Left London
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Left London is a photographic portrayal of abandoned buildings across the capital that reveals an otherwise unseen side of city life. Having explored a multitude of sites and taken over twenty thousand images, the authors were able to assemble a unique collection of photographs vividly illustrating this evocative and beautiful subject. Furthermore, as well as extensive(...)
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March 2008, Londres
Left London
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Left London is a photographic portrayal of abandoned buildings across the capital that reveals an otherwise unseen side of city life. Having explored a multitude of sites and taken over twenty thousand images, the authors were able to assemble a unique collection of photographs vividly illustrating this evocative and beautiful subject. Furthermore, as well as extensive interior and exterior shots, the book also contains various items of ephemera found in situ, which provide an additional visual narrative. Like all cities, London has an established cycle of decay and renewal, however with the forthcoming 2012 Olympics, it is currently embarking on the most ambitious redevelopment plan in its history. In light of this, Left London takes on a particularly compelling and contemporary relevance.
Photography by Region
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Dès le début des années 1920, Paris s'affirme comme le lieu des avant-gardes de la photographie en Europe. Modèle de modernité au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la capitale devient un refuge pour les émigrants contraints à l'exil. Des photographes arrivés de l'étranger, tels Germaine Krull, André Kertész, Brassaï, Man Ray ou Berenice Abbott côtoient alors les(...)
Paris, capitale photographique, 1920-1940
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Dès le début des années 1920, Paris s'affirme comme le lieu des avant-gardes de la photographie en Europe. Modèle de modernité au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, la capitale devient un refuge pour les émigrants contraints à l'exil. Des photographes arrivés de l'étranger, tels Germaine Krull, André Kertész, Brassaï, Man Ray ou Berenice Abbott côtoient alors les Français Maurice Tabard, Roger Schall, Jean Moral, Emmanuel Sougez ou encore Pierre Boucher. C'est cette France de l'entre-deux-guerres, foyer de création où se rencontrent une multitude d'écoles photographiques, qui caractérise l'exceptionnelle collection réunie par l'historien et collectionneur Christian Bouqueret. Avec une sélection de 140 photographies, cet ouvrage propose un regard érudit et passionné sur la richesse formelle de cette "nouvelle vision photographique en France".
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David Hartt : stray light
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When the Johnson Publishing Company, best known for Jet and Ebony, moved into its iconic building on Michigan Avenue, the structure symbolized a bold entry into both the Chicago skyline and the city’s cultural environment. This emblematic building was the first in Chicago designed and owned by African Americans, a modernist masterpiece that in 1980 the Washington Post(...)
David Hartt : stray light
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When the Johnson Publishing Company, best known for Jet and Ebony, moved into its iconic building on Michigan Avenue, the structure symbolized a bold entry into both the Chicago skyline and the city’s cultural environment. This emblematic building was the first in Chicago designed and owned by African Americans, a modernist masterpiece that in 1980 the Washington Post called, “practically a monument—sometimes an ostentatious one—to black success.” David Hartt was given unprecedented access to the building, much of which retains its ’70s design, from bright gold accents to vintage see-through furniture. His resulting photographs take viewers on a rich and revealing tour. They capture the distinct physical characteristics while also illuminating the power structures and ideological purposes they once represented. Hartt’s collection also serves as an unexpected final documentation. Not long after Hartt captured these images, the Johnson Publishing Company announced it was selling its building and moving north. Stray Light is a time capsule of a historic building that once symbolized a bright future.
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Ria Verhaeghe: Provisoria
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''Provisoria'' is an alternative image archive curated by Ria Verhaeghe since the early 1990s, sourced from international newspapers. Organized by keywords, dates, and thematic groupings, the archive is an effort to explore a different dimension of photojournalism. The images—often dramatic, ambiguous, or unsettling—explore the raw and layered emotional dimensions of(...)
