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 ]

Diane Dufour is the Director of Le BAL in Paris. A 1930s brothel off the Place Clichy that later served as a betting office before being abandoned in the 1990s, Le BAL has become one of the city’s most beautiful and innovative centers of photography. Diane fought for fiv...

17.09.2012[ read full story ]

My latest work is inspired by paintings of old masters from the 15th to 17th Century (Titian to Rubens). Over a period of three centuries, these masters showed that female and male beauty of that time was represented by a fuller figure. Throughout most of the last few millennia,...

13.09.2012[ read full story ]

They are called Paparazzi and they are proud of it , they are right they are the best. A book 'Famous' and two exhibitions are consecrated to them, the introduction of the book is by Philippe Garner director of the photography department of Christies. It is a small tre...

13.09.2012[ read full story ]

The collection of four hundred vintage prints from the 1960s — taken by Dennis Hopper and recently rediscovered — documents the social, political, and creative highlights from a tumultuous era. Lying hidden away in Dennis Hopper’s home until their discovery months after ...

19.09.2012[ read full story ]

As a starting point, I take two classical subjects recurrent in the history of art, fraught with memory and allusions: the nude and still lifes. The result is a strange and contrary alliance that raises questions about the relationship between nature and artifice, between body and objec...

02.10.2012[ read full story ]

Nakedness is usually reserved to the private realm. We make sure the curtain is pulled before we undress. On the beach, we wriggle awkwardly behind towels to preserve our modesty and a dropped corner is a cause for deep blushes. We keep our private parts hidden from view, known...

02.10.2012[ read full story ]

After a turbulent year spent covering uprisings in the Middle East, Mathias Depardon traveled to the Black Sea to reconnect with a more lyrical strain of photography. The poetry that emerges from these two months of wandering the shores of five countries is as rough as the regio...

24.09.2012[ read full story ]

If Henri Cartier-Bresson were to peruse this online collection of photos, would he recognize his “decisive moment”? In 1952, in his work Images à la sauvette, Cartier-Bresson mentions in the preface what he calls the “decisive moment.” It would become a key concept in the field of doc...

27.09.2012[ read full story ]

Toward the end of 1953, Willy Rizzo took a series of portraits of the architect Le Corbusier, three of which were published in the magazine Paris Match. Much of Rizzo’s work was done in medium-format color. These photographs have not been published since. As part of the events organized ...

20.09.2012[ read full story ]