Maïofiss has the fabulous gift of the griot. He conjures myth out of the mundane, giving a spark of immortality to the characters he reduces to two dimensions through the…
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The Women’s Committee of The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the six winners and the Curator’s Choice print for its second biennial Photography Portfolio Competition 2012. The six selected photographs…
Since 2006, I have promoted contemporary image-makers and archived their work in The Flak Photo Collection, a web-based photography archive available exclusively online. Not surprisingly, many of those pictures reflect…
The Bolshoi Theatre, guardian of the souls of marvelous ghosts, is an institution that lends itself to many dreams and fantasies. Everyone knows of its reputation. The more zealous know…
Tina Modotti was a photographer and a revolutionary—not to mention a seamstress and anti-Fascist activist in Italy, a model in San Francisco, an actress in Hollywood, and a prisoner in…
Last month we talked of how the third edition of Photocollection is establishing itself as a major Paris photography festival. The second part of the event is now opening at…
In the digital age, a simple pleasure persists: inhaling the sweet smell of a book, whether old or new. This is the story of a walk among old printing machines…
The photographs of Margaret Watkins are like the choruses of a love song. They are delicate like rare flowers one refrains from picking; the impulse to touch them, or to…
An exhibition, a tribute, a famous photo lab (Central Dupon images), for Paris Match, this is our way of celebrating the photographs of Jack Garofalo. Jack joined Paris Match in…
Hyper-real, theatrical, filmic – these are just some of the labels attributed to the artworks of American photographer Gregory Crewdson, whose elaborately styled images form part of Crewdson’s exhibition In…