Alec Soth's photography is firmly rooted in the tradition of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. His depiction of the everyday confronts the ideals romanticized by American society; independence, freedom, religious devotion and individual expression. Through his 8 x 10 camera lens, Soth captures the extraordinary by exposing and utilizing the vernacular of the ordinary. The exhibition features a selection from Alec Soth's two acclaimed bodies of work Sleeping by the Mississippi and

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The UNO ART SPACE – Ute Noll will be presenting for the first time in Germany the color photographs of the American artist Cynthia Greig. On exhibit will be her series “Life-Size” (2001 – 2003) and “Representations” (2002 – to present). The exhibition will open on Saturday, November 8 and close on February 8, 2009.

Both  Life-Size  and Representations deal with objects from daily life. “Life-Size” plays with the sh

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La technique du daguerréotype – photographie sur argent – a été mise au point par Jacques Louis Mandé Daguerre et diffusée à partir de 1839. Aujourd’hui encore, un petit nombre de passionnés réalisent des daguerréotypes avec la technique de l’époque: sensibilisation aux vapeurs d’iode, prise de vue dans la chambre noire et développement aux vapeurs de mercure, dans une boîte &eacut

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7ème Grand prix international de photographie de Vevey
Launching the 7th Vevey International Photo Awards

The Vevey International Photo Awards is a competition of photographic projects with a first prize of 30,000CHF (approx. 20,000 Euros). It is organized by the Fondation Vevey, ville d’images as part of the festival Images’. The purpose of the competition is to promote outstanding personal work that is original and unconventional. There are, therefor

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