Historian, critic, architect and photographer Gerry Badger is the author of the renownedCollecting Photography (2003) and numerous photography monographs. He has worked with Martin Parr for the past ten years on what has…
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Martin Parr suffers from acute “collectomania.” Almost anything goes: souvenirs, postcards, gadgets of all kinds and, of course, photographs. But only one item drives Parr to travel the world to…
For the release of the The Photobook: A History (Vol. 3), Le BAL in Paris organized a discussion with the authors, Gerry Badger and Martin Parr, who presented a selection of ten photobooks featured in…
After Britain (Think of England, 2000), Mexico (2004-2006) and Luxembourg (LUX, 2009), now it’s Paris’s turn to give Martin Parr carte blanche. For nearly 35 years, the association Paris Audiovisual and the…
Designed to complement the exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, the publishers Xavier Barral and Ponchet Plan-Net have joined forced to realize an amazing book gathering some forty…
Martin Parr, whose prolific body of work is identifiable by its caustic, kitschy colors and the grotesquerie of the situations, has taken pains to photograph proletarian culture in order to…
"Situated on the Rue de Thorigny in Paris, the gallery opened three years ago. My background is somewhat unusual. I went to business school and opened a gallery in 1993…
When we opened the gallery five years ago, we already knew each other. Hanane had been representing my work as a photographer. Then the idea came to us: why not…
A far cry from the classical, trite representations we’ve grown used to, the exhibition La Femme d’à côté (The Woman Next Door), currently on view at the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire…
The French Academy in Rome in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery presents the first significant exhibition in Italy of the french photographer Patrick Faigenbaum. Imagined by the art critic…