Sexual images are very commonplace today – at least in western society. Nowadays, they are digital images, and this transformation has only served to increase their number and make them easier to distribute. It has “improved” their technical quality, as computer programmes are able to retouch, add to a...

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Rien de plus commun aujourd’hui que les images de la sexualité – du moins dans les sociétés occidentales. Autrefois argentiques, elles sont numériques désormais. Ce changement n’a fait que multiplier leur nombre et accélérer leur diffusion. Il a « ...

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Die surrealistische Avantgarde verstand sich als revolutionäre Gegenbewegung zum bürgerlichen Wertesystem. Mit neuen Bildfindungen wurde das Dasein in der Zeit nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg und vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, also in einer Zeit grosser gesellschaftlicher und politischer Instabilität, hinterfragt und mit verschiedenen künstlerischen Strategien eingespielte Sicht- und ...

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The Subversion of Images - Surrealism, Photography, and Film, an extraordinarily rich survey of Surrealist photography. The exhibition comprises over 400 photographs, films, and documents: from very famous photographs by Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Raoul Ubac, Jacques-André Boiffard, and Maurice Tabard to unknown pictures, to magazine publications, artist's books, advertisements...

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Exhibition: 16, 17, 18 & 19 NOVEMBER from 10 am to 6 pm

Sotheby's first "various owner" Photographs auction in Paris features important works by the great masters of Photography, from 19th century historical material to classical 20th century photographs and contemporary works. We are very proud to offer a group of 14 wonderful photographs by Eugène Atget, on...

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Cette exposition offre un panorama exceptionnel de la photographie surréaliste, en rassemblant près de 400 œuvres.

Une large sélection des plus belles épreuves de Man Ray, Hans Bellmer, Claude Cahun, Raoul Ubac, Jacques-André Boiffard et Maurice Tabard sera réunie aux côtés d'images inédites, révéla...

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Extended opening hours Saturday and Sunday
8 / 9 November and 15 / 16 November 2008:
open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

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Photography is present everywhere. It plays a formative role in all societies and in private, public, intimate, commercial, and "free" areas of our lives. It is also present in the closed off areas, there where it is "dark", where we withdraw from society, or where acts are excluded from society. For eroticism, sexuality, desire, and identity, photography is a central visual...

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