Brassaï the photographer (1899–1984) long feared traveling to America. His friend Henry Miller, who had fled New York for Paris during the 1930’s, unfailingly described his country as hostile, closed…
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The Soviet State that emerged from the 1917 Russian Revolution fostered a new visual language aimed at building a new society based on the socialist ideal. The decade and a…
Best known for the shocking beauty and provocative power of his hardcore images collected in monographs including Lost Boys and NYC Go-Go, Slava Mogutin’s new work featured in the exhibition…
Donna Ferrato is organizing from July 23rd through July 31st a workshop on domestic violence. A subject she knows very well, as she has already published a book called Living…
As early as my first photos, I had the certainty that the world belonged to me. Everything, absolutely everything, from the red boat washed ashore to the cat jumping in…
As countries develop, a global homogeneity is also developing. A way of life can be found that traverses specific culture. For example, experiencing a shopping mall in Dubai, the US,…
Bruno Mouron photographer and collector dived in his collection of over a thousand books for La Lettre. Classic titles like The Americans by Robert Frank (in all its editions), Paris…
The definition of a beautiful woman has always been a topic of discussion with varied answers primarily due to culturally specific tastes. Women in the Ndebele tribe in Africa and…
In the exhibition Inwards and Onwards, opening at Foam today, Anton Corbijn has aimed his camera at a few of his favourite artists, including Gerhard Richter, Alexander McQueen, Richard Prince, Iggy Pop,…
Les Messagers is a documentary film (52’) which is currently being filmed. From Tanger to Rabat, and through Oujda and Melilla, the photographer Laetitia Tura and the director Hélène Crouzillat…