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Paris Photo Sees Visitor and Exhibitor Numbers Drop Slightly; While Sales Reports Were Positive; Several Former Long-Time Exhibitors Bailed in 2025
In November, the international photography world once again gathered at the Grand Palais for Paris Photo, the leading fair for fine art photography. The 28th edition of the fair brought…
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Contemporary Photography of Vladimir Birgus: The Mystery of Color
By Alex Novak
Vladimir Birgus was born in Frýdek-Místek, Czechoslovakia on May 5, 1954.
He completed his literary, theater and film studies at the School of Philosophy, Palacký University, Olomouc (1978,…
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CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY: TRUTH & THE BURDEN OF REALITY
There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality. The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…
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