The imposing steps of what looks to be a large municipal building bear the poignant message of the South African women who marched on Pretoria in 1956 against the law…
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From the early 1950s to the early 1970s, the most beautiful woman in the world was French. Some thought her lips unbearably pouty, her voice nagging, her legs like a…
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Since the 1980s, AIDS has killed more than 20 million people worldwide. But at the beginning of the epidemic, the American government and the media regarded the disease as a…
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Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955-1989) remains one of the most significant names in the history of photography, despite the fact that his career was cut short by his death in Brixton aged 34.…
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Leandro Erlich is famous for misappropriating the usual elements found in urban surroundings in order to create illusory installations altering the spectator’s perception. Bâtiment is a faithful reproduction of a 19th century Parisian…
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Watching You Watch Me is a series of portraits of passers‐by looking at themselves in a mirror. Taken without them being aware, thanks to a system of windows transformed into a…
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The Night Climbers of Cambridge is a book that documents nocturnal and illegal climbing on historical buildings in Cambridge organised by students in the 1930s. The book is a real guide…
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In both his life and his work, photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont is the ultimate expression of American freedom—freedom in his unimpeded documentation of society’s ills and the impassioned descent of an American people…
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While most teenagers daydreamed of summer break while playing records in their bedrooms, fourteen-year-old Paul Zone spent his youth immersed in the New York underground, exploring the concrete playground with actors, drag…
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Michael Clinton is President, Marketing and Publishing Director for Hearst Magazines. His responsibilities include oversight of 20 publications including Harper’s Bazaar, O: The Oprah Magazine, Seventeen, and Esquire. Clinton also serves on the Board of…
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