Practically all of the reality projected before my eyes is a mystery, that’s why I explore it,” Daido Moriyama says in the introduction to his book The World Through My Eyes (Skira). Moriyama’s world, as we learn through the 440 breathtaking pages of this compact monograph, is a...

24.06.2011[ read full story ]

It is through the discovery of vintage black and white school photographs that Valentine Fournier began to collect anonymous images from the 1920’s through the 1950’s. These holiday souvenirs, family portraits and other everyday scenes all share the war in the backgro...

24.06.2011[ read full story ]

We have already made reference to this tribute book Three Boys from Pasadena (La Lettre, December 13, 2010). The Gallery acte2galerie has created a link to be diffused: ThreeBoysfromPasadena-thebook. We are also taking a...

22.06.2011[ read full story ]

During the summer of 2000, Jamel Shabazz made an unannounced visit to the powerHouse Books office. He arrived at the door with a small catalogue in hand from an exhibition of photographs from his archive that had recently been exhibited by Trace magazine in Paris. The co...

17.06.2011[ read full story ]

It is a surprising picture. We are accustomed to seeing pictures of parents, grandparents, out-of-town aunts and uncles, nephews, nieces and cousins boating on the enchanted river of the Jardin d’Acclimatation. But here, 5 people, Jacques Grange, Pascal Grégory, François-Ma...

20.06.2011[ read full story ]

Les désordres de la bibliothèque presents an ensemble of manual photomontages from public and private libraries. It is joined with a prologue by Christian Prigent and an essay on the first published library photograph taken by W.H.F. Talbot in 1844. What sens...

24.06.2011[ read full story ]

Harry Benson’s rare, exclusive photos of the controversial chess genius Bobby Fischer taken during the historic World Chess Championship match in Iceland in 1972 are collected for the first time in the book Bobby Fischer published by powerHouse Books.

27.06.2011[ read full story ]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mother is the last book by Katharina Brosse. After six years in New York, the artist returned to live in Germany where she gave birth to two babies in four years. This double change in lifestyle is coupled with ...

15.06.2011[ read full story ]

Since 1980, Tristan Jeanne-Valès has specialized in dance photography. The book entitled “Dance, l’étreinte” covers the worlds of Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Maguy Marin, also those of Josef Nadj, Catherine Divèrres, Mathilde Monnier, and many o...

16.06.2011[ read full story ]

Bruno Mouron photographer and collector dived in his collection of over a thousand books for La Lettre. Classic titles like The Americans by Robert Frank (in all its editions), Paris La Nuit by Brassai, Photographies 1920-1934 by ...

21.06.2011[ read full story ]