Her name is Juliette. She was born on the morning of May 9 to La Lettre contributor Sophie Hedtmann. According to our horoscope, Juliette was born under the sign of Bettina Rheims (Steven Meisel ascendant), which promises a bright future in photography.

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I suspect that one of the most fun aspects of being a museum curator is rummaging around to see what’s been neglected for years and hiding in storage. There is nothing like a significant gift --- big enough to celebrate but not big enough to stand on its own --- to spur some seri...

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While on spring break 10 years ago in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Jen Davis decided to turn the camera on herself. But at 5-foot-4 and 260 pounds, this was not an easy thing to do. Sitting on a sandy beach mat in a tank top and shorts, surrounded by friends in more revealing swimwear, she trig...

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To pay tribute to its departing director, Willis E. ‘Buzz’ Hartshorn, the International Center of Photography in New York is presenting 100 photographs from its vast private collection. The exhibition, which opens today, features famous and lesser known images owned by Eugène Atget...

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The major artistic patrimony surrounding a particular curve in the Seine River, between Mantes and Vernon, inspires the desire to revisit these landscapes through photography. Nature has been preserved along the river between these two cities, spared from the industrialization in ...

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Release of Lash Magazine with portfolio of Quentin Cafferty: Onnagata. In 1630, when the Shogunate banned women from performing in Kabuki plays, the adolescent boys who took over their roles were called onnagata. These young actors, who wore women’s clothing both onstage and ...

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For 20 years, Reporters Without Borders has been fighting for freedom of the press. They regularly publish fundraising photo albums devoted to selected photographers, with sales profits going to financing their actions. Martin Parr’s work is being featured in the latest album to be released.

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In 1970, photographer Martha Cooper spotted a man in a crowd. On his back was a Japanese tattoo, figures drawn in the style of a woodblock print. Entranced by this vision, Cooper followed him until he disappeared, and soon thereafter began questioning her friends about the subject. It was ...

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It is precisely in journalism that the two tendencies combine and become one. The expansion and the diminution of education here join hands. The newspaper actually steps into the place of culture, and he who, even as a scholar, wishes to voice any claim for education, must av...

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No permanent, no perpetual, an exhibition comprised of 12 haunting photographs and an installation, will be on view at the Nohra Haime Gallery from May 1st through June 16th. Arias' new body of work expresses ideas of detachment, transition and revelation. Her approach is co...

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It's always a busy week in photography. This weeks takes us for the edges of the middle east ( Yemen) to the land of the rising sun ( Japan). From the frightening to the beautiful, for the high tech to the 2,000 years old tradition, there is a lot for talented photographers to find and...

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With this passionate itinerary in Burkina Faso, a journey she had long developed and imagined in her mind, Anne-Charlotte Marcadé discovered what she came looking for. Interested in photography at a very young age, by the dreams they provoked of traveling, and from her mother, ...

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Our paths first crossed in 2011. Lola Reboud was presenting her series A Journey in Iceland at the Lagardère photo awards and I was on the jury. She got my vote! Lola, the sweetness, the delicate distance, her eye round and precise and innocent. I let myself be carried away by t...

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Robert Klein presents second solo show of work by Cig Harvey, whose monograph You Look At Me Like An Emergency will be released later this year. The exhibition will open with a reception on Saturday, May 19, from 2 to 5 PM; Harvey will give a brief gallery talk and sign a...

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For the 100th anniversary of his death, the Swedish Institute of Paris is presenting a photography exhibition "L'image d'August Strindberg" through October 14, 2012. 
If August Strindberg (Stockholm 1849-1912) is above all known in France where he resided, for his plays, he was also a ...

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