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The opening of the Irving Penn exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi on April 12th was an event, or more precisely a sequence of events. The first was the discovery, in this space…

Pierre Boulat, one of the great French photographers who worked for the famous American magazine LIFE, covered current events across the world for much of the second half of the 20th…

Photographer Florence Verrier’s first encounter with the plant world came when she was a child. Growing up in the south of France, surrounded by fields and nature, she would let herself be…

Born in New York in 1949, Stanley Greene, a former member of the Black Panthers, studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute. The city, then the stronghold of the new…

« When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to life; that they evolve…

“Working with materials sometimes means working with the very essence of what a material has to offer. … The work defines the material and the material defines the work. ……

On June 10th, 1944, the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was massacred by the Das Reich division of the SS. Women and children were burned alive inside a church. Men were…