Losing the North Diptychs I was born in northern France, where I lived from childhood until I was 19, in a small working-class town between slag heaps and glassworks. Sixteen years later, when my daughter was born, I returned with my camera to capture the faces of those who had never really known me as I was. My country, my family, our otherness. I look at them today with tenderness,…
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Our beautiful Camargue, a treasure on borrowed time? (Here is an overview of my work with 15 photographs. Full report 60 photographs). "How beautiful is my Camargue". I've said this phrase so many times since my earliest childhood. As a native of the magnificent Gard department, my parents introduced me to it at a very early age. This land of the Petite Camargue is very dear to my heart... I…
Shipyards For a long time, I thought about how I could tackle this subject, which was close to my heart, but which I found so difficult to tackle in a rational and, if possible, original photographic study. In memory of all those thousands of workers involved in shipbuilding for several generations, who had lost their tools of the trade, with the direct consequence of losing their jobs to shipyard workers…
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Bildhalle Zurich announces the new publication of the book Hell On Wheels - New York Subway 1977-1984 (Edition Bildhalle) and the exhibition of the same name. The photo book as well as the exhibition show not only the iconic images from the legendary series, but also photographs that have never been published before. Bill Shapiro, former editor-in-chief of LIFE magazine, wrote the introduction. “In May of 1977, a 30-year-old Swiss…
Quatre Instants de Nudité / Four Moments of Nudity I have been taking photos with models, mainly female, for a very long time. Why only photos of women? Surely because women are a great source of inspiration for me. Certainly also, for this book, I wanted to idealize everything that makes their differences, their beauty, their sweetness, their emotions, their power of seduction. I also appreciate this exchange, this trust, even this complicity…
The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. In her experimental fashion and fine art photography, Elizaveta Porodina, based in Germany, travels through time and space, extracting the underlying emotions in her entrancing images. Growing up in post-Soviet Russia, Elizaveta's early years were impacted by the brutalist buildings in Moscow and her mother who introduced art to…
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Horst P. Horst, the German born American photographer is regarded as the ultimate master of elegance and sophistication in photographic history. His images have not only shaped the photographic language since the beginning of the 20th century, but also his work presents a mastery in the formal qualities of photography while perfectly blending the boundaries of fashion, art and commerce. A true master of light and composition, he seamlessly combined…
Deponie is a unsettling book. Oscillating between documentary and formal essay, it retraces Tobias Kruse's journey across East Germany, in search of the vestiges of the period following the country's reunification. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German photographer travelled more than 8,000 kilometres to capture the reminiscences of this painful historical process, which left an indelible mark on the local populations. Although it marked a…
The Hulett Collection presents Lisa Candela’s series Heartlands. Years ago, I unexpectedly discovered a reclusive artist whom has, until now, avoided any acknowledgments or acceptance into the fine art realm. I was so taken with this series when I first viewed it that I have since courted her to allow me to present it to the world. Lisa has finally embraced my vision of an exhibition of Heartlands and I…
HackelBury presents Gerlinde, a solo exhibition of new work by Royal Academician Ian McKeever. This new body of work, his most personal to date, is the portrait of a woman, a love letter to his wife. Drawing on abandoned drawings and his archive of photographs which capture everyday objects in a domestic setting, his black and white photographs are filled with light and shadow, providing evocative glimpses of the human…
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…
A.galerie presents Platinum by Beth Moon. American photographer Beth Moon is world renowned for her photographs of trees. She tracked down the oldest trees in the world in their ultimate refuges, bearing witness to an incredible heritage, which should be recognised and protected globally. A project which, over the years, has led her to travel the world to meet these wooden giants that fascinate her so much: United States, Europe,…
The Pinault Collection presents the exhibition Irving Penn: Portraits of Artists in Dinard. I have a very beautiful memory that I owe to Irving Penn. October 1974, Roger Thérond's office at PHOTO on the Champs Elysées : "PHOTO will soon release its hundredth issue. It has to be sparkling. You're going to New York and you're going to see all the greats." My first trip to NY: The revelation. Very…
Galerie XII Paris presents from June 9 to July 29, Une certaine idée du bonheur, the new exhibition of the artist duo Clark and Pougnaud. Some works from their iconic series will be exhibited alongside new pieces from the Fetish and A Poils series. Since the 1990s, Clark and Pougnaud have formed a duo with a well-established modus operandi. Revealed by their project "Tribute to Hopper" which won them the…
To coincide with the exhibition of Bruno Barbey's photographic series The Italians, shown at Académie des Beaux-Arts, L'Œil de la Photographie spoke to its two curators, Caroline Thiénot-Barbey and Jean-Luc Monterosso, about the career of the Franco-Swiss photographer and academician. Caroline Thiénot-Barbey and Jean-Luc Monterosso, to begin with, could you tell us about your meeting with Bruno Barbey? Caroline Thiénot-Barbey (CTB): I met him in 1970. Unfortunately, it wasn't during…
Robert Mack presents an exhibition of his ongoing Wrapped Series at the Rose Gallery in Santa Monica, California on June 9 & 10, 2023. Robert covers his subjects with sheer material creating intimate, moody work, that examines themes of emotion, dreams, beauty, death, even transcendence. Where Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrapped buildings, Robert wraps the human form. His Wrapped Series photographs and films are captured at sunrise in the southern Californian…
Thierry Maindrault's Monthly Chronicle “...the photographer's original works, like those of other photographers, are entitled to copyright protection, even against famous artists. » This statement by Judge Sonia Sotomayor, judge at the Supreme Court of the United States of America, taken up by a multitude of media around the world, is unequivocal. It is clear, after an earlier decision of the French Court of Cassation (Hoirie case of Jean François…
ilon Art Gallery presents an exhibition by trailblazing photographer, and author Lynn Gilbert, 85, this is the story of her iconic portrait of Louise Nevelson, one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Art News’ stated that Gilbert’s commanding portrait of Nevelson became the symbol of the entire 2022 Venice Biennale. The past 50 years, the portrait took on a life of its own, Lynn will share the portrait’s…
ArtsLibris Barcelona has announced its next edition in the city of Barcelona. In this fourteenth installment, the fair will be located once again at the Fossat del Mercat de Sant Antoni. During the event you can enjoy a daily program full of activities in the Speakers' Corner and Speakers' Room. The fair will take place from June 9 to 11. Artslibris Barcelona 2023 June 9 – 11, 2023 Fossat…
From June 8 to July 21, 2023, the Galerie GADCOLLECTION is devoting an exhibition to one of the masters of photography: Douglas KIRKLAND. Through a selection of 18 photographs, some of which have never been shown, the exhibition Brigitte Bardot: ‘Doug, my Darling …’ is a tribute to one of the greatest actresses who crossed the life of this exceptional photographer. "I have a philosophy. I do not want to…
La Galerie Rouge brings together in the same exhibition, Claude Batho & Erica Lennard, two photographers who, each in their own way, created a powerful, feminist and introspective work in the 1970s in France. Their eyes, turned towards the sphere of the intimate, reveal the time which passes, that of lives and works in construction. Their photographs, with a strong and distinct identity, now appear eminently contemporary and avant-garde. Claude…