This past May 4th, La Lettre de la Photographie announced in an avant-première the international exclusive representation of Richard Avedon by the Gagosian Gallery. During his lifetime, Richard Avedon (1923-2004) had created the Avedon Foundation and appointed as tr...

06.06.2011[ read full story ]

With the Fellini exhibition at the Élysée Museum of Lausanne from June 8 until August 28, 2011, curator Sam Stourdzé, author of a series of works and articles about Chaplin whose collection the Élysée Museum recently acquired, is not on his first cine...

08.06.2011[ read full story ]

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?

10.06.2011[ read full story ]

In Brooklyn, the Heart Gallery, an non-lucrative association, is exhibiting in the hallways of the Atlantic Terminal a series of 50 large portraits of children, through June 15. Their names are Ashley, Jonathan or Khadjia and they belong ...

09.06.2011[ read full story ]

Can the memory of a photograph be better then the image itself ? Do we tend to embellish what we have seen and liked ? Most probably so. The memory of a photograph contains , on top of the graphic visualization of the image, the sum of all the emotions and memories lined to it : T...

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Not long ago, the filmmaker and photographer Jerry Schatzberg feared he would not be praised in his lifetime. However, last May, the Cannes Film Festival honored him by using his portrait of Faye Dunaway as the official poster of the festival. At Ba...

07.06.2011[ read full story ]

At Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, the exhibition Linda McCartney: Life in Photographs. Linda McCartney (1941 – 1998) was an active and admired photographer for over three decades. Her large body of work is known for its celebrated portraits,...

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Night Vision: Photography After Dark, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art features photography of the 20th century inspired by the pleasure, danger, and allure of the night. For more than 100 years photographers have been drawn to the challenge of makin...

08.06.2011[ read full story ]

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...

10.06.2011[ read full story ]

The navy officer, journalist and member of the French Academy, Julien Viaud, better known as Pierre Loti (1850-1923) was a traveling writer whose talents included drawing and photography. The National Navy Museum is honoring him with an...

09.06.2011[ read full story ]

Sometimes it’s what is not seen that is important. Some of the most iconic images fail, on purpose, to show us the source of the action and focuses rather on the reaction. It’s all about consequence rather than cause.Think about the images that have marked you the most and you wil...

09.05.2011[ read full story ]

Wisdom says that after the storm comes the sun. It seems that in photography everything is always storm or always sunshine. It never seems to ever change status.News photography, for example, will go from a tragedy to a devastation, from a war to a flood, hardly ...

23.05.2011[ read full story ]

What the camera captures is not always what the mind captures. When a photographer takes an image, he has a definitive assumption regarding the message he conveys. However, when the same image reaches the viewers, the impact can be different. For many reasons : the image could be ...

30.05.2011[ read full story ]

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 ...

10.06.2011[ read full story ]

The annual Oscar party by U.S. American magazine Vanity Fair is not only one of the most coveted dates in every major Hollywood star’s diary, over the last ten years the parties themselves have gained legendary status. After the awards ceremony all the beautiful, famous, ric...

06.06.2011[ read full story ]

Marcos López’s large format color saturated prints give him a distinctive style that stands out among others. In ultimately kitsch scenarios, he describes a world, a continent, a country. He explores the concepts of patriotism and identity, first of Argentina, then of ...

07.06.2011[ read full story ]

In his first exhibition with Robert Mann Gallery in New York, photographer John Mack presents selections from his series Revealing Mexico. Rendering this complex country in black and white, Mack has assembled what critic Teresa del Conde</str...

08.06.2011[ read full story ]

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...

10.06.2011[ read full story ]

The title of the exhibition Jusqu’ici tout va bien…#2 (Everything’s alright until now) is taken from Mathieu Kassovitz’s film La Haine (Hate). In this series, Florent Mattei creates a sort of chronic of ordinary hatred, staging scenes while leaving a pla...

08.06.2011[ read full story ]

Sometimes, it becomes necessary to make a distinction between theory and truth. Very often, this is the role of photography. Because it is such a perfect tool to capture our perceived reality, we use it as a tool for proof. You can say pretty much what you want, but until you sh...

16.05.2011[ read full story ]

They say that 95 % of communication is non verbal. This is the realm of photography. It explores and transports through time and space, the world that resides outside the Word. Confusingly enough however, we tend to give much more credit, and emphasis, the written/spoken word. Our...

02.05.2011[ read full story ]

At the beginning of the 1980’s, Claude Nori would create the photographic flirt that was in search of a fragile and ephemeral happiness captured by his camera as it caressed joyful and melancholic teenagers posing on the beaches of Italy or at the ...

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Born in Munich in 1936, Thomas Hoepker was a frequent visitor to East Germany: The current exposition “DDR Ansichten”at the Hiltawsky Gallery in Berlin presents the resulting pictures providing vast coverage of daily life in East Germany from 1959 to...

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Gazelle Samizay’s series Upon My Daughter is about marriage. It is equally about being suffocated by the traditions and expectations that come along with the supposedly sacred union.

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