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Cecil Beaton, Prince of Photographers
The National Portrait Gallery in London delves deeply into the most significant moments of this passionate aesthete’s career — from fashion, portrait and war photography to the creation of costumes and sets for My Fair Lady, which earned him two Academy Awards.
Friday October 10, 2025
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• Exhibition : Cecil Beaton: Creator of Imagination and Elegance
• Exhibition : Gen Z: A Liberating Body-to-Body Dialogue
• Book : David Katzenstein’s Ten-Year Journey with a Simple Camera
• Fair : In Paris, Four Days to Celebrate Photography in All Its Forms
• Book : JH Engström: “What I see. What I feel. What I remember. What I think. In that order.”
• Exhibition : David Alekhuogie: Reclaim and Reconstruct
• Archives : Cecil Beaton, Prince of Photographers
• Archives : Laurent Reyes: A 21st-Century Beatnik
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The National Portrait Gallery in London delves deeply into the most significant moments of this passionate aesthete’s career — from fashion, portrait and war photography to the creation of costumes and sets for My Fair Lady, which earned him two Academy Awards.
By Nathalie Dassa
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Sixty-six photographers share the walls of the exhibition “Gen Z. Shaping A New Gaze” at Photo Elysée in Lausanne — a creative “mass” echoing a shared mindset determined to express its convictions through the medium of photography.
By Lou Tsatsas
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A box camera bought for 25 cents became David Katzenstein’s companion on a decade-long photographic journey. The resulting book, entitled Brownie, is both a travel diary and a creative manifesto — a testament to how limitations can open new ways of seeing.
By Jonas Cuénin
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From October 9 to 12, 2025, the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris will once again be transformed into a vast playground for all image enthusiasts. Photography, video, innovation, exhibitions, talks, and masterclasses — the Salon de la Photo returns with an ambitious and vibrant new edition.
By Blind Magazine
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The book Dimma Brume Mist was born from over 200 binders filled with thousands of contact sheets and negatives. Over five years, JH Engström revisited this vast archive, searching through forgotten photos, for a thread running through his 35 years of image-making.
By Gaia Squarci
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Yancey Richardson gallery presents “highlifetime”, an exhibition by David Alekhuogie that examines who shapes and defines the African and African-American cultural narratives.
By Gaia Squarci
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Designer, fashion guru and aesthetic visionary, Cecil Beaton is still photography’s reigning exemplar of elegance. In 2011, an exhibition and a momentous book, Cecil Beaton: The New York Years, looked back on the American career of one of the great portrait photographers of our time.
By Jonas Cuénin
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Canicule, Laurent Reyes’s book, published by Arnaud Bizalion, records his and his friends’ daily life spent sunbathing and flirting like twenty-first-century beatniks.
By Sabyl Ghoussoub
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