Exposition itinérante "Vieux Paris"
Rotterdam (Nederlands Fotomuseum): du 24 septembre 2011 au 8 janvier 2012
Paris (Musée Carnavalet) : du 17 avril au 25 juin 2012
Sydney (Art Gallery of New South Wales) : du 21 octobre au 15 novembre 2012

Avec cette exposition ambitieuse, le Fotomuseum rapporte 200 photographies du photographe Eugène Atget (1857 - 1927) aux Pays-Bas pour la première fois. Atget photographiait Paris au début du siècle dernier, dans des lieux où la ville n'...

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«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

For over fifty years, internationally acclaimed Japanese photographer Eikoh Hosoe has been producing cutting edge works demonstrating a unique mastery of the photographic medium. Early on in his career he abandoned the documentary style prevalent in the post-war years and produced photographs that breathed a sense of experimentation and freedom into photograp...

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… much has happened in photography that is sensational, but very little that is comparable with what Stieglitz did. The body of his work, the key set – I think – is the most beautiful photographic document of our time.’ Georgia O’Keeffe 1978

The photographs Alfred Stieglitz [1864–1946] took around his summer house at Lake George, New York state, USA after 1915 are considered a major departure and dramatically influenced the course of photography. The desire to build a specifically ‘American’ art led Stieglitz to explore the essential nature of photography, released from cont...

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