Photokina 2012, Cheyco Leidmann, Nick Stern & Daido Moriyama

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	Exhibition Cologne: Photokina 2012 In addition to the Claes Oldenburg retrospective The Sixties, the Museum Ludwig presented an exhibition entitled "American Landscapes". The Kathe Kolwitz Museum offered a few photography exhibitions in its program during the Photokina. After Paris and Ellen Auberbach in 2010, this year’s exhib... 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Photokina 2012: an overview of the Fair Throughout the halls of the festival, the exhibitions come one after the other but have little in common—except their high quality. Among the memorable works was Uwe Ommer’s Teens & Families, presented under the auspices of the German minister Dr. Kristina Schröder. 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Photokina 2012: the best exhibitions Although Photokina is known to be one of the oldest major worldwide art fairs, its resonance is rarely heard beyond the Rhine. And yet it is here in Cologne that one is able to view not only, for the first time, the complete works of August Sander, but also the first major Sébasti... 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Cheyco Leidmann Foxy lady Cheyco Leidmann lives and works between the USA and France, with his collaborator Ypsitylla von Nazareth. His works, depicts a world erotic and burlesque : his theater borrows fantastic and surreal paths where the viewer is invited to enter with humor. 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Sandy Skoglund & Cerise Doucède These two artists both work in several genres: sculpture, modeling, painting and needlework. All of it appears in their photography, which could qualify as installation; critics have described their work as “photographic tableaux”. One thinks of Georges Rousse or Christo’s Land Art, w... 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Nick Stern You are not Banksy I thought it would be interesting to shoot a group of people looking like rioters but throwing flowers, recreating Banksy’s iconic image. I’ve loved Banksy’s work and decided that instead of just the rioter that I would recreate a number of his famous works.  26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Nicole Robson Keeping up Appearances Nicole Robson examines domestic life by depicting people at home. On closer examination, a sense of strangeness begins to emerge from the work. The light seems too bright, the decor too contrived and the characters too rigid. These images – seemingly of everyday – in fact depic... 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Pierre Winther Nothing beats reality Pierre Winther tests and deconstructs value systems by bringing together unlikely and contrasting elements. The most dramatic events often reveal a sense of banality, and the result is in an extreme provocation. 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Michel Haddi Diaries of the catwalk "Welcome to my hood “ A trip to Milan, a backstage extravaganza by Michel Haddi. The war zone without all the collateral damages, just some sweet gossips amazing girls looking a million dollars. A dream machine in a dream factory. 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition David Helman’s Viticultural Architecture David Helman has lived for many years in Bordeaux, where he photographs the wine country. It’s a natural landscape as much as a cultural landscape. In this secular environment, the vineyard is shaped by the hand of man. 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Book Sputnik Photos : a Bielorussian collective Stand By/ За Беларусь: this short bilingual title (English-Belarusian) says much about this album produced by the collective Sputnik Photos. If ‘stand by’ evokes a sense of waiting (not to mention a nod to the International Code of Belarus, BY), it is a widespread slogan di... 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Sylvain Granjon: Douce Amère "What have you become?" When I portray my daughter there is a seriousness at odds with her young age. I try to evoke the adult's desperate quest for the mythical image of his or her own childhood; the source of all our emotions. 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Axel Dupeux: Bushwick Axel Dupeux speaks of the “geography of faces.” They walk down the street, and he’s there waiting for them. You might think he’d be hiding between two cars to take their picture on the sly, but he prefers to stay out in the open. They stop, and a *click* or two later they go. 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Willy Rizzo: Funny Faces "It all started when I photographed Catherine Deneuve. Watching her, I immediately noticed her unusual facial expressions. At the end of the shoot, for fun, I kept asking her to make faces, and then we went on shooting. A good funny face assumes that you have an original face, as Sofia Lore... 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Hans Silvester: Les peuples de l'Omo Lucy, the famous Australopithecus discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, gave Hans Silvester the desire to explore the cradle of humanity. He made his first trip to Ethiopia in 2002 and met with the peoples of the Omo Valley, a region covering 60,000km2. 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Anna Schmitzberger: My friend Pauli "This is not the first time I’ve watched this man on his bench by the Staatsbrücke. He lies on his belly and seems to sleep. I want to take a picture of him,and when I finally bring myself to ask him whether I might bother him for a minute, he says no. Later, he tells me that he t... 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
	Book Daido Moriyama Labyrinth It’s rare for a photographer to share his or her contact sheets, even though they are a precious document for researchers, and a source of reassurance for other photographers. Magnum Photos was bold enough to publish a large collection of their contact sheets a while back, and William Klein ... 26.09.2012[ read full story ]
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