Magnum Photos is the legendary photo agency responsible in part for breaking barriers in photography, which, until the end of World War II, was separated into editorial, commercial and artistic divisions.…
Author Laurence Cornet
The forms of nature are so varied that no attempts to capture them are alike. Those by Jean Gaumy in the series D’Après Nature tends toward abstraction and allow us to see them in…
Peter Schlesinger warns readers in the introduction to the book how the photographs of Elaine Mayes unfold clue by clue. At first glance, this compilation of innocuous little moments seems to…
We are overwhelmed by photographs. That’s a fact. And we’re all photographers, according to an exhibition at the Musée de L’Elysée six years ago. In 2012, a poster went up…
Since 2009, the condition of the Uighur people has gone from bad to worse. The religious practices of the Muslim population in Northwest China have been threatened and labeled extremist,…
The Minor White retrospective curated by Paul Martineau reads like a biography, like a compilation of events and feelings that have left their marks on his photography, an “eccentric and…
The modern world, obsessed with a healthier lifestyle, sees many adults in their fifties and sixties put on their sneakers after one or more decades of inactivity to train for…
To counter the stereotypical image of Mexico largely created by the American media, the Bronx Documentary Center is exhibiting the work of four Mexican photographers and one Chicano.…
Arnaud Claass is a poet of the image, delicately transforming reality, enacting the same “mystical metamorphosis” which Emmet Gowin sees in the work of Frederick Sommer. From Gowin, Claass has learned…
The Mountains of Majeed Edmund Clark, we read on the cover of a book whose design mimics a spiral calendar whose pages turn like the passing months. The combination of…