Arrêtons nous sur une initiative lancée début septembre par la fondation photographique Aperture (New-York), internationalement connue pour son magazine, sa maison d'édition et son espace d'exposition New-Yorkais.

Après le What's next de FOAM, (http://www.foam.org/whatsnext), espace de débat de la photographie aujourd'hui, Aperture propose son What Matters Now ? - Proposals for a New Front Page ; à la fois exposition, lieu de rencontres et de conférences, l'initiative, qui dura 10 jours d&ea...

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A culmination of four years photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California, Eirik Johnson: Sawdust Mountain focuses on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support. Timber and salmon are the bedrock of a regional Northwest identity, but the environmental impact of these industries is increasingly at odds with the contemporary ideal of sustainability. In this exhibition (and the accompanying Aperture book of the same title), Eirik Johnson reveals a landscape imbued with an uncertain future—no longer t...

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Cet ouvrage regroupe les photographies de paysages nocturnes prises dans le Colorado vers le milieu des années 1970.

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In Winter Stories, a luxuriously produced monograph, Paolo Ventura invents an imaginative series of photographs depicting scenes from the memory banks of on old circus performer as he looks back on his life. What the performer revisits are not moments of great drama, but rather, fleetingly recalled glimpses of an everyday life: “images that he had thought to have never seen, quick moments he unknowingly observed as he raised his eyes to the clock hung at the corner of the block”.
Using his own childhood memories, beautiful miniature figures, and sophisticated sets, Ventura re-envisions a simplex time of 1930s Italy. But ...

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"To me photography can be simultaneously a record and a 'mirror' or 'window' of self-expression. The camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye. And yet the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory." —Eikoh Hosoe

Eikoh Hosoe is an integral part of the history of modern Japanese photography. He remains a driving force in photography, not only for his own work, but also as a teacher and ambassador, fostering artistic exchange between Japan and the outside world. His influence has been felt in his native country and throughout the inte...

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