The modern modeling industry was born in 1923, when John Robert Powers, a resting Shakespearean actor who had started posing for freelance fashion shots, published his first photo catalogue of…
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Richard Avedon, Horst P. Horst, Mark Shaw, Milton Greene, Gleb Derujinsky, Carmen Schiavone, Melvin Sokolsky, Bert Stern, David Bailey, Norman Parkinson, Hiro, Alberto Rizzo, Lawrence Fried, Patrick Demarchelier, Albert Watson,…
When Stacey Baker spots a good pair of legs, she has to move quickly. Sometimes she races down the sidewalk to catch the woman before she slips out of sight.…
The luminous and compelling photographs in New York in the 1970s capture the essence of a city in a way best described as “place portraiture.” Trager’s images present the architecture…
With its gilt edges, hardbound cover, and a stylized illustration of the indigenous world, The Jungle Book appears at first glance to be a reprint of Rudyard Kipling’s stories.…
“Today, if a negative does not print simply and easily, I throw it away,” wrote Ralph Steiner in 1978.…
In this new book from VerlagKettler, MagLau, an established Belgian photographer, has used a pseudonym to publish a ballade on the world of fetishist nights.…
In the spring of 2015, Vincent Mercier set out on a solo conquest of the American West. His destination: the Monument Valley and John Ford’s Point — the very roots…
In 1987, I attended the Whitney Biennial. I was so taken with the salon-style installation of Bruce Weber’s photographs that I went back to see the exhibition three more times.…
Here is the nineteenth part of “I remember” by Bernard Plossu, since the early 1970s, he has photographed his friends photographers. His rare portraits were never shown; regularly The Eye…