My earliest memory of Agathe dates to my earliest trip to Paris, around 1971…..I called on her to see if she wanted to make a carte postale from one of my photographs. Imagine how my breath was taken away by the tall blond beauty who smiled at me from the door and invited me into her...

16.05.2013[ read full story ]

With 235 archives and over 90,000 fine prints, the Center For Creative photography in Tucson is the most important photographic archive in the United States. Pick a subject, almost any subject. You can produce not just one, but multiple books at the highest artistic level f...

23.04.2013[ read full story ]

I have been making photographs for the past 40 years. My subject matter has primarily been portraits of artists. These images were made during studio visits, on trips with the artists, on vacations, in our gallery, or in my informal studio in a garage behind the gallery. I have alw...

23.04.2013[ read full story ]

On the one hand there is the gallery, all beautiful and gleaming. Prints hang on the walls under perfect light and people move from image to image like Stations of the Cross. On the other hand there is the darkroom, the place where fine art analog prints are made. Usually black, conf...

23.04.2013[ read full story ]

An anomaly, a one-off. A contradiction to be sure. He is a cross between a genius and a hermit, leading a quiet non-conformist, reclusive sybaritic life in a home that closely resembles a well-designed, incredibly beautiful monastery in some fictional part of the world where pe...

22.04.2013[ read full story ]

Greg Gorman has been a force to be reckoned with in the world of celebrity photography since the early eighties. He came up in a group that included Herb Ritts, Matthew Rolston, Paul Jasmin and Bruce Weber. He was the classic one. His portraits were always clear and crisp; It ...

22.04.2013[ read full story ]

Nazraeli has published over 400 titles in the 25 years Chris Pichler has been exercising his vision for photo books. Jeff Dunas sat down with the maverick and tried to figure out what makes his publishing house so different from the others. Growing up in Lawrence, Kansas...

23.04.2013[ read full story ]

You hear people say all the time as they’re strolling through an art fair: “That’s a good stand, but this one isn’t.” Less often are they asked to justify their pronouncements. To learn more, this question was asked to those who, at one moment or another, visit, attend and ...

24.04.2013[ read full story ]

When you are a child you assume your parents are very important professionals without really understanding what they do in their business lives. As a child I did not understand the value of art. I knew gold had a predetermined worth but I did not understand the value of art – not cultur...

22.04.2013[ read full story ]

Steven Poster is a cinematographer, best known for his work on Donnie Darko, Someone to Watch Over Me, and over fifty other features and TV shows. Less well known is his devotion to street photography. Poster is a lifelong still photographer with many mu...

22.04.2013[ read full story ]