Giverny is a small French village in Upper Normandy well known as the home of the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). He bought a house there in 1883 and tended…
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German choreographer Pina Bausch, born in 1940 and founder of the ground breaking Tanztheater Wuppertal whose dance theater style met with wide international acclaim, died in 2009. Her theater, her…
This new publication by Alex MacLean for Schirmer/Mosel features 191 pictures taken from a helicopter above Manhattan. Nearly all are previously unreleased. Alex MacLean is an American photographer…
Eve Arnold, born in Philadelphia in 1912 daughter of Russian immigrants, died on January 4, 2012, in London. Her career began in the mid ‘40’s in a New York…
The retrospective “Thomas Ruff – Works 1979–2011” covers the artist’s career over 30 years with a wide variety of pictures selected from his earliest works through today. The book was…
2012 is a coming of age year for KissKissBanBank. A pioneer of participitative financing, the structure has become, in 3 years time, the first public platform for “crowdfunding” in France.…
« The first time was violent. The first time was fascinating. As usual, the first time was left more to chance than to any intentional approach. I opened the doors…
A family album preserves only carefully selected photographs. Out of an entire life, it stores only handpicked moments, privileging special occasions, happy ones usually, and consigning the rest to oblivion:…
Clare Strand’s videos are "Moving Photographs". They are based on the same black-and-white visual universe with studio lighting, serving a similar purpose. At odds with the contemporary landscape that seeks…
Today on page 9 of Libération, in small print, a few pieces of news, like thinly smearing margarine on a toast: - Ethnic discrimination remains a reality throughout the…