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Man Ray (1890-1976) is an essential figure of the 20th century, inseparable from the history of photography, especially in this year 2024, when the surrealist movement celebrates its centenary. In this context, Photo Elysée opens its doors to an exhibition presenting a selection of works from one of the largest private collections, never before shown in Europe. Led by Nathalie Herschdorfer, the museum's director and exhibition curator, the curatorial focus…

Published by Damiani, Loft Law: The Last of New York City’s Original Artist Lofts by Joshua Charow is a photographic journey through the last vestiges of New York City’s artist lofts. Envied by artists and apartment hunters alike for their wide windows and open floor plans, New York City’s lofts were once manufacturing centres in the late 19th and early 20th century. As urban density pushed industry into the suburbs,…

The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. Italian-born and Swiss citizen, Roberto Greco is a commercial & fine art photographer based in Paris. He started his career as an ornamental horticulturist before studying Photography, Art and Visual Communication in Lausanne. Whether he shoots a portrait or a still life, Roberto Greco's view of the real world…

In 1979, she graduated in History from the Federal University of Pará - UFPA. She was encouraged to learn to take photos so that she could record her daughters’ childhood. She attended the first Fotoativa workshop courses in 1984, conceived as a project by Miguel Chikaoka, a leading figure in the photo world of the country’s northern region. In 1985, Elza showed her first pictures on photo clothesline during a…

Photographs from a series taken indoors and whose films of the same origin were developed in different alternative ecological developers. After having developed black and white films in different ingredients, photographs of still lifes, flowers, various landscapes... I chose this time to approach reportage photography with the presence of characters in my images. This type of shooting, practiced by many photographers, was essential to my experiences with the widest possible…

Workshop Arts releases the book Björkvägen (Birch Road). Allen Wheatcroft's images have been about the study of people through a street photography aesthetic and orientation. In this new body of work, Björkevägen (Birch Road), Wheatcroft is still exploring people and their influences and idiosyncrasies, but now through a study of place and environment. While Wheatcroft has lived for 15 years on Chicago’s northside in the city’s historic Swedish neighborhood, during…

Christie’s will propose in New York on Thursday night, May 16, the photograph by Richard Avedon titled Marilyn Monroe, New York City, 1957. This large scale print, artist proof number two of two, aside from an edition of 10, will be auctioned with an estimate of $600,000–$800,000. “For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s—she did Marilyn Monroe…Then there was the inevitable drop…she sat in…

Fotografia Europea is back, as always with new suggestions. From 26 April to 9 June, the 19th edition of the festival is on in the city of Reggio Emilia (Emilia Romagna) and winds its way between the institutional venues (with more than 20 exhibitions) and those of the Circuito Off, following a precise thread: Nature Loves to Hide, according to a fragment by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus. The festival explores…

For all those who have had the chance to admire one or two photographic works by Denis Brihat, simply representing onions, a new chance is offered. Indeed, the excellent publishing house of photography books: “le bec en l’air”, has put together a superb new book for us, on Denis. This book is one of the major books that a connoisseur of the photographic sphere must have in his personal library.…

Some labels outlive their usefulness and anyone now calling themselves a war photographer should arouse more suspicion than applause. We certainly don’t need professional photographers to remind us that war is about killing people, its violence obscene, and Tim Hetherington – who did not like having the label ‘war photographer’ attached to his work – thought and felt this. It is something that makes his death, at the age of…

For me, there is always the work being presented but also there is the presentation. Last week the Getty Center made me smile with the freshness of their presentation, the way they made their exhibition an invitation to see more than the art on the walls. First Came a Friendship: Sidney B. Felsen and the Artists at Gemini G.E.L., on view now at the Getty Center brings previously unseen work to…

This new exhibition that the Little Big Galerie is devoting to Estelle Lagarde constitutes a trilogy. Trilogy born from the photographer's desire to confront her approach, her narrative and emotional ambition, no longer at the heart of the building, the constructions of human architecture, but this time towards the outside, nature, the landscape, the elements that sculpt and cross them. And always at the center, the child. The link that…

In a new book published by Rizzoli, Turn of the Century : Portraits of Creative Interiors, Henry Bourne’s photographs of the residences and workspaces of a who’s who of creative people open windows onto the groundbreaking design approaches and trends of the last three decades. For nearly thirty years, Bourne has been photographing the residences and studios of, or those designed by, some of the world’s most important artists, architects,…

This is one of the featured exhibitions of the Saint Petersburg Photo Festival (SPMOP) in Florida. Robert Preston and his daughter Patricia Preston Mastry: a family of local photographers. Patricia Preston Mastry entrusted us with these images and this text! To see more of St. Petersburg's through the years, check out the new photography show at Craftsman House May 9 - June 8th: "Now and Then You Spot a Great…

Kyriakos Kaziras is not only a photographer, but also an artist, a magician capturing the beauty of the world through his lens. With Greek roots and steeped in French culture, he embodies the harmonious fusion of these two worlds. His passion for visual art was born in the very cradle of civilisation, awakened by the stories of his grandfathers, benevolent guides to the world of creativity. From the very beginning,…