“Witkin is a photographer who has been mistaken for a grave robber, whose works were described by Marina Isola as “Part Hieronymus Bosch, part ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre.’"…
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In 1975, while working as a young journalist at PHOTO magazine, I had the privilege of interviewing Helmut. He was recovering from a heart attack in New York that had…
Pierre and Gilles met in 1976 and went on to form one of the most celebrated partnerships in contemporary photography. Their new book, Autobiographie en Photomatons, is a first-person story…
Day 6 I head back to 560 Broadway today, not to see Taki and Etheleen but to meet Corinne Tapia, a French art dealer who moved to New York several years…
Paul Harris is the head of Pacific Coast News, one of the largest paparazzi agencies on the West Coast. Two of his photographers, Ben Dome and Dave Tonnessen, took pictures…
It's been a few years now that I've been living in Paris. It's been months that I've been undressing my friends, their friends and complete strangers I meet in the…
Philippe Dugay works on the decontextualization of objects. His constructions float between light and darkness, between reality and fiction. In this inside outside dialogue, the pictures of landscapes and interiors,…
Jérôme Brezillon passed away on Friday morning, March 2, following a two-year battle with cancer. He was 47. We will miss his elegance, his honesty, his courage, his talent, and…
Thomas Ruff was born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany. The university colleague of Andreas Gursky studied photography in the 1970’s at the Stattlichen Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Bernd Belcher,…
Jonas Cuénin, one of our New York contributors, has a passion for Irving Penn, and in particular one of the photographer’s most famous series: Small Trades. Jonas’ web series, “Of…