You combined honesty and kindness, a child-like ability of wonder, and the wisdom of a great age, and your photos mirror these two extremities of life, childhood and old age,…
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Martine Franck a great elegant and shy lady are the words most often used in the many tributes written about her and yet. I remember a summer day…
I admire greatly not only her pictures with that slow moving elegant composition, which was I believe uniquely hers. Also, of course, even at a distance, I know she was…
"I really like Avigdor Arikha's painting, and he is a friend. He asked me once to photograph him in his studio. I am fascinated by duplication. I realize that when…
"She loves sun, Shakespeare, beauty of beings and places, comedy, tragedy, Commedia Dell'Arte. She hates justice, stupidity, pretension. Who is she? You have certainly guessed; it is Ariane Mnouchkine. I've…
The Mexican photographer Héctor García died this week. Born in Mexico City in 1923, García studied under Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa. Beginning in 1945, he worked as a…
As chief of photo operations for The Associated Press in Saigon for a decade beginning in 1962, Horst Faas didn't just cover the fighting — he also recruited and trained…
Let's make the most of the death of Sipa to praise his sense of timing. ounce more a wink at history as a cliché of cyclops, giant…
September 11th, 2011. Ten years have gone by. The first big shock of the 21st century. Everyone remembers where they were. Everyone remembers a picture. Tens of thousands were…