A classic exercise in painting, the portrait also became a vital part of photography. In the 19th century, Nadar portrayed the Parisian bohemians. In the next century, August Sander, with his anonymous portraits, dissected contemporary German society. Later, Richard Avedon captured ...

01.11.2012[ read full story ]

Ross Scrivener, a web developer, created the site 365project.com in early 2009 to bring together people who, like him, document their lives daily on the Internet. Every day, users on the site post a picture capturing a special moment in their day, along with a short text, and shar...

01.11.2012[ read full story ]

This week I selected for you 25 pictures, three of which could be described as repugnant—not the photographs themselves, of course, but what they represent. It should be easy to guess which ones . They each show victims of extreme violence, the kind that makes one bleed, the...

15.10.2012[ read full story ]

Lisette Model was walking along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, then there was William Klein making his “photographic diary” in the streets of Brooklyn while Robert Frank was touring the United States, each taking the life of the street as raw material for their photog...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

Today, we look at our parents’ old, yellowed photo albums with pleasure and nostalgia. And some blogs have caught on. My Parents Were Awesome plays on our soft spots for old-fashioned pictures. Eliot Glazer, the site’s creator, wants us to remember that the young people in ...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

After two years in Sydney working for the magazine Dazed & Confused, after a collaboration with VU’ agency, Pauline Auzou is working today for the cooperative Picture Tank. She wants to write the story of the photography through the prism of the internet.

27.09.2012[ read full story ]

If Henri Cartier-Bresson were to peruse this online collection of photos, would he recognize his “decisive moment”? In 1952, in his work Images à la sauvette, Cartier-Bresson mentions in the preface what he calls the “decisive moment.” It would become a key concept in the field of doc...

27.09.2012[ read full story ]

In this age of economic recession and Euro soccer cup fervor, it might come as a surprise that Italians and English would combine into creating something together. It might even come as a bigger surprise that the result could be such an appealing collection of travel images. Ba...

28.06.2012[ read full story ]

There is a saying that says that the best photographs are in your backyard. Moment Agency, presented recently in La Lettre's “7 days of agencies”, likes this saying. For it's 10 th year of existence, tired and wary of traveling the world in search of new photographic adventure, ...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

The 30 years old French photo agency Cosmos , send us a great story on land control. Most of us in developed countries and in cities hardly pay attention to who owns farmland, to what is cultivated and where the food that we eat in large quantities come from. In most countries, it is a big ...

14.06.2012[ read full story ]