martes, 13 de noviembre de 2012

Houston : The Great Exhibition of War

Tuesday13.11.2012

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Exhibition

Houston : The War Photography Exhibition

Opening last weekend at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is a massive, unprecedented exhibition about war and photography. Displayed are over 500 objects including photographs from more than 280 photographers from 28 countries. This exhibition, starting near the beginning of p...
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Interview

Houston : Anne Tucker by Robert Stevens

What connects war photography to all my other projects is an attraction to what I don't know, to what is unknown in the field of photography. 

The Joe Rosenthal print is 3 5/8 x 4 3/8 (9 x 11 cm), small enough to go in an envelope.  It inspired Will Michels (co-curator of exhi...
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Interview

Houston : Will Michels by Robert Stevens

Tell me more about how you got interested in doing the exhibition War/Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. I know you received a print of the Iwo Jima flag raising photographed during World War II in the Pacific Ocean area. What size was it? I am trying to understa...
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Interview

Houston : Natalie Zelt by Robert Stevens

Questions for Natalie Zelt co-curator of the exhibition War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. With the invention of the digital in the 1990s and its widespread use by the beginning of the 21st century, photographers coul...
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Exhibition

Houston : The War Photography, the Opening

Last weekend in Houston, Texas opened an expansive and unprecedented exhibition about war and photography titled, War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath. Filled with powerful images, books and equipment from more than 280 photographers from arou...
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Exhibition

Bob Willoughby: The Silver Age of Hollywood

Proud Chelsea presents Bob Willoughby: The Silver Age of Hollywood, an exquisite homage to the man widely credited with inventing the photojournalistic motion picture still. The first “outside” photographer to be hired by studios to document the filming of their movies and ...
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Exhibition

Carmen Arrabal
Stolen Memories

Souvenirs volés is built from anonymous images appropriated by the artist to create an artificial, borrowed memory. Most of the photographs were recovered in Berlin. There are hundreds of photographs from family albums, carefully selected by the artist. The process isn’t arch...
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Exhibition

Sandrine Elberg
Paris Burlesque

The New Burlesque is the result of a renewed interest in American music hall from the 1920s and 1930s, a blend of social satire, smut and strip-tease. The modern version, which combines feminism, glamor and a rejection of conventions, is surprising for its energy and artistic potent...
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Magazine

New issue of L'insensé :
Russia

A wonderful new issue of the magazine L’insensé is out. The subject is Russia. In their introduction to the issue, Elizabeth Nora and Vanessa van Zuylen Menesguen write: “Russia fascinates us with its size, its history, its politics, with its response to untrammelled capitalism after...
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Auction

Ader, Photography Sale
November 18th, 2012

Ader Nordmann will hold an auction during Paris-Photo and the Mois de la Photo in Paris. Under the expertise of Antoine Romand, the auction will feature vintage, modern and contemporary photographs, and will take place on Sunday, November 18, 2012, at 14:00 at the Favart au...
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Auction

Le Mouel : La vente des trésors du Herald Tribune

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the International Herald Tribune sought the expertise of Viviane Esders to select and organize an auction of the best documents in its archives. This sale, “Eye on the world: Photographic treasures...
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Exhibition

Louis Stettner
Les chefs d'œuvres

France has decided to pay tribute to the American photographer Louis Stettner, born November 7, 1922, in Brooklyn, to an Austro-Hungarian family. However, his photography has been so integrated in France where he lives since 1947, that his photographs are considere...
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Book

Zineland by Antoine Soubrier : Storyteller

Zineland usually covers small books, limited editions, and other esoteric projects. But today we’re going to look at one of today’s biggest fashion photographers: Tim Walker. According to Walker, an exhibition with photos hanging on the walls, “isn’t very interesting.” Since...
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Exhibition

Singapour : Gerard Uferas, mode et danse

Timed to coincide with Affordable Art Fair 2012, enter the world of Parisian essences, fashion and dance, through the extraordinary images of French photographer Gerard Uféras at Hediard Singapore in November. The exhibition captures the unposed grace of model...
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Exhibition

Berlin : Jerry Berndt
Sacred / Profane

Prostitutes, the sacred and the night create a tense atmosphere around the photographs in this exhibition. At a young age the American artist Jerry Berndt(*1943) acquired a sensitivity to the lonely and despairing aspects of the demimonde. This sensitivity se...
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Video

Mois Off 2012 : Galerie
Chip Chop by Molly Benn

My discovery of the mois Off: the gallery ChipChop and three artists exhibited there: Hélène Jayet, Neta Dror and Amy Friend. Meeting with Benoît Faiveley, who tells me in a couple of words the story of the gallery and his relationship to image.
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Exhibition

Photo Saint Germain : Alexis & Isabelle

There were 51 openings exhibition this November 8th, in Paris. No in fact, there were 52. A young couple of photographers, Alexis and Isabelle had squatted the Visconti Street with candles and prints pasted on walls. Here they are.
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Book

François Fontaine
Silenzio !

With Silenzio!, Francois Fontaine has built a silent inventory of a cinephile. These hazy photographs of iconic movie scenes exude a sweet nostalgia, revealing only after a while the intensity of their emotions. They are a tribute to the cinema as well as to photography because Francoi...
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Exhibition

Hans-Jürgen Raabe : Faces of Lourdes

The large photographic image of our time With the publication of the first three books in late October and two exhibitions in Germany this November, we are delighted to announce this long-term photographic project, the completion of which will span an entire decade. 
The photog...
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Portfolio

New York : Christophe Jacrot, le Black-Out

His name is Christophe Jacrot. He’s a reader of Le Journal. Born in Paris in 1960, Jacrot was a theatre director before coming to photography through an obsession with weather. His first book, Paris sous la pluie, was published by Chêne in 2007. He was in New York for Hurric...
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Exhibition

Berlin : René Groebli
For the love of Rita

Born 1927 in Zurich, Switzerland, René Groebli started his career as a photo reporter for various international magazines. Groebli married in October 1951, but had to return to work just a few days after the wedding. The photographer and his wife Rita were finally able to ...
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Press Review

Brésil : Foto Grafia Issue

The Brazilian photography magazine Foto Grafia has just published its ninth issue. Exclusively available online and free of charge (readers can download a PDF version of the issue), Foto Grafia has just won a bet: independence! For the first time, the Foto Grafia team pro...
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Festival

Paris: Nofound Photo Fair 2012

In Paris, celebrations have already started with various openings of shows, festivals and fairs, and the Photography Week is not finished yet. Paris Photo will open soon. The nofound photo fair too. The event was held for the first time last year in Paris, then at Voies Off in Arles, an...
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News

Marseille : Le Percolateur
Meetings Place

In Marseille, Le Percolateur has just completed its second season. The space offers an alternative way to present photography. Instead of exhibitions, the program focuses on “seasons” of artist residencies, workshops, discussions, screenings, reviews of port...
Le Journal de la Photographie - 3, Rue Primo Levi, 75013 Paris France


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