EXCLUSIVE – Here is the first contact sheet recovered from the box
containing 736 rolls of Gilles Caron’s film, a discovery we revealed
two weeks ago. “I am very happy. It is one fourth of Gilles Caron’s
work that is alive again!” exclaims Marianne Caron. “I ...

11.03.2011[ read full story ]

Sometimes going to the source is the best option. This is what we did this week as we handpicked a few note-worthy websites in a ocean of very worthy ones. This is not an exhaustive list but just the start of many, many other revelation of great photographers’ websites. Take a look and ...

28.02.2011[ read full story ]

“A photograph is an entity. You don’t crop it, you don’t butcher it, you don’t plaster text over it, you treat it with dignity.” Elisabeth Biondi has left an indelible impression on all of us throughout her powerful career at four of the most influenti...

11.03.2011[ read full story ]

Every Monday from now on, Paul Melcher will do the web review. Paul Melcher is a 20 years veteran of the photography business. He has run numerous prestigious photo agencies and was named by American Photo as one of the “100 most influential individuals in American photography”. He is...

24.01.2011[ read full story ]

Because of partnership and economical reasons, the images that you see on websites and in your magazines these days might not be the best available. But don’t despair. A lot of photo agencies are aware of this and have started publishing their own mini-mags online to showcase their most ...

07.02.2011[ read full story ]

604, 800 : That is how many seconds are in a week. If you consider that it only takes a fraction of that second to take a photograph, you can imagine the number of opportunities they are for a photographer to capture our lives. Yet, most of the millions of images uploaded in a week are eith...

07.03.2011[ read full story ]

Sometimes, photography is about inspiration and discovery. As well as the internet can be a great source to view well known photographers, it is also a great place to discover new talents. Here are a few sites, carefully curated, where you might discover the next Helmut Newton or the new ...

14.02.2011[ read full story ]

365 days, when you think about it, is not enough. In these days of constant international turmoil where every day brings hundreds of news event of primary importance, it is hard to keep up. It is getting harder even to view images of those who have a passion to visually report on those ev...

21.02.2011[ read full story ]

Jen Davis is one of the decade’s most original photographers. Lee Marks and Aperture will be presenting a joint exhibition of her work during reGeneration2. The book and the exhibition were curated by Nathalie Herschdorfer and William Ewing. This is how she describes her work: ...

07.03.2011[ read full story ]

Photographer Bill Diodato’s Care of Ward 81 is a collection of images that explore the disintegration and decay of the now defunct women-only Ward 81 of the Oregon State Mental Hospital. Knowing that he would be the last person to document this women’s ward, Diodato felt a s...

10.03.2011[ read full story ]

In time for the International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27), the Yad Vashem museum, with the help of Google , has opened to the public, on the web, a gallery of more than 130,000 photographs.

31.01.2011[ read full story ]

Paul Kasmin Gallery, in cooperation with Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs, presents Drawing with Light: Paper Negatives, 1842-1864. Including works by pioneering photographers William Henry Fox Talbot, Charles Nègre, Dr. John Murray, Frédéric Flachéron and Louis-Rémy...

10.03.2011[ read full story ]

The numerous photos taken by Charles Marville are interesting for many reasons. They not only show the street’s beginnings, but also the means used to build the titanic construction projects in Paris under the Second Empire. Shovels, pics, a few horse-drawn carriages to remov...

08.03.2011[ read full story ]

“Did you say fashion photography?” Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Guy Bourdin… These names, today famous, belong to photographers that have crafted a particular language to the image of fashion. What is it that makes a photograph beautiful, different, uni...

07.03.2011[ read full story ]