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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It is difficult to write or talk about Malick Sidibé. There is the risky stereotypical description of him as one of the greatest African photographers of his generation, or worse, an amazed description by those saw his Bamako series from the 1960’s and ‘70’s, wi...

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The Goethe Institute of Dakar is paying homage to the German photographer Herbert List. The exhibition is composed of 100 photographs. Herbert List was born in 1903, in a family of traders. In the framework of his training within the family company of coffee importation, he t...

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Under the direction of Antoine Romand, the Gros & Delettrez Auction House will be selling books, manuscripts, and 83 photography lots on Thursday, June 23. The photographs feature early pictures taken from the Oriental banks of the Mediterranean, the Holy Land,...

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Michel Philippot is starting his week in music before showing us extraordinary pictures, of demonstrators, of the very popular Duke and Duchess of Cambridge or of strange collectors. Sad reality for the French, the only news about them in The Guardian and The Times of June 14 evokes Isabelle Adja...

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During the summer of 2000, Jamel Shabazz made an unannounced visit to the powerHouse Books office. He arrived at the door with a small catalogue in hand from an exhibition of photographs from his archive that had recently been exhibited by Trace magazine in Paris. The co...

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For the seventh year in a row, the Promenades Photographiques will take place during the summer at Vendôme. This small county in the Loir-et-Cher region will host until next September 18, more than twenty exhibitions devoted to photography, via a walk thro...

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