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... many are the statues but what is the status ... of the hero ... On October 29, the Turkish Republic celebrated the centenary of its birth. It was established by Mustafa Kemal, known as Atatürk, hero of the War of Independence, who led his troops to victory in the battle against the occupying powers, the United Kingdom, France, Greece and Italy. His vision was to turn Turkey into a…
Masquerading Animals Masquerading Animals is a series of photomontages partially made from images of some of my sculptures and architectural models, as well as images of various animals. The images of my sculptures and architectural models were placed into my computer where they were isolated from their original backgrounds and manipulated in various ways, in most cases clustered together and reconstructed back into symmetrical mask like montages. I then isolated…
“The world I was trying to show was a world where I would have felt at ease, where people would be kind, where I would find the tenderness I wish to receive. My photos were like the proof that this world can exist.” Robert Doisneau - Interview with Frank Horvat, “Entre Vues”, 1990. There is nothing else to say. This retrospective is fantastic, it’s called: Le Merveilleux quotidien de Robert…
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Claude Pavelek started out as a set photographer for cinema and theatre. He also became a cameraman, and regularly collaborates with the main television channels for magazines and documentaries. For several years he has also collaborated with the Little Big Galerie, in Paris and Arles. He works mainly in analog photography, drawing his inspiration from the world of novels, paintings or drawings. His photographic practice is based on the poetry…
Beauty, complexity and cruelty Born in 1948 in Toulouse, Philippe Blache has always seen his mother paint, and this is how he became familiar with the world of art. But very early on it was photography that attracted him, and more particularly the work of the photographer Edward Weston. Equipped with a 24x36 Miranda, he developed his films in the kitchen and when the day was over, it was the…
For her second exhibition at the gallery, in camera presents around twenty works of Sissi Farassat. Vienna-based artist Sissi Farassat (b. 1969, Tehran) has always kept pace with her own drum, continually expanding traditional notions of the medium of photography. For years she has been exploring and designing various techniques in order to decelerate the photographic process and the way we see her works. For Farassat, photography and printing are only…
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The lessons of darkness During my travels, I began to work on sacred religious art. A look that I take on objects, places of churches captured in different cities of France, Italy and Spain. An encounter between aesthetics and documentary gaze. Aesthetic : I essentially soak up the light (natural and artificial) and with the help of black and white — a deliberate and recurring choice — and my framing, which always calls for the…
Until April 7 2024, agnès b. presents the new Fab exhibition. dedicated to a “history” of photography in her collection. agnès has built up an important collection of contemporary art presented for the first time at the Abattoirs of Toulouse in 2004. The agnès b. collection is made without any predilection of medium: paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, etc. However, photography has an important place with its 2,500 listed prints. In…
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, this work celebrates one of the most recognized French photographers, through a selection of 41 conversations that he conducted throughout his career, between 1951 and 2003. Reluctant to interviews seeking to unravel the mysteries of his talent, Henri Cartier-Bresson ultimately gave a lot. This selection of texts, some of which are unknown or unpublished, including several radio interviews…
The art of time by Jean-Jacques Ader The works of the famous Japanese artist, who has been producing unique photographic work for around fifty years, provoke both contemplation and questioning, and always evoke philosophical questions around time and understanding it. The director of the Hayward Gallery in London, Ralph Rugoff, defines Sugimoto as a visual poet of paradox, a devotee of painstaking craftsmanship that produces exquisite and unsettling images of…
These are the last days to see two series by Michael Ackerman at the Camera Obscura gallery: Smoke and New York. Produced many years apart, they each have their own relevance: Smoke (1997-1998) is revisited on the occasion of the release of the eponymous book, while New York remains a work in progress, fueled by each stay in this city. In 1996 Michael Ackerman met Benjamin, leader of the group…
Until December 30, the Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles presents an exhibition by Nicholas Freeman with these images and text. Nicholas Freeman’s command of light and eye for composition was forged by two decades of commercial fashion photography. His choice of subject for this series of fine art photographs is the female nude, his format black and white. The compositions are simple and direct, focusing entirely on the model,…
In July 2012, at the Théâtre Antique, the Rencontres d'Arles then directed by François Hébel, invited Elliott Erwitt to come alone on stage to present his work. Here is the entire evening: [embed]https://vimeo.com/showcase/4888705/video/49222196[/embed] https://vimeo.com/showcase/4888705/video/49222197
The acclaimed Rencontres d’Arles festival is a magnet for photography lovers, founded by Lucien Clergue and two partners. The allure of his work naturally extends to the beautiful gallery of his daughter, Anne Clergue, located in the heart of Arles. When I first started traveling to Arles, I knew visiting her gallery was a must, and it quickly became a highlight. At Anne’s opening this summer, I experienced her skillful…
christian berst art brut gallery presented the photographic series My Tv girls by Tom Wilkins at Paris Photo, simultaneously a mirror exhibition is shown in the space the bridge, entitled Bad Timing, revealing a complementary yet essential aspect of this artist. If the Polaroids constituting the collection, which give its title to this exhibition, Bad Timing, were originally intended to be part of the My Tv girls series, the captured…
Deborah Bell Photographs presents the exhibition Fernand Fonssagrives - Photographs 1930s-1950s. Fernand Fonssagrives (1910-2003) was one of the most successful and highly paid fashion photographers of the 1940s and 1950s. His photographs were widely published in the editorial pages of Town & Country, Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, and Esquire, where his pictures for Bergdorf Goodman also appeared regularly in the advertising pages. This exhibition will concentrate on the photographs…
She graduated in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, 2008) and is a human rights and public safety expert from the Federal University Foundation of Rondônia (UNIR, 2011). She went to the city of Porto Velho in 2010, where she got her first job as an economist. In the state of Rondônia, she acquired a semi-professional photographic camera and started to focus on Quilombola communities, traditional…
Gregory Crewdson unveils at the Galerie Templon in Paris Eveningside, his latest black and white series, produced between 2020 and 2022. The final part of a trilogy developed since 2012, this set of twenty panoramic photographs is striking with its disturbing sharpness and twilight ambiances. A pioneer of “staged photography”, Gregory Crewdson has been developing a unique photographic language for thirty years, where each shot is the result of long…
Until February 11, 2024, the Galerie Daltra in Megéve presents the exhibition Quatre Regards sur la Photographie de Mode with photographs by André Carrara, Steve Hiett, Paolo Roversi and Sacha Van Dorssen. This exhibition brings together for the first time the works of these four artists who largely participated in the development of fashion photography and who worked in the same magazines for years and their images faced and responded…
Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle We are already at the end of the year 2023. For Photography and its servants, it had a multitude of numerous, varied, expected, diverse or surprising informations. This proves that the world of photography is still alive, let's rejoice, not everyone can say the same. Let's end this year with the true pleasure of the photographer, whether professional or passionate or vice versa. Previously, just for…
After presenting it in several institutions, the German-Brazilian photographer showcases a portion of her series Kings Road at Galerie XII. Born from the discovery of a breakup letter written by the Austrian architect Rudolf Schindler, Kings Road is a poetic and immersive journey between fiction and reality, of which Mona Kuhn tells us in this interview. What sparked your interest in Rudolf Schindler? Rudolf Schindler was a modernist architect…
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