The zeugme (or zeugma) is a figure of speech that associates two words with completely different meanings of a third, as in the famous “Dressed in simple probity and white…
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Many think slavery ended with the demise of the trans-Atlantic trade, but sadly, that’s far from true. An estimated thirty-six million live without dignity or rights and although slavery is…
Swiss photographer Romain Mader won yesterday the Foam Paul Huf Award. The Foam, an abbreviation for Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, is a renown Dutch institution dedicated to photography.…
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From Angelina Jolie and Brigitte Bardot to Baz Luhrmann and Antonio Banderas, photographer Douglas Kirkland has been chronicling the making of films for more than half a century through his…
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To celebrate the 10th edition of “Photographs for everyone”, the auction house Millon and the expert Christophe Goeury are opening a window onto the world of 7th Art by offering…
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Using an 8x10” view camera, Jim Dow, who studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind and was also Walker Evans’s last assistant, painstakingly photographs the light, the atmosphere, the colors,…
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Currently on view at Michael Hoppen Gallery in London is Things in a room: an ethnography of the insignificant, Spanish artist Manuel Franquelo’s first solo show in the United Kingdom,…
With the documentary collection Instantané d’Histoire (Snapshot of History), the television station ARTE is opening the archives of anonymous photographers. Previously unseen, their pictures intimately recount the 20th century.…
The 2017 Levallois Photography prize is now open. Until May 2, photographers under 35 years-old may apply. The winner will receive 10 000 € and […]…
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Estelle Lagarde’s œuvre has a fictional core. Ever since 1996, when she debuted as a photographer, mise-en-scène has been her raw material. She departs from reality to take us into…
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