La Lettre de la Photographie is one year old. The result of a wild crapshoot born on October 25, 2010 is now celebrating its first birthday. It had all of the typical infantile illnesses. It still does. But it has gone beyond our wildest expectations. Our most beautiful birthday present arrived on Oct...

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An entire generation of photographers has come of age since digital technology supplanted film technology in photography. For those who have never wound a roll of film through a camera or dipped their fingers in darkroom chemicals, but have nonetheless wondered about that archaic process...

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After a lone trip to Chernobyl in 2005, Donald Weber soon returned to the abandoned site of the nuclear disaster and spent the next six years in Russia and Ukraine photographing the ruins of the unstoppable storm we call history. Traveling and living with ordinary people...

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Josef Koudelka’s Gitans, la fin du voyage, published in 1975 by Éditions Delpire in France, and by Aperture in the United States (under the title Gypsies)—not to mention a special edition prepared by MoMA—is a classic 20th century work, and much sought-after by collec...

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Oculus is the most recent book by Ken Schles, he interrogates the relationship between pictures, memory, and light. In his introduction, Ken Schles writes: "We infuse the world we encounter with meaning, with social and symbolic significance based on the value we place up...

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How much have Madame Bovary, Ariane, Solal and Jules and Jim taught us about other ways to love? How much have characters from novels have taught us about the rules of seduction, the paradoxes of desire?

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In Arusha, the capital of Tanzania, before the International War
Crimes committee for Rwanda, the trial of the events in Rwanda that
led to the genocide of the Tutsis, is ending. In December, 2009,
the arrest warrant expired. 15 years were necessary to judge the main protag...

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René lives in Creuse and Jean in Morbihan. They don't know each other, however both are my grandfathers. From December 2009 to January 2011, I have collected their words and fixed their image in their respective universe. Although they are far from each other,I have noted numerous simi...

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This book collects images made ​​recently by Jacques Borgetto as part of a residence in the city of horses at Maisons-Laffitte. Usually his favorite field is related to the trip to Argentina, Chile and Tibet.

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The Fondation François Schneider recently announced the recipients of its “contemporary talent” prizes. With “water” as this year’s theme, the annual rewards are dedicated to helping seven unknown artists make one of their artistic dreams come true. The completed work would...

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On a Wednesday afternoon in broad daylight, my house was burgled.
When I returned from work I didn't realise at first but then it dawned on me my laptop was gone containing all my pictures and films from pretty much the past five years, none of it was backed up.

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Bill Hannigan and Thea Vaughan, the co-founders of Vaughan Hannigan (www.vh-artists.com) and August (www.augustimage.com) have launched another boutique agency. The agency, called OTT...

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