The Festival of Sea Photography was created in 2003. Every Spring, the City of Vannes hosts photographers from every field and offers visitors a trip around the world. The event opens on April 6th, 2012 and presents the photographs in the gardens and at the main historical bu...

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Taking advantage of the opening of the AIPAD photography show yesterday afternoon in New York, La Lettre presents nine New York art collectors with various backgrounds. Stephen Perloff asked the same questions to each one of them and Gilles Decamps was there with his camera. Their a...

29.03.2012[ read full story ]

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?

I started around 1986. But I was not really serious about it then. Mainly I acquired a few photos from friends & business acquaintances. There were a few different ones, but Sante D’Orazio sta...

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Day 9
Leaving Robert Mann’s gallery, I order a soda at the old Empire Diner. It’s a mythical place. My friends and I would usually end up here after the regular Thursday night exhibition openings—hungry and maybe a little tipsy too.

30.03.2012[ read full story ]

Day 1
I leave home this morning as if I’m leaving for a long journey. One to a faraway land.
My nose pressed against the taxi window, I watch New York fly by.
The adventure starts now.

30.03.2012[ read full story ]

In honor of the AIPAD, Stéphanie de Rougé has created a series of portraits of New York’s principal art dealers. Some are members of AIPAD, some are not. Here are the first 15.
"On February 2, 2012, in the dead of winter, I set out for my first photo interview. No writing assistant...

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
I began collecting 12 years ago. The first photograph that I purchased was a vintage print by Carlotta Corpron, an abstract study of shadows in black-and-white. It was purchased from a friend who was ...

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
In 1990 I went to a photography auction viewing at Sotheby's and fell in love with a piece that made me laugh: Self Portrait with Wife and Models by Helmut Newton. I did not ...

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
I began to collect about 10 years after I was an intern at The International Center of Photography — during its very first year of operation — in 1975! And ironically, the first photo ...

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
Irving Penn's Ballet Society while still in college. My wife Judy and I started collecting in earnest when we were in grad school at Stanford in the early 1980s; photo galleries...

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