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Anne Wilkes Tucker by
Elizabeth Avedon

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Anne Wilkes Tucker was named “America’s Best Curator,” by Time Magazine a decade ago. Tucker, the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of Photography at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, may now be one of the foremost Curator’s of Photog...

01.07.2011[ read full story ]

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La Biennale di Venezia
Sophy Rickett

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Sophy Rickett’s new project To The River premieres in the New Forest Pavillion at Palazzo Zenobio as an official collateral event for the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia.

21.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Denis Dailleux
A love affair with Egypt

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Denis Dailleux’s new book Impressions d’Egypte is a dream-like portrait of the country he has been intimately involved with since 1992. “I fell in love in Egypt, with Egypt” says Dailleux. “I discovered the pleasures of the oriental luxury, eveni...

22.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Mélanie Light, thoughts on Photojournalism

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Melanie Light is an American writer and former co-founder of Photovision, a non-profit organization devoted to promote documentary photography. She also teaches. Her last two works are Night at the Met with photographer Larry Fink, Mad Day Out, on the B...

16.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Malick Sidibé by
Laura Incardona

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It is difficult to write or talk about Malick Sidibé. There is the risky stereotypical description of him as one of the greatest African photographers of his generation, or worse, an amazed description by those saw his Bamako series from the 1960’s and ‘70’s, wi...

17.06.2011[ read full story ]

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Miss Rosen
Shane Perez

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Shane Perez has always had a disregard for authority. Growing up in Miami, Perez and his father would ride their bikes through the Everglades and come across abandoned cars and other detritus of civilization. At the same time, he discovered a pleasure in hacking phone syst...

23.05.2011[ read full story ]

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Miss Rosen
Seis del Sur

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Joe Conzo, Jr. Ricky Flores. Ángel Franco. David Gonzalez. Edwin Pagán. Francisco Molina Reyes II Three decades ago, six native New Yorkers walked the streets of the South Bronx. Armed with their cameras (and sometimes other items), they passed like ships in the night. Al...

18.05.2011[ read full story ]

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Georges Dambier by Gilles Decamps

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The exhibition of Georges Dambier fashion photographs at Bonni Benrubi in New York takes us back to a time when the word Style still had a meaning. Writing about Georges is for me a rather intimate experience. You see, for full disclosure, I should start by saying...

28.04.2011[ read full story ]

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Nicholas Vreeland by Elizabeth Avedon

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Photographs by Nicholas Vreeland: Return to the Roof of the World: This exhibition of over 35 black and white images, follows the journey of photographer and Buddhist monk, Nicholas Vreeland, as he accompanied his teacher, Khyongla Rato Rinpoche, in 2...

15.04.2011[ read full story ]

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Jack Woody by
Elizabeth Avedon

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Jack Woody is one of the world’s most important photo book publishers, yet remains relatively unknown. He currently lives in Santa Fe, continuing to publish books he likes, not taking into account their eventual commercial success. Elizabeth Avedon interviews this reclusive editor,...

24.03.2011[ read full story ]

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