Under the title "J'ai une famille" (I have a family), the Palais de la Porte-Dorée in Paris is bringing together, until February 18, 2024, works by artists who arrived in France in the 1980s. The "J'ai une famille" exhibition brings together ten Chinese-born artists working in France: two women and eight men. Two have now ...
Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall, Vallauris, France, 1955. Photographed by Philippe Halsman (America, 1906-1979).
Lewis Wickes Hine (America, 1874–1940) Interior of tobacco shed, Hawthorn Farm. Girls in the foreground are 8, 9, and 10 years old. The 10-year-old makes 50 cents a day. 12 workers on this farm are 8 to 14 years old, and about 15 are over 15 years in Hazardville, Connecticut 9 August 1917 Collection of ...
Charles Hugo (France, 1826–1871) Victor Hugo dans le rocher des Proscrits (Victor Hugo dans le rocher des Proscrits) Around 1853 Salted paper print from a collodion glass negative 10.3 x 6.3 cm. Don Mme Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes, 1984 Collection of Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France In shaping his own image as the leading opponent of ...
Erwin Olaf (Netherlands, 1959–2023) has died at the age of 64 after a long battle with lung disease, according to information published on Wednesday, September 20 by several media outlets in the Netherlands, citing the artist's family. "World-famous photographer Erwin Olaf has died. His family has announced the news," reported NOS, the Dutch public broadcasting ...
"The Decisive Moment", Behind the Gare Saint-Lazare (1932), photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson (France, 1908-2004), considered the father of modern photojournalism, he coined the term “The Decisive Moment” to refer to a moment when the photographer captures a fleeting second, immortalising it in time. "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive ...
The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 The Hubble Space Telescope almost didn’t make it. Carried aloft in 1990 aboard the space shuttle Atlantis, it was over-budget, years behind schedule and, when it finally reached orbit, nearsighted, its 8-foot mirror distorted as a result of a manufacturing flaw. It would not be ...
Georgia O'Keeffe (America, 1887-1986) in 1956, photographed by Yousuf Karsh (America/Canada, 1908-2002).
Gertrude Stein sitting in her atelier in Paris with her portrait by Pablo Picasso hanging on the wall behind her, 1930. Gertrude Stein's atelier, 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, France Gertrude Stein's atelier, 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, France.
Pablo Picasso, Olga Picasso, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, 1930
