Ken was the only art director I ever worked with who could do backflips. At times of great stress he would backflip into the art room (he had been an amateur gymnast) and diffuse the tension. Ken was this amazing bundle of energy. He respected photography immensely, and it showed in his layouts. After he...

06.02.2013[ read full story ]

Four years ago Robert Mapplethorpe died - on March 9, 1989, to be exact. Robert was very exacting. You can sense that in his work, which has a precision that always makes his photographs recognizable. Looking back, his certainty about one of his subjects homosexuality in art-shows...

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The statistics are grim : one american in 250 infected with HIV. More Americans dead of AIDS than died in both the Vietnam and Korean wars. But numbers are insufficient. What they don't tell us is that many of these precious lives made our lives richer, and that the collective ...

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In 1983, it began with a rumor. Some mystery illness. They called it 'gay cancer.' In less than five years, the rumor became the AIDS epidemic, which would decimate the world's artistic community. In 1993, with David Schoenauer, Carol Squiers and Andy Grundberg, we decided to devote a s...

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Imagine my surprise when I read the announcement of the relaunch of Camera to see no mention of Romeo Martinez. He was the legendary editor of the magazine from 1955 to 1967. He was also my mentor in photography, or more precisely, my father... A few weeks after ...

21.01.2013[ read full story ]

Born in 1935, Jean-Claude Sauer was a photographer for Paris-Match for 40 years and was above all a photo journalist. He has covered numerous conflicts, from Algeria to Afghanistan, Biafra to Iraq, not forgetting Vietnam where he spent several months during 1965 and 1966. Many of his photog...

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Claudine Sudre died on Janvier 9, 2013, in Aix-en-Provence. She was 88. Sudre was born on May 17, 1925. Paris paid tribute to her work last fall with the exhibition Les Sudre, une famille de photographe, presented as part of the Month of Photography. Sudre witnessed the prepar...

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I believe that death is not the end, but a new beginning. It is an opportunity for us to reflect on life and discover its deeper meaning. Death appears to sever the spirit from the flesh but perhaps this is not true. Perhaps death transcends our understanding of absolutes....

14.01.2013[ read full story ]

Shomei Tomatsu (1930-2012) was the face of postwar photography. His series Nagasaki and Scars can be seen in major museums across the world. He died on December 14 in Japan. The father of Japanese photography, laden with international awards, the author of seven...

09.01.2013[ read full story ]

François-Xavier Seren, photographer and reporter for more than thirty years passed away on December 21, 2012. In 1980, François-Xavier Seren began his career as a photographer. His black-and-white both explore and immortalize subjects from all social backgrounds. Last ...

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