Ce 10 décembre 2013 marque la journée internationale des droits de l'homme et l'anniversaire des 67 ans de l'UNICEF. Pour célébrer cette date, l'agence Magnum présente The Rights Responsability, projet multimédia réalisé par les photographes Chris Steele-Perkins, Ian Berry, Eli Reed, Patrick Zachmann et Alex Webb au Mozambique pour l'UNICEF. Les photographes de Magnum invitent le public à découvrir ce pays, l'un des plus pauvres au monde, à travers des photographies, des vidéos, des sons qui explorent ses facettes peu ou pas connues.
Actuellement, le Mozambique attire de nombreux investisseurs intéressés par ses ressources en gaz naturel et en charbon, même si elles restent difficilement ...
Prix Pictet Honorary President Kofi Annan will present the award to the winner of the Prix Pictet 2009 at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris on 22 October. This is the second year running that the former Secretary-General of the United Nations has agreed to bestow the prize. Speaking at the 2008 award ceremony Kofi Annan said “Each artist has addressed the environmental and social challenges we face in their own personal way. The result is a series of powerful images, which seek to confront us with the scale of the threat we face, and to inspire governments, business, - and all of us as individuals -to step up to the challenge and support change for a sustainable world..”...
Birmanie : 7 jours au Myanmar par 30 photographes, un titre qui en dit long sur la qualité photographique du dernier opus des éditions du Pacifique. « L'éditeur du projet a l’expérience de beaucoup d'autres projets de ce genre, avec plusieurs photographes dans des pays. Thaïlande, Indonésie, Vietnam, Brunei sont autant de pays qui ont fait l'objet de livres de cette collection, il doit y en avoir je pense 10 en tout. Pour chaque projet, plusieurs photographes sont invités dans le monde pour photographier un pays, et ils ont comme 7 jours, 9 jours, pour photographier. Mon premier projet a été en 2012. Il s'agit, pour l'éditeur, d'un projet important, en terme d'histoire pour le pays, et c'est un moyen id...
La planche-contact est la première concrétisation physique du travail d'un photographe. Sa première confrontation avec son travail et ses idées. L'étape qui suit, celle de la sélection à partir de la planche-contact, est décisive. Lorsque le spectateur apprécie une œuvre photographique, il ne réalise pas que le cliché qu'il a sous les yeux a été choisi précisément au milieu de beaucoup d'autres, et que, très souvent, c'est uniquement un petit détail qui a pu faire basculer le choix de l'artiste.
49 photographes développent ici l'histoire d'un de leurs clichés à travers des anecdotes, des détails techniques ou leur processus cré...
Réédité en « Petit Format », l'ouvrage Magnum Magnum était déjà paru en 2007. Ce livre retrace le travail des grands maîtres de la photographie du XXe siècle, des grands photographes actuels et des nouveaux talents de l'agence de photographes la plus connue du monde. 400 images iconiques des 60 dernières années ont été ici sélectionnées et commentées par les 69 photographes de Magnum. Ainsi, entre autres duos le travail d'Henri Cartier-Bresson est décrit par Eve Arnold, celui de Martin Franck par Ferdinando Scianna. L'oeuvre de Martin Parr est commenté par René Burri et l'oeuvre d'Alex Webb est détaillé par Chris Steele-Perkins.
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Now in its second year, the Prix Pictet, awarded by the Swiss Private Bank Pictet & Cie, aims to use photography to educate audiences worldwide about issues related to climate change. This is the first photographic award on the topic of sustainability, harnessing art’s unique compelling power for the benefit of our precious planet. The theme for this year is Earth, encompassing the planet, the ground beneath our feet, and the ways in which mankind negatively affects the landscape, whether through broken abandoned cities, strip mining, waste dumps or other forms of exploitation. It also refers to the aftermath of natural disasters such as earthquakes, landslides and volcanoes. The shortlist of the nominees (Darren Almond, Christopher Anderson, Sammy Baloji, Edward Burtynsky, Andreas Gursky, Naoya Hatakeyama, Nad...
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FORMAT 2011, the UK’s leading international festival of contemporary photography and related media today announces its full programme for its 5th edition, taking place at various venues in and around Derby, 4th March – 3rd April 2011.
