It was Monday in the Jardins de Bagatelle, west of Paris. Photo magazine was celebrating its 500th issue. It was 500 issues ago that one day in 1967, Roger Thérond, Walter Carone and André Lacaze created Photo. In September, an exhibition of the magazine’s best covers will be held at th...

19.06.2013[ read full story ]

As Look3 Festival of the Photograph got underway Thursday the workshop sessions came to an end. Two of the workshops that I visited were Bruce Gilden’s street photography workshop, and Lynsey Addario’s on the photographic essay.

08.06.2012[ read full story ]

This year’s Look3 Festival of the Photograph begins today in Charlottesville, Virginia. The product of a year of effort that started even before last years festival ended, curators Vince Musi and David Griffin, have put together a selection of work by photographers and org...

07.06.2012[ read full story ]

On May 24, the Yancey Richardson Gallery in Chelsea opened an exhibit of new work by Lisa Kereszi. The exhibition, the fourth of Kereszi’s work at the Gallery, is made up of color prints of landscapes and interiors that visually and emotionally relate to the title “The Party’s Ove...

28.05.2012[ read full story ]

On May 17 in New York, the International Center Of Photography opened three new exhibits and extended their wonderful Weegee show until September 2. The new shows are (sorry about the long title), A Short History of Photography From the ICP Collection Honoring Willis E. Hartsho...

21.05.2012[ read full story ]

The New York Photo Festival opened yesterday night on the sides of the East River, in DUMBO. Several exhibitions have caught the public’s attention, whose one of the them is the Tokyo-Ga project, that La Lettre makes you discover today in its wholeness. Here are the images of the part...

17.05.2012[ read full story ]

Marilyn would have enjoyed herself. Last night at Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea, over flutes of Dom Perignon, all anyone was talking about was Marilyn and Larry Schiller’s photos of her. To celebrate the opening of Larry Schiller’s solo exhibition of photographs and t...

31.05.2012[ read full story ]

On Thursday, May 10, 2012, an exhibit of Black and White and color photographs by Evelyn Hofer opened at the James Danziger Gallery in Chelsea. In the 1970’s, Hilton Kramer, the art critic for the NYTimes, called her “the most famous unknown photographer in America.” Hofer was b...

14.05.2012[ read full story ]

On Monday May 1st, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, opened a show of the new work of Taryn Simon. This body of work, produced over a four year period (2008-2011) is titled, “A Living Man Declared Dead and other Chapters I-XVIII”. On display at MOMA are nine of the eighteen chapt...

07.05.2012[ read full story ]

Ferdinando Scianna from Magnum photos and his wife the journalist Paola Bergna covered the opening of the Milan Art Fair for
la Lettre de la photographie
A few minutes before the grand opening of MIA, Fabio Castelli, MIA’s founder and organizer, told me he is already planning the third edition, to ...

05.05.2012[ read full story ]