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Until now ‘Jusqu'à présent’ is an exploration of the heart of the moment. A stroll through the perpetual movement of reality. Always in the present, a light, a reflection, a posture. This series presents an almost enigmatic everyday life in which the viewer senses the imminence of a new world. By playing with the relationship between scale and framing, I disrupt our orientation, insinuating mystery into what ordinarily seems banal.…
Barcino : Another Catalonia, Another Europe “...Another Europe is present and alert, the one that populates the streets of Barcelona and many other cities, that moves around with an identity card in its pocket and knows how to pack quickly, that builds friendships, works and studies in a network that crosses borders and national languages every day...” Catalan independence, especially during the Procés movement in 2017, represents a complex social…
The Sea, a distorting mirror My passion for the sea and photography leads me to walk the pontoons and quays of the charming ports of the coast. In search of shapes, lights and colors that the hulls and hulls of boats reflect at water level. Thus, on the Breton or Normandy coast, where colorful traditional boats still anchor, or on the Mediterranean coast where classic yachts gather to sail, the…
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This article was first published on February 17, 2012. Tomorrow, February 18, a retrospective of the work of Alice Springs, June Newton in the real life, will open at the Gallerie Carla Sozzani. June was a talented photographer, who more or less retired fifteen years ago. Speaking to us about June are three of her closest friends: José Alvarez, director of the publishing house Les Éditions du Regard; Dave, the…
Deborah Bell Photographs presents Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968, an exhibition of vintage prints of portraits the photographer made in the now-legendary San Francisco neighborhood called Haight-Ashbury. Celebrating the recent publication by Damiani of the book by FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore, Elaine Mayes: Haight Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968, the exhibition opens November 17 and will be on view through March 4, 2023. This is the first monograph of…
An appreciation of Helga Paris’s photography reached a wider audience than ever before with a 2019 major retrospective in Berlin, the city where she lived and worked. An exhibition at Kicken Berlin at the end of the following year confirmed the realization that Helga Paris’s work was of considerable and intrinsic interest. Now, two books of her portrait photography in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) make clear that the enduring…
Kiss Kiss Bank Bank
Paris, France
from December 18th, 2024 to January 18th, 2025
Galerie Camera Obscura
268, boulevard Raspail 75014 Paris
from November 15th, 2024 to January 11th, 2025
Hôtel W de Verbier
Rue de Médran 70, 1936 Verbier, Suisse
from April 4th, 2025 to April 5th, 2025
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We learn of the passing of Gian Paolo Barbieri, probably the greatest Italian fashion photographer of all times. Today’s edition is dedicated to him. The Fondazione Gian Paolo Barbieri sends this statement : Fondazione Gian Paolo Barbieri announces with deep sorrow the passing of the great master of photography. Born in 1935, Barbieri leaves behind an unparalleled artistic legacy that has shaped the history of international fashion and photography. Through…
Gian Paolo Barbieri was born in 1935 on Via Mazzini, in the heart of Milan, to a family of textile wholesalers, and it was in his father's warehouse that he picked up his first skills as a fashion photographer. He took his first steps in theatre as an actor and set designer, before moving to Paris in 1960, where he worked as an assistant for Tom Kublin, the famous Harper's…
ARCHIVES - AUGUST 5, 2024 Gian Paolo Barbieri : Beyond Fashion. Gian Paolo Barbieri is a living legend of fashion photography, recognized for his exceptional talent and refined aesthetic. An indefatigable explorer of beauty in all its forms, Barbieri has devoted his life to capturing elegance through the lens of his camera. His work, marked by a keen sense of composition and a masterful use of light, has immortalized the…
ARCHIVES - FEBRUARY 27, 2024 29 Arts In Progress Gallery presents the exhibition entitled «Lights Up» - Photographs by Gian Paolo Barbieri and Michel Haddi, at the new exhibition space "La Rampa” located in the exclusive and intimate art & design mall «Gallaria Sonne» in Silvaplana, in concomitance with Nomad St. Moritz. The exhibition presents a highly innovative selection of photographs by Gian Paolo Barbieri, winner of the 2018 Lucie…
