Commuter Motions Traveling from the industrial town of Easton, Pennsylvania, through sparsely populated western New Jersey, and into the cacophony of New York City, Commuter Motions is a photography series that develops from the experiential capture of an eighty-mile commute. By opposing the usual fixity of photography, the series attempts to capture the energy and movement of that commute using an almost Bergsonian approach, which, through time-lapse, builds images from…
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On the road to Woleu Ntem A family story as a starting point, then images of a journey on a freshly paved road. The machine disembowels the country from bottom to top, and reveals an African photographic atmosphere. A travel diary where Jocelyn Trembleau takes the road in Gabon, which is good for him.
White regality In Copenaghen, UNESCO World Capital of Architecture 2023-2025, I have had the great privilege to enter The Royal Danish Opera House’s by the Danish architect Henning Larsen and I have been impressed by the elegant geometry of its interiors. From the chandeliers in the foyer created by the international artist Olafur Eliasson to the design of the main spaces, everything resonates with the surrounding landscape of the city…
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Sensuelle This series began in 2009 and continues today. Along with working on water and the ocean, I play with the flame. The chiaroscuro, the mood of the moment, the place of fire, everything is conducive to evocation. The curve is the muse, the light the mistress, the black the revealer. The framing, the black and white then the color and finally the gradient towards the monochrome are a photographed…
This was the solo show at Paci contemporary gallery for the modern art fair in Milan, Miart Milano, which took place this weekend. Leslie Krims remains one of the most amazing photographers of the turn of the last century, one of the most provocative too! Photography had a pope at that time: John Szarkowski, the director of the photography department at MoMA. Leslie called him an old arthritic tap dancer. We all…
Alain Teulié : A nostalgic vision of the world. After his baccalaureate, Alain Teulié entered the Cours Florent. He acted in several plays. In 1984, he became Jean Marais' assistant for his play "Cocteau Marais". A very beautiful and enriching experience, he remembers with nostalgia. In 1989, he changed course and joined Paris Première where he presented a daily prime-time talk show: Tout Paris. For seven years, he saw artists…
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"[Stephen] reminds us that the future is unknown to all of us. As such, this project is a call to live in the moment, to acknowledge that the universe is vast and that we are all bits of matter that exist long after our bodies are put to rest." —Aline Smithson “Every cancer hospital should share Stephen’s book to start bringing healing to their space." —Sue Robins, author and cancer…
Until February 18, the Galerie Chantal Bamberger in Strasbourg is presenting a collective exhibition entitled: White! White is a color. Our collaborator, Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, has chosen to show you the work of Véronique Sablery accompanied by this text. The white work of Véronique Sablery In this multi-medium and collective exhibition, alongside and among others the drawings of Titus-Carmel and the statuary of Jan Voss, the photographs of Véronique Sablery…
To kick off the new year, Miyako Yoshinaga present Coexistence, an online-exclusive exhibition featuring landscapes by four gallery artists: Jonathan Yukio Clark, Koyoltzintli, Lisa Ross, and Hai Zhang. From documenting villages on the Hawaiian coast and the indigenous cultures in New Mexico to witnessing children at the winery near Helen Mountains and the Uyghur Region surrounding the Taklamakan Desert of China. This exhibition threads through each artist’s unique cultural perspective…
April 1973, Laurence Sackman was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris with Gilles Bensimon, Alex Chatelain and Uli Rose. Not bad, for a boy who had landed in Paris barely a year before. With a few publications in Marie Claire, he became a star. We published him in PHOTO that month. I did the interview: I will never forget it. One of the worst and most difficult; 15…
I first heard of Laurence Sackman in 1980. I was then an assistant to several fashion photographers in the Clic-Clac Studio, rue Daguerre in the 14th arrondissement of Paris (today Daguerre Studio). This period was relatively brief in my career and I have a rather vague memory of it. However, the name of Laurence Sackman, so often pronounced in this place, still resonates. “Laurence Sackman is here today! » :…
It was the summer of 1983 and I was living at « La Louisiane » Hotel in Paris when this question confronted me without my being aware, at first, of what I was about to do. I knew that I wanted to make a series of photographs in a way that I had not experimented with before, something that captured the totality of my experience while, at the same time,…
Texte écrit par Renate Zatsch à la mort de Laurence Sackman : Cher Laurence, Je n'oublierai jamais le jour où mon ancien petit ami Michael Calderon, votre Agent qui était aussi l'agent de Bob Richardson à New York, est rentré à la maison un soir et a dit : " wahoo je viens de rencontrer aujourd'hui ce jeune garçon avec ce talent époustouflant. Un génie.... C'était en 1970 à Londres…
I met Laurence Sackman under unexpected circumstances. An advertising friend had asked me if I could "give a hand" to Laurence because he had just returned to Paris. He had left all his camera equipment in England. Arriving from his native London to Paris in the 1970s, he very quickly made a remarkable breakthrough in fashion magazines. After an interruption due to health problems, he was determined to resume his…
Laurence Sackman is a British photographer, born in 1948 in Wembley. He passed away in 2020 in London. Laurence Sackman started his career at the early sixties in the sulfurous world of Fashion and advertising. His photographs were published in every great magazines of that time, Vogue, Stern, Sunday Times, Elle, Marie-Claire… The off-the-wall spirit of his photographs made him one of the most iconic photographers of the 70s and…
In this film about Twiggy from "Man Alive", a documentary series made by Bill Morton in 1965, Laurence Sackman was chosen by the famous BBC journalist Desmond Wilcox to document a sequence illustrating the making of an advertising film. Seventeen-year-old Laurence Sackman shows uncommon know-how and authority to lead Twiggy. [video_embed_hd url="https://vimeo.com/789815500"]
Today is the hundredth of Carole Schmitz’ Questionnaire that we are publishing. And to celebrate this anniversary, we have a special guest. Gilles Decamps: yes, the editor-in-chief of the Eye of Photography who was also one of the Paris Match photographers. Look, his choice of images is eloquent! As for Carole, she would like to find a publisher for her amazing collection of Photography enthusiasts questionnaires. Jean-Jacques Naudet THE QUESTIONNAIRE…
"You fight it out. And then, after that, you hug it out, and you become friends. You know, you become closer, brothers, family. …” For five years, photographer Brian Finke documented StreetBeefs, an underground fight club in rural Virginia founded by an ex-con named Scarface. Tired of seeing his community ravaged by preventable violence and drug-use, and fueled by the distrust and failure of the prison system, Scarface began hosting…
In view of the opening of its new premises in the Palazzo Ransila I, Amgest SA, in collaboration with the archive of the Swiss photographer Kurt Ammann, who passed away this October in Milan, pays homage to his work and exhibit some twenty of his shots. Positioning itself strategically in the wealth management sector, which is showing increasing attention to the communication potential of art and the beauty of these…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the actuality of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine has a tirelessly curious and knowledgeable look at the latest releases. Looks like James Dean, haircuts worthy of a Fats Domino, leather jacket on the shoulders or a shirt printed Elvis with a Texas tie, baseball bats in…
Over the last two decades, Jean Tichy has created over 40 projection installations which have been exhibited around the world. The installations deal with the encounter between the artist’s formal visual language and the context in which it is created. Tichy uses light to examine the way in which architectural structures, infrastructure and the public space are mandated by social, economic, political or national agents of power, and how they…