After shooting portraits for more then 30 years I started to reflect on the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s with a smile. 
It occurred to me that I had a small treasure of art and fashion portraits that are the background of the creativity and lifestyle of this exciting time. 
The atmosphere...

11.06.2012[ read full story ]

New York City is a small town. It just so happens that when you fall into one circle, you get around. And so it is that I interviewed a photographer some time ago to speak about his work taken in abandoned buildings. And as we spoke he mentioned something I did not expect. It was he who in...

08.06.2012[ read full story ]

Jean Dieuzaide was my only photographic reference when in 1968 I timidly entered his house on rue Erasme in Toulouse to get some wise advice. At the time, he was nearly 50 and still signing his pictures with a graphic and shaky Yan, an impetuous signature, like the Z for Zorro that h...

06.06.2012[ read full story ]

It is often easier to work with renowned photographers, rather than with young pretentious and arrogant ones. Like Ralph Gibson. I hadn’t worked on a book with him for at least 15 years. Gibson is the photographer who was most influential for me through his books and his famous trilogy...

06.06.2012[ read full story ]

Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet and we, as observers can understand, by looking at the contact sheet, the history behind some of the most unforgettable images of our history. Fifty one international photographers – Roger Ballen, Elinor Carucci, Mark Cohen, Char...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

For its new Portrait de Ville, Éditions Be-Pôles gave Vincent Fournier the carte blanche. The city he decided to capture was Brasilia. In this travel journal, he delivers a fragment of the city, and he wants it all: dizzying angles, hyper-calibrated lines, satura...

06.06.2012[ read full story ]

Bela Doka, in his series titled “The Sundays of life”, charts a challenging path for himself. How do you photograph the daily moments that, while not dramatic, form the core of life’s pleasures and satisfactions? The answer for Mr. Doka is found in a country house owned by the famil...

25.05.2012[ read full story ]

Mac Folkes has a vision and a voice and in the creation of The Slant he has made an artifact that defines the zeitgeist. Though it is a pure piece of printed matter it is neither book nor magazine nor journal nor zine. It is a work of art unto itself that is as much a publication as a piece of...

28.05.2012[ read full story ]

Fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe’s smile still dominates the Promenade de la Croisette in Cannes, gracing the poster of this year’s film festival. Without a doubt the most photographed actress in the history of cinema, Monroe reminds us that among the red carpets, hordes of photograp...

30.05.2012[ read full story ]

For the past eight years, Stefan Ruiz has gained special access to Mexico’s Televisa studios, known as “The Factory of Dreams,” where nearly fifty thousand hours worth of telenovelas (soap operas) are produced and exported annually to more than fifty coun...

22.05.2012[ read full story ]