This year’s festival, curated by Louise Clements around the theme Right Here, Right Now: Exposures from the public realm, explores the resurgence of street photography – put simply, photographs taken in public places. Presenting more than 3,000 works by over 300 artists of international significance, FORMAT11 will provide the most comprehensive survey of street photography ever seen.
The Festival will show curated exhibitions and new commissions by leading international artists within the practice of street photography. In a unique com...
Communiqué de presse :
« J’ai éprouvé une joie intense à parcourir ces boîtes en flâneur, déambulant dans la grande histoire mais aussi dans celle de Magnum et de chaque photographe, comme on parcourt un album de famille, vaste comme le monde et intime comme un miroir de poche. » — Diane Dufour
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LE BAL présente un parcours dans les trésors de la coopérative parmi les tirages d’époque, maquettes de livres et publications depuis la création de Magnum Photos (1947) jusqu’en 1977. En 2017 coïncident l’anniversaire des 70 ans de Magnum Photos et la finalisation d’un fonds de milliers de tirages d’époque enfin rendu accessible : Magnum Ana...
Behind Closed Doors : A Year in the Life of a Working Estate by Chri Steele-Perkins. For one year Viscount and Viscountess Coke gave the renowned, Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins unrestricted access to their home and the estate. The result is a collection of stunning and intimate photographs that portray the reality of living and working on a working estate.
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Those looking for Downton Abbey will be surprised but not disappointed. The modern estate is a far more diverse and dynamic setup than anything Julian Fellowes could have imagined. This photographic exhibition portrays aspects of the estate that are rarely visible to visitors; a glimpse into a world that is both familiar and extraordinary, portraying how a young family, over 200 employees and 21 diffe...
En 2014, nous fêterons le 60ème anniversaire de ce qui est considéré comme la naissance du rock’n’roll. C’est en effet le 5 juillet 1954 que le jeune Elvis Presley enregistre au studio Sun à Memphis That’s All Right Mama, considéré comme le premier morceau de l’histoire du genre. Cette année-là, le rock’n’roll devient un phénomène culturel et social incontournable.
Les Photaumnales 2014 proposent de revisiter cette histoire à travers la photographie. D’explorer le rapport profond entre l’image, la musique et les univers du rock.
La programmation s’articule autour de 3 grands axes : ThiS iS EngLanD, une plongée dans les paysages du rock’n’roll et la réalité sociale qui l’accompagne, ROCk’S iCOnS, a...
Photo50, the guest-curated annual showcase of contemporary photography, returns to the 25th London Art Fair at the Business Design Centre, Islington, from 16 – 20 January 2013.
Under the title "A Cyclical Poem", Nick Hackworth, Director of Paradise Row, questions the nature of historical change through 50 images by eight photojournalists and documentary photographers working between 1970 and the present day: Ian Beesley, Dorothy Bohm, Brian Griffin, Paul Hill, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Marketa Luskacova and Chris Steele-Perkins and Homer Sykes. In some cases the works selected are the result of the photographer returning to the same or similar subjects over or after a long period of time. Others come from one period, but made in concert with the passing of time.
Nick Hackworth, curator of Photo5...
The Fondazione FORMA per la Fotografia, is Milan’s only permanent space dedicated exclusively to photography. The gallery will be showing a selection from the portfolios shortlisted for the 2009 prize, on the theme of Earth, together with a selection of works produced by Ed Kashi for the Earth Commission. The Prix Pictet ‘Earth’ exhibition has so far visited the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, The Empty Quarter Gallery in Dubai, the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Gallery of Photography in Dublin, the Moscow House of Photography, and Caprice Horn Gallery in Berlin. Earlier this summer the Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne staged a special showcase exhibition featuring the work of four laureates of the Prix Pictet - Benoit Aquin, Nadav Kander, Ed Kashi and Munem Wasif. Later in th...
The Prix Pictet is the world’s first prize dedicated to photography. It has a unique mandate – to use the power of photography to communicate powerful messages of global environmental significance. This year the theme is ‘Earth’. The exhibition includes work by the twelve international photographers shortlisted for the 2009 prize:
Food riots. Loss of forest cover. Desertification. The ecosystems we depend on appear to face resource demands already beyond their capacity. As governments try urgently to stimulate growth, a central question remains - can the earth’s complex living systems sustain the future consumption patterns of another three billion people in the world’s population by 2050? The submissions speak of the harmful and often irreversible effects of exploiting the earth&rs...
