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…
Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture has again been awarded to Ilona Szwarc. The Arnold Newman Prize was established by the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation in 2009 to…
LE BAL and the French company PMU offer again this year a grant of 20,000€ to a French or foreign photographer to produce a new intriguing body of work about…
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…
Yesterday, the German photographer Michael Schmidt had been awarded the fifth Prix Pictet, for his series Lebensmittel. For this edition, the theme was Consumption. The Award Ceremony took place in Victoria & Albert…
"I covered death in Somalia in 1992, when it was probably one of the worse place in the world. It was pretty short, maybe two weeks, but it made almost…