°CLair Gallery proudly announces the release of Our Daily Bread, a photo-book by Magnum photographer Erich Hartmann (Germany 1922 – New York 1999), published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg.

For the first time in Europe, the exhibition Our Daily Bread, will be shown at the Französischer Dom in Berlin.






Magnum photographer Erich Hartmann’s long-term project shows the human work involved in making Our Daily Bread from land-clearing through planting and harvesting to the fee… more

"Lee Miller had a prodigious life. More accurately, she had half a dozen discrete, self-contained prodigious lives, one after another." Thus David Scherman, close friend and colleague of Lee Miller, attempted to describe the great American photographer.The photographs exhibited at Clair Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, reveal the various facets of the photographer. She was a fashion photographer, war reporter, observer of the times, a friend of Picasso and a Surrealist muse.

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Beauty is a question of vision, thoughts, feelings. It is more than a fad, more than an unwritten rule - it is always changing. The viewer discovers it at an unspecified moment by sudden impulse, in the quiet movement of an eyelid, the hint of a smile. The photographer surprises her, capturing her to give her what she lacks: eternity. The exhibition "The Spirit of Women" contains intimate conversations between photographers and their "beauties". Femmes fatales, actresses wi… more

CHIM rediscovered / CHIM retrouvéOpening: 22nd of december 2012, 7 pmExhibition: december 22, 2012 through january 11, 2013°Clair Galerie, Saint-Paul de Vence will show - as a counterpart to the retrospective offered by ICP/New York - a selection of vintage photographs by David Seymour-CHIM from December 22, 2012 until January 11, 2013.David Seymour, better known under CHIM, is a legend amongst photographers. Born in Warsaw in 1911 into a Jewish family of publishers, CHIM was still ca… more

Throughout his 50-year career Erich Hartmann was known as a photojournalist, a member of Magnum. However, his own business card read simply "Erich Hartmann, Photographer", he saw pictures everywhere and was never without a camera. In addition to his essays and reportage for publications and corporations world-wide he pursued, from his earliest days in photography, private photographic passions and obsessions - his vocation was also his avocation.Here is a small selection from a few of … more

The strong poetry of reality°Clair invites You for the opening of its summer exhibition, august 17th, 7 pm.A small selection of photographic works by Klavdij Sluban will be shown. Works, that are currently exposed at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles: A part of a project that he realized during an artist residency on the Kerguelen Islands in spring 2012.You will also find landscapes by french photographer Benoit Fougeirol from his last publication AROUND, editio… more

°CLAIR invites You for the opening, friday 7th of september 2012, 7 pm The exhibition comes along with the publication "PLANET LOVIGIN" at KEHRER Verlag. Hardcover, 112 pages. Photographies: Petr Lovigin. Texts: Petr Lovigin and Anna-Patricia Kahn.Languages: english/frenchIn "Planet Lovigin" the artist takes the reader along in a fairy-tale road trip through his Russian homeland and the Caucasus region. The pictures frequently sport the artist’s handwritten comment… more