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The new most expensive picture

Posted on 22/03/2007 by Alex Galmeanu

“99Cent” by Andreas Gursky, chromogenic color print, 81 1/2 by 132 inches, numbered 6/6, 1999 was sold with the amount of 3,3 millions $. The old record was only 2,9 millions $.

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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Posted on 26/02/2007 by Alex Galmeanu

If you’ll make a top of the world’s most important war pictures, this Pulizer wining image will be on the first place for sure. For Americans, if they have to describe “patriotism” in a single picture, this will be more than enough.

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Antonescu’s last pictures

Posted on 21/02/2007 by Alex Galmeanu

I’m sure that some of you already know the pictures and the history of this man but I have to publish these images here anyway. It is very strange for me to see the eyes of a man who will … Continue reading →

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The right man at the right moment.

Posted on 07/02/2007 by Alex Galmeanu

Hindenburg was the pride of the Nazi Germany. Build by Zeppelin company this was the biggest flying machine of those times and the safest. Started from Frankfurt, Germany and ended in Manchester, New Jersey, USA, the flight was the first transatlantic … Continue reading →

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Cu Henri Cartier-Bresson prin… Drumul Taberei

Posted on 03/02/2007 by Alex Galmeanu

Cum ar fi fost sa il vedeti cu aparatul la ochi pe aleile din Drumul Taberei sau mai bine in magazinul Big Berceni din Piata Sudului. Pai daca ati fi fost ceva mai atenti prin 1975 l-ati fi observat cu siguranta pentru ca Henri … Continue reading →

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Robert Doisneau… super oferta in Paris

Posted on 15/01/2007 by Alex Galmeanu

Am incercat opt zile la rand, atat cat am stat in Paris, sa intru la o expoxitie Doisneau si nu am reusit pentru ca era coada. Sa nu va inchipuiti ca era o coada rezonabila, era mai ceva decat cozile … Continue reading →

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James Dean on Times Square

Posted on 17/10/2006 by Alex Galmeanu

It started out as an assignment and become a legacy. In 1955, the young Magnum photographer Dennis Stock accompanied the rising star James Dean in various locations from US. The resulting photographs would prove to be the best and the … Continue reading →

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The Story of The World’s First Picture

Posted on 05/10/2006 by Alex Galmeanu

If you are going to live the year of 2026, you must remember that you have to celebrate this first picture and the first 200 years of photography. The world of Photography started with one picture and this picture is considered … Continue reading →

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The earliest photograph of a human figure on paper

Posted on 18/08/2006 by Alex Galmeanu

How is it to be the first human figure on a photographic image? First ever photographed and printed on a photographic paper, it is something or not?

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The first Great Masters of Photography in America

Posted on 17/08/2006 by Alex Galmeanu

Two partners in Boston–Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes–are today widely considered to be the first great masters of photography in America. Their partnership lasted from 1843 to 1862.

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