Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Growing up, my mother Madje would rarely let me photograph her. But when her memory began to fail and I saw her beginning to disappear before me, I began…

Dmitry Baltermants was born in 1912 in Warsaw, Poland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Baltermants spent his childhood amidst civic dissolution, revolution, civil war, and…

It was the photographic event of the year in NewYork. The openning of Cindy Sherman's exhibition at the MoMA yesterday evening. The sumptuous restrospective spreads over 11 rooms. Abe Frajndlich…

At McKeesport High School, Sonny was the news editor of The Red and Blue. During his fifteenth summer, Duane Michals found his way to Amarillo, Texas with Jimmy Connelly on…

During the Korean War, Sonny became a second lieutenant in armor when he was a green twenty-one and luckily exported to Deutschland. The alternative Korea certainly would have been his…

Being indecisive Duane Michals became frustrated with the decisive moment and began telling his own stories, thus inventing sequences. Suddenly a one man exhibition at MoMA, amazing! By 1965, Sonny…

Simultaneously while doing his personal photography, Sonny always made his living as the most unprofessional professional photographer – no agent, no studio, no staff (except for a freelance assistant), and…

Having liberated himself with language, Michals published many books, but his crown jewel was Questions without Answers, his most philosophic book. He also published a children’s book. A book about…