Articles populaires – palimpsests & other things

16 avril 2013

Misia Sert: the muse

La double tragedie de Misia Sert Misia Sert de Alex-Ceslas Rzewuski Jean Chalon Marie Sophie Olga Zenaide Godebska, plus communément appelée Misia Sert (1872-1956), fille d'un sculpteur polonais, épouse successivement Thadée Natanson, fondateur de la...

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Tags: Coco Chanel, Cocteau, Diaghilev, Gabriel Fauré, Mallarmé, Misia sert, Proust, Stravinsky, Vuillard, Toulouse Lautrec

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23 mai 2013

L'Affichiste in Montreal: an amazing boutique dedicated to Posters

A real playdoyer from a fervent collectionneur When I began collecting posters almost 25 years ago, the only thing I knew about them was that they appealed to me visually. Posters are instinctive: one needn’t have any art history background or even a...

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Tags: montreal, affiches, Toulouse Lautrec, vintage, affichiste, air france, alphonse mucha, cappiello, jules cheret, sabena

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9 avril 2012

Republique in Villegle's mood

A few days ago, I enjoyed the beauty of the walls of the tube station Republique, in Paris. There are still walls were affiches are glued in the pure tradition of les colleurs d'affiches. These walls are absolutely beautiful and Villegle certainly make...

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Tags: Rotella, Villegle, affiches, advertising, decollages, tube, metro

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8 mars 2015

Taryn Simon, Jeu de Paume, Paris

Calvin Washinton C&E Motel, Room No. 24, Waco, TexasWhere an informant claimed to have heard Washington confessServed 13 years of a Life sentence for Capital Murder, 2002 Chromogenic print, 48 x 60 inches (121.9 x 152.4 cm), Edition of 5 © Taryn Simon...

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Tags: photographer, Taryn Simon, documented, fascinating, great exhibition, intelligent, narrative

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28 août 2014

Gare Lisch: to be saved!

Exceptional building, with a mixed of Byzantine and classical style, built at the end of the 19th century. Juste Lisch his architect, who edificated la Gare Saint-Lazare and la gare des Invalides, conceived a project made of glass, metal, briques and...

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Tags: Bois-Colombes, Gare Lisch, Juste Lisch, architecture, monument en péril, projects, to be saved

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4 février 2015

Hiroshi Sugimoto: still life

Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto's Dioramas are like still shots out of a movie that blur the lines between reality and illusion. When Sugimoto first arrived in New York City, he did all of the typical tourist activities including visiting NYC's...

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Tags: still life, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Pace London, Royal Academy, Dioramas, Silver Print

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17 janvier 2012

Auguste Sander 1876-1964

Voir, observer, penser: la profession de foi d'un photographe Auguste Sander took 40 000 photograph whose 30 000 have disappeared following a bombing of Koln, during WWII. His photographs have perfect qualities such as the study of the reality, the authenticity...

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Tags: photography, August Sander, black and white, nostalgy, sociology

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23 novembre 2014

Ronald Searle: Artist and cartoonist best known for St Trinian's and Molesworth

The artist Ronald Searle, who has died aged 91, will always be associated with St Trinian's, the anarchic girls' boarding school he created in pen and ink in the 1940s, which inspired a long-running series of films. Searle and St Trinian's go together...

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Tags: British, drawings, humour, illustrator, stylish, talent

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12 novembre 2012

Zola Photographer

A fascinating book whose pages are filled with Emile Zolas's photographs. Zola took 700 hundred photographs from 1894 to his brutal death in 1902. This book illustrates Zola's life, shared between his two families: Alexandrine in Medan and Jeanne and...

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Tags: Medan, Verneuil, Zola, Denise Jacques, black white

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27 octobre 2011

Egoiste, beautiful magazine...

Egoiste is a magazine which has been created by Nicole Wisniak at the end of the seventies. This limited edition magazine has 290 pages. Nicole Wisniak asked for the best photographers as Richard Avedon, Paolo Roversi, Bettina Rheims, Jean Larivière and...

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Tags: collection, icones, photographies, publicite

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6 décembre 2011

Georges Melies

The inventor of cinema. He was thanked by the Lumiere Brothers and recognised as the genious of films maker. Book Georges Melies by Elizabeth Ezra Before the turn of the twentieth century, before the nickelodeon, even before the first cinemas, Georges...

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Tags: cinema, films, inventor, magician

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27 octobre 2009

In Memory of the Late Mr & Mrs Comfort

"You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues." Richard Avedon, 1970 In Memory of the Late Mr and Mrs Comfort is a fable photographed and created for The New Yorker by Richard...

