Book

Marc Riboud by Bertrand Eveno

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Marc Riboud speaks to his friend Bertrand Eveno in this beautiful little French-language book published by Delpire. Everyone knows this incredible photographer—at least, they think they know him. This book shows us a man brimming with humor. If I were rich, I would send a copy to every y...

17.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book

Salah Benacer
Inclose

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Salah Benacer, an independent photojournalist, has released his first book, Inclose. The work takes the form of a photographic essay presenting three reports on the theme of confinement. These images of daily life focus on relationships with space and time imposed by the condit...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book

David Drebin
Beautiful Disasters

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In his newest photographs from the series entitled "Beautiful Distasters", David Drebin develops saucy-seductive stories around the voyages of his desirable protagonists. Inapproachable, unattainable and likewise irresistible, the women in these photographs ...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book

Thierry Boccon-Gibod: Michel Berger

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Twenty years after the death of the French pop icon Michel Berger, a new French-language book is being released in honor to his life and work. It brings together hundreds of classic and unreleased photographs of Berger, featuring remembrances from his wife, the singer France Gall. ...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book

Carl de Keyser
Moments before the flood

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Moments Before the Flood, is a visual and photographic investigation into how we will handle a possible flood. Within the text Carl De Keyzer wonders how Europe is preparing itself for a possible rise of our sea levels and how insufficient these measures appear to be....

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book

Steve Schapiro
Then and Now

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Robert Kennedy was the most imposing politician he ever met. And Johnny Depp is incredibly photogenic. Steve Schapiro (*1934 in Brooklyn) ought to know, because he has actually photographed them all: his expressive portraits of Martin Luther King, Jr., Muhammad Ali, Barbara Streisand, Mar...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book

Ken Schles
Oculus

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Ken Schles says this book is a “photographic book about images, memory and the metaphor of light.” It is so much more. The level of abstract thinking required is so great that Ken includes his own exegesis at the end. It could easily be part of a course in hermeneutics at the Sorbo...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book, Exhibition

Wendy Paton
Visages de Nuit

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American photographer Wendy Paton allows herself to disappear in order to let her subjects emerge from the night. In "Visages de Nuit" (Faces Of Night), Paton’s eye is that of the celebrant as well as a voyeur, and in graphic compositions of black and white that ...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book, Exhibition

Anne Golaz
Metsästä

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Anne Golaz’s photographs deal with the fundamental and fragile relation with nature, animals and death. In "Metsästä" (From The Woods) she invites the viewer to meet with a suggested world vacillating between common and extraordinary sceneries related to Finnish cultur...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

Book, Exhibition

The Birth of Photography
Gernsheim's Collection

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The historian of photography Helmut Gernsheim (1913 – 1995) owned the largest photography collection in the world. For the first time in half a century, both its sections are being reunited for an exhibition: the historical part housed in the Harry Ra...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

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