franco Pagetti offers a vision of the country’s recent history that unfolds over the course of several years.

Pagetti arrived in Baghdad shortly before the war broke out. His movements we...

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The anonymous. It is you and it is me and it is all of us. We are always anonymous, leaving footprints in our wave, evidence of where we have been and what we have done that draws or escapes attention. Identity, in as much as it is a construct, is the positive set against the void, the...

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One Block, Brooklyn – A survey depicting the essence of street life on one block in Brooklyn by the remains discarded on its sidewalks and its gutters. It is an anthropological/archaeological approach to street photography and neighborhood dynamics.

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