Album Beauty is an ode to the vanishing era of the photo album as told through the collection of Erik Kessels. Once commonplace in every home, the photo album has…
Category
PhotographyArchives
Subscribe for full access to The Eye of Photography archives!
That’s thousands of images and articles, documenting the history of the medium of photography and its evolution during the last decade, through a unique daily journal. Explore how photography, as an art and as a social phenomenon, continue to define our experience of the world. Two offers are available.
Subscribe either monthly for 8 euros (€) or annually for 79 euros (€) (2 months offered).
From childhood, Pierre Jamet had two passions: singing, which became his career after the Second World War, and photography, which was to remain a hobby throughout his life. At…
These days, each World Press Photo announcement, each Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan, each publication of a photo is hauled up for judgement in front of the 'retouching' courts. Cries…
Originating in India and Pakistan, the Gypsies and Romany have been wandering the earth for over a thousand years, disdaining frontiers and borders. While many of them have settled in…
In the heart of the Camargue, an encounter between photographer Hans Silvester and Chico Bouchikhi, the founder of the Gipsy Kings, orchestrated by Chantal Soler, gave us a moment of…
As its name indicates (‘Mons Majoris’, the highest hill), Montmajour has gently dominated Arles and the surrounding plains since the 10th century. At that time the plains were covered over…
Alexandre Slussarev started taking photos in 1959 and quickly became a member of the USSR Youth Organisation Committee’s photographic section. In 1962 and 1964, he participated in the “ Our…
I have been supporting the Rencontres with the LUMA Foundation for more than 10 years now. The foundation helps the Rencontres build and consolidate their international influence. Thus, the discovery…
Born 1970 in Beirut. Lives and works in Beirut. Zeina Arida was educated between Beirut and Paris. She studied Literature and Theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated in…