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The weekly review of photography in the U.S. media returns as protests erupt in Afghanistan and Syria explodes with in a brutal civil war. We also find a different kind…

After a few weeks off, I’m delighted to return to my modest column here on La Lettre. Then came the tragic news that robs me of all my lyricism (if…

“Art is either plagiarism or revolution,” Marcel DuChamp said. It is possible that there are other categories. Art can be commerce, status, or fame. It can be self-expression or propaganda—it’s…

In Earth Laughs In Flowers David LaChapelle appropriates the traditional Baroque still life painting in order to explore contemporary vanity, vice, the transience of earthly possessions and, ultimately, the fragility…

It is a New York tradition that Swann Galleries kicks off the photography auction season. Among the 113 lots you will find pieces ranging from early photographs to contemporary work…

The photobooks part of the auction includes many classics and several rarities. Take a look at the portfolio of our favorites.…

Worldwide, prisons are ʻhomeʼ to more than 9 million people, and their numbers will only increase over the coming decades. But what do our various societies seek to accomplish by…

Growing up, my mother Madje would rarely let me photograph her. But when her memory began to fail and I saw her beginning to disappear before me, I began…

Dmitry Baltermants was born in 1912 in Warsaw, Poland, which at that time was part of the Russian Empire. Baltermants spent his childhood amidst civic dissolution, revolution, civil war, and…