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September 2025
Ria Verhaeghe: Provisoria
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''Provisoria'' is an alternative image archive curated by Ria Verhaeghe since the early 1990s, sourced from international newspapers. Organized by keywords, dates, and thematic groupings, the archive is an effort to explore a different dimension of photojournalism. The images—often dramatic, ambiguous, or unsettling—explore the raw and layered emotional dimensions of photojournalism. With over 60,000 images, the collection spans from the striking and dramatic to the ambiguous, grotesque, and unexpectedly tender. Three sections—Human Interest, Fusion and Mindwaves—offer insight into the archive’s conceptual range. Fusion explores how we interpret images, grouping photographs by visual or symbolic qualities: featuring categories like shadows (simulacre), icons (icon), double images (glende), traces (trace), as well as those that are surreal (alien), aesthetically compelling (beauty), or energetically charged (move or MUD, for “multi-use dimension”). Mindwaves, by contrast, is structured around formal visual qualities: packaging (emballage), texture (such as Fourche, Circle, Amorf, or Geometric), and connection (connection, including subcategories like Human, Realea, and Strip). The Human Interest section (Icarus, Verticals , WWEB and Trümmerfrauen) contains images and notes focused on human emotion, empathy, and compassion.
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This book is an early vignette from Michael Kenna's far-reaching photographic odyssey. Some of these photographs, made almost forty years ago, are familiar, even famous, but many have never been seen before. They have been lying in wait, stored in a series of negative files. Normally, Kenna travels extensively and is not able to keep up with printing his extensive(...)
Michael Kenna: Northern England
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This book is an early vignette from Michael Kenna's far-reaching photographic odyssey. Some of these photographs, made almost forty years ago, are familiar, even famous, but many have never been seen before. They have been lying in wait, stored in a series of negative files. Normally, Kenna travels extensively and is not able to keep up with printing his extensive collection of negatives. It took the Covid pandemic and lockdown for him to search through his archives, rediscover these long-forgotten images, and print them in his darkroom. These photographs reveal a Northern England from Kenna's youth that, for the most part, no longer exists. From the Introduction. Michael Kenna was born in the small industrial town of Widnes in northwest England. The youngest of six children, Kenna grew up in a poor, working-class, Irish-Catholic family. He attended a seminary school for seven years with the intention of becoming a priest, after which he studied at the Banbury School of Art and later at the London College of Printing, before moving to the USA in the late seventies.
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''A pound of pictures'' is a stream-of-consciousness celebration of the photographic medium, bringing together an entirely new collection of work by Alec Soth made between 2018 and 2021. Depicting a sprawling array of subjects ? from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and busts of Abe Lincoln- this book reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and(...)
Alec Soth: A pound of pictures
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''A pound of pictures'' is a stream-of-consciousness celebration of the photographic medium, bringing together an entirely new collection of work by Alec Soth made between 2018 and 2021. Depicting a sprawling array of subjects ? from Buddhist statues and birdwatchers to sun-seekers and busts of Abe Lincoln- this book reflects on the photographic desire to pin down and crystallise experience, especially as it is represented and recollected by printed images. Throughout this eclectic sequence are the recurring presences of iconography, of souvenirs and mementos, and of the image-makers that surround us day to day. Forming a winding, ruminative road trip, Soth’s photographs are followed by his own notes and reflections in an extended afterword. 'If the pictures in this book are about anything other than their shimmering surfaces,' he writes, 'they are about the process of their own making. They are about going into the ecstatically specific world and creating a connection between the ephemeral (light, time) and the physical (eyeballs, film).' Each book contains five randomised replica vernacular photographs loosely inserted within the pages.
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Avec ce livre, Éric Poitevin introduit le lecteur avec générosité dans l’univers de son atelier en proposant une sorte de journal, résultat de deux ans d’un travail intérieur qui documente, par le texte et par l’image, le processus de création. Il y dévoile les influences qu’ont pu avoir sur son travail ses lectures ou les images des autres. Le livre s’ouvre par un(...)
