Lee Miller is a fascinating character of contemporary photography. Recently, her son Antony Penrose gave an interview to the historian Primož Lampič. We decided to publish it. Interview by e-mail between…
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First in Hong Kong at the gallery “Contemporary by Angela Li”, then in Beijing at Today Art Museum, February and March mark the two months to have a chance to…
In the 1980s Australian-born photographer Robyn Beeche turned her lens on the “gender-bending” world of counter-culture in London collaborating with the likes of Zandra Rhodes, Vivienne Westwood and Divine. Her…
Imagine a Motel inhabited by psychopaths, windows opened on the Memory, where the characters are actors without theater, citizens without cities, orphans, slaves, outcasts, rejected, sick, murderers, criminals, thieves, prostitutes:…
When the trend at galleries is black-and-white, never-before-seen color photographs are rare. But that’s the case for the Marie Cosindas retrospective at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York, where certain photographs…
Before becoming an actor, the director and film producer Patrick Braoudé was a photographer. When he received his first camera at age 17, he developed a passion for photography. Then, for a…
Founded in October 1985 by Charles-Henri Favrod on the shores of Lake Geneva, the Musée de l’Elysée is one of the world’s most important photography institutions. With its eight exhibition…
For the current exhibition dedicated to American photographer Philippe Halsman at the Musée de l’Elysée, its director, Sam Stourdzé, spoke with L’Oeil about his personal journey, his present and future…
It never gets old. On the first floor of the Musée de l’Elysée, just before the entrance to the exhibition hall, stands a photo booth. A basket filled with funny…
These are photographs with a kick. Along with André Kertesz, Man Ray and Hans Bellmer, Philippe Halsman’s images of famous, euphoric men and women leaping through the air helped photography itself…