Olivier LABAN-MATTEI Laureat 2010
This prize was created in 1980 by Roger Therond and Jean-Luc Monterosso. All French professional photographers can compete. Every two years, the prize is decided by an international jury.
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Diane Dufour
Queen of the Bal
It took Diane Dufour four years to make her dream come true: transform a former 1930’s brothel and horse betting house in the 50’s and 60’s, into an exhibition hall for photography in all of its current technological expressions. She gives us a guided tour of the Bal.
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Larry Clark Interview
with Sebastien Gokalp
During a trip to the United States, Fabrice Hergott, director of the Paris City Museum of Modern Art, met with American filmmaker Larry Clark and suggested that he present an exhibition of his photographs. Kiss the past hello shows several pictures from Larry Clark’s e...
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Harry Callahan according to Agnès Sire
A video by La Lettre de La Photographie
For Agnès Sire, Harry Callahan (1912-1999) “was a true believer of photography: he had faith in pictures”. The director of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation talks about this photographer
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Françoise Huguier explains
With the voice of Françoise Huguier
Françoise Huguier spent more than three years working on the community apartments of Saint Petersburg. Slowly but surely, she became familiar enough with the residents that she was able to shoot
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André Kertész
Guided tour
A video by La Lettre de la Photographie
The André Kertész (1894-1985) exhibition is the result of research project driven by Michel Frizot and Annie-Laure Wanaverbecq. It is also the first true retrospective of his work.
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Raymond Depardon
Interview
For over 50 years, Raymond Depardon’s favorite subject was France. He photographed and filmed the places of his childhood, then opened his viewfinder to the whole country. He describes his work here in an interview with Michel Guerrin for Foam Magazine
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Waters stories, two different look
This exhibition creates a dialogue between photographs from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and the Musée National de la Marine.
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The MEP collections: about extremes
The exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie offers a
selection of major photographs from its collection, first created in 1980.
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Looking at architecture
This exhibition is an opportunity to explore photography of architecture, and is based on the idea of possible comparisons and similarities between two collections, on Italian and one French.
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Musée du Judaïsme: collection
Since its creation over ten years ago, the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du
Judaïsme has regularly organised photography exhibitions (Magnum, Didier, Ben Loulou,…
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Portraits of writers 1850 to our days
This exhibition of portraits features works taken from three Parisian
collections. Photographs from the Maison de Victor Hugo collection evoke the early years of photography and the history of portraiture between 1850 and 1885,…
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Portraits of artists in residencies
Every year since 1965, the Cité internationale des Arts has offered an artist-in-residence programme to artists from all over the world. Needless to say, the themes and works on show in the exhibition are very diverse
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The Niepce Award
1955-2010: Retrospective
Since 1955, the annual Prix Niépce has recognized the work of a professional photographer. The prize is organized by Gens d’Images, an association founded in 1954 by Albert Plécy, Jacque-Henri Lartigue and Raymond Grosset.
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Angkor, a century
in pictures
This exhibition at the Musée Cernuschi focuses on a century of work at the École Française d’Extrême-Orient (French School of the Far East) in Angkor, Cambodia.
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Steidl: From Robert Frank to Karl Lagerfeld
The exhibition is transferring from the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne and gives pride of place to photographers such as Jim Dine and Karl Lagerfeld, each of them taking over a room to display their abundant creative work and demonstrate the strength of their bonds with G...
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Feminism:
The Durand collection
The exhibition Photos Femmes Féminisme 1860-2000 is a historical journey through the photographic collection of the Marguerite Durand Library.
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André Kertész, 91 years of masterpieces
There has never been a proper retrospective of the work of André Kertész (Budapest, 1894 – New York, 1985) in Europe, even though he donated all his negatives to the French state…
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Harry Callahan, Variations
For the Month of Photographyʼs thirtieth anniversary, the MEP has made available a large number of works from its collections. Fondation HCB has chosen an important body of work by Harry Callahan, including photographs from the collections of the Peter MacGill Gallery…
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Pierre and Alexandra Boulat, a shared passion
The Petit Palais, which has included photography and contemporary images in its exhibitions since 1998, supports Reporters Without Borders with an exhibition of its 25th anniversary album featuring photographs by Pierre and Alexandra Boulat.
