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The Muses are the nine companions of Apollo, each embodying a distinctive art, each the idea made flesh, the sublimation of desire into the creation of beauty. The muse inspires…

This was a pretty calm week, even if there’s no shortage of misery in this world. Kind of like in the newspapers. A considerable time difference is making me miss…

The sculptor Henry Moore was in his 80s in 1983. At four o'clock I was at his estate outside London, it started to snow. It was getting dark. I thought…

Summer 1983. While wandering the streets of Paris, Sophie Calle finds an address book with an enticing red cover. Overwhelmed by curiosity as she turns the pages covered in casual…

Today we’re looking at two small books by the French publisher Jean-Boîte, each of which began as a project developed on the Internet. Kim Jong Il Looking at Things is…

Chronicling a world of beauty and style, photographer Rose Hartman has captured fashion's trendsetters for three decades, and in so doing has helped to define what we remember most about…

Bureau d'Etudes Japonaises just published Bruno Quinquet's "Salaryman Project business schedule 2013". In the shape a a 2013 professional agenda, the "Salaryman Project" is a parallel observation of the cycle…

I’m sending you this little satire from China. It’s a strange feeling to select photographs that have nothing to do with the people that surround you. Distance, like time, has…

This fall, the Parisian publishing house Various is releasing Journal, 2000-2012, a series of color photographs by the artist Julien Magre. Following the 2010 publication of Caroline, Histoire numéro deux (Éditions…