I had just turned 16 and it was clear that my studies would lead nowhere, which forced my father to put me to work. I had the choice between three…
Author L'Œil de la Photographie
Someone looks at the eclipse picture, and they think, “All he did was just go click, click, click, click.” But what happened in 1979 was first that I had to…
“My photographic work has always emerged from body and stone, two elements that have appeared in my work for years. Two seemingly different materials that I sought to unite with…
The Mexican photographer Héctor García died this week. Born in Mexico City in 1923, García studied under Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa. Beginning in 1945, he worked as a…
At last. At last I’m going to meet Howard Greenberg. Face to face. I’ve been following the gallerists trail for several months now, and he keeps appearing – at the…
My artistic research comes from an ideal of beauty, leading me to discover unknown people with a strong inner life. Entering the other’s life, trying to understand them…
While France was still struggling with shortages and reconstruction after the passage of the war’s nightmare, Walter Carone was inventing new methods, like Weegee, a new way of taking pictures…
Proud Galleries presents Faces of the Sixties from photographer Justin de Villeneuve. Best known for launching Twiggy as the world’s first supermodel, de Villeneuve’s portfolio boasts celebrated fashion shoots, iconic…
Paul Newman, Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Sean Connery are among the movie stars captured by Fuchs’s lens and proposed by V&M (vintage and Modern).…
Monumental, elemental, transcendental - Marius Tegethoff''s photographic work presents virtually unseen, yet mysteriously familiar views: imagery of supernatural scale. The viewer is immersed in skyscapes of color, space, and distance.…