“Oscar Niemeyer and Lucien Clergue are visionaries setting down meaning so that it might last through the ages.” So ends the poem that opens Brasilia, published by Editions Hazan. As Clergue points out, this book should have been published fifty years ago, when the photogra...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

“In a world of con men there is nothing lower than a publicist,” The New Yorker wrote in 1944, harkening back to the days when the Fourth Estate was populated by flacks and hacks. But the more things change, the more they remain the same, particularly now, when the artist...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

I’m working from intuition and the urge to examine my everyday life and surroundings. My photographs are descriptions of what particular places or situations is like, 
at a particular time. How it looked and more important, what it felt like. I try to tell my own story out of c...

20.05.2013[ read full story ]

"DR - Um Diário da República" (literally, “A Journal of the Republic”) is a project of the collective [kameraphoto] that began in 2010, the hundredth anniversary of the Portuguese Republic. It aims to create a collective memory for the period from 2010 to 2020. On even-...

22.05.2013[ read full story ]

At Visa pour l’Image next September, the photographer Michel Setboun will present Génération Sygma, a book designed and organized in the same way as Génération Sipa (Editions La Martinière). This large project has kept Setboun busy for a long time. He doesn’t consider h...

13.05.2013[ read full story ]

Twelve by twelve inches. A cardboard slipcase for a twelve-inch album. Vinyl. The way it all began. When turntables were the way music was orchestrated in the era of mass reproduction. And so it was, and it had been, that the photograph was part of that experience, the sleeve being the pe...

10.05.2013[ read full story ]

August 28, 1963, marked a great day for democracy in America. On that day nearly fifty years ago, more than 250,000 people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, DC, to mount a peaceful protest demanding equal rights and economic equality for African Americans. Led by a co...

17.05.2013[ read full story ]

White Pride provides the viewer with unprecedented access into two of America's most notorious extremist communities, the Ku Klux Klan and disparate groups of white nationalists. Anthony Karen's camera captures not only rare video of a Ku Klux Klan cross light...

07.05.2013[ read full story ]

A French gallery. Not because only French photographers have been exhibited over the past 38 years at 3 rue du Pont Louis Philippe in the fourth arrondissement of Paris. In fact it’s quite the opposite: the first photographs hanging on the gallery’s walls—on June 10 th, 1975, at 18...

16.05.2013[ read full story ]

Massimo Leardini followed David Hamilton’s footsteps. He release his first book, Scandinavian. Presented in a large format clothbound hardcover book and beautifully reproduced using Triotone offest printing on Arctic Volume Ivory paper, Scandinavian by Massimo Leardin...

30.05.2013[ read full story ]