Since I am quite suspicious (never under a ladder!), I always carry a good luck charm with me in my left pocket. It is a bracelet I bought in the southern Mexican city of Coyoacán while visiting Manuel Alvarez Bravo in 1999. I am not afraid of meeting the wrong people – professiona...

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“What I loved at Paris Photo” allows me to choose, among the thousands of images, the ones that haven’t left me, that followed me out of the Grand Palais. What a pleasure to wander through such an exquisite space. The images have never been so happy and so beautiful!

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For this inaugural interview, we shine a light on model-turned photographer Ellen von Unwerth, whose fabulously sexy photographs have graced the pages of Vogue, Elle, Vanity Fair, Interview and i-D, among others. This month sees the re-release of her book « Fraulein, » published by T...

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Everyday, Gilles Bensimon sends to his closest friends 2 photographs. Some kind of a diary in images. The day following the death of Loulou de la Falaise, the muse of Yves Saint-Laurent, he sent this photograph: a thoughtful gesture, a kind thought.

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Fallen from her throne last year, you would never take this mistress of shock for a deposed queen. The "little people" of the fashion world can't stop idolizing her.

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Whether they be red, black, narrow or wide, the high heal has always been a symbol of femininity, even distinction. This surprising book reminds us that it is also an indispensable object of seduction for photography and for the photographer.

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« Facing is a long term work I have started in 2010 on an island in Baleares (Mediteranean sea). The subject is very simple and systematic : people photographed from the back, naked, facing the sea. Only the people change, the background, nature, is constant.
The human being in front of the endle...

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Edwynn Houk Gallery presents its first exhibition of works by the renowned fashion photographer, Erwin Blumenfeld. This important exhibition features a rare group of 35 vintage prints from one personal collection that has been intact since the artist’s death in 1969...

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Fashion has always toyed with sexuality. Isn't it the prerogative of fashion to better expose what it is hiding ? We dress to keep warm, but also dress to seduce. That often means to put forward our most seducing features. Fashion has always use gimmicks and tricks to enhance their seducing ...

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I took this picture of Yves Saint Laurent’s glasses a year after his death. They were simply lying there on the desk in his room as if he had just taken them off. I moved them slightly to catch the light better, as if they were sitting for a portrait. The couturier was no longer th...

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A photograph of the Rhein river taken in 1999 by the German photographer, Andreas Gursky, has become the most expensive image in the world, fetching 4.3 million dollars from an anonymous buyer at an auction hosted by Christie’s New York. The large-format Rhein II depi...

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