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 ]

The book Nepal & Mao takes us to a country in which peace was declared many years ago. But somehow there is still tension in the country. Old royalist that won’t step down from army posts, constant strikes and protests in the capital. Some regions with ethnic majorities have star...

08.12.2011[ read full story ]

Photography books are as much works of public discourse, as they are personal albums. The more an image is considered, the more familiar it becomes until the line between Us and Them vanishes, and the image becomes a reference to our own life. As such, photograph books operate on several leve...

02.12.2011[ read full story ]

Young Gallery recently presented twenty large photographic prints by Jacques Olivar, from his best advertising campaign and shootings realized in United-States.

05.12.2011[ read full story ]

La Bouilladisse is an administrative district, or commune, of 6000 people in the Bouches-du-Rhône region of France. “There are more than 36,000 communes in France and each of them can be considered a world in itself. It is not its own separate world, but a possibility, an achievement...

02.12.2011[ read full story ]

Wherever they live, they live off the beaten path. And once they’re there, they build. With their families or on their own, they transform themselves into architects. Tree houses, cave dwellings, circular and angular cabins, temporary huts: their constructions are limited only by th...

02.12.2011[ read full story ]

Though I buy books all year round, I find the holiday season is the ideal time to reflect upon the people who have influenced and inspired my life, the best and boldest and brightest hearts and minds to cross my path. Each of the people in my life brings something distinc...

25.11.2011[ read full story ]