Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Greetings from the Colonies Safia Belmenouar and Marc Combier collectionsThe postcard is part of our history, our imagination. It is also, given its extremely wide circulation, a privileged reinforcement of…

My collection of decorative and utilitarian 3-dimensional objects enhanced with photographic images reflects photography’s shifting identity, one that has long encompassed vernacular and fine art expressions, a convergence of high…

It is with great satisfaction that MOKBA is at last able to do justice to an invaluable artistic legacy, hitherto unknown to specialists and the public alike, in presenting here…

In China, one genre seems to prefigure the panoramic photograph: portraits of emperors or high dignitaries, alone or as a couple, then shown again with their descendents. These vertical ‘accumulations’…

Throughout the modern era, photography has been used to catalogue the world and its people. Photographers and institutions have struggled laboriously to arrange, to order, and to catalogue this infinitude…

In the last decade there has been a major reappraisal of the role and status of the photobook within the history of photography. Revisionist histories of photography as recorded via…

It took awhile in my own collecting to have  confidence in my own ‘eye’ to be image driven as opposed to being caught up in the reputation of the artist.…