Over 200 photographs protagonists of White Women, Sleepless Nights, Big Nudes, an exhibition that brings Helmut Newton at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome Wednesday, March 6 after the initial stages in America (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) and Germany (Museum for Photography in Berlin). Shots originally appeared in the earlier volumes of the photographer, from the book White Women (1976), who sees a fifty Newton struggling with his first monograph that will get the prestigious Kodak ...

Preservation and enhancement of the Italian Cultural Heritage abroad University Master’s Programme issued by the University of Parma in cooperation with Milan and Turin and the Interuniversity Consortium ICoN Italian Culture on the Net Academic competencies: University of Parma and the ICoN Consortium Italian Culture on the Net in cooperation with the Universities of Milan and Turin: theoretical skills in the field of preservation and digital management of cultural heritage with ...

The Other Venice is pleased to announce the addition of a new thematic tour: Photographic Tour in Venice. This tour consists of a 4-hour leisurely walk incorporating a photographic workshop with photographer Marco Secchi, well known for his editorial and commercial work and represented by the most important international agencies. During the tour under Marco's supervision you'll be able to acquire ...

The ABCO Cultural Association presents a new series of photographic workshops, especially  dedicated to lovers of Venice and Carnival masks. A “Shoot in Venice” is an initiative that includes six photographic workshops during 2012, offering a wide variety of shooting and photographic techniques, involving national and international renowned photographers. Particular attention will be given to the precious masks of Venice Carnival, which will have the opportunity to be photographed in Venetian historical palaces and in special ...

But who is Michel Kirch? It is known about him that he was a doctor, and now he is devoted to the production of "visual stories" which figure, as a single player, only one character, sometimes surrounded, sometimes isolated in thought, by the space. Forty of his photographic works are on display, until December 29th, at the Espace Pierre Cardin Evolution, in the Marais district of Paris. Forty openings, as many portals that break the boundaries ...

The exhibition "Robert Mapplethorpe by Sofia Coppola" opened its doors on November 25th in Paris and will remain open until January 7th, 2012. The protagonists are precisely two: the photographer from New York, Mapplethorpe, which is the official author of the shots, and Sofia Coppola, director awarded Golden Lion and daughter of art, who cultivates a passion for photography for years and who chose the shots. The curator of the exhibition is Thaddaeus Ropac, minute and ...

You have time until the 11th of November to submit your artworks to the 6th International Arte Laguna Prize. The Prize is dedicated to contemporary visual artists from all over the world, who can decide freely topics and techniques of their artworks, choosing between 5 section: painting, sculpture, photographic art, video-art and performance, virtual art (dedicated to artworks created using softwares and apps for smartphones and tablets). But the Arte Laguna Prize is not just a competition: ...

The Association ABCO is organizing a photography workshop in an historical Venetian palace on the theme of the Carnival in Venice. The opportunity is twofold: on one hand the photographers (whether professional or not) will have the opportunity to experiment, followed by a teacher, photo shoots extremely interesting, both for internal and the subjects; on the other hand the masks' fans can participate masked and then be portrayed by the photographers. The event takes place in Ca' ...

Alan Marcheselli began to use Polaroid for professional reasons. Indeed, it was an interior designer when he decided, in the nineties, to use the snapshot to catalog graphic design business in small sets and then send the customer portfolios of projects accompanied by a sampling of materials. In 2005 begins to approach the use of instant photography in art, prime source of inspiration for the work of Maurizio Galimberti. Slowly Marcheselli finds its size: as a ...

Dream freely, this is what are the photographs of Jan Von Holleben, a photographer who Spike Jonze really like; he was born in Cologne (now lives in Berlin) in 1977 and grew up in the countryside where he was so thoroughly permeated of his parents' influence: his father was director and the mother a child psychologist. In part this explains the great significance of the dream world that stands out in every detail of his ...