Le Journal is on a well-deserved vacation. This has been an eventful season for photography, to say the least. Not everyone is on vacation, though. A few of us are staying behind to prepare your Christmas present: a full redesign of Le Journal. Let’s hope Santa isn’t too late. For the next s...

17.12.2012[ read full story ]

Senior prom is a near mandatory ritual for American teenagers. Prom, the latest work by the photographer Mary Ellen Mark, celebrates this event, long associated with losing one’s virginity. From 2006 to 2009, Mark visited thirteen private and public US schoo...

19.06.2012[ read full story ]

The Rencontres d’Arles festival opens today. We will be providing coverage through Sunday. Schools, especially those from Arles, will be featured prominently. A harbinger of change, perhaps? We know that François Hébel has plans to make Arles into a permanent center of ...

02.07.2012[ read full story ]

Argentine photographer Horacio Coppola, of the 20th century Bauhaus movement, died Monday in his home town of Buenos Aires. He was 105. As early as 1930, one of his works was featured on the cover of a Jorge Luis Borges book. He also produced “Art of Mesopotamia” for Les Cahiers d’Art from ...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]

Choosing the best photo by using the contact sheet and we, as observers can understand, by looking at the contact sheet, the history behind some of the most unforgettable images of our history. Fifty one international photographers – Roger Ballen, Elinor Carucci, Mark Cohen, Char...

15.06.2012[ read full story ]

In "Back to the Future", the Argentinian photographer Irina Werning finds the humor in recreating pictures taken years ago. This vintage photo lover is a master at reproducing old photos, which often feature children, with a remarkable attention to detail: setting, lighting, clothin...

21.06.2012[ read full story ]

L'Art d'aimer, de la séduction à la volupté, presents the birth and evolution of love through different artistic mediums. Exhibitions about love are rare. As a reflection of French writer Romain Gary’s comment, “Love is an adventure without a map or compass where only ...

18.06.2012[ 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...

29.06.2012[ read full story ]

Josef Koudelka’s latest book, "Lime" (Xavier Barral), follows up on the photographer’s work on Limestone (La Martinière, 2001). That work featuring 36 panoramic photographs was published in a limited edition of 500 copies and is today out-of-print. 
In the 245-page "Lime", we find...

25.06.2012[ read full story ]