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I have been making photographs for the past 40 years. My subject matter has primarily been portraits of artists. These images were made during studio visits, on trips…
This week, Paris Photo will open in Los Angeles. We decided to devote an entire week of Le Journal not only to the event, but to photography all along the…
Michael G. Wilson and his wife Jane began assembling their magnificent, A to Z collection of photographs – now about double the size of the renowned Sam Wagstaff collection owned…
On June 8, 1984 in a brilliant stroke the J. Paul Getty Museum announced that it was forming a new curatorial department devoted to photography and had appointed Weston Naef,…
Steven Poster is a cinematographer, best known for his work on Donnie Darko, Someone to Watch Over Me, and over fifty other features and TV shows. Less well known…
When you are a child you assume your parents are very important professionals without really understanding what they do in their business lives. As a child I did not understand…
Greg Gorman has been a force to be reckoned with in the world of celebrity photography since the early eighties. He came up in a group that included Herb Ritts,…
An anomaly, a one-off. A contradiction to be sure. He is a cross between a genius and a hermit, leading a quiet non-conformist, reclusive sybaritic life in a home that…