Denis Piel, Michal Chelbin, Denis Brihat, Melanie Dornier

	Monday22.10.2012
	News Adieu Newsweek par Eliane Laffont New York, 1969. Day one. I begin representing the Gamma Photo Agency in the United States. I buy a copy of Time magazine at a kiosk on 72nd street near my apartment. In the masthead I find the name of the magazine’s director, who puts me in contact with the director of photography: J... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Melanie Dornier - Chinese patriotism Between the national holiday of October first and protests against Japan regarding conflict on the Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands, these last days Chinese’s flag has been waved everywhere. After the protest, Chinese flags were used to protect businesses from demonstrators. Picture of... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Auction Drouot : Piasa, vente de photographies On October 26, 2012, at 2/30pm in Salle 4 of the Hôtel Drouot, the Piasa auction house will exhibit a set of 211 vintage, modern and contemporary photographs. The first part will feature 39 lots by Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard, and vintage salted paper prints by Julien Blot, A... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Tehran: Alireza Fani I Am the One Who A stout man with present-day clothing and façade is wearing a horned helmet, seen in situations that are not consistent with his formidable appearance. The evident artificiality of the pictures in contrast with their high resolution and depth of field, solidity of images with... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Nice : Rétrospective Denis Brihat The Théâtre de la Photographie et de l’Image Charles Nègre in Nice will present through February 3, 2012, a retrospective of the work of Denis Brihat. More than eighty photographs taken between 1958 and 2011 will be on view, covering most of his career. The respect ... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Elżbieta Piekacz dite Mela : The Faith My first encounter with art was via the theatre ,while I was studying in the Wrocław Theatre Academy 1991 – 1995. From 1996 – 2002 I collaborated as an actress with Warsaw theatres like Dramatyczny, Narodowy, Scena Prezentacje and Na Woli. I was an actress but I was also pres... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Auction Drouot, Binoche, Ventes Trauner et Prévert The Binoche et Giquello auction house will hold an auction entitled “Alexandre Trauner – Jacques Prévert Une œuvre cinématographique” featuring correspondence, drawings, notebooks, collages and photographs taken between 1932 and 1976. All of these documents (304 lots) will ... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Book Stephen Ferry The colombian conflict The title of the book itself announces Stephen Ferry’s completeness: "Violentology" is directly derived from the name of sociologists specializing in Colombian political violence and "manual" is borrowed from the technical vocabulary. The situation in Co... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Berlin : Skinning, Une histoire de peau The skin is our greatest sense organ, it keeps us one. We make different stimuli and if they are intense enough, they create a feeling, which then runs through every single layer and proverbially "gets under the skin“. In most cases these sensations leave traces and emerging f... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Boston: Rebecca Norris Webb My Dakota Rebecca Norris Webb isn’t just famed Magnum photographer Alex Webb’s wife. She’s also a poet and, especially, a photographer. Her photographs stand out for the same precise composition found in her husband’s work. But unlike him, she trains her lens on landscape... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	News New York: Denis Piel Book Signing Rizzoli presents the first monograph on the photographer Denis Piel. Famous for his cinematic approach—asking subjects to play out a role in the same way a director works with his cast—Denis Piel became one of the most sought after photographers of the late 70s and... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Book Michal Chelbin Sailboats and Swans Michal Chelbin's latest body of photography, shot in seven prisons in the Ukraine and Russia over the past six years, explores what it means to be locked and constantly watched—and to be looking back at such a person in this surreal world within a world. Chelbin's... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition New Delhi: Chandigarh by Manuel Bougot Manuel Bougot has taken pictures of the architecture of Le Corbusier since the 1980s. He produced an in-depth photographic study of the public and private spaces in Chandigarh, the capital of two Indian states, Haryana and Punjab. By inviting Le Corbusier, in 19... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition MET, Faking It: Manipulated Photography In the first photograph, a man presumed dead lies on a table, draped with a large cloth. As the series continues, his soul appears as a silhouette, extracting itself from the man’s body, rising up to walk before the camera, as if by magic. This sequence of photographs, entitled... 22.10.2012[ read full story ]
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