Michel Birot was born in Aurillac, France. After studying in Toulouse, he joined the photo lab at the Agence Delpire in Paris in 1975, working with some of the country’s…
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Without a doubt one of the most important Canadian photographers of the 20th century, Guy Borremans died on December 29. Known not only as a photographer, but also as a…
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“Absurd, all I did was search the web for the most dangerous city in the USA. I wanted to find that strange energy given off by places where rules and…
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"Imagine being able to recreate Edward Hopper's paintings into actual places. That wonderful light, to experience it in a different way.This idea started the project. One of the things I…
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Initiated by Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg and Susan Meiselas in 2011, Postcards from America evolved from the desire amongst a group of Magnum’s photographers to refocus creatively, by producing an…
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“The camera should be used for a recording of life, for rendering the very substance and quintessence of the thing itself, whether it be polished steel or palpitating flesh.” These…
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For Zoltán Jókay, people are the main thing, and emotion. In that they give back to us something of ourselves, in that they perhaps enable us to better understand and…
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This month Taschen is publishing a new book by the American photographer Ralph Gibson featuring some of his best nudes. Deftly composed and subtly provocative, these dreamlike and abstract photographs…
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“The best word to describe this part of my work is probably ‘free.’ The ways in which eroticism and pornography are represented can be very boring, sometimes very demonstrative, and…
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A fashion and portrait photographer for the past ten years, I was drawn to do this series three years ago. It gave me the oportunity to approach the…
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