Since Jonah met the whale, distress at sea has made riveting stories.Loomis Dean recalled his ringside position after the Swedish ocean liner Stockholm knifed into Italy’s Andrea Doria off Nantucket Island in 1956. The Andrea Doria sank 11 hours after the collisio...

25.01.2012[ read full story ]

John Loengard was born in New York City in 1934. He began working as a professional photographer for Life magazine while still a senior at Harvard University. He spent much of his career photographing for Life in its various incarnations, also acting as picture ed...

25.01.2012[ read full story ]

In 1985, after being outed from Apple, Steve Jobs started NeXT Computer Inc. with 12 people. The photographer Doug Menuez was back from assignment in Ethiopia and was looking for a long term project. He recalls, “Why not make Steve my story? He already changed ...

06.12.2011[ read full story ]

During the Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles, French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand announced the Pompidou Center's acquisition of the Bouqueret collection. It is now official. Nearly 7000 original prints will become part of the Pompidou Center's photogra...

15.11.2011[ read full story ]

The Agency France-Presse in Warsaw has announced the acquisition by a Polish collector of a Daguerreotype dated in 1849, portraying Frédéric Chopin on his death bed. This information, that must be treated with prudence, reminds us of many kinds of claims that cannot be confirmed or tha...

16.03.2011[ read full story ]

Here is the fourth installment of Dave’s polaroids. With testimonies from two regulars who later became his close friends: Agnès de Gouvion Saint Cyr and June Newton.

28.02.2011[ read full story ]

Some time ago, Dave was recognized by the New Yorker, one of America’s most prestigious magazines. The magazine devoted 6 pages to him, signed Michael Specter, one of the stars of the magazine. The article began like this: “One evening not long ago, I wandered down the Rue de Ric...

21.02.2011[ read full story ]

When he was born in Hong Kong on October 25th 1953, his parents, who came from north China, named him Cheung Tai Wai. He was the oldest of six brothers and sisters. He moves to Paris with his family in 1967, then enters the communal school of the rue de Beam, comes out at the age o...

14.02.2011[ read full story ]

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the J. Paul Getty Trust just announced their joint acquisition of art and archival materials by or associated with Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the great photographers of the second half of the twentieth century. The vast maj...

10.02.2011[ read full story ]

Paris, 1:30pm, a September day, a restaurant on the rue de Richelieu: two couples, two tables, a dozen empty tables. Ten tourists stop in and ask for a free table. The owner quickly replies “I’m so sorry, we’re full.” The owner’s name is Dave. The restaurant be...

07.02.2011[ read full story ]