Le Carré d’Art presents Mouna Saboni’s exhibition entitled Disappearance, a project carried out along route 65 in Jordan, the central point of the “Diagonal of Thirst” which extends from Tangier to China. A project on the disappearance of water, a major crisis of our century that the world will have to confront. Cradle of humanity, marked by History and the great monotheistic religions, a territory which has kept traces of…
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This is one of the most surprising portfolios received this week. It is titled: The Last Request and is the work of Rankin. [video_embed_hd url="https://vimeo.com/937569277"] This text accompanies it: "The Last Request" is a poignant film /photo campaign brought to life by British photographer Rankin, celebrating the legacy of the now late Paola, a courageous individual who confronted the reality of…
Until April 27, the Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco is exhibiting Éric Antoine. The exhibition entitled Abodes is presented as follows: The show’s titular series Abodes speaks to how inextricably linked Antoine’s work is to his home and memories. Different configurations of numbered boxes represent the artist’s past residences, which begin and end in the secluded forest of France’s Alsace region. Within the expansive wooded landscape, Antoine developed his…
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CAMERA WORK gallery presents an exhibition of Patrick Demarchelier, until September 14th, 2019. The exhibition offers a comprehensive view into the oeuvre of the artist with a selection of 30 works. These include major works as well as – in the main part of the exhibition – numerous new and never before exhibited works that he has been created the last couple years. Patrick Demarchelier is considered as one of…
Deborah Bell Photographs presents Elaine Mayes: Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968, an exhibition of vintage prints of portraits the photographer made in the now-legendary San Francisco neighborhood called Haight-Ashbury. Celebrating the recent publication by Damiani of the book by FotoFocus Artistic Director and Curator Kevin Moore, Elaine Mayes: Haight Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968, the exhibition opens November 17 and will be on view through March 4, 2023. This is the first monograph of…
“Paris by night” intensifies the city. On March 1, 1978, Fabrice Emaer inaugurated Le Palace with a memorable performance by singer Grace Jones, directed by photographer and director Jean-Paul Goude. The former music hall, now open to the diversity of sexualities and backgrounds, became a hotspot for Parisian nightlife. Perhaps out of nostalgia for those festive nights of the 1970s and 1980s, Nuit Blanche has been offering, since October 5,…
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Publication by Editions Normal of Matthieu Sonnet's book: Fragments. "After 10 years of activity as a photographer and working in the world of images for much more, I decided to launch my very first monographic book. I imported, went through, sorted hundreds of photos, dozens of sessions, took out all my archives, selected for weeks the images that were closest to my heart, those that were going to tell this…
"[Stephen] reminds us that the future is unknown to all of us. As such, this project is a call to live in the moment, to acknowledge that the universe is vast and that we are all bits of matter that exist long after our bodies are put to rest." —Aline Smithson “Every cancer hospital should share Stephen’s book to start bringing healing to their space." —Sue Robins, author and cancer…
Until February 18, the Galerie Chantal Bamberger in Strasbourg is presenting a collective exhibition entitled: White! White is a color. Our collaborator, Jean-Paul Gavard-Perret, has chosen to show you the work of Véronique Sablery accompanied by this text. The white work of Véronique Sablery In this multi-medium and collective exhibition, alongside and among others the drawings of Titus-Carmel and the statuary of Jan Voss, the photographs of Véronique Sablery…
To kick off the new year, Miyako Yoshinaga present Coexistence, an online-exclusive exhibition featuring landscapes by four gallery artists: Jonathan Yukio Clark, Koyoltzintli, Lisa Ross, and Hai Zhang. From documenting villages on the Hawaiian coast and the indigenous cultures in New Mexico to witnessing children at the winery near Helen Mountains and the Uyghur Region surrounding the Taklamakan Desert of China. This exhibition threads through each artist’s unique cultural perspective…
