PAUL STRAND, THE PURE LINE
What do the poignant face of Blind Woman photographed on a New York street in 1916 have in common with the tightly framed round of bowls taken from above to compose Abstraction in the same year? Between the verticality of the lines traced by the monumental façades and the tiny silhouettes of Wall Street emerging […]
THE TURMOIL OF AMERICA UNDER THE EYE OF JEAN-PIERRE LAFFONT
The Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in New York is dedicating a new exhibition to this great photojournalist who immortalized the ills and protest movements of mid-twentieth-century American society. He captured the civil rights, women’s rights, and gay rights movements, the youth against the Vietnam War, Nixon’s departure from the White House, the gangs in […]
THE ILLUSTRATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY OF EMMANUEL BOUM
France – Paris Behind Emmanuel Boum’s lens, there is a great sensitivity nourished by stories from his childhood and references to art that invite the viewer to discover poetic and amusing photographs playing between black and white, pop colors, and vintage for a journey through time. Painter, athlete, producer, art director, and photographer, […]
WILLIAM EGGLESTON, AND COLOUR WAS
C/O Berlin presents “Mystery of the Ordinary,” a major retrospective of William Eggleston, one of the American masters of color photography. “At dusk, the shadows of plants grow mysteriously along the wall of the house. In front of this shadow theatre stands a metallic lilac Cadillac, on the glossy paintwork where the last rays of […]
THE SURREALIST IMAGERY OF MICHAL ZAHORNACKY
Slovakia – Povazska Bystrica The Slovakian photographer explores the multiple possibilities of portraiture and architecture in pictures where conceptual art and surrealism impose themselves between colour and black and white. Michal Zahornacky places his work between reality and fiction. The eclecticism of his images invites us into highly imaginative visual narratives. Originally […]
INTO THE OTHER WORLDS OF ZHONG LIN
The Malaysian photographer strikes our senses with images that are both mysterious and provocative, sensual and disturbing, opening up new dimensions. Flowers protruding from faces, bodies wrapped in fabric, prickly red lips, eyelashes as long as hair, silhouettes lost in misty water… Welcome to Zhong Lin’s strange, disturbing, and fascinating worlds. Her work reflects the […]
ELENA IV-SKAYA, ODE TO THE MODERN WOMAN
Beauty, elegance, and femininity define the work of this photographer and former model through her very aesthetic, luminous and colorful choices. “The woman is meant to be celebrated; the muse is feminine. I want my models to be beautiful and elegant, no matter what look I’m going for.” Elena Iv-skaya’s strength and energy is evident […]
PHILIPPE JARRIGEON LET’S PLAY!
PLAY was nominated for the First Book Award at Paris Photo x Aperture 2022, offering an opportunity to revisit the work of this image-maker through this dynamic first monograph, reflecting his fifteen years of photographic work. PLAY is the paragon of Philippe Jarrigeon’s particular vision of style. Seen as a parody of a large Hollywood […]
KOURTNEY ROY : THE OTHER END OF THE RAINBOW
A road under a bluish blizzard, a close-up of a phone box, a gas pump, and a motel sign illuminated with a red light, like the bloody trace of a wheel in the snow… like the fingers of a hand also shot in close-up… Red, like the skai of an empty car seat, also shot […]
JUSTINE TJALLINKS : WONDER
What is Beauty? What defines or justifies the canons of beauty? This is the question that the Dutch artist Justine Tjallinks (born in 1984) asks with great audacity. Her weapon? The beauty of the image and the perfection of the plastic rendering through, in particular, the optimum use of light. Her favorite theme? Singularity. Her […]
PETER KNAPP : THE ART AND CRAFT OF GIVING FASHION A MAKEOVER
The ninety-one-year-old Swiss avant-gardist changed the way women were viewed, revolutionizing the design of women’s magazines such as Elle. The Swiss Foundation for Photography is making room for her with more than 700 pictures taken in the 1960s and 70s. “Fashion photography is meant to be printed. There is always a commission behind it, it […]
IN THE SURREALISTIC AND FETISHISTIC UNIVERSE OF PAUL KOOIKER
Between art, strangeness and derision, the Dutch photographer presents his conception of fashion and beauty in his exhibition FASHION at the Foam Gallery in Amsterdam. Since the beginning of his career, Paul Kooiker has been quick to break free from the dominant paradigms of fashion and beauty. The 59-year-old photographer from Rotterdam has built his […]
THE EBONY BEAUTIES OF MORGAN OTAGBURUAGU
