CONTACT is an annual festival of photography in Toronto, during the month of May, with over 1000 local, national and international artists exhibiting at almost 200 venues. Founded as a not-for-profit organization 16 years ago, and now a charitable organization, the festival is devoted to celebrating, and fostering the art and profession of photog...

    Lire la suite

Gangland murders, gruesome car crashes, and perilous tenement fires were for the photographer Weegee (1899—1968) the staples of his flashlit black-and-white work as a freelance photojournalist in the mid-1930s. Such graphically dramatic and sometimes sensationalistic photographs of New York crimes and news events set the standard for what has since become k...

    Lire la suite

The 40 works range from early black and white photographs to the classic icons of American color photography.

A number of great photographers played a large role in forming and defining the American Myth. The discovery of everyday aspects of American life was decisive in this: cities and symbols, cars, signs, billboards, ad...

    Lire la suite

In the context of the 4th European Month of Photography Berlin, which is presented for the first time as a themed event, the Kunsthandel Jörg Maaß is pleased to announce the exhibition “Street Photography. Selected Works from Six Decades”.

The exhibition centers around vintage prints which document life on the streets through the decades. This wide overview...

    Lire la suite

Cette exposition à travers 280 tirages originaux noir/blanc, nous fait découvrir le monde newyorkais.

Elle est l’œuvre d’un seul photographe, Arthur H. Fellig dit Weegee, un Austro-Hongrois venu vivre le rêve de cette ‘Free America’ dont lui a parlé son père, mauvais commerçant qui s’est r&...

    Lire la suite

Prints by Weegee borrowed from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie form the starting point for our American journey.

It all begins with Weegee, “Weegee the Famous” as he liked to call himself and stamp on his photos. For decades he was THE photographer of New York, driving throu...

    Lire la suite

Les tirages de Weegee empruntés aux collections de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie sont le point de départ de notre  promenade américaine.

Tout commence avec Weegee, Weegee the Famous, comme il aimait s’appeler et tamponner ses photos. Il a été durant des décennies, le p...

    Lire la suite

ICONIC PORTRAITS OF POWERFUL AND INFLUENTIAL FIGURES OF THE LAST 60 YEARS -  EXHIBITION OF RARE VINTAGE AND SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHS

Atlas Gallery announce an important new exhibition of rare portraits by some of the most notable photographers of the last six decades. Curated personally by the gallery's director Ben Burdett, the subjects have been chosen f...

    Lire la suite

Pionnier du photojournalisme, précurseur de la photographie à sensation des tabloïds et artiste reconnu, Arthur Fellig, surnommé Weegee, est né en Autriche en 1899. Il émigre aux Etats-Unis à l'âge de dix ans. Fils de rabbin, il grandit dans les vieux immeubles du Lower East Sicle de New York. Il est tout jeune lorsqu'il achète son pre...

    Lire la suite