ARCHIVES - NOVEMBER 29, 2022 29 Arts In Progress in Milan will present the exhibition Gian Paolo Barbieri: Unconventional, a selection of unseen colour photographs by the Artist who was the winner of the 2018 Lucie Award for Best International Photographer (Outstanding Achievement in Fashion). The exhibition presents a highly innovative selection of images to the public, both in terms of their setting and styling, the fruit of the unmistakable…
ARCHIVES - OCTOBER 16, 2019 Opened in conjunction with the Milano Fashion Week, it has been extending its amazing athmosphere a little bit longer: the exhibition Milano e la Moda. Omaggio a Gian Paolo Barbieri at Palazzo Pirelli is a special tribute by the Regional Council of Lombardy to one of the most well known fashion photographers. The exhibition, curated by the Fondazione Gian Paolo Barbieri, shows a six-dozen photos…
MAY 6, 2019 29 ARTS IN PROGRESS gallery in Milan presents the exhibition “Polaroids and more” by fashion photographer Gian Paolo Barbieri, 2018 Lucie Awards Honoree for Outstanding Achievement in Fashion. Curated by Giovanni Pelloso, this special exhibition traces Gian Paolo Barbieri’s use of instant photography and comprises more than 120 Polaroid photographs never exhibited before and taken in the last 30 years. A first series of portraits and figure…
Giada, Gian Paolo Barbieri's niece, writes : Dear Uncle, You were like a second father to me, a precious guide who stood by me through so many moments of my life. You passed on to me your passion for all things beautiful, like nature and aesthetic harmony. Beyond moral values, you gifted me an immense aesthetic legacy, teaching me to look at the world with curious eyes filled with wonder.…
Bruce Silverstein Gallery presents Sound & Sight: Pete Turner’s Jazz Album Covers, an exhibition celebrating Turner’s profound impact on the visual culture of Jazz. Pete Turner’s vibrant colors and dreamlike compositions have graced the pages of magazines, including Esquire, Look, and Sports Illustrated; however, his work may be most recognizable to a different audience—those with a passion for jazz. Spanning five decades and over seventy covers, Turner’s pioneering approach infused…
Until December 21, the Galerie David Guiraud presents the third exhibition in its project exploring the male body in the history of photography. On this occasion, the gallery invites visitors to immerse themselves in the world of physical photography, an immense social and cultural phenomenon that remains relatively unknown. This movement, however, features numerous talented photographers who were pioneers of a unique artistic trend celebrating the aesthetics of the male…
Until January 20, an exhibition entitled « Nice d’hier… dans l’objectif de Charles Bébert » is being held in the gardens of the Villa Masséna and on the Promenade des Anglais. In the 60s, 70s, and 80s, Charles Bébert, journalist-reporter-photographer, immortalized in black and white, some of the most beautiful places in the capital of the Côte d’Azur: the Promenade des Anglais, Place Masséna, Avenue de la Victoire (now Avenue…
On July 10, 2024, the photographer Thomas Hoepker passed away. Over the past ten years, the Bildhalle has been closely associated with Thomas Hoepker and has presented his iconic images in several solo exhibitions in Zurich and Amsterdam. Tribute to Thomas Hoepker (1936-2024) is on view until January 25, 2025 at Bildhalle Zurich. Born in Munich in 1936, Hoepker is one of the most important German photojournalists of the late…
From 1984 to 1991, “God” lived in Naples, Italy. Outside the San Paolo stadium, every other Sunday, he could be found walking through the city’s streets, in a shoe store or in a restaurant by the sea. Diego Armando Maradona’s presence in Naples was much more than a football phenomenon for the Neapolitans: it was above all a religious experience. The presence of Dios in their city was a mystical…
An image received yesterday from Bernard Plossu: Ansel Adams in the lab at his home in Carmel with his portrait of Brassaï in 1974! Jean-Jacques Naudet
David Zwirner presents The Last Dyes, an exhibition of new dye transfer prints by William Eggleston opening at the gallery's 606 N Western Avenue space in Los Angeles. The works presented are from Eggleston's celebrated Outlands and Chromes series, as well as several images that were first shown in the artist's groundbreaking exhibition of colour photographs at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1976, and in the concomitant…
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