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Eugène Atget's Photographe de Paris. Photograph: Errata EditionsFrom The GuardianBy Liz Jobey......a new series of photography books about photography books. If this sounds a bit like trainspotting, it probably is. But one of the main growth areas in photography over the past decade has been the interest in photographic books – not so much in new titles (though there has been a definite expansion

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Paul Graham © Paul Graham (b. 1956, UK), has been awarded the 2009 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.The Award was presented at a special evening ceremony on Wednesday 25 March 2009. Jefferson Hack, co-founder of Dazed & Confused, presented the £30,000 award.The Prize is presented by The Photographers’ Gallery and sponsored by Deutsche Börse group.Paul Graham was selected by the Jury for his

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Lucerne,” 1971-72, from Paesaggi di cartone. Luigi Ghirri ©Few weeks ago on the In Focus section of the New York Times i found the work of Luigi Ghirri. Being one of my favorite italian photographer it was worth mentioning. I believe there is also a show at the Aperture Foundation in NY.Earlier this year, the Aperture Foundation published “It’s Beautiful Here, Isn’tIt…,” the first U.S. monograph

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© Caroline de VriesFollowing from the previous post we are looking at the human public space with the work of Caroline de Vries . I recently came across some of her new projects "Street remnants"and "Urban Trees" both from the series "Small Archives". About her work in general Caroline de Vries says:My practice has evolved and is now principally focused on questioning the nature of the photograph

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© Timotheus TomicekI recently met with Timotheus Tomicek from Vienna at a Festival in eastern Europe and i was impressed with his project Something Human You can see an online book version of the project on his website. Timotheus says about this work:"is solely about pointing to the traces and effects of human behavior.I steer clear both of exceptions and the exceptional. Instead, I search

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© Trine Søndergaard & Nicolai HowaltFollowing the previous post on Nicolai Howalt work just a quick note to clarify a duoble identity, infact i have only just discovered that Trine Søndergaard a photobased artist living in Danimark, she is working in partership with Nicolai Howalt at least in the following projects "How to hunt" , "Dying Birds" and "Treezone".More of her work here © Trine

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Nicolai Howalt ©Nicolai Howalt works was recently shown to me and fascinates for his ability to document with different work some of the social aspects of danish society, tackling with different projects the concept of identity.In his work Boxer Nicolai Howalt followed young Danish boys boxing in Denmark and abroad. The project portrays a series of young boxers before and after the match. Another

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Simon Hoegsberg ©Sometime ago I saw Simon Hoegsberg work and i was very interested in particular in his project " The Thought Project " about the thoughts we have when we walk alone in the street. In most of Simon Hoegsberg work there seems to be an element of research to support and sometime combined the visual project A statement of the artist about The Thought Project: Simon Hoegsberg ©"Over a

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Marina Ballo Charmet ©A few days ago I was at a conference that presented the work of Marina Ballo Charmet, a photographer, an artist and a children’s psychotherapist by training.The artist was there and she presented her works which include photograph and video installation. In most of her projects MBC observes things from below, taking her eye view to a child level. With her project Con la coda

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Andrea Dapueto ©Andrea Botto is the Artistic Director of "On the road, again" title of the current Rapallo Fotografia Contemporanea on the italian riviera. For the third year running this small festival will be hosting the young talents of contemporary photography and the theme of this festival is "street photography".For this year event RFC also invited Mark Cohen as guest artist with the

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Symon Kliman ©A few days ago Bratislava Month of Photography was taking place with a number of exhibition around town. Here is some of the interesting work that we found during during the Sittcomm Award and the Portfolio Review Slideshow.Grzegorz Klatka with his car project, Symon Kliman with his Gypsies Made Nice, Maros Krivy with Green Dessert project and Mikolaj Dlugosz with the Real Foto

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Martin Parr © Dreamscapes Ocean Dome [bath center] 1996Following a recent post on Jörg Colberg "Some thoughts on the visual language of photojournalism" a debate has started with lots of posts on the Magnum Blog over this argument. It all started with a comment about creating awareness of drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) a project that photojournalist James Nachtwey had been working on. I personally

