Lothar Schirmer is a legend in the publishing industry, one of the few today to carry on the tradition of Robert Hoffman, Paul Gottlieb, Robert Delpire and Georges Hercher. The list of books he has published is intertwined with the history of photography. We here at La Lettre wanted to...

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Founded in Munich on April 1, 1974, by Lothar Schirmer and Erik Mosel, the publishing house Schirmer/Mosel is today run by Lothar Schirmer with the help of a team of twelve people. For the past 37 years, Schirmer/Mosel has published the greatest photographers of the 19th and 20th ...

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Schirmer/Mosel Showroom is a Munich gallery space and bookstore founded in 1998 by the publishing house Schirmer/Mosel. The showroom is situated in the beautiful arcades running along the Hofgarten, first built in the 17th century and then restored after World War II. This baroque garde...

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To mark the occasion of this exhibition, Schirmer/Mosel will publish the retrospective work, Unconscious Places, which brings together more than 230 street photographs Struth has taken across the world over the past 40 years. The book will be published in August 2012 with an comprehe...

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Simone Nieweg, born in Germany in 1962, lives and works in Düsseldors. She studied photography under Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1984 to 1990. Simone Nieweg photographs the gardens, fields, prairies and forests that have held her interest for the past 30 years. Th...

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Giverny is a small French village in Upper Normandy well known as the home of the French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). He bought a house there in 1883 and tended to its garden, whose ponds and water lilies became the subjects of his most famous paintings. By immortalizing t...

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German choreographer Pina Bausch, born in 1940 and founder of the ground breaking Tanztheater Wuppertal whose dance theater style met with wide international acclaim, died in 2009. Her theater, her dance and her art was a brilliant blend of classical dance, improvisation, p...

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This new publication by Alex MacLean for Schirmer/Mosel features 191 pictures taken from a helicopter above Manhattan. Nearly all are previously unreleased. Alex MacLean is an American photographer born in 1947. A pilot, he is well-known for his pictures taken in flight. He took a vas...

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Eve Arnold, born in Philadelphia in 1912 daughter of Russian immigrants, died on January 4, 2012, in London. Her career began in the mid ‘40’s in a New York photography lab and at the New School for Social Research where she took classes with Alexei Brodovitch in 1948. Three year...

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The retrospective “Thomas Ruff – Works 1979–2011” covers the artist’s career over 30 years with a wide variety of pictures selected from his earliest works through today. The book was released by Schirmer/Mosel on the occasion of the Thomas Ruff Retrospective presented at the ...

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Andrei Tarkovsky is a Russian filmmaker born in 1932 and deceased in 1986 in France at 54. 
Despite the censorship he suffered in his native country, he made seven feature films that are among the masterpieces of 20th century cinema. The book, “Schriften, Filme, Stills” (“...

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The human. Humans.One by one. 
Their weaknesses, their paradoxical beauties, their internal labyrinths, their emotions, their fears, their disillusions, their natures, their doubts, their anxieties… Their intimacy stripped bare. 
Who are we once we close the door and the light g...

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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...

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PhotoVille began with intensity, installed during a heat wave and opening with a storm. Two climactic extremes that proved, to the warm audience, the conviviality of the first edition of this new festival. Several exhibitions, beyond their visual quality, profit from their setting: ...

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German publisher Steidl, known for its limited editions, high-end projects and know-how, will be launching in July: Paper Passion, the scent of a "freshly printed book". In charge, Karl Lagerfeld and Gerhard Steidl, regular partners in publishing, both attracted to...

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Born in Brittany, France in 1958, Michel Nafziger began working in his father's company at age fourteen. Self-educated, he got his start in photography in Paris in 1977 as a photographer assistant. In 1980, he went to the United States, where he spent two years in San Francisco an...

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The VII agency has a book coming out featuring a selection pictures of historic events of the last twenty years. This is photojournalism in its purest state, a reminder of the role played by talented photographer. Photojournalism has only one rule: do not alter rea...

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Despite the rise in photography’s egalitarianism and accessibility, there will always be those few who stand out like the photographers interviewed in Musée Magazine No. 3. Musée presents a new, stellar issue 'Breaking Tradition', showcasing trends in non-traditional methods o...

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