Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Day 9 Leaving Robert Mann’s gallery, I order a soda at the old Empire Diner. It’s a mythical place. My friends and I would usually end up here after the regular…

Day 8 Today I’m not going to Chelsea, or midtown, or uptown, but downtown. All the way to Bowling Green, or more precisely Stone Street – a tiny cobblestoned street lined…

Day 11 I know, it has nothing to do with photography, but Charles Isaacs, whom I met today, lives and exposes upstairs from the Manolo Blahnik boutique across the street from…

Day 3 This morning I’m meeting Christiane Celle, the woman behind Calypso. She decided to open a boutique selling bathing suits in St. Barth’s in 1990 because one morning she found…

Day 4 It’s the middle of the afternoon when I leave the International Center of Photography, where I teach a digital course. I’m meeting Steven Kasher at his Chelsea gallery. He’s…

Day 5 Cold and gray this morning. In a Madison Avenue diner, I try to get warm, but the tea I order is so hot it’s undrinkable. Oh well. I’ll…

Day 9 New York feels like one big party this Friday morning. It’s the weekend of all the contemporary art fairs (Armory, Scope, Volta, Independent) and I’m heading to Chelsea to…

Day 10 Today I’m meeting Larry Miller in one of those tower buildings that house so many treasures. The doorman calls me “hon” and tells me the gallery is on the third…