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Larry Clark: The
controversial exhibition
Larry Clark thinks back on almost fifty years of creativity, during which he never stopped reliving and showing the reality of adolescence: a moment of freedom and transition when everything is possible, from the love to the hell of artificial paradises, through skateboa...
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Raymond Depardonʼs France
Raymond Depardon is famous for his reportage work in deprived inner city areas, for his many books where images are interwoven with text, and for his films about everyday life in a changing society…
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Thibaut Cuisset: The French Countryside
For over 20 years Thibaut Cuisset has focused on the landscape, the environment, and the notion of territory. His photographic work has explored the whole world.
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Françoise Huguier: Kommunalka
“Someone was kicking my bedroom door: I woke up with a jolt. It was four in the morning. Two guys holding bottles of vodka insisted we got to know each other.
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Private travel stories
All the photographers brought together here understand travel in the
old-fashioned sense. They have both time ahead of them and space around them, and the ability to knit together the imaginary and the real, far from the madding crowd of tourists.
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Anonymous portaits of everyday Americans
For its inaugural exhibition, Le Bal brings together eight of the most influential photographers and film-makers of the past 50 years. Their work experiments ways to record this anonymity, by definition an indeterminate, unremarkable notion that escapes visual stereotypes a...
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15 photographers from Latin America
This exhibition offers a kaleidoscope of fifteen photographers and video artists from Latin America. Leo Matiz (1917-1998, Colombia) photographed people and urban landscapes for over forty years in the tradition of the Mexican school personified by masters such as Manuel Alvarez...
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Contemporary Mexican Photography
The exhibition “Shadow and Light” attempts to construct a visual discourse that will make possible an exploration of what was the mexican photographic avant- garde; it also aims to bring two brilliant photographers who were contemporaries of Álvarez Bravo out of the shadows.
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Can communism be surrealist?
This exhibition is intended as a historic account that focuses on three key periods in the country’s history: the late 1940s just before the Stalinist period, the thaw that occurred around 1956, and the late 1970s leading up to the Solidarnosc.
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Swedish post-war photography
The exhibition Tio Fotografer – The Collective recounts a half-century of creative Swedish photography, and pays tribute to the first organised collective of Swedish photographers.
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Nudes in Hungarian Photography
The exhibition wishes to compare the nudes from the early decades of the 20th century with contemporary ones. These pictures are the footprints of History, of its mores, its customs, and its conception of beauty.
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Contemporary Romanian Photography
Coming from much larger “families” of visual research – for instance series as they do investigating the confines of reality and representation – the works in the exhibition reflect the same principle of incisiveness.
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Herbert List, masterpieces, 1930-1970
Herbert List was born in Hamburg in 1903. He was the son of a Hansa-town coffee importer. In 1921-23 he studied art and literature at the University of Heidelberg.
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Mario Giacomelli: An Italian humanist
This exhibition presents a selection of forty images from the Maison Européenne de la Photographie collection, and includes some of Giacomelliʼs most famous works.
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Krass Clement: Danish existentialism
Krass Clement (b. 1946) is one of the most remarkable and influential Danish photographers of his generation. All his photographs raise existential questions about the human condition
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Kari Soinio
Men in nature
Kari Soinio, born in 1962, uses photography as a means to explore the relationship between the male identity and landscape. His series of photographs of «man in a landscape» covers twenty years in which he ponders our view of masculinity
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Ellen Kooi
Dutch Legends
As part of the Month of Photography, the Dutch Institute in Paris presents the first major exhibition in France of the young Dutch photographer Ellen Kooi.
