Why is Brassai’s guy with the slicked back hair so infatuated with himself? What’s so compelling about Matisse’s striped chair? And isn’t there something missing in Manet’s very formal picnic scene? Kathy Grove cleverly presents us with our beloved paintings and photographs from the hi...

08.12.2011[ read full story ]

I met Suzanne Opton in 2008 at FotoFest in Houston where she was presenting her series “Soldier. After several attempts, she found a squadron that would allow her to take pictures of their young soldiers returning from Irak. She had the idea – it must have seemed strange to t...

24.11.2011[ read full story ]

This conversation was held on March 3, 2011. Denis Darzacq : Hello Jean-Christian Bourcart, photographer and filmmaker, your artistic process is quite unusual, both diverse and unforgiving. Can you talk to us about what you do?

05.10.2011[ read full story ]

Denis Darzacq seems to be at ease in his time period: attentive to contemporary vibes, curious about everything, especially about others, forever moving, he moves about vivaciously, dynamic and loquacious, he often says "formidable" with very contagious energy. Howe...

28.09.2011[ read full story ]

A few essential facts might be sufficient to describe Quentin Bajac. Photography curator during the early days of the Musée d’Orsay, Senior Curator for the Photography Department at the Centre Georges Pompidou, professor at the Ecole du Louvre, director of several ...

21.09.2011[ read full story ]

Vroom, vroom, vroom… a motorbike starts in the Parisian night. Wearing his helmet and aviator’s outfit, Denis Canguilhem (just about 40) is leaving a restaurant in the center of town. He has enjoyed a typical French meal of kidneys and andouillette with his friends...

29.06.2011[ read full story ]

Pierre Apraxine is today a reference for photography collectors. His reputation in the field grew towards the end of the 1970’s when, as an advisor to the American industrialist Howard Gilman (1924-1998), he persuaded Gilman to add an ambitious sel...

22.06.2011[ read full story ]

Sylvie Aubenas is to photography what Mother Theresa is to misery: a Saint and an icon. She inherited the skills of a long line of otherwise unknown or forgotten curators, in the French photography world, her predecessors Bernard Marbot, Philippe ...

15.06.2011[ read full story ]