Located at 8,000 feet in the Oquirrh Mountains — 20 miles southwest of Salt Lake City —the Bingham Canyon copper mine is the largest man-made excavation on the planet. Its hole reaches more than half a mile deep and its rim is nearly three miles in width. It has produced more copper than any mine in history. The mine’s Garfield smelter stack, situated at the edge of the Great ...

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Opening night will be held on 5th November 2009 at 7pm

Meeting with Michael Light on 6th November at 7pm at the Skwer -
the Branch of Artistic Centre Fabryka Trzciny, Krakowskie Przedmiescie 60A

Michael Light (1963) is San Francisco-based photographer and bookmaker whose work deals with the politics of the environment and America's cultural relationship to i...

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Marks of Honour - A Striking Library

Marks of Honour is a photo book project and exhibition organised and curated by Nina Poppe and Verena Loewenhaupt.

MoH was conceived in order to reveal the inspiration that a new generation of photographers have gained from the history of photography in the form of books.

13 international photographers were invite...

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L.A. ou si vous préférez Los Angeles, la cité des anges... et des démons. Pour quelques chanceux, L.A. est synonyme de soleil, de plage, de piscine, de corps sains et bronzés. Pour les autres, L.A. n'est souvent qu'une concentration d'autoroutes encombrées, de poll...

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California-based photographic artist Michael Light gained unprecedented access to the film masters from NASA's archive of 32,000 photographs. Light's selection of these images creates an outstanding representation of the space journeys, lunar landings and of the moon landscape, as never before seen, in images of unparalleled clarity and large scale. These large format photographs were first exh...

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Depuis son invention en 1839, la photographie est au centre de nombreuses controverses et de procès retentissants. L'image se place en effet au coeur des enjeux éthiques ou strictement légaux qui ont été menés aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Symbole de liberté d'expression et de droits individuels, mais aussi de pouvoir et d'argent, la photograph...

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