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Pioneers of color in photography

February 28th, 2010 · No Comments

NYC is the most photogenic city of the world said Raymond Depardon . This French photographer belongs to those who understood that the image is not an illustration but an opinion. Therefore, NYC is a destination for a lot of photographers and the city hold thus a great deal of amazing exhibitions. Edwynn Houk Gallery [...]

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Tags: Culture · Gallery/Museum · Photo

A great photo as a gift and a good deed

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

ICP where you always will find a good photo exhibition paired with The Point, a non-profit organization dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the South Bronx, to create a photo center that brings accomplished artists and photography students.
You can buy photos by the students.  Each print is an edition of [...]

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Tags: Culture · Photo

William Eggleston & Diane Arbus

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments

Cheim & Read’s exhibitions feature rarely shown work of Diane Arbus and new William Eggleston one. For the former, the gallery shows In the Absence of Others, a group of photographs of empty interiors and artificial landscapes spanning the 1960s. For the latter, Cheim & Read presents 21st Century, a work that is also on [...]

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Tags: Chelsea · Culture · Photo

Yola Monakhov

January 15th, 2010 · No Comments

The Sasha Gallery is one of the most interesting photo gallery in NYC. Am I writing a tautology ? Yes. Notice that the location is in Tribeca where most of the time galleries are in Chelsea. Anyway. The gallery introduces Dante, Yola Monakhov’s work in Italy. Black and white pictures of handsome young men hanging [...]

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Tags: CityGuide · Gallery/Museum · Photo

Terry Richardson’s blog

January 13th, 2010 · No Comments

Fashion loves this photographer. He is one of the very chic porno chic photo movement spearheads. Richardson hangs out at Café Gitane in Soho and is often seen with Olivier Zahm, founder of Purple Magazine who also runs its blog where he shows how fashion people and friends -Terry Richardson includes- have fun. Have a [...]

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Tags: CityLife · Fashion & Beauty · People · Photo

NYC by Look Magazine

January 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Look Magazine was one NY eye where writers but mainly photographers reported on what the whole country called the most exciting city in the world. Stanley Kubrick sold his first photo to the magazine. He was 16 years old. The magazine closed in 1971 and gave its photos collection – 5 millions – to the [...]

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Tags: Art · CityGuide · Gallery/Museum · Photo

Click Gallery

December 7th, 2009 · No Comments

Click Gallery on Center Street is having a Patrick Demarchelier’s photo exhibition. It will open, december 8, – tomorrow- with Patrick himself who will sign books from 6.30 to 8 pm.
Click Gallery belongs to Christian Celle who launched the very successfull brand Calipsos a few years ago. She opened many shops but the most amazing [...]

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Tags: Culture · Gallery/Museum · Photo · Soho

Rock’n Roll

November 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Who Shot Rock & Roll is an exhibition on rock and roll where photographers are in the foreground. I would say finally ! Photographers were part of  the rock-and-roll revolution. Their images show the social and cultural transformations that rock has fostered since the1950s. The exhibition is in six sections:
- behind the scenes
- Careers beginnings
- [...]

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Tags: Art · Brooklyn · CityGuide · Entertainment · Photo

Little girls can be dolls

October 29th, 2009 · No Comments

Powerhouse, one of our favorite bookshop, released, later this september,  High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Pageants a startling and surprising book. Well, we all know that some parents take their girls for dolls but it remains shocking to look at these photos. Susan Anderson lives in LA where maybe this disfunctionnal behaviour is [...]

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Tags: Art · Books · Entertainment · Photo

Hasted Hunt Kraeutler

October 11th, 2009 · No Comments

This week, with Krauetler, their new partner, Hasted Hunt’s gallery opened a new space right on 24th between 10 and 11th whereas the one on 20th is situated on the 2d floor.
The gallery represents a bunch of really cool photographers as Mark Cohen, Aaron Siskind, Erwin Olaf and Joel Witkin. For their first show, they [...]

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