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Photographic Accidents
In the MEP collection, there is a well-known photograph entitled: “lʼenfant flou” (Blurred Child) by Jean-Philippe Charbonnier. Although Jean-Philippe is no longer here to give his opinion, we know that this image, the result of an incomprehensible accident
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Weegee's New York
Prints by Weegee borrowed from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie form the starting point for our American journey. It all begins with Weegee, “Weegee the Famous”
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The young russian generation
These pieces by two young Russian artists reflect and express the sensitivity and anxieties of a new generation facing the present crisis and the direct and indirect social, psychological and political consequences it has on their lives and their art.
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Pleasure Hieroglyphics
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1970's Africa in Black and White
Photography appeared in Africa in the middle of the 19th century and still its recognition as an art form is a recent phenomenon. In the Fifties, the appearance of the photo studio created a very formal relationship between the photographer and his model.
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The dilemma: Painting or Photography?
The Pierre-Alain Challier Gallery presents an exhibition of its artistʼs work, designed to shed light on the close relationship between painting and photography.
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Saul Leiter: A forgotten master
The rediscovery of Saul Leiterʼs work in recent years is clearly a major event in the history of photography. From being a fashion photographer known only to specialists, he has become a pioneer of «street photography» in color.
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William Klein: Itinerary of an iconoclast
William Klein draw his inspiration from three of his photos chosen from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. These are three vintage prints that revolutionized fashion photography in the 1950s
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Eikoh Hosoe: Japanese symbolism
Over more than fifty years, photographer Eikoh Hosoe has built up a body of work that shows a unique mastery of photographic techniques. Early in his career, he abandoned the predominant post-war documentary style
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Ralph Gibson: The geometric obsession
“In 1959, I was a young lieutenant working as a photographer on board the USS Tanner. In my spare time I would explore the shipʼs library. A slim volume attracted my attention. It was Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot.
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Mac Adams
Scenes of artistic crimes
In the late 1960s, Mac Adams initiated a new departure in “narrative” photography with his black and white series entitled Mysteries depicting crime scenes
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Dieter Appelt Photography in lines
“This will often be about geometry, two straight lines constantly intersecting. Itʼs a metric approach – geometry in Euclidian vectorial spaces. The proof is the independence of the frames within the “tableau”.
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Mario Cravo Neto
Mixing Disciplines
Son of a famous sculptor, Mario Cravo Neto was born in 1947 in Salvador, Bahia. Nurtured in the cultural setting of his native city, he began his first artistic experiences very early on: sculpture, drawing, installation, photography and video.
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Raymond Depardon's Meanderings
The Magnum Gallery is pleased to present a Raymond Depardon exhibition in two parts: Errance series, 1999-2000 and La France series, 2005-2010.
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Massimo Vitali
Beach stories
In the early Sixties, Massimo Vitali started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with magazines and agencies in Italy and Europe. It was during this time that he met Simon Guttman, the founder of the Report agency
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François Méchain
30 years of pictures
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Georges Rousse
A neverending quest
Since he appeared on the art scene 25 years ago, Georges Rousse has never stopped travelling around the world. Like some fictional character striding across plains, valleys and mountains across the globe like ordinary mortals cross the street
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Michael Ackerman
Hallucinating walks
Half Life is Michael Ackermanʼs third opus. After “End Time City” (1999), a crazy journey through the city of Varanasi, India, and then “Fiction” (2001), where unity of place is shattered into a sequence of images that seem to have been made in haste between New York and Euro...
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Philippe Vermès
Mythic bikers
Philippe Vermès took these portraits over a couple of years in the late 8Oʼs during two major rallies: one in Sturgis, South Dakota, and the other in London, New Hampshire.
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Jean-Christophe Ballot
The Victory Saint
Cézanne executed 44 oil paintings and 43 drawings and watercolors of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Working doggedly and with passion on the motif, he introduced this mountain into the history of art.
