The rediscovery of Saul Leiterʼs work in recent years is clearly a major event in the history of photography. From being a fashion photographer known only to specialists, he has…
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William Klein draw his inspiration from three of his photos chosen from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. These are three vintage prints that revolutionized fashion photography…
Over more than fifty years, photographer Eikoh Hosoe has built up a body of work that shows a unique mastery of photographic techniques. Early in his career, he abandoned the…
“In 1959, I was a young lieutenant working as a photographer on board the USS Tanner. In my spare time I would explore the shipʼs library. A slim volume attracted…
In the late 1960s, Mac Adams initiated a new departure in “narrative” photography with his black and white series entitled Mysteries depicting crime scenes…
“This will often be about geometry, two straight lines constantly intersecting. Itʼs a metric approach – geometry in Euclidian vectorial spaces. The proof is the independence of the frames within…
Son of a famous sculptor, Mario Cravo Neto was born in 1947 in Salvador, Bahia. Nurtured in the cultural setting of his native city, he began his first artistic experiences…
In the early Sixties, Massimo Vitali started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with magazines and agencies in Italy and Europe. It was during this time that he met Simon Guttman,…
Since he appeared on the art scene 25 years ago, Georges Rousse has never stopped travelling around the world. Like some fictional character striding across plains, valleys and mountains across…
Half Life is Michael Ackermanʼs third opus. After “End Time City” (1999), a crazy journey through the city of Varanasi, India, and then “Fiction” (2001), where unity of place is…