La lettre is two months old: exactly 9 weeks. We can talk about her like a baby, because she is still a baby. For three weeks, she suffered from infantile sicknesses. She refused to speak French, confused the days of the week, and pretended she couldn’t remember what she had done the day ...

25.12.2010[ read full story ]

“When photography reads like a book. From Robert Frank to Karl
Lagerfeld” is an exhibition organized by the Monnaie de Paris museum through December 19. La Lettre de la Photographie had an exclusive interview with Gerhard Steidl

16.11.2010[ read full story ]

Ashton Kutcher, Kevin Costner, Matt Dillon, Rupert Everett, Charlie Sexton, Leonardo Di Caprio, Marc Wahlberg, Josh Hartnett and Viggo Mortensen. All of them between 18 and 25 years old. They are young, they are beautiful and they are all on the verge of becoming very famous. The photo...

14.12.2010[ read full story ]

Melvin Sokolsky will be signing his new book at the Acte2 gallery on Thursday, December 16, from 6:30pm to 9:30pm where his photos are currently on exhibition until January 8. The mythical Melvin Sokosky is unrightfully one of the least known fashion photographers. Discover his exhibit...

15.12.2010[ read full story ]

Perhaps the most extensive exhibition ever devoted to early calotypes, curated by Sylvie Aubenas and Paul Louis Roubert.
An anecdote for experts: Hans Kraus, the world’s most influential trader in XIXth century photographs, and Thomas Walther, the art collector,

26.10.2010[ read full story ]

Thanks to the $30,000 Smith Grant she received in 2000, Brenda’s was able to continue her journey on documenting what she started “Money Power Respect”. Here is the video presented at the Smith Fund Ceremony in 2010.

25.11.2010[ read full story ]

UFO (Unified Fashion Objectives) is a 40-year retrospective book of Albert Watson’s best work for designers like Chanel or Prada. It contains portraits of rock stars, actors and other celebrities, including his iconic image of Kate Moss. Watson has photographed over 100 covers of Vogue magazine...

22.11.2010[ read full story ]

As one of the twentieth century’s most important photographers, Cecil Beaton helped invent the cult of the celebrity image while pushing the boundaries of his art form with innovative techniques and staging. In the course of his decades-long career as a photographer for Vog...

29.11.2010[ read full story ]

In an exclusive audio interview, Daniel Filipacchi share his personal memories of Willy Rizzo and Paris Match. America ! America ! His real life started in a movie. But he is a Parisian chap of Italian descent who came to New York on a Strato-cruiser with only a few dolla...

06.12.2010[ read full story ]

This exhibition examines photography as an invasive act. It focuses on photography that, whether by intention or effect, challenges our common ideas of privacy and propriety. Most of the pictures on view were made without their subjects’ knowledge—some were made using special...

13.12.2010[ read full story ]

From a wealthy family, Heinrich Kühn (1866-1944) is the perfect example of this generation of turn of the century “amateur photographers”. He quickly abandoned medical school to devote himself entirely to photography.

22.12.2010[ read full story ]

We first see the explosion of colors in Miles Aldridge photographs. His modern Technicolor on acid might be the base ingredient but the recipe for Aldridge eye popping universe is way more subtle.

20.12.2010[ read full story ]

m97 Gallery is pleased to present “YANGTZE, THE LONG RIVER”, the latest project by world-renowned photographer Nadav Kander. In 2006, drawn to the immense scale of China and its development, Nadav Kander embarked on the project of photographing the Yangtze River

16.11.2010[ read full story ]

In 1958, Life magazine asked Hemingway to write a series of stories about the combat between two mythical crowd-pleasing bullfighters: Luis Miguel Dominguin and Antonio Ordonez.

19.11.2010[ read full story ]

The Révèrbere Gallery in Lyon (France) is currently showing work by
British photographer Rip Hopkins. Another Country is about British
people in France, people who have turned their back on their homeland to settle in the Dordogne.

10.12.2010[ read full story ]

From the 1960’s through the 1990’s, Henri Bureau was a legend in photojournalism. He covered everything, saw everything, and travelled everywhere. His photos resembled him: both tough and tender.

27.10.2010[ read full story ]

Mongolia, the “Nation on the Back of Horses”, was once the largest contiguous land empire in the world’s history. Many have made movies and written publications illustrating Genghis Khan’s glorious Mongol Empire in the 13th century. But who are documenting the people, their dissipating tradi...

26.11.2010[ read full story ]

The Lady Warhol project is the result of two friends’ intense collaboration over a 48-hour period in 1981. Warhol was the model and Christopher Makos the photographer. Fotografiska in Stockholm will be the first to exhibit Lady Warhol from the 10th of December.

06.12.2010[ read full story ]