There was once an authoritative body called the Association Française Pour la Diffusion du Patrimoine Photographique, better known as ‘Patrimoine Photographique’ (Photographic Heritage). On behalf of the state, the association received fifteen donations before being integrated...

29.03.2013[ read full story ]

When Françoise Denoyelle speaks, the photo world listens. Her experience as an historian and as the head of photographic archives have led the Court of Appeals of Paris to elect her as one of its “experts.” A professor at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière since 1...

29.03.2013[ read full story ]

A great gallery has an understanding of art that fuses the sacred and profane. It is like the partnership of marriage, that holds two complementary forces together. It is in this way that Debra Klomp Ching and Darren Ching – partners in both mar...

07.02.2013[ read full story ]

For the past five years, VII Photo Agency has operated a gallery in the Dumbo section of Brooklyn. Located one block from the waterfront, VII Gallery stands on the corner bathed in a flood of light. The gallery, which is intimate yet commanding, offers a wide array of exhibitions, talk...

23.01.2013[ read full story ]

The American photographer Henry Clarke (1918-1996) discovered that fashion photography was his calling after meeting Horst, Cecil Beaton and Irving Penn. Arriving in paris at 31, he began working for Vogue (the French, English and American editions) and stayed there for 20 years...

16.01.2013[ read full story ]

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) announced today the gifts of 473 photographs from three separate collectors, adding significant new depth to the museum's holdings in 20th-century American and Japanese photography. A pledge of twenty-six photographs by Diane Arbus from San...

12.12.2012[ read full story ]

He's the most uncompromising. The biggest perfectionist. The most meticulous. And sometimes the most intolerant, too. He's Bernard Perrine. His writing is always incisive, always questioning, and the same is true for his most recent piece in La Lettre de l'Académie.

14.12.2012[ read full story ]

Cotton is more than the fabric of our lives, it is a screen, a place upon which we project our wishes, hopes, and dreams. It has become one of the most democratic mediums in the world, tearing the picture off the wall and breaking through the frame, then transposing it on to a t-shirt...

29.10.2012[ read full story ]

Facing a shaky economy, galleries in recent years have cut back the number of exhibitions they mount to keep their overhead low. That means fewer spots for the artists who are already on the galleries' rosters, and more obstacles for photog¬raphers who are seeking galle...

04.07.2012[ read full story ]

Sam Haskins liberated nude photography from cliché with his ground breaking trilogy of books “Five Girls” (1962), “Cowboy Kate” (1964) and “November Girl” (1967). With “Cowboy Kate” Sam pioneered the first use of narrative in a purely p...

18.06.2012[ read full story ]