The W. Eugene Smith Grant ceremony was held yesterday in the large auditorium of the School of Visual Arts, New York, filled to capacity for the occasion with photographers and…
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Antoine Schneck travels to the remotest villages of Africa, China and India in search of “authentic” faces for his portraits, which he takes against a black background, concealing the…
This week is dedicated to Contemporary Art in Paris. From the Grand Palais to the Marais, not less than five art fairs settle themselves in the Parisian capital. The sixth…
The Women’s Committee of The Philadelphia Museum of Art announced the six winners and the Curator’s Choice print for its second biennial Photography Portfolio Competition 2012. The six selected photographs…
The illustrated pin-up was the most popular girl in mid-twentieth century America. Long, slender legs, an impossibly small waist, bursting curves and a wide-eyed innocence felled hearts across the country.…
Since 2006, I have promoted contemporary image-makers and archived their work in The Flak Photo Collection, a web-based photography archive available exclusively online. Not surprisingly, many of those pictures reflect…
The Bolshoi Theatre, guardian of the souls of marvelous ghosts, is an institution that lends itself to many dreams and fantasies. Everyone knows of its reputation. The more zealous know…
What’s fascinating about Another Language, beyond its title that’s half-Karl von Frisch’s dancing bees, half-Italo Calvino’s visual alphabet, is the precision of Mårten Lange’s photographs. Like the Swedish photographer, and…
Last month we talked of how the third edition of Photocollection is establishing itself as a major Paris photography festival. The second part of the event is now opening at…