by Nicolas Genty | Sep 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Two photography giants are currently exhibited in Amsterdam. Brassaï at FOAM and Berenice Abbott at Huis Marseille with an extra thought to Eugène Atget, also shown in his relationship to Abbott. More impressions of these two exhibits in my news. Just follow the...
by Nicolas Genty | Sep 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
The exhibition continues inside Queen Anne’s Summer Palace with photos dedicated to the velvet revolution of 1989. Seeing Havel and Dubček in the arms of each other is touching and allows strong souvenirs to resurface. Prague, Národni třída, November 17th 1989...
by Nicolas Genty | Sep 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
1945: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent”. Winston Churchill 1989: the curtain rises in Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and other countries, to never descend again. 2019: 30...
by Nicolas Genty | Sep 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
… with other photographers around fashion and the female body. Large exhibition of his works from the years 1950-2000 but also several works of his contemporaries and influences from previous historical periods. Helmut Newton in Prague: sophistication and beauty...
by Nicolas Genty | Sep 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Werner Mahler followed the miners of the Steinkohlenwerk Martin Hoop in 1975. An incredible testimony of the working conditions in the paradise of socialism. The coals miners are naked, with limited equipment and precarious working environment, extracting coal for the...