Sam Stourdzé was happy during his five-year tenure as director of the Musée de l’Elysée. In fact, he says, he never would have left that idyllic setting were it not for…
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There was a lovely celebration of Phil Stern’s birthday and the unveiling of many prints he donated to the Veterans Home of California a few weeks ago. The pictures and their…
No RegretRoger Ballen ne regrette aucune photo (in English)« Because I never know what to expect » A photographer working in South Africa, Roger Ballen does not photograph with light. Instead,…
Françoise Huguier was sent to India by the magazine Actuel for a report on Shiite mourning, a violent ritual where men flagellate themselves. She refused to take any graphic pictures, knowing that…
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…
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…
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…