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Forced IDs
A book by research-based visual artist Lukas Birk, MUG SHOT explores photographs preserved in historic archives. Images captured at the instant of an arrest that, in this context, become objects of contemplation.
Raymond Depardon: “Color is the Candy of My Childhood”
In Montpellier (South of France), the Pavillon Populaire reopens after months of renovation and reveals a luminous exhibition by Raymond Depardon. More than 150 color photographs, many of them never shown before, trace sixty years of journeys, assignments, and wanderings. A crossing of the world and of life, guided by the photographer’s eye.
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Fred Ritchin On AI: “We Can Now Easily Remake the World in Our Own Image”
Images Under Influence: How AI Has Slipped Into Our Everyday Photography
Todd Webb: A Photographer in Paris
Richard Schroeder: “Making the Instant a Perfect Moment”
His name may mean nothing to you. Yet Richard Schroeder ranks among the greatest contemporary portrait photographers. Against the grain of flashy rock imagery, his sophisticated black and white reveals the secret side of our icons.
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Elliott Erwitt: An Explosion of Color
Nan Goldin on Forging Memories Through Photography
Stephen Shore: “Photography Isn’t Very Good at Explaining”
Joel Meyerowitz: A Year of Consecration
For the past six decades, the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has roamed the streets of the world, countrysides and beaches in search of life in blue, green, yellow and red. In the 1970s, his sense of modernism contributed to the acceptance of color photographs as works of art. In 2024, five major exhibitions celebrate his work.