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 from the fields of politics, sport, the arts, entertainment and science.
The selection of works on show attempts to examine the way in which the camera portrait not only provides the individual with a visual memory and reference for the subjects of the portrait but in some rare cases, when reproduced enough times, provides an almost universal human record.The works chosen have been selected not only for the status and influence of the subjects but for the importance of ...
On 22 October at the Passage de Retz gallery in Paris Kofi Annan, Honorary President of the Prix Pictet, will announce the winner of this year’s award. Planning for the exhibition of work by the Prix Pictet Shortlist 2009 is complete and it is clear that that the Jury face a considerable challenge when they sit down to consider this group of images that range from the painterly to the documentary and all points in between – often within a single submission. The power of the shortlisted images was summed up by Stephen Barber when he introduced them at the Rencontres d’Arles. “We are all of us, all too familiar with the great issues of sustainability – climate change, environmental degradation, deforestation – yet how many of us have experienced personally the devastating consequences de...
Kofi Annan, Président honoraire du Prix Pictet, annoncera le lauréat de l'édition 2009 le jeudi 22 Octobre au Passage de Retz. L'exposition des photographes nominés pour le Prix Pictet 2009 est prête et il apparaît clairement que les jurés ont relevé un défi de taille lorsqu'ils ont dû sélectionner ces images allant du pictural ou documentaire, souvent au sein d'un même dossier. La force des images choisies est bien résumée par Stephen Barber lorsqu'il les présenta en juillet dernier aux Rencontres d’Arles. “Nous sommes tous familiers des graves problèmes liés au développement durable - le changement climatique, la dégradation de l'environnement, la déforestation - mais malgr...
Le Musée des arts et métiers, musée du Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, accueille du 25 juin au 26 juillet 2009 l’exposition « Le Travail Révélé : Regards de photographes, paroles d’experts ». 77 clichés de photographes de l’agence Magnum et de
photographes indépendants, 77 visions de l’homme au travail commentées par des experts des questions sociales, ergonomes,psychologues du travail, économistes, philosophes…
En effet, plus que jamais la question du travail occupe l’avant-scène des débats politiques et médiatiques, pourtant les images qui l’entourent semblent de plus en plus brouillées, conventionnelles pour certaines, caricaturales parfois. Il ...
A cross roads between East and West, mountainous and landlocked, Afghanistan’s history is one of regular invasion and a long struggle for self definition. In the late 19th century, Afghanistan became a buffer state in "The Great Game" played between the Russian and British Indian Empires and has remained a pawn in international politics ever since. Since the late 1970s the country has suffered continuous and brutal civil war in addition to foreign interventions by Russia and America. Post 9/11 and the start of America’s war on the Taliban, Afghanistan has rarely been out of the news: in the UK media, announcements of British army losses resulting from tough fighting in Helmand province are an unfortunately familiar occurrence. With a new administration in the White House and a shift in foreign polic...
Throughout that period MAGNUM never ceased to supply photographs that have become part of the world’s collective memory – pictures of landmark events like the Russian army’s invasion of Prague in 1968 and the Tiananmen Square demonstrations in Beijing in 1989. The exhibition uses photographs, books and texts to illustrate the history of MAGNUM year by year and gives visitors the opportunity to view work by 83 photographers, such as Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Carl de Keyzer, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas and Leonard Freed.
MAGNUM was established in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David Seymour. They were convinced that photography was the best medium with which to document world events and raise public awareness. And they succeeded – the way MAGNUM photographer...
HOST gallery is pleased to present a new exhibition by Chris Steele-Perkins. Haswell Plough to Harajuku reveals two distinct yet congruent sides to this Magnum photographer ‘s photographic brilliance.
In Haswell Plough the images form a nostalgic and investigative story on life in rural England looking at the people who inhabit and work in the countryside and their relationship to the land and their animals. In Harajuku, Tokyo, Steele-Perkins employs a significantly different photographic approach, treating us to a vibrant, enigmatic and sometimes surreal journey that immerses us in the daily life of the city. This is his Tokyo, the place where he met and fell in love with his wife, Miyako.
Mixing classical black and white photo-reportage with contemporary colour street photography, Haswell Plough to Harajuku off...