It’s hard not to think of Richard Avedon when looking at Li Hu’s Coal Miner and Happiness work. He captures the hard working, soot-covered individuals immersing themselves in a profession…
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Émile Savitry (1903-1967), a little known photographer during the “racy days” of Montparnasse, mingled with the international artists and intellectuals that Paris had to offer from 1930 to 1950. …
Michel Philippot is starting his week in music before showing us extraordinary pictures, of demonstrators, of the very popular Duke and Duchess of Cambridge or of strange collectors. Sad…
PHotoEspaña’s success is for the most part due to its charismatic director, Claude Bussac, and the selections of its chief curator. After Sergio Mah, it is Cuban Gerardo Mosquera who…
It is difficult to write or talk about Malick Sidibé. There is the risky stereotypical description of him as one of the greatest African photographers of his generation, or worse,…
Melanie Light is an American writer and former co-founder of Photovision, a non-profit organization devoted to promote documentary photography. She also teaches. Her last two works are Night at the…
1971, the Epinay congress just occurred, the united left is making progress. From meetings to gatherings to congressional demonstrations, Pascal Lebrun covered François Mitterrand’s career path, his women and men,…
Vacation: a magic and sacred word for the French. Indeed, La Lettre is international, but quite a few of us are and remain French. Vacation, what a dilemma.…
For the seventh year in a row, the Promenades Photographiques will take place during the summer at Vendôme. This small county in the Loir-et-Cher region will host until next September…
Since 1980, Tristan Jeanne-Valès has specialized in dance photography. The book entitled “Dance, l’étreinte” covers the worlds of Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown, Jean-Claude Gallotta, Maguy Marin, also those of Josef…