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Russian Dreams...
Russian Dreams is an exhibition that explores the work of 23 post-Perestroika artists who came of age as Russia adjusted to new personal freedoms after the break-up of the Soviet Union . A collaboration between the Bass Museum of Art between and the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, the exhibition will be on view at the Bass from December 4, 2008 to February 8, 2009.
2009-01-01
LBT books
Solitudes & Nuques, coussins, colosses, fleurs, jambes
LBT Books is a new collection of original portfolios on paper "Rives tradition" under plexiglass case 21 cm X 25 cm out of 1,5 cm. A particular concept of price towards the collectors of artists books is proposed.
2007-03-20
US photographer Spencer Platt wins premier award
World Press Photo 2007
The international jury of the 50th annual World Press Photo Contest selected a color image of the US photographer Spencer Platt of Getty Images as World Press Photo of the Year 2006. The picture shows a group of young Lebanese driving through a South Beirut neighborhood devastated by Israeli bombings. The picture was taken on 15 August 2006, the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah when thousands of Lebanese started returning to their homes.
2007-02-10
Chez Higgins 2007
With its two complementary collections, "Témoignages" and "Erotica", Chez Higgins publishing intends to rediscover the spirit of the "cabinet of natural curiosities", by using the same freedom of tone and choice. The portfolios of photographs which constitute those collections and which address all styles and themes are the fruits of the labour of young talents or artists of confirmed reputation.
2007-01-17
Auction in New York
Gursky’s diptych “99 Cent II” sets auction record for a work by a living photographer
Nov. 16, 2006
At a Nov. 16 auction at Philips de Pury & Company in New York, an anonymous bidder paid $2.48 million for Gursky’s “99 Cent II Diptychon” (2001), which shows the jammed interior of a discount store. Saturated colors and cluttered environment contribute to make a visual vocabulary that the Philips auction catalogue describes as a way to “comprehend the massive changes that have been brought on through globalization and commericialism.”
2006-12-01
Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2008
China, which China ?
by Bill Kouwenhoven
A photography festival in China or elsewhere off the main circuit of Houston, Paris, Arles, and Moscow presents the opportunity to take the pulse of a completely different photography scene. To do so twice in a row is more than doubly interesting because it allows one to track changes not just in photography trends, but also in the state of China itself. The current Lianzhou International Photography Festival is a case in point.
2008-12-23
Paolo Pellegrin has won the 6th edition of the ‘Antonio Russo’ award
Paolo Pellegrin has won the photography section of the 6th edition of the ‘Antonio Russo’ national award for war reporting, one of the most prestigious journalistic awards in Italy. The event was organized by the Antonio Russo Foudation. Russo, a journalist of the Italian radio "Radio Radicale", was killed in Georgia in October 2000 whilst covering the war in Chechnya.
2007-10-25
Pure Oxygen
Reload 2006 – Young Collective 02
China Now
Seventeen young Chinese photographers from the ages of 22 to 34 are presented here. They come from a dozen provinces throughout China: Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Hunan, Shan’xi, Yunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, etc. They share a common academic background: all are graduates of the Photographic Institute of Beijing Film Academy.
2007-02-02
Scalo Founder Walter keller joins LUMAS
Berlin-based publisher of photographic editions, has appointed Walter Keller, an acknowledged specialist in contemporary photography and art on the international market, as the director of the company and the Gallery Portfolio Director. As Gallery Portfolio Director and a director of the company, Keller will be responsible for the curatorial quality and further extension of the LUMAS program.
2006-11-23
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