Phil Stern first worked with John Wayne in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era-the "Red Scare" in America. "We were like the odd couple," Phil says. I was a lefty and he was a right-wing. Whenever we got loaded we'd have terrible political arguments." Wayne was a rabid ...

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The Automaton of Venice is an immersion into Fascist Italy of the 40's through a a very pleasant story, that of a clock maker of the Venice Ghetto in 1943, the darkest time of nazy occupation.
He made for himself a very special friend in the town where is was born ...

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Sotheby’s October 5th Photographs auction in New York featured a varied range of material from the 19th to 21st centuries. Two landmark documents in the history of photographic literature were offered—an early copy of Gardner’s Sketchbook of the War, and a complete set of Alfred Stieglitz’s photo...

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Ellen Danuto is mostly a commercial photographer but as president of the New Hersey chapter of ASMP, she met many artists living in New Jersey. In this serie collected over the years she gives us a portrait of many of them. The style of Ellen Danuto is not exceptional, but here it...

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When Doctor Ludwig founder of the same name museum celebrated his 70th birthday, his friends and Fritz Gruber was among them gave him the centennial portfolio prepared by Lucien Clergue with 15 silver prints that are exhibited today in the Ludwig Museum in Koln.

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Christian Maillard was born in 1944, he is a photographer and a traveller.
His favorite subject « the trees »: "Tree symbol of life and longevity but also chosen subject for painters and photographers. The infinite variations of these tall plants that grow under almost all la...

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This week, la Lettre is proud to start a new column. From now on, every week, we will show some of the most compelling work offered by photo agencies worldwide. This column will be a showcase where they will be able to present the work of their most talented photographer. Sometimes yet unpublished...

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Organized for the Sipec (Syndicat des entreprises de l'image, de la photo et de la communication) by the Comexposium group, the Salon de la photo will take place from October 6 – 10 in Hall 4 of the Paris Porte de Versailles Trade Complex.

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After Willy Rizzo in 2010, Karl Lagerfeld is the Guest of Honor for this year’s Paris Photo Salon. Both as photographer, exposing 30 black and white portraits of fashion, music and movie stars, and as curator, presenting a seleciont of thirty prints from the Maison Europée...

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Outside of the many individual exhibitions to be found at the stands of the different exhibitors, the stands of associations, trade bodies, and groups magazines are not to be outdone, and the same can be said for the magazines which are redoubling their efforts in originalit...

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The Zooms, created by the organizers of the Salon de la Photo, and awarded for the first time in 2010, are awards “aimed at supporting and enhancing the profession of photographer and creating public awareness of the problems in exercising that profession.”

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