The idea of the forest has been imaginary for centuries. Through fairytales and mythical narratives, the forest has emphatically written itself into collective memory. In it, the forest’s visual substance mostly sees itself as a psychic area of retreat, in which childish l...

15.10.2012[ read full story ]

With a foreword by screen legend, Joan Collins, Hollywood Unseen: photographs from the John Kobal Foundation will be published worldwide in October by ACC Editions. There is also an accompanying exhibition featuring images from the book which will be at the Getty Im...

24.10.2012[ read full story ]

In a short new book, special correspondent Jean-Marie Bourget and photographer Marc Simon revisit the “near genocide” (in the words of the UN) of two Palestinian camps in Beirut Lebanon in September, 1982, the aftermath of which they witnessed while reporting for the French...

12.10.2012[ read full story ]

For 40-some exhalting years, Martha Cooper, the “Grande Dame of Hip Hop”, as she has once been called, has been documenting street art and graffiti artists. She has traveled all over the world since her first book, Subway Art, got published, in partnership with Henri C...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

In-sight is the second volume in a series of publications on the Wemhöner Collection. This book explores the medium of photography, which is the main focus of the collection.

In his investigation of photography, Heiner Wemhöner concentrates on artists w...

12.10.2012[ read full story ]

This could just be just another photo book about a trip to Havana. But it reads more like a beautiful tale of reconciliation between Cuba and the United States. The photographers Nestor Marti and Chip Cooper, from Cuba and the USA, respectively, traveled as friends throughout th...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

The year was 1986. The club was Area. It was located down in Tribeca, when it was the neighborhood, before the larges-scale conversion of the empty industrial spaces into the most exclusive addresses downtown. Back in the mid-80s, Area epitomized all that was exciting a...

09.10.2012[ read full story ]

At a time when Chinese photography is ever more present on the international scene, the publishing house Thircuir had the brilliant idea to launch its first collection featuring the most important and promising photographers. Founded in 2011 by Jérémie Thircuir and Enoïa Ballade, Th...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

When he was twelve, Hervé All experienced dematerialization of his body during an acute appendicitis attack (NDE, near death experience). In 2001, he lived for one year in Mexico, with las Abejas community of Acteal, there he was introduced to mysticism by local people and peyote. Inevi...

09.10.2012[ read full story ]

La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, the hometown of the celebrated architect Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, aka Le Corbusier (1887-1965), is celebrating the 125th anniversary of his birth with a series of events: exhibitions, a new publication, and a symposium held at the end of...

09.10.2012[ read full story ]