Richard Avedon Everyone is Anyone 50 ans de photographies
For more than fifty years Richard Avedon (b. 1923) has maintained his position as one of the great names of fashion photography. As early as the 1950s he achieved star status and was permanently attached to the magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. He was the first to break down the barriers between so-called ‘serious' and ‘non-serious' photography. But Richard Avedon is more than a fashion photographer, he is also an outstanding portrait photog

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Curtis Moffat: Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935
Curtis Moffat created dynamic abstract photographs, innovative colour still lives and some of the most glamorous society portraits of the early 20th century. He was also a pivotal figure in Modernist interior design. Moffat was born in New York in 1887 and studied painting there, and in Paris from 1913-1914 at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. In 1916 he married the English actress and poet Iris Tree, the daughter of the actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Moffat collaborated in

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Anne Noble - Ruby's Room, 1998-2006
Cette série donne à voir une représentation extrêmement originale de l'enfance, dénuée de ses clichés, à travers l'exploration de « ce que les enfants font avec leur bouche » : La série est consacrée à la fille de l'artiste elle-même, Ruby. Elle a été montrée en Nouvelle-Zélande, en Australie, et n'a été dévoilée au public européen qu'en Allemagne. Ruby's Room rassemble une quarantaine de photographies. Dans cette série, les éléments physiques sont amplifiés par l

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Camera obscura, premiers portraits au daguerréotype 1841-1851
Le musée conserve parmi ses collections anciennes de photographies un ensemble de daguerréotypes particulièrement remarquable. Sans céder à la tentation de constituer un « échantillon » représentatif de la collection, cette exposition rassemble un nombre important des plus anciennes photographies connues montrant des non-Européens, en contrepoint des images contemporaines des quatre coins du monde exposées sur les quais de la Seine. Elle présente plus particulièrement les dag

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Tate Liverpool presents Turner Prize 2007
Turner Prize 2007 exhibition opens today at Tate Liverpool. It features work from the four shortlisted artists Zarina Bhimji, Nathan Coley, Mike Nelson and Mark Wallinger. The winner will be decided by a jury whose members are: Michael Bracewell, writer and critic; Fiona Bradley, Director, Fruitmarket Gallery; Edinburgh; Thelma Golden, Director & Chief Curator, Studio Museum, Harlem; Miranda Sawyer, freelance broadcaster and writer and Christoph Grunenberg, Director of Tate Liverpool and Chairma

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Polka Magazine
LE PRINCIPE DE « POLKA MAGAZINE » : L'EXPOSITION-MAGAZINE DE PHOTOGRAPHES DE PRESSE L'exposition. Il s'agit de rassembler des reporters de talents - chacun autour d'un reportage, d'une histoire - le temps d'une exposition. L'accrochage est réalisé comme celui des pages d'un journal sur les murs d'une rédaction au moment du bouclage. Des photos rares, le plus souvent inédites, en tirages limités. Le magazine. L'exposition est simultanément éditée en magazine. « Polka Magazi

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Rommert Boonstra - The History of the forgotten

Rommert Boonstra (b. Groningen, 1942) - photographer, poet, visual artist – is one of the founders of modern staged photography in The Netherlands. In the year of his 65th birthday Noorderlicht is honoring him with a retrospective and a survey of his most recent work, in which he literally sets off in new directions. Boonstra made his name with his photographic variant of the peepshow. His photos are intimate, frozen stage plays with surprising props as their

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Andy Warhol - Other Voices, other rooms

Forty years after the first major European Warhol exhibition in Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum has organised an exhibition to shed new light on the oeuvre of the celebrated Pop Art master. With film, photography, video and famous icons ranging from Marilyn Monroe, Mao and Campbell Soup Cans, Andy Warhol -- Other Voices, Other Rooms is a window onto the artistic thinking of this trendsetting artist, revealing the ‘conceptual soul’ of
his work.

In his art, And

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PHOTO L. A. 2008

Opening Benefit Reception

Thursday, January 10, 6 to 9 p.m.

Exhibition Hours

Friday, January 11 and Saturday, January 12 – Noon to 8 p.m.

Sunday, January 13 – Noon to 6 p.m.

Artfairs inc., producer of the highly acclaimed art fairs photo Miami, ART LA, photo san Francisco and photo new york, is pleased to announce that photo l.a. 2008, the 17th Annual International Los Angeles Photographic Art Exposition, which will take place January 10-13,

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