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…

Worldwide, prisons are ʻhomeʼ to more than 9 million people, and their numbers will only increase over the coming decades. But what do our various societies seek to accomplish by…

The photobooks part of the auction includes many classics and several rarities. Take a look at the portfolio of our favorites.…

It is a New York tradition that Swann Galleries kicks off the photography auction season. Among the 113 lots you will find pieces ranging from early photographs to contemporary work…

In Earth Laughs In Flowers David LaChapelle appropriates the traditional Baroque still life painting in order to explore contemporary vanity, vice, the transience of earthly possessions and, ultimately, the fragility…

Always inspired by things Japanese, Sonny produced fan shape photographs in color in the manner of Hokusai and Hiroshige with Haiku poetry. Duane Michals now has returned to his early…

Last January, on a snowy Sunday afternoon, I chanced to find my orphaned correspondence abandoned appropriately in the back of a closet. I began to read the words I had…

With a grant from Paris Audiovisuel, Duane Michals did a series of charming fables about the City of Lights, couture, l’amour, cuisine, literature, Josephine Baker meeting Toulouse, Toklas meets Stein.…

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…