Vacation: a magic and sacred word for the French. Indeed, La Lettre
is international, but quite a few of us are and remain French.
Vacation, what a dilemma. Vacation, yes, closing of La Lettre, no.
How can La Lettre stay alive for 6 weeks from July 12 to August 26?

03.06.2011[ read full story ]

Here is a book we read with jubilation, glamour and cinema’s family photo album. A time period when celebrities were not treated as “vulgar” people, but as “stars”. A distant family, true, camped out on the Hollywood hills of Los Angeles that we remember nostalgically. So we gath...

31.05.2011[ read full story ]

Writing about Elliott Erwitt is an antediluvian adventure. It sends us back to when photography was practiced with humility and compassion, and was a bit less narcissistic. The bygone days at Magnum with its passionate members. Among them, this son of a Russian immig...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

From August 27th until September 11th, Perpignan will host the 23rd festival of photojournalism, with it’s thirty-something exhibitions, it’s debates, conferences and the unforgetable slide shows at Campo Santo and the Place de la Republique, during the professional week (August ...

02.06.2011[ read full story ]

Uta Barth’s exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago is called «…and to draw a bright white line with light ». This is how she describes it: “Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees is the title of a biography of Robert Irwin. Long before that it was a line in a Zen text. No words...

01.06.2011[ read full story ]

Vered Gallery features Couture Shock, the first solo exhibition of work by new fashion photographer Raul Higuera. Couture Shock features highlights of Higuera’s wonderfully bizarre, sexy surreal fashion stories straight from the pages of Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and Ha...

02.06.2011[ read full story ]

Herb Ritts (American, 1952-2002) occupies photography’s Mount Olympus with the most important fashion and glamour photographers of the late 20th Century, including Horst, Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber, and Helmut Newton. His photographs are a standard reference in...

03.06.2011[ read full story ]

Raping women seems to be a normal byproduct of wars. During World War II, the Japanese military even set up a system for sex slavery: Tens of thousands of “comfort women” in Asia were forced into prostitution at military brothels. In addition, many girls were abused sexually in railroad...

03.06.2011[ read full story ]

“The idea of this exhibition, organized in the context of the second edition of Little Paradis, was to bring together worked that evoked the café culture, like friends in conversation at the bar. The anonymous photographers, who bring a vision of the café as a hangout for lost sou...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

Baron Wolman immortalized the faces of the most iconic celebrities of our times, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis in Monterey in 1969, BB King. The exhibition presents multiple covers that Baron Wolman created for Rolling Stone between 1967 and 1970, with Janis Jopl...

31.05.2011[ read full story ]

The series La chute (“The fall”) by Denis Darzacq shows the evolution of the body in the urban space: In Paris and its surroundings, bodies seem to fall from the sky or from balconies, fallen or suicidal angels. Some seem to be levitations and recall the popul...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

Robert Doisneau had a grandfatherly tenderness towards children, recognizing in them his own fragility, a certain nostalgia, the thrill of playfulness, practical jokes and an enduring innocence. Robert, the orphan who lost his mother while still very young, ...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

Unfailing chronicler of a time when the “little” people were chased from their Parisian working class neighborhoods, when peasants looking for work would come fill the ranks of the poorly housed of the Parisian periphery and when suburbanites would be pushed beyond the edge o...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

Fitting into the busy French cultural horizon is a new photography festival: PhotoMed. The first edition will take place on the Mediterranean coast from May 27 to June 19. For PhotoMed 2011, the first Mediterranean Photography festival, artistic direction is assured by Jea...

01.06.2011[ read full story ]

Alex Webb, born in San Francisco and a Harvard University alumnus, is a street photographer whose unique vision spans four decades. Webb does not stage his photos; instead, he pursues the gaps that emerge when immigrants, transients, and children inhabit the same sp...

31.05.2011[ read full story ]

“Kate Moss and Kate Middleton weren’t available this evening so I guess you’re stuck with the other Kate,” quipped Kate Winslet as she opened her speech in tribute to Mario Testino, who received a lifetime artistic achievement award celebrating his 30-year...

02.06.2011[ read full story ]

“This haunting first monograph by Israeli-born photographer, Assaf Pocker, Scar Tissue reinvents photographic portraiture as a medium for communicating the deepest and darkest of human emotions,” as described by Nazraeli Press. Pocker, who studied Photography and Art at Jerusalem’s, Bez...

03.06.2011[ read full story ]

Le Bonheur (1991-1992) is a series of 38 pictures described by Bernard Marcellis as “The daily lives of couples for the most part enacted – literally – outdoors. Far from typical representations, here is a world visualized against an exterior where the natural backdrop (o...

31.05.2011[ read full story ]

PhotoMed’ selected Turkey as its special guest for this first edition of the festival. Sharing both Asian and European borders, this country can be discovered and rediscovered throughout the festival exhibitions.

01.06.2011[ read full story ]

On the initiative of BNP PARIBAS banking group to commemorate the 150 years of work in India, the exhibition features more than 130 pictures taken by 6 photographers of Magnum: Olivia Arthur, Martine Franck, Raghu Rai, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Alex Webb and Patrick Zachmann</str...

02.06.2011[ read full story ]

Martin Parr, famous for his scathing observations of contemporary society, is the honorary guest at this first Festival PhotoMed’. This Magnum photographer’s humorous pictures of the city of Benidorm, Spain’s most visited tourist attraction, are on...

01.06.2011[ read full story ]

For this first edition, Jean-Luc Montérosso, director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, was the Artistic Director. The program naturally begins with an exhibition of photos selected from the MEP collection: from Boubat to Izis, including Sab...

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