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La disparition d'André Moegen, cinéaste renommé, fait sensation. Pourtant, après plusieurs semaines, le tapage médiatique s'étiole, l'enquête semble au point mort.Une équipe de journalistes est chargée de se rendre dans la vallée de la Bruche, lieu où Moegen a été vu pour la dernière fois. Avec l'aide d'un autochtone érudit et d'un gendarme pugnace, leur reportage va prendre une direction et une ampleur totalement inattendues. Peu à peu, les é...

This book is Michel Comte's love letter to Japan, seen through the prism of his relationship to his wife Ayako Yoshida and the history of her family. Hiro-Hiroshima-is Yoshida's hometown and here Comte begins his journey, not today but precisely on 6 August 1945, the day when an atom bomb desecrated the city, heralding Japan's surrender and the end of World War II. When the bomb was released at 8:15 that morning, Ayako's grandfather Shigetaka ...

Imagery of crowds and mass gatherings has been the focal point of Michel Comte's work for many years now. Particularly powerful are the yearly Easter blessings in the Vatican City, the papal conclaves with aerial views of all the gathered cardinals have not changed since the Middle Ages. From Shibuya's crossings to New York's Times Square, from the Hajj in Mecca, to Woodstock, the World Cup final, and the Italian Grand Prix, from the March on ...

Already in the 1970s Michel Comte worked for Bergdorf Goodman in New York on their impressive window displays. This was an early collaboration with Andy Warhol, and marked a time when Comte discovered the bold impact simple yet exquisitely executed decorative schemes could have on passersby. Since these opportune beginnings, he has created numerous such projects, mostly incorporating natural elements-the full bounty of flora. Garden of Beauty....

EL & Us-engineering life and us-explores the thin line between contemporary art and molecular research. It is the compelling collaboration between Michel Comte and the NCCR MSE (National Center of Competence in Research Molecular Systems Engineering) at the University of Basel and ETH Zurich, to translate science into art and reveal this life-changing research to a broad audience.The cutting-edge combination of biology and engineering allows d...

This book is Michel Comte's personal analysis of the neoclassical style. Employing an eclectic approach including original photos, reproductions of neoclassical treasures, and reworked images of masterpieces such as Michelangelo's Pietà and Jacques-Louis David's The Coronation of Napoleon, Comte traces the classical aesthetic and its rebirth as the neoclassic throughout the ages. From the Parthenon to Gianni Versace's designs, from Bernini to ...

This book is a visual biography of the legendary Swiss aviation pioneer Alfred Comte (1895-1965). Combining historical photos and documents with texts by Comte's son (also Alfred) and grandson the photographer Michel Comte, the book is the first to comprehensively explore the aviator's extraordinary life and achievements. Alfred Comte grew up in the village of Delsberg in the Berner Jura, where his brother had a carpentry shop and Alfred becam...

Few events have become as iconic as Gery Keszler's annual Life Ball-for all not to forget that AIDS is still present. From Bill Clinton to Whoopi Goldberg, from Naomi Campbell to Elton John, the worlds of politics and fashion unite at amfAR's (the American Foundation for AIDS Research) gala in Vienna, designed each year by a different artist and now one of the most coveted events in Europe. The spectacle invariably turns into an all-night part...

GROSSFORMAT: 27, 5 x 34 cm, 208 Seiten Boy meets Girl: Das ewige und unerschöpfliche Thema ist das Leitmotiv des Zeiss Art Calendar, zu dem der fu hrende Hersteller optischer Technologien Jahr fu r Jahr die besten Fotografen einlädt. Von Wim Wenders 2009 bis zu Douglas Kirkland 2015 sind diese Bildstrecken ebenso vielfältig wie die Beziehung der Geschlechter selbst, Romanze, Drama und Komödie liegen eng beieinander. Vor der Kamera stehen eb...

For more than 35 years, photographer Michel Comte (born 1954) has been one of the most in-demand editorial and fashion photographers in the world. Since 2006, he has worked almost exclusively with Milk Studios on photography and film projects. With the advantage of a base of operations at the Milk Studios in New York City and Los Angeles, Comte has found the freedom to work outside of and transcend the limitations of the traditional "fashion p...