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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For the past three years Katy Grannan has roamed the streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco, photographing strangers. Her subjects are most often people whom others pass by without…
When I flip through the pages in Paul Jasmin’s latest book California Dreaming, I come to think about the song Being Boring – the second single from Pet Shop Boys’…
In addition to his street portraits, Bruce Wrighton also tried to capture environments. Not because he wanted to be close to his subjects, but to show that he felt…
On this February 8th, James Dean would have been 80 years old. His life tragically ended on September 30th 1955 behind the wheel of his lightening fast Spyder, James Dean…
Betel Nut Beauties is a photoseries documenting the compelling phenomenon of roadside betel nut stands across Taiwan. A fixture on the streets of urban and suburban Taiwan, these brightly lit,…
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…
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…