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 ]

Imagine being able to recreate Edward Hopper's paintings into actual places. That wonderful light, to experience it in a different way.This idea started the project. One of the things I fell in love with in Edward Hopper's work is the interrelation of light and space. To transl...

04.12.2012[ read full story ]

“The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.” These are the words of Edward Weston, the great photographer whose work is the subject...

05.12.2012[ read full story ]

Initiated by Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg and Susan Meiselas in 2011, Postcards from America evolved from the desire amongst a group of Magnum’s photographers to refocus creatively, by producing an independent project based on shared experience.

05.12.2012[ read full story ]

This month Taschen is publishing a new book by the American photographer Ralph Gibson featuring some of his best nudes. Deftly composed and subtly provocative, these dreamlike and abstract photographs take a refined approach to nudity. Gibson trained his lens on every p...

12.12.2012[ read full story ]

During a recent conference on the Digital Revolution, Aline Manoukian, president of ANI (National Association of Iconographers) spoke about the “new rules of photography in the French press.” The conference was organized by PAJ, an association of photographers, arti...

26.11.2012[ read full story ]

For Zoltán Jókay, people are the main thing, and emotion. In that they give back to us something of ourselves, in that they perhaps enable us to better understand and feel. His portraits are in a documentary tradition that knows where it comes from, which is also very familiar ...

10.12.2012[ read full story ]

Represented by several international galleries during Paris Photo, and featured in many sales, Todd Hido’s I drive will be on view at the Galerie Particulière until January 15, 2013. An ongoing series begun 20 years ago, Hido, a professor at the California Col...

28.11.2012[ read full story ]

Following the bankruptcy of its German shareholders, the fates of the photo agency Sipa Press and the ambitious news and photo service, Sipa News, will be decided by the Tribunal de Commerce in Paris on December 6. On Thursday, November 22, in Paris, the weather was perfect for a visit to 1 ...

26.11.2012[ read full story ]