Donovan Wylie was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1971. He is a photographer and filmmaker. He is a member of Magnum Photos.

20.09.2011[ read full story ]

The Fall season for photography books is going to be sumptuous. Big or small, all publishing houses will publish books of images. More than 200 titles will be going onto the market. Instead of showcasing them all throughout the week on La Lettre, we have decided to regroup them for one day du...

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On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Nevada Museum of Art, this Museum of ideas is releasing « Altered Landscape : Photographs of a Changing Environment », featuring a selection of the museum’s permanent collection. Since its inception in 1990, this photographic colle...

27.09.2011[ read full story ]

The father of Italian photography, Italo Zannier, was not only a celebrated photographer, but also an avid collector. The history of Italian photography, from the early days until now, can be witnessed through his eclectic collection that dates from the early days of 19th century p...

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For twenty years, Stephen Shames has been taking pictures of children and adolescents in one of New York’s most stigmatized neighborhoods, The Bronx. The first pictures were commissioned in 1977 by Look magazine. Little did Shames realize then that he would become so involved wi...

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Martin Parr’s collection of photobooks is one of the finest to have ever been assembled and The Protest Box is a box set which brings together five books from that collection as facsimile reprints. Parr has selected diverse books which each deal with the subject...

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Dorothy Shoes is a 32 year old French photographer. She started out in photography in 2005; her images quickly traveled the world thanks to exhibitions organized in many countries in Europe, Asia and North America. Through Dorothy Shoes’ images, we are plunged into a...

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At the age of 30, Man Ray entered Paris. It was 1921. He stayed until 1940. Though he considered himself first a painter, it is his photography that has produced the most iconic images of his career. Many of those images are featured in May Ran in Paris by Erin C. ...

23.09.2011[ read full story ]

Fouad Elkoury was born in 1952 in Paris, and today lives between Paris and Beirut. After studying architecture in London in 1979, Elkoury turned to photography and depicted Beirut during the civil war. In 1997 Elkoury co-founded the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut, which ...

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Stephen Waddell was born in 1968 at Vancouver, British Columbia. His parents were involved with the arts and he took courses at Simon Fraser University with Jeff Wall. He began making photographs as a means of “sketching” in preparation for paintings, but by the late ...

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