For economical reasons provoked by the dramatic drop in sales, the Eastman Kodak Co announced in 2009 that it would cease production of Kodachrome film. Kodachrome 64, the last item to remain the market, disappeared from store shelves on June 22, 2009, with a late 2010 ...

04.01.2011[ read full story ]

An unlikely pilgrimage is under way to Dwayne’s Photo, a small family business that has through luck and persistence become the last processor in the world of Kodachrome, the first successful color film and still the most beloved.

06.01.2011[ read full story ]

Here is the text published yesterday by David Burnett on his blog: "Adios Amigo…Somewhere in the very late ‘60s, as a budding photojournalist, I began shooting color slide film. Ektachrome, Agfachrome, and Anscochrome were the top films, each processed in a procedure known as E2 (and which later evolv...

07.01.2011[ read full story ]

Beginning in the late 1930s, Norman Rockwell adopted photography as a tool to bring his illustration ideas to life in studio sessions. Working as a director, Rockwell carefully staged his photographs, selecting props and locations, choosing his models, and orchestrating every la...

16.12.2010[ read full story ]

Women Then, the most recent work of photographer and director Jerry Schatzberg, is devoted to the women he photographed between 1954 and 1969. At 83 years old and with a rich career behind him, the book is a celebration.

21.12.2010[ read full story ]

When the young German André Perlstein came to Paris, the ‘70’s had just blown in on the heels of the rollicking ‘60’s. Everything was changing in a France that had just buried its leader. From De Gaulle to La Boisserie, it was the somber summing up of 60 dark years of world wars an...

23.12.2010[ read full story ]

The photographs of the pictorialist movement are among the most spectacular works of art in the medium’s history. The Phillips Collection brings over 120 of these celebrated images to Washington, D.C. with the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1...

06.01.2011[ read full story ]

Lewis Baltz (b.1945) is one of the most prominent representatives of the “New Topographics” movement, which changed the direction of American photography in the 1970s and has had a formative impact on every generation since. The Art Institute of Chicago has organized the firs...

16.12.2010[ read full story ]

Pougnaud is a painter. She is inspired by theater, with a penchant for set design. She integrates photographs of characters inside her set models. Clark has been a studio photographer for 25 years. He retouches his own pictures.

23.12.2010[ read full story ]

You just watched the interview of the two young French men, Romain Meffre and Yves Marchand who took this stunning reportage. Here is their portfolio. You can read on the French version of La Lettre the article written about them by Michel Guerrin in Le Monde.

03.01.2011[ read full story ]

Even though titled The 3 Boys from Pasadena, the exhibition at Clic Gallery in New York is about 5 people, 5 very special people. Back in 1979, Mark Arbeit, George Holz and Just Loomis while students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California hiked to Los Angeles Bev...

13.12.2010[ read full story ]

For the first time in Spain, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the work of the Peruvian photographer Mario Testino. The 54 images in the exhibition focus on both his activities as a fashion photographer (including photographs taken for magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, V Magaz...

20.12.2010[ read full story ]

A new photographic gallery just opened on the RueVisconti, in Honore de Balzac’s former printing house. A joint initiative by Olivier Etcheverry and Flammarion, RueVisconti has a triple vocation, to exhibit the work of a photographic artist, publish a catalog and release a film.

22.12.2010[ read full story ]