Young French photographer Charles Fréger's engaging portrait provides us with the cover for Pluk 11, our second issue to include European coverage. Read more about his upcoming show at Galerie Poller, Frankfurt am Main, in EuroViews. Magnum photographer, Luc 0elahaye, another Frenchman who is yet to receive the exposure in the UK he deserves, has created a new body of work called "History" documenting significant political events over the past two years. We review both this and his Russian photo essay "Winterreise", out In paperback this March in Book Mark.
In Interview, one of art book publishing's most controversial figures, Edward Booth-Clibborn, talks frankly about the current state of book publishing and his own approach to balancing creativity and business practice. Pluk also talks to Melvin Sokolsky about his famous 1963 "Bubble Shoot" for Harpers Bazaar in the context of the upcoming exhibition of Contacts at artandphotographs, London (20 March-3 May).Charles Fréger is a young photographer who has already received great acclaim in his native France for his frank and unsentimental portrait series. Exhibited at Galerie Poller, Frankfurt (27 March-17 May) are works from his four series: Waterpolo, Pattes Blanches, Miss and Notre-Dame. Shot against a plain background and photographed frontally with no effects, Fréger eliminates all nonessential elements to capture the individual presences behind the uniforms of school child, water polo player, beauty contestant or Legionnaire.

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