American photography forms an extensive and simultaneously top-quality focal point in the collection, of which a selected overview is now being exhibited for the first time. The main interest of young photographers, who have been examining changes in political, social and ecological aspects of everyday American life since the late 1960s, has been the American soc...

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Né en 1949, particulièrement célèbre pour ses re-photographies de cow-boys des campagnes publicitaires Marlboro ou pour sa série de toiles de Nurses, Richard Prince est certainement l’artiste qui raconte le mieux l’Amérique fin de siècle. La Bibliothèque nationale de France accueille sa ...

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Le récent "montant astronomique" de la vente d'une photo d'Eward Weston, adjugée à plus d'un million de dollars (http://www.actuphoto.com/15202-nouveau-record-de-vente-edward-weston-1-082-500-.html), nous donne l'occasion de revenir sur le classement des 10 photos les plus chères du monde.
 
 

1. Andreas Gursky, 99 Ce...

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Tattoo
Curated by Peter Weibel, ZKM

The tattoo, originally "the tatau" ornaments the skin and thus abstracts everyday life. The Tattoo is a masquerade of the skin and marks the body itself as the place of fantasy. Because through the painted body - through the tattoo - the body itself becomes exotic and therefore there is no normal everyday life anymore. Now ther...

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This exhibition presents the diversity and high quality of the Astrup Fearnley Collection, which has developed into one of Scandinavia’s finest collections of international contemporary art. In this exhibition we present new acquisitions by younger artists, mainly Americans, who have entered the international art scene since 2000. You can also experience works by Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman...

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