When she speaks about photography, Akiko Takizawa undergoes a transformation. The cheerful young woman turns into a dark storyteller from the beyond. She speaks about her uncle, her mentor, who introduced her to…
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These are fragments of stories, pieces of silhouettes, strips of horizons, a floral potpourri of fantasy and reality. Simple at first glance, the work of American photographer Brea Souders, 34, is…
Jeanloup Sieff, Steve Hiett, Gilles Bensimon, Marc Hispard, Hans Feurer, Friedemann Hauss, Jacques Olivar, Tyen, Guy Bourdin, Sacha—they were all invited to the Festival International de la Photographie de Mode,…
All the photographers I’ve invited are ones whose work and creativity I appreciate. This year’s guest is Chico Bialas. When I discovered him in the 1990s, I was surprised by…
Lillian Bassman’s long artistic career involved several equally-successful changes of direction. As a young woman, she worked simultaneously in painting, drawing and dance, disciplines she was later to build into…
Considered one of the world's great industrial and architectural photographers, Wolfgang Sievers (1913-2007), a student of Bauhaus, fled Nazi Germany for Australia at the outbreak of WWII. In 1939 he…
Fifty years ago, The Beatles performed a series of concerts at L’Olympia in Paris, where they stayed at the luxury hotel George V. Harry Benson was on hand to photograph…
It all started in an elevator. It was the summer of 2003, in the former building of the International Center of Photography, a beautiful space on the corner of 94th street…
Rudolf Kicken, the founder of one of the oldest photo galleries in Germany and one of one of its biggest art dealers, died last week at the age of 67.…
The wider audience knows Giuseppe Pino only as a portraitist, and an observer of the jazz universe but in four decades he has kept his style intact while working in different genres: nudes,…