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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As the summer approaches, the press review by Michel Philippot turns lighter with this photograph taken in front of a boutique of the brand Desigual, which offers a new sales concept: 2 free garments for the first 100 customers that arrive scantily clad. Information for amateurs. On another reg...

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It is through the discovery of vintage black and white school photographs that Valentine Fournier began to collect anonymous images from the 1920’s through the 1950’s. These holiday souvenirs, family portraits and other everyday scenes all share the war in the backgro...

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Brassaï the photographer (1899–1984) long feared traveling to America. His friend Henry Miller, who had fled New York for Paris during the 1930’s, unfailingly described his country as hostile, closed minded, pitiless for the weak. Brassaï had long doubted him...

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Best known for the shocking beauty and provocative power of his hardcore images collected in monographs including Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go, Slava Mogutin’s new work featured in the exhibition Suddenly Last Summer at AS IF Gallery in New York is a radical yet rea...

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Les désordres de la bibliothèque presents an ensemble of manual photomontages from public and private libraries. It is joined with a prologue by Christian Prigent and an essay on the first published library photograph taken by W.H.F. Talbot in 1844. What sens...

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Practically all of the reality projected before my eyes is a mystery, that’s why I explore it,” Daido Moriyama says in the introduction to his book The World Through My Eyes (Skira). Moriyama’s world, as we learn through the 440 breathtaking pages of this compact monograph, is a...

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