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April 2016
Artist Talk: Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Please join Arno Rafael Minkkinen and trace a history. Arno Rafael Minkkinen has worked for decades perfecting his visual language, revisiting places and poses to create a rich story. His strong and moving images all come with a story. In this event Arno visits defining moments, times and places. He shares his persistence, commitment and fascination with photography, inviting you to learn about his philosophy and his process.[/column_1] [Fee] Free [Language] English with Japanese translation [Program name for reservation] Artist…
Exhibtion Tour. PLANKTON. A Drifting World at the Origins of Life Christian Sardet and the Macronauts.
Join us to explore the world of plankton with Christian Sardet, a CNRS emeritus research director at the Observatoire Océanologique of Villefranche-sur-Mer and his son Noe the co-founder of Parafilms. Including photos of plankton taken in Shimoda, Japan in 2016, together they will take you into the complex and beautful world of drifting plankton. These organisms represent 98 % of the biomass of the oceans, while swimming fish and mammals represent less than 2%. Plankton is the most ancient and…
Curator Tour: Coming into Fashion
Nathalie Herschdorfer, curator of “Coming into Fashion, a Century of Photography at Condé Nast”, discusses how fashion photography has been developed over 100 years. The exhibition, carefully selected from the archives of Condé Nast (publisher of the legendary Vogue magazine), shows how fashion photography can be both creative and commercial, experimental and popular.[/column_1] Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is currently Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland.…