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Tags: photographies, beaute, fashion, mort

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22 novembre 2011

Interdiction d'afficher: loi du 29 juillet 1881

Thank you to Jacques Mahe de la Villegle and Mimmo Rotella for each delightful minute I spent in the compay of their work. After weeks of work, brain-storming and stress... The essay is in its box. The research was fascinating and I enjoyed the time spent...

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Tags: books, Rotella, Villegle, research

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23 novembre 2011

From August Sander to Michael Somoroff: Absence of subject

Reading with great interest the project of Michael Somoroff of reappropriating August Sander's photographs ( People of the Twentieth Century) in Eyemazing Nov. 2011, opened my curiosity . I found the project very poetic, nostalgic and pure. Michael Somoroff...

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Tags: appropriation, photography, August Sander, still life

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20 avril 2012

Kurt Schwitters, Color and Collage

"Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) was one of the outstanding figures in European modernism at the beginning of the twentieth century, and together with Marcel Duchamp one of the father figures for the generation of the avant-garde after the 2WW." He started...

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Tags: affiches, avant-garde, collage, duchamp

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18 novembre 2013

Paris Photo

L’année 2013 est une année particulièrement féconde pour Paris Photo qui a vu naître sa première édition américaine dans les studios de la Paramount à Los Angeles, où plus de 13 500 visiteurs ont afflué. Fort de son succès international, Paris Photo continue...

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Tags: photograph, artists, grand palais, paris photo

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21 mars 2015

The master enchanters, an article from Telegaph, November 2007

At the turn of the 20th century, a new generation of artist-illustrators brought fresh life to the written word and captured the public’s imagination. Rodney Engen’s book and exhibition, produced in association with the Dulwich Picture Gallery, explores...

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Tags: illustrator, Aubrey Beardsley, Charles Robinson, vintage children's books

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25 octobre 2011

The Fahion World of Jean-Paul Gaultier: from the sidewalk to the catwalk

From June 17 to October 2, 2011, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) will present The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first international exhibition devoted to the celebrated French couturier. Gaultier launched...

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Tags: exposition, jean-paul gaultier, montreal

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24 février 2012

Kodak: the end of an era...

Strange to recall, Kodak was the Google of its day. Founded in 1880, it was known for its pioneering technology and innovative marketing. “You press the button, we do the rest,” was its slogan in 1888. By 1976 Kodak accounted for 90% of film and 85% of...

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Tags: photography, analog, digital

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24 janvier 2012

From the absence to the presence...

Create a living memory from August Sander's characters. Taken out from their context they are trully present. I just wanted to create different scenarios with these beautiful men and women, Parents and children, husbands and wives... I did not want to...

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Tags: photography, August Sander, Michael Somoroff

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24 novembre 2011

Stefan Zweig, Irene Nerimovsky and Sandor Marai

I love these books for the cynical description of human relationships. Embers: Sandor Marai Describing the story of Embers is almost to do it a disservice. An elderly aristocratic general, Henrik, invites a childhood friend, Konrad, who disappeared 41...

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Tags: books, author, nostalgia

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17 février 2012

Norman Parkinson versus Van Dongen

Norman Parkinson, A very British Glamour by Louise Baring "Instead of posing aloof creatures with mask-like faces in fanciful settings, Parkinson took women out into natural light, making them move with informal freedom and exuberance - a far cry from...

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Tags: painter, photographer, portraits

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24 janvier 2012

Japanese photography at the end of the XIXth

The most poetic exhibition is in Venise, Palazzo Fianchetti (Campo Santo Stefano, 2842), the seat of the local institute of Sciences, literature and art, will host the exhibit called "La Fotografia del Giappone (1860 – 1910)", i.e. "The Photography of...

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Tags: photograph, hand-colourised, old japanese

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6 février 2012

Book design research

Le Corbusier as Book Designer: Semi-Modernity a la francaise by Catherine de Smet Le Corbusier -Charles-Edouard Jeanneret- produced thirty-five books which he authored, laid out, chose the format and the paper. Le Corbuser and Amedee Ozenfant founded...

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Tags: books, Le Corbusier, graphic designer

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20 avril 2012

Variation with August Sander's characters

Obsession.. I cannot stop working with these pictures. With and without the background, with and without the characters. The idea was to go on with the presence of the absents. The absents being the characters which have been taken off the photographs...

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Tags: August Sander, collage, photomontages

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