Éric Poitevin : Je plumerai les canards en retrant
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Avec ce livre, Éric Poitevin introduit le lecteur avec générosité dans l’univers de son atelier en proposant une sorte de journal, résultat de deux ans d’un travail intérieur qui documente, par le texte et par l’image, le processus de création. Il y dévoile les influences qu’ont pu avoir sur son travail ses lectures ou les images des autres. Le livre s’ouvre par un entretien entre Éric Poitevin et Jean-Christophe Bailly, qui permet de saisir son cheminement vers l’art, son parcours de photographe autant que ses intentions artistiques. L’artiste a ensuite sélectionné des extraits de sa correspondance, qui mettent en lumière ses rapports avec les galeries et les musées, ses relations avec ses contemporains (intellectuels et critiques), les affinités avec le territoire qui l’entoure, son rôle de professeur. L’ouvrage contient aussi une large sélection de photographies de sa collection personnelle, qui laissent entrevoir à la fois son intérêt historique pour le médium et une attention généreuse envers ses contemporains. Enfin, sont reproduites huit nouvelles séries de photographies inédites de l’artiste.
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Over the last 50 years, the America House in Berlin has been the focal point of cultural and political discussions and international controversies. Protected by barbed wire, it was attacked with eggs and Molotov cocktails; Robert Kennedy and Willy Brandt visited; millions of Berliners gained access to information in its library and at screenings of films; Lyonel Feininger(...)
The America House Berlin: pop, politics, and propaganda
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Over the last 50 years, the America House in Berlin has been the focal point of cultural and political discussions and international controversies. Protected by barbed wire, it was attacked with eggs and Molotov cocktails; Robert Kennedy and Willy Brandt visited; millions of Berliners gained access to information in its library and at screenings of films; Lyonel Feininger and Robert Rauschenberg exhibited their works there. In addition, the building is an architectural gem. Built in 1956-57 by Bruno Grimmek, the delicate, open structure is based on the concept of the "idea of space"-a fluid space that is borne by a transparent exterior membrane. In fall 2014 the building will be the new home of C/O Berlin, the exhibition center for photography and visual media.
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April 2015
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A l'occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance du duc d'Aumale, le catalogue de l'exposition présente sa collection de photographies et donne notamment à voir le château de Chantilly, dont il a hérité en 1830. Sans héritier direct depuis la mort de son dernier fils en 1872, le duc commande à Claudius Couton une couverture photographique de Chantilly, puis fait reconstruire(...)
Le Duc d'Aumale et Chantilly : Photographies du XIXe siècle
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A l'occasion du bicentenaire de la naissance du duc d'Aumale, le catalogue de l'exposition présente sa collection de photographies et donne notamment à voir le château de Chantilly, dont il a hérité en 1830. Sans héritier direct depuis la mort de son dernier fils en 1872, le duc commande à Claudius Couton une couverture photographique de Chantilly, puis fait reconstruire à partir de 1875 par l'architecte Honoré Daumet le Grand Château mutilé depuis la Révolution. Après la reconstruction, il confie en 1885 à Alphonse Chalot, un enfant de Chantilly, les prises de vues du château, témoignage irremplaçable sur la genèse de son accrochage. Ayant installé ses collections dans le château, il lègue le musée Condé à l'Institut de France en 1884, avec interdiction de prêter ses collections et de modifier sa présentation.
Photography by Region
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This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald's poetics and shows how his appropriation of travel in its myriad historical and cultural forms -- tourism, the pilgrimage, the walking vacation, travel as escape -- works to craft intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of individual life stories is mapped onto a wider European cultural history of loss(...)
The undiscover'd country: W.G. Sebald and the poetics of travel
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This collection of essays places travel at the center of Sebald's poetics and shows how his appropriation of travel in its myriad historical and cultural forms -- tourism, the pilgrimage, the walking vacation, travel as escape -- works to craft intertextual narratives in which the pursuit of individual life stories is mapped onto a wider European cultural history of loss and destruction. Following these cues, the contributors wander the various modalities of travel in Sebald's writing in order to discover how walking, flying, sojourning, and other kinds of peregrination inform the relationship between writing, reading, memory, and place in Sebald's work. At the same time, the essays uncover in innovative ways the affinities between Sebald and literary travelers like Bruce Chatwin, Franz Kafka, Adalbert Stifter, Christoph Ransmayr, and Joseph Conrad.
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