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In a thick, illustrated book, Matthieu and Mareile Paley tell the story of their discovery of the Pamir, an isolated region of northeastern Afghanistan, made virtually inaccessible due by rugged…
This week is dedicated to one of my friends who, after happily spending “a little bit” of time with photography, discovered in Burgundy a new joie de vivre. She loves…
Photography lovers have fond memories of Yvette Troispoux, a small and bubbly woman with a sparkle in her eye and a Leica around her neck, snapping pictures of her photographer…
A short stroll up Bedford Avenue reveals a veritable walking art gallery with flesh as medium. Hipsters sit on the stoops of brownstones or on the benches outside cafes and…
I never had much to do with the Kennedys. I was out of the country most of the time when John Kennedy was Senator and then President. The day he…
Traditionally, blues music is photographed in black-and-white. But the photographs of Magdalena Solé aren’t directly interested in the artists and fans of the musical genre. They let themselves be carried…
The rocky coast of Maine is where Briechle found himself driven to make pictures, using the wet-plate collodion process, of the individuals who constitute his stand-in family. “I've been in…
Pieter Hugo’s There’s a place in hell for me & my friends is a series of close-up portraits of the artist and his friends, all of whom call South Africa…
Australia’s major cities dot the coastline of this vast continent and Sydney, the country’s largest metropolis, is considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world, its glittering harbor,…