Lorsque les premières cabines de photomaton furent installées à Paris en 1928, les surréalistes en firent un usage intensif et compulsif. En quelques minutes, et pour une somme modique, la machine leur offrait, dans le domaine du portrait, une expérience similaire à celle de l’écriture automatique. Depuis, de...

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TOKYO PHOTO 2009 endeavors to be the foremost art fair of photography in Japan. The venue is located in the heart of international business and culture in Tokyo. To be held from September 4 to 6, Tokyo Photo 2009 will provide visitors with a unique opportunity to see and buy a wide range of photographic works from vintage prints to cutting-edge digitally enhanced images.

With the...

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Opening Case #1: Friday, May 29, at 5:00 p.m. in the Noorderlicht Photogallery (basement), by Gerben Bakker, curator of the exhibition

The exhibitions Lost and Found and No ID together form the first initiative of the Noorderlicht Photolab, created in the slipstream of the regular programming. The dynamic trial presentations in Photolab offer all the space needed for the developm...

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Since the invention of photography more than 170 years ago it has been largely women who have used this technical medium to project themselves through role playing and masquerading. As well as the experimental urge to constantly recreate ones ego, the camera has also served as a means of calling into question clichés of female representation. Playing with the image of the eternally femin...

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