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The LFI Gallery presents over 300 000 images by more than 20 000 photographers. This time, dark silhouettes in New York and surprisingly artistic barrier tape in Sweden
What happens when the M Monochrom meets up with colour filters? How precisely does this influence brightness values? About an often welcome, but not always essential, accessory
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92 | Leica M 10 A direct comparison between the M10 and its predecessor, the M240, reveals that, despite the slimmer body of the M10, it contains significantly improved electronics
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Shot from the hip: Tomaso Baldessarini’s 28 Millimetre series
Talking with Benjamin Füglister about the Contemporary African Photography Prize 116 | books
9 8 | M a c r o Ad a p t e r Infinitely close: Max Malatesta combines the Macro-Adapter-M and, at times, unusual lenses, to explore his weakness for detail – “to experience an intimate connection with the world”
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If anything deserves to be called ‘legendary’, then it is the photo agency that was founded in Paris in 1947
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Most of the time he photographs in the studio – but with the Leica Q Baldessarini hit the streets of Manhattan
The M10: slim on the outside, with a significant overhaul of its inner components
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Nearly 60 percent of the Nebraska voters decided for Donald Trump. A photo reportage from Middle America
Fred Herzog 52 | modern color
What is the connection between a barber shop and a red stocking? Herzog’s exemplary images answer the question
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New publications by Harry Gruyaert, Richard Mosse, Erwin Polanc und Irving Penn 118 | exhibitions Eugene Richards, New York; Fred Stein, Gentilly; Araki, Tokyo; Peter Frazer, Madrid; Sebastião Salgado, Brussels 119 | Leica Galleries The programme of Leica Galleries around the world – including Simone Bramante and Alex Webb, among others 1 2 0 | F e s t i va l s Starting July, Arles once again becomes the centre-point of world photography: the Voies Off Festival runs in parallel to Rencontres 1 2 2 | my p i c t u r e Can photography stop time? To Claudine Doury it seems possible on occasion 1 2 2 | i mp r i n t
Delightfully documented or cleverly staged? Presenting a man who set forth to revolutionise fashion photography
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The fashion photographer covered a body painting session organised by New York artist Vicky Steckel
Cover Photo: Sergio Larrain, Passage Bavestrello, Valparaíso 1952 © Magnum Photos/Agentur Focus
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70 years of Magnum Photos: an agency which has shaped history – with a passion for photography, an inquisitive spirit and empathy for humankind. Many of its photographers explored the world with a Leica. Happy anniversary! On 22 May 1947, ‘Magnum Photos, Inc’ was officially entered into the New York County trade register. Yet, the idea for an independent co-operative dates back to the 1930s when the paths of its founding members first crossed in Paris: Polish-born David ‘Chim’ Seymour, the Hungarian André Friedman who called himself Robert Capa, and a Frenchman named Henri CartierBresson. After the Second World War, they formed the Magnum agency together with George Rodger, William and Rita Vandivert, and Maria Eisner. Their aim was to ensure the best possible conditions for photographers, and to reclaim their rights: independence, self-direction and greater control over the publication of their work. The model was successful, with the agency growing with the golden age of magazines. Magnum photographers were the leading representatives of the characteristic post-war aesthetic. Close involvement, curiosity, dedication, respect and compassion were part of their core values. In the past seventy years, 92 photographers have helped shape Magnum’s history. At this time, 49 members continue to contribute to our shared visual consciousness with their images and stories – in spite of, or perhaps even because of, the immense social upheavals and an increasingly digitised world. LFI presents selected Magnum Leica moments and asked the acting Magnum president, Martin Parr, why this agency is so special. Ulrich Rüter
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Robert Capa Right up close, and closer still: Capa (1913–1954) ranks among the most legendary war reporters and has authored some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. 1945, American paratroopers landing in Germany, near Wesel, on 24 March
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Elliott Erwitt The photographer’s (b. 1928) foible for dogs is legendary. Many of his images are humorous, sometimes ironic depictions of the unique relationship between man and dog – often from a canine perspective. 1946, during a visit to NYC two years before moving there to study, this fashion-conscious Chihuahua caught Erwitt’s eye
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In search of answers: nearly 60 percent of the electorate in Nebraska voted for Donald Trump. What do they hope to gain with their new President? And how could things reach such an extreme? An empathetic look at the state of affairs in the American heartland.
Stars and Stripes and patriotism. Since 1964 (for Lyndon B. Johnson), voters in Nebraska have never supported a Democratic President
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Equipped with Kodachrome roll film and a Leica, the German-born photographer has exploÂred his adopted hometown of Vancouver since the 1950s. A new book celebrates his work with an exceptionally diverse selection of images.
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A young girl’s bold choice becomes a striking point of focus: Red Stockings, 1961 (top). Empty Barber Shop, 1966 (left)
Most people would have walked past the empty barber shop without a second glance – but not Fred Herzog. The photographer’s gaze has turned the unassuming shop-front into a perfect composition. Patterns, surfaces and structural elements culminate into a concentrated visual display in which nothing seems incidental. The eye is drawn to the decorations and embellishments of the shop-windows and façade, as well as the juxtaposed geometry of the interior and exterior space created by the unusual shooting angle. Yet the most striking components of the image are its colours: in Herzog’s photographs, colour is not merely an arbitrary detail, but tends to be a defining compositional element. This is also illustrated in his latest book publication, which presents an over-
view of the photographer’s work, that is unprecedented in its diversity. The audience is primarily taken on an exploration through Herzog’s adopted hometown of Vancouver – a city he has documented time and again over the past fifty years, capturing moments he discovered on the streets with the marvelling eye of an outsider. Rather than focusing on the city’s main places of interest, his attention was drawn to less prominent themes: street life, small shops, building façades and the flickering lights of nighttime neon signs presented him with an inexhaustible array of material for his photographic excursions. From the late fifties onwards, Herzog worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome film. This decision came to play a significant part in why his work is still
being discovered today: using Kodachrome limited the presentation of his images to slide projections, while modern digital printing technology has now finally been able to bring them to a wider audience. Modern Color therefore represents a chapter of photography history that is fascinating both from a documentary and photo-technical point of view. The most recent image featured in the book was taken in 2009, while the earliest, depicting a locomotive in the rain, stems from 1952. It is one of the volume’s very few black and white photographs, and probably one of the last pictures Herzog took in Germany. Fred Herzog was born 1930 in Bad Friedrichshall, near Stuttgart. He was named Ulrich, though later changed his name when emigrating to →
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Bil Brown Weimar Los Angeles
To Bil Brown, Los Angeles today is like Berlin was at the time of the Weimar Republic, an oasis of freedom. That is not the only similarity, however, as a new era may also be about to begin in the United States of America.
The feeling of Berlin in the 1920s and early 1930s is reborn in L.A. today: actor Paz de la Huerta (above) and Model Nikita Andrianova (right)
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Enrique Badulescu Fe a s t o f C o l o u r s
The body paintings of New York artist Vicky Steckel are an impulsive explosion of colour. Fashion photographer Enrique Badulescu has documented this vibrant spectacle with his camera. A protocol of a creative synthesis.
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L at t i c e tiles “I wanted this picture to deal with asymmetric relationships. One single person crossing this large square in the city of Katano (Osaka Prefecture), creating a contrast to the precision of the tile patterns.� Yasu Nakamura Leica M240 with SummicronM 50mm f/2 Asph
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