Pierre Coppey is the head of VINCI, the French highway company. Vinci is one of founding partners of Le BAL and the sponsor of the exhibition S’il y a lieu, je…
Author Jean-Jacques NAUDET
Delphine Burtin chose to call her exhibition Encouble, a Swiss term meaning, “something that embarrasses, that is unwelcome, that interferes.” Sure, she’s being provocative, but she can afford to be:…
When she speaks about photography, Akiko Takizawa undergoes a transformation. The cheerful young woman turns into a dark storyteller from the beyond. She speaks about her uncle, her mentor, who introduced her to…
PHotoEspaña 2014 opened in Madrid last week. The festival ocupies a strange place in the photo world. The locations are sumptuous (The Reina Sofia Museum, the Museum of Romanticism, the…
Once upon a time… That’s how all fairy tales begin, and the same goes for the Gacilly photo festival, transforming a small Breton village at the edge of the Brocéliande…
Over the past year I’ve become the kind of person who talks about every show but never goes to see them. But last week I went in person to PhotoMed,…
In 1991, at the occasion of the release of Penn's book, by Nicholas Callaway, Paris Match published this article.Irving Penn, 74, is now reflecting on his past. The century passes by before…
Irving Penn is the photographer who impressed me the most. He was the biggest perfectionist, the most intransigent photographer I ever met. I met him several times. The first was in…
Pierre Apraxine and Matthieu Humery are the two curators of the exhibition Irving Penn: Resonance. Apraxine is the legendary curator of the Gilman collection, one of the finest photography collections in the world, which…
In the tabloid world, Caroline Junot, aka Caroline Princess of Hanover, is a sure bet. She’s big game, watched, followed, hunted 24 hours a day, eclipsing all the aging stars…