Lionel Kazan: An Ode to Femininity and Elegance (Meero)

Lionel Kazan is one of those photographers who stayed out of the limelight and helped shape the image of fashion and style in major magazines in the mid-twentieth century. Following the publication of a coffee-table book devoted to his work, the photographer’s daughter Alexandra Kazan continues to pay tribute to her father and celebrate his artistic talent with an exhibition in Nice, France.By Nathalie Dassa

At 78, French photographer Bernard Plossu reveals previously unpublished photographs in an exhibition entitled The American Years: Unpublished photographs 1966–1985 at Galerie du Jour Agnès b, in Paris. While his cult book Le Voyage Mexicain is being reissued by Contrejour, and at least three others are in the works, something has happened. Something that made him inconsolable.By Clara Bastid

Atlas Gallery in London presents Polish photographer Kacper Kowalski’s “Event Horizon”, winner of the Sony World Photography Landscape Award. A selection will also be presented at Photo London (May 11-14).Photographs by Kacper Kowalski

“Folly”, by Jamie Murray, is a meditative book born out of conversations with individuals who have been incarcerated.Photographs by Jamie Murray

From May 11 to July 2, 2023, a tribute will be paid to Bruno Barbey (1941-2020), late member of the Académie des beaux-arts, with an exhibition of some sixty photographs from his work on Italians in the 1960s, at the Pavillon Comtesse de Caen, in Paris.

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Blind shares the memories of some magical encounters with these virtuosos of the camera, soloists in black & white or in color, artists faithful to gelatin silver photography or bewitched by digital technologies. Today: Bernard Plossu, and an intimate journey across the landscape.By Brigitte Ollier

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