Like every year, Galerie Clairefontaine presents a group show with various themes before the summer vacation. Starting out with the serious topic of our world’s ongoing political crises, the portrayal of Asya taken in 1996 by Stanley Greene (who unfortunately passed away very recently) has become an icon of women’s fate in war today. Karin Székessy’s cut out dress from 1971 leads over to the erotic theme in her typical bold style, followed by Luc…

For over six decades William Klein has pursued a creative life all his own. He has learned on the job with next to no formal training, making innovative and influential work in photography, painting, graphic design, writing, television and film. His sensibility is distinctive, while his achievements are unparalleled and unlikely to be matched. He began in the late 1940s with figurative and abstract canvases of the great graphic flair. He reinvented twosupposedly antagonistic fields : fashion pho…

PHOTOMEETINGS LUXEMBOURG workshops lectures exhibitions June 19 - 24, 2006 information: +352 472324 subscribe to newsletter: info@photomeetings.lu Mass Media Manipulation Due to the role of technology in the contemporary world, the function of the image in our society has changed. Millions of images are published and diffused, and remain instantly accessible. Selectively presented and manipulated, they lose what Walter Benjamin cal…

PHOTOMEETINGS LUXEMBOURG workshops lectures exhibitions June 19 - 24, 2006 information: +352 472324 subscribe to newsletter: info@photomeetings.lu Mass Media Manipulation Due to the role of technology in the contemporary world, the function of the image in our society has changed. Millions of images are published and diffused, and remain instantly accessible. Selectively presented and manipulated, they lose what Walter Benjamin cal…