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To celebrate “Metamorphosis,” the theme selected this year by the Maison du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, the publishing house Actes Sud and Hermès are releasing a new work that resembles a book of…

This image is taken from Michel Setboun’s third book about agencies. Eighty reporters were chosen to comment on one iconic image  taken during their careers. The image we’re publishing today…

The roads and channels photography takes to reach the public still have a few surprises in store. There is concern, rightly so, about the digital photographs lost in the depths…

For 20 years I was an art director for leading lingerie and swimwear brands, and I was always a little jealous of the photographers. This is how, indirectly, I learned…

A feverish red light shines on an androgynous nude body being whipped by a chain that might be a purse strap or a sex toy. To its left, two hands…

We all have a blind spot, both literally and metaphorically. Ansel Adams had one so big and powerful that he, Beaumont Newhall and a few others “disappeared” some very important…

The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter’s early black and white photographs stems from his profound response to the dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s.…

For the latest issue of De l’air, magazine director Stéphane Brasca published the work of 25 photographers obsessed with rear ends. At a time when ‘belfies’ (butt + selfie) are everywhere you…

This week on the web: interviews with Elliott Erwitt, Annie Leibowitz and Wolfgang Tillmans; tributes to Marylin Monroe, Maya Angelou and Robert Capa; portfolios about the body and being in…

On the 20th anniversary of his death, a powerful portrait of Kurt Cobain and Nirvana—including many previously unpublished images—taken during their last formal photo shoot before his suicide. In August…