One day while stuck in traffic, Ty Morin, a young American, thought back on a conversation he had with friends the night before. They had all just graduated from college, during which they had used Facebook incessantly, amassing a collection of virtual friends. Composed main...

08.05.2013[ read full story ]

In early March, the Facebook page of the Jeu du Paume contemporary art museum in Paris was blocked. The reason: a breast was visible on a photo by Laure Albin Guillot uploaded to their page. The museum is a repeat offender, having already posted nudes by Willy Ronis and Manuel Alva...

10.04.2013[ read full story ]

A few months ago, Magnum Photos redesigned its website. It now features a blog where its members can reflect on current events and their profession through words and images. The Magnum photographers are more or less active on the site. John Vink uses the space as ...

01.04.2013[ read full story ]

You yourself started the countdown a few weeks before when you posted on Facebook, “I’ve got my tickets to Bali!” When the day came, Facebook geo-localized you at the airport. And where there’s vacation, there’s vacation photos. In the 1980s, Richard Chalfen, a professor of a...

14.03.2013[ read full story ]

You’ve spent so much time choosing the perfect profile picture, one that somehow manages to embody your complex personality in a single image. It needs to be on par with the work of the great masters: Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and your profile picture, goi...

26.02.2013[ read full story ]

Solo? In a group? A sober, head-on portrait fit for a police file? Or while you’re in the middle of something, on vacation, say, where your white teeth stand out against your tanned face. Or what about the ultimate paradox in the temple of self-promotion: a landscape, a famous actor or...

08.02.2013[ read full story ]

They made it! On October 4, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg proudly announced that the site now boasts more than a billion members “liking,” “posting,” “commenting,” and “poking.” In 2007, there were 100,000 Facebook users in France. Today, there are more than 25 million. This exponential r...

08.02.2013[ read full story ]

When it comes to pushing an absurd idea to the limits, you can always count on the Internet. A few years ago, we saw the development of “planking.” Ramrod straight, with their arms stretched along their bodies and their face against the ground, people photographed themselves...

21.01.2013[ read full story ]

Between 1910 and 1930, Australia was a busy place. In particular, big cities like Sydney. Freshly out of their successful first involvement in the far away first World War and eager to put past them the hardships of war, Australians were busy building a society ready to challenge old...

17.01.2013[ read full story ]

In 1975, the George Eastman House in Rochester presented the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-altered Landscape, which featured the photographs of Robert Adams, Stephen Shore and Lewis Baltz. This group show marked a turning point in the representation of urban...

29.11.2012[ read full story ]