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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
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Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York, will present works by Melissa Shook (b. 1939 - d. 2020) who began a personal documentary upon her daughter’s birth in 1965. The “Krissy” series continued for 18 years until her daughter's high school graduation. While other photographers/artists at that time used a camera to question their own identities, Shook committed to her first “Daily Self-Portraits” for one year from 1972 to 1973 and repeated…
Ward 81, photographed in 1976, was Mary Ellen Mark's first independent long-term project. Mark and writer Karen Folger Jacobs set out to document the lives of the women in this locked ward at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem—the only one in the state. Every day for five weeks, Mark photographed and Jacobs interviewed the women on Ward 81. At night they slept in an empty adjacent ward. Ward 81:…
The Galerie Roger-Viollet Hors les Murs and the city hall of the 10ᵉ arrondissement of Paris present their new exhibition Irmeli Jung - Visages de Paris et d'ailleurs. Born in Finland in 1947, Irmeli Jung discovered photography at the age of 13. In 1965, she moved to Hanover in Germany and completed her apprenticeship with the photographer Kurt Julius. In January 1968, while she was staying in Paris, a friend…
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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…
The 13th edition of the Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year competition will once again showcase the best culinary photographs and films from around the world. Among the 26 categories competing in 2024, there is a focus on the "Champagne Taittinger Food for Celebration," which highlights the relationship between festivities, ceremonies, and food. The setting is a room in the royal castle of Stockholm illuminated with the orange hues…
The temporary exhibition at the Musée de la Résistance nationale in Champigny-sur-Marne, Robert Doisneau, l’esprit de Résistance traces the photographer's links with the Resistance, through around a hundred photographs and personal objects of the artist. If Robert Doisneau is celebrated as a talented photographer, his activity as a forger remains little known. He however, produced false papers for the Resistance. Using his skills as a photographer and engraver, he helped…
The "Regards" exhibition dedicated to the 15 years of the Prix de Photographie Marc Ladreit de Lacharriere is presented until tomorrow at the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen of the Académie des beaux-arts. For 15 years, the Prize has rewarded a diversity of pictures, always seeking to highlight the singularity and sincerity of artistic expression. Humanist, intimate, visual or documentary photography, each edition of the Prize is marked by a new…
I wanted to offer you this little discovery in the form of a story about film photography. For a long time, I have carefully preserved old virgin emulsions (glass plates, films and even old silver chloro-bromide papers... left to me by my father, a former photographer and they can still be used!!. So, this afternoon, I took this 6X6 /120 wide axis 12 exposure film from my precious little box…
The tribute from his agency, Magnum : https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/remembering-elliott-erwitt-1928-2023/
The release of the book Pourquoi sourit-on en photographie ? by André Gunthert published by éditions 205. https://www.editions205.fr/collections/milieux/products/pourquoi-sourit-on-en-photographie https://www.editions205.fr/
His French gallery owner, Arnaud Adida, sent us these little-known color images of Elliott and his text recounting their first encounter. WHAT A GREAT WEEK WITH ERWITT! Last March, my friend Bruno told me: “next week I’m going to NY”. Having spent the 5 best years of my life in this powerful city, I asked him straight away: “Where are you going to sleep?” ". His response was nonchalant:…
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