paris – Actual Colors May Vary {ACMV}

POLYCOPIES Book Market on the boat Concorde Atlantique in Paris

PARIS, a boat by the river, a coffee shop and a terrace, and 35 photobook publishers from all over the world!

These are some of the ingredients Polycopies has mixed together hoping to create a book market with a festival-like atmosphere. This first edition of this « salon des livres » is taking place on the boat Concorde-Atlantique below the Musée D’Orsay.

During four days, running parallel to the Paris Photo fair, these 35 publishers will bring you a large selection of newly published books, organizing numerous meetings and signings with photographers.

Bateau Concorde Atlantique
Berges de Seine – Port de Solferino
75007 Paris (mehr …)

Book Book Signing Event Feature Photobook

Werner Amann – Surf Fiction

SURF FICTION is Werner Amann’s unpublished work from 1997. It engages with social reality and image bound-culture in Los Angeles and other urban centers in the U.S. Beyond a mere documentary or created approach, SURF FICTION interlinks photography with collages, typography, video stills, abrupt breaks and double page spreads – switching with each page turn from one plot to another. The work plays with projections of a myth that regenerates itself from day to day, producing an image of Los Angeles and at the same time a visual reflection on modern reality. (mehr …)

Exhibition Group Exhibition Photography

LE BAL presents: S’IL Y A LIEU JE PARS AVEC VOUS

S’IL Y A LIEU JE PARS AVEC VOUS
(If there is place I leave with you)

SOPHIE CALLE – JULIEN MAGRE – STÉPHANE COUTURIER – ALAIN BUBLEX – ANTOINE D’AGATA

September 11 – October 05, 2014
LE BAL, Paris

« The highway is a loop. From a starting point, you always go back. Sophie Calle, Julien Magre, Stéphane Couturier, Alain Bublex, Antoine d’Agata, here they are, five artists who have hit the road in response to LE BAL’s invitation and with VINCI’s support. Looking for a story, often their own. Anonymous and yet so familiar, the highway became their creative land, their intimate playground. For all of them and for sure, an invitation to find themselves, to get lost… s’il y a lieu. » (mehr …)

Art Exhibition Painting Photography Solo Exhibition

Guy Bourdin Retrospective | Deichtorhallen Hamburg

Opening: Thursday, October 31, 2013, 7 p.m.
Exhibition: November 1, 2013 – January 26, 2014
Deichtorhallen Hamburg / House of Photography

Press Release, Deichtorhallen Hamburg:

House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg is pleased to announce an exhibition of the legendary photographer Guy Bourdin (1928–1991), to be on view from November 1, 2013 to January 26, 2014. This most comprehensive exhibition to date is both an overview of the essential components of Guy Bourdin’s oeuvre and an introduction to unveiling works from his personal archives which have never been seen before. (mehr …)

ACMV/Berlin Artist Talk Book Signing Collaboration Exhibition Installation Multimedia Painting Photography Projection Solo Exhibition

Sonntag Paris | Schwarzwälder by Davide Cascio

Sonntag is going to Paris! They will be working with the swiss contemporary artist Davide Cascio and Sonntag Paris will be hosted by Faycal Baghriche and Kapwani Kiwanga.

Sonntag Paris would like to invite you to the Sunday matinee presentation:

Schwarzwälder
by Davide Cascio

Sunday, 7th of April 2013, 2 – 6pm (mehr …)

Exhibition Feature Photobook Photography Solo Exhibition

Amaury da Cunha | Après tout

Après tout (After All) represents a turning point in the work of Amaury da Cunha.
His previous series, Saccades (Jolts), was somewhat luminous, infused with a sense of wonder facing the world. Après tout darkens in tone, as wonder gives way to bewilderment. Invading shadows are the backdrop for a photographer depicting himself as blinded. Death and sex are less allusive. A dog bares its fangs, while a bird of prey claws a branch. Yet shafts of light or a glimpsed road suggest that the end is not as impending as we may think. (mehr …)

Festival Photobook Photography

5th International Photobook Festival 2012

20. – 22. April 2012 Le Bal, Paris

Music Photography

The one who dribbles too much

Boubacar Traoré is a musician from Mali, born in 1942, also known by his nickname „Kar Kar“ meaning „The one who dribbles too much“ – according to his style of playing football. Self-taught (with a little help from his brother, who was studying music in Cuba during the 50’s) Boubacar developed a unique style that blends American Blues music, Arab music, and pentatonic structures found in West Africa’s Mande cultural region (Kassonké). (mehr …)