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The newly acquired Ernest Marquez Collection of photographs records Santa Monica’s transformation from rustic hamlet to international symbol of the California good life, with prints from the 1870s to the…

Without much public attention, a remarkable thing is happening. As libraries around the world digitize their photographic collections they lose the funding to store their physical archives.  Only a handful…

In 1914, Oskar Barnack, an employee at the Wetzlar optical factory in Germany, built the first Leica. The Leitz was the first small format camera, using 35mm film to produce a…

Singapore definitely wants   to become the center of contempory art in Asia, openly in competition with Hong Kong. Today nobody can deny that Singapore is  the capital of art…

BMW France has long been involved with photography, especially Paris Photo, but it was a marketing approach based on the ties between its customers and collectors. However, local dealers are…

The ties between the Jeu de Paume and Neuflize-Vie go back to the time of the Centre National de la Photographie, and were reinforced when the latter combined with the…

For more than 25 years, Neuflize-Vie has been involved with the world of photography, as part of the general interest of the shareholder Neuflize-OBC. Banking and private insurance believe in…

Le Bal is a “small” and recent institution, born out of the crisis, in a neighborhood in Paris where there are few cultural institutions. It is housed in a former…

Paris Mutuel Urbain is an old company, essentially a working-class brand, but whose image was perhaps a little outdated. The aim was to assert ourselves  through our involvement with a…

Founded in 1970, the Rencontres d’Arles has stood the test of time. Like every festival, the Rencontres is part of a time and place, and organizes not only exhibitions, but…