For the past forty years, David Strick has studied the mysterious phenomenon that is Hollywood, examining its artificiality and its affect on the world beyond the city limits. Strick has just…
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South Africa, chromatic portraits, directed by Nathalie Masduraud and Valérie Urréa, reflects South Africa's contemporary history through the lens of its major documentary photographers, committed men and women, who experienced…
" In 2006, we discovered the work of David Goldblatt at the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles. It came as a shock. His photographs revealed a different history of South Africa under apartheid,…
Last June, the Taka Ishii gallery, one of the largest in Japan, opened a space in Paris dedicated to Japanese photography and to vintage and contemporary photobooks. The Tokyo gallery, divided…
In my seventh decade (1985 - 1995), I experimented with a new concept : producing double exposure photos. The same film is exposed twice, juxtaposing. for example bullfights and museum…
On August 14th, Lucien Clergue will celebrate his 80th birthday. Since we’ll be on vacation by then, and since the Rencontres d’Arles, his most beautiful creation along with his daughters Anne…
Wally Bourdet is an Arles native. She was one of Clergue’s first models, posing for him from 1967—when she was 17—to 1975. She’s one of the models that knows him…
I am delighted to send this message of congratulations to Lucien Clergue on his 80th birthday. And in doing so through the medium of L'Oeil de la Photographie, I am…
Being born in Arles, a city with 4600 years history behind it, makes you different; your roots are quite strong if they starts right up with the beginning of civilization.…
In my ninth decade (2005 - 2014), saw my election as the first chair for photography in the French Academy, where I was welcomed under the famous Coupole in 2007.Beginning…