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Archives - June 30, 2015 The Grande Chaumière painting academy, the cafes of the Dome, La Rotonde and La Coupole, the artist studios, the jazz clubs on the Boulevard Edgar Quinet—this is the Montparnasse where Emile Savitry started out as a painter and photographer, spending time with sculptors, painters, poets and musicians, and where Savitry lived his whole life. His body of work brings back to life the warm Montparnasse nights,…

Archives - June 30, 2017 Éditions Delpire is publishing an amazing book dedicated to the career of the famous editor Robert Delpire and to his relationships to his contributors. We are offering a series of texts he wrote. Today, The Eye of Photography is publishing an interview of the French editor about Henri Cartier-Bresson by Philippe Séclier. When and under what circumstances did you meet Henri Cartier-Bresson for the first time? What was…

Marthe Lazarus: Memory as a Territory of Resistance On the occasion of the exhibition presented by Mémoire Magnétique, Marthe Lazarus unveils around forty photographs, collages, photo-films, and mixed-media experiments spanning several periods of her artistic production. The exhibition brings together recent series, earlier works, previously unseen pieces, and a selection of self-published editions from her long-term project TIME MACHINE. For Marthe Lazarus, photography is never merely a tool for recording…

Some places live and are moulded through the eyes of the onlooker. They are dreamlike territories, not just physical, able to dig into individual subconsciousness, rooting themselves in a collective memory, recalling sedimented, almost forgotten, sensations and perceptions. Casa Museo Molinario Colombari (the House) belongs to this subtle geography: it is the map of an intimate tale about the wonder one feels in front of something familiar but at the…

It is time I would even say I have well exceeded any reasonable deadline to bring this anthology of the finest posteriors illustrated by the greatest nude photographers of the 20th century and beyond to a close. I may be forgiven if I confess that throughout this period I have been occupied with verifying and refining the inventory of my collection, which now stands at 1,112 books and magazines, the…

Propulsion is a series by Elizabeth Waterman. It is presented as follow: Propulsion began with a single photograph of a jellyfish. For more than a decade, Waterman photographed dancers and performers, becoming fascinated by movement, gesture, and the ways bodies move through light and space. Then, during a visit to an aquarium, she photographed a jellyfish. Later, while editing, she placed the jellyfish image beside one of her dancer photographs and…

The exhibition « Hors-série, Favret / Manez » is presented at the Centre international d’art contemporain Château de Carros. For more than thirty years, Anne Favret and Patrick Manez have been developing a major body of photographic work devoted to contemporary landscapes and inhabited territories. Their work explores the relationships between space, memory, uses and representations through an attentive observation of reality. Rather than presenting their works according to a chronological logic…

ROSEGALLERY presents until July 25, 2026, My Days at Ray's, an exhibition of recent work by Elger Esser. The exhibition marks a significant moment in Esser's practice: a presentation of his ongoing series of works on silvered copper alongside the debut of a new technique, painted photographs on silver-plated copper, that extends his work into the territory of singular, material objects. Elger Esser's work continues to explore the relationship between…

Applications are open until July 31! The MUUS Collection Research Fellowship comprises a $20,000 grant awarded to a curator or academic. The grant will allow the Fellow to spend time in the MUUS Collection archives and use their new MUUSEUM Research Portal to develop an exhibition or publication concept based on works within the collections. In addition to the grant, the fellow will benefit from mentorship sessions with the Advisory Board.  …

Archives - June 29, 2023 Harry Gruyaert's exhibition at LE BAL is magical. Harry is an amazing color photographer. But what is also magical is this gift from Diane Dufour, the soul of LE BAL, this unique place: an entire day of The Eye of Photography dedicated to Harry, his passions and favorite themes commented by superb texts. Thank you Harry, thank you Diane, thank you to everyone who contributed…

Archives - June 29, 2017 The American photographer Duane Michals is the subject of a retrospective exhibition on view until September 20th at Fundación MAPFRE’s Casa Garriga i Nogués exhibition space in Barcelona. Working, teaching, chatting or just living: whatever he’s doing, Duane Michals is a man with a big heart which has always made him a photographer unlike any other, totally committed to authenticity and the extraordinary. Love of…

Don't Forget to Love "Don't Forget to Love" is a series dedicated to examining the vital role of love and empathy in contemporary society. Photographed by Lagos-based photographer Bade Fuwa, the work showcases his ability to weave emotion into visual storytelling. Staged against the natural backdrops of nature that balance raw intimacy with surrealist symbolism, the imagery explores human vulnerability. By choreographing a quiet dialogue between the subjects and their…

Nature’s Reveries Nature’s Reveries is the series that allowed me to discover macrophotography while deepening my knowledge of the fauna and flora of my region, Occitanie. It also nurtured an unexpected fascination for spiders, creatures often feared or misunderstood despite their subtle beauty. The photographs in this series invite the viewer to discover the miniature world hidden within our gardens, through floral tones and a dreamlike, fairy-tale atmosphere. https://www.flickr.com/photos/143112292@N03/ https://www.instagram.com/faelypics/

Libertad The air in the courtyard felt like pulverised lead so charged it was with grave human issues. Like issues of crime and punishment. Issues of forgiveness and of the impossibility of forgiveness. Issues of hope and despair. Issues of human time, human space and of what our lives, in the end, are really made of. Issues of the unbearable heaviness of existing. And obviously, most importantly, the issue of…

Soaring With this selection, Charlotte Brunstein explores the notion of flight through dance, as a movement that is both physical and inner. Echoing her photographic practice, where movement opens onto a poetic and sensitive dimension, the bodies become surfaces through which emotional and sensory states emerge. The image is conceived as a perceptual and intuitive space, in which the viewer is invited to enter into resonance.