A Moment. Master Photographers: Portraits by Michael Somoroff is a body of work Michael Somoroff made thirty-five years ago. He took it upon himself to photograph in-depth his heroes and…
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The historian of photography Helmut Gernsheim (1913 – 1995) owned the largest photography collection in the world. For the first time in half a century, both its sections are being…
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