Jack Woody is one of the world’s most important photo book publishers, yet remains relatively unknown. He currently lives in Santa Fe, continuing to publish books he likes, not taking into account their eventual commercial success. Elizabeth Avedon interviews this reclusive editor,...

24.03.2011[ read full story ]

David Sauveur (Agence VU’) has written an exclusive text for La Lettre de la Photographie: "Once upon a time there was a revolution… It is the story of a people delving into war, the moment they chose to take arms against their tyrant to defend their freedom. Workers, students, u...

22.03.2011[ read full story ]

The Spectacle of War exhibition presented by The Empty Quarter Gallery is showing photographic and film works by: Benjamin Lowy, Iraq Perspectives, Richard Mosse, Breach & The Fall, Spencer Murphy, Architects of War, Phil Nesmith, My Bagdad, Trevor Paglen, Limit-Telephot...

25.03.2011[ read full story ]

Terry O’Neill was born in the East End of London and left school in 1952, aged 14, with the firm ambition of becoming a jazz drummer. He was already accomplished, and easily found work with small combos playing on the London scene. However Terry had bigger i...

23.03.2011[ read full story ]

From crooked police, politicians and judges, through to the shysters, hucksters and thugs who ran Sydney’s sub terrain, few cities have experienced such overt corruption as Sydney during the 20th century.
Sin City explores organised crime in Sydney, from the sly grog dealers and d...

22.03.2011[ read full story ]

An Edwardian Summer, a new book and an exhibition at the Museum of Sydney showcases for the first time an extraordinary collection of photographs that capture Sydney at the turn of the century at one of the most rapidly changing times in Australia’s history.

24.03.2011[ read full story ]

Martha Cooper knows everyone. All around the globe, it’s like this. Subway Art, her book with Henry Chalfant, changed everything. Cooper photographed the golden era of graffiti, of New York City when it was fresh to death cause it had that Taxi Driver edge. Ba...

25.03.2011[ read full story ]

Pascale and Thierry Nivaux are featured at the Iris Gallery with two surprising series taken from their travels around the globe. Thanks to a scanner taken in their vehicle, they were able to capture a natural universe in black and white where aging is a renaissance; but also an indust...

25.03.2011[ read full story ]

Until the 23rd of April, 2011, the Parisian gallery “in camera” will be presenting a series of pictures taken from “Distress” the latest work from a most extraordinary photographer. « To the cities I came in a time of disorder. That was ruled by hunger. I sheltered with the people...

22.03.2011[ read full story ]

On Thursday morning, an assignment came up from La lettre with a lovely idea:
-“Why would I not shoot portraits of over 20 of the dealers present at AIPAD, providing that the photos had to be ready for Sunday night?”

21.03.2011[ read full story ]

Born in Lithuania in 1939, Antanas Sutkus is considered one of the greatest photographers of the former Soviet Union. A self-taught photographer, he built his body of work under the communist regime. Turning the traps of political censorship into anecdotes, he describes ...

24.03.2011[ read full story ]

We have already presented to you the series by Gwenn Dubourthoumieu, “Les Palais de Mobutu”, in the March 10th edition of La Lettre. Here today is the series on Jecoke. Created in 1958 in the very popular neighborhood of Elisabethville in Kenya (Lubumbashi after the independen...

22.03.2011[ read full story ]

But mostly, which photographer would want to “miss the shot” of any of these characters, many of them he met for the first time, individuals who live daily with the works of the greatest and whose eyes are much sharper than most.
The idea felt right away like a game of Russian...

21.03.2011[ read full story ]

Hall of Femmes: Lillian Bassman – featuring the legendary art director and photographer of Bazaar-fame – is the second book by Samira Bouabana and Angela Tillman Sperandio in their search for female role models in graphic design.

21.03.2011[ read full story ]

The first major exhibition in over 30 years dedicated to the photographer E.O.Hoppé has opened at the National Portrait Gallery. Hoppé (1878-1972) was one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century and much of his work has only recently...

22.03.2011[ read full story ]

In 1960 Ida Kar (1908-1974) became the first photographer to have a retrospective exhibition at a major London art gallery. Fifty years after her groundbreaking installation at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the National Portrait Gallery presents a re-evaluation of the work of one of...

24.03.2011[ read full story ]

Unknown in the West, Albanese photography is perhaps one of the most important in the Balkans and maybe one of the most consequential in Europe. The story begins with Pjetër Marubi, a supporter of Garibaldi who fled Italy and took refuge in the city of Shkodra, in the Ottoman...

23.03.2011[ read full story ]