To coincide with the release of his new book, we decided to dedicate today's edition to Frank Horvat, a photographer whose work continues to be neglected. We would like to…
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At the end of the 1980s, you didn’t hesitate to explore digital technology. What led you to this exploration? I was lucky. I had stopped shooting fashion photography by then. A…
Throughout his career, Frank Horvat has exchanged photographs with friends and fellow photographers. Over time he has built up a “little museum” representative of a certain history of photography, with…
When I was young, the woman of my dreams was tall and slender, and certainly not an intellectual. In fact, someone the exact opposite of my mother. (Sigmund Freud wouldn’t…
Photography, as everyone knows, means “writing with light.” What Niépce and Daguerre started out doing almost two centuries ago, and what a billion people today do with their mobile phones.…
In a strict sense, the voyeur is someone who seeks sexual pleasure with their eyes. In a broader sense, it is someone who want to possess with their eyes, not…
Calling a photo dumb requires an explanation. But I’d like for you to find that explanation yourselves. All that I’ll say is that if some of these photos make your…
New York up and down was the third project of what I like to call my triptych. To begin with, this meant simply that the three are nearly contemporaneous: both…
This book by American photographer Howard Schatz offers a series of images of movie stars that were deliberately staged. Pierce Brosnan, Michael Douglas, Jane Lynch or John Malkovich lent themselves to…
« Ici et là » ( here and there) women laying and suspended in a moment fixed by photography.…