My work with Strude began at a local museum on a small Danish island where women’s folk dresses were exhibited on faceless cloth dummies. The colours were intense and the detail intricate, but it was the mask-like hood that drew my eye. A garment called a ‘strude’, worn by women in...

08.03.2011[ read full story ]

Many photography fair exhibitions were held this past weekend in New York, the Armory Show Modern, Armory Contemporary, Armory Lexington and Volta NY. La Lettre’s correspondent Gilles Descamps, covered them all. He presents to us today the revelations of Volta NY, which is in fact an ex...

08.03.2011[ read full story ]

Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art in New York is introducing a new online exhibition of work by Mikael Kennedy, viewable online. Hunt Them Out features twenty unique, never-before-seen Polaroid photographs. This online exhibition is being introduced in conjunction with a signe...

24.02.2011[ read full story ]

The Salomon Duval Gallery is the result of work by two collectors, Eric Salomon and Gaël Duval, who have invented an ambitious new kind of gallery. A gallery working in support of young artists whose work they collect, open to new talents, while at the same time providing access ...

27.01.2011[ read full story ]

What were you doing in 1991? We were still counting in Francs, and living without cellphones or access to the internet. Only two decades have passed and life seems so much different.

03.02.2011[ read full story ]

VIP Art Fair has launched its inaugural edition last Saturday featuring 138 leading contemporary art galleries from 30 countries, with more than 2,000 artists and 7,500 works of art in inventory. Works on view at the Fair range from more than 50 pieces priced above $1 million USD to more...

25.01.2011[ read full story ]

To celebrate the opening of their second gallery, Chris Beetles Fine
Photographs, the London based photo gallery in St. James, chose to
present famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe, Marlène Dietrich or Joséphine Baker taken by Eve Arnold.

19.01.2011[ read full story ]

Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs will show a glimpse of how early photography revolutionized the tradition of portrait making with an exhibition of important 19th century photographs at the Winter Antiques Show from January 21 through 30, 2011, at the Park Avenue ...

18.01.2011[ read full story ]

One of the most famous Lucien Clergue pictures, “Nu Zébré”, taken in New York in 1997, was sold for $28,000 by Trigano, Lucien Clergue’s American gallery. It is a black and white silver print mounted on aluminum measuring 80 × 120 cm taken out of a series of 8. The photographer is ecst...

09.12.2010[ read full story ]

Magnum Pictures is holding an exceptional three-day open house (december 9/10/11). Collector’s editions, monographs, exhibition catalogues, posters, postcards, etc. From the earliest Photopoche collections of Robert Delpire to the ultra-cult Fashion Magazine, Magnum Photos is opening th...

08.12.2010[ read full story ]