In 2006, Leon Herschritt celebrated 50 years in photography. To him we owe such iconic portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, the General De Gaulle, Salvador Dali, Catherine Deneuve, as well…
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I took the photograph of a bar, Love Point, a few years earlier in Japan. I liked the sign and its design. I used it on the cover in order…
VanityFair.com presented yesterday a slide show of the photos taken with the very last roll of Kodachrome to come off Kodak’s assembly line. The three dozen frames by photographer Steve…
In 1977, I was the head of the cultural department of Le Monde. An article by Hervé Guibert ran during the summer. From the Festival d’Avignon, he described…
Henri Huet died in Laos on February 10, 1971. He was one of the mythical photographers of the Vietnam war, his unforgettable pictures featured on the world’s magazine covers. The…
Wow! What emotion on the top floor of the MEP : pictures by Henri Huet, Larry Burrows, and Nick Ut. I ran into Hervé Merliac with whom i shared some…
Jacques Prévert’s first exhibit of collages in 1957 consisted of 60 works at Galerie Maeght. Over half a century later, Prévert’s playful and colorful collages, which will be displayed at…
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie is featuring a retrospective of Marc Trivier’s work, from the ’80’s to today. Born in 1960, Marc Trivier lives and works in Belgium. One…
After his first trip to Brazil in 1999, when Vincent Rosenblatt discovered Rio and the favelas that surrounded the official city, he returned from 2005 to 2010 to explore the…
This New York exhibition highlights artistic performances staged expressly for the camera, in contrast to photos that are mere witnesses to disassociated actions. Selected from the MoMA collections, the…