What remains from Studio Joe, Beirut, Lebanon, is a set of about 30 pictures, portraits and self-portraits that would have disappeared without the attention of Roubina Margossian. A photographer based in Beirut, she was walking through Bourj Hammoud when she was attracted by an old man sitting in ...

18.01.2013[ read full story ]

When the San Francisco punk scene took off in 1976, Jim Jocoy dropped out of UC Santa Cruz, got a job at a copy store, and went to punk clubs at night where he photographed his friends. Together the members of this small independent scene made art, music, videos, and other DIY productions. Jocoy...

18.01.2013[ read full story ]

I was born in Paris to a family of artists. My parents were both musicians, and introduced me to the piano at age 5. My father, Jacques Boisgallais, won the 1971 Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris (1971), and my mother, Colette Bailly, a disciple of Max Deutsch (one of Schoenberg’s last ...

13.12.2012[ read full story ]

For the past five decades, the American photographer Joel Meyerowitz has roamed the world’s streets, countrysides and beaches in search of life in blue, green, yellow and red. In the 1970s, his sense of modernism contributed to the acceptance that color photographs could be works of ...

02.11.2012[ read full story ]

Chris Boot was appointed Executive Director of Aperture one and a half year ago. It was a welcome end to a period of uncertainty for the Foundation. It was also a challenge, one that he faced with his British stiff upper lip, devoted as he is to photography in all its for...

31.10.2012[ read full story ]

Michael Hoffman’s personality aroused admiration and fear in equal measure. He was known for his short temper, his business acumen—with everything that goes with it—and his assertive eye. Knowing only his reputation and the photographic legacy he left behind ...

31.10.2012[ read full story ]

In the history of photography, Aperture is a legend. This publishing house, magazine and gallery space is celebrating its 60th anniversary today, and we have decided to honor its history. Laurence Cornet organized this tribute.
1952. The absence of a serious periodic...

31.10.2012[ read full story ]

John Kobal was a friend. He was handsome, sumptuous, flamboyant. He lived only for his passion: photography from the golden age of Hollywood film studios. The legend says that whenever it was announced that a studio was closing and getting rid of its photographic ...

24.10.2012[ read full story ]

John Kobal was very keen to find a way in which he could see his own enthusiasm for photography continued after his death. In 1990 he formed The John Kobal Foundation as a charity to which he donated the photographic negatives and fine art photographs that he had collected o...

24.10.2012[ read full story ]

In the digital age, a simple pleasure persists: inhaling the sweet smell of a book, whether old or new. This is the story of a walk among old printing machines and boxes filled with books. A story that leads to an archive room crammed with little-known photography book...

16.10.2012[ read full story ]