It´s a new season and new ads are filling the pages in between the editorials in the fashion magazines. Steven Meisel is the photographer behind Prada, Balenciaga and Vuitton while Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott shot for Gucci, Cavalli and Miu Miu.

10.01.2011[ read full story ]

In 1975 Miles Davis, one of the most respected and influential musicians of the 20th Century, withdrew from playing music and disappeared from the public eye. Photographer Oliver Morris describe his first meeting with the Prince of Darkness in an healthclub in the ea...

11.01.2011[ read full story ]

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is displaying nine photographs of President John F. Kennedy and his family taken by Richard Avedon for Harpers Bazaar. The photos will be on view until Feb. 28.

12.01.2011[ read full story ]

As an iconic member of the pop movement of the 1960’s, Warhol gained fame and recognition for his depiction of recognizable objects and individuals, from brand names products to faces of the rich, famous, and powerful.

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Luc Delahaye has a unique place in contemporary photojournalism. He is one of the best, yet his approach became the extreme opposite of that of his peers. In each story, he took few pictures, sometimes none, in favor of selling prints, for the most part large formats on the publication of ...

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The exhibition “Urban Lyricism” at the Point du Jour art center in Cherbourg is presenting a hundred works by American photographer Helen Levitt (1913-2009). Born in New York, Levitt remained attached to this city she practically never left that would become the subject of her photo...

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Everyone has seen images of the boat skeletons littering the shores of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Many reporters have covered the sufferings of this population whose bare hands and feet blister from working in the pollution and acid.

12.01.2011[ read full story ]

Freelance photojournalist Alfred Wertheimer was hired by RCA Victor in 1956 to shoot promotional images of a recently signed 21-year-old recording artist, Elvis Presley. Wertheimer’s instincts to “tag along” with the artist after the assignment and the resulting images...

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The Great Crossing of Africa is the first of a series devoted to colonial history. The book features pictures from Captain Albert Baratier (1864-1917) taken during the Congo-Nil mission, initiated by Captain Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863-1934) from July 1896 to May 1899. The mission wa...

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