Book

Melanie Dunea
My last supper

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There was a moment when Melanie Dunea wondered if her work had gone too far. The New York City-based photographer was in Montreal, Canada to shoot two chefs, David McMillan and Frédéric Morin, who as a team go by the name Joe Beef. That is also the name of their popu...

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Exhibition

Aliza Eliazarov
Organic America

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This young photographer delved into the daily lives of Americans who,
disgusted with bad eating habits, have created their own private
farms. After having developed a documentary eye, her work on the
chicken, one of the food industry’s most despised animals, was more<...

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Portfolio

Dylan Coulter
The Last Cowboys

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Dylan Coulter’s great grandfather had 8 cows when he started a family ranching business in 1903, at age 16. By the 1950s, he owned nine ranches and more than 19,000 acres, primarily in Wallowa County, Ore. His children (Coulter’s grandparents), now in their 80s and 90s, have perpet...

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Exhibition

MoMA, New Photography, new acquisitions

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Every year, the Museum of Modern Art of New York displays its recent
acquisitions in new talents. This year’s edition features 6 new
artists whose work reaches beyond the artworld. With New Photography 2011, spectators discover that there are clearly many...

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Exhibition

Philippe Bazin
Antechambers

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Galerie Marion Meyer Contemporain presents Philippe Bazin Antechambers. The images were shot in Poland. In the United States on abolitionist sites, in Finland on Alvar Aalto’s architecture, in Portugal on the harbor worksites, on French territory and elsewhere, Philippe Bazin...

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Exhibition

Charles Weever:
New York in 1940

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Charles Weever Cushman is an amateur photographer from Indiana, United States. For almost a half a century of travels, he has been going with his Contax II loaded with the mythical film Kodachrome, whose production was stopped in 2009.

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Exhibition

Jeffrey Silverthorne
Travel Plans

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For more than 40 years, Jeffrey Silverthorne steadily explores the issues of sex and death. For this exhibition, Jeffrey Silverthorne revisits his own work. Travel Plans is a family photo album comprised of more than 150 photographs, of which many pages are kept open to allow ...

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Portfolio

Linda Tuloup
Pink room

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Linda Tuloup is speechless. So delicately speechless that we can’t
hear her fly. She floats, everywhere. She is a dreamer, eyes open.
When she began taking pictures in 2007, a recent graduate in social
psychology, her poetic observation of the world was delicately dressed
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Interview

Karim ben Khelifa
Emphas.is

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Karim ben Khelifa, 38 years. Photojournalist for 15 years, with many publications in the international press. He lives between New York and France.

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