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Laurent Van der Stockt
Testimonies
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Henri Foucault
Playing with Pictures
For the Month of Photography 2010, Baudoin Lebon presents a monographic exhibition on Henri Foucault, entitled Un monde parfait (“A Perfect World”). In these recent artworks and photographs, Henri Foucault continues his work on the representation of the body
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Alexandra Boulat
A contemporary tragedy
“Yugoslavia had had its time of peace and Man tipped the balance of history, according to his tradition, true to type. The rest of the world was surprised by so many atrocities. Presidents, warlords, soldiers and pillagers fiercely attempted to lay down their respective la...
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Sally Mann's
private world
The Karsten Greve Gallery is pleased to present an important exhibition devoted to the American Photographer Sally Mann, born in Lexington, Virginia in 1951.
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Didier Ben Loulou
The travellers of Athens
For several years Didier Ben Loulou has been working in Athens, and this new series of photographs is the result. Although his approach is firmly anchored in reality, he remains faithful to his initial sources of inspiration
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Giorgia Fiorio's
Grey skies
“The first and last frontier is the one that separates us from each other. It is the moment when thought overflows the perimeter of the individual and begins to embrace the world: my breathing, my way of seeing. (…) As I thought about the theme of this work focusing on Italyʼs norther...
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Mohamed Camara
Private memories
On the occasion of the Mois de la Photo 2010, Galerie Pierre Brullé is glad to show for the third time in Paris a one-man show of Mohamed Camara. The gallery showed his first exhibition ever in the realm of the same event in 2002.
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France 14
A new generation
As a counterpoint to the exhibition “Raymond Depardon: a personal vision of France”, the collective exhibition “France14” will be presented in the Julien Cain alley. The photographs on display are not commissioned works.
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VU Gallery: Michael Ackerman
It was the “must see" evening for the followers of VU Gallery. VU agency celebrated a large exhibition of Mickael Ackerman, opening in the heart of Le Marais, where so many famous writers lived during the 19th century.
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Henri Foucault at Baudoin Lebon Gallery
Henri Foucault, who explores bodies in all dimensions, illuminates the prestigious Beaudoin Lebon Gallery with his experiments of photography as an “instrument” for sculpture. A great number of art world VIP’s came out to celebrate Fine Arts and this photographic “process”.
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Galerie Michèle Chomette
François Méchain
When I arrived in the apartment/gallery of Michele Chomette, in front of Le Centre Pompidou – where she has been living for the past 30 years, I saw an audience captivated by photographer Francois Mechain. It’s not an ordinary opening, it’s more like a private party w...
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Steidl at l'Hotel de la Monnaie
The opening of the Steidl exhibition at l’Hôtel de la Monnaie on the south bank of the Seine was full of beautiful celebrities from the universe of photography. Gerhard Steidl, Karl Lagerfeld, François-Marie Banier, Joseph Koudelka and many others were celebrating, drinking Ruinart ...
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L’enfant flou at Agathe Gaillard Gallery
One of JP Charbonnier’s pictures, “the blurry child”, a “split” image, inspired this exhibition showing twenty photographers’ works whose visible flaws (lab accidents) add magic and mystery. A quote by Louis Pasteur “fate is beneficial to ready souls” is the exhibition’s...
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Pavillon Carré Baudouin
Françoise Huguier
The opening of Francoise Huguier was in the north of Paris, near Pere Lachaise. There are so many openings these days that you need to ride a Velib’ or a scooter if you want to see them all. As usual with Francoise, everything was friendly and joyful. Formats, color, d...
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Saul Leiter at Camera Obscura Gallery
Painter and photographer, Saul Leiter enjoyed belated recognition. In his photography, there is painting, and in his paintings, there is photography. “Painting is glorious. I love photography, but I am not sure that photography can do what painting does.”
Arrived too lat...
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Gallery W: Philippe Vermès
Buttes Montmartre looked like Daytona yesterday night for the opening of the Philippe Vermes exhibition. Philippe was receiving his fanatic Harley Davidson friends dressed head to toe in leather outfit, in a cool, funny and relaxed atmosphere.
