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…
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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…
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…
Born in Zlina, Slovakia in 1971, Martin Kollar began his Nothing Special series in 2001. “This project resulted from my reaction to what was happening in post-communist Eastern Europe, the…
The new ”Livin’ Loud Issue” of i-D comes with no less than 6 different covers: Paolo Roversi presents a demure Vanessa Paradis in Chanel, Emma Summerton shot model Ajak…
She seems thin and fragile, but her potraits forceful and demonstrate a perfect mastery of her photographic tools. The three series presented at the VU gallery : Georgia, Sweet nothing,…
When I was 20, photographers dreamt of working for Gamma, following in the footsteps of Gilles Caron, Raymond Depardon or Michel Laurent. Almost 40 years later, i would say that…
From 2007 to 2009, Rémi Dussert and Stéphane Guinard followed the daily lives of Parisian police officers in the 18th arrondissement Goutte d’Or station. Both firemen and photographers, they…