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Here’s Irène Attinger’s selection of photography books on sale in the bookstore of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. They were chosen for their originality, editorial quality and…
Imagine if you will that these pictures are six feet across, that the faces in them are life size and staring at you with intense concentration and excitement, longing and…
My astronomical and photographic adventure started about 40 years ago (don’t ask my age) with my first telescope and camera. The adventure took serious proportions with my studies in photography…
This image is taken from Michel Setboun’s third book about agencies. Eighty reporters were chosen to comment on an iconic image taken during their careers. The image we’re publishing today…
Studio 54 was the world’s most famous and exalted discothèque. It opened in 1977 at 254 West 54th Street in New York City at a time when disco music was…
From the start, I was obsessed with the mechanics of what it took to create an iconic image and ended up making a few photographs the world has embraced as…
L’Oeil de la Photographie is pleased to link up with a new educational resource britishphotography.org to provide an A to Z of British Photography. Every two weeks we will present…
A week after Sonya Noskowiak brought Edward Weston a pepper from the market in Carmel, California, Edward Weston wrote in his diary that it was beginning “to show the strain…