In times of war or disaster, surrounded by death, children symbolize life. Captured in photography, their suffering can be heart wrenching, but the images can also reveal their remarkable resilience and joy for life — a true inspiration. Children and War, showing at the Tokyo Met...

21.06.2011[ read full story ]

Pierre Apraxine is today a reference for photography collectors. His reputation in the field grew towards the end of the 1970’s when, as an advisor to the American industrialist Howard Gilman (1924-1998), he persuaded Gilman to add an ambitious sel...

22.06.2011[ read full story ]

Donna Ferrato is organizing from July 23rd through July 31st a workshop on domestic violence. A subject she knows very well, as she has already published a book called Living with the Enemy (Aperture, 1991). She will work with her students in refuges ...

23.06.2011[ read full story ]

The Soviet State that emerged from the 1917 Russian Revolution fostered a new visual language aimed at building a new society based on the socialist ideal. The decade and a half that followed the Revolution was a period of intense activity and innovation in the field of the...

22.06.2011[ read full story ]

As early as my first photos, I had the certainty that the world belonged to me. Everything, absolutely everything, from the red boat washed ashore to the cat jumping in mid air, everything could enter my black box, even if sometimes it was necessary to rearrange the arrivals, ...

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It is a surprising picture. We are accustomed to seeing pictures of parents, grandparents, out-of-town aunts and uncles, nephews, nieces and cousins boating on the enchanted river of the Jardin d’Acclimatation. But here, 5 people, Jacques Grange, Pascal Grégory, François-Ma...

20.06.2011[ read full story ]

The exhibition, High Speed Insanity, presents six independent artists : Roger Ballen, Martin Denker, Sally Mann, Vik Muniz, Andres Serrano, Joel Peter Witkin.Their common denominator is their ability to deconstruct in order to construct, where photography...

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I had never met Daniel Boudinet, but wrote a few lines about him in Libération, shortly after his untimely death, at 45, on August 12, 1990. Marie-Claude Beaud, then Director of the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art, had come to the newspape...

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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...

24.06.2011[ read full story ]

Last Monday June 20th at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the jury of the Niépce Prize, presided by Nathalie Bocher-Lenoir, president of the association Gens d’images, awarded the Niépce Prize 2011 to Guillaume Herbaut.

23.06.2011[ read full story ]

We have already made reference to this tribute book Three Boys from Pasadena (La Lettre, December 13, 2010). The Gallery acte2galerie has created a link to be diffused: ThreeBoysfromPasadena-thebook. We are also taking a...

22.06.2011[ read full story ]

Bruno Mouron photographer and collector dived in his collection of over a thousand books for La Lettre. Classic titles like The Americans by Robert Frank (in all its editions), Paris La Nuit by Brassai, Photographies 1920-1934 by ...

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Jonathan Alpeyrie is one of the most talented photojournalists today. His interest in portraying all conflicts has forced him to investigate in the wars of the past, especially the Second World War. He has been working on a book project that we wanted to present to...

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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...

24.06.2011[ read full story ]

Along the roadway approaching Vancouver’s Rogers Arena last Wednesday, a string of objects and garbage lay strewn over the ground. Rioters, violently reacting to their team’s hockey defeat last Wednesday, were being chased by law enforcement officers trying to restore order. In the middle...

22.06.2011[ read full story ]

For this exhibition, Juan-Manuel Castro Prieto has reinvented the memory and the recollection of landscapes that he had already photographed (Machu Picchu, the ancient 15th century Inca town in Peru, standing on a promontory, and Almeria in Andalusia) i...

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As countries develop, a global homogeneity is also developing. A way of life can be found that traverses specific culture. For example, experiencing a shopping mall in Dubai, the US, Europe and China can be quite a familiar one containing similar spacial experiences. Shiny gl...

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PIX- A Photography Quarterly is a new photography magazine edited by Rahaab Allana. The emphasis of this magazine is to look at diverse practices in contemporary photography in India. Every issue has a theme and ‘Outsider’ is the theme of the current issue. “Looking...

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The definition of a beautiful woman has always been a topic of discussion with varied answers primarily due to culturally specific tastes. Women in the Ndebele tribe in Africa and the Kayan tribe in Burma celebrate elongated necks decorated in striated metal rings as a form o...

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