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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Archive - May 7, 2020 Jim Lee has worked in the fashion industry for over 50 years now. He was originally nicknamed “the original wild child of fashion photography". In this interview given to London Live, he recalls his experiences as a career artist, giving an insight on his cinematic narratives, asymmetrical compositions, and bold colors helped usher in an era of expressive liberty for fashion photography. Born in 1945,…
Archive - December 11, 2017 An exhibition on view in Zurich, Switzerland, currently features the work of British fashion photographer Jim Lee. Photographer and filmmaker Jim Lee has always kept an ear to the ground – mindful of the zeitgeist and anticipating the trends. But, as with many artists, it is only the benefit of hindsight that reveals some of the most remarkable aspects of his work. As a fashion…
Archive - February 6, 2017 For Jim Lee, storytelling was always at the heart of his work and his life. Lee was born in 1945 to parents who were both MI5 operatives marking a beginning to a life that followed anything but a conventional path. At the young age of 17 he decided to move to Australia where his interest and passion for photography sparked. His time in Australia was…
Archive - February 18, 2013 François Truffaut once wrote that there are no good or bad movies, only good or bad directors. That was the upshot of his “politique des auteurs”, his politics or policy of authorship, which was based on the idea that the force of a personal vision could subdue the money-making machinery of the film industry to its own ends—and that anyone whose vision had the force…
Archive - September 19, 2012 Jim Lee – ‘Arrested’: 50 extraordinary years of the original wild child of fashion photography Jim Lee, often referred to as England’s answer to Guy Bourdin – made himself a name with his fresh and illustrious take on fashion; the original wild child of fashion photography. Arrested is the biography of London-based photographer and film director Lee and traces his photographic development as well as…
Exorcism, provocation or derision the photographer Jim Lee made this picture the day he learned that suffering from a serious eye disease he soon had to undergo an operation. www.jimlee.tv
Von Lintel Gallery presents “The Surfing Landscape”. This multimedia exhibit pairs large-scale tintypes, prints, and a new film by photographer Joni Sternbach. This is the gallery’s third solo exhibition with the artist. Joni Sternbach is renowned for her use of the wet plate collodion process, an early photographic technique dating back to the 19th century, in which a metal plate is coated with a silver salt solution, exposed in a…
Until October 14th, the Taunus Foto Galerie presents an exhibition by Anthony Lamb and presents it as follows: British-born Anthony Lamb is a fine art photographer based in the UK and UAE. He has a degree in Furniture and Product Design and as a young man travelled to the Alps, North Africa and the Scottish Highlands. These visits fuelled Anthony’s love of the wilderness and an appreciation for uninhabited areas,…
The Phillips Collection presents Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present. This first museum retrospective features over 100 photographs spanning a six-decade career, it centers on his sensitive and spontaneous approach to portraying world cultures and Black life in many forms—including music, art, travel, food, and dance. His work over the years captured intimate and empathetic images of lives experienced and observed across subjects, cities, and…
A.galerie presents a selection of photographs on the occasion of Mick Jagger 80th birthday. A.galerie 4 rue Léonce Reynaud 75116 Paris www.a-galerie.fr
Galerie Caroline O'Breen (Amsterdam) is presenting new work by the French photographer Elsa Leydier until September 2, 2023. THE DISOBEDIENCES, a solo exhibition by Leydier, refers to acts of resistance against the status quo. It challenges conventional norms and practices that perpetuate the exploitation of nature and women. With ecofeminism at the core of this presentation, it emphasises the need for ecological balance and gender equality. This movement questions the hierarchical structures of society and envisions…
Until the 17th of September, the virtual gallery Anastasia Photo presents Philip Thurston. Thurston’s passion for wave photography and oceanic endeavors has developed from a lifestyle of living by the coast and his immense spirit of adventure. His enthusiastic nature and thirst for revelation has taken him to some of the wildest places on earth in his wholehearted pursuit of transforming “Energy into Art.” Based on the South East Coast…
"A Falling Off Place: The Transformation of Lower Manhattan" (Fordham University Press) is a new book by photographer Barbara Mensch that captures the transformation of the waterfront area of Lower Manhattan, now known as the South Street Seaport neighborhood of New York City, from the 1980s through Sept. 11th and beyond. Once a no-man's land that was ruled by powerful crime families who controlled the piers, the area began to…
"Ressler views Southern California, and especially Los Angeles, as a bellwether for the rest of the country, noting insightfully that what happens here often presages trends throughout the United States and beyond. California’s influence on America has been historically documented in accounts dating back to the mid-nineteenth-century gold rush." —Larry Lytle Perhaps one of the most iconic and symbolic cities in America, Los Angeles, California is also one of the…
Falkland Road was first published in 1981, with additional photos in a 2005 Steidl edition, and the book’s visceral images, together with an introduction and captions by the photographer, have made it one of Mary Ellen Mark’s seminal works. Now, a new edition has made use of improvements in the digital scanning of 35mm Kodachrome images and, with a revised sequencing, they can be seen at their very best. Mark took…