Mind's Eye / Galerie Adrian Bondy presents the exhibition Présences by Nacho Gómez Sales. The photographer introduces his work as follow. When I take photographs, I try to ensure that my images help to analyse the configuration of the space represented, its genealogy, and the use made of it by those who live there and those who have lived there. On the other hand, alongside this analytical aspect, there is…
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Today I invite you to return to the beginning of my tests and research into alternative developers. In fact, a year ago, I carried out my first processings in this type of developer. I started by using old expired black and white and color film. I had carefully inherited them from my photographer father, telling me that these emulsions could perhaps be useful to me later. Forty years have passed,…
For more than 15 years, Photo Folio Review has offered portfolio readings during the festival’s opening week in Arles. Over 300 photographers and 165 international experts from more than 30 countries participate in the Photo Folio Review. You can meet international photography experts (art directors, gallerists, publishers, curators, iconographers, etc.) during special private appointments. Every year, some of these meetings lead to exhibition, acquisition and/or publication projects. During PHOTO FOLIO…
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Modern photographic reinterpretation My photographic reinterpretation of classical works of art represents a tribute to famous painters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens and other admirables. When remaking a painting, there is the possibility of creatively projecting new concepts, new information that give new meaning to the scene and make us observe and extract a new discourse. Each generation attributes new meanings to art and needs to retake the entire historical…
Renée Jacobs : A free woman A former American lawyer specializing in civil rights and constitutional litigation, Renée Jacobs is now well known for her nude photographs of women - her favorite subject - and is thus fulfilling a childhood dream. Atypical in her approach, her reconversion quickly earned her the International Photography Award (IPA) in 2008. While working as a photojournalist for The New York Times and the Philadelphia…
The legendary photographs of Marilyn Monroe from Bert Stern’s “The Last Sitting” are the subject of this exhibition at Staley-Wise Gallery. Indeed, very few photo shoots are legendary, one above all the others checks all the boxes : Marilyn Monroe and Bert Stern at the Bel Air Hotel for VOGUE in 1962. This is why we dedicate today’s entire edition to this true gem which would be without doubt impossible…
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Michaela Spiegel’s Instant Memoir 1994-2017 published by Kehrer pictures turbulent time travel in Polaroid pictures, spanning more than two decades full of love, food, and art. It’s all a question of digestion. This Instant Memoir is an ambient travelling guide through my head and across twenty-three years of my life. It entails a discrete selection of culinary and amorous souvenirs from among approximately sixteen thousand convivial moments of the chronological…
Before graduating from the Ecole des Arts et Métiers of Vevey in Switzerland in 1962, Bruno Barbey was so bored that he decided to cross the border to check out the other side of the Alps. Italy was not far away, and Italian is one of Switzerland's three official languages, so he wasn't going to terra incognita. If he had brought along his camera, it was not for shooting advertising…
During the spring and summer seasons of 2023, the Frac MÉCA is devoting an important exhibition to Pierre Molinier (1900-1976) embracing all aspects of his work, which has long been controversial but is indeed incredibly contemporary. This exhibition will explore his direct sources of inspiration and affiliation (e.g., surrealism, fetishism, tantrism) and reveal unpublished archives and testimonies. It will also highlights connections with contemporary artists (including Cindy Sherman, Luciano Castelli,…
Samuel Fosso, star of contemporary African photography recognized by institutions around the world, and Jean-Marc Patras, his historical agent, choose the young Christophe Person gallery to represent him. If the iconic images of the artist, virtuoso of the self-portrait, are very present in museums - the MEP devoted an exhibition to him a year ago - they are rare on the market. To inaugurate this collaboration, the CHRISTOPHE PERSON gallery…
The Centre Pompidou presents a dialogue between Lynne Cohen and Marina Gadonneix, two photographers who share an interest in the interior spaces of our modern societies, from places of scientific study to places of entertainment and consumption. Although the spaces documented by both artists are marked by the absence of human figures, their traces remain visible, inviting us to better understand and protect the social and natural environment. We publish…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the news of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine takes a tirelessly curious and informed look at the latest releases. Elder Sex, published by JBE Books, is a voluptuous and shimmering ode to the sexuality of seniors. Part of these images taken by Marilyn Minter originally illustrated…
Arnaud Bizalion Editeur presents the book Hélène by Estelle Lagarde. “We met in 2004, in the metro. I approached you with the desire to photograph you. At first you were my role model, over time we became friends. Photography has this magnificent power to fix time, space, people. But books even more so. Because your life, your face and your beauty were horribly torn from the world on November 13,…
Martha Stewart was photographed by Ruven Afanador in the Dominican Republic for the 2023 SI Swimsuit Issue. She is 81 years young. “When I heard that I was going to be on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, I thought, Oh, that’s pretty good, I’m going to be the oldest person I think ever on a cover of Sports Illustrated,” Stewart casually admits. “And I don’t think about age very…
It is a simple sentence. A one-line article that would change the lives of millions of French women. From the front page, the readers of L'Écho d'Alger of April 23, 1944 understood that something was about to happen. On April 21, the French Committee for National Liberation, chaired by Charles de Gaulle, drafted an ordinance on the organization of public powers in France after the Liberation. Article 17 announced, "Women…
Jacques Dutronc has just celebrated his 80th birthday. We are in 1968, Jacques Dutronc is in concert at the Palais des Fêtes in Roanne. As a young photographer who had just finished my apprenticeship with my father, I was at work that evening, with my father's Rolleiflex in my hands and only one 12-shot film loaded in this 6X6 camera to cover the event. I had just turned 20 and…
April 29 marked the 20th anniversary of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. On April 29, 2003, the HCB Foundation was inaugurated at Impasse Lebouis in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Its first exhibition, The Choices of Henri Cartier-Bresson, presented the works of photographers who particularly inspired the founder of the institution. Created in 2003 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, his wife Martine Franck and their daughter Mélanie Cartier-Bresson, the Fondation HCB aims to…
The Eye of Photography presents on a monthly basis features from The Agents Club such as their Insta News, Master Series or Profiles. Yesterday was Mother's Day in the United States. This is a selection of their portfolio : Mothers The Agents Club, founded in 2018 by Alexandre and Wanda Orlowski, is a unique mobile platform showcasing the most sought-after photography agencies worldwide and the exceptional image-makers they represent. This feature was first published…
Along the Road at Joseph Bellows Gallery presents various photographs that take as their theme the roadway, its symbolism, and the scenes and stories discovered by wandering its path. From views down the main street to people encountered at the edge of the city, the exhibition expresses the open road, its travelers, and the places seen along the way. The exhibition capture America’s love affair with the open road. “What…
In 1982, photographer David Pisani embarked on a personal project to photograph the city of Valletta (Malta) and its infamous red light district of Strait Street and 'The Gut'. What began as a photographic essay on the city's derelict buildings turned into an epic documentation of Valletta that spanned 29 years. Valletta was founded in 1566 by Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Order of St John. It…
Currently on view in Toronto throughout the month of May, the Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival is once again bringing together a myriad of established and emerging photographers in exhibitions throughout the city, with greater commitment to the environment . During our last exchange with Darcy Killeen, general manager of CONTACT, the ecological and environmental dimension was discussed as a fundamental component of the festival: "It is a subject that is…