From 1976 until 1983, in Argentina, the military planned to exterminate all their antagonists. For approximately 5,000 opponents of the Argentine dictatorship, “destino final” (final destination) gained an atrocious meaning…
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A few months ago, the Russian photographer and editor Xenia Nikolskaya stumbled across a Facebook post by one of her friends: it showed a family photograph representing Syria in all…
I remember excitedly explaining to my mum my plan to drive around Texas for three weeks with my camera, another girl and twelve suitcases of clothes. She was worried that…
Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998) est reconnu aujourd’hui comme l’une des figures incontournables de la scène artistique brésilienne de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Artiste curieux et avide d’expérimentations, sa…
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After the huge success of American photographer Martin HM Schreiber's Madonna Nudes in the 1990s, the new edition Madonna Nudes II, published this month by ACC Editions, features many recently…
Exhausted or relaxed, perhaps both, they are asleep inside the car, caught unawares by the photographer. Filtered grey light, grainy texture, reflections playing off the car windows: everything in the…
How do women photograph women? The feminine gaze is not new in itself but, thanks to social networks in particular, it unquestionably influences our culture and is now a real…
In early 1978, I went on a journey to the Lower Rhine with Joseph Beuys and art historian Peter Sager. Our travels led us back to Beuys' origins, back to…
Bomarzo is a strange sixteenth-century Italian Manierist garden in the province of Viterbo, in northern Lazio. Commonly known as Park of the Monsters (Parco dei Monstri), it confronts today’s visitors…