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Juergen Teller: Do You Know What I Mean

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Widely known for his off-the-cuff Marc Jacobs ads featuring candid portraits of celebrity friends, Juergen Teller's photographs tap into the current zeitgest of intimate, spontaneous, unstructured, and cleverly voyeuristic image-making. But in his current solo exhibition at Foundation Cartier pour L'Art Contemporain in Paris, Teller shows a body of work called Nürnberg. Taken over four seasons, the images document an abandoned Nazi propaganda site and—in …

Alakazam at Colette

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Japanese artist Susumu Mukai and Will Sweeney, both London-based graduates of the Royal College of Art who previously collaborated on Gas 20 are the duo behind Alakazam opening at Colette in Paris this Monday, 30 January through 25 February. The event will also launch Sweeney's new toy modeled after a rotisserie (pictured after the jump). Known for his comic book, "Tales From the Greenfuzz," his …

Colette Fisheye

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Viennese purveyors of photo-artistry, Lomo, have teamed up with Parisian concept shop pioneers, Colette, to make a black version of Lomo's Fisheye camera featuring Colette's doggy mascots, Caperino and Peperone, on the back. The convex lens means a 170-degree field of view that creates distorted pictures using standard 35mm film. The Colette version, available for $65 exclusively from Colette and Lomo, comes with the latest …