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The three 2022 winners of the Prix Polyptyque are exhibited at the Galerie Sit Down until February 25! Julia Gat, Andréa Graziosi and the duo Jeanne and Moreau. They were chosen by a jury which was composed of Pascal Beausse, head of the CNAP photography collection, Françoise Bornstein, director of the Sit Down Gallery, Florence Bourgeois, director of Paris Photo, Pascal Neveux, director of the FRAC Picardie Hauts de France,…
During its plenary session of this Wednesday, January 25, 2023, the Académie des beaux-arts elected Françoise Huguier to the chair V of the photography section, created during the adoption of new statutes by the Academy on October 12, 2022 This election will be subject to the approval of the President of the Republic, Protector of the Academy. The photography section is now composed of 5 members: Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Sebastião Salgado,…
Until March 19, the New York gallery Miguel Abreu presents the exhibition of François-Marie Banier entitled: Writings and Pictures. “I don’t know if I have any talent, and I won’t be able to know it, neither will you, nor your children, history wins (will it be capable of knowing it?) but I’m 18 years old and nurture ambitions, too many perhaps, I love life and very much like myself. I…
Fondazione Mast
Via Speranza, 42, Bologna, Italy
from January 25th, 2023 to May 1st, 2023
Galerie Roger-Viollet
6 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
from January 26th, 2023 to March 25th, 2023
Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year 2023
London, Great-Britain
from January 18th, 2023 to February 5th, 2023
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The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ) presents the exhibition The Tribulations of Erwin Blumenfeld, 1930-1950. Our edition today is dedicated to Blumenfeld, one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. An experimenter and innovator, he produced an extensive body of work including drawings, collages, portraits and nudes, celebrity portraits, advertising campaigns and his renowned fashion photography both in black and white and color. With many thanks…
“Each image a story. As I take beauty seriously. All my portraits are charged with the moment that is mine.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 Before making it his profession, Blumenfeld practiced photography as an amateur – an activity he discovered at the age of 10, when he received his first box camera from an American uncle, which was followed by many cameras. Among his many…
“I seek, balancing on the limits of the possible, to release the unreal from reality, to realize visions, to penetrate through unknown transparencies.” Erwin Blumenfeld, “The mystery of reality rediscovered by photography”, L’Amour de l’art, Paris, 1938 Erwin Blumenfeld's career as a photographer began in Amsterdam when, his leather goods business in decline, he asked his clients to take their portraits. In 1932, he discovered in his back room a…
“There are many wonders in the world, but nothing is more wonderful than dreams. Awakened, I could never regain its creative power.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In 1937, Blumenfeld created a series of a nude veiled in wet silk around Margarethe von Sievers, a Swedish countess. In the exhibition, these are series about draped and veiled nude that we have sought to reveal, thus highlighting…
“ More than anyone else I owe Führer Schicklgruber. Without him […], I would not have had the courage to become a photographer. […] As a thank you, I made on the night of his accession to power a horror montage of his face with a skull and I then, completely drunk, ran through the night on the twenty -five kilometers that separate Amsterdam from Aerdenhout.” Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et…
"What I really wanted: to be a photographer in onself, art for art's sake, a new world that the American Jew Man Ray had just discovered in triumph." Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 From his installation in Paris in 1936, inspired by the example of Man Ray, Blumenfeld engaged in a number of experiments. The female body became the main object of his formal explorations. He…
“I thought I was the victim of a collective hallucination: neither France nor I could have fallen so low.“ Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In the summer of 1939, Blumenfeld traveled to New York and signed a contract with Harper's Bazaar to follow Parisian fashion. He returned to France in August 1939 and was surprised by the war. A German national (although stateless), he had to…
"I decided to smuggle culture into my new homeland, to thank it for welcoming me." Erwin Blumenfeld, Jadis et Daguerre - eds. Babel, 2022 In the United States, Blumenfeld managed to continue his personal experiments despite his intense activity for fashion magazines and in advertising. In 1941, he also embarked on color photography with Kodachrome and then Ektachrome. It will define an America in color and freedom. Here we show…
Jean-Pierre Laffont’s photographs, The South Bronx and the Savage Skulls Gang will be exhibited in New York at Fotografiska and Sous Les Étoiles gallery in January and February 2023. He sent us this text. During the summer of 1972, the South Bronx was densely populated with several gangs: the Dirty Dozen; the Seven Immortals; and the Savage Nomads, to name a few. The Savage Skulls were the only ones I…
Next to Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol, Max Ernst is one of the most photographed artist of the 20th century. He was portrayed under various circumstances and in a variety of contexts. Private snapshots, classic portraits and posed arrangements with artist friends tell of his multifaceted personality and his colourful artist life. The spectrum of the around 150 selected images, which originated at various times and occasions, provide a photographic…
In 2022, the German photographic laboratory Whitewall revealed at Paris Photo the largest print ever shown at a photographic fair. A pioneer in its field, the company occasionally opens the doors of a modern, functional factory. Pushing open the doors of a factory is always a source of wonder. With literature as a reference, one expects to discover a new Germinal. One imagines swarming through the corridors, passing through the…
L’Œil Argentique / The Silver Eye is the third of the new sections of The Eye of Photography reserved to our subscribing readers. It is dedicated to “classic” photography, film, the darkroom and the smell of hypo… Send us your work, your discoveries to [email protected] and we will publish them starting February 1st. Gilles Decamps
Brigitte Grignet from the Vu photo agency is exhibiting "Chiloé-La Cruz del Sur", a project on a group of islands in southern Chile that she has been photographing for 7 years. She also gave us this text. “Over the past 20 years, I’ve been on countless boats, planes and buses. Some I have missed. My camera has always been with me. Photography helps me confront the world, and others. When…
Finally, the Galerie Françoise Besson welcomes within its walls the photographic work of Stéphane Charpentier already glimpsed at in 2015 during the Éclairages exhibition on the first floor of the gallery. Alongside his photographic work, to which he has devoted himself fully since 2003, Stéphane Charpentier produces videos and films whose shooting spans many years. He was one of the initiators of the free rock group Oiseaux-Tempête, and is the…
Joan Liftin was a photographer, book editor, director of photo departments, manager of the Magnum library and of the documentary department of I.C.P. Married to Charles Harbutt, she also formed with him one of the mythical couples in the history of photography. We had published her pictures when her last book was released on September 23, 2021. Her friend, the photographer Brigitte Grignet, sent us this portrait and this text.…
