Ed Kashi traveled to Madagascar to study the consequences of the depletion of natural resources on a culture dependent upon them. Using an explicit visual language, Kashi defines man by…
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Last Saturday in Monte Carlo, a charity auction was held to support the fight against AIDS. Prince Albert of Monaco acquired a portrait Steve McQueen and Alfred Hitchcock taken by…
Today, the Cinecittà film studios in Italy may be forced to close... Strolling through the studios and sets, remnants of cinematic history, two Italian photographers pay tribute to this holy…
A few years ago at American Photo, I received a portfolio from Celia A. Shapiro containing twelve photographs of meal trays. The text that accompanied the images explained that they…
The rocky coast of Maine is where Briechle found himself driven to make pictures, using the wet-plate collodion process, of the individuals who constitute his stand-in family. “I've been in…
Is this a new utopia? Some distant reality? Neither one. The idea of a hermitage might seem paradoxical in our society, which champions the individual, but it is a growing…
Pieter Hugo’s There’s a place in hell for me & my friends is a series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom call South Africa…
Da-End Gallery is showing ‘Nippon-ismes an exhibition which brings together eight photographers from different generations whose works, from either a journalistic or visual approach to the medium, all question contemporary…
It’s not uncommon to find oneself strangely fascinated by the marks and blisters left by sunburns. The photographs of the American Chris McCaw are like these small wounds we compulsively…
In spite of depicting interiors and exteriors or including fragments from a nature debilitated by human actions, in spite of reproducing distant and distinct locations in Europe’s political and cultural…