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Billingham ©As i was looking at the preview of the next Paris Photo on Lens Culture I saw the work of Richard Billingham, a Turner Prize nominee in 2001 and winner of Citibank Photography Prize in 1997. I rembember seeing his works around 1994 during a group show "Who's Looking at the Family " held at Barbican art centre in London. A couple of years later Ray's a Laugh was his first book and an

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Giorgio Barrera ©Few months ago I asked Giorgio Barrera , who has an interesting mix of projects, to take part in our question time. I was delighted when he agreed and after a period conflicting commitments we arrange to talk about his work.Ph39 - In the project "Through the Window " do people in the images lives in those houses or are they actors?GB - Both things are happening and that the two

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Pablo Chiereghin ©A couple of nights ago I went to the opening of Pablo Chiereghin exhibition at Micamera Bookshop in Milan. A very good show with a number of conceptual projects on display, more of his work on the website . The main project on show was Birthday Suit ( nakedness, being nude ) a series of street portraits made by the photographer while he was naked inside a window of a busy

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Bert Danckaert ©Bert Danckaert work is mainly looking at places that defines our lives in the everyday life often by isolating spaces from their surroundings. The photographer introduce his project Simple Present with this sentence “Any idiot can face a crisis; it is this day-to-day living that wears you out"Anton Chekhov (1860-1904)Bert Danckaert ©

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After months of speculation now It`s ufficial , The International Festival of FotoGrafia in Rome is not longer in calendar for 2009 due to financial difficulties. Marco Delogu, creator and director of the Festival was surprised by the decision, and confirmed to the press here that all the sponsor are in place for next year and the Festival team has been working as normal to organize the event. On

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Jo Longhurst © Twelve Dogs Twelve BitchesFor several years Jo Longhurst worked with dog breeders, exploring the obsessive quest for the perfect dog. The artist with his work is exploring the history and practice of photographic portraiture and the concept of visual perfection showing the "evolution of the visual image of the Whippet, and the construction of human identity through the shaping of

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Leonie Purchas © from the series The Ward family, LondonLeonie Purchas with the project "In the shadow of things" she is the winner of the 2008 F AWARDS FOR CONCERNED PHOTOGRAPHY organized by Fabrica and Forma.Her project "In the shadow of things"is a photographic documentary about her mother struggling with an Obsessive Compulsive Disorder illness. The photographer looks for several months at

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Bettina Rheims © Breakfast with Monica Bellucci, November 1995, ParisBettina Rheims, Can You Find Happiness? The exhibition opened at Spazio Forma Milan and was curated by Philippe Dagen. Around a hundred works are on display, from nine different photographic series among them “Chambre Close” and “Shanghai”. Actress, models, singers, and more or less well known women are the protagonist of her

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Olivia Arthur ©Olivia Arthur she is the winner of Ojo de Pez Award 2008 with her project "Behind The Veil". In her statement she says "Beyond The Veil is about the lives of ordinary young women living in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In an attempt to show something different from the dramatic headlines we see so often about this country, I have tried to give a personality to the people inside

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Robert Frank ©Over the weekend we went to Robert Frank exhibition "Paris" curated by Ute Eskildsen at the MFC in Cinisello Balsamo, Milan. Photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank selected the 80 photographs with the curator Ute Eskildsen. Is the first time that a significant body of photographs from Robert Frank period in Paris have been brought together. Some of the work was printed in the

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Gregory Crewdson ©I went to the opening of "Dream House" by Gregory Crewson an exhibition at Photology Gallery in Milan. At first look his photographs seems to be taken off set during a cinematic US production, but to the contrary they are constructed by the artist in a small scale cinematic production for his projects with real actors like Philip Seymour Hoffman, William H. Macy, Julianne Moore

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© Catherine OpieThe Annenberg Foundation, a philanthropic trust that supports nonprofit institutions, is planning to launch a new exhibition space for photography in Los Angeles. The new space for Photography will open next spring near the former site of fthe Shubert Theater. Wallis Annenberg, a trustee of Annenberg Foundation said “This will elevate photography to a new level ". The project is