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Espace culturel danois Krass Clement
Nothing is missing in this exhibition by Krass Clement. His images, from 1973 and onwards, reminds of a mix between Robert Frank and Anders Petersen. They capture a cold and dark side of his home country Denmark. And when he uses colour, it´s not to make us comfortable. On the ...
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Institut culturel roumain: Les contemporains
I met Rumanian photographers…. an exhibition with documentary photographs showing a portrait, without artifice, of a country struggling to find its place in Europe. We want to see more, and for that you need to visit the websites of the artists. A naive and yet sincere ...
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Galerie Karsten Greve
Sally Mann
It’s 4 o’clock and I’m quite early. It’s more than thirteen openings tonight – a hard choice. I take advantage of the empty gallery to appriciate the sharpness of the images and to discover a not very well known part of Sally Mann, the nude men. Yan Morvan
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Autour de l'extrême
MEP
The rain was pouring down on tuesday night, but in front of la Maison Européenne de la Photographie hundreds of people was gathered for one of the major exhibitions at La Mois de La Photo: ”Autour de l’Extreme”. The installation is beautiful, a mix of iconic classic photography like Penn...
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Laurent van der Stockt at the Petit Endroit Gallery
A very warm and inviting atmosphere, reuniting friends. The world of photo journalism.
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Goethe Institut:
Herbert List
The Herbert List exhibition at the Goethe Institute only show us the most well known part of Lists work. This is a pitty. His book ”Lumière sur la Grèce”, offer us more knowledge about Lists love for photography and his incredible work from the 1930´s.
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Galerie Lucie Weill
Ralph Gibson
The Month of Photography: the opportunity to be among friends and happily celebrate pictures, two steps away from the Fine Arts Academy. The atmosphere was more than happy and at the gallery next door, at number 4, Eikoh Hosoe, who will return on the 16th to sign his book, was d...
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Hôtel de Sauroy
Voyages
Jaques Borgetto, Françoise Nunez, Bernard Plossu et Sophie Zénon are exhibiting their vision of the internal voyage. The curator is Laura Serani, the installation is sophisticated and the ambiance joyfull.
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Jeu de Paume : André Kertész
Go, run, rush to the Jeu de Paume to see André Kertész exibition : it is a huge an gorgeous photography lesson. For the André Kertész groupies. I put one of my picture of the master made in 1979 during the Arles Festival with Agathe Gaillard. Yan Morvan
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Mac Adams
Galerie Serge Aboukrat
In his tiny gallery situated in one of the most charming places of Paris: the place of Fürstemberg, the very nice Serge Aboukrat presents works of the famous British photographer/sculptor Mac Adams. “Post-modern tragedies” is placed next to the more classic black and white “Emty ...
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New York walk at
Gallerie David Guiraud
Weegee, Clark, Erwitt, Goldin… David Guiraud, specialist in 19th century photography, has the real talent to discover rare pictures. Beaudoin Lebon came to admire the Larry Clark images which where for sale for 3000 € each.
Please note that Galerie David Guiraud, on the...
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Vernissage
Galerie 1900-2000
It´s plenty of famous international artists who decorates the walls of Gallery 1900-2000: Araki, Bellmer, Molinier, Steichen, etc. All masters in the field of the eroticism, willing give us their view of the secrets gardens. Sometimes very direct and not very modest but always photog...
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Galerie Françoise Paviot
Dieter Appelt
DIeter Appelt presented a new creation at gallery Françoise Paviot at
rue Saint-Anne called ”make moving images with photgraphy”. The master in geometry explains his approach: ”the images in my photgraphy are silent landscape with no human life”
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Galerie RX
Deux plasticiens
Eric Rondepierre and Georges Rousse are showing at Gallery RX. The gallery directed by the two passionated Eric Rodrigue and Eric Dereumaux want is dedicate to fine art photography.
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Artfiler Gallery
Femmes avec vue
The Month of Photography in Paris is also the occasion to discover
some photography of original approach. Here five young women who works with fine art photgraphy exploring the female intimacy.