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For the first time Private Choice devotes an edition to photography in an historical home in the heart of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, rue Paul Valery. From November 6th to 11th, this private house offers the opportunity to discover and acquire photographs exhibited among contemporary furniture. This place will house on its three floors the photographs and contemporary design pieces of more than 20 photographers and designers of mixed…

Photo Discovery the Fair! becomes 24.39 24.39, a key event during the Paris-Photo fair, is a Parisian vintage photography fair that brings together dealers, gallery owners, collectors and international experts every year. 24.39 boasts vintage prints spanning from the very beginnings of photography in 1839 to the end of the twentieth century. The fair offers a broad selection of works to discover - both eclectic and varied, sometimes little known,…

Stefano De Luigi : Perspectives Italian photographer Stefano De Luigi is renowned for his engaged documentary and photojournalistic projects. Through his images, he explores a range of themes, such as the influence of Italian television on society in Telecracy, a project that analyzes the rise of Silvio Berlusconi and his impact on Italian culture. In this work, he critiques the superficiality and cultural decline encouraged by television since the 1980s, which…

Clara Chichin and Sabatina Leccia, recipients of the 2022 Transverse grant funded by ADAGP and Freelens, have created The Rustling Between the Walls, a unique narrative project combining the work of a photographer and an artist from another discipline. This collaboration, showcased at Galerie XII from November 9 to January 18, began within Montreuil's historic peach wall gardens.     Tell us about your respective practices. Clara Chichin: "I am…

The Musée Cernuschi exhibits Vanishing Existence by Kosuke Okahara. He writes : I was 27 years old, and my journey as a photographer was just beginning. Although I had learned the technical aspects, I hadn’t yet found a way to express myself in a manner that felt meaningful to me. One day, a close friend, a drinking buddy from school who worked part-time as a researcher and volunteered in remote…

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s exhibition at the Hélène & Édouard Leclerc Fund in Landerneau is sublime. Our collaborator Jean-Jacques Ader saw it and took the opportunity to do this interview of Michel-Édouard Leclerc. An unprecedented event in this Brittany where the earth ends, and the first exhibition of photographs from the Hélène and Édouard Leclerc de Landerneau Fund, associated with the Cartier-Bresson Foundation directed by Clément Chéroux. A foundation dedicated to modern…

The New Cubans, the new book by Jean-François Bouchard will be presented by André Frère Éditions during Paris Photo and exhibited until December 20th at the Galerie Blouin Division in Montreal. It is accompanied by these words. The New Cubans is an intimate, visual journey through Cuba's vibrant yet little-known subcultures where, thanks to increased internet access and social liberalization, alternative youth communities are exploring gender diversity and personal expression…

Robert Mann Gallery comes back to Chelsea, the vibrant art community where they first relocated to in 1999. For the inaugural exhibition in their new gallery space, and in celebration of their 25+ year relationship with artist Jeff Brouws, Robert Mann Gallery presents Jeff Brouws: Just About Everything, Someplace Else, on view until December 6, 2024. This exhibition showcases a selection of Brouws’s iconic photographs alongside several previously unseen works.…

Published by Note Note Éditions, Folio takes us back to the decade that saw Viviane Sassen's emergence as a photographer: the 1990s. The images of Folio were taken in the mid-1990s, just when Viviane Sassen was turning to photography after studying fashion. From the start, the Dutch artist envisioned this collection as a book, which she assembled herself using photocopies from a large Xerox printer. It remained a project ……

Pelican's Blood We follow a girl, early twenties, up a station platform; her blonde hair plaited, ringed by a garland of flowers. She checks her smartphone screen as she walks ahead, her heavy costume: living embroidery, alive with roses. Next to her, a young man in rounded glasses, the contemporary imagination of a 19th c intellectual. Through the ruins of cabins and kiosks, and billboards promising justice and redemption, they’ve…

Caravaggio I felt like a kid in the toy store as I walked into the LACMA Caravaggio show some years ago. The most extensive collection of Caravaggio paintings in America lay before me, and my imagination went wild! The intricate rustic beauty, the chiaroscuro lighting, and the common and dirty people portrayed in Caravaggio’s paintings excited and inspired me to photograph in his style. The unique exposure to six Caravaggio…

The Way Home “The Way Home” is a series of landscape photographs chronicling the history of the Hudson River and its river towns. The Hudson, named “Muh-he-kumne-tuk”, or “the river that flows both ways” by Native Americans, has sustained life for millennia. However, we often overlook the civilizations and ecosystems that thrived there before European colonization. These photographs, created using historical techniques, evoke the feeling of life along the river…

Murano Glass I was born in Venice in 1950, to be more precise in Murano, the famous glass island, but I spent my youth and adolescence abroad. My family was historically working on glass art, but once back to Italy I choose for myself another way although being always attached and fascinated by those artists who were able to shape such a material. In 982 Venice began to work with…

The Gardens of Time “The time we live in settles in our souls like an out-of-time experience.” ~ Andrei Tarkovsky, “Sealed Time” ~ I invoke encounter and expectation, our sensory shadows, our living memory. Desire and wandering on the predictable canvas of motherboards. In the end, it's always a question of daring to live against... isabellefrancaix.com

The Beauty of Ruins A vestige of a long-gone era, the old school in the village of Rivières-Trois-Pistoles is over a hundred years old and stands by a miracle. For years, children have been going to school in the neighboring town. The old lady who lived there for years abandoned it long ago. From time to time, curious visitors stop by. Despite efforts to block access, there’s always someone who…