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Valley, © Paul Seawright‘ A PHOTOGRAPH CAN’T COERCE.IT WON’T DO THE MORAL WORKFOR US. BUT IT CAN START US ONTHE WAY’ SUSAN SONTAG"Memory of Fire: the War of Images and Images of War" is the title of the third Biennale of Photography in Brighton. The exhibition curated by Julian Stallabrass explores photographic images of war in contemporary society. The Biennale also includes six weeeks

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Staged and conceptual contemporary Chinese photography on display at the Fotofest 2008 Houston, Texas. The exhibition is part of a retrospective " A Special History" which includes works from pre-Communist times through the periods of Communist propaganda and into the late twentieth-century. Here are some of the contemporary " Staged and Conceptual " works included in the exhibition. BAI Yiluo

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Lucerna 1971, Luigi Ghirri ©In Turin photography has always been a focus of interest and research. The Biennale and the Fondazione Italiana di Fotografia, both of which are no longer active have spend many years promoting photography. Now Gam ( Galleria d`arte Moderna) e Castello di Rivoli are working together to restore Turin again as a focus point for italian photography and together with CRT

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Andreas Serrano © from the series NomadsStreet & Studio is an exhibition of international photography at the Tate Modern London. The exhibition includes a collection of of photographic portraiture taken on the street or in the studio. Over 350 works are gathered in this exhibition, by some of the world’s most famous and important photographers including Francis Alÿs, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton,

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mike&lori by zeiss66super ©A great promotion for photography has taken place at Tate Modern this summer.Tate Modern has partnered with Flickr and Blurb and has invited people to contribute to a unique photo book with their own portrait street photographs. After submissions a selection of 100 photographs will be chosen by a panel of curators, artists, photographers and others to form the book.

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Ferit Kuyas ©While i was in London few days ago, few miles away in the East Midlands an international photography festival was on the way. This year festival was somehow different to 2007, infact compare to previous years the organizers decided to focus on the reviewing as a main object to this year festival. The first Rhubarb Rhubarb International Review was taking place. More infos and video on

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Benedetta Alfieri ©I saw Benedetta Alfieri work for the first time in Reggio Emilia this year during the festival. I was very interested in understanding more about this project that I asked Benedetta to take part in this Question time. (hopefully soon to be in English)PH39 - In

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Hans Aarsman ©Hans Aarsman exhibition is on show at the Photographers Gallery in London. After a personal experience, the artist realize how easily it was to give things up after he had photographed them. This inspired him to photograph possessions preventively, to curb his compulsive desire to possess things. Aarsman combines photos and text in a personal manifesto for ‘photography against

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Pieter Hugo © Abdullahi Mohammed with Mainasara, Lagos, Nigeria 2007 Pieter Hugo wins the 2008 Discovery Award at Rencontres d’Arles 2008Born in 1976 in South Africa were he lives and works http://www.pieterhugo.com/The Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award goes to a photographer or an artist making use of photography whose work has been recently discovered internationally or deserves to be. The

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From an article By Sarah Thornton for The Art Newspaper"Beautiful Inside My Head Forever” sounds like the name of a new work by Damien Hirst, but it’s actually the title of his solo sale at Sotheby’s. The “Beautiful” auction raises many questions, including: Is Hirst sabotaging his own market? On several stands at Art Basel last month, new and vintage Hirst works remained unsold. Hirst’s studios

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Gabriele Basilico ©Last week a presentation of Gabriele Basilico new book on Rome took place at FNAC Milan. Two italian curator, Angela Madesani and Roberta Valtorta where introducing Basilico new book and giving their view on the project and evolution of the photographer`s work. Roma 2007, title of the book, is Basilico first entire book with colour photographs, 80 images with an opaque light

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Tomoko Sawada © From the series "School Days," 2004Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan will present the exciting and highly individualistic work of a new generation of Japanese artists who have come of age following the Asian economic crash of 1990. For the last several years, China has been the focus of attention for contemporary Asian art, while the remarkable and distinctive

