Born in 1903, Walker Evans is surely one of the most influential photographers in the history of the medium. His photographs remain anchored in the collective memory for their captivating…
Author Jonas Cuénin
The Americans is one of the most beautiful books in the history of photography. But Robert Frank, hired at the end of the 1940s by Harper’s Bazaar as a fashion…
The International Center of Photography is the first museum to offer a major retrospective of images of racial and ethnic separation in South Africa. More than five hundred documents…
We’re already familiar with Sally Mann’s fascination with trauma, the fragility of life, and anything related to death. Since the beginning of her career, Mann has always turned her gaze…
Axel Dupeux speaks of the “geography of faces.” They walk down the street, and he’s there waiting for them. You might think he’d be hiding between two cars to take…
At the end of the 1940s, the journalist, filmmaker and photographer Gordon Parks provided some of the best coverage on racial segregation in America. An activist for civil rights, Parks…
On September 12 and 13, the photography portfolio website Photoshelter organized a conference to discuss the links among photography, technology and commerce. A dozen speakers were on the program each…
A retrospective of the Dutch artist Rineke Dijkstra will be on display through October 8, 2012, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The show features seventy photographs and five…
Last spring, this New York gallery, in a declaration of its taste for big cities, presented a major project on Tokyo. Now In Walking the City, we find ourselves in…
Like every year, this important San Francisco gallery organized a group exhibition by bringing out a selection of famous photographs from its collection. This year, Summer Show displayed no less…