The nudes of Simone de Beauvoir, Werner Bischof et Martin Parr

	Monday15.10.2012
	Portfolio Simone de Beauvoir nue par Art Shay In Chicago, 1950, Simone de Beauvoir had a torrid affair with the American writer Nelson Algren, with whom she experienced a kind of sexual awakening. Art Shay, a photographer for LIFE and Time followed Algren an interesting character. On a very hot day in Chicago, Simone, dripping... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Illés Sarkantyu : Hervé une œuvre à redécouvrir ‘Hervé’ wasn’t his real name. It was given to him when he joined the Resistance. As a young man, he was politically committed, courageous, adventurous and free. After the war, he led a simple life and worked hard. The body of work that he produced continue... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Farewell to Surrealism: The Dyn Circle in Mexico In 1939, three artists, Wolfgang Paalen (Austrian, 1905-1959), Alice Rahon (French, 1904-1987), and Eva Sulzer (Swiss, 1902-1990), left Paris to explore the pre-Columbian ruins of the Pacific Northwest and Mexico. They remained in Mexico, becoming part of an internati... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Miami : Jaime Ferreyros A Visual Diary A Visual Diary of Jaime Ferreyros is about the everyday journey of a man who finds himself in deep connectedness with his iPhone... every step of his way. This show is exactly that, the brief, overt result of those private dialogues between Ferreyros' personal eye and the eye o... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Werner Bischof, Sardinia 1950 In the aftermath of World War II, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Chim and Rodger decided to divide the world among themselves and document it in a comprehensive and sincere way, free now from the sensational wartime requirements of the media. Werner Bischof soon joined them, leaving his commerci... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Shanghai: Christopher Taylor & Luo Yongjin For nearly two months, Alain Jullien is bringing together the visions of Christopher Taylor and Luo Yongjin at the OFOTO Gallery in Shanghai. A world-renowned curator known for his work at the first international photography festival held in Lianzhou, and the International P... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Marco Anelli: In presence of Marina Abramovic In 2010, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented The Artist is Present, an exhibition featuring the Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic. In the middle of the museum’s atrium, the artist sat in a chair and invited visitors to sit across from her for an indef... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Book, Exhibition Philippe Guionie Africa-America We know of the African influences in Brazil and the Caribbean, but what do we know about the presence of black populations in Andean South America? Africa-America is a photographic journey examining the traces of Africanness in the black diaspora of the Andes. Starting in the 16th ce... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Book, Exhibition Philippe Guionie Africa-America We know of the African influences in Brazil and the Caribbean, but what do we know about the presence of black populations in Andean South America? Africa-America is a photographic journey examining the traces of Africanness in the black diaspora of the Andes. Starting in the 16th ce... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Web Review European press review by Michel Philippot This week I selected for you 25 pictures, three of which could be described as repugnant—not the photographs themselves, of course, but what they represent. It should be easy to guess which ones . They each show victims of extreme violence, the kind that makes one bleed, the... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Book Martin Parr : Life's a Beach The beach has become a recurrent theme in contemporary photography, and has featured in Martin Parr’s photographs since early in his career: “The seaside has to be one of the most fascinating places for people-watching. It is a place where we relax and lose our inhibitions, and that’s w... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Book Michael Lange : Forest, Landscapes of Memory The idea of the forest has been imaginary for centuries. Through fairytales and mythical narratives, the forest has emphatically written itself into collective memory. In it, the forest’s visual substance mostly sees itself as a psychic area of retreat, in which childish l... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Exhibition Pubart : La commande publicitaire The exhibition Pubart shows advertising photography at the Galerie Sophie Scheidecker. Art and advertising are linked when artists and ad execs join forces. The passionate relationship between them over the past thirty years has produced a catalogue of iconic images. While advertisi... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
	Portfolio Franck Allais : Le poids des mots I wanted to create a series about the movement, sound and chaos of traffic.I began by setting up my camera on a tripod and taking photos of passing traffic. Looking at my photos, I noticed that I was ignoring what should have been obvious: what was written on the cars. That’s when th... 15.10.2012[ read full story ]
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