The holidays are here. (Well, almost.) And for the team at La Lettre as well. So as to keep up our special daily contact, we once again invite you to submit your vacation photos. From July 9 to August 30, you will help produce La Lettre with pictures from your vacations past or pres...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

Corbis just confirmed yesterday to Jean-François Leroy they are stepping back from Visa pour l’image. The financial loss for Jean-François Leroy is 11 500 €. This drop by drop of bad news clouds seriously the future of Visa and the future of the photojournalism. We can only regret that hug...

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I regard "My Journey as a Witness" by Shahidul Alam as the most remarkable book by a single photographer since a messenger brought me a first copy of "The Decisive Moment" by Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1952. It is not that the two books should be compared, although they are approximately...

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When two photo enthusiasts find themselves at the head of historical institutions of photography, they end up organising two awards that will most likely permanently mark the landscape of photo editing. Chris Boot, Executive Director of the Aperture Foundation, and Julien...

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Following the international success of the first Collector’s Room Update: Stieglitz meets Misonne stellen Anamorfose presents their second Update: Reinventing the World. Reinventing the world is the second part of a photo trilogy giving an overview of the Anamorfose collection of ...

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I was more prepared than anyone in March 1960 when I entered the Cherchell military school located 50 km west of Alger. I say more prepared because I am a Pied-Noir, born in Alger of parents and grandparents all born in Algeria. Among the first Pied-Noir family, my materna...

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With the opening of the group show "Sex Cells, Uncensored", it is exciting to announce that my collection "Nue York: Self-Portraits of a Bare Urban Citizen" is officially being represented by the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in Chelsea, New York City.

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Not much to say this week. I stood watching like Fabrice Del Dongo at Waterloo. I don’t understand and don’t really try, wondering if all this concerns me or if it will change anything. I just strike that fashionable pose with my arms dangling at my side... I read some good news in th...

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The set of illustrated texts compiled by Marvin Heiferman should be read as series testimonies. Each is by turns pertinent, touching, disturbing, poetic and scientific, chosen by theme or at random. For two years, the American curator and critic has collected stories of pictur...

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It's not always the most important events that create the most stunning images. In fact, it is a rarity that both an event and it's photograph are on par . More frequently, the event is so powerful in itself that no image can really speak of its magnitude. Same goes very often with cel...

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Marc Riboud arrived in Algeria in 1960. His photographs are very rare due to the highly regulated and secure nature of the Evian Accords (May 1961 - March 1962). He was able to attend thanks to his relationship with certain members of the Algerian delegation. The photographer would also be p...

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Gered Mankowitz is one of the greatest British rock photographers. His images of Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Oasis, and many other rock legends are iconic and highly collectable. What is lesser known is that Gered has been collecting objects for more than twenty years, watching and...

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Large format works and projections by the renowned German-Czech photographic duo René & Radka will be featured on the Passerelle de l'Appartement de Mode on the 1st floor of the Bon Marché Rive Gauche from June 30 through September 1, 2012. The exhibition title "Au dessus des vents" (Bey...

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Founded in 2011 in partnership with Fotografiska, the Swedish Museum of Photography, Stockholm Photography Week 2012 organized an international portfolio review. The prize for best portfolio was awarded to the Polish photographer Maciej Pisuk, for the series "Under the skin. P...

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Nearly a year ago, Robert Delpire published "Gypsies", and updated version of the 1968 work by photographer Josef Koudelka and graphic designer Milan Kopriva. The plan to publish the work in Prague in 1970 fell through when Koudelka left the country that same year, following the August...

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Album Beauty is an ode to the vanishing era of the photo album as told through the collection of Erik Kessels (1966, The Netherlands). Once commonplace in every home, the photo album has been replaced by the digital age where images live online and on hard drives. Photo albums w...

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Images from this archive have been combined into an installation called Double Extension Beauty Tubes. More than a thousand pictures are being presented in a dark space on ten iPads. The order of the images is intuitive and in a stream of consciousness mode. Metal heads, vampires, platinum ...

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In the project La Madre, photographer and filmmaker Petra Noordkamp (1967) shows her most recent, not previously exhibited work. The impetus for La Madre was Noordkamp's short relationship in the mid-1990s with Emilio Quaroni, son of the well-known Italian architect and urban planner...

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