For their latest footwear ad campaign, Christian Louboutin and the photographer Peter Lippmann took inspiration from the masterpieces of classical painting. Into replicas of tableaux by Georges de La Tour,…
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“No” Elizabeth Avedon answered abruptly when I asked her to write an article about Antonio Lopez’s upcoming book by Twin Palms publishers. “Why?” I asked, taken aback. Because the book,…
Every week since its inception 65 years ago, the cover of ELLE magazine has set the tone for fashion. From the New Look to blue jeans, from the miniskirt to…
A YouTube video of a chain smoking Indonesian toddler inspired me to create this series, “Smoking Kids”. The video highlighted the cultural differences between […]…
Founder of the Rencontres d’Arles festival in 1970, Lucien Clergue was the first photographer, with Yann Arthus-Bertrand, to be offered a chair at the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts de l’Institut…
Wherever they live, they live off the beaten path. And once they’re there, they build. With their families or on their own, they transform themselves into architects. Tree houses, cave…
La Bouilladisse is an administrative district, or commune, of 6000 people in the Bouches-du-Rhône region of France. “There are more than 36,000 communes in France and each of them can…
Photography books are as much works of public discourse, as they are personal albums. The more an image is considered, the more familiar it becomes until the line between Us…
When I pulled off the freeway into San Diego, I had a single twenty dollar bill in my wallet. My car, a 1973 Toyota station wagon, rattled my teeth and…
They dreamt about it, they did it. Yonola Viguerie and Philip Blenkinsop just opened a gallery in Bangkok. The first pictures exposed are by Australian photographer Max Pam and by…