Duane Michals at the Thierry Marlat Gallery.
Everyone was waiting for Duane!! But he never showed: he was afraid of getting stuck in Paris with the strikes.
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Duane Michals at
Thierry Marlat Gallery
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Mutant Utopias at the Passage de Retz
Yan Morvan will be covering Month of November’s photography
exhibition openings. Here, the Mutant Utopias at the Passage de Retz.
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Grand Prix Paris Match
Yesterday night the whole Paris Match office moved to a Maison Européenne de la Photographie to honour the photographer Olivier Laban-Mattei. Olivier was absent since he already went back to Haiti, but his father was there to receive the ”Grand Prix” from Olivier Royant.
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Patrick Swirc
La mère des morts
Patrick Swirc is especially known for his portraits of movie stars. Here he delivers a more personal work on the association between eroticism and death. A narrow link between Eros and Thanatos that has always fascinated the photographers.
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The Opening of Paris Photo
They all came, they were all there. The gotha of the photographic world came out yesterday from 2pm to 10pm for the opening of Paris Photo. By 7pm, the crowd was so enormous that it was nearly impossible to see a picture.
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Jean-Claude Sauer
at Photo 12
With Jean-Claude Sauer, a bit of Paris Match’s history is told in this
exhibition. The Vietnam War, face to face with De Gaulle, Pompidou,
Giscard… Bullfighting with Dominguin and Ordonez el Cordobes.
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William Klein
at the Polka Galerie
William Klein was the guest of honor at last night’s opening at the
Polka Gallery. The Genestar family hosted their friends. Stephen
Dupont’s remarkable portraits of Marines with their commentaries in
the gallery’s front room.
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East side story
La crème des crèmes, as the french use to say, were all gathered at HSBC at Champs-Elysées for the opening of ”East side story”. No one was missing: Kristine Scott Thomas, William Klein, Bruno Barbey, Alain Genestar… The theme of the exhibition is ”the new faces of eastern europe” through the image...
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B.B.
Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain are two of the best paparazzi in France. Yesterday night between 18-20 they were standing infront of 19, rue Guénégaud. But they were not looking for celebrities – they were celebrating the opening of their exhibition on Brigitte Bardot.