Until September 15, 2024, Bercy Village presents an exceptional photographic exhibition imagined by Edouard Salmon. Supported by the Olympiade Culturelle label, “Le sport vu du ciel” is installed in the passages of the Cour Saint-Emilion. The 32 photos, works of Edouard Salmon, expert in aerial photography, offer a unique look at the sporting world. By exploring sport from above, this exhibition reveals its universal dimension and its deep roots in…
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Robin Lopvet is the first photographer exhibited by Lydie Marchi, the new director of the Centre d'art et de photographie de Lectoure. She spoke with our correspondent Jean-Jacques Ader. After 2023 when Damarice Amao was the artistic director of the Gers establishment, a new period began with the appointment in February 2024 of Lydie Marchi. Meeting and first interview. Jean-Jacques Ader: Could you introduce yourself? Lydie Marchi : I trained…
This is the 35th dialogue of the Collezione Ettore Molinario. A dialogue celebrating the entry into the collection of such an extraordinary artist as Jürgen Klauke. But it is also an opportunity to put the original vinyl of Transformer, Lou Reed’s masterpiece, back on the turntable. For those who want to read this score of disruptive images and music please sit back, put on your headphones and relax: the notes of…
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Marilyn Monroe : The Last Sitting, 1962 By Bert Stern (...) I was going to do a head shot. One classic black and white photograph that would last forever. But if I was honest with myself, what did I really want? To get Marilyn Monroe alone in a room, with no one else around, and take all her clothes off. No one had gotten Marilyn Monroe to pose in the…
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of one of the most memorable epics in film history. CAMERA WORK Virtual Gallery honors this anniversary until December22, 2022 with the exhibition “The Godfather” which showcases about 40 partly unknown works by the renowned photographer Steve Schapiro. Schapiro was allowed to photographically accompany Francis Ford Coppola's legendary filming and created visual icons that still symbolize the trilogy today. “The Godfather…
Named one of Lens Cultures top 50 Emerging Artist, Marjorie Salvaterra’s images reveal “a fine line between sanity and insanity,” according to Virginia Heckart, Associate Curator of Photography at The Getty Center. Salvaterra’s exhibitions include: The California Museum of Art ( Making Pictures Of People), The Nelson-Atkins Museum / Flak Photo, Nuits des Images Musée de l'Élysée; the “Human + Being” show at The Center for Fine Art Photography; Rencontres…
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For part of his childhood, photographer Jason Langer lived with his mother and two brothers on a kibbutz in Israel following his parent’s divorce in the United States. This experience, along with childhood visits to the kibbutz’s Holocaust memorial every Yom Hashoah, and hearing frightful stories from his mother and grandmother about German people, shaped and informed his impressions and understanding of Germany. This included considerations and beliefs of Germany…
Photographer François Ducasse, who worked for the Rapho photo agency for 40 years, is releasing a book entitled: Vivre le Sud-Ouest 1970-2000. François Ducasse captured life in the villages and in the fields, at the market, at the beach, at school, at the factory, moments of a mainly rural life, giving in black and striking white a testimony full of humanity. Looking at people and things with a tender and…
100 years ago, in 1921, Haïm Lipnitzky, known as Boris Lipnitzki, having fled the Soviet Empire, settled in Paris and photographed throughout his career painters, musicians, dancers, choreographers from the Russian diaspora. Discover the selection of the Roger-Viollet Agency. Agence Roger-Viollet 6, rue de Seine 75006 Paris www.roger-viollet.fr
To my knowledge, the American photographers, Mariana Cook and Lucinda Devlin, have never met. Mariana is a New Yorker, and Lucinda is from Michigan. Both women seize a subject, do the research and travel widely to make their photographs. Both artists work with square-format cameras and available light. Cook may crop an image slightly in the printing; Devlin always prints the entire negative. Cook’s photographs are selenium toned silver prints.…
Edouard Daehn: See the light in everything. Photographer, essentially, amateur, as he claims it himself, Edouard Daehn is the co-founder of the hotel Le Barn. With an enthusiastic temperament, he is one of those who think that the more our eye is sharpened, the more we see things and the more we want to make them evolve. Passionate, he decided to launch workshops and courses training dedicated to black and…
From November 5, 2022 to January 29, 2023 at the Photo Elysée Museum in Lausanne, a vast selection of prints from the archives of Czech photographer Josef Koudelka are exhibited. A look back at a retrospective that is as complete as it is instructive on the work of this eternal nomad and image storyteller. Conceived by curator Lars Willumeit in close collaboration with Josef Koudelka and his foundation, this exhibition…
Throughout the weekend, Yan Morvan continued to criss-cross Paris Photo and the different fairs. Here are his pictures. Also take a look at our archives on the home page of the site: they are dedicated for 2 weeks to the great moments of this fair over the past 11 years! JJN
The book The Unseen Saul Leiter published by D.A.P. is a thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly vision. Now firmly established as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color, when he was already in his eighties. Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm,…
Taunus Foto Galerie in Bad Homburg, Germany, welcomes Rachael Talibart, the next photographer in their series Monochrome Perspectives. Rachael is a professional seascape and coastal photographer whose critically acclaimed photographs have been featured in the press worldwide. Her nautical childhood left her with a life-long love for the ocean and the coast. Rachael is drawn to the coast in the wildest weather and is both frightened and fascinated by the…
An auction at Christie’s in New York made history Wednesday when 60 works from the Paul G. Allen Collection for over $1.5 billion, a record for a single owner sale at auction, noted CNBC. Record were also set for several artists, including Vincent van Gogh, Gustav Klimt. and photographer Edward Steichen, whose 1904 image of New York City’s Flatiron Building (printed in 1905) sold for $11.8 million, making it the…
8 days before Paris Photo, I took my doctor's advice on possible visits to all the photographic events taking place in Paris. He sent me back the email he had sent me at the end of the first confinement: "Jean-Jacques, you seem to me to be the perfect potential candidate for the current viruses. I would avoid, if I were you, for a while longer: festivals, parties, gatherings and openings”.…
Like last year, the international fair dedicated to photography is taking up residence in the ephemeral Grand Palais, a stone's throw from the Eiffel Tower. Panorama of this 25th edition with things seen and heard. If there is something that resonates with the place, it is the pictures dedicated to the city of Paris that emerge here and there, like magnificent trophies that come to underline all of its intrinsic…
This is one of our favorite exhibition from Paris Photo. The photographer's name is Hannah Hughes. She is presented by the Robert Morat Galerie with this text: Hannah Hughes is a visual artist working across photography, collage and sculpture. Her work explores the relationship between image, sculpture and language, focusing on the potential of negative space, and the salvaging and re-use of discarded materials. Her research takes root from histories of…
With Al rio / To the River presented at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the photographer invites us to take a close look at the political question of migration to the United States and human constructions in relation to nature. A very strong visual and narrative advocacy that gives all its letters of nobility to photography. Zoe Leonard spent about three weeks hanging this exhibition, which takes up…
Kiki Xue was born in 1986 in China in the province of Sichuan. He lives and works in Paris. While studying mathematics, it was by chance that he turned to photography by collecting the books of the "great masters of photography" before learning the techniques of photography. Since 2010, he has established himself as one of the main emerging figures in fashion photography. He notably won the PhotoVogue prize in…