April 1973, Laurence Sackman was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris with Gilles Bensimon, Alex Chatelain and Uli Rose. Not bad, for a boy who had landed in Paris barely a year before. With a few publications in Marie Claire, he became a star. We published him in PHOTO that month. I did the interview: I will never forget it. One of the worst and most difficult; 15…
I first heard of Laurence Sackman in 1980. I was then an assistant to several fashion photographers in the Clic-Clac Studio, rue Daguerre in the 14th arrondissement of Paris (today Daguerre Studio). This period was relatively brief in my career and I have a rather vague memory of it. However, the name of Laurence Sackman, so often pronounced in this place, still resonates. “Laurence Sackman is here today! » :…
It was the summer of 1983 and I was living at « La Louisiane » Hotel in Paris when this question confronted me without my being aware, at first, of what I was about to do. I knew that I wanted to make a series of photographs in a way that I had not experimented with before, something that captured the totality of my experience while, at the same time,…
Texte écrit par Renate Zatsch à la mort de Laurence Sackman : Cher Laurence, Je n'oublierai jamais le jour où mon ancien petit ami Michael Calderon, votre Agent qui était aussi l'agent de Bob Richardson à New York, est rentré à la maison un soir et a dit : " wahoo je viens de rencontrer aujourd'hui ce jeune garçon avec ce talent époustouflant. Un génie.... C'était en 1970 à Londres…
I met Laurence Sackman under unexpected circumstances. An advertising friend had asked me if I could "give a hand" to Laurence because he had just returned to Paris. He had left all his camera equipment in England. Arriving from his native London to Paris in the 1970s, he very quickly made a remarkable breakthrough in fashion magazines. After an interruption due to health problems, he was determined to resume his…
Laurence Sackman is a British photographer, born in 1948 in Wembley. He passed away in 2020 in London. Laurence Sackman started his career at the early sixties in the sulfurous world of Fashion and advertising. His photographs were published in every great magazines of that time, Vogue, Stern, Sunday Times, Elle, Marie-Claire… The off-the-wall spirit of his photographs made him one of the most iconic photographers of the 70s and…
In this film about Twiggy from "Man Alive", a documentary series made by Bill Morton in 1965, Laurence Sackman was chosen by the famous BBC journalist Desmond Wilcox to document a sequence illustrating the making of an advertising film. Seventeen-year-old Laurence Sackman shows uncommon know-how and authority to lead Twiggy. [video_embed_hd url="https://vimeo.com/789815500"]
Today is the hundredth of Carole Schmitz’ Questionnaire that we are publishing. And to celebrate this anniversary, we have a special guest. Gilles Decamps: yes, the editor-in-chief of the Eye of Photography who was also one of the Paris Match photographers. Look, his choice of images is eloquent! As for Carole, she would like to find a publisher for her amazing collection of Photography enthusiasts questionnaires. Jean-Jacques Naudet THE QUESTIONNAIRE…
"You fight it out. And then, after that, you hug it out, and you become friends. You know, you become closer, brothers, family. …” For five years, photographer Brian Finke documented StreetBeefs, an underground fight club in rural Virginia founded by an ex-con named Scarface. Tired of seeing his community ravaged by preventable violence and drug-use, and fueled by the distrust and failure of the prison system, Scarface began hosting…
In view of the opening of its new premises in the Palazzo Ransila I, Amgest SA, in collaboration with the archive of the Swiss photographer Kurt Ammann, who passed away this October in Milan, pays homage to his work and exhibit some twenty of his shots. Positioning itself strategically in the wealth management sector, which is showing increasing attention to the communication potential of art and the beauty of these…
For The Eye of Photography, photographic books are as important as an exhibition or a portfolio. They make the history and the actuality of the medium. Our correspondent Zoé Isle de Beauchaine has a tirelessly curious and knowledgeable look at the latest releases. Looks like James Dean, haircuts worthy of a Fats Domino, leather jacket on the shoulders or a shirt printed Elvis with a Texas tie, baseball bats in…