A wonderful new issue of the magazine L’insensé is out. The subject is Russia. In their introduction to the issue, Elizabeth Nora and Vanessa van Zuylen Menesguen write: “Russia fascinates us with its size, its history, its politics, with its response to untrammelled capitalism after...

13.11.2012[ read full story ]

What’s fascinating about Another Language, beyond its title that’s half-Karl von Frisch’s dancing bees, half-Italo Calvino’s visual alphabet, is the precision of Mårten Lange’s photographs. Like the Swedish photographer, and taking their cue from Ryan McGinley, thousands of amateur photo...

17.10.2012[ read full story ]

October. It’s getting colder and darker. Every morning we’re less likely to see daylight as we emerge from the subway. We look back on Passengers by Dagmar Keller and Martin Wittwer, the winner of the Dummy Award, which recognizes the best book layout, at the last FotoBook Fe...

11.10.2012[ read full story ]

In these times of the Paris Fashion Week, we were looking in photobooks for stories of pretty girls running their hands through their hair. No luck. Let’s take advantage of the opportunity to make amends for an oversight, a masterpiece ignored by the Journal de la ...

27.09.2012[ read full story ]

First noticed in 2009 with The Great Unreal, an hallucinogenic photographic road trip across the United States, the Swiss duo TONK (Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs) recently published a two-volume work: As long as it photographs / It must be a camera.

20.09.2012[ read full story ]

For more than thirty years, Steve McCurry, with his sense of color and light, has made his work a reference point in the world of photography. Born in Philadelphia, he left the United States for India in 1978, the first of many trips to come. In 1979, he snuck into rebel-c...

21.09.2012[ read full story ]

The French Minister of Culture and Communication, Aurélie Filippeti, has announced the end of a law—’La Loi Guigou’—that limits who and what photographers in this country can photograph, and where they are allowed to publish them. The announcement was made in the latest issu...

18.09.2012[ read full story ]

The Pro-ana community has turned anorexia (Ana) into a dogma. They venerate the illness giving meaning to their totalitarian “lifestyle”. It’s a virtual reality where they state commandments, share motivating tricks and exchange hundreds of images of thin models via their blogs. Th...

27.09.2012[ read full story ]

Issue 14 of the Factice magazine is out. The theme of this edition is music. Created in February 2011 by French native Julie Psaila, Factice Magazine is an online and paper fashion magazine devoted to photography. The magazine and accompanying website www.facticemagazine.com are...

13.09.2012[ read full story ]

Founded in 2007 between New York and Paris, the publisher of Je Suis une Bande de Jeunes, which specializes in limited editions of work by contemporary photographers, has just shed its skin to become Etudes Books. It’s the occasion to take a closer look at th...

14.09.2012[ read full story ]