The young Nigerian photographer’s powerful and experimental imagery oscillates between fashion, beauty, and still life, celebrating the splendor and intensity of black skin. Morgan Otagburuagu is an emerging artist in the African photography scene. This twenty-five-year-old virtuoso from Port Harcourt lives and works in Lagos, Nigeria. A former computer science graduate, he embraced photography at […]
DASHA PEARS OR PSYCHOREALIST ART
The Russian artist-photographer, based in Finland, invites us into worlds where surrealism and minimalism meet to better translate psychology, emotions, and human moods. Psychorealism: reality of what happens in the human inner world. It is through this approach, so-defined on her website, that Dasha Pears invites us to enter her imaginative world. This Russian conceptual […]
A LOOK AT THE NEW BLACK AVANT-GARDE
The exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London highlights fifteen international photographers who are liberating the black figure from imagery dominated by white aesthetics. The New Black Vanguard continues to break down established societal dictates, celebrating black creativity in front of and behind the lens. Photographic works include black stylists, models, makeup artists, and creative […]
STEVE SCHAPIRO, GREAT CHRONICLER OF AMERICA
Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles celebrates the legacy and remarkable career of this iconic photojournalist in a commemorative retrospective. Steve Schapiro (1934-2022) immortalized the upheavals and key moments in American society of his time. An avid photographer from the age of nine, influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson, he produced powerful reports on the civil rights struggle, […]
MUYAKA SHITANDA AND SWEET NOSTALGIA
The artist Muyaka Shitanda, born in Nairobi, Kenya, photographs the world while offering viewers an escape from reality for a moment to contemplate and be guided through the stories he captures with his eye and his work of image construction. A world whose beauty is defined by a certain aestheticism that he has developed by […]
HORST P. HORST, TIMELESS ELEGANCE
The SCAD FASH Museum in Atlanta, USA, pays tribute to Horst P. Horst, one of the most aesthetic photographers of the 20th century, through more than 80 of the most avant-garde images of fashion. Nicknamed the “photographer of elegance,” Horst P. Horst, born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann (1906-1999), captured the icons of fashion, film, and […]
ELLIOT AND ERICK JIMENEZ BETWEEN TWO WORLD
Born of Cuban immigrant parents, Elliot and Erick Jiménez grew up with a strong cultural heritage. Between stories, legends, saints, and divinities, these brothers have succeeded, over the years, in retranscribing, through their photographic work, the cultural diversity and their Cuban-American upbringing, mixing both spiritual worlds and history. Passionate about art history and historical paintings, […]
ERWIN BLUMENFELD : THE ETERNAL FEMININE
“TO BE A PHOTOGRAPHER IN ITSELF,” writes in capital letters Erwin Blumenfeld in his book of memoirs, Jadis and Daguerre,1 where he explains to have wanted, following the example of Man Ray, to make of photography an “art for art.” If from his beginnings as a professional photographer in Paris, between 1936 and 1939, his […]
ARCHITECTURE IN THE EYE OF ROMAIN LAPRADE
With his new book Distances Volume II, the Parisian photographer continues to impose his signature by magnifying architecture in its smallest details. Romain Laprade has been passionate about architecture, design, and landscapes since his adolescence. This thirty-year-old photographer, a former graphic designer at Vogue and Holiday, often favors the interaction between nature and urban structures. […]
DANA COJBUC
Open the shore Residence for Young Talents / Festival Planches Contact Dana Cojbuc was born in 1979 in Romania, graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Bucharest, and settled in Paris after living in Greece, Germany, Slovakia, Finland, and Norway. Associating sculpture, video, and drawing to her photographic work, she confuses our gaze, sometimes seeking the point […]
PARCOURS : PHOTODAYS
Launched in 2020 by Emmanuelle de l’Écotais (former curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, specialist in Man Ray) in order to federate all the places and events related to photography and video during the autumn in Paris, Photodays offers a rich programme of visits for informed collectors or simple amateurs through more […]
WHO ARE YOU, POLLY MAGGOO?
From film-novel to photo-novel, the publishing house Delpire & Co, specializing in “singular photographic writings” and “encounters between text and image,” offers us a discovery, or a rediscovery, of William Klein’s cult film, Who are you, Polly Maggoo?, through the prism of photography. Relating with a burlesque fantasy the adventures of Polly Magoo, a star […]