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Harri Palviranta© While I was at Photoespana last week i met up with Harri Palviranta at the french embassy in Madrid for the opening party of Agence Vu. Harri is the winner of Descubrimientos 07 and he was at Photoespana with a personal exhibition "Battered". I mentioned to him about http://www.ph39.com/ and after a chat and few drinks he agreed to talk to us about his projects. Here is our

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© Thomas Demand Thomas Demand is on show at the Fundación Telefónica in Madrid as part of Photoespana 08.On the night of the opening a large crowd was at the event including the artist. In the afternoon Demand meeting the press said: "I am not an expert in photography — I hoped nobody would find out! My work is about ideas." Thomas Demand works with pre-existing images of historical nature,

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Yann Goss ©Yann Gross is the winner of Descubrimientos 2008 at Photoespana. The 70 finalists from 42 different countries were chosen from more than 900 international portfolio. During the festival all finalist had a chance to present their works to top curators, gallery owners, publishers and other photography experts.Yann work "Horizonville " is a journey into a swiss valley documenting people

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The Place is the theme of this year’s PHotoEspaña an International Festival of Photography and Visual Art held in museums, institutions, art galleries across Madrid. PHE08 programme aims to provide different visual works related to the notion of place in its broadest sense and would be on show at Casa de América, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Círculo de

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Vicor Burgin ©A video of the event including 10 question to Vicor Burgin during the opening at Museo Fotografia Contemporanea in Cinisello, Milan.http://undo.net/eventinvideo/100/A collaboration between Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa and Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea. For more infos: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia Alle otto. Solito posto & Voyage to Italyhttp://www.bevilacqualamasa.it

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Peter Bialobrzeski ©Over the next few weeks Cinisello Balsamo is hosting an exhibition by German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski. "Neon Tigers" is an open air event in the main square of Cinisello, north of Milan. The exhibition includes 24 works by Peter Bialobrzeski around the cities of Shangai, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Shenzhen and Kuala Lumpur. Asian megacities wirh their high-rise

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Guido Guidi, Martesana, Cologno Monzese,1991This weekend a very interesting forum took place at Colonia di Renesso near Genoa. "Lezioni di Paesaggio" is a forum with a series of meetings, lectures, exhibitions and installations. The forum focus is on the following subtopic: Planning the Landscape - Defining the Landscape -Landscape Culture - Il Cinema and Landscape - Photography and Landscape -

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Annabel Elgar © What surely promise to be an interesting exhibition is In Our World. New Photograpy in Britain curated by Filippo Maggia. The show includes works of 18 artists who over the last 10 years have attended the Royal College of Art Photography Masters offering a contemporary vision of research photography. The presence of artists from a variety of nations (Germany, Portugal, the United

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Mapplethorpe Plate 179. Untitled (self-portrait). 1973/75By KAREN ROSENBERG for The New York TimesSince Polaroid announced in February that it would stop manufacturing instant film and that supplies would run out next year, artists like Chuck Close and Lucas Samaras have been passing through stages of grief. Nothing, they say, can replace the Polaroid — awkward, dated, a little sleazy, but

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A retired circus artist won Polish photographer Rafal Milach The 51st annual World Press Photo contest attracted a record 80.536 entries from 5.019 photographers across the globe. An exhibition is on show at Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan http://www.galleriacarlasozzani.org/ images from all winners

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Victor Burgin © , Portia ( Tales from Freud), 1984This week I attended a very interesting show at the Museo Fotografia Contemporanea di Cinisello Balsamo, Milan. The occasion was " Alle otto. Solito posto & Tales from Freud" by Victor Burgin curated by Filippo Maggia - a photographic exhibition of images and text and a new video to be projected contemporarily with Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,

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A third edition of Fotografia Europea has just open in the town of Reggio Emilia with exhibition until 8 of June. Curated by Elio Grazioli for the second year running it is one of the most important event for photography in Italy. During the first week Fotografia Europea is packed with meeting, events, talks and performances around the theme of "Human, Too Human" intended as bodies and their

