Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Day 12 Today I feel I’m getting closer to the finish line. Tomorrow I’m submitting my pictures and texts of these last two months to Jean-Jacques and his team at La…

Day 5 I’d been wanting to go for a long time. No, honestly. At least ever since my university days in Paris, where I studied British literature. That’s when I…

Day 7 I have a meeting with Julie Saul this morning. At her home. 
In fact, I was supposed to meet with her a week earlier in her gallery but she…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? Casually, compulsively, and mostly at flea markets, where I bought cartes de visite portraits, real-photo…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? My parents would bring me to MOMA when I was a kid and I would…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? In my book The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious I talk about my first…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? I probably started seriously in collecting in 1996 when I was successful at my first…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? Irving Penn's Ballet Society while still in college. My wife Judy and I started…

1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought? I began to collect about 10 years after I was an intern at The International…