I think of Martine in the midst of other people, charming us and making us feel welcome—for so often we were her guests, and never has a more gracious hostess lived.  But my favorite memory may be of a time when we were alone.  She showed me the dummy of Venus d’ailleurs, her ...

27.08.2012[ read full story ]

A Great Woman Has Left Us. This is a tribute to a great woman, not just in photography but in life. Martine was 74 when she left us. Only the illness that had weakened her in recent years had reminded us of her age, so young she was at heart, seeing the world...

27.08.2012[ read full story ]

Martine Franck has passed away. The news is all the more horrible because it was expected. Martine had been ill for a long while, but with her extraordinary reserve and exceptional elegance, she did not want it to be known. Tomorrow, later, we will tell you more about her. Today is a day to mo...

17.08.2012[ read full story ]

Chris Marker just passed away. This cineast was although a talented photographer. We published him for the 2011 edition of the Arles Festival. The text by Jonas Cuénin, it is presented below.

31.07.2012[ read full story ]

The photographer Jean-Marie Marcel (b. 1917) has passed away in Paris at the age of 94. He was known for his official portrait of French president Charles de Gaulle, wearing civilian clothes and the Ordre de la Libération medal around his neck. Marcel had already taken an early p...

26.06.2012[ read full story ]

Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola, of the 20th century Bauhaus movement, died Monday in his home town of Buenos Aires. He was 105. As early as 1930, one of his works was featured on the cover of a Jorge Luis Borges book. He also produced “Art of Mesopotamia” for Les Cahiers d’Art from ...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

The Mexican photographer Héctor García died this week. Born in Mexico City in 1923, García studied under Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa. Beginning in 1945, he worked as a photojournalist for various publications in Mexico and abroad. He rubbed shoulders with great Mexican artists l...

06.06.2012[ read full story ]

“The Photo of the 20th Century” for people from the Brittany region of France.
“If I had to choose one photo from the book La Bretagne des photographes, it would be the one taken by Jacques Gourmelen. For me, it is the region’s photo of the century. Its meaning is powerful: the aspiration ...

05.06.2012[ read full story ]

As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained new talent from among foreign and Vietnamese freelancers. The result was "Horst's army" of young photographers, who fanne...

14.05.2012[ read full story ]

Hort Faas died on Thursday, May 10, 2012 in Munich of complications from a stroke that had affected his back bone in May, 2005, while in Vietnam with his colleagues to honor the 30th anniversary celebrations of the end of the war. For Tim Page: “That was my last mem...

14.05.2012[ read full story ]