I met René Burri in Vevey, Switzerland, on the sunny terrace of a lakeside hotel. He told me, in the space of a few minutes, several stories about the good…
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Magnum Photos is the legendary photo agency responsible in part for breaking barriers in photography, which, until the end of World War II, was separated into editorial, commercial and artistic divisions.…
Almost 30 years ago a morning in August ,the police of the 16th arrondissement discovered the body of a jogger, he had no identification on him and it took three…
His friends called him "Nounours" (Teddy). Henri Bureau died the day before yesterday. He was an impetuous, flamboyant, big-mouthed bon vivant. But he was above all a great photographer, a…
The famous printer Jean-Yves Brégand died on May 17th, 2014. Ollivier Hersart, a photographer and longtime friend of Jean-Yves Brégand who supported him in the final weeks of his illness, wrote…
The French freelance photographer Camille Lepage was killed on May 13th, 2014 in the Central African Republic. Wilfrid Esteve, journalist and teacher told us some of their last match.…
The American photographer Saul Leiter died on November 26. He was 89 years old. Belatedly recognized as a pioneer of color photography, he began working in color in the 1950s,…
In 1996, I was particularly touched by a portrait of the actress Karine Silla in ELLE magazine. The photograph had been taken by Kate Barry, a name I had never…
When Baudoin Lebon asked me to organize an exhibition on the Bauret family, we considered bringing the works together around the theme of the studio. The idea, for me, was…
Sotheby's sale of 175 Masterworks to Celebrate 175 Years of Photography on December 11 and 12 in New York realized a record $21,325,063, led by Alvin Langdon Coburn's Shadows and…