These are photographs with a kick. Along with André Kertesz, Man Ray and Hans Bellmer, Philippe Halsman’s images of famous, euphoric men and women leaping through the air helped photography itself…
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The New York Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP NY) is hosting its free Ninth Annual Fine Art Portfolio Review on the evening of February 18th, just for its members. The…
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…
Today, the city of Yangon, formerly Rangoon, has a photography festival. The Yangon Photo Festival, like the Angkor Photo Festival, was founded by French photographer Christophe Loviny, who is also…
Paris has been stormy in more ways than one, with its streets filled with protesters against gay marriage. The massacre continues in Syria, and in Copenhagen, God didn’t save Marius…
Five of the biggest names in contemporary Chinese photography—Mo Yi, Zhang Xiao, Fu Yu, Yang Yongliang and Peikwen Cheng—are currently on view at the Magda Danysz Gallery in Shanghai as part of the exhibition Landscapes. This…
Every human being reacts differently and I don’t think there are two similar visions of the same image explains Marloes Krijnen, director and founder of the Foam Fotografie Museum in Amsterdam,…
Since January 17, Hong Kong has been transported to London. The Flowers Gallery is holding a solo exhibition of the renowned German photographer Michael Wolf (b. 1954 in Munich) featuring his…
Art Rotterdam opened today at the Van Nellefabriek. For three days, this former factory will welcome nearly 90 Dutch and international galleries, an increase from last year. In its fifteen years…
Priscilla Rattazzi is suspicious of change. She bought her first digital camera in 1998 and was excited by the instant results, but was disappointed by the quality of the images.…