Underneath the fireworks in the night sky, New York is dark, a noirish place where Arlene Gottfried takes her camera and collects images of a time and a place like no other. The Lower East Side has become iconographic, all the more so because it’s been erased by a honey monied culture th...

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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?

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What’s becoming increasingly apparent from the history of Indian photography is the preoccupation with the family portrait. The considerable formalities of the studio portrait have given way to the snapshot and the more intimate subject matter of art making. As the extended family is u...

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In partnership with The New Yorker, Steven Kasher Gallery presents New Yorker Fiction/Real Photography, a selection of over 40 important photographs selected by Elisabeth Biondi and Steven Kasher from the artwork accompanying ...

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Michel Philippot brings us on a somber voyage this week, taking us around the world to Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco, Greece… where conflicts and protests reign. When there is no question of a revolt, things turn to the Queen of England who poses for a painted portrait by David Dawson, or...

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On Your Roof is an aesthetic research on privacy in large cities. The third season of roofs is being shot right now in New York ! At the origin of this observation of the big megalopolis, one obsession derived in two questions: How does a person define onese...

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In early June, 2011, the Djemaa El Fna square in Marrakesh celebrated it’s 10th anniversary as a UNESCO Heritage of Humanity Masterpiece in the presence of French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand. The nomination campaign was led by the great Spanish writer J...

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We wander through the streets, get lost in the souks, slaloming with the motorcycles and donkey-pulled buggies. This is Ben Youssef, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed despite the major transformations affecting Marrakesh. This is the traditional environment where, two yea...

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