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One of the world’s most influential photographers is featured with a retrospective at Paris’ Centre Georges Pompidou. Henri Cartier-Bresson, (August 22, 1908 – August 3, 2004) considered by many to be the father of photojournalism, blended a remarkable sense of design with the ability to capture the significance of an instant… the decisive moment. Continue reading “Henri Cartier-Bresson Paris Retrospective”

Every so often back in the ’30s, dark stretches of nighttime Paris would be lit by a sulfurous flash. Brassai was at work, taking pictures in which conventional beauty held little appeal. Like Toulouse-Lautrec, he was a well-born, highly trained visual artist who found inspiration in the down and dirty. Parisians will now have a chance to see these mythic photos with the exhibition “Brassai, pour l’Amour de Paris” at the Hotel de Ville. Continue reading “Brassai, For the Love of Paris”

The Galerie Maria Lund is showing Swedish photographer Helene Schmitz’s “Kudzu Project,” a visual mediation on nature and the impermanence of things. The mostly black and white photographs are a poetic melange of documentation and art—at once beautiful and yet subtly terrifying like a David Lynch film. Continue reading “Helene Schmitz Kudzu Project”

A  retrospective exhibition of work by the enigmatic Chilean photographer Sergio Larrain, curated by Agnès Sire,  was one of the highlights of last summer’s Rencontres d’Arles photo festival. Now Parisians have an opportunity to see photos  by this remarkable but little-known photographer with an exhibition (Vagabondages) at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson  Continue reading “Sergio Larrain, Vagabond Photographs”

“She Dances on Jackson” is the title of Vanessa Winship’s new exhibition of black and white photographs at the Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson in Paris (until July 28). Winship won the 2011 Henri Cartier Bresson Award with 30,000 euros allowing her to travel across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana to photograph the fabled ‘American dream.’ The exhibition of photos resulting from this trip present a lyrical conversation between landscape and portraits of the people that inhabit it. Continue reading “Vanessa Winship Paris Photography Exhibit”

People into photo know many of the names of photographers associated with Paris such as Doisneau, Lisette Model or Dora Maar, but Laure Albin Guillot’s name usually draws a blank. Now a retrospective exhibition at the Jeu de Paume revisiting the work of this unsung photography heroine is a step in the direction of reestablishing Guillot’s (1879-1962) place in the history of French photography Continue reading “Laure Albin Guillot at Jeu de Paume”

One of the most important living “humanist” photographers is exhibiting his work at the Paris Galerie David Guiraud as part of the Mois de la Photo (until Jan 18, 2012). The exhibition features Louis Stettner’s New York and Paris pictures taken from the late 1940’s to the present. Stettner is part of a generation of photographers, which included Bresson and Doisneau, whose black and white photographs are both social documents and poetry. Continue reading “Louis Stettner, Black & White and No Regrets”

Paris’ Musée Carnavalet, devoted to all things Parisian, hosts an exhibition of 230 photographs by the legendary documentary photographer Eugène Atget (until July 29, 2012). This exceptional exhibition of Atjet prints, glass negatives and albums made between 1898 and 1927 brings together collections from the Carnavalet Museum, supplemented by Atjet photos purchased by Man Ray currently at the George Eastman House in Rochester and pictures from the Madrid Fundacion Mapfre collection. Continue reading “Eugène Atget Paris Retrospective”

A Paris retrospective exhibition (until June 17, 2012) revisits the provocative, erotically charged  photos of the German-Australian fashion photographer Helmut Newton. His pictures, marked by erotic, stylized scenes, often with sado-masochistic subtexts appearing in such magazines as Vogue and Harper’s Bazar, redefined fashion photography. Continue reading “Helmut Newton at the Grand Palais”

Diane Arbus (1923–1971) once said “A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know…” The same could be said about Arbus herself. Although this enigmatic photographer has become one of the world’s most  influential artists, considerable mystery surrounds her controversial work. Now a 200 picture retrospective at Paris’ Jeu de Paume,  including two library-like rooms  with notebooks, cameras, contact sheets, books from her home and studio and family pictures, provides some new insights. Continue reading “Diane Arbus at Paris’ Jeu de Paume”