“The best word to describe this part of my work is probably ‘free.’ The ways in which eroticism and pornography are represented can be very boring, sometimes very demonstrative, and…
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Nadav Kander’s photographs, Yangtze – The Long River at Flowers Gallery, New York, capture an authentic un-staged snapshot of people's lives in a region undergoing the most significant and broad…
In January, I was in Paris to show samples of my work with acrobats and circus artists, at the Festival de Cirque de Demain. When Parisians I met told me,…
Camera Work presents the exhibition "Gender Studies" by Bettina Rheims. Focusing again on transgender, in 2011 the artist created a fascinating portrait series of 25 people who evade …
Nakedness is usually reserved to the private realm. We make sure the curtain is pulled before we undress. On the beach, we wriggle awkwardly behind towels to preserve our modesty…
As a starting point, I take two classical subjects recurrent in the history of art, fraught with memory and allusions: the nude and still lifes. The result is a strange…
They are called Paparazzi and they are proud of it , they are right they are the best. A book 'Famous' and two exhibitions are consecrated to them, the introduction…
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…
Toward the end of 1953, Willy Rizzo took a series of portraits of the architect Le Corbusier, three of which were published in the magazine Paris Match. Much of Rizzo’s…