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Herbert List © Naples. street football 1959Herbert List "An Eye for Beauty" the exhibition is on show at Dolce & Gabbana Metropol Space in Milan.This historical Milanese cinema built in the late Forties is mainly used for "sfilate" during season collection. A photographic exhibition featuring works by Herbert List is on display until June 6th. It is the second photographic exhibition on show at

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Duesseldorf Contemporary, which premiered last April, announced that it was closing its doors.The fair's organizers cited low sales, saying in a statement, "All indications are that art-market activity concentrates on a few art fairs with international and not just German significance."Art fairs in Basel, Miami and London continue to grow every year while some smaller fairs are shrinking. The

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Xavier Delory ©The sixth Biennale de la Photographie is on the way in Liege. The curator is Dorothée Luczak and the theme of the event is "The concept of Territories" and its different aspectslike “Mental Territory”, “Political Territory”, “Mutating Territory” or the relationship between “Territory and Identities”. On display works by Edward Burtynsky, Xavier Delory and Patrick Messina. Fot more

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Cell phones #2, Atlanta 2005 Chris Jordan © National Geographic is sponsoring a world tour of Chris Jordan Photographic works .The photographer is famous for using photography to explore American consumerism and on this touring exhibition is acting as their international Eco-ambassador for Earth Day 2008. He will exhibit his work, conduct workshops, and give public lectures and media appearances

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Fotografia international Rome`s Festival is now into the seventh edition, different exhibitions opening from April 4th to May 25th. For more informations http://www.fotografiafestival.it/eng/index.aspGiorgio Barrera is the winner of the second edition of the FotoGrafia – Baume&Mercier International Award. The jury was composed by Olivier Spillebout (Transphotographiques, Lille), Massimiliano

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Identical Twins by Diane Arbus ©France is taking measures to boost its flagging art market.The government says interest-free loans will be offered to "modest" buyers to purchase works and it is expanding incentives for companies to buy.A survey out this week showed that, for the first time, France had dropped from 3rd to 4th place behind China in sales of art works."There is a real need to act,"

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Graciela Iturbide © , House of Frida KahloThe Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography for 2008 has been made to Graciela Iturbide from Mexico City.Graciela Iturbide is considered one of the most important and influential Latin American photographers of the past four decades. Her photography is of the highest visual strength and beauty. Graciela Iturbide has developed a

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William Henry Fox TalbotBy By Randy Kennedy New york TimesSotheby’s said on Wednesday that it would postpone the sale of an early photographic print known as a photogenic drawing because some scholars now believe that the print — an image of a leaf — may have been produced much earlier than previously thought, making it the earliest existing photographic image. For many years the image was

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Il sole 24 ore 3 Aprile 2008Miart cresce e guarda già al 2015. Perché sebbene la fiera milanese di arte moderna e contemporanea sia arrivata alla sua tredicesima edizione (in programma dal 4 al 7 aprile), gli stessi organizzatori ammettono che, prima di quest'anno, era una manifestazione che in città faceva parlare poco di sé.Questa volta, assicura Sandro Bicocchi, a.d. di Fiera Milano

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Curators Martin Parr, Kathy Ryan, Lesley A. Martin, and Tim Barber About the New York Photo Festival:Founded by Daniel Power and Frank Evers, and a joint initiative of powerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency, the New York Photo Festival will be the first international-level Festival of photography to be based in the U.S., with the ambition of documenting the future of photography in all its forms.

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The language of human intimacy and self-knowledge may be among the most difficult subjects to capture photographically, but for Nick Waplington it is the only subject. During the early part of a career that began in the mid1980s, Waplington focused his camera on friends, family and neigh-bours, in a society operating within well-defined codes of behaviour.His earliest photographs, taken when he

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© Martin Parr, Ocean DomeMagnum Photos Members are meeting at the end of June to evaluate proposal from new photographers. The staff will be looking and voting portfolios for potential new member.Successful applicants will be invited to become a "Nominee Member" a phase of getting to know each other. In 2007 three new nominee members were accepted. More infos on how to apply. http://

