I saw Phil at his 95th birthday party a few months ago. I didn’t go over right away, I was doing a story for L’oeil and I wanted to get…
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Lucien Clergue's funeral was held in Arles on Friday, November 21st, 2014. The ceremony was held at St. Trophime church, Place de la République. The following pictures have been taken…
American photographer, David Armstrong, died in Los Angeles on Sunday, October 26, 2014 from complications related to liver cancer. Armstrong (b. 1954) was an American artist and core member of…
Alfred Wertheimer, a German-American photographer, died last Sunday at the age of 84. He is best known for his intimate black-and-white photographs of Elvis Presley in 1956, just before The…
The American photographer Ray Metzker died on October 9th. He was know for his cityscape and lanscape photography.…
Didier “Obsis” Grandsart passed away last week. A great friend has gone, but he leaves such good memories behind that he doesn’t seem far away. He was an actor and extra, vintage…
It was only last year that I discovered the work of Dominique Darbois through Karl Joseph, artistic director of the Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane, which exhibited her photographs of the Wayana people,…
Robert Lebeck (1929-2014) was a photographer for the German magazine Stern and one of his country’s greatest photojournalists. He died on June 14th. His gallery, Lumas, sent us these photographs as a tribute.…
"In 1975 or 1976, eyes still virgin and my head full of projects, I arrived at Art Basel and felt a thundrous photographic revelation in the face of works displayed…