In a painting no one complains that the subject is posed, but everybody complains about what looks posed in a photograph. Except, I’ve found that if I go very close…
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Twelve years after their exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Clark et Pougnaud return with a series of photographs inspired by the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi, presented in…
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A classic exercise in painting, the portrait also became a vital part of photography. In the 19th century, Nadar portrayed the Parisian bohemians. In the next century, August Sander, with…
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In October, the Robert Mann Gallery presented in its new space an exhibition bringing together 25 years of work by the American photographer Richard Misrach. In these carefully composed photographs…
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It is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts. For almost a hundred years, Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over Nagorno-Karabakh, a border region with an Armenian majority . The…
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Since its beginnings, photography has recorded the history of the world. Technical developments have allowed photographers to produce more accurate accounts of history, however fleeting it may be. Newspapers used…
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Is the End of the World announced by the Mayans a prophetic and one-time event? On the day of reckoning, December 20, 2012, in a resolutely artistic and infernal space,…
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Galerie Paris-Beijing presents the work of the French photographer Laurent Chéhère. Employing traditional photography and digital manipulation, his surreal series, Flying Houses, elevates architecture to a new level. The artist takes a variety…
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Flipping through Anthology, one imbibes the spirit of Aperture. But one also traces the history of photography, beginning with its critical turning point in the 1950s, when art photography reclaimed…
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A key year for Aperture, 1965 saw both the appointment of Michael Hoffman as Executive Director of the foundation, and the publication of its first monograph. Edward Weston’s The Flame…
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