At a time when workers face physical and psychological suffering, fear of the hierarchy and feelings of injustice, when the multinational companies, forced to make short-term gains, prove their inability to maintain sustainable economic development, worker cooperatives offe...

19.02.2013[ read full story ]

The "Jet Airliner" project was taken over a period of several months between early 2009 and late 2011 at Maho Beach on the Dutch/French island of St. Maarten / St. Martin in the Caribbean Sea. Maho Beach is directly adjacent to the relatively short runway (2,300m) of the Princess...

20.02.2013[ read full story ]

The expression “white road” is a way to wish someone “bon voyage” in Kazakh, Kyrgyz and Uzbek. These words are written on road signs at the edges of Asian towns, wishing travelers good luck as they leave civilization to enter the desert lands of the steppe. From 1998 to 2005, the American pho...

20.02.2013[ read full story ]

This series by French photographer Thierry Cohen reminds viewers of a childhood pleasure that has grown impossible in today’s modern megacities. Who hasn’t lifted their eyes in vain to the skies over Paris, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo, trying to make out the panorama of heavenly bo...

18.02.2013[ read full story ]

At the age of 78, Douglas Kirkland is embarking on his grandest publishing project to date, a magnum opus that spans his illustrious career. With an archive more than a one million photographs, he is charged with the responsibility of creating the definitive tome of his life’s w...

20.02.2013[ read full story ]

The book Gangs Story was written by Kizo, with photographs by Le Journal contributor Yan Morvan. Kizo grew up amid gangs in the Parisian suburbs, where he still lives. Morvan followed him for 40 years, documenting the development of a generation, with their black leather biker jacke...

15.02.2013[ read full story ]

For Luigi Ghirri, photography is anything but a mold of conformity. Through his simple and avant-garde photographs, Ghirri presents the world in all its complexity while simultaneously making it clearer. His book Kodachrome, reissued this year by Mack, is a refl...

13.02.2013[ read full story ]

“Teaching is my greatest work of art,” Joseph Beuys said in a 1969 interview for Artforum, concluding, “The rest is the waste product, a demonstration. If you want to express yourself you must present something tangible. But after awhile this has only the function of a historic do...

15.02.2013[ read full story ]

Nostalgia shows us Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii and the Russia of Nicholas II through the eyes of a wealthy amateur photographer. Thanks to him, readers will be able to discover the Russian Empire under the reign of its last tsar. This is an exceptio...

12.03.2013[ read full story ]

As the title of this book suggests, the American photographer Sharon Harper likes different points of view. But they are all related to one space: the sky. It is the center of her photographs, serving either as subject or as vantage point. Whether she's looking...

13.02.2013[ read full story ]