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What ghosts is Graham Walzer chasing? Past loves, tossed into a swimming pool? Childhood, innocence, meaning? No text is provided to help elucidate the mystery of his zine Chasing Ghosts:…
Someone looks at the eclipse picture, and they think, “All he did was just go click, click, click, click.” But what happened in 1979 was first that I had to…
The Mexican photographer Héctor García died this week. Born in Mexico City in 1923, García studied under Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Gabriel Figueroa. Beginning in 1945, he worked as a…
For its new Portrait de Ville, Éditions Be-Pôles gave Vincent Fournier the carte blanche. The city he decided to capture was Brasilia. In this travel journal, he delivers a fragment…
At last. At last I’m going to meet Howard Greenberg. Face to face. I’ve been following the gallerists trail for several months now, and he keeps appearing – at the…
While France was still struggling with shortages and reconstruction after the passage of the war’s nightmare, Walter Carone was inventing new methods, like Weegee, a new way of taking pictures…
Proud Galleries presents Faces of the Sixties from photographer Justin de Villeneuve. Best known for launching Twiggy as the world’s first supermodel, de Villeneuve’s portfolio boasts celebrated fashion shoots, iconic…
Paul Newman, Rock Hudson, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Sean Connery are among the movie stars captured by Fuchs’s lens and proposed by V&M (vintage and Modern).…
Archiphoto is an international architectural photography contest with a 2000€ prize. Organized by the “La Chambre” association and the MEA (Maison Européenne de l'Architecture-Rhin Supérieur), the contest began in 2010…