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Ralph Gibson: The French Connection

A new book from Ralph Gibson, “Salon Littéraire,” offers a half-century of the legendary photographer’s stunning images of France.

Thursday April 11, 2024

Summary

A new book from Ralph Gibson, “Salon Littéraire,” offers a half-century of the legendary photographer’s stunning (and surprising) images of France.

By Bill Shapiro

As Hong Kong worked to recover from the mass anti-government protests of 2019 and the Covid-19 pandemic closed the city, photo editor and photographer Mikko Takkunen set out to photograph Hong Kong in a fresh way. His photographs, in brilliant, saturated color, reveal hidden perspectives and moods that many have not seen.

By Robert E. Gerhardt

“On the Sixth Day”, Alessandra Sanguinetti looks at the world from an animal’s perspective, in rural Argentina. A new edition of the startling book, first published in 2005.

Photographs by Alessandra Sanguinetti

Photographer Joe Conzo, Jr. was born and raised in the South Bronx. Through a combination of luck and circumstance, as a teenager Conzo found himself at the heart of cultural and activist movements working to change the neighborhood. Now 45 years later, a selection of his photographs is on display at the Bronx Documentary Center through April 21

By Robert E. Gerhardt, Jr.

Claudine Doury is a french photographer who lives and works in Paris. After having been a photo editor in Paris for the “Gamma” Agency and the newspaper “Liberation” as well as for the agency “Contact Press Images” in New York, she became a freelance photographer. She is a member of the VU’ agency and is represented by In Camera Gallery in Paris.

From May 26 to June 2, 2024 in Ferme de Brouage (France)

Traveling to Space From Your Backyard

“The Rocketgirl Chronicles”, by Andrew Rovenko, is a heartwarming personal project that follows the adventures of one little astronaut. As the photographer’s daughter keeps exploring the neighborhood, the child’s curiosity and imagination is able to transform even the most mundane of surroundings into otherworldly and often haunting scenes.

By Andrew Rovenko

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