lunes, 29 de octubre de 2012

Brett Weston, Lucien Clergue, Jan Banning and Singapore Photography Festival

Monday29.10.2012

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Festival

Festival de Deauville
La 25ème heure

To close out the Planche(s) contact photography festival, Deauville has for the past two years asked photographers to capture the '25th hour' that is added to the calendar every autumn during daylight savings. It's a clever little idea. This year 150 people bega...
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Book

Lucien Clergue,
Les nus vénitiens

Even if it’s not obvious , the art lover will always find references to the great masters of painting in a photograph by Lucien Clergue. In his recent work using double exposures and superimposition, the references are clear. During his travels, Clergue has had the opportunity to v...
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Art and commerce

Darkroom Legends
par Miss Rosen

Cotton is more than the fabric of our lives, it is a screen, a place upon which we project our wishes, hopes, and dreams. It has become one of the most democratic mediums in the world, tearing the picture off the wall and breaking through the frame, then transposing it on to a t-shirt...
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Exhibition

Voici Paris - Modernités photographiques

Paris is becoming the capital of “Modernities.” The current exhibition at the Grand Palais, Modernism or Modernity: Photographers From the Circle of Gustave Le Gray, suggests that the seeds of modernity were sown in this period. Similarly, the exhibition on display through Fe...
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Exhibition

Jan Banning - Down and Out in the South

"How I am going to tell something about a person I don’t know? That is a question I asked myself ten, fifteen years ago.” For Dutch photographer Jan Banning, the question is crucial. He has always been a photographer interested in social political matters, and in subjects that ...
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Exhibition

New York : Brett Weston

It’s often said that Brett Weston was the child prodigy of American photography. Certainly, the fourth son of Edward Weston knew how to handle subjects and styles as brilliantly as his father. In 1925, when Brett was thirteen, he left school to join his father in Mexico and learned the intrica...
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Awards

LUZ Fellowship 2012 :
Piero Martinello

The young photographer Piero Martinello won the LUZ Fellowship 2012, thank to his work “Il libro dei radicali”. LUZ goes on with the policy of investment on young italian talents, despite the crisis situation. Piero Martinello, 25 years old, professionally grew at Fabrica, rece...
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Exhibition

Guillaume Grasset
California Dreamin

At age 20 Guillaume Grasset left Paris to start his own American dream. He spent a few years assisting many talented photographers in LA before starting his solo career. With an acute awareness and a free spirit, Guillaume seeks out new visual spaces, exploring deserted playgrou...
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Exhibition

FotoEvidence Book Award 2012: Alex Masi

Many had never heard of Bhopal until December 3rd 1984 when news of the Union Carbide pesticide factory gas disaster put this central Indian city on the world stage for all the wrong reasons. The Union Carbide (now DOW Chemical) accident happened in the early hours of the ...
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Exhibition

A.Majoli & J.Bendiksen
Les Audacieux

This exhibition aims to salute the courage and determination of entrepreneurs who have no access to bank credit , and who instead bring their business plans to fruition using microcredit. It carries with it a social hope, one that we need more than ever in these uncertain econo...
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Festival

Singapore International Photography Festival

A young, home grown, biennial photography festival has drawn the attention of the international photography community. With just two installments in its short history, in 2008 and 2010, the Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) has attracted the participation...
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Press Review

US press review by Paul Melcher

Emotions. Where do they go when everything is done and the lights are out ? What happens to these instant of joy, sorrow, pain, love and emptiness once the moment is over and the stage has been cleared? They can be recounted, sometimes, partially, with our words and our hands, if we ar...
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Press Review

European press review by Michel Philippot

It’s been a strange week, highly representative of the mentally sick world in which we live. Looking in the weeklies we find: a bombing, a newspaper that desapears, a murdered little girl, a rhinoceros getting its horns cut off (to prolong his life), the beginning of the Haj...
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Book

Bibliodiversity* no. 2
Travels in time

In the opening pages of John Berger’s A Seventh Man: Migrant Workers in Europe, which he produced with the photographer Jean Mohr, Berger tell us this story: A friend came to see me in a dream. From far away. And I asked in the dream: ‘Did you come by photography or by train?’...
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Book

Catherine Rebois
Corps Lato Sensu

Editions Trans Photographic Press has just published Corps Lato Sensu, a photography book by Catherine Rebois. “Not having a body, like an object at one’s disposition to tame at leisure, but to be a body, and to be perhaps only a body. And to live with it, to make do with it, to c...
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Exhibition

Bruce Haley
Topographics

Bruce Haley is an American photojournalist who covers conflicts across the world for large magazines. His series Topographics, a set of remarkably composed panoramic images, is a breath of fresh air. Out of harm’s way, Haley remains a politically committed person whose reflections carry a s...
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