Henry Wessel creates bodies of photographic images that subtly and effortlessly engage the viewer in a layered experience in a way that many photographers can only dream about accomplishing. His latest book, Waikiki (Steidl, 2011) is a skillful offering. This book chro...

09.12.2011[ read full story ]

At what point does a photograph stop being descriptive? When does the paper become more than just a support for an image? Wolfgang Tillmans is one of those few artists who in practice truly and constantly challenges the structures of photography and art. His abstract work is now...

07.12.2011[ read full story ]

Tormented by the question of living together, Denis Darzacq, photographer for the Vu’ Agency, presents his latest series, Act. As in his earlier series Ensembles, Bobigny centre ville, Nu, la Chute and Hyper, Darzacq explores an unfamiliar world, showing its subjects in a ...

12.12.2011[ read full story ]

Lisa Roze is a portrait photographer from the singular world of music. She has just released Le livre extraordinaire de -M- at Flammarion. Created with her childhood friend Matthieu Chedid, the collection brings together unreleased photographs, slides, photo booth strips, and 3...

12.12.2011[ read full story ]

The celebrated collection Photo Poche, founded in 1982 by Robert Delpire and published by Actes Sud presents its latest release, an homage to David Seymour, better known as Chim.

13.12.2011[ read full story ]

The perfect gift for those obsessed with Mad Men chic is the small, smartly designed small survey of architectural images by Julius Shulman. The Getty Research Institute has put together this sweet little book from his photography archive in their special collections. J...

07.12.2011[ read full story ]

Every week since its inception 65 years ago, the cover of ELLE magazine has set the tone for fashion. From the New Look to blue jeans, from the miniskirt to hippie chic, all the stars, all the looks, all the revolutions in fashion and society were there on the cover of ELLE, offer...

05.12.2011[ read full story ]

As part of the region-wide Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980 initiative, The J.Paul Getty Museum presents In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945–1980, an exhibition of photographs from the
permanent collection made by artists whose time in Los Angeles inspired them to create memorabl...

14.12.2011[ read full story ]

When I pulled off the freeway into San Diego, I had a single twenty dollar bill in my wallet. My car, a 1973 Toyota station wagon, rattled my teeth and died in idle. At stops I had to divide my right foot: heel on the brake, toes revving the accelerator. I had barely enough gas to get back to L...

02.12.2011[ read full story ]

“No” Elizabeth Avedon answered abruptly when I asked her to write an article about Antonio Lopez’s upcoming book by Twin Palms publishers. “Why?” I asked, taken aback. Because the book, as sublime as it may be, is pain, a lifestyle that has disappeared, deaths that are still painf...

05.12.2011[ read full story ]