What were you doing in 1991? We were still counting in Francs, and living without cellphones or access to the internet. Only two decades have passed and life seems so much different.

03.02.2011[ read full story ]

Born in Mexico City in 1940, Antonio Caballero began practicing photography at an early age. As an adolescent he apprenticed as a photojournalist and soon established himself with his photographs appearing in well-known Mexican newspapers and magazines.

01.02.2011[ read full story ]

Nine months after the creation of the new Gamma-Rapho agency following the fall of the Eyedea Group, François Lochon has taken over, teaming up with former Gamma colleagues Nicole Benoit and Hervé Tardy to “get things back on track”.

02.02.2011[ read full story ]

Rugby d’autrefois is a beautiful book by Midi Olympique’s director of over 20 years, Jacques Verdier, and recently published by Flammarion.
On the eve of the 6 Nations Rugby tournament, and less than a year away from the kickoff of the next Rugby World Cup in New Z...

04.02.2011[ read full story ]

His father, Henri Bureau, is a photojournalistic legend. For more than twenty years, he has shared that passion with his son, Martin. Martin now works for the AFP. In the new serie in La Lettre, ”Sons and daughters of…” – where we introduce you to a second generation photographers, he ...

31.01.2011[ read full story ]

This is the first time diCorcia will exclusively exhibit his fashion photography in New York, which not only occupies an inspirational and improvisational role within his thirty-year-long career as an art photographer, but which also helped redefine the genre as a whole. DiCorcia is p...

01.02.2011[ read full story ]

I have been inhabited by L’homme au Chapeau Rouge (Man with the red hat) ever since I saw it this fall at the Françoise Morin Gallery. It remains in my shadow. On a sunny day in 1987, Bruce Wrighton (1950-1988) was taking pictures at t...

04.02.2011[ read full story ]

Born in 1904, Roger Schall was one of the most renowned photographers of the 1930’s and ‘40’s. He worked in all photographic disciplines from fashion, portraits, nudes, still lives and especially reporting.

02.02.2011[ read full story ]

Similar to the project we presented last year at the BnF, Rose is Paris, we have imagined another police fiction, this time taking place at the Printemps department store, and the intrigue, a diamond covered Eiffel Tower.

04.02.2011[ read full story ]

From 2007 to 2009, Rémi Dussert and Stéphane Guinard followed the daily lives of Parisian police officers in the 18th arrondissement Goutte d’Or station. Both firemen and photographers, they wanted to show the working conditions of these men and women whose professional activit...

31.01.2011[ read full story ]

We have created a new column for the Lettre, “In the library of…” We will ask a variety of photographic personalities crazy about pictures and collectors of livres to tell us about ten of their favorite books. We are starting with Sara Rosen, one of New York’s most prestigious press attach...

01.02.2011[ read full story ]

After Henri-Cartier Bresson and Robert Doisneau, Brigitte Ollier, a photo critic for Libération and photographer herself, wrote about Hervé Guibert in her last book. Here is what she wrote in her introduction:

02.02.2011[ read full story ]

In collaboration with Cinecittà Luce, Rome, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has presented a complete retrospective of the films of Bernardo Bertolucci, featuring new prints produced by Cinecittà Luce, with sound and color corrections overseen by cinematographers who have worked with Bertolucci in t...

01.02.2011[ read full story ]