David Goldblatt and Ivan Vladislavic took honours in the Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards winning the “Best Photography Book 2011” award for their collaboration, TJ & Double Negative, published by Contrasto. This year’s winner was announced as part of the Sony W...

03.05.2011[ read full story ]

This book is equally the fruit of a personal favorite and pleasant circumstances. How did Thierry Girard, a surveyor of the planet, find himself becoming fond of Bègles to the point of wanting to work there for two years?

06.05.2011[ read full story ]

A new book of the mexicain documentary photographer Francisco Mata has been published with the Autonomous University Metropolitan (UAM) “A Journey” on the Metro in Mexico City. The book includes over 70 photographsthrough which they tell stories that are told to travel in the Pub...

06.05.2011[ read full story ]

The cult film Blow-Up is a unique exploration of the mysteries and ambiguities inherent in photographs. A new book, Antonioni’s Blow-Up by Philippe Garner and David Alan Mellor, evokes Antonioni’s investigations of this central t...

10.05.2011[ read full story ]

I photographed rural Africa, where the people have their feet on the ground. Bernard Descamps was always horrified by constraints and obligations, even at school, he did only what he wanted, but was a “brilliant student when he wanted to be,” according ...

03.05.2011[ read full story ]

“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy,” Alexander Dumas wrote inThe Count of Monte Cristo, the book with which Jeff Barnett-Winsby was fascinated as a child.

29.04.2011[ read full story ]

Maxim’s restaurant: The legend begins in 1893 when Maxime Gaillard, a waiter, opened a small bistro at 3 rue Royale. The ravishing Parisian Irma de Montigny stopped by one day, was immediately charmed, and returned with her friends, their admirers, and their patrons.

27.04.2011[ read full story ]

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than the content of the communication…. The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged the fragmentation process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and ...

22.04.2011[ read full story ]

Patrick Remy, critic and director of Steidl France, reveals his ideal library: ”10 books? How do you pick ten of your favorite books from a library that must hold… how many? My God! I have never counted them, and always refused the idea. It is not a race… 3000, more? It’s a my...

14.04.2011[ read full story ]

Acclaimed by American Photo as “one of the most important photographers working today,” the fashion and celebrity photographer Michael Thompson began his career in the late 1980s as a studio assistant to Irving Penn, and now is famed for his g...

18.04.2011[ read full story ]