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…
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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…
Duane just turned 80, and our gift is an entire edition of La Lettre dedicated to him. One day in January, 1971, some remarkable photographs arrived at the offices of…
Born February 18, 1932 in McKeesport Pennsylvania, Duane Michals called Margaret and John, Mum and Dad. Everyone called him Sonny. Attending Holy Trinity School, he was a good Catholic, who…
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…