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On the occasion of the publication of La grâce et le feu, the new retrospective book by Gérard Uféras, Polka delves into the fashion photographer's archives to highlight previously unpublished images, forgotten on contact sheets. The “Seen / Unseen” exhibition explores the relationship between what is hidden and what is exhibited. The preparations, the indiscretions, the hustle and bustle of the corridors... The Knight of the Order of Arts and…

A new show, “The Camera Goes to War: Vietnam”, opens at the Mulva Cultural Center in De Pere, Wisconsin, on February 12 and runs through April 9. The show is drawn from the private collection of Michael Mattis and Judy Hochberg and is organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions. Featuring 112 vintage press prints and original wire photos, many of which appeared on the front pages of America’s newspapers, this exhibition…

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Solitude in Cities : Lynn Saville’s New York & Jeff Larason’s Boston is the title of the exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Lafayette City Center Gallery de Boston until March 23, 2025. It is presented as follow. Lynn Saville’s New York and Jeff Larason’s Boston in the bustling cities of New York City and Boston, where the heartbeat of urban life races, solitude has a paradoxical allure. In…

Until March 28, 2025, the Joseph Bellows Gallery in La Jolla shows an exhibition entitled In Search of the Perfect Palm - Polaroids by Charles Johnstone. The exhibition presents Johnstone’s homage to the 19th Century explorer and photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey. In 1842, Girault de Prangey set out on a three-year expedition to the Eastern Mediterranean equipped with a camera and a newfound knowledge of the Daguerreotype process. On…

This is the most unusual email received this week. The Museum of Missed/Failed Photos, why not? This is it, in fact, I'm creating a collaborative museum on photography. Taking the opposite approach by only exhibiting missed/failed photos that are instantly deleted, the goal is to mix amateur photographers, as well as professionals, as well as big names in this field. Only these photos have a little charm and an extra…

Darragh's storm Dieppe Wind gusts at 110 km/h coupled with high tide provided a superb spectacle near the Dieppe pier during Storm Darragh in Dieppe en Seine Maritime. I used a Canon 5 D Mark III and a zoom lens 70-200 2.8

Art on the fly Presentation text borrowed from André Malraux: ... The role of museums in our relationship with works of art is so great that we find it hard to believe that they do not exist, that they never existed, where the civilization of modern Europe is or was unknown; and that they have existed in our country for less than two centuries. The 19th century lived off them;…

Lights I suggest you take a trip in search of lights in the Cantal department.

I came upon photography quite by chance. I was a young college student in Boston when a friend loaned me his Leica. The city had completely shut down that day during a blizzard. It was dead quiet with snow and ice casting a white pall over the entire city. Camera in hand, I wandered the city for the entire day. As I looked for things to photograph, I experienced an…

On the walls of Naples Napoli is an invitation to look, to discover, to observe. Streets and alleys, like souls, offer their drawings, their letters, jets of words, most often ignored by passers-by. I can't resist the urge to take them with me to the sister city, Marseille.

At the gates of Paradise, Hell The Isle of Pins, 100 kilometers southeast of Nouméa (New Caledonia), is nicknamed the “island closest to paradise”, tropical vegetation, beaches of fine white sand, the blue of the lagoon. This is undoubtedly what the 3,000 French political deportees (communards) and Algerian Kabiles saw first. They will build roads, military buildings, their homes, walls of tears and pain. The penal colony will be in…

Crush & Pull Light’s immateriality challenges its makers today, analog versus digital, doubles our challenges. My projects begin with questions. “What is a 21st century photograph?” sees my answer in partnering 19th century photogram with 20th century Polaroid’s instant technology. “What do these two have in common?” and “Where do they overlap?” follows “How?” finds the negative. Briefly stated, the history of the ‘shadow’ in art is cited in the…

The exhibition Anton Corbijn: Favourite Darkness at Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien brings together around two hundred works from five decades, including Corbijn’s most famous photographs and a selection of his music videos since 1983, which rather have the look and feel of short auteur films. In addition, the artist has opened up his archive to show for the first time sketches for stage and album cover designs. Anton Corbijn has…

With “Paysages Mouvants”(Shifting Landscapes), the Jeu de Paume presents its second festival dedicated to the metamorphoses of contemporary images. An exhibition as well as a series of events (theater, performance, evening event) punctuate this edition. Interview with the festival commissioner, Jeanne Mercier, and the director of the Jeu de Paume, Quentin Bajac.   What are the highlights of this festival?   Jeanne Mercier: This festival is really thought of as…