For his third book with teNeues, Bruno Bisang shares a vivid cross-section of his Polaroid archives. Once a simple tool to test lighting, angles, and moods, this format is now a relic of photography’s analog age — with its own unique qualities. Mottled surfaces and frayed corners ...

18.10.2011[ read full story ]

Following his stunning photo-safari in Africa and an unprecedented helicopter voyage from Europe to Africa in Eyes over Africa, the award-winning photographer has ventured to the polar regions. With his inimitable blend of intimate close-ups and cinematic landscapes, Poliza leads us through...

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After a lone trip to Chernobyl in 2005, Donald Weber soon returned to the abandoned site of the nuclear disaster and spent the next six years in Russia and Ukraine photographing the ruins of the unstoppable storm we call history. Traveling and living with ordinary people...

25.10.2011[ read full story ]

Josef Koudelka’s Gitans, la fin du voyage, published in 1975 by Éditions Delpire in France, and by Aperture in the United States (under the title Gypsies)—not to mention a special edition prepared by MoMA—is a classic 20th century work, and much sought-after by collec...

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Chernobyl haunts our collective unconscious. It stands as a symbol of the horror that comes when arrogance supercedes humility and mankind puts itself before nature.

14.10.2011[ read full story ]

Nearly ten years have passed since Jean-François Jonvelle’s death on January 16th, 2002, when he was carried away by a sudden illness in a little over a week. Jean-François, “Jonjon” to his friends—and I was one of his friend—was a beautiful person and a formidable photograp...

13.10.2011[ read full story ]

Sicarios: Latin American Assassins takes the viewer into the underworld of the assassin in Guatemala, where society has been savaged by a culture of murder for hire. Vendors who don't like competition can have them killed for less than $50. Hit men operate with impunity in ...

14.10.2011[ read full story ]

An entire generation of photographers has come of age since digital technology supplanted film technology in photography. For those who have never wound a roll of film through a camera or dipped their fingers in darkroom chemicals, but have nonetheless wondered about that archaic process...

25.10.2011[ read full story ]

Stan Guigui, member photographer of VU' agency covered the women of the Cabaret New Burlesque in their Parisian shows for two months: “With the Cabaret New Burlesque, I felt like I was covering a Rock group on tour. Adding sequin strings and large breasts… Half pr...

07.10.2011[ read full story ]

In today's Lettre we are again presenting recently released photo
books. Today, Damiani and teNeues. The Italian publishing house
Damiani was founded in 2004 as the new publishing branch of the printing company, Grafiche Damiani, in Bologna.

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