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© Thomas StruthLa prima personale di Thomas Struth al Museo Madre di Napoli curata da Mario Codognato. Sono in esposizione cinquanta opere tra le piu` significative dell` artista, di piccole e grandi dimensioni, dai primi lavori in bianco e nero ai progetti piu` recenti.In esposizione anche lavori dalla serie Museum Photographs, forse la piu`

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© Marina AbramovicIntervista a Roberto Maggiori, direttore della rivista Around Photography, che con l`ultimo numero e` diventata "International". da Undo.net a cura di Silvia Maria RossiLa fotografia costumi e consumi Cosa vi sembrava che mancasse nel panorama editoriale contemporaneo delle riviste d'arte quando avete iniziato?Quando abbiamo iniziato, mancava in Italia una rivista che

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© Esko MännikköIl fotografo finlandese Esko Männikkö e` il vincitore del Deutsche Börse Prize con Cocktails, una retrospettiva dell` artista che include una serie di portraits, still life e landscape dai progetti Finnish Series, Organized Freedom and Harmony Sisters. I progetti documentano la quotidianita`in zone periferiche della Finlandia evidenziandone gli elementi di solitudine e una serie

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© Przemysław Pokrycki Di recente ho visto alcuni lavori di Przemysław Pokrycki Pryma, giovane fotografo polacco. In particolare mi interessava il progetto Rites of Passage, gentilmente ci ha concesso questa intervista via email.PH39 - Tell us about your work? Przemysław Pokrycki Pryma - With my work I want to show a piece of every day life. People in their surrounding, usually at work or at home

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Justine Kurland © The artist in his studioUn essay che descrive il lavoro di Jeff Wall, il suo studio di composizione dell`immagine ed esperimenti. Lubow narra il percorso formativo e di ricerca dell` artista, l`interesse per l`arte concettuale e la meticolosita` nel coordinare ogni lavoro. Merita certamente una lettura.by Arthur Lubow for The New York Times MagazineOn a damp winter morning, 20

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© Massimo VitaliUna prima risposta arriva dal London Photographer`s Gallery nella cui sede iniziera` un corso per collezionisti aperto al pubblico, per rispondere al perche` si colleziona e cosa significa collezionare fotografia oggi.Il percorso include lectures di curatori, relatori, giornalisti e galleristi, oltre ad artisti affermati ed emergenti. Questo team di esperti, attenti ai movimenti

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© Lucia Nimcova Lucia Nimcova e` una giovane fotografa slovacca che ha compiuto una serie di progetti e documentari sociali nei paesi dell`est e centro Europa. Quest`anno partecipera`con una personale al Festival Internazionale Fotografia di Roma come vincitrice del primo concorso indetto dal festival. Lucia, che ora vive a new York ci ha concesso questa intervista via email. PH39 - What

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© Ari VersluisIl fotografo olandese Ari Versluis e la stilista Ellie Uyttenbroek lavorano insieme dal 1994 ad un progetto, Exactitudes che osserva e documenta dress code e diversita` di stili in varie citta` del mondo.Prossima tappa Londra, nelle prossime settimane infatti persone del pubblico verranno invitate ad essere fotografate e i

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© Richard Avedon Picture of Jacob Israel Avedondi Maria Giulia Minetti per La StampaQuando morì, il primo settembre del 2004, a 82 anni, Mark Donen, figlio del regista Stanley Donen, che per breve tempo era stato suo assistente, mi mandò un sms. «Dick Avedon è morto», scriveva. «Era una persona perbene. Mi disse: non fare il

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© Walter NiedermayrA special issue of Domus to mark the 80th anniversary of the magazine and his founder.Here are the artist involved: Pablo Bronstein , Francesco Vezzoli, Arturo Herrera, Tobias Rehberger, Jeff Burton, Martino Gamper, Mimmo Jodice, Luisa Lambri, Salvatore Licitra, Walter Niedermayr, Martin Parr e Tom Sandberg.The result is a unique

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© John DaviesHere are the four finalist for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2008 John Davies, Jacob Holdt, Esko Männikkö and Fazal Sheikh (more)http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?plid=940

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