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Art Kane was one of a handful of photographers who, from the late 1950’s onward, made fashion and music photography fun. His imagination was the territory he found most intoxicating,…

I first knew of Art Kane as an art director and later met him as a photographer. When he decided to become a photographer he applied his design skills to…

I have always been a fan of cinema and jazz. Twenty years ago, I saw ‘A Great Day in Harlem’, the Oscar-nominated documentary that tells the story of Art Kane’s…

I had the privilege of working with Art Kane at the time he switched from art direction to photography. From 1960 to 1965 he was my boss, mentor, teacher, and…

Taschen and  Jean-Claude Gautrand are releasing a wonderful new book with over 400 photographs by Robert Doisneau, with half of them rarely or never published. I knew Robert Doisneau. We…

This is not the first time that photographer Raphaël Neal and writer Alice Zeniter have worked together. Neal, a young, multi-faceted French artist produced a feature film in 2014, Fever, adapted by…

This imposing 540-page book of 450 photographs celebrates the career of Robert Doisneau, one of the best representatives of the trend of “humanist photography” popular in the 1950s. It features…

Great week. There’s been a bit of everything: war, death, sex, violence, dancing, animals, politics. We visit Ukraine, Guantanamo, Nigeria, Marseille, Turkey, Lille… Situations, travels… C’est la vie.…

Over the following decades, the rediscovery of both photography and certain photographers took on ever greater dimensions. In 1981, a film entitled Poete et pieton (Poet on Foot) was made…

After a long period of indifference, photography is today subject to intense analysis  by specialists in many different disciplines. Photography is definitively become an "Art", studied by philosophers, historians, sociologist…