His meeting with Jean-Paul Goude would prove decisive. Jean-Paul came to New York to work as an art director forEsquire. Very soon he wanted to take his own photographs but…
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In the mid-1960s, Pierre left for New York. He was the first person to discover what would become, over the next twenty years, the Eldorado for young French photographers: the…
My uncle Pierre was a man filled with humor and mirthful mischief, a sort of impossibly handsome and roguish version of Shakespeare’s Puck. Pierre’s shining, wild, wonderful, crazy, devastatingly beautiful…
Roger Mayne had a heart attack last week and died Saturday June 7th.Roger’s seminal body of work on the working class neighborhoods of London in the 1950s and early 1960s made him one of the most important post-war British photographers. Photography…
It was with immense sadness that we learned of the death of Michael Schmidt on Saturday 24th of May. Three days previously Michael was awarded the fifth Prix Pictet for Lebensmittel, his monumental…
Anyone associated with photojournalism in the 60’s through the 90’s is familiar with the name Henri Bureau. His image of the burning oil refineries in Abadan, Iran during the Iran/Iraq…
Life has a strange way of coming back to haunt you. I remember when Bob and I were first together he used to laugh and tell me what a marvellous…
Bob Carlos Clarke brought enormous passion, technical knowledge and creativity to his photography. Best known for his sexually provocative image making, he was a far more versatile and imaginative photographer…
I first met Bob in 1995 when I was a celebrity publicist and he was photographing one of my clients Tamara Beckwith (now my partner in The Little Black Gallery). …