In early March, the Facebook page of the Jeu du Paume contemporary art museum in Paris was blocked. The reason: a breast was visible on a photo by Laure Albin…
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The festival Circulation(s) will continue showcasing talented young European photographers until March 31. To help introduce young photographers to industry professionals, a series of free portfolio reviews have been organized…
You yourself started the countdown a few weeks before when you posted on Facebook, “I’ve got my tickets to Bali!” When the day came, Facebook geo-localized you at the airport.…
You’ve spent so much time choosing the perfect profile picture, one that somehow manages to embody your complex personality in a single image. It needs to be on par with…
Solo? In a group? A sober, head-on portrait fit for a police file? Or while you’re in the middle of something, on vacation, say, where your white teeth stand out…
They made it! On October 4, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg proudly announced that the site now boasts more than a billion members “liking,” “posting,” “commenting,” and “poking.” In 2007, there…
When it comes to pushing an absurd idea to the limits, you can always count on the Internet. A few years ago, we saw the development of “planking.” Ramrod straight,…
If Henri Cartier-Bresson were to peruse this online collection of photos, would he recognize his “decisive moment”? In 1952, in his work Images à la sauvette, Cartier-Bresson mentions in the…
In 1975, the George Eastman House in Rochester presented the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, which featured the photographs of Robert Adams, Stephen Shore and Lewis Baltz.…
A classic exercise in painting, the portrait also became a vital part of photography. In the 19th century, Nadar portrayed the Parisian bohemians. In the next century, August Sander, with…